+1 re: Requiem for a Dream. That final scene where everyone hits their worst possible rock bottom(s) was very disturbing for me to watch and no, it was not just because of the A2A element.
Yes! Me too, Karen. Back in the day, the Exorcist made news because people in theaters were fainting and throwing up. Everyone assumes it was due to the scary demonic stuff, but it was actually the hospital scenes that did it.
The scene you mention - where they stick a needle in Regan's neck and blood squirts out - is one of cinema's skeeviest moments, imho. Way too realistic.
For some reason, I watched the 1986 version of Crawlspace starring Klaus Kinski. I was living in an apartment at the time. That movie scared the crap out of me. Seriously, I still get the shivers when I think about it.
Zodiac. I had to give away the DVD I had of the movie (was a gift) because I could not bear the thought of being home alone with it. This is weird, I know.
Thanks @Kno. The person who I ended up giving the DVD to told me that I was being weird because I was scared of it. As far as I am concerned, that movie was radiating real-life evil and I wanted that shit out of my home and away from me.
I still have to watch Psycho through my fingers, even though I've seen it a hundred times and it never changes. It's not a Choose Your Own Adventure. I don't watch many scary movies, but I was probably as terrified of the artfully drawn out initial approach of the shark in Jaws as I'd ever been in a movie theater. And that crawly girl from The Ring, agreed. No like.
The part in The Shining when Wendy is trying to escape and she looks over and sees the old caretaker giving head to a person in a bear suit...I don't know why but the last time I watched that movie (like 10 years ago) it really freaked me out. Such a small part and way more scary things happen in the film but it was so sinister, the way it was captured. I think Shelley Duvall was really great in that movie. @Kno Won Uno thank you for welcoming me the first time I posted...it was awhile ago but I remember and appreciate it, sorry for being late in that :)
Kimba-the scene in the shining where shelly duval goes downstairs to read his manuscript and it is just the same sentence over and over and over, indented and punctuated like its a story. Terrifying- she realized how nuts he was.
Scary movies don't bother me (I do not watch torture porn like Saw, though). If I had to pick one scene that really disturbed me, it was Sixth Sense with the little girl who (SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER) was killed by her mother. Or the piggy scene in Amityville Horror, I was a little kid at the time with a very, very irresponsible babysitter. I laughed through Nightmare on Elm Street and Chucky (did I mention the babysitter wasn't very responsible?). I read The Shining when I was 10 and was vastly disappointed in the movie when I watched it as an adult.
When Michael Madsen cuts that guys ear off in Reservoir Dogs and starts talking into it saying "Hello?" I actually passed out during that movie because I thought that was so disturbing
The scene in Poltergeist where the toy clown attacks the kid. That scene scared the hell out of me in the 80s, and, I don't know why, but it still bothers me.
Oddly enough, I'm not bothered by any other clowns.
I cannot stand horror films but when that alien popped out of John Hurt's chest..That was bloody awesome! I can't think of any scary films I have seen that have affected me so much I still remember them. I will add that the book Salem's Lot scared the crap out of me so much I wouldn't get the laundry when I was 13. The washer and dryer were in the utility closet outside and I didn't want to risk seeing any red eyes behind me.
Also I just remembered that I saw Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween in the theaters...my boyfriend at the time wanted to see it and after the first murder, when the young Mike Myers finds the bully kid in the woods and wears a crude mask and beats the kid's face in with a big stick... Aaah! I couldn't handle it and wanted to walk out of the movie but the boyfriend convinced me to stay. I said afterwards that the movie was damn creepy and I don't care if Rob Zombie is a nice person in real life, if I ever happen to see him in person I will walk in the opposite direction. Very disturbing all around but the two kids in the woods...real shivers.
Communion with Christopher Walken. When he gets hypnotized and remembers his alien abduction. If you've seen it, you know what I'm talking about. (as the fingers slowly come around the dresser......) freaks me out.
I haven't seen the movie "Alien" since it was first released it terrified me that much. And I was 22 then! Seriously, by the time that movie was over I was practically under my seat. Every now and then I'll run into it on TV and I can watch for about 5 seconds before I have to change the channel.
By contrast, all of the sequels were complete and total dogs, including "Aliens" which a lot of people apparently like. What an utter piece of crap. "Oh gee, we can't use any of our weapons here, what should we do? Why, we'll keep going deeper into the aliens' lair." Idiots. They deserved to die.
When the lower portions of the ship are slowly flooding and Jack is handcuffed to that pipe. Rose is slogging around in 5 layers of soggy heavy clothing and she's trying to find him and he's trying to figure out a way to break that frigging pipe so he can get out of that room which is slowly filling with water.
Later when all the lower class passengers are desperately trying to get to the upper deck. They come to the doorway by the staircase and there's that metal gate locking them in below. The porters start to try and unlock the gate, but then panic and drop the keys and run. Rose and Jack are trying to search under water for that keyring and that water just keeps on rising.
I must have drowned in another life because watching stuff like that in movies completely freaks me out.
That elderly couple that lay down on the bed together as the water fills their room...Jesus..terrifying.
That couple was real. They were the owners of Macy's. The husband wouldn't leave his wife and she wouldn't get in a lifeboat. I'm not sure if that's true love or lunacy, TBH.
What about chills-down-your-spine due to romance? I watched THE SOUND OF MUSIC last night for the 83rd time, and I realised that the Captain and Maria dancing the Laendler was perhaps one of the sexiest film scenes of all-time.
When Bette Davis presents Joan Crawford her dead bird on a plate in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
ReplyDeleteI so want to see that movie. For years and I can't find it and I don't want to buy it.
DeleteNot to be picky but I believe it was a rat, Glitter. But agreed very good!
DeleteTCM!
DeleteWhen the chick crawls out of the TV in The Ring. Still scares me! LOL And pretty much all of Paranormal Activity
ReplyDelete@VIP-that scene from The Ring is soooo creepy. I was blown away when I saw it the first time. Hell no!
DeleteI laughed my ass off during that scene. lol
DeleteThe end of Rachel Getting Married *SPOILER ALERT* when you realize that the chick was out on a weekend pass and has to return back to the hospital
ReplyDeleteWhen Ellen Burstyns character in Requiem for a Dream starts sketching out on the subway
Lindsay Lohan having that orgy in The Cannons (haha!)
+1 re: Requiem for a Dream. That final scene where everyone hits their worst possible rock bottom(s) was very disturbing for me to watch and no, it was not just because of the A2A element.
Delete+2 re Requiem for a Dream
DeleteI still hide my eyes during the spinal tap scene in The Exorcist.
ReplyDeleteYes! Me too, Karen. Back in the day, the Exorcist made news because people in theaters were fainting and throwing up. Everyone assumes it was due to the scary demonic stuff, but it was actually the hospital scenes that did it.
DeleteThe scene you mention - where they stick a needle in Regan's neck and blood squirts out - is one of cinema's skeeviest moments, imho. Way too realistic.
Scream 1 Drew Berrymore Opening. Shit caught me off guard,
ReplyDeleteWhen they blinded the little boy in slumdog millionaire. Thought i was going to pass out
ReplyDeleteoh and the end of Boyz in the Hood when the brother gets shot
ReplyDeleteActual scary movies do nothing for me----I enjoy the well done ones but I never get scared
ReplyDelete"What's in the box? WHAT'S IN THE BOX??"
ReplyDeleteFor some reason, I watched the 1986 version of Crawlspace starring Klaus Kinski. I was living in an apartment at the time. That movie scared the crap out of me. Seriously, I still get the shivers when I think about it.
ReplyDeleteZodiac. I had to give away the DVD I had of the movie (was a gift) because I could not bear the thought of being home alone with it. This is weird, I know.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that's weird at all. If something feels evil, get rid of it.
DeleteThanks @Kno. The person who I ended up giving the DVD to told me that I was being weird because I was scared of it. As far as I am concerned, that movie was radiating real-life evil and I wanted that shit out of my home and away from me.
DeleteThe heart-being-ripped-from-the-chest scene in Temple of Doom.
ReplyDeleteMichael shutting the door in Kay's face in Godfather II.
The "In Dreams" scene from Blue Velvet.
Maddy's death in Twin Peaks
Every shot of De Niro in the last 1/2 hour of Cape Fear.
100% agree with De Niro in Cape Fear
DeleteI still have to watch Psycho through my fingers, even though I've seen it a hundred times and it never changes. It's not a Choose Your Own Adventure.
ReplyDeleteI don't watch many scary movies, but I was probably as terrified of the artfully drawn out initial approach of the shark in Jaws as I'd ever been in a movie theater.
And that crawly girl from The Ring, agreed. No like.
sends chills elsewhere
ReplyDeleteI get the feeling that's probably NSFW so no clicky
DeleteOMG! The final scene of Looking for Mr Goodbar! Holy jesus, that scared me.
ReplyDeleteI read that book once. I didn't realize it was a film. Now I wanna see it!
Delete@Kno Won Uno it is awful!! I watched it by myself one night. BIG mistake.
DeleteThe part in The Shining when Wendy is trying to escape and she looks over and sees the old caretaker giving head to a person in a bear suit...I don't know why but the last time I watched that movie (like 10 years ago) it really freaked me out. Such a small part and way more scary things happen in the film but it was so sinister, the way it was captured. I think Shelley Duvall was really great in that movie.
ReplyDelete@Kno Won Uno thank you for welcoming me the first time I posted...it was awhile ago but I remember and appreciate it, sorry for being late in that :)
The Shining - the opening music, the old lady in the bath tub & when the twins pop-in to play. Every second actually.
DeleteHoly crap, me too!! That was such a messed up scene, by far the most disturbing part of the movie for me.
Delete@Angie I'm glad I'm not the only one!!
DeleteKimba-the scene in the shining where shelly duval goes downstairs to read his manuscript and it is just the same sentence over and over and over, indented and punctuated like its a story. Terrifying- she realized how nuts he was.
DeleteForever. ..and ever...
DeleteThat is an F'd up film. F'd. Up. Royally.
ReplyDeleteBite the curb scene in American History X. I can watch every blood and gut movie...that one makes me cringe.
ReplyDeleteOh crap, @Daria, I remember that scene! I looked away right when he put his foot on the guy's neck. {shudder}
DeleteNo kidding. There is actually a director's cut which exists somewhere that is even more graphic.
DeleteMerry Christmas!!!!
I was just coming to say this scene. Yep, gives me jeebies just thinking about it.
DeleteI forgot about that one! Even thinking about it now gives me the chills.
DeleteThat one gets me to. I just can't. Disturbs me to no end.
DeleteScary movies don't bother me (I do not watch torture porn like Saw, though). If I had to pick one scene that really disturbed me, it was Sixth Sense with the little girl who (SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER) was killed by her mother. Or the piggy scene in Amityville Horror, I was a little kid at the time with a very, very irresponsible babysitter. I laughed through Nightmare on Elm Street and Chucky (did I mention the babysitter wasn't very responsible?). I read The Shining when I was 10 and was vastly disappointed in the movie when I watched it as an adult.
ReplyDeleteWhen Michael Madsen cuts that guys ear off in Reservoir Dogs and starts talking into it saying "Hello?" I actually passed out during that movie because I thought that was so disturbing
ReplyDeleteThe scene in Poltergeist where the toy clown attacks the kid. That scene scared the hell out of me in the 80s, and, I don't know why, but it still bothers me.
ReplyDeleteOddly enough, I'm not bothered by any other clowns.
The scene in Silence of the Lambs when you realize that Hannibal has cut the guards face off and put it over his. I shat my pantaloons instantly.
ReplyDeleteI agree,fecking scary!
DeleteThe end scene of Dead Man Walking
ReplyDeleteGot to be misery when she bashes in his ankles
ReplyDeleteOr IT at the beginning pulling the little boy down the drain 😲
The Others and Blair Witch
ReplyDeleteThe end of Silence of the Lambs when Buffalo Bill is following Clarice with the night vision goggles
ReplyDeleteI googled it as I'd never heard of it and now I feel quite ill.
ReplyDeleteI cannot stand horror films but when that alien popped out of John Hurt's chest..That was bloody awesome! I can't think of any scary films I have seen that have affected me so much I still remember them. I will add that the book Salem's Lot scared the crap out of me so much I wouldn't get the laundry when I was 13. The washer and dryer were in the utility closet outside and I didn't want to risk seeing any red eyes behind me.
ReplyDeleteThe rape scene in Deliverance, and the hand coming out of the water at the end scared the hell out of me. Creepy as hell.
ReplyDeleteAlso I just remembered that I saw Rob Zombie's remake of Halloween in the theaters...my boyfriend at the time wanted to see it and after the first murder, when the young Mike Myers finds the bully kid in the woods and wears a crude mask and beats the kid's face in with a big stick... Aaah! I couldn't handle it and wanted to walk out of the movie but the boyfriend convinced me to stay. I said afterwards that the movie was damn creepy and I don't care if Rob Zombie is a nice person in real life, if I ever happen to see him in person I will walk in the opposite direction. Very disturbing all around but the two kids in the woods...real shivers.
ReplyDeleteCommunion with Christopher Walken. When he gets hypnotized and remembers his alien abduction. If you've seen it, you know what I'm talking about. (as the fingers slowly come around the dresser......) freaks me out.
ReplyDeleteI read that book in highschool and it scared the shit out of me. Salem's Lot too, when Danny Glick has to walk home in the dark.....eeeeek!
DeleteIt terrified me too, especially since it was "based on a true story"
DeleteAlien abduction stories freak me out. Fire in the Sky is another film I can't handle. LOL.
I haven't seen the movie "Alien" since it was first released it terrified me that much. And I was 22 then! Seriously, by the time that movie was over I was practically under my seat. Every now and then I'll run into it on TV and I can watch for about 5 seconds before I have to change the channel.
ReplyDeleteBy contrast, all of the sequels were complete and total dogs, including "Aliens" which a lot of people apparently like. What an utter piece of crap. "Oh gee, we can't use any of our weapons here, what should we do? Why, we'll keep going deeper into the aliens' lair." Idiots. They deserved to die.
One of the movies that traumatizes me is Titanic.
ReplyDeleteWhen the lower portions of the ship are slowly flooding and Jack is handcuffed to that pipe. Rose is slogging around in 5 layers of soggy heavy clothing and she's trying to find him and he's trying to figure out a way to break that frigging pipe so he can get out of that room which is slowly filling with water.
Later when all the lower class passengers are desperately trying to get to the upper deck. They come to the doorway by the staircase and there's that metal gate locking them in below. The porters start to try and unlock the gate, but then panic and drop the keys and run. Rose and Jack are trying to search under water for that keyring and that water just keeps on rising.
I must have drowned in another life because watching stuff like that in movies completely freaks me out.
That elderly couple that lay down on the bed together as the water fills their room...Jesus..terrifying.
That couple was real. They were the owners of Macy's. The husband wouldn't leave his wife and she wouldn't get in a lifeboat. I'm not sure if that's true love or lunacy, TBH.
DeleteWhat about chills-down-your-spine due to romance? I watched THE SOUND OF MUSIC last night for the 83rd time, and I realised that the Captain and Maria dancing the Laendler was perhaps one of the sexiest film scenes of all-time.
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