Scary films

Which parts make you jump out of your skin?

[Debbie_King]

For me, the following films still make me jump, even though I've seen them and I know the scary part is coming :-)

1. The bit in "Jaws" when the head floats up out of nowhere.

2. The bit at the end of "Carrie" when the hand comes out of the grave.

3. The shower scene in "Psycho"

Anyone else recall their scariest horror movie moments?

[limbo]

The oompah lumpah's gave me the fear when I was a kid.

does that count?

[AWildman]

In "The Grudge", near the end where the girl goes to leave the cursed house and the head of the dead woman is there instead of the outside! Gah that is nasty!

[Vampyre]

In Wizard of Oz, where the witch is flying over Emerald City, writing "Surrender Dorothy" in the sky. That always used to scare me.

[AWildman]

Ah yes...Oz. The Wizard of Oz movie sequel scared me. The whole thing. Heads behind glass, talking mountains, etc., all were pretty freaky-deaky.

[Milamber]

Ah yes...Oz. The Wizard of Oz movie sequel scared me.

There was a sequel?

[AWildman]

Yep. Came out in the '80s. It was about Dorothy going back to Oz only to find an evil witch had people under a spell...or something like that anyhow. Haven't watched it since I first saw it so forgive the memory lapse.

[mattglet]

I absolutely LOVE scary movies, and most don't bother me.

The Ring, where the girl crawls out of the TV... that got to me.

[AWildman]

Oooh! That was nasty! The girls from The Ring and The Grudge both had that nasty, stop-motion, jerky movement that gross me out completely! I can never again watch the scene in the Ring where Samara crawls out of the well nor the scene in the Grudge where the woman is crawling down the stairs. Blech!

Speaking of scary movies, back in the day, the 80's remake of "The Thing" scared the crap out of me, especially the part where the survivors are doing a blood test and the infected guy explodes.

[Syzygy]

"The Others", where the daughter is teasing the young boy, her brother, insisting that someone else is there in the darkened bedroom with them...

Chilling.

Syzygy

[iDKris]

grudge and the ring were definitely scary, i agree with the motion stuff.

house of 1000 corpses was kinda scary... i was watching it in my house in tx, only one home, all the lights out and it was an old creepy house. roommate used to always comes in the back door... he came in and asked what i was doing. thought i was going to have a heart attack.

[Debbie_King]

I remember waaaay back in 1972 when I was 11 and my sister was 9. My parents had gone out for the evening, leaving the next-door neighbour to look in on us every now and again to make sure we were OK.

We saw that "The Devil Rides Out" was on, so we thought it would be a good idea to turn all the lights off and pull the settee round so it was right in front of the telly.

This film scared the life out of me (still does.. but I was only 11 then). I can remember the neighbour popping in and finding us both in the pitch dark, huddled on the settee, too scared to cross the room in the dark to put the light back on!

:-)

[limbo]

Watching Alien for the first time ws terrifying, probably shouldn't have been viewing a film like that so young. I was petrified when the Nostromo Captain was in the air ducts with the Alien ... Ridley Scott at his very best

[mattglet]

A think when a movie called "Crossroads" came out... and I saw a girl's name on the screen... Some "Spears" girl. The fact that she had a starring role in her own movie, now THAT scared the daylights out of me.

[bcolflesh]

It was about Dorothy going back to Oz

Return to Oz
[imdb.com...]

It's far better than any other Oz film because it draws from the books - but it's definitely not for little children.

[rocknbil]

I don't get "scared" very well these days. The Saw is a GREAT thriller, but the ending . . . I almost wet myself. :-) The ending just blew me away.

We don't go in for "gross-outs" so that was a pretty good one. Speaking of which . . .

house of 1000 corpses was kinda scary

I saw this because I'm a big Rob Zombie fan and as horror flicks go, it was awful. Total gross-out! My wife kicked me around the house for weeks for making her watch it. :-)

[pmkpmk]

They just aired "Wizard of Oz" at Easter. First time I saw it again after more than 20 years. The witch still gives me the creeps. I think I was about 7 or 8 when I first saw it, and I slept badly for weeks after it. Ever since then it was still creepy seeing the witch again...

What else?

The Island of Dr. Moreau [imdb.com] - The moment the freak creatures appeared first.
The Day the Earth Stood Still [imdb.com] - I was terrified by the red glance in the eyes of Gort, the giant robot. I memorized the phrase to calm him down. I still know it: "Gort, Klaatu warana nektu!". It was many years later that I found out the movie was credited in the "Rocky Horror Picture Show"...

P.S. The web is marvelous! I just found the original phrase online - it's "Gort, Klaatu Barada Niktoe". Well, for a 8 year old German boy I got it pretty right, and I hoped as hell that Gort would have understood...

[sned]

Just out of curiosity, isn't "Klaatu Borada Niktoe" the phrase Bruce Campbell is supposed to say in Army of Darkness?

[pmkpmk]

Yep, it is. It's also the name of three characters in "Star Wars" - I think some of Jabbas minions. Hmpf, guess I get stoned by Star Wars fans now...

[lZakl]

The worse I have ever jumped in a movie is when "They" show up in the movie "The Forgotten" It's the only part of a movie that terrified me when it happened. It was great!

[pmkpmk]

I just reread my post, and now it occurs to me that "The Day the Earth stood still" was a black and white movie. But the glance in the eyes was always red to me...

[lawman]

I used to love going to the beach and swimming in the ocean. Then I saw "Jaws" when it came out. Went snorkling in the Gulf of Mexico shortly thereafter, but found myself continually looking to see if a shark was behind me. Haven't been in the ocean since.