what was the scariest movie scene you ever saw?

Recently, I find any scene of either teeth being ripped out, or just showing a bloody toothless mouth implying they were ripped out will send me into a state of sheer terror and I'll be shaking for a good 3-4 hours after.

@Mark Von Lewis: Then you'd probably not enjoy a certain scene of Oldboy and might lose your lunch, multiple times, from a certain scene from A Serbian Film, or rather just from the entire film. So I've heard/read, anyways.

Back on-topic: For me, it would be the entirety of The Exorcist. I saw it when I was seven at a friend's house with his older brothers, and I ran into the other room and started bawling my eyes out after the... "head-spinning". I barely survived the crab-walk scene before that, too.

Cujo. That fucking Dog

Only scene in a film that ever made me jump in the literal sense was in Jaws (I was 7 or so, sue me).

The scene with Richard Dreyfus swimming around the wrecked boat and the head pops out of the hole in the hull. All of a sudden I was sitting on the arm of the sofa, Mum, Dad and little brother all laughing at me.

Yeah, that's pretty freaky.

If I watched them all right now, I'm not sure what movie scene would scare me the most, but I know which one freaked me out the most as a little kid: the scene from The Wizard Of Oz where Dorothy is locked in that room with the hourglass that will kill her when it runs out of sand.

Yeah, I know, no gore, no violence, not even a creepy looking monster, but the way it was done (particularly the music) just freaked out my grade school self.

The scene with the clones in Alien 4. Well, clones in any movie terrify me.

• At age 10 or so, I saw a part of the transformation scene of American Werewolf. I was in terror for weeks.
• Before that, something about Chitty Chitty Bang Bang terrified me. And weirdly, also something about the Mummins. Oh, and one scene from Black Beauty where someone was buried alive.
• Exorcist terrified me as well, but not really that much.
• The ending scene from Carrie really freaked me out for a while. Not the rest of the movie, just - the ending.
• At 20, it was Princes of Darkness, especially considering the company I was in.
• Then, Blair Witch Project.
• And the most recent addition, and probably the most scary to me still, all in all, is definitely the Japanese original Ring movie. Especially the surreal movie-in-the-movie.

edited 22nd Jun '11 3:22:00 PM by vijeno

• Two words: Large Marge. I had no idea it was coming and spent the next 15 to 30 minutes of the film worrying that it would somehow show up again.
• On a different note, I still can't watch the scene in Toy Story where Sid burns a hole on Woody's forehead. Why? The braces...in the magnifying glass...help.
• What really scares me, though, is Body Horror and Transformation Sequences of any kind. I couldn't even watch the Wallace And Gromit movie with my eyes open the whole time until I was 14.

edited 17th Jul '11 6:43:36 PM by Mort08

Also, Who Framed Roger Rabbit. I have fond memories of that film...NOT.

When I was about 5, my mom tried to get me to watch it on TV, and I agreed. Problem is, we started watching maybe two-thirds of the way through it, so I got to see Eddie's trip to Toon Town in all its freaky glory without having any idea what was going on. Cue me: "What is this? WHAT IS THIS? Mommy, make it stop!" I wasn't too traumatized...until I saw Judge Doom. No, it wasn't the eyes. It wasn't the squeaky voice. We never got to that point. Seeing him get flattened by a steamroller I could barely handle, but when he SAT UP and was FLAT and OH, THAT GIGGLING, I begged my mom to turn it off. Thankfully she did, and I swore then and there that I would never watch that movie again. I never have.

edited 17th Jul '11 6:45:27 PM by Mort08

Herr Kerman: oh yeah I've read about that scene in A Serbian Film. I will not watch that film for any reason. Well, that scene and the whole rest of that product of a mind very much insane.

"Always check your candy".

It's just so creepily.....real.

end of evangelion's giant naked white bodies and asuka's fight
Perfect Blue is pretty scary as well
for live-action movie, it will be the middle scenes in Tetsuo the Iron Man

Now that I think about it, I haven't watched many movies that actually scared me. I did watch the Nostalgia Critic's round-up of "scariest moments," though—the above-mentioned Large Marge really got to me. As the Critic himself observes, the Nightmare Face is given very little foreshadowing, like an early version of a screamer.

Jurassic Park, when i was 6 or 7. I think I peed on myself like 3 times.

The Blair Witch Project — The ending, in general. The house with the hand prints all over the walls, in particular.

Threads — The moment of the nuclear attack. I think that one built upon my longstanding phobia of nuclear war.

No Country For Old Men — The scene when Anton Chigurh accosts the gas station attendant. What's weird is that this scene didn't freak me out when I first saw the movie, but each subsequent viewing this scene unnerves me more and more.

For anime, Akira — Tetsuo crushing his girlfriend when he loses control of his power. Was seven when I saw that.

Anton is so fucking scary that his silly haircut makes him seem scarier.

i remember that AKIRA scene
oh Animation Age Ghetto... what could we do without you

For me it's the moment during the big 4th of July opening beach attack in Jaws, specifically the one where you can see the shark snatching some guy by his legs and dragging him underwater. It just seems so real.

The film Imortelle, a strange French film. The combination of CGI and live-action freaked me out, everyone's faces just looked slightly off, it was so scary I couldn't watch it, I walked out of the room after a short while of it.

A documentary on bullying, made for children, had a very realistic story told by a man who'd been bullied when a child. He very vividly described how he'd been beaten in the gym showers and his head forced into the toilet until he almost drowned. This documentary scared me so much, I was crying for hours afterwards.

I remember watching many of the mentioned movies and enjoy being "scared" by them. But what really sticks to me right now (maybe because I watched it yesterday) is THAT scene from the Japanese Ringu. You know which one. The girl creeping out of the TV set. The way she moves (apparently, it was a Butoh dancer filmed backwards) and that brief shot of her eye. Also, because it was so unexpected after the "logical" solution...

The scene in Jaws where one of the hunters is apathetically throwing fish entrails into the ocean and then the shark suddenly appears was one of the very few moments in TV history that hat me literally jumping in my chair.

I don't get scared easily (only movies that I can say really freaked me out were The Exorcist and Hellraiser), but that nightmare scene in Brave Little Toaster used to scare me shitless all the goddamn time.

edited 25th Jan '12 4:29:07 PM by SurrealDog1966

The last twenty minutes of Audition. "Kiri kiri kiri..."

The bit in the Independence Day movie where the AWACS and its crew get flash burned by the L.A mothership entering the Earth's atmosphere. You know then that this isn't going to be a cute and cuddly alien movie.

I don't get scared easily but here are some:

• E.T.'s screams.
• The end of Quarantine.
• The tequila worm in Poltergeist II. (Actually, this one alternates between scary and cool.)
• A kitchen turning into a microwave in Ghost in the Machine.
• Any scene with the dead baby in Trainspotting.
• The spinning head guy in Jacobs Ladder.
• George Clooney having his fingernails ripped off in Syriana.
• The monster jumping out from that one guy's chest in The Thing.