what was the scariest movie scene you ever saw?

A few more:

• That first shot on Pinhead rising in Hellraiser

• The dinner scene from the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre

• The monster sex scene from Possession

• most of the Exorcist

• The hospital and nurse with a horn in Jacobs Ladder

• The end of No Telling

• Luke's nightmare in Empire Strikes Back

• Every single frame of Tetsuo The Iron Man

• Most of Shivers, particularly when you see the parasite come out of the guy's mouth

• The home invasion scene in Henry Portrait Of A Serial Killer

• The lust victim in Seven

edited 16th Feb '12 9:34:57 AM by SurrealDog1966

The scenes with Zelda in Pet Sematary. Also, embarassing as it is to admit, the nightmare with the booing old lady in The Princess Bride made it hard for me to breathe the first few times I saw it.

There are two that really stand out for me.

1. Raiders Of The Lost Ark: The climax involving creepy ghosts, melting, disintegrating, exploding, and burning bad guys really got to me for years and years!
2. Event Horizon: I saw some You Tube clips showing scenes from this movie...including the scene where the protagonists find a video log showing just what exactly happened to the crew members - and showing it to us in all its unholy glory! I almost passed out from seeing this, and I'd like to think that I have a strong constitution! So remember, folks! The next time you get annoyed with Take Our Word for It, just think about this movie and how successfully subverting it will make you wish they didn't!

edited 23rd Mar '12 6:37:06 PM by TiggersAreGreat

Carnival Of Souls: Our heroine's creepy fugue at the organ keyboard. NO THANK YOU IDONOTCARETODANCE PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEOHGODPLEASE

As far as I'm concerned, nothing tops this.

I can see what you mean there. You have dark and cramped spaces, which will probably have the claustrophobic crying for their mothers. You have low-pitched creepy music, which will start to get to you after a while. You have the camera positioned so that you get this feeling of something in the darkness just waiting to pounce. The way the circular hatches open and close slowly in the narrow tunnels give the feeling of being inside a vein, artery or blood vessel of the human body - and it's not a good feeling. There is that feeling of Nothing Is Scarier for most of the clip, and you find yourself wishing that something happens and ends the ever-building suspense soon. Then, it turns out that there is something and you get a very brief and quick Jump Scare and Scare Chord, followed by everyone wondering why Dallas has gotten so quiet. You don't see what happened to him, but you know that he's dead. Perfect.

edited 27th Mar '12 5:07:21 PM by TiggersAreGreat

That's nothing - when this reopened in the Arches in 2009 I lived it! Twice!!

The documentary really doesn't do it justice because it was quite effective in real life. There's nothing quite like the moment when you're in a cramped elevator with seven other people, you look up and the fucking thing is drooling on your (my!) face!

And that was the under 18s version, I'm desperate for them to bring it back so I can try out the real thing.

edited 27th Mar '12 7:40:15 PM by TheBatPencil

I cant nominate very well this terms even in my own languague. You know, there is some kind of mixture of feelings. The sensation of uneasiness of Cache or Paranormal Activity it´s not the rejection almost physical of things like Audition, Deliverance and Clockwork Orange.

edited 1st Apr '12 3:50:03 AM by Picheleiro

I can tell that English is not your first language. That's okay! English can be painfully hard to learn...just like Japanese!

Those films Audition, Deliverance, and Clockwork Orange, those films are scary and they don't have anything supernatural in them. Nope, they just show a Complete Monster who may or may not have a Freudian Excuse, and is a human being, like you and me. I hope I never sink to that level!

Still, Paranormal Activity and Cache sound pretty darn scary...or disturbing.

I tried very briefly to find the clip online but I think, to narrow scare down into a single scene (y'know, instead of having the story build significance over time with one scene being terrifying, really, only in context), leaves me with a scene from what I admit is a pretty mediocre horror movie.

It's the scene from Exorcism of Emily Rose wherein her boyfriend wakes up after spending the night to find the girl on the floor, joints locked into a most unnatural position. That one scene, singularly, was the most horrifying part of that entire film for me. (And apparently, the actress saved them a crapload of special effects money because she could actually contort herself into those positions due to her athleticism, so, in the end, the filmmakers didn't have to spend on dummies. Yay her!)

On TV I saw End of the Line. The opening scene shows us some people on the subway and (I think) a woman holding a newspaper. She lifts the newspaper up and it hides the people. Then when she puts it down to turn the page the people in the background turn out to be these Silent Hill-esque monsters with stringy flesh-bits stretching across where their eyes and mouth should be and they've jumped to be right in front of the woman/camera. I flinched.

edited 3rd Apr '12 6:35:00 PM by Braincogs

Ooh yeah, that scene gave me the willies.

Nothing, I tell you, nothing about that movie at all affected me on an intellectual level...

But every now and then, I would wake up in the middle of the night, I would see that it was pretty close to 3:00 AM and my brain would flash to that scene and I would end up too scared to look down at my floor.

Y'know. In case she was there. I guess. (What is wrong with me?)

I thought for a second you were talking about Walk the Line and I was tilting my head so hard. "...When did /that/ happen??"

edited 3rd Apr '12 9:26:53 PM by MistressofCeremonies

For me the entire top ten of scariest scenes is probably from "The Wages of Fear": truck full of nitroglycerine heading for a pothole, truck full of nitroglicerine going up a winding mountain road, truck full of nitroglycerine stuck with another truck full of nitroglycerine storming towards it, etc.

I saw End of the Line a while back and did the same exact thing. Oh, and you forgot about how twhat she was reading in the newspaper matched exactly what looked it looked like in the train before the monsters came into the picture.

Then, there's that fucking Banshee in Darby 'O Gill and most of the It's a Good Life sequence in the Twilight Zone movie with the cartoons and the Live Action Tazmanian Devil.

edited 11th Apr '12 9:54:00 AM by TylerFG

Upon watching it again, I realize a pretty scary one, or maybe just really, really, really, forebording..

The scene from The Warriors when they emerge from the subway....and find themselves surrounded by at least 30 of the Baseball Furies. An Oh Shit! moment if there ever was.

Some may have changed over time but here's mine...

Crocodile: Said crocodile eating everyone... Until I found out they were all idiots after watching an online review of it. But, still, for a C-Grade Movie, that gator was pretty scary...

Pinocchio: Say it with me, guys; the changing into a donkey scene.

Terminator 2: Judgement Day: Sarah Connor's dream... Just Sarah Connor's dream.

edited 11th Apr '12 11:36:13 AM by DiurnalBrocolli

I swear, the donkey scene is not that scary people. Unless you were attacked by a donkey as a child.

It faded over time but that scene with the Ceti eels in Wrath Of Khan used to severely freak me out.

Maybe not the scariest one, (that one is reserved for any of my Nightmare Fuel scenes from my childhood), but one of the coolest/scariest would be the opening scene in Scream.

...What? You it's awesome for any Genre Savvy Troper!

Lets just say most Disney Villain deaths shall we?

• Dr. Facillier's Death "ARE YOU REEEEEAAAADY?"
• Frollo's Death
• The Horned King's death.
• Clayton's death.
• Scar's Death.

Goddamn Disney can be freaking dark sometimes....

edited 14th Apr '12 1:37:42 PM by dmysta3000

"'Uno, dos, tres, toca la pared....'

The closing scene from both versions of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers. Holy Shit.

edited 14th Apr '12 5:56:55 PM by TheStarshipMaxima

Shame it got ruined by Executive Meddling in the 1956 original

You forgot Judge Doom, dude. (And to be honest, the Donkey scene isn't so scary now that I'm an adult. I was pretty much a wimp when I was a kid...)

Disney: When we ain't promoting tween pop stars, or ruining a butt monkey mad scientist's plans with a platypus (They don't do much), we be feeding your kids nightmare fuel!

edited 15th Apr '12 5:35:23 AM by DiurnalBrocolli