In honor of the upcoming holiday, post your favorite scary movie moments!

[Lyric]

I'll start! The extended nurse/death scene from "The Exorcist III":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH8ynu0jRvY

:hi:

[UTUSN]

1. In "The Shining" where the wife sees the "manuscript" stack for the first time

and it's all, "The quick brown fox... "

[nolabear]

10. "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."

[UTUSN]

17. O.K., yes, a *typing exercise*!1 It's been years, so the specific one got away from me

I just know the shock of seeing what he had been typing gave me chills.

1) The industry of his working steadily at the "writing"/typing his book had seemed NORMAL.

2) The reams and reams of nothing but a TYPING EXERCISE reverses everything, sanity > insanity in one realization.

3) Then there's the aftershock of letting it sink in how he typed and typed and typed...

It was more horrific than the physical ax mayhem and such. What a smashing device. Was it in the book? I've never read any KING. Was it KUBRICK? I've never understood why KING didn't like the movie, despite the "not faithful to the book" thing. I've tried to sit through KING's t.v. "faithful" version and haven't gotten far.

[cemaphonic]

29. No, it's not in the book.

I think you've hit on one of the reasons why King doesn't like the movie - Many of the things that people remember about the story are from the movie. There was even an episode of Friends once when they were ostensibly discussing the book, but kept referencing scenes and images that are only in the movie.

[Art_from_Ark]

13. The semi-decomposed hag coming out of the bathtub

was the creepiest part of that movie for me

[sarge43]

15. The long shot through the room

with that dead white light we can get in snow country to a close up on Jack's face and he's gone stark staring mad. Things will not go well now.

[pokerfan]

25. Come play with us, Danny

:scared:

[Rhythm]

2. Zelda from Pet Sematary still freaks me out...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV4nwwgVEc4

[charlie and algernon]

3. The end of Halloween IV

Jamie's Transformation - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEllT1RHqa8&feature=related

[Lyric]

4. You mean Jamie.

The little girl's name is Jamie. But yeah--that's a great scene. :)

[charlie and algernon]

5. ah yes, you're right

Heh, I'm even watching it on AMC now. :P

Rachel is the Step-sister.

[some guy]

6. from The Omen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLlSjyZupzU

[Lucian]

7. Decapitation by window glass = a real pane.

[some guy]

11. lol

but at least it was a quick one.

[pacalo]

8. The Omen has a lot of jolting scenes!

- what happened after the nanny yelled, "Damian! Look at me!"

- the sight of the evil nanny's face when Lee Remick's nightgown was covering her head like a veil as she was struggling to get undressed.

- the manner in which the preist died.

That movie scared me so much!

[some guy]

9. yep.

It was a really good horror film.

I saw it in the theater when it was new; the woman I was with grabbed my arm and buried her head in my shoulder just before the glass went slicing through the photographer - she added a whole extra layer of scary to my senses at that moment.

So for me, the scene itself was scary, but getting grabbed took it right over the top. :scared:

[pacalo]

21. The moment I jolted a date's arm was while watching "Jaws"...

the part when Richard Dreyfus was scouting out a sunken ship under the ocean & a head suddenly popped out of a hole the moment Dreyfus was looking through.

I guess I must have doubled that moment of surprise for my date, too. :silly:

[some guy]

22. this

is why men die younger than women.

Y'all give us all those mini-heart attacks at the movies. :scared: :scared:

:P

[pacalo]

23. It's because we have high expectations of your manliness.

So at least the men can die with feelings of pride.

:hide:

[nolabear]

12. "The Tingler is loose in the theater! Scream! Scream for your lives!"

Okay, I was little and it was on Morgus the Magnificent's midnight movies out of New Orleans. But I always kind of wished I'd seen it in a theater, LSD or no.

[pacalo]

20. Morgus the Magnificent & his sidekick Chopsley!

That laboratory with the eerie picture window in the slanted roof was perfectly creepy -- & "located at the old ice house"!

"The Tingler" is one of my favorite classic horror movies.

Nice to hear from someone who is familiar with New Orleans! :hi:

[MilesColtrane]

14. Carrie

Start it at 5:00.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgR0PN0xTI0

[bluedigger]

26. Yup!

I saw Carrie in HS with three of my buds. We sat quietly through the whole movie...until the end. All four of jumped out of our seats and screamed like little schoolgirls. :rofl:

[Renew Deal]

16. Eli Roth's Thanksgiving Trailer

NSFW!

Extreme violence and some nudity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE7tyW8CYXs

[EnviroBat]

18. This one still scares the living shit out of me sometimes...

Scene from the Howling, self explanatory...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKGj-jWJNNY

[gratuitous]

19. There's a couple

In "Psycho," when Martin Balsam's character reaches the top of the stairs and the camera angle suddenly shifts to an overhead shot. The killer springs out of the bedroom and attacks. I know it's coming, but it always gives me a start. Same thing in "Halloween" when Jamie Lee Curtis walks up to the door of the old Meyer's house to put the key under the mat for her realtor mother. The camera angle shifts to shoot out the little door window and as Curtis approaches, Michael Meyer moves in silhouette from the right and the deep chord plays. I know it's coming, but . . .

I also remember it creeped me out toward the end of "The Ring" when the monster comes out of the TV screen and attacks the hapless guy watching. I suppose I should watch it again to see if it jars me, or if it just seems hokey anymore.

But those are three good moments for clenching your butt cheeks.

[Capn Sunshine]

24. Baby ALien pops out of the crewman's chest

Admit it, the first time you saw it, it was Mind Blowing

[cemaphonic]

27. For a "family" horror movie, Poltergeist has a lot of fucked-up shit

Mirror scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsMCOmn11zs

Plus, I bet just about everyone currently in their 30s, has an instinctive fear and loathing of clowns.

[AmandaRuth]

28. ending of the orginal wicker man

just got the movie! That ending gives me nightmares.

[Lyric]

32. The Nick Cage remake has an ending just as awful

*shudder*

[WinkyDink]

30. Mom. "Psycho."

[Scout]

31. Wait Until Dark (spoiler!)

when Alan Arkin comes lunging out of the bedroom to grab Audrey Hepburn.

[kentauros]

33. The Haunting (1963 version)

It's what you don't see that scares you! :scared:

The scary part starts around 2:48 in this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-asSNdtxA0&feature=related


And here's the opening voice-over and history of Hill House, "A house born bad!" :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAo6WwpV3jk

[FloridaJudy]

34. The car accident in "The Orphanage"

That entire movie scared the snot out of me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA6pPzh6Bd4), but that scene in particular made me scream. It comes at a point when you're not expecting something gruesome to happen, and it's like Wham! Gotcha.

eta: The Spanish do creepy really, really well. Must be all those decades living under Generalissimo Franco.