Scariest movie scene?

[tblue]

1) The crawling girl in "The Ring"
2) The bloody hand in the original "Carrie"

[Ahpook]

1. Still say The Exorcist has some very disturbing scenes :)

One in particular is during the exorcism. Regan is laying on her back and head turned towards the camera. She has a bit of the famous pea soup rolling out of her mouth. The creepiest thing is her eyes. Completely rolled back in her head.


That small few seconds of the film makes my knees weak :)

On edit: The demon face that briefly pops up from time to time is terrifying as well.

[Frank Cannon]

17. Captain Howdy says Howdy

[hifiguy]

2. Buffalo Bill stalking Clarice Starling

through that horrifying basement in "The Silence of the Lambs." Especially since it's seen through Bill's night-vision goggles. :scared:

[polly7]

3. The meat-hook scene in Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Brrrrrr... nt.

[gratuitous]

4. Two "wet-your-pants" moments

I agree with the crawling girl in "The Ring." Well set up, and when I saw it in the theater, absolutely petrifying.

Two moments that never fail to "get" me are from "Psycho" and "Halloween." The Martin Balsam character is going up the stairs of the Bates house looking for Mrs. Bates, and the camera angle suddenly shifts from the top of the stairs to an overhead shot, as "Mrs. Bates" bursts out of the bedroom to stab Mr. Arbogast. Yikes! Arbogast totters on the edge of the stairs before tumbling down, with Mrs. Bates flying down after him like the Angel of Death to finish him off at the bottom of the staircase.

In "Halloween," there's the scene where Jamie Lee Curtis goes up the front walk of the Myers House to slip the key under the front mat. The camera shifts to inside the house looking out the front door window. Just as Curtis straightens up and turns around to walk away, Mike Myers suddenly moves into the frame to look at her through the window. Yeeks!

[XemaSab]

7. I agree: It was "well" set up.

:hide:

[CrawlingChaos]

5. The first one that came to mind...

The ending of "Don't Look Now", when Donald Sutherland finally catches up to the little figure in the red raincoat.

If I keep thinking about I'm sure I'll come up with a different answer. So many good ones!

[Enrique]

6. is it safe?

[pokerfan]

8. The Exorcist

head spinning 360 degrees. The first time I saw was holy crap! :scared:

[mockmonkey]

9. The Changeling (original)

When Trish Van Devere gets chased by the wheelchair that always makes me shiver.

[d_b]

14. word

one of my favorite films.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. "Wait Until Dark"

When the killer comes out of the dark at our heroine...After we'd thought completely that she'd killed him...

I kid you not, everyone (even my calm husband) jumped.

:scared:

[marmar]

11. The scene in Halloween when Jamie Lee Curtis is sitting on the couch.....

..... and sees the open window, and Michael Myers pops up.

[oneshooter]

12. Jaws, the scene were the fishermans head pops up in hole in the boat

right after the sharks tooth is found.

Oneshooter

[swimboy]

15. Yes. That one got me good.

:scared:

[Brickbat]

18. Gaaaah -- is that the scene underwater? Where the person is diving and all of a sudden a head comes

tumbling into the window in the boat? OMFG I had totally forgotten about that until you brought it up.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. Jacob's Ladder

where he hallucinates the person with the lizard tail.

[Frank Cannon]

16. The "blood test" in John Carpenter's The Thing

"You gotta be fucking kidding me!"

[rrneck]

19. Two from Exorcist 3

The ceiling scene:
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=6KmJZs5I4r8

Nurse station scene:
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=zH8ynu0jRvY

[RebelOne]

20. The shower stabbing scene in "Psycho." n/t

[edbermac]

21. And Norman Bates at the end.

"Why she wouldn't even harm a fly!"

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