Moment in a movie that scared you most

DazQ87 said:
Two scenes that always creep me out both quite similar:

1. signs, where the alien walks past the kids birthday party:
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That would be one that freaked me out big time at the cinema. Anything like that gets me.

Jaws was really scary as a kid, the score alone was terrifying.
 
I think mine was watching the mockumentary Ghostwatch when it originally aired on BBC in the early 90s. It was shown as if it was live TV and it was only afterwards that they said that it wasn't.

I was a kid (10-12 or so) and I was watching it with my parents, but that freaked me out at the time.

I can recall many specific details (Sarah Greene was a presenter in it and was there a bit with a man behind a curtain towards the end?) but I do remember having to sleep downstairs with my dad with the lights on afterwards...
 
Metallifux said:
For some reason I decided to watch the remake of The Ring, alone, in the dark. I knew nothing of the original. This scene stuck with me.

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It's easy to forget how good that movie is. Not a stone cold classic by any means, but has a superb sense of pacing and the scares are really quite well orchestrated.
 
The scene in insidious got me when they were sitting around the table and the devil things head appeared next to the guy. Think it was more to do with me not expecting it more than anything.
Also some scenes in grave encounters, paranormal activity and mama sent shivers up my spine.
 
I had a few when I was a kid but not so much now:

The Thing: either the scene with the Dog and its splitting head or the scene where they are tied up and Mcreedy is doing the thing with the wire.

Or

The scene in American Werewolf in London where he is having a nightmare and the guys in monster masks kill his family.
 
The scene in "American Werewolf in London" where the guy is running through the underground being chased by the beast. The shot when he's going up the escalator and for a split second you see the creature in the lobby below him (from 1.57 in this clip).
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Scared the hell out of me as a kid but having just re-watched I'm primarily amused by the wonderful Britishness of the fact that he's running from a werewolf but still holding his brolly and briefcase. :D

There is a scene in “Wolfen” where the hero is sitting in a car and rains is really beating down to the extent that the window is running with so much water that it’s hard to see anything. One of the Wolfen (werewolves again) is standing on a wall and watching the guy. He very slowly reaches across for his wiper switch, never taking his eyes off the creature but when he pull it then screen clears and the beast is gone. Really tense stuff. I couldn’t find a clip though and didn’t fancy watching the whole movie (most of it is fairly poor).

The bedroom scene in “Communion”where Whitley Streiber (Christopher Walken) is sitting in a chair and says “I know you’re there” to an alien peeking around his bedroom door. That’s jarring enough but it’s the terrible resignation on his face that he’s going to be abducted and there’s nothing he can do about it.
 
joeyjojo said:
My favourite film ever and I agree, but I wouldn't share it here as it's nowhere near as potent outside the context of the film and is a bit of a spoiler IMO.

Lynch is a genius at playing with the audience's expectations and pacing and his films only really work when viewed properly.
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I don't think it's a spoiler outside of the fact you see what happens in that particular scene. The purpose of the scene itself in context to the rest of the movie is so largely ambiguous the first time round that I doubt 5% of people would get it.

I agree that it's one of the best movies ever made though. Lynch 'gets it' in a way few Directors do. Not to take anything away from the others, but Lynch's general style of filmmaking is so of it's own ilk... he transcends every other genre within the medium. Not to say everything he does is great or even good. But he certainly adds his own spin to everything, demonstrated very well by this scene.
 
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The clown scene in Poltergeist for me.

still **** scared of them now and sometimes have that feeling that one is under my bed. (never sleep with my foot hanging over the edge because of it and i'm 47!!!)

JB
 
John Carpenters - The Thing. Virtually every alien bit scared the pants off me, but the worst bit was when the Doctor was trying to resuscitate a colleague who was having a seizure and the docs hands just go through into the chest....and chaos ensues.
 
Kainz said:
John Carpenters - The Thing. Virtually every alien bit scared the pants off me, but the worst bit was when the Doctor was trying to resuscitate a colleague who was having a seizure and the docs hands just go through into the chest....and chaos ensues.
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Great great scene.

The one that bothers me the most in that film though is the transformation of Palmer (during the blood test scene)and the attack on Windows.
 
anticonscience said:
Paranormal Activity 2 - Kitchen scene, scared me like I have never been scared before. Made my hairs on my neck stand up.

Sinister - Whole film creeped me out for days after I had seen it, it doesn't help I have two kids and go to bed at night by using my phone to light the way. Got my mate who I saw it with too. We were a wreck for days.
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Paranormal Activity....ushhhh still makes me nervous! Remember watching it at the cinema, wont be doing that again!
 
The Burning raft massacre scene. Seeing Jason Alexander with actual hair in that film was also pretty scary.
 
Hahaha, me too. Jaws is my favourite film and I've watched something like a hundred times but it still gets every single, damned time.
 
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