Yessssss, I couldn't think of anything specific but there are definitely some effectively spooky moments in The Innocents.
― Artisanal Personality Disorder (Old Lunch), Friday, 10 May 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link
the stabbing in Zodiac has that same daylight horror as The Strangers. I see they were only a year apart release.
― Yerac, Friday, 10 May 2019 18:18 (four years ago) link
I guess it's sort of daylight horror but the first appearance of Leatherface in the og Texas Chainsaw Massacre was and continues to be very effective.
― Artisanal Personality Disorder (Old Lunch), Friday, 10 May 2019 18:23 (four years ago) link
As mentioned above, all the scary face scenes in Salem's Lot and Inland Empire. Agree also with the television version of Woman In Black and hong kong version of The Eye.
Lake scene in Let's Scare Jessica To Death
Where do I start with Watership Down?
Even though its a horror comedy kung fu, the opening of Spooky Encounters is pretty spooky.
Not totally scary but the lightning scene in Secret Chronicles Of The Ghost Cat is awesome. Cat woman would have scared me more if I was 2-20 years old. Definitely intimidating though.
Bloody coffin scene in Alucarda is really awesome.
Blair Witch and Rec endings of course.
A few haunting scenes in The Premonition (70s) are pretty jumpy stuff, in a good way.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 10 May 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
The Premonition is the only one in the American Horror Project box that I haven't watched. Must get on that.
― Artisanal Personality Disorder (Old Lunch), Friday, 10 May 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
― Artisanal Personality Disorder (Old Lunch), Friday, May 10, 2019 11:23 AM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the door slamming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QSsVgPbmeU
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 10 May 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
Yup. That impassive, static medium shot does so much of the heavy lifting. Frustrating that a setup that effective is used so seldom in horror.
― Artisanal Personality Disorder (Old Lunch), Friday, 10 May 2019 18:37 (four years ago) link
Like, toss yr ooky-spooky score in the trash, don't telegraph every damn thing before it happens, just put that camera on a tripod and let us be a fly on the wall for the terror about to unfold.
― Artisanal Personality Disorder (Old Lunch), Friday, 10 May 2019 18:38 (four years ago) link
Can't find a clip but the Ugly Wuglies scene from the BBC version of E Nesbit's The Enchanted Castle would probably do for a 12 years old's version of lynchian not actually scary but pretty damn creepy.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Friday, 10 May 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
Last 20 minutes of Bone Tomahawk really freaked me out.
― Darin, Friday, 10 May 2019 18:48 (four years ago) link
Came here to post first appearance of Leatherface, as I'm sure I have in some similar thread. That is alltime.
Here's one of my recent "favorites"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbNGXZO4vbA
― While My Guitar Gently Wheedly-Wheedly-Wheedly-Weeps (Dan Peterson), Friday, 10 May 2019 19:12 (four years ago) link
mary elizabeth mastrantonio’s drowning and revival in the abyss is genuinely upsetting
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 10 May 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7xza4oYsbY
thought the it adaptation was whatever but gotta admit this scene got me.
― oiocha, Friday, 10 May 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link
That was the one reasonably well-mounted moment in just about the entire thing.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Friday, 10 May 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
Okay, I'm hoping that at least one other person gets where I'm coming from -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlv_LQHX450
― MaresNest, Friday, 10 May 2019 22:40 (four years ago) link
the scene in "Aliens" where Ripley and Newt fall asleep underneath the cot in the medical lab; then Ripley wakes up, spots the empty stasis tubes where the facehuggers were, gently wakes Newt and just says, "We're in trouble."
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Friday, 10 May 2019 23:09 (four years ago) link
2.58 is probably the most unsettling thing to appear in the entirety of classic Dr Who. Ironically the footage only survives due to being snipped out by the Aussie censors at the time, everything else was junked.
https://youtu.be/88svfiAJ0C8?t=178
― Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Friday, 10 May 2019 23:17 (four years ago) link
Embed, you bastard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88svfiAJ0C8
― Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Friday, 10 May 2019 23:18 (four years ago) link
Excellent use of British teeth there.
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Sunday, 12 May 2019 06:35 (four years ago) link
One of my favorite films. There's no way Lynch got the mystery man from Lost Highway without the guy at the end of this scene from Carnival of Souls. Also *great* use of music in a film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS-PRypBdIM
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Sunday, 12 May 2019 22:12 (four years ago) link
This scene from Kairo/Pulse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYs87-kDXwg
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Sunday, 12 May 2019 23:31 (four years ago) link
The cursed videotape from Ringu is next-level unease:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mbo5vHy8dw
― Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Monday, 13 May 2019 00:22 (four years ago) link
yep
― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Monday, 13 May 2019 01:29 (four years ago) link
The stabbing scene from Side Effects was genuinely disturbing to me. Sometimes I’ll be using a knife in the kitchen and remember it and my stomach will do a little flip-flophttps://youtu.be/GRzA8KaskyY
― One Eye Open, Monday, 13 May 2019 01:53 (four years ago) link
i can't find the sequence on youtube but the scene in a.i. where david is walking through the cybertronics building and finds all those other models of himself, and looks through the empty eyesockets of a copy of his face? belongs here
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 13 May 2019 02:01 (four years ago) link
Sinister was a mostly bad-good B-horror movie, but the snuff films within the movie are very effectively creepy. Soundless, crappily-edited 8mm home movies that quickly change from picnics and pool parties to horrific murders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSOvTa38w24
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Monday, 13 May 2019 13:35 (four years ago) link
Another kind of pool party.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3Li5dLDfmY
― Jazzbo, Monday, 13 May 2019 13:47 (four years ago) link
That bit in The Broken with Lena Headey, where you see a POV from _inside_ a mirror, and it's this vast dark world with a tiny little window of light.
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 01:27 (four years ago) link
I like that scene from Let the Right One In
― Dan S, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 01:40 (four years ago) link
haha i came here to post mr oak and mr quill, that's the one bit of australian censorship where my reaction is "well good on you for cutting _that_"
haven't seen it in decades but i remember being absolutely terrified by the electroshock at the beginning of "return to oz" (which may be anachronistic? i can't remember when it's set but wouldn't insulin shock be more likely?)
basic upshot is nothing can be scary like "children's entertainment"
― Burt Bacharach's Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull (rushomancy), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 09:28 (four years ago) link
Case in point:
Punky Brewster's Halloween two-parter 'The Perils of Punky' (1985) sent the show veering from mawkish sitcom into full-on kiddie horror. pic.twitter.com/kd8uPFNrnD— Scarred for Life (@ScarredForLife2) March 12, 2018
― Have you ever had a dream that you um you had your you you could you (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 10:23 (four years ago) link
Freeze frame of the broken bottle on the beach as the foot is coming down on it.
So many of these from PIFs. Dark Water, Apaches, The Finishing Line. Electrocuted rescuing a frisbee. The little girl with her fingers melted by a firework.
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 10:25 (four years ago) link
Being a kid in a 70s public information film was like being a Redshirt in Star Trek. pic.twitter.com/SYcWhdbWRv— Scarred for Life (@ScarredForLife2) May 21, 2018
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 10:48 (four years ago) link
I don't watch much Horror per se but the Ringu scene was the first properly unsettling scary thing I'd seen.plus the obvious Lynch stuff
― kinder, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 11:10 (four years ago) link
Oh yes Return to Oz machine, also the Wheelers
― kinder, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 11:11 (four years ago) link
can't remember the specific scene but House of Wax had something horrifying. also the first time we see the truck in Jeepers Creepers.
― kinder, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 11:13 (four years ago) link
I know I keep banging on about this show but Bodies *spoilers* has a scene I couldn't shake with a woman trying to cause herself to miscarriage and the foetus is born just alive the whole show is prolonged horror pretty much
― kinder, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 11:18 (four years ago) link
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 11:41 (four years ago) link
the last ten minutes of BBC's Ghostwatch are the scariest ten minutes recorded anywhere ever imo
― imago, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 11:42 (four years ago) link
Otm. This is a good read about the making of and reaction afterwards. (How nice it was to be able to make this in a world without social media tbh)
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 11:46 (four years ago) link
Ha, was literally just coming to post that it was effective seeing Ghostwatch for the first time as an American adult. I cannot even imagine what it would've been like to see it as a kid and in its proper context.
― Have you ever had a dream that you um you had your you you could you (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 11:48 (four years ago) link
I watched it knowing everything about it and it was still some eye-boggling throat-cracking shit, can't even imagine what it was like to see it at the time
xp!! haha
― imago, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 11:49 (four years ago) link
The trailer for The Shining more than any moment in the film itself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANKdpe4J2h0
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 11:54 (four years ago) link
I feel duty-bound to point out this related A+ UK-centric thread for those unaware of its existence: is there a name or a phrase for or anything much written about that distinctly British CREEPY VIBE prevalent in TV shows and movies of the '60s/'70s? (e.g. The Prisoner, Sapphire and Steel, Baker-era
― Have you ever had a dream that you um you had your you you could you (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 12:08 (four years ago) link
yeah I bumped it like yesterday :)
― imago, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 12:09 (four years ago) link
(with penda's fen. which isn't so much scary as lyrical, beautiful and inspiring. the edward elgar scene especially is one of the BEST if not scariest i've seen)
― imago, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 12:10 (four years ago) link
Ha, didn't even notice! I've had that thing bookmarked since its inception.
― Have you ever had a dream that you um you had your you you could you (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 12:11 (four years ago) link
oh god i love ghostwatch. another scene of a door slamming that absolutely ruins my ability to sleep
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 12:35 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJXvdTIBQMU
spoiler for the end of prince of darkness but: this is the scariest scene john carpenter ever filmed
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 12:38 (four years ago) link