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
this is not a dream
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 12:39 (four years ago) link
one particularly sadistic sequence I think of from time to time: JJL's demise in The Hitcher
― Simon H., Wednesday, 15 May 2019 12:39 (four years ago) link
Ghostwatch is significantly enhanced once you know to keep an eye out for the many 'blink and you'll miss it' appearances of Pipes throughout (a trope I was glad to see Hell House adopt). The split-second glimpse in the room beneath the staircase is my favorite.
― Have you ever had a dream that you um you had your you you could you (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 12:42 (four years ago) link
this shit may have damaged me for lifehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z4rQfV3Lo8
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 05:15 (four years ago) link
also i may be hella corny but the end of paranormal activity fucked with my head a bithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCXmk4QAcUc
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 05:18 (four years ago) link
no that PA one got me too, and I usually am cool as a cucumber during horror flicks. something about watching it in my dark room with my face close to the laptop added to it
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 05:24 (four years ago) link
box cutter scene in breaking bad
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 05:36 (four years ago) link
christ that shining trailer is good. i wish i could have seen the shining for the first time without knowing every scare through decades of cultural osmosis.
― oiocha, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 15:28 (four years ago) link
- Mulholland Drive - 'Man Behind The Dumpster' - Kill List - 'Tunnels' / 'Hunchback' - Eyes Wide Shut - 'Orgy' (the music + masks combo freaks me out) - The Grudge - two scenes: one with the grandmother being tormented by an evil shadow spirit; another where someone is leaving work late and keeps getting phone calls on her mobile - Midsommar - ritual suicide scenes
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 15:29 (four years ago) link
I thought there were some genuinely frightening scenes in M Night's 'The Invitation', especially the grandmother hobbling around the house at night screaming and puking, and the bit where she chases the kids around the crawlspace under the house
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
The "wall of death" execution scene in the mostly-execrable Caligula (1979) really got to me, I had to turn it off after that because I was getting freaked out. In fact I just looked it up on YT and it freaked me out all over again.
― john cage fighter (Matt #2), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
haha oh man yeah that is an image that really sticks
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
I wonder if I would've found Paranormal Activity scarier if I didn't regularly wake up to find my insomnia-prone gf basically doing some variation of the immobile late-night starefest that I assume is meant to make the viewer's skin crawl.
― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
I don't know how I failed to mention it before itt but so many small, quiet moments in Testament are among the most dread-inducing things I've ever seen on film. Most especially the scene of a young Lucas Haas being bathed in the sink, which I saw when I wasn't much older and probably did permanent damage to my brain.
― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
The overhead shot when Martin Balsam gets offed in Psycho freaks me out every single time
― The Man Who Was Thirsty (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
Yea that one was underrated
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
Shower scene overshadows some other mega legit scares
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
My dad, who saw it in the early sixties but wasn't what you'd called a cineaste, always said that the reveal mother scared him way more than the shower scene. That doesn't really do it for me but the framing of the stair murder and the way Perkins moves is just incredibly shocking still.
― The Man Who Was Thirsty (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
Tarman in Return of the Living Dead is half played for laughs but I dunno, that guy kinda freaks my shit out tbrr.
― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
that's a good one. it's deffo the way it's framed, i was ready for the attack but not from that direction. the bare bulb swinging on the norman reveal is disturbing too mind you, that wig!! and the i wouldn't even harm a fly nonsense.
the only horror scene that had an effect on my actual behaviour was whichever hammer dracula film that had the count entering a bedroom as a bat via the window, i must have seen it on tv aged 8 or so and legit did not open any windows in my room for at least 3 years, even in the height of Summer. lol.
xp
― oscar bravo, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 18:07 (four years ago) link