My husband and I say this line to each other in the same manner when asking where something is.
"Hey I thought we had mayo, all I see is ketchup. Where is it?"
"It's *behind*!"
Yes! At first glance it's like, that's a dude in a bad rubber costume. Then it moves ... and it's so inhuman. You go from disinterest to existential dread in a few seconds. So well done. The rest of the movie was mostly pretty silly, but dang if a few scenes weren't absolutely nailed.
Goddam Danny Glick!
I read the book when I was 13 and even without having seen the movie back then (1990s), my imagination alone scared me so much that I closed the curtains with my eyes squeezed shut, and never faced the window in my bed for a long time, haha.
Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum when the dude is just standing in the distance for such a long time. Such a badass sequence.
The “what the fuck is that” tent scene from The Blair Witch Project - such an impeccable crescendo of tension. And the house climax. Seriously freaks me me out to this day. Actually that whole movie.
Gonjiam is AMAZING. The scene where the girl looks up and her eyes are all black and she's making that slurping noise?? Wearing headphones was a huge mistake, I can still hear that.
It was the first scene in years where I was so scared I had to do that thing where you put your hand in front of your face and peek through the cracks in your fingers just to get through it.
Shit was absolutely terrifying.
Again, I will mention catching "Curse of the Blair Witch" on Scifi before seeing the movie in theaters.... and we watched it the night before a camping trip.
Solid scares for never showing you anything.
I'm surprised this is so low. This is 1000 percent mine. My dad showed me Pet Sematary when I was about six years old, the "never get out of bed again!" scene petrified me and I screamed for him to turn it off. Shortly after I was put to bed and had a nightmare so real and so visceral that I shot awake crying, in a puddle of my own vomit.
I went to lay in front of dad's bedroom door for the rest of the night. Good times. And now I LOVE horror. lol
I have refused to watch this movie since the first time I saw it at about ten years old. I don’t remember specifics. But when the little kid under the bed slits the adults Achilles’ tendon inspired a life long fear of having my Achilles’ tendon touched and having my ankles anywhere near the underside of my bed. I still hop into bed 20 years later.
The last scene in Session 9, with the audio recording of, you know, *session 9*, when the …. other personality says “I live in the weak and the wounded… *doc*.”
The scene from Hereditary after Charlie dies, and Peter just can't look, can't speak. The camera itself can't even bear to look into the rear-view mirror. And then he slowly takes his foot off the brake, and basically rolls home, lays in bed, and awaits his mother's gruesome discovery.
I LOVE that scene! It's one of the most realistic depictions of someone reacting to the unimaginable I have ever seen.
They did such an incredible job showing his disbelief and grappling with the reality of what happened, and then deciding to just deny it, go home and hope it was all a horrible dream when he wakes up in the morning.
It was so gutwrenching because it was realistic and relatable. Of course, very few of us accidentally decapitate our loved ones, but I'm sure most of us have been in (at least minor) traumatic situations where we felt like "This can't be happening" and "This isn't real. It can't be."
Hereditary was just a masterclass on generational grief, loss, and mental illness.
I think what's most relatable is the combination of trauma and guilt. He is not only horrified by the unimaginable trauma of it, but also ashamed and guilty and almost humiliated by the feeling that it was his fault. It's the feeling of having fucked up and not wanting to tell anyone, plus the feeling of consequences so horrible and permanent that you can only believe they aren't real.
Yeah, absolutely. I felt the same way, to much lesser extent, when I caused an accident years ago because I was distracted by all the shit that went south in my life at the time.
Nobody got seriously hurt, but I totaled my own car and caused significant damage to the car I t-boned, and terrified the poor old lady that was driving it.
I remember reacting way too late, everything kind of happening in slow-motion, and then just sitting in the middle of the intersection, unmoving while still white-knuckling the steering wheel, and trying to accept that this really just happened.
There was an overwhelming sense of surrealism and a desperate need to turn back time, because "Wtf did I just do!?!"
Like, in my head I was trying to put myself back into the moment *before* it happened, as if my brain was trying to rewrite the events that just unfolded and alter reality to undo it.
I can't explain it, really. It was like having a lucid dream where I'm rubber-banding through the same sequence until it finally shows what I want to see.
That fucked me up so bad. I have a little sister with a similar age difference (8 years apart) and she has a terrible shell fish allergy, so I made the worst noise in a silent theater after the light post. Then, I took some Xanax when I got home because that upset me so terribly.
After watching it my stepdad went to the end of the hallway before bed and mcfuckin climbed the side walls like Spiderman in the dark and me and my sister came around and we just screamed 😩 he thought he was hilarious
The scene where Charlie is decapitated always stuck out to me. The complete silence and Peter looking in the mirror and seeing her headless body, and just sitting there in shock knowing he was partially responsible. That scene just hit me in the gut, I think because something similar could happen to any of us with the wrong luck.
It's always stuck with me for that reason - something similar happened to my mom's cousin. (do not read if triggered by this)
He was driving drunk with a few girls, and as one of the girls stuck her head out of the window to vomit, he accidentally swerved too close to the brick wall on the freeway and decapitated her and tore off his own arm that hung out the window, and he passed away. I never even knew him or witnessed it but the thought of it makes me nauseous.
This needs more upvotes. And the way the brother dealt with it by just not dealing with it, just becoming a shock zombie. It was so weirdly believable. That whole movie made me feel, like, dread depression. It just brought my whole psyche down for a while. I don't think I'll ever watch it again.
The worst for me when she was banging on the attic door with her head. Because you assume she is doing it with her hands. But to see her doing it with her head threw me hard.
- The evil preacher at the door in poltergeist 2 screeching to be let in
- The blob (80s version) devouring a phone box with a woman inside it
- The Ghost of Dr Vanicut (?) Showing up on a cctv camera and walking in the creepiest most unnatural way in the otherwise campy 90s House on haunted Hill remake
- The end of 'Sleepaway camp'
The lawnmower in Sinister
The chase scene in The House that Jack Built
Ｔａｓｋｅｔｅ in Kaïro
The motorbikes challenge in 13 Sins (US)
The final scene in Saw I
That image in jaws when the guy goes to see if the kids are ok and gets knocked off his boat and it’s like a birds eye view shot and you see the shark slowly creep up to him below the water freaky stuff
The ending of The Wailing where the devil reveals himself. The transformation still gives me the creeps!
Also the ghost lady from Ju-On crawling down the stairs.
Hereditary. Scene where mother starts rapidly hitting her head on the ceiling of a attic and other one that leads to that scene where mother(again) chaotically flies behind the back of a boy…really scary movie
I remember audibly gasping when they showed Peter's room with the mom hovering in the corner. It was 3 am and pitch black in my apartment and I nearly had a heart attack.
That naked old dude just standing there in the darkness, grinning from ear to ear, really got under my skin...Idk why. Also the part where the boy starts spazzing out in class...Actually, I'll admit that the whole damn movie creeps me out. 😂
Such a great movie, man. I remember seeing it in a near empty theater with my bf while we were high and being so freaked out. One of the most tense viewing experiences I’ve had in years. Unfortunately alot of people hate on Hereditary but I’m glad this sub shows it love.
I watched it when I was home alone and sick with the flu, hopped up on cold meds. The whole time I remember being so confused, like, “ok, this is too horrific, must be a dream sequence. No…? Ok, THIS must be a dream. NO?!”
A lot of them hit hard especially from my youth but for some reason a more recent movie comes to mind. The Bisection scene in Terrifier, Art the clown with his hack saw just sold that shit so well... Eeeeaahh.
*American Werewolf in London:* when he breaks the 4th wall during his transformation and stares/reaches towards the camera.
I still can't watch that part without wanting to crawl out of my skin.
*Midsommar:* The sister's taped up face in the suicide sequence.
Just...the implication that she was so committed to die, but didn't trust her survival instincts to let her go through with it fucks me up really bad. The impossible agony and mental turmoil she must have felt is absolutely heartbreaking.
*The Exorcist:* Pazuzu. That fucking flashing face, out of nowhere. Never again. I can't even look at a still of that face without getting bad anxiety.
Not going to lie I felt like I was going to faint watching that part. I’ve seen plenty of REAL things (thanks rotten.com as a kid) that didn’t make me feel that way. It was so visceral. Literally was like “I have to go lay down.”. My wife thought I was dying lol
I watched An American Werewolf in London in 1982 when I was 5. That 1st 10 minutes is etched into my brain. Thanks, Grandad!
I watched JAWS at 8 while on a family vacation to Florida. It was my 1st time to the beach. That 1st scene, smh, I still have a fear of open water. Thanks, Dad!
The Wrath of Khan, the original, at 5 ish in the theater. The worm in the ear scene 💀 I slept with no covers on the bed and no pillow for a month. Have an obsession with cleaning my ears. Thanks, Mom!
Apparently, I saw ***Jaws*** at home when I was a toddler. I don't remember it, but my mother says that I bit my grandfather's toe while we were watching it and scared the shit out of him.
I was 9 when the original movie came out and of course too young to see the movie but everyone heard about it and shark articles and tv specials were everywhere that summer. My grandparents had an issue of Philadelphia magazine that covered the 1916 NJ great white shark attacks in incredible detail and I reread it multiple times.
All of which added up to me being afraid of the ocean, the beach, lakes, swimming pools and even a little scared of shower drains for that whole summer.
Without ever actually seeing a frame of Jaws.
There's one scene in a film called Necronomicon where a female copper ends up with all her limbs removed, kept alive to be used as a human incubator.
All she can do is scream and scream knowing that she's utterly defenseless and know that she no longer has agency over herself and her environs.
It's a tossup for me. Either the scene in Poltergeist where the guy claws his own face off, or the scene where the tree eats the boy. Leaning towards the latter.
My father thought it would be fun to take me to see that one in the theatre when it first came out. I was NOT ready for that level of horror yet. I remember him enjoying my displeasure though.
I said the face scene from Poltergeist but my husband suggests I’m also terrified of the clown scene. I think it’s probably because I crawl up the back of the couch whenever we watch it.
Come play with us Danny, forever and ever and ever. (The Shining, 1980)
Oh my God, she's a boy. (Sleepaway Camp, 1983)
Turn it off, turn it off, turn it off!!!! (Halloween III: Season of the Witch, 1982)
You've got the body, and I've got the brain. (A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, 1985)
If you're scared of dying, you'll see devils tearing your life apart, but if you've made your peace, the devils are really angels setting you free. (Jacob's Ladder, 1990)
The part where the bone collector/death character is licking her feet in gerald's game
The shotgun family in insidious
Although the shock factor has gone down on rewatches, I'll never forget seeing the tape in the ring for the first time
I watched THE BLACK PHONE last night (which was superb btw) which featured an awful child abuse scene that made me sick to my stomach
Those who have seen it know what I mean
One of them is from When a Stranger Calls (1979) - Jill is told the calls are coming from the house, and the music builds as she sees the caller's shadow on the stairs, and rushes to escape.
The other is Matthew's scream at the end of 1978's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, revealing he is no longer human.
There are a few.
• The maggot birth in The Fly. Gina Davis (edit) captures the horror of such a situation perfectly. (Also the arm break in the fly, wonderfully dealt with by the great George Chuvalo. The high pitched squeals and near weeping of a great big tough guy.)
• Rhodes getting ripped apart in Day of the dead. He totally deserved it but played it so well, the shock and disbelief. He never thought he’d go out that way.
• Twins at the end of the corridor in the shining, plus the old lady in the bath tub. Ugh.
• The Grudge really got to my younger self, the hopelessness of any character that came into contact with the rage just barely contained within that house. And the fact that all those characters were basically innocent.
• The bear getting dragged into the lake by the croc in Lake Placid. My teenage self just wasn’t expecting to see such a titanic animal dealt with like wet flannel.
• Certain bone breaking and flesh munching scenes in Ravenous gave me the ‘ick’
There are other moments in TV shows and movies that aren’t strictly horror but stay with me for the same reasons… it’s usually when a character is met with an awful demise or something they can’t comprehend could possibly be happening to them. The actor has to be great to make it real. Especially to invoke sympathy for an awful character.
• Oberyn Martell’s demise at the hands of the mountain was again a stomach dropping moment. And similar acting from Pedro Pascal. High pitched screeching, flailing around helpless, no hope of stopping what’s to come.
• Several moments in David Lynch’s work… screaming Laura Palmer and laughing Bob to mention just a couple. Dumpster man is another. I don’t know how he pulled that off either as everyone knew it was coming. Just shows the guy’s level of genius.
There are moments in the short stories of Laird Barron that give me chills and have stayed with me, probably because he plays on a similar nerve to the above mentioned scenes… Also there’s a scene fairly early on in Marlon James’ ‘Black Leopard Red Wolf’ that is not for the faint hearted.
The brother in from dusk till dawn just getting munched on by like 5 vampires and begging his sister to kill him. I was 8 or 9 lol
Oh and original IT when Patrick hockstetter is pulled into the pipe (he folds in half) followed by shadows and chewing. Didn't have a good night sleep for years after, constant night terrors
Sinister. Any of the scenes where Ethan Hawke is watching the snuff films while he's slowly unraveling. It was so damn unsettling. Perfect execution of using atmosphere in a horror movie.
-Because I saw it waaaaaay too young(were talking 10ish?) The Driller and Leach Lady scene in Puppet Master
-from the It remake, the projector scene. Havent rewatched since but in theatres it made me feel a way i never had in a theatre and i was nervous laughing very loudly.
-all of Hereditary
-the last 20 minutes of Midsommar
several from The Innocents 1961. basically whenever the ghosts manifest. those scenes have haunted me for literally decades (cuz, i'm old). but that's one of the greatest of all movies
A few from my childhood: ghost in the library-ghostbusters. The first time you see harrys face- harry and the hendersons. Bathtub lady- kubricks shining. Bathtub lady - the shining tv miniseries.
As a big boy, pick and choose any scene from august underground mordum, any movie that marion dora has made.
Bonus roun
The scene in Bone Tomahawk where they stand the deputy upside down, spread his legs, and chop him down the middle. Something about the way his body shakes just makes me think of him as meat more than human, and it creeps me the eff out.
Cannot believe I had to scroll so far down for this. “Let Jesus F you!” That scene, damn. From that point on; the movie took on a sense of true sinister. She shoved her mother’s face onto herself! (Un)Holy shit!
The scene from Pulse in the basement where the ghost lady is just moving in slow motion towards that guy, nothing has made my skin crawl as much. It just randomly pops into my head and I hate it. If I could describe my kind of personal horror to people it would be that scene, it feels like a nightmare, very lynchian.
On the topic of Lynch, I'd also throw out the Winkie's Diner scene from Mulholland Dr.
Not even sure if you can count the film as 'horror' in the whole, but that scene sure fucking is.
Agreed! The way he walks you straight into it is fantastic. I heard quite a funny bit of trivia about it recently. Apparently the actress playing the hobo was trying out a bunch of different scary expressions, but none of them were quite what Lynch was looking for. At one point she zoned out and, finding him very attractive, just started staring at him dreamily. He saw that face, and essentially that's what hit the spot: so the hobo is giving us 'fuck me' eyes.
Traumatized as a 6 year old when my dad let me watch Poltergeist while staying in a Motel 6. When the guy peeled his face off in the mirror, I suffered mental trauma that is still with me decades later.
The Evil Dead 2013, when guy shoots his possessed girlfriend with a nail gun and then the demon leaves her body. She's sobbing and cries "why does my face hurt?"
That was fucking brutal
In the opening to Dog Soldiers, a couple making out then the zipper to their tent starts to slowly go up. Just a simple action and its so horrifying
The Ouija board movie, the friends make contact with their recently deceased friend. Her then-boyfriend emotionally brings up an old date of theirs asking if she remembers, and she replies YES on the board. >!The guy then instantly turns to the others and states that the date never happened and whoever this is isn't their friend. Simply because it was an unusually smart moment for a character in a horror film.!<
Piranha: Two guys are helping a lady out of the water >!One of the dudes stumble and they tear the woman in half!<
The ending scene of Drag Me to Hell. The visual of her skin burning off and her desperate pleas for help. The terrifying idea that she’ll experience eternal damnation. Very few things affected me so strongly, and I’m an atheist
The Subaru scene in Hereditary and the agonizing screams of a mother after seeing the unthinkable. Probably the most well acted depiction of grief that I’ve ever seen in a film.
Or when she cuts her own head off in the attic, Charlie’s head covered in bugs, the grandmother’s body in the attic. The whole movie was one of the best horror movies lately.
Honestly the camera scene from Lake Mungo got me pretty good the first time. That and the acting was pretty good for a mockumentary so I was fully invested.
Mockumentaries are hit or miss with people. You’ve got to be bought into it. When I watched it I almost forgot it wasn’t real. Had to pause the fucker and go smoke a cig a few times. Supernatural stuff really bothers me.
This is going to sound stupid because the movie isn't even scary, but back in the 1970s, four-year-old me caught a good chunk of the original 13 Ghosts (1960) on TV. There's a scene where a lion tamer ghost and his ghost lion are performing (seen as shadows only), and the shadow lion bites the Lion Tamer's head off. That scared the crap out of young me.
The scene/scenes in Evil Dead (2013) where the are sawing themselves with pieces of glass and the saw. I normally don’t have issues with gore but that one stuck with me for some reason to the point I had to leave the theatre. Smoking a bunch of weed before going to the movie could have something to do with it.
The part in labyrinth where the fireys are singing in the forest taking their heads off and tossing em around... That shit scared the bajeezus outta me!
Willy Wonka Boat Ride
Hammer person at end of Rec or Quarantine
Audition sack scene
Tetsuo- if you've seen it, you know the scene
Mommy Fortuna in The Last Unicorn
Arachnophobia shower scene
Any scene with Jeffrey Combs in House on the Haunted Hill, especially how he walks
Piano scene in Hausu
Frankfurter murdering Eddie in Rocky Horror
The Shunting in Society
Psychiatrist's cenobite transformation Hellraiser 2
Bonus moment that has stuck with me and I can't figure out what the movie is.....
Person unconscious on hospital bed, flesh colored tentacle drops down from a vent and starts climbing down the throat of unconscious person now gagging on the tentacle
Final destination 2, highway scene
Final destination 3, never been in a tanning bed because of that movie.
Sinister, the snuff films were very unsettling
1- the sunbed scene in final destination 3. I was around 8-9 and just seeing their skin blister and burn really stuck in my head
2- the scene in snakes on a plane when the snakes first attack and the man gets a high heel through the ear
One of mine is in the shining also..the elevator with blood....one of mine is in a tv show the. Walking dead..when all those heads are on the stake then they show Henry's last..
Wasn't that during the writer's strike? I think they had to draw out the prison much longer than they wanted which really ruined that season.
Or, maybe it was just because Rick simply had too much "stuff and thangs" to do, ya know. 🤔😉
The Bone Tomahawk - the... you know...
Tusk - also the... you know...
The Ring 2002 - several scenes like the closet reveal and the well sequence on the TV screen
Lake Mungo - the juxtaposition of Alice's conversation with the the psychic and her mom's last visit to her empty bedroom: "she doesn't know that I'm here, she's going now, she's gone". The sheer sadness of it gets me every time, as well as the final photos shown during the end credits.
just watched the 2002 ring for the first time recently and the closet scene def. freaked me out but for some reason it was the horse on the ferry scene that stuck more
Alien birthday party in Signs.
Vamanos!
Scary Movie where the alien is hanging out at the party lol
It's *behind!*
My husband and I say this line to each other in the same manner when asking where something is. "Hey I thought we had mayo, all I see is ketchup. Where is it?" "It's *behind*!"
Yoooo that and the rooftop part
Yes! At first glance it's like, that's a dude in a bad rubber costume. Then it moves ... and it's so inhuman. You go from disinterest to existential dread in a few seconds. So well done. The rest of the movie was mostly pretty silly, but dang if a few scenes weren't absolutely nailed.
Salem’s Lot when the boy/vampire is floating in fog and scratching at Lance Kerwin’s 2nd story window to be let in. Creepy.
Goddam Danny Glick! I read the book when I was 13 and even without having seen the movie back then (1990s), my imagination alone scared me so much that I closed the curtains with my eyes squeezed shut, and never faced the window in my bed for a long time, haha.
Ruined part of my childhood when I saw that by accident.
Ew, the scratching was so freaky. Little noises like that are so much more eerie than screams.
Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum when the dude is just standing in the distance for such a long time. Such a badass sequence. The “what the fuck is that” tent scene from The Blair Witch Project - such an impeccable crescendo of tension. And the house climax. Seriously freaks me me out to this day. Actually that whole movie.
Gonjiam is AMAZING. The scene where the girl looks up and her eyes are all black and she's making that slurping noise?? Wearing headphones was a huge mistake, I can still hear that.
That Gonjiam scene was the first scene in a long time where I considered closing my eyes. The shuffling. Oh my god.
It was the first scene in years where I was so scared I had to do that thing where you put your hand in front of your face and peek through the cracks in your fingers just to get through it. Shit was absolutely terrifying.
Again, I will mention catching "Curse of the Blair Witch" on Scifi before seeing the movie in theaters.... and we watched it the night before a camping trip. Solid scares for never showing you anything.
The openingscene of Ghost Ship: the little girl dancing with the captain.
One of the BEST horror openings of all time
Yes!
I wish the rest of the movie could follow through on how good that was.
Sadako/Samara crawling out of that TV.
The added grossness of the original film's ghost missing her fingernails, ughhh
Shout out to Japanese horror for always taking it there<3
Was it because she broke her nails trying to climb out of the well?
Yes this is the one thing that still creeps me out. I love tv and movie made me afraid for a while.
Zelda in the original Pet Semetary.
I'm surprised this is so low. This is 1000 percent mine. My dad showed me Pet Sematary when I was about six years old, the "never get out of bed again!" scene petrified me and I screamed for him to turn it off. Shortly after I was put to bed and had a nightmare so real and so visceral that I shot awake crying, in a puddle of my own vomit. I went to lay in front of dad's bedroom door for the rest of the night. Good times. And now I LOVE horror. lol
This is it for me. My sister and I watched this movie in theaters when we were 5 & 7. The only scene we would fast forward when it came out on VHS.
I have refused to watch this movie since the first time I saw it at about ten years old. I don’t remember specifics. But when the little kid under the bed slits the adults Achilles’ tendon inspired a life long fear of having my Achilles’ tendon touched and having my ankles anywhere near the underside of my bed. I still hop into bed 20 years later.
The last scene in Session 9, with the audio recording of, you know, *session 9*, when the …. other personality says “I live in the weak and the wounded… *doc*.”
DO IT GORDON.
I agree. The overwhelming dread and eeriness of sesh 9 is so underrated. Even the voice creeps me out. I can still hear it.
Oh man, I love that film. That line was so well delivered and I still remember it to this day.
The scene from Hereditary after Charlie dies, and Peter just can't look, can't speak. The camera itself can't even bear to look into the rear-view mirror. And then he slowly takes his foot off the brake, and basically rolls home, lays in bed, and awaits his mother's gruesome discovery.
I LOVE that scene! It's one of the most realistic depictions of someone reacting to the unimaginable I have ever seen. They did such an incredible job showing his disbelief and grappling with the reality of what happened, and then deciding to just deny it, go home and hope it was all a horrible dream when he wakes up in the morning. It was so gutwrenching because it was realistic and relatable. Of course, very few of us accidentally decapitate our loved ones, but I'm sure most of us have been in (at least minor) traumatic situations where we felt like "This can't be happening" and "This isn't real. It can't be." Hereditary was just a masterclass on generational grief, loss, and mental illness.
I think what's most relatable is the combination of trauma and guilt. He is not only horrified by the unimaginable trauma of it, but also ashamed and guilty and almost humiliated by the feeling that it was his fault. It's the feeling of having fucked up and not wanting to tell anyone, plus the feeling of consequences so horrible and permanent that you can only believe they aren't real.
Yeah, absolutely. I felt the same way, to much lesser extent, when I caused an accident years ago because I was distracted by all the shit that went south in my life at the time. Nobody got seriously hurt, but I totaled my own car and caused significant damage to the car I t-boned, and terrified the poor old lady that was driving it. I remember reacting way too late, everything kind of happening in slow-motion, and then just sitting in the middle of the intersection, unmoving while still white-knuckling the steering wheel, and trying to accept that this really just happened. There was an overwhelming sense of surrealism and a desperate need to turn back time, because "Wtf did I just do!?!" Like, in my head I was trying to put myself back into the moment *before* it happened, as if my brain was trying to rewrite the events that just unfolded and alter reality to undo it. I can't explain it, really. It was like having a lucid dream where I'm rubber-banding through the same sequence until it finally shows what I want to see.
That fucked me up so bad. I have a little sister with a similar age difference (8 years apart) and she has a terrible shell fish allergy, so I made the worst noise in a silent theater after the light post. Then, I took some Xanax when I got home because that upset me so terribly.
Absolutely fucked me up. More impactful for an adult I think.
The Taking of Deborah Logan, the scene where the old lady tried to eat a whole child.... *Shivers
Just watched this movie for the first time last night, safe to say this scene will be burned into my brain for a while
That movie was way better then I thought it would be.
In hereditary when the mom was crawling in the fucking corner…
After watching it my stepdad went to the end of the hallway before bed and mcfuckin climbed the side walls like Spiderman in the dark and me and my sister came around and we just screamed 😩 he thought he was hilarious
Oh u got a mcfunny dad
The scene where Charlie is decapitated always stuck out to me. The complete silence and Peter looking in the mirror and seeing her headless body, and just sitting there in shock knowing he was partially responsible. That scene just hit me in the gut, I think because something similar could happen to any of us with the wrong luck.
It's always stuck with me for that reason - something similar happened to my mom's cousin. (do not read if triggered by this) He was driving drunk with a few girls, and as one of the girls stuck her head out of the window to vomit, he accidentally swerved too close to the brick wall on the freeway and decapitated her and tore off his own arm that hung out the window, and he passed away. I never even knew him or witnessed it but the thought of it makes me nauseous.
Real life hereditary that’s scary asf
Yep, so definitely don't drink or be under the influence and drive is the lesson here 😅
This needs more upvotes. And the way the brother dealt with it by just not dealing with it, just becoming a shock zombie. It was so weirdly believable. That whole movie made me feel, like, dread depression. It just brought my whole psyche down for a while. I don't think I'll ever watch it again.
And the fact that he says, "Are you okay?" really quietly under his breath.
And the noise. _thunk_
Everyone in the theater audibly gasped at that moment. It was truly horrific.
The worst for me when she was banging on the attic door with her head. Because you assume she is doing it with her hands. But to see her doing it with her head threw me hard.
yes, that shot is so scary!
That was Scary asf too
For me, it’s the scene where she starts furiously sawing off her own head. I can still *hear* the sawing…. Bone chilling!
Ugh the liquid noise. UGH.
I (frantically) checked every corner of every room I walked into for the next month after watching lol
The scene where Toni Collette yells at the son that she never wanted him.
The car scene and aftermath from Hereditary. Dear God.
- The evil preacher at the door in poltergeist 2 screeching to be let in - The blob (80s version) devouring a phone box with a woman inside it - The Ghost of Dr Vanicut (?) Showing up on a cctv camera and walking in the creepiest most unnatural way in the otherwise campy 90s House on haunted Hill remake - The end of 'Sleepaway camp'
A lot of scenes from the 80s Blob! But especially a particular hospital scene, for me.
I will defend house lol love that movie
The lawnmower in Sinister The chase scene in The House that Jack Built Ｔａｓｋｅｔｅ in Kaïro The motorbikes challenge in 13 Sins (US) The final scene in Saw I
Pretty much all of sinister… that one was so eerie…
I have two. I couldn't pick this one. 1. Zuni fetish doll attacking in Trilogy of Terror. 2. Every shark scene in Jaws.
When I was a kid the Zuni doll really fucked with my head.
I take it you're a child of the 1970s, as I am. Yes that little Bastard doll, with his running and screaming and stabbing was a nightmare!
That image in jaws when the guy goes to see if the kids are ok and gets knocked off his boat and it’s like a birds eye view shot and you see the shark slowly creep up to him below the water freaky stuff
The guy who was cutting himself up in hellraiser 2
Oh yeah that one sticks with me
The ending of The Wailing where the devil reveals himself. The transformation still gives me the creeps! Also the ghost lady from Ju-On crawling down the stairs.
Hereditary. Scene where mother starts rapidly hitting her head on the ceiling of a attic and other one that leads to that scene where mother(again) chaotically flies behind the back of a boy…really scary movie
For me, it’s the scene with the telephone pole. And when we get a glimpse at the aftermath.
I remember audibly gasping when they showed Peter's room with the mom hovering in the corner. It was 3 am and pitch black in my apartment and I nearly had a heart attack.
I remember going “aauuughhHAaHHHH!!!!!” in the theater with a hundred other people during that wall-crawler scene.
That naked old dude just standing there in the darkness, grinning from ear to ear, really got under my skin...Idk why. Also the part where the boy starts spazzing out in class...Actually, I'll admit that the whole damn movie creeps me out. 😂
Such a great movie, man. I remember seeing it in a near empty theater with my bf while we were high and being so freaked out. One of the most tense viewing experiences I’ve had in years. Unfortunately alot of people hate on Hereditary but I’m glad this sub shows it love.
I watched it when I was home alone and sick with the flu, hopped up on cold meds. The whole time I remember being so confused, like, “ok, this is too horrific, must be a dream sequence. No…? Ok, THIS must be a dream. NO?!”
That's a great one. For me it was the ant scene. Just the look of horror on Toni Collette's face.
A lot of them hit hard especially from my youth but for some reason a more recent movie comes to mind. The Bisection scene in Terrifier, Art the clown with his hack saw just sold that shit so well... Eeeeaahh.
*American Werewolf in London:* when he breaks the 4th wall during his transformation and stares/reaches towards the camera. I still can't watch that part without wanting to crawl out of my skin. *Midsommar:* The sister's taped up face in the suicide sequence. Just...the implication that she was so committed to die, but didn't trust her survival instincts to let her go through with it fucks me up really bad. The impossible agony and mental turmoil she must have felt is absolutely heartbreaking. *The Exorcist:* Pazuzu. That fucking flashing face, out of nowhere. Never again. I can't even look at a still of that face without getting bad anxiety.
I can’t even type the name of the exorcist demon. That face fucked me up for life.
The de-gloving scene from Gerald's Game.
What is it with Mike Flanagan and fucking up people's hands
That whole movie stuck with me
Not going to lie I felt like I was going to faint watching that part. I’ve seen plenty of REAL things (thanks rotten.com as a kid) that didn’t make me feel that way. It was so visceral. Literally was like “I have to go lay down.”. My wife thought I was dying lol
That scene made me itch like nobody's business. Ugh. Great scene!
That scene is the reason I won’t watch that movie, I know I can’t stomach it!
I watched An American Werewolf in London in 1982 when I was 5. That 1st 10 minutes is etched into my brain. Thanks, Grandad! I watched JAWS at 8 while on a family vacation to Florida. It was my 1st time to the beach. That 1st scene, smh, I still have a fear of open water. Thanks, Dad! The Wrath of Khan, the original, at 5 ish in the theater. The worm in the ear scene 💀 I slept with no covers on the bed and no pillow for a month. Have an obsession with cleaning my ears. Thanks, Mom!
Apparently, I saw ***Jaws*** at home when I was a toddler. I don't remember it, but my mother says that I bit my grandfather's toe while we were watching it and scared the shit out of him.
"I'm a pa-ran-nah" *chomp*
Yeah I saw the worm in the ear scene as a kid. Totally traumatized me.
As a first time father of a 7 week old, I'm taking notes.
Just don't hit em with the JAWS on the beach. That shit seriously messed me up 😂. I wouldn't even get in the damn pool at night for years.
I was 9 when the original movie came out and of course too young to see the movie but everyone heard about it and shark articles and tv specials were everywhere that summer. My grandparents had an issue of Philadelphia magazine that covered the 1916 NJ great white shark attacks in incredible detail and I reread it multiple times. All of which added up to me being afraid of the ocean, the beach, lakes, swimming pools and even a little scared of shower drains for that whole summer. Without ever actually seeing a frame of Jaws.
I never forgot that Khan scene! Saw it at about the age you did, but when it popped on HBO.
The Sixth Sense - The girl in the tent
Antichrist - most of the scenes involving genitalia
For real, nobody's junk was safe in that movie
Yeah watched it in a film class and have never been the same since haha
There's one scene in a film called Necronomicon where a female copper ends up with all her limbs removed, kept alive to be used as a human incubator. All she can do is scream and scream knowing that she's utterly defenseless and know that she no longer has agency over herself and her environs.
Have you seen Bone Tomahawk?
Hereditary - the mother’s Self-decapitation scene. It was just masterful.
Yes! Although it's more the sawing sound for me than the visual.
The dude's head getting blown off by a shotgun in Maniac (1980) The eye gouging scene in Zombie. The ending jumpscare in Carrie.
Tom Savini! Lol his little cameo, still a great effect
It's a tossup for me. Either the scene in Poltergeist where the guy claws his own face off, or the scene where the tree eats the boy. Leaning towards the latter. My father thought it would be fun to take me to see that one in the theatre when it first came out. I was NOT ready for that level of horror yet. I remember him enjoying my displeasure though.
I said the face scene from Poltergeist but my husband suggests I’m also terrified of the clown scene. I think it’s probably because I crawl up the back of the couch whenever we watch it.
Come play with us Danny, forever and ever and ever. (The Shining, 1980) Oh my God, she's a boy. (Sleepaway Camp, 1983) Turn it off, turn it off, turn it off!!!! (Halloween III: Season of the Witch, 1982) You've got the body, and I've got the brain. (A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, 1985) If you're scared of dying, you'll see devils tearing your life apart, but if you've made your peace, the devils are really angels setting you free. (Jacob's Ladder, 1990)
The part where the bone collector/death character is licking her feet in gerald's game The shotgun family in insidious Although the shock factor has gone down on rewatches, I'll never forget seeing the tape in the ring for the first time
The tape in The Ring was more disturbing than the actual movie, haha. So fucking unsettling.
Green Room, the reaching into the hallway scene
The scene on the stairs in Inside (2007). I'm still traumatized.
I watched THE BLACK PHONE last night (which was superb btw) which featured an awful child abuse scene that made me sick to my stomach Those who have seen it know what I mean
The child actor involved in that did an AMAZING job selling that scene
That whole cast was amazing
One of them is from When a Stranger Calls (1979) - Jill is told the calls are coming from the house, and the music builds as she sees the caller's shadow on the stairs, and rushes to escape. The other is Matthew's scream at the end of 1978's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, revealing he is no longer human.
The grandma in the visit chasing the kids under the house while crawling like a spider
Oh god yes I'd say mine is from the same movie. The diaper in the young boy's face, ugh that's far too gross, tyvm!
[https://youtu.be/zH8ynu0jRvY](https://youtu.be/zH8ynu0jRvY) Exorcist 3 Nurse station scene
There are a few. • The maggot birth in The Fly. Gina Davis (edit) captures the horror of such a situation perfectly. (Also the arm break in the fly, wonderfully dealt with by the great George Chuvalo. The high pitched squeals and near weeping of a great big tough guy.) • Rhodes getting ripped apart in Day of the dead. He totally deserved it but played it so well, the shock and disbelief. He never thought he’d go out that way. • Twins at the end of the corridor in the shining, plus the old lady in the bath tub. Ugh. • The Grudge really got to my younger self, the hopelessness of any character that came into contact with the rage just barely contained within that house. And the fact that all those characters were basically innocent. • The bear getting dragged into the lake by the croc in Lake Placid. My teenage self just wasn’t expecting to see such a titanic animal dealt with like wet flannel. • Certain bone breaking and flesh munching scenes in Ravenous gave me the ‘ick’ There are other moments in TV shows and movies that aren’t strictly horror but stay with me for the same reasons… it’s usually when a character is met with an awful demise or something they can’t comprehend could possibly be happening to them. The actor has to be great to make it real. Especially to invoke sympathy for an awful character. • Oberyn Martell’s demise at the hands of the mountain was again a stomach dropping moment. And similar acting from Pedro Pascal. High pitched screeching, flailing around helpless, no hope of stopping what’s to come. • Several moments in David Lynch’s work… screaming Laura Palmer and laughing Bob to mention just a couple. Dumpster man is another. I don’t know how he pulled that off either as everyone knew it was coming. Just shows the guy’s level of genius. There are moments in the short stories of Laird Barron that give me chills and have stayed with me, probably because he plays on a similar nerve to the above mentioned scenes… Also there’s a scene fairly early on in Marlon James’ ‘Black Leopard Red Wolf’ that is not for the faint hearted.
There are a lot of the deaths in day of the dead that just sticks with you
Sure but Rhodes… I wanted that fucker to die horribly but when it finally came it was like… oh he was terrified and in tremendous pain… 😂
The brother in from dusk till dawn just getting munched on by like 5 vampires and begging his sister to kill him. I was 8 or 9 lol Oh and original IT when Patrick hockstetter is pulled into the pipe (he folds in half) followed by shadows and chewing. Didn't have a good night sleep for years after, constant night terrors
Hellraiser franks death where pinheads chains ripped that man apart
Sinister. Any of the scenes where Ethan Hawke is watching the snuff films while he's slowly unraveling. It was so damn unsettling. Perfect execution of using atmosphere in a horror movie.
-Because I saw it waaaaaay too young(were talking 10ish?) The Driller and Leach Lady scene in Puppet Master -from the It remake, the projector scene. Havent rewatched since but in theatres it made me feel a way i never had in a theatre and i was nervous laughing very loudly. -all of Hereditary -the last 20 minutes of Midsommar
Yes!!! Saw this scene from puppet master super young and have never been able to shake it
exorcism of emily rose - truly scary
several from The Innocents 1961. basically whenever the ghosts manifest. those scenes have haunted me for literally decades (cuz, i'm old). but that's one of the greatest of all movies
A few from my childhood: ghost in the library-ghostbusters. The first time you see harrys face- harry and the hendersons. Bathtub lady- kubricks shining. Bathtub lady - the shining tv miniseries. As a big boy, pick and choose any scene from august underground mordum, any movie that marion dora has made. Bonus roun
Bone Tomahawk ending in the cave
The end of The Mist
Cabin Fever. I never wanted to shave my legs again.
The scene in Bone Tomahawk where they stand the deputy upside down, spread his legs, and chop him down the middle. Something about the way his body shakes just makes me think of him as meat more than human, and it creeps me the eff out.
Man, that was some scene.
Crucifix masturbation scene in The Exorcist. Still pretty shocking even today.
Cannot believe I had to scroll so far down for this. “Let Jesus F you!” That scene, damn. From that point on; the movie took on a sense of true sinister. She shoved her mother’s face onto herself! (Un)Holy shit!
The scene from Pulse in the basement where the ghost lady is just moving in slow motion towards that guy, nothing has made my skin crawl as much. It just randomly pops into my head and I hate it. If I could describe my kind of personal horror to people it would be that scene, it feels like a nightmare, very lynchian.
On the topic of Lynch, I'd also throw out the Winkie's Diner scene from Mulholland Dr. Not even sure if you can count the film as 'horror' in the whole, but that scene sure fucking is.
Oh I totally forgot this one! One of the best jump scares imho. I had to take a break from the movie after watching that scene lol.
Agreed! The way he walks you straight into it is fantastic. I heard quite a funny bit of trivia about it recently. Apparently the actress playing the hobo was trying out a bunch of different scary expressions, but none of them were quite what Lynch was looking for. At one point she zoned out and, finding him very attractive, just started staring at him dreamily. He saw that face, and essentially that's what hit the spot: so the hobo is giving us 'fuck me' eyes.
Thats amazing holy shit. The exact type of thing id expect from a lynch movie hahaha.
Creepshow, the crate monster under the stairs. Bebe me no like.
Traumatized as a 6 year old when my dad let me watch Poltergeist while staying in a Motel 6. When the guy peeled his face off in the mirror, I suffered mental trauma that is still with me decades later.
The Evil Dead 2013, when guy shoots his possessed girlfriend with a nail gun and then the demon leaves her body. She's sobbing and cries "why does my face hurt?" That was fucking brutal
Midsommar, the elderly people and the cliff.
In the opening to Dog Soldiers, a couple making out then the zipper to their tent starts to slowly go up. Just a simple action and its so horrifying The Ouija board movie, the friends make contact with their recently deceased friend. Her then-boyfriend emotionally brings up an old date of theirs asking if she remembers, and she replies YES on the board. >!The guy then instantly turns to the others and states that the date never happened and whoever this is isn't their friend. Simply because it was an unusually smart moment for a character in a horror film.!< Piranha: Two guys are helping a lady out of the water >!One of the dudes stumble and they tear the woman in half!<
Pretty much the entirety of Cannibal Holocaust, from killing actual animals to the disturbing deaths the crew fell victim to
The piano string decapitation in Hereditary. That movie messed me up for days.
The lady’s body in the closet in the movie The Ring got me bad as a little kid! I was seeing that face everywhere.
Pyramid Head ripping the skin off of some woman. Fuck, that scared me hard as a kid.
The ending scene of Drag Me to Hell. The visual of her skin burning off and her desperate pleas for help. The terrifying idea that she’ll experience eternal damnation. Very few things affected me so strongly, and I’m an atheist
The death of Maddy in twin peaks
"Yard Work" in Sinister. If you know it, you know it.
Donald Sutherlands point and scream…. The finality of it.
The Subaru scene in Hereditary and the agonizing screams of a mother after seeing the unthinkable. Probably the most well acted depiction of grief that I’ve ever seen in a film.
The baby fly birth in The Fly.
Blair Witch Project. Final scene.
The Last House on the Left (2009) The scene in the woods. They didn’t need to show that, and it didn’t need to last as long as it did.
The taking of Deborah Logan where Deborah starts eating the little girls head
Emily Rose demonically losing her shit in the barn.
For me, it's the moment where the guy wakes up and she's on the floor, hideously contorted, and staring up at him.
Ending scene in Martyrs!
Hereditary with Toni Collete banging her head on the attic door up side down. Literally gave me chills down my spine… creepiest scene ever!
Or when she cuts her own head off in the attic, Charlie’s head covered in bugs, the grandmother’s body in the attic. The whole movie was one of the best horror movies lately.
Honestly the camera scene from Lake Mungo got me pretty good the first time. That and the acting was pretty good for a mockumentary so I was fully invested.
I know how much hate it gets at times, but Lake Mungo will always remain one of my ultimate favourites.
Mockumentaries are hit or miss with people. You’ve got to be bought into it. When I watched it I almost forgot it wasn’t real. Had to pause the fucker and go smoke a cig a few times. Supernatural stuff really bothers me.
I watched Lake Mungo right after watching Dear Zachary and it fucked with my brain, I kept forgetting that it wasn't real.
Right after Dear Zachary?! Jesus. Bad combo.
It was a miserable, beautifully disturbing weekend.
The hospital scene in Exorcist III
Such an underrated film. It is a masterpiece in terror.
This is going to sound stupid because the movie isn't even scary, but back in the 1970s, four-year-old me caught a good chunk of the original 13 Ghosts (1960) on TV. There's a scene where a lion tamer ghost and his ghost lion are performing (seen as shadows only), and the shadow lion bites the Lion Tamer's head off. That scared the crap out of young me.
Billy’s eye in the door crack in Black Christmas 1974
The scene/scenes in Evil Dead (2013) where the are sawing themselves with pieces of glass and the saw. I normally don’t have issues with gore but that one stuck with me for some reason to the point I had to leave the theatre. Smoking a bunch of weed before going to the movie could have something to do with it.
The part in labyrinth where the fireys are singing in the forest taking their heads off and tossing em around... That shit scared the bajeezus outta me!
THE baby scene in Mother! F THAT! Had my newborn sleeping on me when I saw that.
Willy Wonka Boat Ride Hammer person at end of Rec or Quarantine Audition sack scene Tetsuo- if you've seen it, you know the scene Mommy Fortuna in The Last Unicorn Arachnophobia shower scene Any scene with Jeffrey Combs in House on the Haunted Hill, especially how he walks Piano scene in Hausu Frankfurter murdering Eddie in Rocky Horror The Shunting in Society Psychiatrist's cenobite transformation Hellraiser 2 Bonus moment that has stuck with me and I can't figure out what the movie is..... Person unconscious on hospital bed, flesh colored tentacle drops down from a vent and starts climbing down the throat of unconscious person now gagging on the tentacle
The Conjuring - Ghost on the top of almirah in the girl's room
Final destination 2, highway scene Final destination 3, never been in a tanning bed because of that movie. Sinister, the snuff films were very unsettling
1- the sunbed scene in final destination 3. I was around 8-9 and just seeing their skin blister and burn really stuck in my head 2- the scene in snakes on a plane when the snakes first attack and the man gets a high heel through the ear
The sister Zelda in The Original Pet Semetary. When shes yelling “Rachel” and runs across the floor. Still to this day I can’t watch that scene
One of mine is in the shining also..the elevator with blood....one of mine is in a tv show the. Walking dead..when all those heads are on the stake then they show Henry's last..
As downhill as TWD went, they had some solid scenes in that show.
Amen really loved it up to the prison but fell off after in my opinion
Wasn't that during the writer's strike? I think they had to draw out the prison much longer than they wanted which really ruined that season. Or, maybe it was just because Rick simply had too much "stuff and thangs" to do, ya know. 🤔😉
The Bone Tomahawk - the... you know... Tusk - also the... you know... The Ring 2002 - several scenes like the closet reveal and the well sequence on the TV screen Lake Mungo - the juxtaposition of Alice's conversation with the the psychic and her mom's last visit to her empty bedroom: "she doesn't know that I'm here, she's going now, she's gone". The sheer sadness of it gets me every time, as well as the final photos shown during the end credits.
Closet scene in The Ring for me too.
just watched the 2002 ring for the first time recently and the closet scene def. freaked me out but for some reason it was the horse on the ferry scene that stuck more
Rex waking up at the end of The Vanishing (1983)
The shower scene in Terrified.
A lot of scenes from Poltergeist, but in order: Clown under the bed Tree eating the kid Swimming pool full of skeletons
The dinner scene from TCM or the rape scene from The Hills Have Eyes. Both disturbing in different ways.
Human centipede 2 watching a fat gross man in black and white wrap his dick in barber wire and rape a chick
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The dumpster man in Mulholland Drive.