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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Oct 27, 2021 2:17:58 GMT
'tis the season for scares and such, so here's another thread!
We're talking individual scenes here, not whole films. So, expect spoilers I guess.
Mine is still the diner scene from Mulholland Drive. I still can't rewatch the fucking thing, it freaks me out like nothing before or since.
I'm almost glad Lynch has never done a straight horror movie. I don't know if I'd be able to take it.
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Post by Nanocrystal on Oct 27, 2021 3:22:03 GMT
That's a brilliant one.
Mine would probably be the elevator scene in Dark Water (the original Japanese one). I won't post the clip as it's a massive spoiler, but the movie is brilliant and highly recommended for a Halloween watch. Avoid the US remake.
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Post by probablymuttler on Oct 27, 2021 3:26:08 GMT
When she comes out of the TV at the end of The Ring (og Jap version.)
I like the US remake, but this one scene was better in the Japanese film.
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Post by Nanocrystal on Oct 27, 2021 3:40:44 GMT
Agreed, I also thought the US Ring was a good remake but why they thought that scene would be scarier in a massive, well-lit open plan apartment rather than a tiny, dark and cramped room I'll never understand.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2021 4:55:18 GMT
The diner scene was my first thought also, no idea how Lynch created a such a dreamlike terror in a setting that mundane.
Also, why was Mulholland Drive so impossible to find on DVD for years and years ffs.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Oct 27, 2021 5:12:27 GMT
I dunno if it's 'scary', but the end of Audition freaked me the hell out.
The Ring and also Blair Witch didn't seem that scary when I watched them, but both gave me nightmares that night.
The old lady in the unexpected place in Exorcist 3 was pretty freaky too.
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Post by minimatt on Oct 27, 2021 5:52:57 GMT
Have yet to make it through Event Horizon, not exactly sure where I nope out but I think it involved eyeballs.
I'm choosing to believe the film ends with everyone living happily ever after.
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Post by Frog on Oct 27, 2021 6:19:37 GMT
Not exactly the scariest but the first scene in the original scream film made it look like it was going to be e of the scariest films ever. It certainly took a different path after that.
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Post by SpiralScratch on Oct 27, 2021 6:40:22 GMT
Mulholland Drive at release was the most visceral gutpunch cinema experience I've had in my life. I was living in Germany, we stumbled into it for a midnight showing during a city festival, a pop up cinema in the old disused Munich airport. Had zero prior knowledge of the film other than seeing the poster outside and thinking oh wow there's a new David Lynch movie let's go. Incredible experience, still seared into my synapses 25 years later. Any mention of the name or hearing the soundtrack still gives me a happy shiver.
Edit: I know you said scenes not whole movies....yeah that diner scene is it for me too
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Post by Aunt Alison on Oct 27, 2021 6:59:01 GMT
There's a scene in one of the old Superman films where a woman is pulled into a machine and covered in wires and stuff, then comes out as a robot thing. Terrified me as a child
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Post by Danno on Oct 27, 2021 7:04:29 GMT
There's a scene in one of the old Superman films where a woman is pulled into a machine and covered in wires and stuff, then comes out as a robot thing. Terrified me as a child On a similar note, when Dr Doom 'unmasks' in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2021 7:07:49 GMT
Most of Return to Oz, but specifically when Dorothy is chased by a headless Mombi.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Oct 27, 2021 7:09:35 GMT
Most of Return to Oz, but specifically when Dorothy is chased by a headless Mombi. Good one. And those wheelie fuckers |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2021 7:29:56 GMT
There's a scene in one of the old Superman films where a woman is pulled into a machine and covered in wires and stuff, then comes out as a robot thing. Terrified me as a child Superman 3 and yes, me too. Fucking gave me nightmares for months. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2021 7:34:49 GMT
When the wheelies appear in Return to Oz. Also the screaming decapitated heads.
Ah 80s children's movies.
Ah fuck. Beaten to it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2021 7:37:28 GMT
Talking of early 2000s J-Horror, in addition to the ring, the eye, dark water, audition and the grudge (I remember hearing about it and importing the region 0 dvd as you couldn't get it over here, sticking it on after smoking faaaar too much weed and almost crawling up my own arsehole in fright), I would like to add Pulse (Kairo). A bleak film that still very much stands up today, this little scene is particularly effective:
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Post by Bill in the rain on Oct 27, 2021 7:54:18 GMT
The Grudge has so many jump scares that you either end up a nervous wreck or become immune.
If we're talking things that terrified us as a kid, then yes that bit in Superman 3, and most of Return to Oz.
Also, and this may only be me, a scene in The Sand Pebbles where a guy is (mildly) tortured before being put out of his misery by Steve McQueen. I saw that on sunday afternoon and it *still* fucking haunts my dreams from time to time.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Oct 27, 2021 7:59:05 GMT
I don't really care that much about jump scares anymore, because I basically know when to expect them.
I'm much more scared by atmosphere, general wrongness, or things being where they're not supposed to be. There's something that happens in the corner of a frame in Hereditary, and that personally freaked me out more than most jump scares.
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Post by Dougs on Oct 27, 2021 8:16:57 GMT
As a kid, I remember being terrified of The Watcher in the Woods. Saw it at the cinema when I was about 7 (it's by Disney, it must be fine my mum says...). Can't really remember the specifics but it gave me nightmares for weeks after. The similarly The Shining, maybe a couple of years older.
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Post by Dougs on Oct 27, 2021 8:17:31 GMT
Definitely prefer wrongness than jump scares too. Give me unsettling atmosphere every day.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2021 8:30:41 GMT
Jump scares are like quick jolts of scary images. An unsettling and unnerving atmosphere will stay with me for days or weeks (or sometimes years) after. Not just Mulholland Drive, but a lot of Lynch's work has the power to stay with you long after seeing it.
Although particular scary scenes that spring to mind are (in no particular order):
The tall man makes an appearance - It Follows
Mike in the corner - Blair Witch Project
Lipstick faced demon appears behind Josh - Insidious
The lawnmower home footage film - Sinister
Lily changes - V/H/S
"Come and see where my father keeps his gun" - The Sixth Sense
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Post by imamazed on Oct 27, 2021 8:31:49 GMT
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Post by hedben on Oct 27, 2021 8:32:08 GMT
People begging for their life, or realising they're about to die, freaks me out more than any jump scare or horror. Like the knife fight in Saving Private Ryan, or even the very beginning of Dark Knight where they're all double-crossing one after the other.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2021 8:32:26 GMT
In terms of films just getting to you with their atmosphere, you can't go wrong with The Thing. Constantly tense from beginning to end, I can watch it 100 times and still not know for sure who is an alien and who isn't.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2021 8:33:43 GMT
imamazed Hell yes. Reece Shearsmith goes full on mental. Apparently no-one involved had any inkling he was going to emerge from the tent like that.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Oct 27, 2021 8:43:58 GMT
Definitely the final scene in Blair Witch
Not sure if it counts as a film scene but the end of Ghostwatch where the studio is in disarray is another one that got me as a child. I was genuinely frightened
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Post by stacks on Oct 27, 2021 8:53:22 GMT
End scene of Friday 13th (I think) on the lake. Had me waking in my sleep looking over my shoulder for weeks.
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Post by hedben on Oct 27, 2021 8:57:45 GMT
Speaking of final scenes... Kill List. If you know, you know.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2021 9:05:14 GMT
Yeah Kill List is pretty nuts at the end. Quite a harrowing moment. Didn't find it scary though, more of a shocker than anything.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2021 9:06:30 GMT
There's a really unsettling sequence in the middle of the Paul Walker film Running Scared with the child killers. Takes quite a left turn at that point and is bloody frightning.
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