Scariest film moment?

[den]

Originally Posted by b.miller

Dan Ackroyd's penis nose still scares me.

true story.

Yes. Besides Dan Ackroyd, Chevy Chase, and Demi Moore, the movie also had John Candy and also Digital Underground as the wedding band with Humpty Hump and Tupac Shakur.

[GforGroove]

I found many of the flashbacks of the kid with red hoodie in Flatliners pretty scary!

[grady]

Cliche, and obvious reply, but The Exorcist scared the hell out of me when I saw it for the first time when it was rereleased in 2000.

Jaws at the age of 5 scared me to the point where I was afraid to be in a pool for about a year or two, let alone the ocean.

[Renze]

A lot of the reconstructions in the Discovery Channel series A Haunting scare the shit out of me. It's very creepy.

[Deckard]

Might as well post this link from TimesOnline today: The 13 most terrifying movie scenes ever.

Includes clips to the scenes.

One or two interesting choices there.

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

Originally Posted by grady

Cliche, and obvious reply, but The Exorcist scared the hell out of me when I saw it for the first time when it was rereleased in 2000.

Jaws at the age of 5 scared me to the point where I was afraid to be in a pool for about a year or two, let alone the ocean.

In complete total agreement with your words on Jaws. Me and every other kid on the street.

The Exorcist did and always will make me sad when viewing.

[joethelion]

yea - when I saw "Jaws" for the first time - it freaked me out as well...

it also didn't help that after watching it, I then had to go upstairs and go to sleep... in a waterbed. I actually even had trouble getting to sleep

or rather, without waking up b/c I had a nightmare about being out in the ocean

{edit}
I just checked that link w/ the most terrifying scenes...
I can definitely "Fire Walk with Me" on that list, but def not "Mullholland Drive" (mmmaaaybe Lost Highway...)

but it reminded me of the movie "It" - the movie itself almost became like a... urban legend. Like, it was sooooo incredibly scary that you should never watch it. Like, I remember hearing stories that some kids couldn't go to sleep for a long while w/o nightmares, and one kid I knew became completely afraid of clowns b/c of the movie. I actually still haven't watched it... only parts here and there (b/c it's soooooo long from what I recall)

[b.miller]

IT was the first "grown up" book I ever read because I was so fascinated with it. The movie.... eh, if you see it today you'll be unimpressed. It was a TV miniseries so a lot of it's really cheeseball. There are some good scenes and Tim Curry is great as the clown and I still kinda like it just because I'm so connected with the book but... it's not a good movie.

The book is scary though, and watching the movie triggering memories of the book is also scary.


I think the first 15 minutes of Lost Highway is scary as shit.

Jurassic Park? no.

The Shining? yes.

[kid cue]

The Shining, ditto.
Mulholland Drive: the door at the very end.
Inland Empire: mouth.
Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa): woman coming towards the camera.
Vertigo: he realizes who she is & the camera zooms in ... + the end.

[viddy]

Originally Posted by b.miller

Jurassic Park? no.

The scene with the two kids and the trex did it for me as a little kid. That moment when the thunder/lightning strikes and the camera pulls in to the kids face absolutely sent a shiver down my spine like no other movie I've ever seen. But Jurassic Park didn't leave me scarred for life like Fire in the Sky did.