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In a gif, scariest scenes in horror films (spoilers)
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TheJollyCorner
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Saw Twilight Zone: The Movie as a kid. The It's a Good Life segment started really getting inside my head, but George Miller's Nightmare at 20,000 Feet completely fucked me up and gave me nightmares for a while.
Every time I had to ride in an airplane at night I'd make my older brother sit by the window seat.
Every time I had to ride in an airplane at night I'd make my older brother sit by the window seat.
Not a gif, but there's little to no movement in the shot anyway.
From The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Boyfriend wakes up in the middle of the night to find her staring at him like this. I found it to be super creepy.
From The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Boyfriend wakes up in the middle of the night to find her staring at him like this. I found it to be super creepy.
My biggest disappointment with the movie is that it abandons its conceit of portraying the events in flashbacks at the trial of the priest followed by rebuttal and scientific explanation of what happened and just unambiguously declares "yeah, it's supernatural."
BoogieWoogie
Banned
Also from Creepshow:
Zombie Ted Danson!
TheJollyCorner
Member
Also from Creepshow:
Zombie Ted Danson!
Hahah I remember my siblings and I watching Creepshow religiously.
When The Naked Gun came out my first immediate thought was "wait, that scumbag from Creepshow is the main character in this comedy?"
RIP Leslie Nielsen!
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bizzarewars
Banned
An American Werewolf in London
This is just a small part of the scene. If you haven't seen the movie you should definitely watch it, or at least watch the scene. Easily my all time favorite horror movie, or maybe even movie altogether.
eatingforwork
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Need to find a gif of Jake Gyllenhall interviewing the creepy movie projectionist in Zodiac. That scene made my skin crawl. Ugh.
That one WRECKED me on TV as a kid -- the part right before that where she sits up in bed too
Violence Jack
Member
Black Sabbath
Oh hell yes. Black Sabbath is a great film, and that scene freaked me the fuck out the first time I saw it.
Suspiria
This too. While I find Suspiria to be more unnerving than outright scary, this scene gave me nightmares for days.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
All I'm getting is that somebody needs to make a new Creepshow.
Bitch Pudding
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It is, and it aged extremely well. In fact, all those fucken CGI werewolves and CGI transformations we frequently get today look like shit compared to what Rick Baker achieved.
Fancy Clown
Member
In the Mouth of Madness
TheJollyCorner
Member
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
And one of the finest Lovecraftian films ever.
Which is not to say much, but still.
Prince of Darkness was also pretty incredible:
They don't make them like these anymore.
Which is not to say much, but still.
Prince of Darkness was also pretty incredible:
They don't make them like these anymore.
And one of the finest Lovecraftian films ever.
Which is not to say much, but still.
Prince of Darkness was also pretty incredible:
They don't make them like these anymore.
The movie that made me afraid of mirrors.
Fancy Clown
Member
Carpenter's last truly outstanding film...
Sad but true, although his episode of Masters of Horror "Cigarette Burns" from 2005 is pretty good (and lovecraftian as well)
I did not know about this, thanks. I've been catching on my Carpenter, watched Christine last week (it was alright, but I was memorized by the car auto-repairing itself, done in fucking 1983).
MidnightMania
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Couple this gif with the music, makes it terrifying.
HellforLeather
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Fun fact, Jacobs ladder was not the inspiration for silent hill. Yes some horror elements might have been lifted but the movie Silent Hill is actually based on is:
Click for trailer. Like 80% of the game is based on this turd.
nkarafo
Member
It's good because there is no build up warning. No foreboding music that gets more intense every second. It's a genuine jump scare. I don't get why modern horror movies have to warn us one is coming by using music or direction... You almost always know one is coming. I mean, i know the movie industry tries to cater to the average idiot and has to spell everything out for them but even jump scares?
Gnome Scat
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Not a horror movie strictly speaking, but I always found these scenes in Under the Skin to be terrifying (as well as the entire first half of the movie once you wrap your head around what's going on).
On the flipside the Mulholland Drive jumpscare is telepgraphed for almost a full five minutes beforehand and works flawlessly. Execution is king.
nkarafo
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One of the child characters also dissolves in this movie. They were brothers too. So you had to watch the rest of the movie knowing the loss of the kid who got to live. I remember this being pretty intense.
BoogieWoogie
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That fucking beach scene ruined me for weeks.
The Mageling
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I'd also say around two thirds into The Crying Game was a bit of a shocker.....
Haha, yeah, transgender women are terrifying. /s
C'mon...
Not me. I've been to that beach and there's dozens of walkers every day!
I realize that is stupid but it's true so it helped me deal with it.
RustyNails
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Anyone remember this weird, obscure horror flick called Biohazard (this was before Resident Evil was a thing), and there was this guy that simply melts into a goo?
More_Badass
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Build up, context, direction, and pay-off are what make a jump scare work. It's all in the execution. It's the capper for extended dread and tension.
I don't get what's so great about The Exorcist one
Imbarkus
As Sartre noted in his contemplation on Hell in No Exit, the true horror is other members.
And one of the finest Lovecraftian films ever.
Which is not to say much, but still.
Prince of Darkness was also pretty incredible:
They don't make them like these anymore.
Did you see The Void? Pretty good!
More_Badass
Member
The Void was okay, but it was really only Lovecraftian in superficial ways.Did you see The Void? Pretty good!
This is unfortunately the best gif I could find of this movie.
They Look Like People.
Jimmy Fallon?
Chmpocalypse
Blizzard
Seriously. That poster is getting all the side eye from me now.
It's great, just avoid the two sequels. The American remake of The Grudge is good too.
I'm not too sure about the rest of the movie, but this effect from The Fly 2 is really awesome:
I've heard it's basically just a straight remake that isn't as scary as the original.
The fucking dog scene in The Fly 2... 😢
Bill R Boggess
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Did you see The Void? Pretty good!
The Void is fantastic. Rough around the edges but a truly slick little horror flick.
Southbound is also a great watch for those looking for quality horror anthologies.
Switch Back 9
a lot of my threads involve me fucking up somehow. Perhaps I'm a moron?
Also this whole scene was unsettling as fuck.
Zodiac picnic murder scene
Bill R Boggess
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Not really a horror film but this bit from se7en scared the bejesus out of me the first time I saw it.
I think Seven most certainly qualifies as a horror film.
Id argue its also the spiritual precursor to the SAW franchise, though it is a much better film than any of those movies.
Did you see The Void? Pretty good!
That movie has some fantastic imagery and photography, but pretty much everything else about it is pedestrian or worse IMO. It ended up a 90 minute Carpenter Brut music video but without the music pretty much.
beau_beaumont
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This thread has got me in the mood for Halloween. I'll have to check out a lot of the movies that have been posted here.
I was also going to post a scene from Lake Mungo, but it looks like someone beat me. One of the worst jump scares I've ever had.
I was also going to post a scene from Lake Mungo, but it looks like someone beat me. One of the worst jump scares I've ever had.
CrichtonKicks
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King wasn't going to publish the novel originally because of how relentlessly bleak it was. However I think he had a contractual obligation and his wife convinced him to publish it anyway.
Hades Hotgun
Banned
And it has basically no purpose in the film besides shocking gore.
Bone tomahawk is a legitimate excellent film in all respects, except for that scene. The camera should have slowly tightened on Kurt Russell's face while sound and his expression carried the horror of what he was seeing. Instead an other wise outstanding movie turns into torture porn.
I highly recommend seeing the actual film but I always tell people to look away for that whole scene.
The story is charming, funny, dark, scary, and savage. It's almost like a take on the ten little Indians style action/horror structure, but it is both more disarming and more brutal than any other film of that type I have seen.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Snkfanatic
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Glad I am not the only one that was raising an eyebrow at that post.