Horrifyingly Creepy Movie Scene

There are at least 5 threads on this already, OP.

R1, not according to the search, shitty as it is. But, really, feel free to drag your ass to one of those threads instead.

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Most scenes in Hereditary. That movie had a couple of straight up fails, but the successful scenes were absolutely goosebump inducing even now months after having had seen it. The one that really gets me (not a spoiler): the mom is arguing with her son and there are a lot of quick shots back and forth between them. Out of nowhere, the mom is completely drenched. The next shot shows her son also drenched. Not sure why this scared the fuck out of me the way it did, but it was fucking scary and worked well to move the scene along into a very unpleasant place.

From a Japanese horror movie called Pulse

Jarod's death in Skyline

The end scene in Twentynine Palms, watched it once and that was enough, years later it still stays with me.

There's a truly creepy and disturbing scene that has stuck with me ever since I saw the film Into The Forest. The premise of the film is that some time in the near future there's been a massive power outage in most of the US, which has resulted in some sort of larger technological/societal collapse as it goes on.

A widower and his two daughters are living in the isolated foothills of Northern California, and as they return to their forest home at night from a supply trip, they are driving down a pitch-dark mountain road with their headlights providing the only patchy illumination. From some distance away they see a car pulled to the side of the road, with a couple of men standing on either side as if they are having car trouble. So the father slows the car down as they get nearer, intending to ask if the men need any help...except as they get closer, they see that the man standing nearest to the road is positioned facing the open door to the backseat on the driver's side, and from the motions of his body and the sounds we hear, there is the distinct impression that he is doing something rapey. Except that we never see who - or what - he's doing something rapey to, because we cannot make out the figure in the backseat. Is it a woman? A man? A child? An animal? A corpse? The other man on the opposite side of the car is standing in front of the open backseat door on that side, as if guarding it to keep whatever's in there inside - or just waiting his turn. The men take the briefest of notice of the passing family, but the dead-eyed glances they give make it clear: move on. Something about the way this scene is shot just makes it impossible to unsee, and it creates a true feeling of dread.

Funnily enough the scene in ‘Volcano’ where some bloke saves someone by carrying them as he walks into the lava and slowly burns to nothing. That bothered me.

The scene in ‘ Bone Tomahawk ‘ where the troglodytes hold the bloke upside down by his feet so that another can hack him in two while he is alive. Their pulling him in two and his guts dropping out is bad enough but their complete indifference makes it even worse.

I wish I hadn’t remembered that.

OP just watched Dante's Peak and i found that scene depressing more than anything. I always thought this scene from Jeepers Creepers was disturbing. I'd shit a break if this dude was staring me down.

From Excorcist III.

Most part of the original Last House on the Left are very disturbing

the first "monster" scene in Mulholland Drive. still gives me nightmares after all these years

[Quote] the first "monster" scene in Mulholland Drive. still gives me nightmares after all these years

Fuck that hobo scene.

Not a horror movie, but that scene in Superman 3 where the woman gets sucked into the machine that turns her into a robot is hands down creepier than anything I've ever seen in a horror movie.

It scared the fuck out of me as a kid.

I'm not even linking to it. Still creeps me out that much.

The scene where the alien steps out from behind the bushes during the birthday party in Signs.

When it's revealed in Sex in the City that Sarah Jessica Parker isn't a horse.

From the original TV series of Twin Peaks when Bob comes in through the French doors and kind of crawls, slithers almost, across the couch towards Laura's cousin.

And yes, that nurse station bit from Exorcist III is creepy - I was watching it home alone and that was a channel changer.

The scene in the Spanish movie Veronica when the dead father comes back and stands at the foot of her bed repeating her name over and over: 'Veronica, Veronica ...'. The impact may have been less had her name been Cheryl.

OP, Dante's Peak is one of my all time favorite movies, other than Twister. I love disaster movies. I agree with you, it's a very creepy scene.

In Fatal Attraction when Glenn plops her flat litfle tit out, wets it with water and Michael Douglas sucks on it. Grim.

I can't think of any. I'll just use my go-to: The scene in The Exorcist where Regan is "spasming" on the bed.

The original "Texas Chainsaw Massacre." Too many to count. We studied it in film school.

"Deliverance." You know what scene I'm talking about.

I'm Buck. I like to Fuck.

His disgusting dirty jar of Vaseline!!!!

#KillBill

(Did you know Buck is a real life Carradine brother?!)

The Witch

Mulholland Dr.

Don't Look Now

The last moment of PSYCHO when Norman Bates sits in the nuthouse and looks directly into the camera STILL creeps me out.

The first, two ALIEN films are the scariest movies I’ve ever seen and they still freak me out if I watch them.

Ripley, alone as the last human survivor in the first one, running down the dark hallways with sirens and strobe lights while the self-destruct counts down and the alien attacks is still the most intense.

I wasn’t scared, but the scene in ALIEN v. PREDATOR 2 where the hybrid “fallopian facehuggers” impregnate the women taken prisoner in the hospital is truly revolting.

The most sickening thing I’ve seen on film.

Zodiac "Not many people have basements in California."

Glenda Jackson in "The Music Lovers". She's in a mental institution and announces to her mother that she has so many lovers. She lifts her skirt and lies on a grate where the hands of other patients start touching her.

^^ That was a good one.

That scene creeped out a lot of 80's kids, r15. Too bad they wimped out and had the woman totally fine at the end of the movie. It's not creepy to adults, but many a 70's/80's kid was terrified by the doll (He Who Kills) that chased Karen Black around in Trilogy of Terror.

The end of Angel Heart when Mickey Roarke gets in the elevator. Chills!!

Mickey Roark in anything.

John Ashcroft singing "Let the Eagle Soar" in "Fahrenheit 911."

The opening scene of Ghost Ship- it’s a mediocre horror movie but that first scene is so shocking it stayed with me for years

My aunt thought it was a good idea to take me at 11 years old to see THE SHINING at midnight! That whole movie freaked me out. The scenes that really creeped me out:

When Danny runs into the twins in the hallway. Also when his father goes to that forbidden room and discovers the lady in the tub!

R23 that freaked me out too, all sorts of hill Billies abusing her comatose Toby.

R30 that sounds horrific too. All those strangers.

I couldn't find the exact scene; but in Let's Scare Jessica to Death, when they first arrive at house and realize someone else is there. The rocking chair on the porch is still rocking, and they see someone flit in the shadows, etc.

I loved the film as a whole, but this particular scene was probably the best of its kind.

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Still chilling AF...

And another... So simple no special effects. Very Hitchcockian but better.

The Humphrey Bogart WW2 film Sahara had a scene where a German solider is smothered to death by his face being pushed into the desert sand. I was enjoying the film up till then, and even though the German was shown to be a baddie, I still couldn't get past the scene.

Robert Shaw getting eaten in Jaws.

The end of Wolf Creek - an indie movie about tourists encountering a madman in desolate Austalia - where the girl gets stabbed in the back/spine and the killer tells her how it will paralyze her but keep her alive or something. It’s such a violent scene and somehow the violence toward the woman/women seems glorified. The whole movie is basically creepy though.

R22 Texas Chainsaw.....was banned in my country, managed to get a copy of it, and slept that night with my door barricaded and the lights on.

This was the creepiest part of Texas Chainsaw for me.

Final scene in Devil

Ben Rosenfield and Madeline Zima getting eaten by that Glass Box creature in Twin Peaks: The Return.

I’m very rarely scared by horror movies, especially slashers and various horror tropes. Any haunted house movie with creaking and muffled sounds of kids laughing and that sort of thing is the worst to me, but so many people say that it is creepy. I don’t get it. Also killer clowns...not scary.

One exception to not being scared by manufactured scares from when I was young was the idea of Freddy Kruger—or anybody being able to access your mind and kill you during a dream. That disturbed me profoundly for a little while and made me afraid to sleep.

In Jurassic Park 2, the scene in which people are running through a field of tall plants, with only their heads visible. It’s a wide shot and you see them running and looking back, and one by one they disappear quietly as the dinos get them. It’s a take on Jaws, I guess, but I found it a lot creepier.

The child hunter in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang scared the fuck out of me.

R47 Two questions about that scene: 1) What is scary about it; and 2) Does the whole movie feature only guys with big lips?

This one freaks me out a bit

In the context of the movie, this is one of the most terrifying of all scenes I’ve seen.

The entire movie is better than it was reviewed and it all takes place in an elevator. It's all about the build up. Remember, the title of the thread is 'Creepy'--not scary. Two completely different things. In context, it's a fucking creepy scene.

Who did 'Devil"? Was it M. Shamalamadingdong?

This is a big dumb tangent, but in pretty much every movie, the presence of the devil simply drives people to behave with consciences. Am I the only one who notices that? A person is pretty much evil and conscienceless forever, and then the devil shows up and goes Boo, and suddenly they’re confessing all their ill deeds and repenting. Ultimately, the devil gets a lot of goodness and justice accomplished in Hollywoodland. Meanwhile, no sign of God or Jesus.

I saw Who Killed Roger Rabbit in the theater when it was released (so I would have been about five).

This guy scared me for months afterward. I would lay in bed afraid he would come into my room.

R15 — holy shit, that moment in Superman III terrified me for years after seeing it as a kid. You’ve reminded me. Something about it was just incredibly frightening.

R55 — also extremely scary.

I’m sure a lot of this stuff depends on the age at which you see it. I don’t suppose my parents thought Superman III would scare the living daylights out of me, but it did.

R55 When he killed the little squeaky cartoon glove in the dip...!!! That broke my heart so much I felt physically ill.

Even as a kid, I never found the Superman movies to be interesting. I didn’t like either the Superman or Lois Lane characters, and the plunging V-neck Solid Gold getups that the evil aliens wore were beyond silly to me. There was one single aspect that did freak me out: the phantom zone. Something about seeing the people flattened to two dimensions and unable to escape has always been a horrific thought. And many years later in adulthood I had a psychedelic experience that the phantom zone dramatizes pretty well. So I do give the franchise credit for that depiction. Otherwise, the old TV Batman and 80s cinematic Superman were trifles. I can appreciate them both as camp if we’re assuming they were made to be seen that way. If the intention was to make a serious movie, then the Superman movies of the 80s IMO failed spectacularly.

Decades ago. I was somewhere around 12 yo. I don't know the players or the movie title. It was a full term newborn baby crawling around in a yard before somehow entering a house. Once in the house, it found it's way to a woman laying in the middle of a large pentogram - some creepy devil shit going on. The baby made it's way up between her thighs and the woman actually stuffed it up her cooter and into her womb. She then smeared the blood all over her distended stomach. I think the kid was satan. Creepy, creepy shit that I've remembered after all this time.

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The double dildo scene from REQUIEM FOR A DREAM. It showed how willing addicts are to be degraded in order to score. The whole movie had my friend and I gripping our movie chairs.

The island sequence from Peter Jackson’s KING KONG. From the ugly cannibalistic natives to the man eating plants and insects...another triggering film. The ape scenes seemed relatively tame in comparison.

In the Legacy when Maria goes swimming and she drowns after a glass top is slid across the pool.

I don't even want to share this because many of you have never seen this film-

In the horrifying film "Le Interieur" aka Inside.

There is a point where you really do not know if the killer has gotten in the house.

The "heroine" is sitting on the couch and you slowly see the shadow of the killer's face appear from behind and slowly disappear.

The shot is so stunningly brilliant that I cannot put it into words. Very similar to how John Carpenter used lighting in the original Halloween, but even more subtle and frightening.

Any scene at the end with this kid and the scalpel in Per Sematary

^^Pet.....

God yes. I remember being palpably angry after seeing Pet Semetary because of the stuff with the little kid, it was just so awful.

Agree with R46 re that being the scariest moment in Chainsaw.

One for me is from the oldie The Spiral Staircase, where the killer is hiding in the closet and all you can see is one of his eyes.

It's an image that clearly haunted both Mario Bava & Dario Argento because they each used that concept in one of their movies.

R64 Miko Hughes was the creepy kid of the 90s.

Anything with Goldie post 2005

Jennifer Jason Leigh's death in The Hitcher.

The rape scenes in the original I Spit On Your Grave and Irreversible.

The entire movie Jacob's Ladder left me creeped out and depressed for days.

I even knew what was going to happen because my sister told me the ending before I saw it, but when Se7en ended, it left me with the most horrible, devastated feeling for a week. It wasn’t even the shocking delivery at the end so much as every killing in the movie taken together, followed by the inevitable last one. It made me misanthropic.

The Glenda Jackson scene from "The Music Lovers". Jackson looked young and attractive in the beginning of the movie and when we see her at the asylum, this is how she looked. It is really sickening and only Ken Russell could have come up with it.

When I was in 4th grade, my dipsomaniac horror loving grandmother brought me to The Exorcist. It was like watching child torture. A hot mess.

The crucifix stabbing her vagina the explicit language, the peeing on the carpet at a party, medical experiments.. The list goes on and on

R60...Many do not notice a detail of that clip. At the end when Norman is grinning, Hitchcock added a faint overlay of a skull on Norman's face. It is just before the cut to the car in the bog. You practically have to freeze frame to see it, but it is there.

The scene in the original The Haunting where Eleanor is hearing crying behind the wall with a face in the wallpaper and she thinks Theo is crushing her hand.

Just posted this in the asian horror movies thread. This scene still freaks me out.

The climax of Audition

Many scenes in the first 2/3 of Insidious

The torture scene in Imprint

Pretty much all of House of the Devil once she starts babysitting

The stairway scene in “Amateur Night,” a segment from V/H/S

The scene in Paranormal Activity when they put the talcum powder on the floor before going to bed

Graham in the cornfield at night in Signs

Re 15 that scene still creeps me out. so does the bad superman scenes. Reeves was amazing but scared the shit out of me as a kid.

This scene still creeps me the fuck out.After I saw it I was afraid to cruise for at least a month!

superman v clark part 2...

The undertaker with coffin who kills Bette Davis in her bed in Burnt Offerings was one of the creepiest things I’ve ever seen.

And, sorry r15, but I just had to post the infamous scene. I'll never look at any mechanical dildo the same way again.

R78 Audition, the Barbara Walters memoir??

R79 What am I missing? All I see is poor acting. Is that what creeps you out?

Scene from 1945s DEAD OF NIGHT, where Hugo the ventriloquists dummy kills Maxwell

The opening bars of "It's Today" from Mame.

There is a bathtub scene in I Spit in Your Grave that shocked me so much I shudder to this day recalling it. It's such a shitty, low budget film but that was the most effective shot of gore I've ever seen in any movie.

Also, the turtle getting killed in Cannibal Holocaust. So nauseating. OMG.

[quote]What am I missing? All I see is poor acting. Is that what creeps you out?

I get what r79 is saying. That scene didn’t so much creep me out as a kid as it upset me deeply. Superman III is an awful movie, but as a kid who grew up loving Superman, seeing him turn bad like that hit me in the solar plexus.

This one. I can't look at Ray Liotta and unsee this scene.

R89 Oh OK, I get that.

Ha ha r84 no that’s too horrifying to discuss!

Those who haven’t seen Takashi Miike’s “Audition,” approach with caution. I’m serious.

R92 I don’t get the appeal of torture porn. I like horror that messes with my head and seals with supernatural or psychological stuff, but watching people be dismembered or tortured as they scream...what draws people to that?

In Bette Davis' "The Nanny", the scene where the little girl falls into the empty bathtub hitting her head made me sick. We don't see anything but we hear the thud and we also know this is what triggered Davis' character's breakdown.

The ending of a Serbian film.

You bitches are lightweights.

A Serbian Film was so ridiculous that I couldn't even take it seriously.

The "torture" scene in Imprint??? WTF, the torture scene in Hostile 2 with Weinerdog was worse than that!! It was basically acupuncture!!!! WTF?

I posted about "Inside" the original French version from 2007- You beginners need to see this and report back to me-

Let me know what you think about the bathroom scene with the cop. OMG!!!!!!!!!

R29 ! Yes ! You think : "Get out!!"

I had a similar feeling at the end of Dressed to Kill, when I realised that the"nurse shoes" giving away that the serial killer is hiding behind the door are actually empty ! Therefore, the woman doesn't know where the killer is !

Yes, R30, a very creepy and unpleasant scene from a non horror movie. I would add the transition scene just before. Clueless Tchaikovsky, in the comfort of his house says something like : "Yes, my wife is being well-taken care of at the hospital". And you suddenly see upclose an ugly mad woman with shorn hair yelling ! It startles me every time. Of course, the mental hospital is a house of horrors.

A lot of these are stupid, and only scared you or creeped you out because you saw them as small children.

Cases in point: the scene from Dante's Peak the OP mentioned (it's ridiculous--if the lake was so acidic that it corroded metal, which incidentally a volcano could never do, Grandma's legs would have melted right from under her when she waded into it), and the scene from Superman 3 (which is cheesy and even more ridiculous).

R98, I adore this thread and its posters, but my god they are sheltered in terms of old fashioned HORROR!

What a bunch of pussies!

The camera panning slowly to show the bathroom door knob slowly turning as Nancy Allen showers in Dressed To Kill always creeps me out.

I saw "Audition" years ago, R92, and am still wondering what the fuck is supposed to be the big deal about that movie. Saw it and forgot it about ten minutes later.

R101 Shock value of the grotesque.

R98-99, "creepy" does not equal "scary".

Besides, who are you to decide what should be creepy for each individual ? Control freak, much ?

+1 for the hobo/bum scare in Mulholland Drive.

Interesting to note that the actress who played the bum continues to scare people as "the Nun" in the Conjuring 2 and her own standalone movie. Not quite as scary as the bum though.

David Lynch is better at building dread than any director working these days.

Martyrs

Can someone explain why that scene at R46 is so creepy?

R107 - Because that moment comes at the end of Leatherface suddenly opening that door, knocking someone on the head with a hammer, pulling her in the kitchen, and then immediately shutting that door.

It all happens in a matter of a couple of seconds (if that many), before your brain has time to digest just what happened.

On the big screen in the 1970s, it really packed quite a jolt. The audience reacted as if someone handed each of them live wires.

In Silence of the Lambs when Jame Gumb turns the lights out and stalks Clarice with the night vision goggles.

At the end of the Blair Witch Project when you see the children's handprints on the wall and then suddenly Mike facing the corner. Made all the more terrifying with Heather screaming hysterically but sounding far away (because she's not holding the camera with sound).

In Audrey Rose, when she relives the fire for the last time and it's obvious she's dying but no one can help her.

The guttural, evil sound of The Blair Witch's 'voice' as she tortures children right before Josh, Mike and Heather run out of their tent in terror.

R4 - Hereditary as a whole kind of disturbed me, and that doesn't happen very often with me with horror movies. The scenes where the mom is up in the corner of the bedroom and you can just barely make her out, then she goes scooting by in the air - I found that scary. But as a whole, the tone of the movie and the ending left me feeling disturbed. A lot of WTFs in the theater when it was over - some because they thought it was stupid, some because they didn't get it, and some because it just sort of left you feeling a bit freaked.

The whole atmosphere of the film BLACK NARCISSUS is creepy: five nuns living in this exotic palace high in the Himalayas, with this bell they ring that is on the very edge of this steep drop off. One of the nuns, Sister Ruth, gradually starts cracking up due to her lust for a man and her jealousy of head nun Deborah Kerr. She buys a bright red dress and red lipstick which she keeps secret until the very end. Deborah Kerr is near the edge of the cliff and out of the shadows Sister Ruth's face gradually appears, clearly insane, with red lipstick smeared all over her mouth. Very very creepy.

I found all of Hereditary kind of creepy and disturbing. It kind of stayed with me a few days after, which never really happens with me.

There’s a scene in Michael Haneke’s “Cache”. It’s not horrifically violent. It just surprised and creeped me out.

The man is a master of subtle horror and making the viewer uneasy.

I found Hereditary very creepy and eerie but for the life of me I just didn’t get the entire plot. Yet the scene where the mother cuts her own head off freaked me the fuck out.

Yeah, R115, when I came home after watching, I had to read up to see what it was all about. It made sense when I read about it, but not while watching.

The beginning of Night of the Living Dead (1968) ---In the cemetery, where the girl's brother gets killed. Even the sound of his head hitting the gravestone is horrible. Then the girl running from the zombie as it shambles after her. I cannot watch that scene without looking away---and somehow the film being in black/white makes it more nightmarish.

Olivia De Havilland starred in the TV movie "The Screaming Woman" about a cheating husband who buries his wife alive. Olivia keeps hearing the woman's screams but nobody believes her.

The scene starting at 5:35 traumatized me for years and years.

Susan Tyrell in “Buddy Boy”. Start at 1:16.

The whole thing is creepy, but that scene terrified me.

Salem’s Lot Master’s first appearance scared the shit out of me as a kid.

The final scene in Sleep away camp....where (spoiler alert) the killer is not the girl we see throughout the movie, but is actually her twin brother.....the chick has a dick! He/She stares at the camera with an almost anamalistic grunt and laugh, as it finally fades..... It's fuckin freaky (it's on YouTube).... In he 80s is was fucking terrifying for a kid!

[quote]Salem’s Lot Master’s first appearance scared the shit out of me as a kid.

Don't forget little Ralphie emerging from the fog and scratching at the window, asking his brother, "let me in..." Gave me nightmares as a 9-year-old.

'The Others' managed to creep me out. I have to give Tom and Nicole credit for that. It really caught me off-guard.

I love this thread. I can’t get the horrible scene from Gone Baby Gone in the pedo’s bedroom with the duct tape on the bed and blood out of my head. I wish I’d never seen that movie.

All of those are fictional.

This is based on events that actually happened.

R121 I haven't seen it but someone posted a picture of the killer in another thread and it freaked me out.

The director of Hereditary owes a massive debt to The Exorcist III.

Agree with poster that the best horror director working today is David Lynch. Nothing and no one has scared me on a more visceral level than Bob from Twin Peaks world.

Speaking of Lynch, I saw Inland Empire when I was way too young and this scene scared the fuck out of me.

Scream, when the killer, on the telephone with the home-alone Drew Barrymore, says, "I want to know who I'm looking at."

R96: masturbating 13 year old

The crucifix scene in The Exorcist. The scene in Texas Chainsaw where the family are around the table with the zombie like grandparents. But for me the most chilling scene in TTCM is when the girl escapes to the gas station and the guy she thinks is saving her is one of them and he takes her back.

The original version of "The Vanishing" when the guy has to decide to find out what happened to his girlfriend, knowing that he will have the same fate. He runs around in a panic as he tries to make a decision. Then, he finds out. (I won't spoil it)

The Witch - When you see what those women do to the the kidnapped baby

The Other (1972)- When the family opens the keg of wine and sees what's inside

I honestly couldn’t tell what was happening in BWP because of the first person camera shit. I hate that that type of filming has become popular. Nothing ruins a movie for me like that.

[italic]Looking for Mr. Goodbar:[/italic] the final scene

[italic]Zodiac:[/italic] the Lake Berryessa murders

Reverend Kane from Poltergeist 2.

The mechanical abortion in Prometheus.

Caligula cutting the baby out of the womb and supposedly eating it in I CLAUDIUS.

[quote]Many scenes in the first 2/3 of Insidious

The scene when the demon appears from behind Patrick Wilson. I couldn’t finish the movie.

I know Paranormal Activity gets a lot of shit everywhere for not being considered creepy/scary...but FUCK YOU. The tension, the quiet--which I’ve always found creepy--the idea that the antagonist is an invisible demon, the scene with the thumps, the lighting such that viewer along with the characters can’t really make out anything until it’s too late. All of it scared the shit out of me. I’ve seen the first one all the way through and only bits and pieces of the others. Shit, I still get a little freaked out when my house alarm confirms that it’s on/off like in the commercial for the second one.

Ken Russell's The Devils was made to provoke, shock, scandalize the people of its time. I find it mostly grotesque and over the top (and entertaining in parts)

Yet, for some reasons, the scene that creeps me out is the one relatively at the beginning, where the mean French king and his Catholic court have a Protestant dragged in a bird costume and gradually pushed in the water. He drowns because of his heavy costume, which delights the crowd. There is a nightmarish feel to it all, like a mockery of a kid play that unsettles me.

The tunnel in Willy Wonka

the disappearing kitty in the 1958 The Fly and its meowing. Heartbreaking and eerie.

[quote] [R98]-99, "creepy" does not equal "scary".

[quote] Besides, who are you to decide what should be creepy for each individual ? Control freak, much ?

So you're saying we can't disagree with anybody on this thread, and you're also trying to freeze how we determine the difference between "creepy" and 'scary"?

Oh yeah, I'll CERTAINLY say you ARE indeed a control freak, and MUCH!

[quote] 'The Others' managed to creep me out. I have to give Tom and Nicole credit for that.

Tom Cruise? He had nothing to do with that movie. Nicole Kidman had divorced him by the time she made it.

R143, he was an executive producer.

Has anyone seen starry eyes? Really fucked up film that creeped me out for a few months.

Anyone else remember "Land of the Lost" on Saturday mornings late 1970's? When these mother-fuckers made their appearance, then I was always like "Okay, I'm OUT!"

Go watch The Changeling (the 1980 version, not the Angelina version) if you want to just be creeped out. Best horror movie ever made, and not a drop of blood in it.

The Japanese film AUDITION does indeed need to be approached with care. I saw it in the cinema, and people started leaving halfway through because it was so disturbing. It rattled my brain for weeks after.

The French film HIGH TENSION is almost unbearably stressful and creepy. It loses its gas in the second half, but the first part is horror perfection.

This is going to sound weird, but the scene in Trainspotting where the junkies come out of their haze to find out that the baby has died. Starved to death, I think?

It's like something from a nightmare.

The unsettling thing about Audition isn’t the actual violence in the second half, it’s how the first half lulled you into thinking you were watching an entirely different kind of movie. Your emotional defenses are down when the hard stuff hits.

Ages ago, I had a VHS tape of it and as a practical joke, I’d give it to friends and tell them it was a sweet Japanese romantic comedy. I had a lot of pissed off friends after that.

R150 Can't say i blame them lol

R150! Brilliant!! And your description explains the film perfectly! I couldn't put into words why the film disturbs , and you nailed it- it tricks you!

And my god- SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER

When she gleefully throws the foot against the window, I laugh hysterically.

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Try this one on for size.

The flying monkeys from the wizard of oz.

Two scenes from Dead Calm: the dog's killing and the discovery of the murdered bodies on the other boat.

The super 8 films in Sinister and when you can make out the figure in the pool.

R58, Superman The Movie was actually in 1978 and is very much a 70's movie. One of the last films to truly be shot for widescreen with little thought to TV safety. You kinda had to be there and see it theatrically.

Throwing my hat into the ring, the recent Korean film The Wailing worked-every-last-nerve...it's a long slow burn but really one of the creepiest (and finest) films of the last 10 years. Starts off in a comedic way...and doesn't end like that at all...HIGHLY recommended.

Shivers, AKA They Came From with from 1975, was so disturbing to director David Cronenberg's landlord that he evicted Cronenberg. I kind of agree with the landlord...Easily one of Cronenberg's creepiest, and most reprehensible films. I can't help but thinking that being evicted would be the least of his problems if he made it today, especially for its treatment of lesbians (and little girls)...hard to break it down to just one scene...the whole thing will creep your shit out...

Sorry if already asked R36, but is that where a wire or cable comes loose and cuts everyone in the ballroom in two? If so, your assessment is dead on. A very memorable scene for what turned out to be a very mediocre movie.

It's curious that Asians make some of the most disturbing horror films. I think their lives are so rigid and proper that they have to release and film is the only way they can do it.

I can't even watch the film Human Centipede because just the idea alone creeps me out so much.

The Blair Witch Project where you can hear the voices of children's laughter. They sound like they're having the time of their lives. In the middle of it all you hear a growl that sounds not quite animal but not quite human.

A lot of the sounds at the beginning of the film seemed way far off in the distance. But the laughter was as plain as day as though the kids were right outside the tent so that made it even creepier and more threatening Especially knowing no children were actually there. And that growling noise sounded downright demonic.

-Poltergeist where Diane takes some dishes to the kitchen, comes back, and the chairs are stacked in that wild formation on top of the table.

-Any scene with "Billy" in Black Christmas

-The demonic voice telling the priest "Get out GET OUT!" in The Amityville Horror while the door opens by itself and flies cover the entire room. Also the same voice saying "Why didn't you pull the trigger? Why didn't you SHOOT THAT PIG?" to Sonny through his headphones in Amityville II: The Possession.

-Those disgusting pictures leaked online in Megan Is Missing really bothered me

-The ending of The Town That Dreaded Sundown where everybody is in line getting ready to see the movie and you can see the feet of the real life killer limping as he blends in with the rest of the population.

The murder scene in Torn Curtain gave me nightmares. Two people are trying to kill a man who was going to kill them. But they have to do it quietly because the man has an accomplice with a gun waiting outside. It takes about 8 minutes of screen time for them to kill him and the man fights them every step of the way. Even though it's two good people killing one bad person it's not a sanitized death.

Think of the original Star Wars. None of the storm troopers killed by the good guys bleed. You can't even see if they have faces and originally it wasn't clear if these were men in armor or if they were robots.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers where the characters argue back and forth. "Well, you know...he looks the same, talks the same, and acts the same as he always does." "I don't care. That's NOT him!" Those aren't the exact quotes of course but it is the basic idea! Just the thought of something like this happening is enough to give you the creeps.

I am always creeped out by movies like that and Rosemary's Baby when it is the people you know and see everyday who are the evil ones. They build a sense of paranoia. Especially when you KNOW something is wrong but you can't prove it so everyone just assumes you're crazy until it is too late.

The ending of The Wicker Man when Sergeant Howie finally starts to put the pieces of the puzzle together and begins to realize exactly what is going on. That Rowan Morrison was never missing, he was on a wild goose chase for the whole movie, and the whole story was a farce to bait him onto the island so he could be sacrificed to the ancient gods.

Everything about it is so creepy and unforgettable from Howie trying to reason, beg, pray, and hymn sing his way out of it to no avail. The poor animals inside the wicker man who had no idea in the world what was about to happen to them. Howie's screams as he was burning alive juxtaposed against the villagers swinging their arms about and singing so cheerfully. And finally that last shot of the wicker man's head collapsing in flames as we see the setting sun. Everything about that ending is so bleak, hopeless, and terrifying. It is one of the darkest endings I have ever seen in a movie.

I agree with that Rosemary's Baby/Body Snatchers/Stepford Wives kind of horror. That always scares me the most. I'm afraid of losing my mind or not being able to trust my friends and family, so those kinds of movies really disturb me. The concept of the people closest to you selling you out or not really liking/loving you and doing anything to change you is horrifying.

Martyrs really messed me up for weeks afterwards. I still haven't seen it since. I'm too scared to. It really did a number on me. I did see the American remake out of morbid curiosity and it was easily one of the worst films I've ever seen in my entire life. Way to forget what made the original so special and terrifying.

Hereditary really had some great, unnerving moments. The smash cut to the little girl's severed head midway through really haunted me for days after I saw it.

Also from the original The Fly where that couple sitting on the bench and hear the "Help me!" in that high pitched voice...then they look down...

I will always remember this from Cat People.

Watching Eyes of Laura Mars in the theater in 1978, when Faye has vision of killer watching her and as she flees in terror all she can see is the back of herself running away. Creeped me the fuck out as a kid.

That Zuni-toothed grin from Karen Black at the end of her part in the Trilogy of Terror movie where she squats in the corner with a knife waiting for her mother's arrival.

Fuck you, R146!

Another vote for the opening of [italic]Ghost Ship.[/italic] Also: the "split down the middle" scene from [italic]13 Ghosts.[/italic] The first time I saw it, at a dollar-movie place, it was actually hilarious because of the reactions of the mostly black audience.

For those of you who don't like those "sliced up" type scenes, have you seen the first Resident Evil? I'll just say "multidirectional grid lasers and dark hallway" and let your imaginations do the rest!

Two from the 70's Body Snatchers...One, the accidental damaging of the pod by the sleeping whino and dog causing them to merge into the dog/whino hybrid.

Whino/Dog thing...

And two, the decomposition of Brooke Adams' Liz while in Donald Sutherlund's Matthew's arms. The acting, the emotional desolation, the effective makeup effects, and the loss of that character is pretty unforgettable.

[quote] Invasion of the Body Snatchers where the characters argue back and forth. "Well, you know...he looks the same, talks the same, and acts the same as he always does." "I don't care. That's NOT him!" Those aren't the exact quotes of course but it is the basic idea!

"Uncle Ira isn't Uncle Ira anymore!"

GREAT scene!

"I Walked with a Zombie"--the nighttime walk through the sugar cane fields, where the heroine is led first by the sacrificed goat and then the terrifying silent zombie played by Darby Jones

Hereditary was very disturbing

From Val Lewton's The Leopard Man...one of the prime examples of the value of less-is-more...

The pavilion scene at the end of Carnival of Souls.

In the vein of what R160 was referring to, but it's a night club and there was more than splitting in two: Hellraiser III.

Used to scare the crap out of me years ago.

[quote]So you're saying we can't disagree with anybody on this thread, and you're also trying to freeze how we determine the difference between "creepy" and 'scary"?

No, fuckface. You can disagree until the cows--or your mom--come home. But why do you have to be such an eye-rolling, effeminate, sow about it? Act your age for once your life.

[Quote] For those of you who don't like those "sliced up" type scenes, have you seen the first Resident Evil? I'll just say "multidirectional grid lasers and dark hallway" and let your imaginations do the rest!

That did freak me out. Along with the elevator scene and they're introduction to the zombies where you can hear one of them dragging something across the ground.

In Poltergeist, when JoBeth Williams falls into the incomplete swimming pool and dead bodies just pop up left and right. my sister and I were freaking out and crying watching this as kids. It's still creepy today.

When that sadistic fuck pushes the lady out of the boat at the end of Funny Games. That movie still haunts me.

That scene in The Stepford Wives where Johanna goes to the shrink and tells her everything she thinks is happening. Katharine Ross plays it so brilliantly. There's a great line where she says "if I'm wrong, then I'm crazy, but if I'm right, it's worse than if I'm wrong." Chills!

I don't know if I'd call this movie creepy, sick, gross, or just plain bizarre. Someone mentioned Billy Warlock (from Baywatch) in a thread about gay hookups, and after searching I found him in this freakshow movie called Society from 1989. If you don't feel like watching the whole thing, start at about the 1 hour 18 minute mark. Among other things, a guy gets turned inside out, a man's face shows up where an asshole should be, and don't forget the incest orgy.

Society was such a bizarre movie. I'll never forget seeing that artwork in the video store as a kid and it freaked me out. That could be a great thread by itself - Traumatizing VHS and Poster Art.

The rape scene in Death Wish and Death Wish 2. In the first Jeff Goldblum forces his victim to perform fellatio on him. In DW2, the rape scene was so vicious that one of the producer's wives passed out when she was the movie.

R189- ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT CHOICE AND ONE OF MY FAVORITE SCENES IN ALL OF FILMDOM!!!

It is PERFECTLY played by Ross and the woman who played her therapist.

There will be someone. She will cook and she'll clean like crazy, but she won't take pictures and she WON'T BE ME! She will be like one of those robots in Disney Land.

"And I know my time is coming"....

Cannot tell you how much I love that scene.

The flashback scenes in Event Horizon where we find out (sort of) what happens to the original crew....I saw that in my 30's and did not sleep a wink all night, even with my husband sleeping by my side. I will never watch it again.

Not horrifying, but as a kid, I found it very creepy. The movie La Beauté du Diable is a romantic adaptation of the Faust myth, with witty dialogues. It is not a horror movie at all. At what point, the Devil under his humain form of an old man has managed to generate jealousy, violence, chaos. As you see lovers being torn like in a classic melodrama, you suddenly discover the old man hiding behind drapes sardonically grinning, enjoying the "evil feelings" he created.

As a kid, I thought it was really creepy.

R44 I had to stop watching Wolf Creek half way through. Too freaky for me.

Thanks R182. That is an excellent, suspensful scene.

So glad I'm not the only one who loves that scene in The Stepford Wives. Maybe isolated from the film it doesn't seem like much, but within the context...oh, man. It's SCARY. I think also because I had seen/read Rosemary's Baby before and I kept expecting the shrink to be in on it herself. It's almost shocking when she actually believes Johanna and tells her to meet her next week. It gives us that one last ray of hope before the final act where all the shit hits the fan.

As a kid, that scene from Carrie where Carrie's mom drags her into the prayer closet with that creepy St. Sebastian statue scared me half to death. I think I ran out of the room when that happened. I assume that was built by the prop people, because that has got to be the scariest fucking statue I've ever seen in my life.

That Saint Sebastian is the incarnation of eery/creepy.

There is also something dreamlike or nightmarish about the statue. Trying to describe it is like trying to recount an unpleasant but evanescent, absurd dream.

"It was a crucifix, but looking closer, I saw it was not the Christ on it, because he had no breard. It was St Sebastian, but not in the posture of his martyrdom. He had been crucified. Later, his eyes seemed creepy because, the crazy mother probably put some make up on them. To feminize him ? Because she hated men ? Then it looked angrier and angrier as the mother lost her grip on her daugther and her mind. In the end, it wasn't make up anymore, he just looked scary."

Yes, like describing a dream. The object is originally intriguing and changes throughout the film.

This scene from a 1995 video game haunted me forever. What technology!

Whoops here it is in English and not dubbed

When Tammy, Andy and Scarlet go into the subway at the the end of 28 Weeks Later.

I remember as a kid going to a kids matinee and seeing a double feature of Pippi Longstockings and a dubbed foreign version of Cinderella. Pippi was freaky but the Cinderella was really dark and I remember the stepmother cutting off her daughters toes and heels to try and make the slipper fit. The thought of slicing flesh at such a young age was just too much. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Scared the crap out of me.

Almost forgot poor Steven Freeling tossing up a Giger-ized version of Reverend Kane. The upchucking and worm transformation is horrible, but it's that smile at the end that's truly creepy...

Why wasn’t Jobeth Williams a bigger star? She played the hell out of those movies. Balls to the walls, every scene.

JoBeth really is excellent in the Poltergeist movies. You believe her every second and those scenes are not easy to film. A lot of reacting to a dot on the wall or a grip jumping up and down.

That dubbed Cinderella and Pippi Longstocking made me remember that creepy dubbed version of Snow White that haunted every VHS bargain bin in the 80's and 90's that had actual children for dwarves. I remember the evil queen was actually sorta ugly and she tried to kill Snow White 3 times like in the original story. These days, it almost feels like one of those Italian Mario Bava horror films.

177, I've disliked Boxers since that scene. Blehhhhh

r90 That scene from Hannibal is definitely one of the creepiest ever and it was going to be my entry in this thread. All scenes where people's heads are sliced in two and one half slides off (Kill Bill, Underworld (vampire movie), especially where they still talk or smile afterwards. Yes, the piano wire decapitation in Hereditary. Couldn't finish watching the lawyer split above because I felt that was where it was going.

The guy who played the worm creature in Poltergeist 2 is an actor without legs apparently.

The basement scene in ZODIAC.

If youve seen the movie, you know it.

About a decade ago a friend and I saw the original Black Christmas in a theater and we had already seen it on DVD but neither of us had noticed this bit.

There is a scene in In the kitchen where Jess and Phil have just had a false scare from one of the men in the search party Banging on the kitchen door, telling them what is going on. After he leaves and the two women are talking to each other if you watch the background of the scene as they’re talking you can see the shadow of “Billy” briefly on the open door.

We both looked at each other and were like “what the fuck” it’s just it’s a quiet moment but it’s somehow just so creepy to me as he is standing right there!

R199 and R200, you beat me to it. Statue was creepy as fuck. And the scene after Carrie’s mom got was coming to her and hung there like the statue with the creepy glowing eyes. JFC. (Of course, my mom took the family to see this in the theater. I was traumatized for a very long while.)

Not a horror movie, but there was some movie about a robot dog gone bad. Chomps, maybe? Starred Ally Sheedy. Anyway, there’s a scene where the dog gets loose and chases a cat up a tree and the dogs eats the cat by unhinging his jaw like a snake. So disturbing. Not scary. Just horrifyIng

The home invasion scene in “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.” They methodically torture and kill husband, wife, and young son.

Plus the scene in "Henry" when he kills the woman in the car. It was too realistic and I was watching this at 2am. Had to turn it off.

The Descent when you first see the cave creature. Netflix's Gerald's Game has that nightmare-inducing toe/foot licking scene.

The Haunting of Hill House is now airing on Netflix. SPOILERS:: There is a horrifyingly creepy man who floats about 6 inches from the floor. Whoever thought that thing up deserves an award for HORROR!

That was a movie called Man's Best Friend r214.

Olivia Hussey singing "Share The Joy" in Lost Horizon, those costumes, those lyrics. that choreography.

I never knew whether it was a goof or intentional, but in "Night of the Living Dead", after Ben kills the zombie in the house and it is laying on the floor, it's eyes are moving while watching Barbara. He then says "don't look at it" and drags it off. That scene always creeped me out thinking that the zombie wasn't really dead, just paralyzed but still hungry. (But it was probably just the actor screwing up and moving his eyes unintentionally.)

I hear the Poughkeepsie Tapes is a disturbing movie.

The scene where the little girl kills her mother with the garden tool in Night of the Living Dead always scared the shit out of me.

The bit where the heroine of Carnival of Souls sees the creepy man outside her moving car window made me stand up and shriek in my bedroom at 1 a.m. as a middle schooler.

There's a new-ish movie called Hell House, LLC. that's streaming on Amazon Prime right now that scared me half to death. I usually hate found footage movies, but this movie is so effective that it got under my skin. I might have actually screamed out loud a few times. There's a scene with a creepy clown mannequin that I thought was going to give me a heart attack.

Great. I’ve wasted time sitting here reading this thread and don’t want to go downstairs now. Thanks DL!

There is probably no one waiting for you downstairs R255.

I mean what are the odds of TWO homocidal. maniacs getting loose in you neighborhood in the same week?

Haha, R226. I’ve heard that one before. But I appreciate your logic in applying it here. Lol.

The entirety of that Tusk movie starring the beady eyed nothing boy who looks like Carrie Brownstein and directed by Kevin Smith. The entire concept is horrific and you can almost smell him.

Also, Eyes Without A Face, which I made the mistake of staying up all night to watch before an early morning appointment with an old school dentist who put this metal clamp over my face with like a dental dam stretched over it.

Just to be clear I wasn’t trying to imply you were either of the two maniacs R227

[quote]Netflix's Gerald's Game has that nightmare-inducing toe/foot licking scene.

I don’t remember that at all.

[quote]When Tammy, Andy and Scarlet go into the subway at the the end of 28 Weeks Later.

Yeah, while it wasn’t as good a film as the first one, it actually had scarier set pieces in it.

You would be wrong then, R229.

This last view of Jack Torrance always scared me. It was so dramatic, especially punctuated with the music.

Japanese movie - Suicide Club: Group of young girls jump in front of speeding train, psychotic punk rocker stomps a puppy to death, woman makes coleslaw out of her hand. Horrible movie images. Wish I never saw it.

Ooh R232 single?

The Ring when the girl climbs from the well - so horrible I had to stop watching.

Norman Bates looking straight into the camera after PSYCHO gets me every time!

R66, that's so interesting about Pet Sematary. I read the book as a teen and really liked it; I don't always get scared by books, but I thought the scenes around the Wendigo and the walk to the burial site were really effective and freaked me out a bit. Overall thought it was one of King's better novels.

Then one day at work a colleague of mine who read King too said Pet Sematary was where she stopped with him, she thought he'd gone too far and it wasn't appropriate. I sort of blew her off as being one of those hysterical "somebody think of the children" people, until a few years ago, my strong, no-nonsense father said something about how the only time he thought King went too far was with Pet Sematary, and he didn't like that book at all.

So, all this to say, you're not alone there. Is there something wrong with me that I don't think it was over the line, that instead it was effectively horrific? I dunno, but I wonder if it's because I don't have children. Pet Sematary came out only a year or so after I was born, so maybe I was too much in my father's thoughts for comfort as he read it?

From “A Time to Love and a Time to Die” (1958), directed by Douglas Sirk.

WWII German soldier John Gavin shows up at the Gestapo office, instead of his young wife, responding to a summons she has received. He is directed to the basement, where, in a dingy file room, he hands the summons to clerk Klaus Kinski, who nonchalantly brings him a small cardboard box.

Gavin learns the box contains the ashes of his wife’s father. Unfolding the accompanying death certificate, he reads out loud, “Cause of death: heart disease?” Kinski looks at him blankly, and says. “Sure. What else?”

Behind Kinski are shelves filled with small cardboard boxes.

It’s the casualness of the whole thing that adds a creepy edge. (Kinski had several atmospheric small roles early in his career: as a fugitive Jew in “The Counterfeit Traitor” (1962), and a conscript laborer in “Doctor Zhivago” (1965).

R238, Pet Sematary is one of my favourite King novels, and one of the few I try to read every few year, like 'Salem's Lot. I would actually love to see another adaptation of 'Salem's Lot, but only if they set it during the novel's 1975 time. I really don't think that one would work in the age of smartphones and social media. The beauty of that story is the evil unfolds behind closed doors, and no one is none the wiser.

Back to Pet Sematary, it was my older sister who got me into King big-time and that one was our gateway. She's collected a lot of King books over the years, even ones she already has, but I've noticed Pet Sematary is not in her collection. She has 4 kids.

There are some disturbing scenes in As Above So Below where some urban explorers go down into the catacombs of Paris and things get really creepy. All their fears begin coming true and it’s not gory but very disturbing and creepy

The opening scenes of Cliffhanger when Stallone is trying to rescue this girl on a mountain but the harness breaks, and he’s hanging on to her by one hand, there’s an excruciating 30 seconds or so where she’s screaming “I don’t want to die!” and then AHHHHH! Stayed with me me ever since I saw it in the theater.

Al Pacino playing a big macher in one of those Ocean's Movies.

In fact that was the movie where they thought it would be funny to have Ellen Barkin come on to Matt Damon. Which was merely: cringe!

Twin Peaks Fire Walk with Me - The Bob Moment

It is so nothing but it works incredibly well.

Virtually all of 'Funny Games' (the original, not his US remake) - by far the most creeped out / disturbed that I've ever been in a movie theatre.

Inland Empire - when Laura Dern runs towards the camera. I slept with the lights on for a week after I saw that scene (and movie).

That scene in Eden Lake where the little kid gets "necklaced" with a tire. I can't rewatch that film.

The window scene in "Salem's Lot". True story, my Mom read the book and loved it when I was a kid. She insisted I read it. One day she asks what part I'm up to and that night as I'm reading this scene in my room she was outside my door scratching. Couldn't have timed it better, scaring the shit out of me, but she was so cool that way. I miss her. The TV movie did it justice, it's creepy.