Which horror movie scene messed you up the most?

I saw Resident Evil when I was about 10 with my dad at the cinema. The opening scene with the elevator fucked me up real good.

Another one would be The Grudge. It was my first J-horror movie and I nearly shit my pants from the very first jump scare. I didn't sleep for 3 months lol

The hand at the end of the original Carrie.

So many options... Fatal Attraction, The Big Chill, Albert Nobbs, The Wife. How to choose just one?

When the Vampire is finally revealed in Salems Lot. (1979)

The Swarm - My parents thought it would be a great idea to bring an 8 year old to see this. The bees attacking the children in the school yard.

The scene in the original Halloween when he is in the backseat of her car. I had just started driving when I saw it and it really fucked me up. That whole movie did, actually.

When the troglodytes in Bone Tomahawk strip the bloke, lift him up by his ankles and chop him in half from his balls down and his insides slop out. Then the cook and eat the carcass. That bothered me for a long time.

The final scene in 'The Ring' when the girl comes out of TV - could not sleep with TV screen turned in my direction for a while.

R5 here - and that fucking clown doll in the original "Poltergeist".

A scene at the end of A Serbian Film where the main character is having sex with someone, people who've seen the film know what I'm talking about. I felt lousy for a week after seeing the film.

Another R2

Original Friday 13th lake scene

More recently, that “It” clown, pennywise in the opening acene in the sewer

This was the first scene of the movie, and it's still the most disturbing thing I've seen.

The switchblade slashing scene in the elevator in Dressed To Kill.

In 'Halloween 2," Laurie Strode staggers out of the hospital and into Jimmy's car. She has no keys, so she opens the door and falls onto the asphalt right when Doctor Loomis and the other woman (forget her name) are strolling into the hospital. She croaks "Help me...help me..." but can't seem to articulate herself or find a voice. The moment they go into the hospital and the door slams shut, she is able to scream "HELP ME!"

It chilled me, and still does, because it perfectly captures all the dreams I have had--and probably many people have had--where I am desperately trying to scream in a horrible situation and I just can't. No voice, no sound is able to come out.

And R12, that is one of the most fucked-up things I have ever seen.

[quote]When the troglodytes in Bone Tomahawk strip the bloke, lift him up by his ankles and chop him in half from his balls down and his insides slop out. Then the cook and eat the carcass. That bothered me for a long time.

WTF?? Never heard of it.

In The Legacy when the woman goes swimming and then drowns due to the glass top being placed over it when she is underwater.

The Thing where it bites off that guy's arms

STOP DOING THIS THREAD EVERY YEAR!

THE OP WAS PROBABLY NOT "10 YEARS OLD WHEN I FIRST SAW BLAIR WITCH." HE'S JUST THE REDUNDANT THREAD STIRRER!

We already covered this subject plenty of times here ...

And here ...

And other places.

Either this is a retarded OP who doesn't know how to search before posting an OBVIOUS TOPIC, or he's the Redundant Thread Stirrer. The horror threads are full of a contrarian who just loves to bump old threads, repeat old threads and play Devil's Advocate because no one else will talk to his deranged, "on the spectrum" ass.

Anything with children (Children of the Corn, The Shinning, etc).

This!!!

I had just moved into a new apartment and every time I turned a corner I held my breath.

And I was in my thirties.

I remember being so terrified by the severed head scene in Jaws. It looks so phony when watching it now.

The one where the guy logged on to DataLounge.

The final hook scene in the original Hellraiser.

Carrie prom scene and her showdown with her mom in the finale with the knives. I come from a religious family.

r8 - the Ring got me too and movies generally don't scare me. I still won't watch that scene. Also the scene in Carrie when she's in the closet and that crucifix with the glowing eyes is just staring as the house is collapsing.

R6, Agreed. I was afraid to get in my car at night for weeks after seeing that scene.

I always check the backseat of my car before I step in the car.

The Screaming Woman was a TV movie of the week in 1972 starring our Miss De Havilland in a story originated by Ray Bradbury. She is a mentally unstable old bitty who goes to her estate to recuperate and stumbles upon a woman buried alive and she’s to arthritic herself to dig her up and everyone else thinks she’s crazy. She tries tricking a kid into doing it, but that doesn’t work and she goes house to house to get help, unknowingly running into the husband who clobbered her and put her in the ground.

This haunted me for many years, and I feared being buried alive and no one helping me. It emerged again in 7th grade where I wrote a paper about an nasty English teacher who buries students alive- I did not get a good grade on it.

The original Omen messed with me. I come from a religious family. This scene in particular did me in.

This!

As a little kid (maaany years ago) I somehow saw the original NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD and the scenes with people gnawing meat of the bone really upset me. Now I see it and it seems very tame.

Far worse when I was much older, I guess in the 00's, I saw the original foreign version of FUNNY GAMES and it practically traumatized me. It took me almost ten years to get that film out of my head and it still bothers me to think about it. Ugh.

The "dolphin sex" scene in SHOWGIRLS.

R32 Oh, definitely! I even had to move my bed around so it wasn't facing the window.

The entire movie “The Last House on the Left” was so horrific it actually took something from me. The scenes where they kidnapped the two girls and made them pee themselves before the killed them was so sick. The girls were just trying to buy some pot and they ran into these psychos that tortured and killed them in the woods. Wes Craven was tame by the time his “Freddie” movies.

R36

The movie was heavily censored to avoid an X rating.

The first girl who was knifed to death had all scenes of the killers disemboweling her and playing with her intestines.

^^^^^^ had all scenes removed of the killers disemboweling her

R37, 38, Wow, Manson family comes to mind. I love scary movies but that was too much for my psyche. I felt so unclean after watching it at 13 or so.

All of Hostel. That was a sick fuck movie

When I was about 12, I was babysitting and watched The Haunting with Julie harris - I did not sleep that night AT ALL.

Also, as an adult, I was jumping out of my skin the first time I saw Alien.

R15 - Kurt Russell is in it. You can find the scene quite easily but I wouldn’t recommend it.

R10 - not seen it but a friend did unknowingly and told me in numbed detail. The whole thing sounds utterly horrific.

When I was a kid the scene from Poltergeist where the paranormal researcher guy's reflection tears it's own face off fucked me up.

Dawn of the Dead - the 1978 version -was filmed at a mall in Monroeville just outside Pittsburgh. I was 12 and my Dad took me to see the movie at a theater near the mall. Those fucking blue zombies wandering through the place that was the center of my middle school social life traumatized the hell out of me. Nightmares for years. There was pretty brutal gore for 1978 but a head blown off by a shotgun about 15 minutes into the movie that had my stomach churning for the next 2 hours and my mind still fractured 40 years later.

Still a gory horror fan at 53 and my Dad at 79 (the same fucked up dad who took a 12 year old to Dawn of the Dead) still recommends some of the more grotesque things I've seen. I love that guy!

R34 is Randy Meeks.

R36 I'm glad that I've only seen the remake. It sounds tame by comparison.

The Mirror Has Two Faces

The Exorcist head spinning around scene, and really most of the scenes once Regan is fully possessed. I saw that movie when I was about 5 or 6, and it bothered me for a long time.

That creepy limo driver in "Burnt Offerings"

Back in the 70's, as a kid, there was this crazy older horror movie with a scene that scared the heck out of me. I always wanted to see it again, but have no idea of the name of it. The scene had a dead older lady sitting up in bed, grimacing into the camera. If anyone knows the movie, please name it.

All time: The bloody hand emerging from the embers of the burnt house clutching at Amny Irving at the end of "Carrie."

Most recently: A possessed Toni Collette floating in the air, sawing her head off with piano wire in "Hereditary"

R50, that sounds like the old Mario Bava film “Black Sabbath”. It is an anthology film with three separate stories and one of them involves the wrath of an old dead woman who is sitting up in a bed. Not sure if they used makeup or it was a dummy, but the old woman is literally the stuff of nightmares!

All of Tusk, which I realize was supposed to be a horror comedy, but which has prevented me from being able to even think about walruses without getting chills.

R52 Thank you! That's one reason I love DL.

The Fog (original, not the shitty remake) creeped me out. My friend and I watched it at a sleepover at his house. I literally asked his mom for a sleeping pill that night.

In more recent years, the film Cannibal, which is about real life cannibal Armin Meiwes. I literally had to stop watching it twice. But being the glutton for punishment that I am, I managed to finish it. The later 15 minutes of that movie are so completely disgusting, and I have no intentions of ever watching it again.

Dawn of the Dead traumatised me too, r45. I watched it when i was 13 and for years (decades, even) I'd have nightmares about either being surrounded by Romero zombies or being out at sea surrounded by great white sharks. I clearly had a morbid fear of being eaten alive. I still refuse to play zombie shooter games (although I've seen all the Romero zombie flicks).

Any scene in Pretty Woman.

The end of Angel Heart when Mickey Roarke is in the elevator descending into hell. That movie freaked me out!

R50

Is this old lady?

If so, it's "Black Sabbath"?

r59 freaked me out lol.

This one from a 1995 game with real actors. Possessed man kills five wives. So distressing. This one went out for being a fatty. :(

The Naked Prey where a man is hog-tied to a stick, completely encased in clay with a breathing hole, and spit roasted over an open fire while the natives cheer.

R8

Same. I saw that movie at a friend’s house when I was about 19. Went home and unplugged my tv.

Many of my most traumatic experiences with horror films were age-dependent; they affected me the way they did because I was young. Most wore off over time. Some notable ones:

[bold]Five Million Years To Earth[/bold] (1968), which I saw at a drive-in theater, seriously fucked me up at several points: the prehistoric skeletons, the Martian mummified corpses, the ship re-activating, the Major burning, etc.

[bold]Beneath the Planet of the Apes[/bold] (1970): the unmasking of the Mutants, James Franciscus being shot against the wall...

[bold]Skullduggery[/bold] (1970): Just the sight of the Tropis messed me up; as a kid, I always had a terror of primates (probably stemming from having been attacked in a park by someone's pet spider monkey, which climbed me, clawing and biting).

[bold]The Legend of Boggy Creek[/bold] (1972): Not scary today by any standards, but back then...

[bold]The Omega Man[/bold] (1971): the film's apocalyptic dystopian plot, the end of civilization by biowarfare, scared me to death. That, and Ron Grainer's soundtrack for the film. Music was often key as to whether a film scared me or not.

[bold]Chariots of the Gods[/bold] (1974): My dad took me to see this when I was ten, and it scared the piss right out of me, especially with the evocative Peter Thomas Orchestra soundtrack. Back then, the idea of extraterrestrials, especially of the ancient sort, scared the fuck out of me. ("Were the gods astronauts? Do you supposed that once upon a time... once upon a time... once upon a time...")

[bold]Where Have All The People Gone?[/bold] (1974): Another of those apocalyptic end-of-the-world things. The crazed dogs chasing them in the supermarket parking lot scarred me for life.

[bold]Demon Seed[/bold] (1977): OMFG, Fritz Weaver dragging that hideous, metal-coated embryo out onto the floor, peeling the shell off of it, and then baby Proteus opening its eyes and croaking, "I'm alive!" :D

Too many terrifying moments to list. Horror being my favorite genre, I gradually became inured and jaded. Films just couldn't scare me anymore. Probably the last film to seriously impress me would be the OP's, [bold]The Blair Witch Project[/bold] (1999).

Heather Mararazzo’s death scene in Hostel 2, where she’s hung upside down and slashed to death by a woman with a scythe below her who bathed in her blood. I saw it in theaters when it first came out, and as a longtime horror fan it was the first time I cringed at a death scene and said “I will never watch that movie again”. The whole torture porn genre of the 00’s never sat well with me. Slashers like Michael Myers and Jason are almost cartoon like. But she like Hostel 2 was just horrifically brutal and realistic. Years later I was working with Roger Bart and I randomly brought up Hostel 2 (for those who haven’t seen it, he’s the bad guy who our heroine takes revenge on at the end of the film by chopping off his dick and balls with a bolt cutter). Roger just laughed and said “yeah... not a lot of people bring that one up. That was ... interesting. A good paycheck too”.

The opening scene in the movie Cruising (1980) when the serial killer tied his trick face down to the bed. After sex, the killer took out a huge knife and torturously drove that knife all the way in to the guy's back over and over again. The blood curdling screams, feeling the unimaginable pain and helplessness by not being able to get away has haunted me ever since. I never watched that movie again. Still creeps me out to this day.

I also freaked on the first Aliens movie. I never get squeamish in a movie except for Cruising, but this one had me at the edge of my seat (literally). Finally, when that baby alien exploded out of the crew members chest, I jumped out of my seat and hustled my ass up the aisle and out the door! Now I look back and I just laugh at myself. I have seen it several times since and now it's like "meh".

R65 I second that. I love Heather M, of course from Welcome to the Dollhouse. I saw her and her gf once at an outdoor cafe. I said hello, expressed my admiration, and mentioned some other little known appearance. She was very sweet and kind. I really wanted to ask her why she would have done such a revolting role in Hostel 2, but did not want to make her uncomfortable.

But really, why would an actress agree to such a horrific, disturbing scene like that? It can't be for the paycheck. It is worse than pornography.

The crucifix scene in "The Exorcist" (1973). Absolutely shocking when I first saw it over 40 years ago, and it's still shocking today.

The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978).

R22, that looks like Cher.

I agree about the Heather Matarazzo scene. I have seen hundreds of horror and slasher films in my life and that was the first time I ever asked myself what the hell is wrong with me because I watch this stuff to be entertained. Other than that, I liked the mo ie and have seen it at least 10 times.

R32 I'm in my 40s and I can't watch that again. I have a tree about a foot outside my bedroom window and I keep that thing trimmed. The first time the branches scraped my window I freaked out.

R45 My mother dragged me to that when I was 9. I was a retail manager in my 20s and 30s and mainly worked in malls. Every time I'd change malls I'd think about where the safe place in the store would be, should a zombie apocalypse occur.

Pretty much every scene in Martyrs (2008).

Please don't watch it.

Martyrs was a nonsensical bore.

The Exorcist. I was 12 and begged to see it because I liked Linda Blair's TV movies. So my older sister and her bf took me. They laughed theough it but I was traumatized. Slept in the hallway outside my bedroom for a couple months because I didn't want to be alone in the dark (my family just stepped over me). And I had bad dreams.

The opening of “Ghost Ship” when the cable snaps and slices through the torsos of the passengers in the ballroom, and the WTF expressions on their faces during their last moments of consciousness, before their bodies split apart. Oh yeah - a little girl is also the only survivor, and she ends up stuck on the ship with all the dismembered bodies until she dies too. Messed me up big time.

r18, r19, r20 what is your problem dude? Why would I lie about how old I was when I watched the Blair Witch? Take some fucking meds and calm down freak.

The trailer for the Anthony Hopkins film Magic used to send me running from the living room when it came on.

^^Same here. Wasn’t it a creepy nursery rhyme or something?

Abracadabra I sit on his knee.

Presto chango and now he is me.

Hocus pocus we take her to bed.

Magic is fun we're dead.

R22 this scene, I swear I skipped a heartbeat.

The scene in The Innocents (the 1961 version) where Quint's ghost is looking in the window and laughing. I first saw this movie as a child and I've never forgotten it.

This

Not a movie but this is tv show was more frightening than any film

Oh this scene traumatized me as well.

The Hostel and Saw movies were just disgusting r65. Never scary or suspenseful or engaging, just violence for the sake of it.

I want to post another comment about Heather M in Hostel 2. She's a terrific actress and really gave a wonderful performance. I mean, I "know" the girl she was playing, if you get my point.

It's what made that sequence all the more disturbing and not easy to dismiss.

I have to ask a stupid question because I generally avoid horror movies...

What does R87 mean by he/she "knows" the girl she was playing?

R88 She was exactly like a close female friend I grew up with. Right down to the bipolar disorder. Heather could have modeled the character after my friend, so it was like watching her get tortured.

This thread is riddled with spoilers but the scene in House of the Devil where the main character's best friend gets it.

R78, R79, R80 - this is for you!

R89, oh, okay. Got it.

I'm a serious chicken shit about horror movies--especially ones made in the 70s and 80s. But that old lady flying outside the window of Salem's Lot is hilarious.

Cronenberg owns this thread. Shivers, Rabid, The Dead Zone with its ritualistic suicide, and just about every other movie he's ever done.

I saw this on the 4:30 movie (New York market) after school one day. Surprised it's rarely shown or mentioned anymore. Pretty good.

Also on during the 4:30 movie horror week. There were so many good made for tv horror movies. They seemed to often star Kate Jackson, Barbra Eden, Kim Darby and that child actress who did the voice of Lucy in peanuts. She never had a day off in the 70's.

Phantasm. I remember sneaking into the theater to see it when I was 12. I had nightmares about The Tall Man for weeks afterward.

I always found this scene from The Evil Dead freaky as hell!

This has everything DL could ask for. Silent movies, old Hollywood mansions, Kate Jackson, Natalie Wood's killer, Dorothy Lamour., Sylvia Sidney and home haunted by dead movie star, whose name almost sounds like Lorna Luft. It's hidden on youtube, but it can be found under 70's tv horror movies search. I watched it a year ago. Good rainy day movie.

The original Night of the Living Dead, when the little girl eats her father.

R98, thanks for posting.

(At 100) Thanks! One more you might like. . This one has Ted Bessel, 70's staple Sian Barbra Allen and Miss BETTE DAVIS. Spooked me so bad as a kid, I finally searched for it as an adult a few years ago. I remembered it with Joan Blondell, but it was Bette Davis. Subtract one mini-gay point.

All of you elderqueens who were traumatized by DAWN OF THE DEAD and the THE EXORCIST movies bewilder me.

The makeup and effects in those movies are SO FUCKING FAKE-LOOKING. I don't see how anyone could have taken them seriously back then. But I guess nobody had done things like that before and it was a more timid, Puritan and insulated era.

Yes, r65. That scene felt more like a snuff film, a Rob Zombie flick or one of the HELLRAISERS — where the purpose seems to be either to gross you out for prolonged periods of time or indulge someone's sadistic jollies rather than be scary or tell a story.

That's why it didn't scare me or gross me out. It was too fake and contrived.

The first HOSTEL was great. And notice Eli Roth directed it.

But everything that came later was garbage, including the Heather Mattarazzo one.

Nightmare on Elm Street and Silence of the Lambs both disturbed me I was young back then.

Hostel really scared me.

The rape scene in Pulp Fiction is terrifying.

That's not true, r68.

Both are thrilling action flicks about killers you could encounter in real life that challenge you to think about how you would react in a similar situation. The SAW movies are provocative food for thought about what constitutes justice and what justifies the means — the killer is as much a superhero as an outlaw, going after people who've done much worse. They're also great mysteries that require detective work from the characters and audience.

R107 Same with “American Me” which has a bunch of prison rape scenes, and the worst involves a large, serrated bowie knife.

And those damn skeletons!

Not a horror movie but that scene in Eighth Grade in the back seat of the car scarred me for weeks.

The decapitation scene in The Omen.

Friday the 13th Part 3 - when Chris has her nightmare at the end of Jason clawing at the window then bursting out the front door. Partly because he isn't wearing his hockey mask and partly because it's in the daytime yet still so chilling.

Also the beginning of The Final Chapter when they're collecting all the bodies from Part 3. Then they leave and it's pitch black and dead quiet for a few seconds. I just picture myself being there alone in the darkness.

R101, Bette's last speech at the end almost made me cry--even though it was total horror movie drivel.

She was great.

R101 That clip gave me the epiphany that Davis may have been Christopher Walken’s muse.

R97 I stupidly thought it was going to be a fairly cheesy movie with lame jumpscares. But when she started reading out those cards.....😥

R108 I never considered Jigsaw a hero.

Eli Roth is a homophobic jerk who won't cast gay men in his movies and he also seems to enjoy torturing women in all his films.

There were several scenes in Cannibal Holocaust that messed me up for a long time. There were the multiple real animal murders live on film. The most disturbing one is where a turtle gets its shell ripped off and the cast eats the insides. Also, multiple violent rapes and even one scene where a woman has her fetus ripped out of her womb and thrown into a river as punishment for adultery. What a fucked up movie.

The pole scene in Hereditary (and the close up shot of the next day).

The end scene of Hereditary.

The damn clown in the original Poltergeist.

The way the bodies look after Samara kills them in The Ring.

Exorcist, when Damien the priest asked the devil to come into him and then he jumped out the window. Good people don’t deserve that, maybe it saved Reagan, but I felt like his own faith didn’t save him.

Because faith should be able to save all of them,

Well I'm glad I haven't seen most of these films. So this is what has passed for entertainment for so many years. Well culture is a reflection of people's aspirations and fantasies so we pretty much have the society we want. It explains everything.

"Flora!"

Sixth Sense. The big reveal when Bruce Willis’s character realizes he’s dead and has been dead the whole time. It was right after my dad had died, and I pretty much lost it. That was a pretty bad choice of movie.

The ice skating scene from Curtains. Fast forward to the 5:11 mark.

^wtf is that lol...now I'm scared. Amy Adams?

R125 I just looked Curtains up. It has a really great tagline, "Six beautiful girls trying to get ahead... when the curtains fall, five will be dead."

For whatever reason, the last scene in (the first) Insidious messed me up. I used to routinely watch horror movies before then, but now I can't watch them at all.

The only time I can remember a horror movie going to far for me, is the brain eating scene in Hannibal. I regretted seeing the movie because of it, and can understand why Jodie Foster turned it down.

R128 I didn't enjoy the first scene from that movie lol

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The figure skating old lady from the Curtains trailer freaked me out.

When I was very young I went to a movie with my older brother. It was a science fiction movie (don't recall the title) and I remember a women, who was getting ready to go to bed, went to the window to close the curtains. Just as she closed the curtains a space monster suddenly appeared in the window. To this day I don't like to pass windows late at night for fear that something will be looking back at me.

When Shelley Duvall’s character in The Shining is racing around the hotel near the end of the movie and sees the ghosts dressed in various animal costumes. The music, the couple engaged in fellatio stopping, pausing, and turning to look at her.... Creeped me right out!

Does anyone remember the title of this movie? It might be a short story from an anthology, (like Creepshow) but all I remember is a small kid who has to look after his scary, old, bedridden grandmother and the suspense of him having to go and check in on her because she may be dead. I would love to watch this again if I knew the name of this movie.

R133 reminds me of The Gentleman from Buffy.

R135 It was an episode of the 1980's reboot of The Twilight Zone and the episode was called Gramma and it starred Barret Oliver.

I've added The Exorcist to my list on Netflix but i don't know if i can go actually go through with it. I like Rosemary's Baby and even that movie still makes me feel.....uncomfortable.

R137 Great thanks!

For R135...

I saw that man push the lady in a wheelchair down the stairs on TV as a tot and it freaked me out. When you thought TV was real.

How did you add The Exorcist on Netflix since it's not available on Netflix???

I was 8 years old when I saw Jaws 2 in the theater; I hadn't seen the first one, and Marge's death absolutely destroyed me -- she was the nice girl who took little Sean with her on the sailing excursion when his older brother Mike couldn't be bothered; then, to have it follow the ridiculous helicopter attack (even at 8 I knew that was stupid), I wasn't expecting something so horrifying.

Ichi the KIller - The human tempura scene, fuck

Audition - The 'kitti, kitti' scene - fuck

Takashi Miike does scary crazy shit very well

Havn’t read the whole thread but end of sleepaway camp anyone? Lol

Blair Witch was a POS movie

When Dirk Benedict and his hot ass got transformed into a king cobra in SSSSSSSSSSSSS. I was traumatized.

Mixed bag - The Descent (I am claustrophobic), Cliffhanger and Saboteur (heights - also the sexiness of Robert Cummings freighted little moi), Alien, The Exorcist, The Omen, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Nosferatu,

R140 thanks can't wait to watch!

[R147] The half man half snake at the carnival was creepy for a 1973 film. Poor Dirk the cobra was killed by a mongoose.

R142 it is for Australia.

R145 I haven't seen it but someone posted a photo of.....her. That is some terrifying shit.

r134, I agree about "The Shining" (1980). That is one of the creepiest scenes in horror movie history.

Did you notice the bare ass on the bear costume?

The Sentinel where the lead sees the corpse of her dead father in her apartment in the middle of the night. Terrifying!

R152 - No I completely missed that! Was Kubrick projecting ???

Carnival of Souls. SO scary!

Sleepaway Camp really messed me up at the time. I was about 8 or 9 when I saw it and the whole movie had this strange, sleazy vibe and some of the performances were so campy that it felt like a strange nightmare.

Suspiria and Demons messed me up, too. Those two movies feel a lot like nightmares, too.

Recently, Hereditary and Martyrs have done the same thing. These will most definitely be considered classics to future generations.

Martyrs was a nonsensical bore.

That ice skating woman in Curtains looks like Amy Schumer.

Exorcist III Anyone who saw the movie knows what scene I'm referring to.

Look up The Curse of The Doll People, it's more bizarre than scary but the premise is unique especially for 1961.

Tales From The Hood

R156 have you seen Ghostland?

The scene in the original The Fog where one of the female leads has turned her back on a corpse in the morgue and you see that corpse getting off the table and slowly moves towards her.

You all should link these to the youtube clips (if they exist).

I love that scene in The Fog, R162 Really creepy.

r145 I saw Sleepaway Camp in the theater and people were either shrieking or nervously laughing at the reveal ending. The curling iron in the vagina was lol gross.

[Quote] The curling iron in the vagina was lol gross.

The girl from the original Sleepaway Camp has a disturbing face...even when it isn't superimposed onto the body of a naked twink.

The entire movie Audition was a nightmare but this was the worst.

I've never seen Audition and I can't seem to find it streaming anywhere so could someone please breakdown the plot?

Thanks

While in middle school I watched the British horror film ‘To the Devil a Daughter’ & there’s a scene where a woman goes into labor and her legs are tied together - her stomach gets bigger and bigger ‘til it bursts.

I saw The Birds when it aired on Saturday Night at the Movies. I was about 7 years old and it scared the shit out of me.

I still don't like birds. No, no, no.

rank amateurs: we knew how to do horror

R158 "That scene" from Exorcist 3.

Another great scene from Exorcist 3.

R168 I'm too scared to click.

Many mentions of The Ring. I love supernatural horror and watch a lot of it, so I’m a bit jaded, but that movie is one of two that stayed with me for some time. I kept seeing that horribly surreal video every time I closed my eyes. Also, to this day, if I see an image where people’s faces are distorted in that swirly way, I think of The Ring and find it very disturbing.

The other movie – I know reactions to this were very mixed – was Paranormal Activity 1. I like the PA series generally, but that first film absolutely terrified me, and I don’t scare easily. The scene where Katie stands next to the bed, staring at Micah, while the video fast-forwards through a couple of hours totally freaked me out. That night, I could not sleep because I kept imagining someone was standing next to my bed, staring at me.

Sleepaway Camp-Judy's Death

Well I just yelled out watching Insidious Key movie on Showtime.

Lin Shaye was dreaming and that red faced demon pressed his face up against a window.

The scene from The Exorcist (the original) where the demonic statue appears as a silhouette made me stay a Christian for a decade. I was probably 6 or 7 when I watched that.

Look up a movie called The Beast Within, the transformation sequence is the stuff of nightmares...and bad special effects.

Well The Exorcist wasn't as scary as I thought it was going to be. I knew about the crucifixion scene, but not about poor Ellen Burstyn being forced to join in 🤢

This radically fucked me up, dude.

Recently, Hell House LLC. scared the daylights out of me. I normally hate found footage movies, but this one knows what it's doing. There's one scene early on where a character thinks their friend is dressed up like a clown and trying to scare them and...I can't even think about it without wanting to run home to mommy. Terrifying!

As a kid, the opening scene of Ghoulies freaked me out and disturbed me where the woman is tied up as that thing bursts from her chest. And this was PG-13! My parents had to qualms with me watching it. Some of those 70's and 80's PG/PG-13 movies were pretty crazy like Tourist Trap and Poltergeist.

I was a 10-year-old gayling when I first saw "Sleepaway Camp" (1983). I thought the creepiest part of the entire movie was Aunt Martha. She scared the hell out of me, with her overacting, her voice, and her mannerisms. And I could have sworn she was a man.

R184 looked more like a man than Angela.

R184 did you have a crush on Richard as well?

The Ring when the horse got spooked and jumped off the ferry.

Animals know.

That looks hilariously and obviously fake r188.

Aunt Martha really is the scariest part of the movie. As a kid, campy performances like that always creeped me out for some reason. I think it was the uncanny aspect. They looked like normal people and their behavior was almost natural, but just a little off.

Since the same, tired queens are going to repeat their lame fears EVERY YEAR WE DO THIS THREAD, I'll repeat my 2 cents:

THERE'S NOTHING SCARY ABOUT THE EXORCIST, its Part 3 nurse station, CURTAINS or SLEEPAWAY CAMP,. Those films were all FAKE-LOOKING, CHEAP CAMP. You should have been laughing your asses off. Only a truly gullible and unhip gayling now 100 years old would be intimidated by that dreck.

R191 has stated her boundaries. Easy, gurl.

The ghost of Roger Ebert has spoken. r191

R188 it still upsets me! That poor horse!

R191 the thread is titled “ messed you up the most” not scared you the most mary! Making you think wtf as a kid is messing you up!

Not horror per se, but; the episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer (titled ‘Afterlife’, iirc) in which Buffy Summers is dead and buried only her well-meaning friends resurrect her..without digging her up first. Cold half-zombified Buffy revives in the confines of an airless satin-lined coffin 6 feet underground and must claw her way out.

I saw this at about 8 years old and it gave me a kind of morbid dread. It’s worse than any gore or shock horror I’ve seen.

R196 that was a pretty cool shot.

However, [italic]this guy[/italic] still freaks me out.

The Comeback

R196/R197 Buffy dying for naught then coming back to life in such a ghoulish realistic manner was so terrifying because of who she was and what she represented.

Here is a young vibrant bubbly blonde American woman, one we got to know and love, who is tasked with saving the world. She seems to succeed and makes a noble sacrifice of her tragically short promising life to do so, but in short order everything goes to Hell and she is called back to do it all over again thus cheating her of the glory and peace and rest she richly deserved. And when she comes back to life she is a shell of her former self. Buffy believes she thwarts Hell, then her loved ones drag her back into it to prove her wrong.

It’s a PTSD case study in emotional horror, and lampshades desires us mere mortals have for immortality & reincarnation.

Anytime children were killed in a movie scared me for life. Little girl killed by the "Savage Bees". Little baby killed by "Tentacles". Baby eaten by rats in "Deadly Eyes".

The last three minutes of Chernobyl, Episode 2

Who played Aunt Martha in Sleepaway Camp? Is that Devon Green, who is Betty Bowers? I am too lazy to look up the credit.

Desiree Gould

R203 whoever she was, she did a great job at being creepy.

Remind r196 not to watch Ryan Reynolds in BURIED..

Poor r200.

She doesn't realize that Fox Television just wanted to make more money.

I can relate, r201. The scene where the biker gang kills the mother and baby in MAD MAX really disturbed me as a kid.

I didn't think killing babies just for the fuck of it was anything anyone would do.

I remember a scene in the remake of The Blob where a kid was eaten by the creature and pops out of the water all melted and screaming. That reminds me - the raft sequence in Creepshow 2. Horrifying! Those deaths just seemed agonizing.

The hospital scene from Dressed to Kill.

The best horror movie of all time is The Changeling from the 1970s with George C. Scott. It's hard to pick a single scene, but I know this one messed me up something fierce when I was just a kid.

"But who was holding my hand?" The Haunting.

Actually, the scenes that messed me up most were the old Alfred Hitchcocks they used to shop on Nick at Night in the 90s. There was this one with a doll that talked that was awful.

^^show, not shop

This thread made me want to watch Sleepaway Camp which I had actually never seen. Amazing. It’s on Amazon Prime along with the sequels. Are the sequels any good?

R206 Reynolds was great in that movie. And that ending 😧

R215 I hadn't either. I just watched it on youtube. Naturally, the comments were disabled lol. I bet the sequels aren't as good as the first, but I still want to see them.

The Sleepaway Camp sequels are a blast. They embrace the camp completely and feel more like a John Waters movie. Definitely Serial Mom vibes. Angela kills the campers and counselors she deems as immoral, annoying, or of shitty character. There are worse ways to spend an hour and a half.

R217 The sequels are bad but hilarious they don’t even pretend Angela is trans anymore ,I think Bruce Springsteen’s sister plays Angela.

I forgot to mention how much I enjoyed the fashion in Sleepaway Camp.

r198 I grew up with Buffy and that is still the scariest episode of all time to me! Even more than the Gentlemen.

r200 sums up why Buffy is basically one of the smartest, most well written TV shows of all time. The

R220 I hardly ever watch the hospital episode but I can manage Hush these days lol. I also didn't like in season 7 when Willow gets captured and a demon starts peeling her skin off and eating it 🤢 Oh and fuck whoever wrote this episode 👇

R219 The guy in the red shorts looks like Scott Baio on steroids

[quote] scene in the remake of The Blob where a kid was eaten by the creature and pops out of the water all melted and screaming.

I believe that was Jamison Newlander, best or at least better known as Alan Frog the teenage vamp-hunter in Schumacher’s homoerotic froth-schlock THE LOST BOYS. I had a crush on him as a Gayling.

So many scenes in Texas Chainsaw Masacre were absolutely horrifying. Marylin Burns performance was incredible. One of the many disturbing standout scenes was the dinner scene.

That dinner scene is fucked up. The door slam gets me too, with the music underneath.

They do mention Angela is trans in the Sleepaway Camp sequels. There's a brief bit at the beginning of the first sequel that mentions it, but I don't think it's brought up again. I always kinda thought it'd make more sense if Angela turned back into a boy after all the trauma as a way to heal and get back to normal since the girl thing was forced upon him/her by his crazy aunt.

R225 that door slam and the sound effects are terror inducing

One of my favorite scenes from Insidious.

R228 I remember seeing that for the first time and thinking it was such an ingenious scare. You think you're safe enough since the shadowy figure's outside of the house, but you don't expect him to do the impossible. That's such a great scare, and I still have trouble watching it again. So violating.

R224 the remake wasn't great but I could've done without the gun in her hooha scene.

R222 lol he does. Sadly there weren't a lot of cute guys in that movie.

The scene were that girl gave birth to a lizard baby in V was disturbing on so many levels.

Look at me Damian. It's all for you!

I don't think the Omen has aged well.

Chile anyone?

R231 what a bundle of joy!

R183 I stumbled across that binging B-movies on Amazon last Halloween. I also don't usually like found footage movies, but this one is surprisingly effective. The ending is trash, though.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974 - Family Dinner Scene

Dr. Lechter eating Ray Liotta’s sautéed brains from his head while he is alive.

Has anyone seen The Poughkeepsie Tapes?? The gifs of some scenes freak me out and I don't even know what's going on in them.

Martyrs was over 90 minutes of messed up scenes. What I love about it is that, if you go in blind, you have absolutely no idea where the film is going. I thought that was thrilling. You so rarely see that in films these days.

The rabbit giving the bear a blowjob in The Shining.

Bear on rabbit in The Shining was creepy.

Creepy

How is the bear costume guy sucking the other guy off with a mask on?

R243 It's Chinatown, honey

Just watched something called "Killing Grounds" and there's a scene where the main characters are walking away from a campground unaware that a dirty, bloody toddler whose family has been murdered is toddling about 50 feet behind them. Ttheres a scene later with the same toddler that made me gasp out loud.

When I was 5 years old (1981) my aunt took me to see "An American Werewolf in London". She covered my eyes during the nude scenes and sex scenes (okaaayyy) but all the gore?....nope. I had to watch it. I'm sitting there as the rotting corpse friend of the man who turned into a werewolf is talking to him in...a movie theater (I was scared). But the most terrifying scene that damaged me was the hospital scene--for so many reasons but also because I had to have surgery a few months later. My aunt is a schizophrenic sooooo she wasn't making good choices for me as a kid lol.

I learned about this film through a Siskel and Ebert show where they discussed slasher films, and how gratuitously violent they'd become.

I started to watch this, but at the point where he starts burning women alive, I thought, "This is too much. It's basically extreme BDSM masquerading as "film".

Ive seen that movie more times than I can count, R248. Which says something really disturbing about me.

August Underground 2 where they cut man's dick off and use this dick to rape a woman.

The Poughkeepsie Tapes is pretty freaky, the killer moves in extreme and flamboyant ways to freak out his victims in some Scenes. The found footage aspect is always disturbing to me.

R251 the gifs I saw were of some dude wearing a mask while some poor woman was tied to a chair.

Charlotte Poughkeepsie'd in her pants!

Don't Go in the House is a lot like Maniac. It's a grim, dour piece of exploitation and you feel filthy after you've seen it. One of the classic "feel bad" movies. It's well made, though, with a great lead performance.

[quote]Has anyone seen The Poughkeepsie Tapes?? The gifs of some scenes freak me out and I don't even know what's going on in them.

I saw it. It's overhyped.

The final scene from “Amelia,” the last story from The Trilogy of Terror movie (1975), scared the crap out of me.

R256 I watched that recently on Youtube. Karen Black was great. Although the second story was boring.