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post #1 of 158
7/24/07 at 2:59pm
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I Spit on Your Grave - The infamous "bath-tub" scene. Granted I'm all for that being done to any rapist/child-molester in real life. I just don't want to see it. *Shivers* Almost makes me never want to take a bath/shower with a woman ever again...almost!
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post #2 of 158
7/24/07 at 3:04pm
Signs. Birthday party. Still gets me.
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post #3 of 158
7/24/07 at 3:09pm
Poltergeist. Face ripping. Ick.
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post #4 of 158
7/24/07 at 3:12pm
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Originally Posted by Crow
Poltergeist. Face ripping. Ick.
Seconded.

Also, amatuer dentistry in OldBoy.

And the surgery in Balck Hawk Down...they don't show much of it, but just the description makes me think my insides are gonna fall out.
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post #5 of 158
7/24/07 at 3:20pm
That quick shot of Voorhees peering through the little window in the barn at the end of F13 III. Fucks me up each time.
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post #6 of 158
7/24/07 at 3:28pm
The Thing. The blood test. 'Nuff said.
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post #7 of 158
7/24/07 at 4:10pm
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Originally Posted by Crow
Poltergeist. Face ripping. Ick.
Thirded.

Also:

Pretty much anything in Jaws not set on land.

The nuclear destruction of Los Angeles in T2.

Fred Gwynne getting his Achilles tendon sliced with a scalpel in Pet Sematary (I never leave my ankles dangling over the bed because of this.)
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post #8 of 158
7/24/07 at 4:42pm
Marion in the mess of skeletons in Raiders.

JoBeth in the mess of skeletons in Poltergeist.

The Iraqi Prologue in The Exorcist.

The old receptionist nurse woman in Jacob's Ladder.

Jennet Clouston in Disney's Kidnapped.

Many of Tim Curry's moments in IT.
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post #9 of 158
7/24/07 at 4:47pm
Another moment from The Thing:



Never fails to give me the creeps.
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post #10 of 158
7/24/07 at 4:49pm
Also, the white-sheeted figure with the garden shears in Exorcist III. I nearly sheet myself the first time I saw it.

The first werewolf attack in An American Werewolf in London. It's so unrelentingly brutal... mostly due to the sound effects and Jack's screams.

Mrs. Palmer remembering that she saw Bob hiding at the foot of Laura's bed in Twin Peaks.
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post #11 of 158
7/24/07 at 4:52pm
This is probably a hold over from seeing it in the theater as a kid, but the part of E.T. when he gets sick and pale still makes me cringe.
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post #12 of 158
7/24/07 at 4:57pm
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Originally Posted by agentX
This is probably a hold over from seeing it in the theater as a kid, but the part of E.T. when he gets sick and pale still makes me cringe.
Totally.
I had major nightmares from "white ditch" E.T. from 1982-1986

Terrible.
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post #13 of 158
7/24/07 at 4:58pm
The last thirty minutes of Audition, even thinking about the last act of that film gives me the creeps.

I still maintain that Sadako coming out of the Television was fucking terrifying, in 1999.
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post #14 of 158
7/24/07 at 5:01pm
Ooh ooh ooh and the Sloth-guy-wakes-up scene in Seven.
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post #15 of 158
7/24/07 at 5:01pm
Seeing all the zombies coming ever closer to the entrance of the pen in Day of the Dead. That one used to bug the hell out of me watching that film on VHS- the zombies just come lumbering from the darkness. Damn.
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post #16 of 158
7/24/07 at 5:05pm
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The Dead Zone - When the Deputy Sheriff (revealed to be the town serial killer) opens his mouth...about to shove scissor blades down his throat.

Dawn of the Dead - The punk-biker (right after Peter shoots him off his motorcycle) being eaten alive by the zombies even though he fires multiple rounds at them.

Pan's Labyrinth - Ophila's pregnant mother bleeding all over the floor.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers - The ending (i.e. Our hero Matthew is no longer human!) Creepy as Hell...
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post #17 of 158
7/24/07 at 5:07pm
The scene in Return of the Living Dead when the Tarman bites into that guys skull. If I remember right, the sound effect is horrendously over-the-top, but as a kid all I could picture was the undead splitting my head open like a fortune cookie.
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post #18 of 158
7/24/07 at 5:29pm
For me, the hardest part of Day of the Dead to watch is when the army guy gets his head ripped off. It's a pretty standard gore scene, I suppose, but I just can't get over the sound of his screaming. It gets higher and higher until it makes this totally unearthly, inhuman sound as the vocal chords finally snap and the head comes off completely.

How about that part in The Fly when she gives birth to the maggot baby?

Oh yeah, and when I used to watch Beetlejuice as a kid, I always hid during the part when Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis are brought back in their wedding clothes and start falling apart.

Oh, and I don't know if this is really SCARY, but I just about lose my lunch in City of God when he has to choose between killing one of the two little kids. Now that is true horror.
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post #19 of 158
7/24/07 at 5:30pm
The end of Sleepaway Camp, where you discover (sweep for spoiler!) She's a HE!!!!

Saw it recently, still maks me cringe.
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post #20 of 158
7/24/07 at 5:36pm
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Originally Posted by Gary Sherman
How about that part in The Fly when she gives birth to the maggot baby?
No, for me, it's the scene where Brundel gives the guy a new arm joint while arm wrestling.

Oh, and the dog/hobo hybrid in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Lost my mind as a kid when I saw that for the first time.
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post #21 of 158
7/24/07 at 5:57pm
The monkey poking whats-her-bucket's neck with the needle at the end of Monkey Shines.

The car crash scenes in An American Werewolf in London. The actual werewolf stuff, doesn't faze me at all. But the dude going through the windshield and the other dude crunched between the bus and car just make me all sorts of squicky.
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post #22 of 158
7/24/07 at 6:02pm
The Shining -- The big wheel around the hotel and the twins appearing.

Lost Highway -- Robert Blake pops up to tell Bill Pullman that he's in his house right at that moment...and he is!
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post #23 of 158
7/24/07 at 6:06pm
For me, the transformation scene in American Werewolf in London never fails to make me squirm. The combination of sound effects (the popping of bones, the hair breaking through the skin), visual effects, and David's pained screams just add up to one incredibly disturbing and uncomfortable scene.

Also gotta second Ophelia's pregnant mother bleeding like a stuck pig in Pan's Labyrinth. God, that would be awful.
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post #24 of 158
7/24/07 at 6:11pm
AMERICAN HISTORY X. Curb stomp.

Also: the alien from the ALIEN saga is just something out of my nightmares. I still have recurring dreams about it.
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post #25 of 158
7/24/07 at 6:16pm
There's this scene with fishhooks in Kim Ki-Duk's The Isle that I watched once and can't bear to see again.
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post #26 of 158
7/24/07 at 6:17pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson
Lost my mind as a kid when I saw that for the first time.


Agreed.
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post #27 of 158
7/24/07 at 6:24pm
Oh yeah...Oldboy. Scissors. That's all I'm saying.
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post #28 of 158
7/24/07 at 6:25pm
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Originally Posted by The LD
Signs. Birthday party. Still gets me.
Glad to hear someone else thinks this. Everyone I've talked to pretty much hated that movie, but that part was scary as hell.

This is really old and pretty childish, but to this day, I can't watch the scene in the Wizard of Oz where Auntie Em turns into the Wicked Witch in the crystal ball. Just the way she starts screaming instead of laughing, and the way the camera zooms right into her face - it's just always terrified me. I can just barely take the screaming laughter, but I can't look at her face. I always have to turn away. I remember reading an interview with Margaret Hamilton, and she said that nearly every adult she met who had seen Oz as a child told her that that scene, more than any other, gave them nightmares. And she said something to the effect of, "Well of course it did. Imagine the person you love the most in the world gradually turning into this monster right in front of you, and you're trapped." Apparently, in real life, she was a very sweet lady, and she said that she always apologized to the people who told her she scared them so badly.
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post #29 of 158
7/24/07 at 6:51pm
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Originally Posted by Supremo
Lost Highway -- Robert Blake pops up to tell Bill Pullman that he's in his house right at that moment...and he is!
Any moment Robert Blake is on screen in this is a moment that will always freak me out.
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post #30 of 158
7/24/07 at 9:37pm
Shining. The guy with the bear suit.
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post #31 of 158
7/24/07 at 10:24pm
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Originally Posted by agentX
This is probably a hold over from seeing it in the theater as a kid, but the part of E.T. when he gets sick and pale still makes me cringe.
He looks like my balls after I put Gold Bond on them.

Anyway, for me it's probably the fucking blue elephant from RETURN OF THE JEDI.
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post #32 of 158
7/24/07 at 10:40pm
That lady laughing herself to death on TV in Batman.

Jack Nicholson's saggy breasts in The Crossing Guard.
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post #33 of 158
7/24/07 at 10:52pm
In what may be the creepiest scene ever played in broad daylight: Michael Myers staring up at Jamie Lee Curtis from behind the swaying laundry line in her backyard.
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post #34 of 158
7/24/07 at 11:55pm
I kinda had a fear of aliens in my youth that still carries over a bit today.

Yoda in the Empire Strikes Back after Luke tells him "I'm not afraid"

THe puppet just looks menacing and Frank Oz's voicework and the delivery of
"You will be.... you WILL be....." still creeps me out to this day.

The long limbed uber alien at the end of Close Encounters of the Third Kind still gives me the willies too.


No creatures arms and legs should be that long.....
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post #35 of 158
7/25/07 at 2:57am
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Ooh ooh ooh and the Sloth-guy-wakes-up scene in Seven
Doesn't get me as much as the reveal of the "attachment" used when the guy was forced to fuck/kill the prostitute.


My top choice would have to be Jared Leto shooting into his arm the last time in Requiem for a Dream.
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post #36 of 158
7/25/07 at 3:49am
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Originally Posted by Sharpel007
Doesn't get me as much as the reveal of the "attachment" used when the guy was forced to fuck/kill the prostitute.
You know what else will always freak me out? Watching Se7en with my mom one lazy afternoon and having to explain to her exactly what happened to the "Lust" victim. And it was on that day that the term "Killdo" was born.
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post #37 of 158
7/25/07 at 3:59am
Alien. You know what scene I'm talking about. Fucking freaked me out, even with seeing Alien 2 beforehand. That damn thing skittering across the table has to be one of the biggest WTF scenes ever put on film.
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post #38 of 158
7/25/07 at 5:32am
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Originally Posted by Ali Mohamed
Alien. You know what scene I'm talking about. Fucking freaked me out, even with seeing Alien 2 beforehand. That damn thing skittering across the table has to be one of the biggest WTF scenes ever put on film.
The chest burster has become such a cinema classic that it kind of gets taken for granted now. But back when that first film came out, that was some fucked up, much-discussed shit. Between the prosthetics and Hurt's performance, it gave people nightmares for years.

And speaking of back in the day, The Exorcist: the head-turning was one of the creepiest things I'd ever seen. It still gives me gooseflesh.
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post #39 of 158
7/25/07 at 5:37am
Ernest Goes to Camp - Finger.Nails.On.Chalkboard.
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post #40 of 158
7/25/07 at 5:40am
That's a pretty good description of the Ernest movies in general, really.
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post #41 of 158
7/25/07 at 5:40am
Oh God, we have to stop talking about it.

(assumes fetal position)
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post #42 of 158
7/25/07 at 6:08am
I was going to say the scene in Maximum Overdrive where the kid gets run over by a steamroller, but I just watched that scene on youtube, after not seeing it for many years, and...I kinda chuckled.

Ah, hell, here it is anyway:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYwOf...%3Fvid%3D15460


Honestly, any scene involving the death of a kid always gets to me. Unless, apparently, they are being steamrolled.
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post #43 of 158
7/25/07 at 11:58am
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Originally Posted by FreeRobotSex
He looks like my balls after I put Gold Bond on them.
I can't think of anything freakier than that.

But seriously, you should see a doctor about that...
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post #44 of 158
7/25/07 at 12:34pm
Two from Night of the Living Dead that grip the shit outta me - the "execution" (I don't know how else to describe it) in the basement and the very end.

Also, damn straight about American History X. Just horrible. Its the moment when his teeth touch the curb that you realise just how horrible its going to be. Shuddering now.

And I've gotta say the fire extinguisher in Irreversible. Yes, its more gruesome than most of the things in here, but it is just horriobly uncomfortable to watch, yet absolutely gripping horror at the same time.
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post #45 of 158
7/25/07 at 12:54pm
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Originally Posted by Amphibatron
I was going to say the scene in Maximum Overdrive where the kid gets run over by a steamroller, but I just watched that scene on youtube, after not seeing it for many years, and...I kinda chuckled.

Ah, hell, here it is anyway:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYwOf...%3Fvid%3D15460


Honestly, any scene involving the death of a kid always gets to me. Unless, apparently, they are being steamrolled.
There is so much greatness in that 30 seconds, from the fact that the ground is strewn with the bodies of Little-Leaguers who've been massacred by a vending machine, to the one kid's bicycle seeming to have grown sentient too and bucking him off, to the kid then getting flattened by a goddamn steamroller, to the other kid deciding to flee on his own bike anyway.
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post #46 of 158
7/25/07 at 2:03pm
I'll also throw in Sister Zelda scrabbling towards the camera while shrieking, "I'm coming for you, Raaaaccchhhellll."
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post #47 of 158
7/25/07 at 2:20pm
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Originally Posted by Schwartz
There is so much greatness in that 30 seconds, from the fact that the ground is strewn with the bodies of Little-Leaguers who've been massacred by a vending machine, to the one kid's bicycle seeming to have grown sentient too and bucking him off, to the kid then getting flattened by a goddamn steamroller, to the other kid deciding to flee on his own bike anyway.
Which occurs while a monster rock riff is playing in the background. Awesome.
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post #48 of 158
7/25/07 at 2:54pm
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Originally Posted by sackley
And I've gotta say the fire extinguisher in Irreversible. Yes, its more gruesome than most of the things in here, but it is just horriobly uncomfortable to watch, yet absolutely gripping horror at the same time.
The first time I watched that, I almost vomited. Part of that is the crazy camerawork and part is the guy's head slowly being crushed in. That whole segment is what that movie really ought to be known for.
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post #49 of 158
7/25/07 at 2:58pm
I concur. That, and the fact that it forced me to use the word "horriobly".
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post #50 of 158
7/25/07 at 6:39pm
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Originally Posted by agentX
But seriously, you should see a doctor about that...
My balls shouldn't look white and powdery when I put Gold Bond on them?
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