Movie scenes that freaked you out.

[Gingerbread Demon]

What are the movie scenes that freaked you out, made you jump, get terrified, or just plain scream out as they were so unexpected or shocking?

Here's one I found recently again after getting the DVD. It's from a 1998 movie called "Virtual Obsession" based on the novel Host about people who want to download their brain into a computer. Nowhere near as dark as the novel which I have read but still this scene is rather unique in a movie as far as I know. Just to give some background the lead character is a scientist trying to create consciousness in a machine. He has a fling with a female scientist who is dying and wants to use herself as a guinea pig in the experiment. Anyway for some reason the guy becomes the legal guardian of the woman's body and she wanted herself frozen for a time when they might be able to cure her and revive her after the download as she knew she would die. Complications ensue when the coroner wants an autopsy on the body but they are able to take the head so the guy much to the disappointment of his wife takes the head which she finds later frozen in a freezer in the basement. The cryogenic tank had developed a fault. The freezer was temporary storage.

Anyway to cut this short the wife finds the head, husband and friend return with new freezing cylinder, and wife is holding the head then walks out to front porch and throws it into the air. Head then sails across the sky and smashed on the road in a billion pieces.

Screencap of the whole scene.... It's just bizarre.

 

[J.T.B.]

^ Never seen it, but that does indeed look freaky!

There have been a few, but one comes to mind: The ending sequence of one of my favorite movies, 2001, always kind of gave me the willies. In the sequel 2010, when Dave appears to Dr. Floyd it gets pretty eerie. But when it cuts to Roy Scheider and he gives his line and it cuts back to Dave and he is the star child floating there... I just wasn't ready for that, I can still remember a kind of overload buzz going off in my head and just turning to ice in the theater seat.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The Ceti Eel scene in ST II.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

^ Never seen it, but that does indeed look freaky!

I thought it was pretty well done for what it was. The head was supposed to be frozen from a cryonic container so when it hits the ground it just shatters... The movie was like the grandchild of Transcendence. Lots of similar ideas.

 

[DonIago]

The chest burster scene in Alien. I haven't seen the whole thing since I was exposed to that.

Of course, I was 5 at the time and sitting 6" from the screen, as you do when you're that age.

Oh! I just showed friends Peter Jackson's King Kong, and they weren't too happy about the insect pit scene. I've seen the film multiple times myself and that part still makes me squirm.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

The chest burster scene in Alien. I haven't seen the whole thing since I was exposed to that.

Of course, I was 5 at the time and sitting 6" from the screen, as you do when you're that age.

Oh! I just showed friends Peter Jackson's King Kong, and they weren't too happy about the insect pit scene. I've seen the film multiple times myself and that part still makes me squirm.

OMG those two are bad. The scene in Alien made me jump when I saw it for the very first time. Plus the attack on Lambert.

 

[kathykit]

What are the movie scenes that freaked you out, made you jump, get terrified, or just plain scream out as they were so unexpected or shocking?

These photos already freaked me out
Another I remember that is Resident Evil. I love zombie movie but actually really scary!
When the big boss appear, just really make me shocked!

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

These photos already freaked me out
Another I remember that is Resident Evil. I love zombie movie but actually really scary!
When the big boss appear, just really make me shocked!

I didn't mean to freak you out Kathykit

 

[USS Firefly]

I was 8 or 9 when I watched Terminato, and when the terminator walks for the first time in skeleton form towards the door to catch Sara, great stop motion and much better than most CGI

 

[The Laughing Vulcan]

I must have been 5 or 6 when I saw Beneath the Planet of the Apes. Bad decision on my parents' parts allowing that. That scene where the mutants all rip off their faces to worship the Omega bomb was bad enough, but at the end of the movie, Taylor activates the bomb, ending the world. I didn't sleep that night I can tell you.

 

[Greg Cox]

I must have been 5 or 6 when I saw Beneath the Planet of the Apes. Bad decision on my parents' parts allowing that. That scene where the mutants all rip off their faces to worship the Omega bomb was bad enough, but at the end of the movie, Taylor activates the bomb, ending the world. I didn't sleep that night I can tell you.

My folks wouldn't let me see that movie when it first opened, since I was only nine or so, but the Gold Key comic-book adaptation still freaked me out!

Meanwhile, COUNT YORGA, VAMPIRE was the first GP-rated horror movie (*) I ever saw. It hasn't aged terribly well, but it literally give me nightmares as a kid. Two scenes in particular:

1) The bit where the hero finds his semi-vampirized girlfriend eating their pet cat.

2) The shock ending, which is cliche now, but still carried a punch back in 1971.

* Yes, there was a brief period when the rating was "GP," not PG.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The first three Hellraiser movies, particularly the third.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Not quite up to par on some of the ones already posted, but there's an early scene in The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother' in which Marty Feldman bugged his eyes out, which was something I found very creepy in my early life and it wasn't until much later that I actually ended up watching the movie because of that very scene. I found it unsettling even then.

 

[sojourner]

You'd run screaming from Young Frankenstein then!

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

You'd run screaming from Young Frankenstein then!

OMG that was one of the funniest movies I have ever seen......

 

[Greg Cox]

By coincidence, I was rewatching "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" last night, for the first time in ages. I remember that the banshee and the "death coach" in that movie really creeped me out as kid . ....

 

[DonIago]

^I remember watching that movie at an elementary school movie night! I barely remember the banshee and death coach at all in terms of how they appeared...on the other hand, that I have remembered them at all probably speaks volumes.

I remember being a bit creeped out by parts of "The Black Cauldron" and "The Last Unicorn" when I saw them in theaters as well.

 

[od0_ital]

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - I still hate the effects of Donovan's rapid aging when he chose poorly.

Hannibal - the part where the pigs start eating the dude. That almost made me vomit in my own living room.

 

[Balok's Decoy]

One of the first that comes to my mind is in an otherwise bad movie: Annabelle. The first scene with the Helter Skelter-esque home invasion stuff scared the shit out of me. Ever since I was a kid the thing that freaked me out more than anything was home invasion. So, that scene was rough for me.

Doesn't help that the other night someone tried to break into our house.

 

[DarthTom]

Exorcist III wherein the old woman pulls out surgical sheers and attempts to behead the young woman. I had to walk out of the theater.