I have no doubt that everyone could come up with a movie scene that literally scared the bejesus out of you. Real heart-stoppers. We’ve narrowed some of the best of them down to these few. Which made your heart skip a beat or two.
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of all things the ending of Friday the 13th pt 2
Guy and the girl, barring against Jason at the door, open it to find it’s the cute little dog missing since the beginning of the film.
Only to have that f**** jump through head first in that window behind him.
I was in fourth grade watching it at a sleepover on HBO. To prove ‘how not scared I was’ i sat about six inches from the tv with my back resting on the side of a couch. I jumped so hard I did a black flip over the couch and onto my broken collarbone.
Please, when Kermit the frog jumped out of Kane’s abdomen I laughed and nearly walked out of the theater. Even looking at it now i still laugh. The flashing strobe lights though the whole movie also gave me a head ache and was a cheap overly gimmicky to cover up bad set design. The only thing missing was the monster singing “it’s tough to be green”,or grayish.
Oddly enough, the movie Alien came in SECOND as far as I was concerned. If you want to talk about a movie with “scare you out your wits” and heartstopping terror it would have to be John Carpenter’s “Halloween.” I didn’t sleep for a week after watching that movie!!!
Not one scene .. but the movie ALIEN is the ONLY movie that scared me as an adult. I *seriously* considered leaving the theater because I knew I was getting f***ed up. This was more a horror film with SF than it was a straight SF film. PS .. I saw in on the first day of release, in a theater .. not at home on video .. BIG difference.
The Hannibal moment might have been more shocking on film had I not read the book years before seeing the film. The imagination is a far better creator of horrific imagery than any adaptation could be.
Same thing with Cujo. While the movie had its moments it was no where near as unsettling as the book.
As wuzey as this may sound, I found the original 1968 version of Night of the Living Dead quite frightening the first time I saw it soon after its debut. I was an adult, but it was the first real zombie movie and that gritty black & white of the film along with the fact it was shot in such a cold documentary style made the impact greater for me at the time. Also, Romero gave the audience such a sense of hoplessness in that film that it was visceral. Of course watching the same film now some 40-plus years later it is pretty mundane and even comical in spots. How jaded and numb to terror & violence have I become?
There are a lot of “oh gross” moments, but nothing that you can really call shocking. Maybe I am just too jaded?
For me it was a scene in Jaws. Roy Schieder was bailing out the chum and the shark jumped out of the water behind him. You just had the feeling it was going to happen but when it did, you nearly crapped yourself. Granted, I was only about 6 or 7 then but still. I also ran lke a little girl when the donkey came out of the corn field o the opening of HeeHaw.