Creepy movie moments that just won't leave your head! We all have them. Even though we can differentiate between fact, fiction, reality, and Hollywood back drops .....there are still movie scenes that will forever be with us. Like the infamous shower scene in Psycho - which to this day freaks my stuff out, in so much as, I have a glass block walk in snail shower. I see it all, no surprises! Also key point in those stick-with-you-forever-scenes is the music that goes with it. In this movie, it was Bernard Herrman's music that has been repeated hundreds of times and when I hear it, I instantly visualize the shower scene. *I'm damaged now!*
So what movie scene has stuck with you over the years....decades?!


Update! I watched one of the creepiest movies I've *ever* seen yesterday, though I didn't expect it to be so unnerving - the Machinist, with Christian Bale, directed by Brad Anderson. It's about a machinist who hasn't slept in over a year who begins to lose touch with reality (but perhaps not for the reasons you'd assumed). Sounds interesting but not frightening, but I swear, I had to pause the thing multiple times because it felt vaguely like being slowly stabbed with some kind of corkscrew - psychologically, anyway. You just feel so awful for two hours, jeez.
There's a fine line separating creepy, scary and gross - one of the 'creepiest' movies I've ever seen is 'The Tenant' (or Le locataire) by Roman Polanski. I'll probably end up giving away the plot if I describe it, but it's basically about a man who moves into the apartment of a woman who attempted suicide who starts 'absorbing' her personality. Which, needless to say, is not a very pleasant one - given that she jumped out a window and crashed through a glass roof.
You'll know what I mean after the first twenty minutes - one particularly creepy/memorable scene shows the woman in a full body cast, screaming - all that's visible of her is a black hole in her face. Shudder. Who knows what Polanski was thinking. I recommend you watch it if you want to be deeply disturbed. Part of the reason this film's so unsettling is that it's so subtle, it isn't histrionic or overdone, just damned weird.
As for the previous posts - those twins are CREEPY. But what creeped me out most in 'The Shining' were those montages with all the dead people, particularly the one involving that man with the figure in the dog mask in the hotel room. Scared the hell out of me.
My Top Creepiest Movie Moments:
Se7en (Seven)
The Sixth Sense
The Blair Witch Project
The Pet Sematary
Halloween
No other scary movie villian got under my skin quite like Michael Myers.
Child's Play
Misery
Dawn of The Dead (2004)
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
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For me, it wasn't the shower scene of Psycho. It was the ending... After I saw it, I sat there for 10 min with chill bumps when I saw just how deep the characters ran.... Still my favorite movie.
I think 80% of Hostel falls under creepy movie moments...
like when he sliced the back of his ankles....... and then started walking...... ewwwwwwwww
See I really really hate horror movies. Well about about 6 months ago I walked in to catch just a part of SAW 2 and well it left me with nightmares and totally freaked me out......
That was the part I saw - I watched like all of 5 mins of it and had to leave the room - yep I'm a horror movie chicken for sure! I hate to say clicking on this thread may end up making me have dreams tonight - ugh
The Shining has to be one of the creepiest movies ever! The little girls...
"Come play with us, Danny..."
And this horrifying scene:
PS- That clip from Trainspotting is disturbing on so many different levels. Fantastic movie though.
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I'm going to have to agree with you on this one.. the lady in the bathtub is still scarred into my mind.. The person in the bunny costume on the bed is another very 'creepy' scene..
i'm thinking this face alone does it for me
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Anyone remember the movie Trainspotting?:
That's a great movie. Lots of funny/disgusting heroin filled moments. The bad-trip withdrawl baby on the ceiling is freaky, but when they find him dead in the crib its almost worse...
any type of movie that has people who can rotate their head 360o and climb up walls and ceilings, totally freak me out. nothing is more wicked than that. it's just fricken' wrong ...in so many dimensions. *amen*
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um no. but that little clip is totally freakin my beans.
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hellraiser 2
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I saw the original Carrie at the theater on opening night. The end where Amy Irving's character has the dream sequence - walking along the sidewalk, stopping at the burned lot where Carrie's house once stood.
She reaches down to the rubble to lay some flowers down and that BLOODY ARM pops up and grabs her! The whole theater screamed. I had to sit and calm myself for 10 minutes before I could get up and leave.
anthony hopkins is by far my favorite actor. but i have to say, after silence of the lambs, he is forever Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter. and this movie creeped me beyond ever watching the sequels.
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i love that movie. its fricken scary but he is such a great actor.
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okay - no matter what the movie is, things like this trip me the ef' out: Poltergeist
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awww.. please no exortcise (how ever u spell it) pictures!!! scared the crap out of me... eveytime i get scared i picture that girls face!! even at night.. i never got over that movie... did i mention im afraid of the dark!!! eik!!!
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house of wax!

i just watched it for the first time last night and it was pretty creepy.
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the exorcist
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Oh dear Lord! That freaked me out Tuna! That movie has to be one of the worst/best scary movies ever. It never fails to get a scream out of me.
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This thread freakin scared me...so I was thinking I'm going to post a happy though pic, so I did a search for it on photobucket and got this!! LMAO! More like scary!
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I think that's the scariest image yet! Lol.
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*edit: Sorry I forgot to add the name of the movie
The Ring
The movie The Exorcist always manages to give me that, looking over your shoulder for a demon, feeling. There are so many creepy scenes but the one where Regan (Linda Blair) does the spider walk down the stairs, is one of the worst. I can't even watch it without half covering my eyes.
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yeah another creepy scene which I won't copy here, is what she does with a crucifix!
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oh yes, let's not forget this scene:
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OMG! OMG! OMG!!!! You Freakin scared me with that one 2na....But i can't help but look....lol, oh the irony
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OMG! I can't believe you posted that pic! I love/hate that movie, my stairs kinda look like those....ahhhhh!!!
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LOL! Call it payback for posting that picture of the girl from The Grudge. Until your post, I had never actually seen her face. I'm not kidding. I always shut my eyes when they showed it! You scared 10 years off my life! Hahahahaha.
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haha! They are ALL scary I try to not look every time I come into this thread..... I'm going to use a night light tonight, lol, I'm soooo kidding!
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OMG, I always look under the comforter to make sure the scary looking girl from the grudge isn't there....scary!
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I think shes kinda hot, personally.
the grudge was so freaky. my other half would make that sound for days after watching it and it would just freak me the ef out.
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