My top 20 or so scary images would be from Eraserhead, with the leads being Jack Nance spitting out that giant wormlike thing into a puddle, and that horrific mutant baby thing.
Good luck. Try not to kill people. Hands! Hands!
Willow ,'Storyteller'
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Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 23, 2005 6:06:25 am PDT #8116 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Atropa - Oct 23, 2005 2:14:04 pm PDT #8117 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
In the last few minutes of The Blair Witch Project, when you see Mike standing in the corner. Don't ask me why, but just thinking about that scene freaks me out.
§ ita § - Oct 23, 2005 2:17:44 pm PDT #8118 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Chris Nolan talks, mostly about Batman.
... this was the tricky thing to really try and nail with Batman Begins as opposed to previous incarnations?is the difference between him and a common vigilante, the Punisher or Charles Bronson in Death Wish
Gris - Oct 23, 2005 2:19:14 pm PDT #8119 of 10002
Hey. New board.
The Shining. There are about 10 scenes that screw with me, but the one that's getting me right now is the boy tricycling down the hall, and turning the corner to see the ghost twins. *shiver*
The girl coming out of the TV in The Ring is definitely a good one.
Carrie's closeup in the prom climax, after the blood falls and right before hell breaks loose.
The first glimpse of the alien in Alien.
Jars - Oct 23, 2005 2:42:30 pm PDT #8120 of 10002
Sadaka (I think that's her name) coming through the tv in Ring, definitely. I've never seen the American version though, so that could be creepier.
The movie that kept me up nights when I was a kid was When the Wind Blows. Nuclear holocaust! Cartoons! Public ignorance! Government lies! What's not to scare an eight year old kid?
Anne W. - Oct 23, 2005 3:34:25 pm PDT #8121 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
As a kid, seeing the Wicked Witch of the West melting into a puddle scared the bejeezus out of me.
Lots of the visuals in Jacob's Ladder freaked me out, but it was an audio cue and following reaction that was the most frightening. The Tim Robbins character seems to finally have broken out of an increasing spiral of hallucinations involving demons, monsters, etc., and he's lying in a hospital bed explaining to his wife how it's all over now, etc., when a mocking voice from off-screen says "Dream on." Robbins then turns to face the camera (and the viewing audience) as if turning to the source of the voice, and the look of fear, dread, and despair on his face is breathtaking. Freaked my shit big time.
Scrappy - Oct 23, 2005 3:34:36 pm PDT #8122 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Just saw Where the Truth Lies, Egoyan's new movie. SO SO SO bad. It was nice to see my Boyfriend Colin Firth playing something other than handsome well-mannered guy. He was skeevy and scary and very good. Kevin Bacon, fabulous. Alison Lohman was the core character of the film and she was horribly, horribly watch from the hall bad. I've seen her give good performances before, so I'm gonna blame Egoyan for this one.
DavidS - Oct 23, 2005 3:50:15 pm PDT #8123 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The first glimpse of the alien in Alien.
Mmm, I'd say the scene in Aliens when they've locked themselves down into a room and they're tracing the aliens and realize they've breached the perimeter, and they can't figure out how and then they poke up through the dropped ceiling/vent and you get this nightmare vision of onrushing aliens clambering toward you at high speed? Yeah that one.
Cashmere - Oct 23, 2005 3:52:56 pm PDT #8124 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
Most of the scenes in Arachnophobia freak my shit right out.
Lilty Cash - Oct 23, 2005 4:15:24 pm PDT #8125 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
In the last few minutes of The Blair Witch Project, when you see Mike standing in the corner. Don't ask me why, but just thinking about that scene freaks me out.
Yup. It's the only thing that scared me about that movie, but it gives me the wiggins big time.
The thing standing on the roof of the barn in Signs.
The last seconds of Pet Sematary where the wife picks up the knife off the table and starts to swing. (That one's left over from childhood for sure- there's scarier imagery in there, but that's the vision that sticks with me.)
When the spiders all come out of the trees in Harry Potter.
Samara coming out of the tv in The Ring and the way the woman crawls down the stairs in The Grudge.
The last shot of Night of the Living Dead.
I watch an awful lot of horror movies, so I'm sure I'm missing a ton.