I can no longer remember which scenes in particular from Poltergeist freak me out the worst.
I re-watched this recently, and found that it was annoyingly non-scary for about 7/8 of the movie (also, too long and overdramatic) and then suddenly totally rocked for the next, like, 3/32 of the movie, then had a really bad last 1/32. Or so.
The "chairs put on the table" scene was freaky, I guess, but
immediately
de-freakied by the mother-character's total acceptance of it, and
experimentation
with the ghost. Dude. Just be freaked.
And that slasher flicks don't scare me, which is probably why I don't really like them.
They don't scare me long term, but they make me jump sometimes. Also, I love them (at least really good ones) but not because of the scary - I just like the beautiful formula. Watching Halloween, Friday the Thirteenth, and Scream one after the other is like an exercise in cinematic consistency across three decades.
After watching 28 Days Later, despite the tag ending and that it was 1am, my roommate and I sat on his bed for an hour, trying to convince ourselves that not only were there no zombies outside, but that they had no way of getting into our third floor apartment.
No specific images come to mind, as I think I've sort of blurred the details for my own sanity, but something about that particular brand of zombies freaked. me. out.
Scariest movie experience: seeing SUSPIRIA at 13 years old in a theater. First 15 minutes scared the carp (I meant to type crap, but the typo is making me laugh, so I'ma gonna leave it) out of me. Nothing quite as bad happens in the rest of the movie, but everytime that music started kicking in I'd dive under the seat.
Pretty much jaded me for life. Some movies since have
disturbed
me more, but nothing full-on put me under my seat like that movie.
For some reason, zombies, vampires, Frankenstein's Monster, mummies, and most other monsters don't scare me. But werewolves freak my shit right out.
Company of Wolves. When they're coming thru the window? Holy hell.
My scare-o-meter standard will always be Carnival of Souls. The grinning white face of the ghoul floating by the window never fails to scare the living daylight out of me. Oh, and that carnival dance of the dead and the creeeeepy organ music! Brrrrr.
Aliens are what freak me out the most. There's a family story where I woke my parents up at three in the morning convinced I was going to be abducted and experimented on. I was seven.
Hence my thinking
Signs
was terrifying, even if they were the stupidest aliens of all time.
Quick! Name all the movies where some character gets partiall frozen with some cryogenic liquid (liquid nitrogen, helium, etc), and then that frozen part of their body gets shattered. I'm thinking
Alien: Resurrection,
and I think some Bond movie, but that's all I can think of.
Terminator 2
doesn't count, as it's not a human who gets frozen.)
Quick! Name all the movies where some character gets partiall frozen with some cryogenic liquid (liquid nitrogen, helium, etc), and then that frozen part of their body gets shattered. I'm thinking Alien: Resurrection, and I think some Bond movie, but that's all I can think of. Terminator 2 doesn't count, as it's not a human who gets frozen.)
Does Carl on Aqua Teen Hunger Force count?
Does Carl on Aqua Teen Hunger Force count?
Heh. Sorta.
My computer desktop is a picture of a rose that's been dipped in liquid nitrogen and then shot with a bullet. It's making me obsessed with... more
evil
applications of cryogenics. I'm wondering if any movie has portrayed the partial freezing of humans realistically.
