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?

Hot Shots, Part Deux

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.

then that frozen part of their body gets shattered.

This very plot-cliche was the source of the Funniest Chalk Outline EVAR on The X-Files once. There was a tiny mark to denote where each piece fell on the lab floor. (Yes, that was the beginning of an episode, which ended in near-death by wind tunnel.) (This is what happens when sicentists can't handle other people playing with their toys.)

There was a tiny mark to denote where each piece fell on the lab floor.

Oh yeah, I remember that. That was damn funny.

My brain must be stuck on "evil" today. Now I'm wondering if any film, etc has shown someone falling into a vat of mercury. Because you'd pretty much just float on top of the mercury (very little of your body would be submerged) because mercury is so dense. Like, even steel will float halfway out of mercury. So putting a human in mercury would just look damn weird. Plus, you know, somewhat toxic to the human.

Because you'd pretty much just float on top of the mercury (very little of your body would be submerged) because mercury is so dense.

I remember an article in National Geographic on mercury (this is probably all the way back in the 70's) where they had a photo of a man, dressed in heavy clothing (boots, gloves, no exposed skin except his head) sitting on top of a pool of mercury. Pretty freaky. This is also an article where they went into how hatters used to use a lot of mercury in their business which is why the Mad Hatter was mad.

I was about 8 years old the first time I saw The Birds, and that moment when the birds first attack, where Tippi Hedron was trapped in the phone booth, freaked my shit right out.

Another early super-creepy moment was in the original The Haunting, when Julie Harris and what's-her-name sit alone in the room with the huge crashing sound outside their door.

Lessee, other favorite creepy film moments:

• In Nosferatu, when the vampire simply appears in the windows of that warehouse he's holed up in

• In Dreyer's Vampyr, the extended sequence in which the leading guy is buried alive

• When Carrie blows up the gym.

• Eyes Without A Face: the face surgery. Yeesh.

• OK, I'm about to run out to a meeting but wanted to also mention the my other favorite horror flicks are: Ravenous, The Shining, Night of the Living Dead, Dead of Winter, Evil Dead II, the Innocents, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the original one, natch), Carpenter's The Thing, Freaks, and M. Maybe The Hill Have Eyes, too, for the sheer queso.

M -- the chase scene.

The Lodger (talkie version) -- the lodger talks about his brother.

The Unknown -- learning how far the armless man has gone to keep his secret.

I also imagine that the Lon Chaney Phantom of the Opera would qualify (the first time you see the Phantom's face) if you're unspoiled.

(Edited to fix typo)

Our first sight of Norman's "mother" in the basement rocking chair in Psycho.

Yikes!