The film that...

pauldeehan

What was the film/film scene that most horribly scarred you for life?

For me it was Marathon Man, the scene where Lawrence Olivier tortures Dustin Hoffman by doing a little dental work, free of anesthetic. I haven't been to the dentist in ages.

Rabies

i have yet to find a movie that scares me but there is a movie that i found freaky ,ya could say it nearly scared me...

EVENT HORIZON :eek: :eek: :eek:

i found the whole general feel of the movie was freaky... but in my opinion it is one of the best sci fi horror movies i have ever seen

Jim

Homer: ".......and tat film, Young Frankenstien, scared the hell out of me!"

RasTa

end of reqiuem for a dream with your wan gettin electro-shock freaked me out

JarJar blinks

The Gremlins films and Halloween films used to scrae the hell outta me. But that's when we were all young, innocent and afraid of the dark.

Watching a horror movie as a youngster alone or with a group of friends on a stormy night would have sacred me. I went to see films like H20 and Exorcist in the Cinema. But getting older and watching the films with an audience that constantly laugh at the scences just destroyed whatever these films had.

The New Freddy Nightmare film was bad too..

plastic membrane

Not a movie, but a TV Show. Twin Peaks used to scare the crap outta me, especially that long haired creepy demon Bob. He was the star of my nightmares for a very long time. That and David Hasselhoff's haircut from Knight Rider. Or Tom Sellecks moustache. Man that was scary..

Lemming

Originally posted by Rabies
i have yet to find a movie that scares me but there is a movie that i found freaky ,ya could say it nearly scared me...

EVENT HORIZON :eek: :eek: :eek:

i found the whole general feel of the movie was freaky... but in my opinion it is one of the best sci fi horror movies i have ever seen

THE ONLY film to ever truly scare/disturb me. It's just disturbingly f*cked up.

Who ever wrote that film was a genius. VERY much insane but a genius. It's quite original ... which is a novelty for sci-fi these days.

richindub2

The 'face meets curb' and shower rape scenes from american history x will probably stay with me for a fair while.

pauldeehan

Event Horizon was disturbing because of that whole Gothic/Satanic vibe it had goin on. Oh, and the bit were Sam Neil guts the guy.

Mr. Fancypants

When i saw Jaws for the first time i was really freaked. Wouldnt go near water. Was even afraid of sitting on the toilet in case a shark came and bit me.......I had a strong imagination back then.

sceptre

Originally posted by mbroaders
Was even afraid of sitting on the toilet in case a shark came and bit me.......I had a strong imagination back then.

Piranha for the same reason. Checked the loo for about five years after seeing it.

The_Bullman

Originally posted by RasTa
end of reqiuem for a dream with your wan gettin electro-shock freaked me out

i saw that movie too. In fact the whole movie was pretty disturbing. yer mans arm was pure mank near the end. Good movie but jebus it was rough.

event horizon was good too but nowhere near as disturbing as this

Pigman

Strangely enough I've never been scared by scene from a horror movie.

However one scene that honestly scared me the first time I saw it was in the film Boogie Nights when Buck goes into a diner to pick up some donuts for his pregnant wife and then this robber comes in and starts waving a gun at everyone. To describe the fear and tension of this scene here would be to do it an injustice ... so I won't try.

BuffyBot

Originally posted by richindub2
The 'face meets curb' and shower rape scenes from american history x will probably stay with me for a fair while.

Face meets curb scene is one of the most disturbing things I've seen on film in a long time. And yeah, it'll stay with me for a good while too.

yellum

David Lynchs Eraserhead. Oh holy mother of god. That was a head**** if ever there was one.

Requiem end bit was bad. The soundtrack really aided the scene. Kronos Quartet and Clint Mansell - Meltdown, woah...

Lafortezza

Jar-Jar Binks,

but apart from that the "head meets curb" scene from american history X, and also the final scene of the Blair Witch Project, saw it on a big screen on my own and I was just left with my mouth open going "Jebus!"

L.

leeroybrown

I wouldn't say it left me scarred for life (no film will ever manage that ... unless dropped from a great height on me) but

I always remember the first sime I saw the original alien film. The way the alien burst out of John Hurts stomach after all had seemingly returned to normal was a great moment.

The film has a real atmosphere and suspense to it whenever you watch it but not many other films compare to it when you have no idea what's going to happen.

sleepwalker

eraserhead ****ed with my head

BOB from twin peaks gave me nightmares

end of requiem for a dream "ass to ass"

the final scene in Julien Donkey Boy had me shocked for 5 minutes after it

nuthing has really scarred my life though but hopefully one day eh

Elmo

Psycho the orginal as I could not beleive the Shower scean, even as i new the end and the shower sceen is so famous, shocking stuff. (The one with anne heashe took away that shock for me).

The end of Arlington Road and the mother played by Joan Cusack.

Zaphod B

Anything David Lynch has ever gotten his disturbed little hands on... the man is proof if it was ever needed of how thin the line between insanity and genius really is.

Requiem For A Dream... Despite what the critics said I'd always thought Trainspotting was a puny lightweight for a drugs movie and it was more trendy than anything else... Requiem proved that for me. Any thoughts of ever messing with any hard drugs that might have been lingering in me subconscious were just ripped to shreds.

Also not scary but disturbing in a different way is "Citizen X" with Stephen Rea and Donald Sutherland. It's not that well known so I'll sum it up: true story of Russia's most notorious serial killer who continued to sexually abuse and murder children for many years because the Soviet ideological leaders refuse to accept the existence of such a "Decadent Western phenomenon" in the Soviet Union and instead used the investigation's resources to hunt down homosexuals; the killer was arrested once but released on orders because he was a member of the Communist Party... he went on to kill more.
One of the most disturbing movies I've seen in a while, especially the murder scenes. There's no blood or guts, just repetition of dead kids falling to the ground in the same way over and over... together with Stephen Rea's pathologist/detective in charge of the case slowly breaking down under the stress, and Joss Ackland's propagana-spouting "Head of Ideology" thanks to whom it takes so long to catch the killer, its powerful stuff. It's not the killer who affects you; he's shown as sick rather than evil. It's the helplessness that gets to you in this movie.

MMmmkay enough from me sorry to rant there

[niKo]

A scene from a Japanese movie called Ring 2, where near the end they are in a house and this woman (the "bad guy") is brushing her hair while this small child with really long hair is just standing there...It's hard to explain but...the image of her brushing her hair will never leave me for as long as I live!

ykt0di9url7bc3

yeah niKo, those ring films.....

my fav blood curdling mo was in the hospital and the bit wher the nurse is trying to get the girl to walk past the television....

Feckless Rogue

Saw 'IT' when I was 7 or 8 on Halloween night, had nightmares about it for about 3 months!

That bit with the kid & the paper boat really scared the bejaysus outta me. The book's even more fooked up tho...

"We all float down here, and you will too!"

Mr. Fancypants

Sorry to go slightly off topic here but just thinking about books that freaked me out and the only one i can think of was "The Amytiville Horror". Thats one seriously scary book. Get your hands on it if you can, the film did no justice for it.

Celt

Skalligrag where the disabled kid is bent over and raped.

Very realistic and very ****ing scary.

KdjaCL

Amityviulle book scared the crap outta me too.
But scary movie bit
was lil kid scratching window in Salems Lot
For about 5 years if the wind blew on my window i was terrified acually most of that film scared me the blue guy popping up ,the kid getting it in the forest.
Seen it when i was about 8 and it scared the crap outta me.
kdja

Elmo

was lil kid scratching window in Salems Lot

read the Stephen King Novel The best Vampire Book around.

Mercury_Tilt

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TinCool

I saw the Shinning for the first time when I was about 15/16. That certainly gave me the willies. Watched it at a friends house. I was looking behind me every 30 seconds on the walk on the way home.

Hellraiser, although not all that scary, is very disturbing. the whole other level of insanity underneath the hospital. The bird who sucked the life out of people to get there skin. Bleuch. Again, was about 15 or so when I saw that for the first time. Found it very disturbing.

I saw Event Horison in the cinema. Myself and a mate went to see a flick but was sold out so we said, ah sure lets go see this flick. We knew absolutely nothing about this movie. Let me tell you, I've never sat at the edge of my seat before watching something, but holy ****. This flick scared the bejaysus out of me.

bonkey

Originally posted by Mercury_Tilt
Most episodes of Sapphire & Steel left me quite the shaken young fella. But I just had to watch.

YOu may be interested to know that theyre about to be released on DVD. Apparently, Series/Adventures 1-3 will be release as a box set in August, with the other 3 to follow later this year in a second set. Remastered and cleaned and all.

Event Horizon - for me - Hellraiser in space. Nothing but schlock horror in space.

Maybe I'm desensitised after "tree rapes girl" in Evil Dead.

The first time I saw Se7en it disturbed me a bit. Same as the first time I read Salem's Lot. But I cant honestly think of anything which will "stay with me" except for one of the first horror films I ever watched through....which was a made for TV movie called "Tennis Court".

Its not even very good, but I guess I was young back then.

jc

darthmise

The very end of Blair Witch got me.

Gattaca scared the life out of me, one amazing film.
Memento had me in bits for ages afterwards too.

WhiteWashMan

the split second, almost subliminal, secene in event horizon of a young woman covered in blood being tortured and raped.

the end of blair witch where the video drops on the ground and the the fella is just standing in the corner screaming and screaming and screaming.

jeepers creepers where it started and i couldnt believe someone had spent so much money to make one of the worst films ever. its scared me.......

sinus

cue laughter.....

one of my fav films of all time, because it scares the crap out of me is "the exorcist", but i have to say the book scares me even more!!!!

other films like "the birds" scare the crap out of me coz i hate crows or seagulls!! *aaaaaaggggggghhhhhh runs away*

i used to scare my little sis by making her watch countless episodes of unsolved mysteries...haha esp the one about big foot!!! heee heee heee!

BEAT

well, films dont affect me that way now ofcourse...but flims I saw that freaked me out when I was younger...
candyman
nightmare on elm street 1 (after that the rest were a joke)
and this one other movie I watched I cant remember the name of it but here is what it was about, it affected very much so, It was the firt time I think that I was ever truley sickened by watching a movie: Two doctors (twins) they are gynecologists and make thier own tools, they get women in thier office and then torture kill and mutilate them with thier special tools...I think jeremy irons was the actor but it was so long ago...does anyone know of the movie I am talking about? totally sickening/scary movie

KdjaCL

Dead Ringers.
Been a long time since i seen that.
kdja

CivilServant

Ghostbusters man that was scary! Well just one episode when Peter Venkman was possessed by some ghost and he was acting all normal like him then he just turned and his face *jeez* that was scary.

Probably going to get slated for this but the exorcist scared me too. Just the thought of being possessed *ugh*.

BEAT

Originally posted by kdja
Dead Ringers.
Been a long time since i seen that.
kdja

thanks , that's it alright...that's the one that got me for life
dead ringers /me hugs meself and shivers at the thought:eek:

thedrowner

like pigman, ive never actually been frightened by a film. this is gonna sound really sad, but the only film that ever slightly filled me with a tiny bit of dread was the mummy. yes the brendan frazer/rachel weisz version!
suspense scenes/films tend to film me with a kind of dread when i watch them the first time coz i dont know if somthing's gonna work out or not.
the one thing that disturbed me was the end of the general's daughter....a gross tale that will never cease to disturb if i think about it.

mike65

It was'nt a horror flick or a scary moment but the scene where
Senator Joe McCarthy punches Marilyn Monroe in the stomach
in Nic Roegs' Insignificance. A vicious moment that really er hit home. I had to stop the tape for about 5 mins and compose myself, its on again later this week but I'm not sure I'll tape it again. All of Roegs films seem to have odd, affecting moments that stick with you.

Mike.

SPACE COWBOY

The Movie that Scarred/Disturbed me the most.

Schindler's List

The amount of scenes where people are shot in the head at close range with a pistol.
Basically I find Schindler's List a Disturbing and very hard film to watch.

I think it's especially bad as the movie is based on real events.

Krusty_Clown

As a child, watching Halloween or one of those Friday 13th movies... A scene in a hospital... A nurse gets a syringe in the side of the head...

Children of the Corn was another disturbing movie...

Most recently, 'From Hell' contains scenes which will last for some time - though I am now quite de-sensitised too...

pauldeehan

Indeed, I find myself unable to be scared by most films, unlike some people I know. We do get desensitized and I fail to respond to most slasher flicks, more subtle disturbing stuff is required to keep me awake at night.

And read Children of the Corn by Stephen King, it's part of his collection Night Shift. Seriously disturbing Quasi-religous Kids.

TinCool

One other film just sprung to mind. The Dead Zone, film of the novel of the same name. Of course, Chrisopher Walken rocked as per usual. The bit that got me though (I was only 12/13 at the time) was where some guy locked himself in his bathroom, stipped naked, put on a rain jacket and proceeded to commit suicide by head butting a scisors.

Velvet Vocals

The film that disturbed me the most to watch was Hannibal... when he's cooking Ray Leotta's brain and making him eat it..... that's was just unnecessary!

But the film that scared the s**t out of me was that one with Kevin Bacon -Stir of Echoes... that was so f**king scary!!!

pauldeehan

proceeded to commit suicide by head butting a scisors.

Aargghhh I'd forgotten that bit. Try reading the book, the bit were he is at the site of the rape and is doing his "Dead Zone" thing reading into the rapist's mind. The way Stephen King writes it is seriously disturbing.

sceptre

Originally posted by Mercury_Tilt
Most episodes of Sapphire & Steel left me quite the shaken young fella. But I just had to watch.
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"In this(episode), a creature has found a way of entering and leaving photographs. What's more, it can take forms out of photographs and give them a sort of reality. It can also take real people and trap them inside photographs. This is again one of the most terrifying of the stories and is usually one that people remember. It's also one of the shortest, so the action is unusually fast-paced. The ending is also a little surprising, with a relatively minor character - Liz - playing a major part. "

*sniff* I was afwaid of black and white photos for a fair while.

I bet it would be pants if I saw it today.

Remember that one (can't have been more than five or six when it was on). I was really scared/horrified with the bit where the woman is in the photo and it's set on fire. Today it would, like you say, be total pants.

Venom

The first Alien move when the chesthugger burst out of Ash's stomach scaried the crap out of me.

Salem's Lot and the little vampire scratching on the window had me screaming in terror and left me with many a nightmare.

Id totaly forgotten the Saphire and Steel show untill now.That episode with the faceless photograph creature freaked me out no end.

Space 1999 and the episode with the squid like alien that sucked people into it and spat them out as black statues frightened me as well.

The gas thing is I was between 9 to 10 when I saw all the above shows and after them nothing has been more than a jumpy movie

Beruthiel

Salem's Lot and the little vampire scratching on the window had me screaming in terror and left me with many a nightmare.

you know something Venom, this is the exact same scene which terrified me - so much so, that I got two lollipop sticks and tied them together in the shape of a cross and put it under my pillow for months!! LOL

Megatron

ok it has to be only one .. creep show 1,
the one where they find the box under the stairs and the thingy inside it comes and has some fun !!!!!!

i was about say 14 .. i just couldn't stop seeing that things eyes all the time, i was so scared that night that i had to sleep in the same room as my parents.....
the only other film that was disturbung rather that truly scarey for me was EVENT HORIZAN ..... it was a brilliant movie for being something new and interesting ... there was somethign else relesed in the same vain ... i think it was called nova or supernova ..... not good but hey i'll watch any thing ....


later skaters ....

Caesar_Bojangle

when i was around 7 watching nightmare on elm street scared the crap outta me, i always thought freddie kruigger would stick his hand up the toilet and stab me.

you want scary play silent hill in a dark room by yourself in the middle of winter with the wind howling through the window at 3 in the morning. That game truly freaked me out.

Conorisco

Originally posted by [niKo]
A scene from a Japanese movie called Ring 2, where near the end they are in a house and this woman (the "bad guy") is brushing her hair while this small child with really long hair is just standing there...It's hard to explain but...the image of her brushing her hair will never leave me for as long as I live!

That scared the **** out of me too. Soooooooooooooooo ****ing EVIL.

But the film that really scared me (not so much sacre as freak me out) was Pi (as in the maths) It ws about this guy who was a physist/math dude who found this number and it held the key to somthing he had a weired mental illness toon so f up

Oh a poltergiest 2 i was 7 and watched it one night and almost cried i couldn't sleep for months afterward. i kept thinking aboutt how evil the dude was. (He was tripping on evil)