What moments in movies do you find creepy? Perhaps it's a single line of dialog delivered just the right way to send that chill down your spine. Or maybe a music cue that gives you an unsettled feeling.
I was watching Jaws the other night, and the scene came up in which Brody and Hooper were taking the boat out to find the shark. Hooper's radar finds what he supposes is a school of mackerel or something. But then he realizes that "there's something else out there."
The unease in his tone coupled with the score picking up in response to this unknown thing out there in the darkened sea has always been a source of spook.
I'm not clever enough to post pictures or videos but I always was kind of weirded out by that scene in The Gift where Kate Blanchett's having the dream and she sees that guy playing viloin by the swamp. It does that quick zoom in on him and the music goes all wacky..that part for some reason always gives me the creeps.
RichC2
06-19-09, 10:15 PM
The scene in the kitchen in a Tale of Two Sisters creeped me out a little.
A lot of the caving, pre-monster stuff in The Descent creeped me the f out as well. (as well as the early glimpses)
LickTheABCs
06-19-09, 10:20 PM
The scene in the kitchen in a Tale of Two Sisters creeped me out a little.
A lot of the caving, pre-monster stuff in The Descent creeped me the f out as well. (as well as the early glimpses)
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RichC2
06-19-09, 10:36 PM
^That scene flatout made me jump like a little girly girl :lol:
chris_sc77
06-19-09, 10:40 PM
Definitely the end of Quarantine. Freakiest shit ever i tell ya. Rec sucked comparatively cause it was so obviously bad CG it wasnt scary.
Oh and Also the Man behind Winky's in Mulholland Dr. That scared the living fuck outta me in theaters.
Also some scenes Marebito were kinda creepy as well
New-AgeOutlaw
06-19-09, 10:53 PM
Salem's Lot (Original)
The vampire brother scratching the window at the hospital.
The vampire talking and laughing upstairs at the teacher's house.
The vampire seen when the teacher goes into that room and he keeps calling him "Teeaacchheerr" with glowing eyes.
The vampire boy sitting up in the coffin to attack the grave digger
4 creepy as heck seens in one movie. First seen it when I was young, so I am sure that is why it has stuck with me
riotinmyskull
06-19-09, 10:53 PM
Definitely the end of Quarantine. Freakiest shit ever i tell ya. Rec sucked comparatively cause it was so obviously bad CG it wasnt scary.
that was a real dude.
DieselsDen
06-19-09, 10:54 PM
I cannot believe no one has mentioned the twin girls from THE SHINING. To this day, whenever I approach a long hallway, I cannot help but get the shivers recalling that scene.
Kurtie Dee
06-19-09, 10:58 PM
More Lynch - Bill Pullman on the phone with Robert Blake in Lost Highway - gettin' chills just writing about it. (Guess it means I gotta watch it again.)
riotinmyskull
06-19-09, 11:00 PM
I cannot believe no one has mentioned the twin girls from THE SHINING. To this day, whenever I approach a long hallway, I cannot help but get the shivers recalling that scene.
what about the blood tidal wave?
LickTheABCs
06-19-09, 11:07 PM
More Lynch - Bill Pullman on the phone with Robert Blake in Lost Highway - gettin' chills just writing about it. (Guess it means I gotta watch it again.)
Several scenes in The Cell like when he's standing on his hands and then comes charging at her. In slow motion.
Also the glare from up the stairway in Blue Velvet. Lynch owns this thread.
Groucho
06-19-09, 11:54 PM
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SuckaMC
06-20-09, 12:05 AM
Pretty much all of Session 9. But particularly the scene where Josh Lucas goes back to get the coins, and looks down the long corridor only to see a silhouette of.... some one... step out.
The beginning of JFK always creeped me out too. Go figure.
Aegean2007
06-20-09, 01:01 AM
My #1 would be the last 5-10 minutes of [Rec].
Others:
The Orphanage - the "hide and seek" scene and the old lady getting hit by the car and the jump scene afterward
More Lynch - Bill Pullman on the phone with Robert Blake in Lost Highway - gettin' chills just writing about it. (Guess it means I gotta watch it again.)
To make things worse, the first time I saw Lost Highway was right when Robert Blake's murder trial was making headlines. It was creepy as hell watching this accused killer on the news every night and then seeing him acting sppoky as hell in the movie.
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I completely went blank on what movie this is from. I know I know it dammit...
kstublen
06-20-09, 02:54 PM
People should post movie titles along with screencaps for those of us that haven't seen the movies.
GoldenJCJ
06-20-09, 04:26 PM
I completely went blank on what movie this is from. I know I know it dammit...
The Shining So creepy cause it just comes out of nowhere and it's just so unexpected.
emachine12
06-20-09, 06:05 PM
Braveheart....
"You look just like my daughter back home."
Trout
06-20-09, 06:06 PM
The Changeling (1980)
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The scene were Claire turns and sees the wheelchair at the top of the stairs is one of the best "jumps" in a horror movie.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure (Kyua) is an underrated masterpiece that I would highly recommend to anyone who appreciates cerebral thrillers.
RagingBull80
06-20-09, 11:38 PM
The Shining So creepy cause it just comes out of nowhere and it's just so unexpected.
Thank you. I think the reason it threw me is because I just assumed it was from something Lynch but couldn't remember it from any of his stuff.
Kurtie Dee
06-21-09, 02:21 AM
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure (Kyua) is an underrated masterpiece that I would highly recommend to anyone who appreciates cerebral thrillers.
Must throw Kairo into the mix (of course) - the scene with the phantom and the couch - like frickin' marzipan if you know what I'm saying.
dom56
06-21-09, 10:59 AM
Ju-On
The scene with Misaki Ito from the office restroom to her apartment bedroom had me chilled to the bone.
Event Horizon - I know Paul Anderson gets shit on a lot here, but the scene where they finally decode the video transmission creeped me the fuck out the first time I saw it.
It - It's hard to nail down a single moment, but Pennywise's first appearance, looking up from the sewer grate, was creepy as hell.
Signs - The shot of the alien on top of the barn at night. The summer that came out, whenever I was in my yard at night, I had an irrational aversion to looking at the roof of my house.
Blair Witch Project - I know the end has already been mentioned, but the worst part for me was when you could hear little kids voices and something was slapping at the outside walls of the tent.
I have to say, that is a creepy scene. It's very much like something out of a nightmare; it makes no sense, but you know it's nothing good.
Does anyone know just what that brief scene is supposed to be or how it ties in with the rest of the movie other than just creepiness for the sake of being creepy?
I think a lot of scenes in David Cronenberg's The Fly are creepy, as well as Video Drome. Come to think of it, a lot of stuff from Cronenberg is creepy!
I have to say, that is a creepy scene. It's very much like something out of a nightmare; it makes no sense, but you know it's nothing good.
Does anyone know just what that brief scene is supposed to be or how it ties in with the rest of the movie other than just creepiness for the sake of being creepy?
I think a lot of scenes in David Cronenberg's The Fly are creepy, as well as Video Drome. Come to think of it, a lot of stuff from Cronenberg is creepy!
The "bear scene" in The Shining occurs as Wendy is running through the hotel after assisting Danny to escape from the bathroom window. As she ascends a stairwell, she comes to an open door and she looks in, where she sees two shapes on a bed. As if sensing her, the shapes stop what they are doing and turn to look at her, revealing themselves to be two men. One is wearing a bear suit with the buttocks removed; the other is in a tuxedo, and from the position they were in when Wendy first saw them, it is likely that the man in the bear suit was performing fellatio on the man in the tuxedo.
Like the woman in room 237, this mysterious scene is explained in the novel, but not in the film. At one point in the novel, Jack is dancing with a woman at a masque ball during the 1920s, and he notices a young man wearing a dog mask and behaving like a dog for the amusement of a tall, bald man. This bald man is the man in the tuxedo later seen by Wendy. The woman explains to Jack that his name is Horace Derwent, a former owner of the hotel, and an eccentric Howard Hughes type figure who poured over three million into restoring it after WWII. The young man acting like a dog is Roger, a former lover of the bisexual Derwent, with whom he is still in love. According to the woman, Derwent told Roger that "if he came to the masked ball as a doggy, a cute little doggy, he might reconsider;" that is, he might have sex with Roger. Although no actual sex scene between Roger and Derwent is described in the book, such a scene does seem to take place in Kubrick's film, albeit obliquely.
Sonic
08-23-09, 05:55 PM
There's been two movies that have creeped me out.
The first is Jacob's Ladder when he's walking down the train station alone..and shit just gets weird after that.
The 2nd is Candyman when the chick investigates the projects and finds out where he used to live/hang and stuff.
DthRdrX
08-23-09, 05:57 PM
It - It's hard to nail down a single moment, but Pennywise's first appearance, looking up from the sewer grate, was creepy as hell.
I can't find the full scene but this one always creeped me out.
The Haunting(1963)- While climbing the spiral staircase a trapdoor opens showing Lois Maxwell who has been lost in the house.
Phantasm-when the Tall Man turns and looks at Mike from the old photograph
Asylum-when the clothes mannequin comes to life
Not a movie, TV show. The Twilight Zone episode "The New Exhibit". Martin Balsam in his basement with wax figures of famous murderers. The figures are behind him. Each time the camera shot changes and then comes back, the figuires have creeped up on him a little.
Rival11
08-23-09, 09:04 PM
From Jennifer Lynch's Surveillance - what makes the scene extra creepy is what you don't see after the crash when the girl checks on the driver and passenger - DO NOT watch if you don't like spoilers...also, not sure how many of you know or not but Hulu has a cool tool for editing videos before embedding them:
This shit gave me nightmares for months when I was a kid. Still scares the hell out of me. Didnt even like looking for a image of it.
dogmatica
08-24-09, 12:13 PM
I get really creeped-out by the still-forming Beta Unit of The Last Starfighter. Whenever my wife rubs her eyes and they look weird, I think of this image and it's creepy.
Rad14
08-25-09, 05:44 AM
The Exorcist:
The scene when the 2 docs come to the house and enter Regan's bedroom. She is convulsing on the bed, yelling in that gutteral voice, then suddenly she falls back, her eyes turn white and she makes a different groaning sound. Freaked me out when I first saw it, and for years later...
That just scared the shit out of me - I haven't seen it in a while and I know that movie by heart and I have my speakers up somehat loud but it still got me.....f'n love that film.
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