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In a gif, scariest scenes in horror films (spoilers)
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Wow, glad I looked it up! It's really really good - love the sound and the zoom, and the walk is so full of purpose it's unsettling.
For anyone else interested: https://youtu.be/z5OGQr3xdfM
This is the scene that fucked me up as a kid (and possibly gave me arachnophobia) - John Carpenter's The Thing
such a fantastic movie that i need to watch again soon. Those practical effects > lots of CG these days
Monocle
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That's a good explanation, thanks.
I definitely prefer horror that relies on atmosphere and sinister imagery though. Grotesque mutilation is just off-putting to me. As much as I'd hope everyone who's into that is empathizing with the victims, humanity's ugly history of treating the lurid sadism of bloodsport, public torture, and execution as entertainment suggests otherwise. There's a certain point where depictions of violence lose their thematic, empathetic, or stylistic purpose and start to wallow in misanthropic suffering. Some subgenres of horror cross that line too often for my tastes.
The practical effects of the 80's are infinitely more terrifying to me than the cgi overload of the late 90's, noughties and present day
More_Badass
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There's definitely a spectrum. The Saw movies, slasher movies, etc, it's treated as spectacle and payoff. The gore there isn't scary, it's so over the top that it becomes ridiculous. Even Hostel, which tries to disturbing, just fails most of the time; its one effective scene is effective because 1) everyone hates stuff done to eyes and 2) it's low key and realistic enough that you can relate to how it would feel
On the end, you have stuff like The Thing or The Exorcist or the recent Eyes of My Mother, where the body horror, the grotesque transformations, the damage to the human body, is treated as something terrifying and wrong and unsettling. Eyes of my Mother doesn't even show the gore; you just see the aftermath and the victims struggling afterwards and it's so so fucked up, especially due to the sound effects
There it is. That movie really affected me.Not really a horror, but this scene from Communion spooked the hell out of me as a kid.
-shadow-
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As much as I think this movie is boring, this one came out of left field and scared the hell out of me. I love it!
Exorcist 3
The strangers
Not really IMO, I love Mulholland Drive but it didn't invent the cinematic devices that make that scene scary. It just executes on it extremely well and has a clear understanding of what makes actual nightmares uncanny.Übermatik;248822426 said:
Insidious relies a lot more on subverting shot-reverse-shot. I don't like Insidious as a whole but that shot is excellent.
Lake Mungo
My man! I thought I was a hardened motherfucker, but this scene, man. This scene.
The Ring. That movie does bad things to me.
That ones terrible this ones much better. None of that glitchy tv nonsense.
Have you seen The Descent?
REC
One of the most unsettling scenes I've seen. The whole attic section is stuff of nightmares.
Is that some kind of parasite?
I did a reverse image search of this to try and figure out what this was and it just came up with "fictional character". Not helpful, Google.
shit freaked me out when I first saw it
and not necessarily scary but the puppet scene from nightmare on elm st. 3 is one of the more disturbing things I've seen in a movie
when he's walking you can feel the tension of his veins and it just makes me queasy every time and movie gore doesn't usually do much to me
Pretty damn good Alien Abduction movie called. Fire In the Sky
Yessssss...
Hands down my favorite horror movie scene. It might not traditionally be "scariest" but the more parts of the scene you watch the more horrifying and gruesome it becomes. Utter chaos. It set the tone for the rest of that film so damn well.
Also does anyone here have some good, schlocky, lesser known B-horror recommendations? It's such a hard subgenre to find gems in, and I've seem most of the "obvious" ones.
From Cabin in the Woods
Also does anyone here have some good, schlocky, lesser known B-horror recommendations? It's such a hard subgenre to find gems in, and I've seem most of the "obvious" ones.
JigglesBunny
Banned
The Poughkeepsie Tapes is some eerie fucking shit.
*edit - beaten to death but I'm keeping it anyways because it really deserves it
One of my favorite horror films of all time and this scene is the least chilling. Such an incredible exercise in tension and build up.Lake Mungo
Lights and Waves
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Damn, so many good gifs in this thread. This was an awesome idea, OP.
This scene ruined my life as a kid. I couldn't sleep for months. Best jump scare in the history of horror:
This scene ruined my life as a kid. I couldn't sleep for months. Best jump scare in the history of horror:
gets even better when you realize it's Laura Dern's face
Yeah, I just realized that as I was quoting it lol. Good lord.
supermarioworldE
Banned
'82 was a great year for "gross you out" horror films.
Lake Mungo is actually getting a lot more mention online in discussions about good modern horror. I watched it on a whim based on a passing recommendation someone made in a film thread here a while back and was surprised by how smart and measured it was given its budget. It's a solid ass movie.
Cannon Goose
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Lake Mungo
From Noroi/The Curse.
Both so good.
This is from They Look Like People (2015) and it might be too subtle in gif form. The sound is also really good during this part.
https://giant.gfycat.com/PlainForcefulHoatzin.webm
parrotbeak
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Ya that scene scared me and still makes me really nervous. Funny.
supermarioworldE
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Dawn of the Dead (1978)
RuinerPrime
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A tale of two sisters
So I watched this movie when I was like 8 or 9. It was my whole family, and a neighborhood family as well. So maybe like ten of us all sitting around watching. Adults and kids.
Obviously I'd never seen this movie before, but some of the adults had. When then scene happened two of the adults decided to try scare me at the same.
I'm still scarred.
It's been a while since I've had a horror movie really scare me (not for lack of quality films, but because I've just watched so damn many that I've become a bit numb), but when I first saw this about four years ago, yeah, the attic scene. I had to stop the video and collect myself a couple times because I just knew something horrible, or many horrible somethings were about to happen.REC
One of the most unsettling scenes I've seen. The whole attic section is stuff of nightmares.
Lasthope106
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This thread is gonna give me nightmares.
Violence Jack
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A couple from Hellraiser 1 and 2:
The Jesus Wept scene:
The Channard Cenobite death scene:
Julia's rebirth scenes
(she's sucking the blood out of him to regenerate herself)
Psycho (this scene used to have me shook as a kid)
Carrie:
And since I cannot find a gif for it, the last scene from Carrie
The Jesus Wept scene:
The Channard Cenobite death scene:
Julia's rebirth scenes
(she's sucking the blood out of him to regenerate herself)
Psycho (this scene used to have me shook as a kid)
Carrie:
And since I cannot find a gif for it, the last scene from Carrie
Pankratous
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REC
One of the most unsettling scenes I've seen. The whole attic section is stuff of nightmares.
Is the monster biting her tongue out?
This movie (Fire in the Sky) scarred me as a early teen.
-shadow-
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No, transferring a bug like thing into her through her mouth.
The original REC was alright. Paranormal Activity and VHS were hilariously bad. Hell, I couldn't even make it through VHS because it was so bad. I still don't understand why it gets recommended so often. Is there something that makes the film somehow better after the reveal in the first half or is it just filled with references to other horror films I'm missing?
adversarial
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I feel like I am missing something as I see a few people saying most terrifying, etc. about this old lady that floats around the corner in daylight. Need to go check the movie out.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
I dont know if Eraserhead is considered horror, but this scene has always unsettled me...
This is probably the most deeply unsettling thing in film, but for straight up scariest scenes its probably the attic in [REC] or the scream in The Thing from the monster/the scream at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978. Those unnerving screams make my skin want to leap off my body
I would probably call Mulholland Drive the best movie of the century thus far, Lynch taps into some real primal fear for me.
Cipher Peon
Banned
I'm one of those monsters who believes that [REC] is.. alright and kinda mediocre, but [REC] 2 is an understated masterpiece. So good.
I think the gimmick in VHS is more fun than the actual movie, but the cult short in VHS 2 singlehandedly justifies the existence of the entire franchise. I've shown just that short to people and it is ALWAYS a riot
Not seeing anything from House on Haunted Hill (the 2001 one, or whatever year), I remember that movie being pretty scary when I saw it. Maybe it doesn't hold up.
The Ring was probably the first movie to really terrify me...the dead girl in the closet especially.
I watched Paranormal Activity at night in the dark, and that was super unsettling too, but probably doesn't translate to gif very well.
The Ring was probably the first movie to really terrify me...the dead girl in the closet especially.
I watched Paranormal Activity at night in the dark, and that was super unsettling too, but probably doesn't translate to gif very well.
For the love of God nobody watch this movie.
Based on real events of Japanese war atrocities at that. Was going to write about it but don't want to derail, but dayum don't watch this movie.
That bed scene terrified the fuck out of me the first time.
Couldn't sleep in the bed.
astroturfing
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yeah me too. i couldnt sleep without facing my room's door for a year or two, i just had to keep watch for spooky aliens..
then when i finally had the courage to re-watch it as a young teenager, the FUCKING electricity went out during one harrowing scene, and i was alone in complete darkness in a big house. fuck.
Merchandise
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Someone posted the part like 20 seconds after this but this is worse
Halloween
Halloween
Violence Jack
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I learned not too long ago that all of the corpses used in the movie were real corpses, including a child who had just died during the time they filmed the movie. I never want to see something like Men Behind The Sun again.