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In a gif, scariest scenes in horror films (spoilers)
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ronaldthump
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Chuckie
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There are four Japanese Ju-On movies, one of the is Ju-On: The Grudge (which was remade as the Grudge)
However the GIF is (if I am seeing things correctly) Sadako crawling out of the TV set
The Blob, such a great movie.
This one is great. You think "This guy is the hero of the story. He'll prevail and get the girl in the end." But then the movie literally dissolves him right on camera.
*High fiiiiiv- doh!*
Fun fact, Jacobs ladder was not the inspiration for silent hill. Yes some horror elements might have been lifted but the movie Silent Hill is actually based on is:
Click for trailer. Like 80% of the game is based on this turd.
The Grudge is almost too much for me to handle. It legit disturbs me. She looks and moves like a walking corpse (because she is)... and the eyes that don't blink... 3 spooky 5 me
Stiler
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Fun fact, Jacobs ladder was not the inspiration for silent hill. Yes some horror elements might have been lifted but the movie Silent Hill is actually based on is:
Click for trailer. Like 80% of the game is based on this turd.
Pretty sure it was the book, not the movie, that they drew inspiration from for SH, since there's like less than a year apart from movie release and the game.
Even still, I enjoyed that movie...but I love b-horror movies in general.
itwasTuesday
He wasn't alone.
fucking dean koontz
Ben Affleck was the bomb in phantoms, yo!Fun fact, Jacobs ladder was not the inspiration for silent hill. Yes some horror elements might have been lifted but the movie Silent Hill is actually based on is:
Click for trailer. Like 80% of the game is based on this turd.
bone tomahawk
<-- graphic af!!!
Um.... I just watched the full scene on YouTube and it's one of the most disturbing, blatantly grotesque things I've seen in a film. I hadn't heard a peep of controversy about this film prior to seeing your post. I'm surprised there wasn't more discussion surrounding it.
Being scalped and then fed your scalp while still alive not being the most explicit thing in your scene is an achievement to say the least. Good lord.
Mulholland Drive
Nothing comes close.
Stairouais
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Fuck cats
That made my day a bit brighter. I'll have to watch it.
Well you have to watch the movie because real terror is about mood, setup, and payoff, and not just grossout gore like most of the gifs being posted in this thread. But the gist is
Jimmy Stewart (the guy with the camera) is stuck in his apartment with a broken leg, and over the course of days of spying on the apartment building across the street, begins to suspect Raymond Burr (the guy with the glasses) of murdering his wife. In the scene before the gif, Stewart's girlfriend Kim Novak (the one with her back to us in the gif) sneaks into Burr's apartment to find evidence that his wife is dead and not just on a trip. She finds the wife's wedding ring right as Burr catches her in the apartment, but Stewart, watching the whole thing, has called the police and they arrive before Burr can hurt Novak. The gif is the moment when they're talking to the police, Novak is explaining what happened and Burr is trying to figure out how the police were there instantly, when he notices Novak is trying to signal Stewart that she found the ring, which is proof that the wife is dead because "no woman would leave that behind" or something like that. Burr notices this and finally puts two and two together and looks right fucking at us. After spending the entire movie being a voyeur from Stewart's point of view, suddenly we're caught doing it by a murderer.
Some great stuff here, but legit surprised we didn't have that scene from The Conjuring, which to me, was this amazing payoff for the rest of the movie. Everything came down to that point.
Terror/horror/suspense is a lot like comedy in that payoff requires fantastic setup. Hitchcock was brilliant because he knew how to set things up better than pretty much anyone else before or since.
Terror/horror/suspense is a lot like comedy in that payoff requires fantastic setup. Hitchcock was brilliant because he knew how to set things up better than pretty much anyone else before or since.
It's been mentioned before but Exorcist III for having the best jump scare ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7Yu8jCrJeg
Why Exorcist III is the greatest psychological thriller of all time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyg8UxnRyQQ
Agree wholeheartedly. I wrote up what made this part so effective to me in a different thread a while back.
Airola
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Creepshow 2 is great!
From the second story:
From the third story:
I absolutely LOVE that "you killed me" moment when it becomes clear that this guy is from beyond death and has come to relentlessly haunt you and you probably have no way to stop him because he's dead and you can't kill what's already dead.
From the second story:
From the third story:
I absolutely LOVE that "you killed me" moment when it becomes clear that this guy is from beyond death and has come to relentlessly haunt you and you probably have no way to stop him because he's dead and you can't kill what's already dead.
Airola
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gets even better when you realize it's Laura Dern's face
Wait, what? Are there people who didn't see it was Laura's face? What?
I never thought that would even be a thing to not see her face in the morphed image. I thought it was obvious and it didn't even try to hide it.
TheChewyWaffles
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Surprised no one has posted the jaw scene from Mirror.
Chuckie
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I didn't see it untill that gif was posted. And I just watched Twin Peaks.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
Pet Sematary (1989)
Great novel, great film, great poster.
I'm really intrigued by IT's remake despite my previous misgivings, but I still miss the realness of the 80's and early 90's. I don't know if it was the colours, the practical effects or the edgy atittude of the era, but there's nothing quite like it. Evil Dead and The Hills Have Eye's remakes are the closest things to it (and they were fantastic).
The trailer scene was some fucked up shit. The remake of The Hills Have Eyes also gets some extra points for being one of the first films to show what happens when you take a shotgun slug to the head at close range. I'm a bit of a gore hound and that film left me shook. That rarely happens.
bahamut zero
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The Wailing
I couldn't properly sleep for a week after this movie x.x
Airola
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Is there a good explanation to that scene? Why are there a build up? Who are they afraid of?
The guy has seen dreams about this certain diner and an absolutely terrifying man being around there. He called another guy to meet in this diner and tells him about the dream. In an attempt to get rid of the terrible feeling the dreams gave him they go and basically reenact the dream.
What's great in the scene is the way the guy becomes more and more nervous the more he goes forward. For me the build up really is fantastic but the pay off wasn't as good as expected.
Here you can see the full scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UozhOo0Dt4o
It made the genre popular, but it had already been done in Cannibal Holocaust for example.
Chuckie
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Fuck you...my eye is actually 'hurting' just by watching that.
Fancy Clown
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Black Sabbath
Dark_castle
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Neither film or gif, but this classic photo always freaks me out.
JamminSalmon
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I've seen Mulholland drive a few times, but like a dream it's very hard to recall points of the movie. I remember this scene feeling out of place, because we never see these two characters again. What was the overall point of the diner scene?
Spiritual_Chaos
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supermarioworldE
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supermarioworldE
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THE most depressing Stephen King horror film I've ever watched. Though ironically Pascow is the least terrifying aspect of the whole thing.
Two was fun in parts. Clancy Brown was clearly having a blast.
Go watch the movie, need context. It's intense as shit.
Albino_Yeti
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Sinister. The whole Bagul thing and his methodology is lame, but those snuff videos are creepy as fuck. And the music is otherworldly and excellent.
Those snuff videos are legitimately some of the most unsettling things I've seen in a movie. The grainy film quality, the absolutely stellar music, the brutality. The rest of the movie was your generic jump scare deal, but those snuff films made it memorable.
Mulholland Drive
Lmao this is hilarious, is the hobo moonwalking or reversing his segway/hoverboard lol?
This one always creeped me out. It's from the short Bedfellows.
lol this one too, all wrapped up nice and warm in his cocoon blanky, probably has a cup of hot cocoa on the side.
Black Sabbath
This is legit creepy to me. I'll have to look this movie up
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Borgman (2014)
Audition (1999)
Not all strictly conventional "horror," but disturbing nevertheless.
The Wailing
So, so good. I have a serious love for movies that ride the line with supernatural stuff, and make you wonder all along whether or not there is otherworldly stuff going on. It's pretty masterful when a film can do a full visual reveal of a monster like that and have it feel like it was earned.