Just seen a post on FB where people are talking about a scene from a film/TV series that has stuck in their minds.....seeing some of them has brought back some pretty scary memories. Mine is the scene from Salems Lot where the vampire floats up to the window, taps on it and rasps "let me in". Took me years after that to look out the window in the dark Does anyone else have "fond" memories??
I remember years later on an anniversary of thr film they showed some scenes that didn't make thr final cut. One was thr little girl doing a crab walk thing down the stairs - the stairs in my then house were open plan like the ones in the film. For months after I was scared to look at the stairs in the dark
Corridors on film. There's something that screams 'horror' about these, the creepiest of liminal spaces going. My favourites:
The Shining. Danny. The trike. Stops outside room 237. Then those twins. Yikes.
Poltergeist 3, the one with the tower block. Couple walks down mirrored corridor laughing. Suddenly they're walking on the other side of the mirror (not least the other side of the physical realm). Scary.
The Silence of the Lambs. Baltimore basement prison cells and ... Hannibal Lecter.
A Nightmare on Elm Street. 'Nancy, no running in the halls!'
There's something very threatening about a long, enclosed space with many doors, or distant corners behind which could be anything.
Or corridors changing dimension and doors not leading where they should ...
Whattodoffs that scene was what I came on to post. Also, it may have been the same film, when a grave is opened and a child inside opens its eyes. Also the scene from An American Werewolf in London, in the hospital.
Can't for the life of me remember what this film was called.... me and DH went to see it at the cinema about 10 years ago. It was an end of the world type thing with a super virus that had swept through the UK (bit apt I know).
There were cannibals in it and at one point they got hold of Sean Pertwee and burnt him at the stake while ripping off bits of his flesh and eating it while he was still alive.
I've not been allowed to pick a film since and those images will never ever leave me!
'Have you checked the children?' From When A Stranger Calls - a horror film about a babysitter being terrorised and that's the moment she realises he's in the house. I used to do a lot of babysitting and that terrified me
@Tier10 totally forgot about the Carrie film. That was horrible. Silence of the Lambs still creeps me out. A huge testament to Anthony Hopkins' acting I think
