Just seen a post on FB

[Whattodoffs]

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??

A scene on Skippy where a man went up a mountain but couldn't die. Must have been 7. Am 56 now. More recently Simon on Bridgerton. As I say am 56 now ...

@Andylion

There is a very scary scene in The Changelling, with George C. Scott. I don't want to say what it is because I recommend the movie and don't want to spoil it.

Is that the one with angelina Jolie and Steve buscimi? That film absolutely terrified me, there was one particular scene that while it wasn’t classic jump scare type thing it was so dark and sinister and absolutely chilled me to the bone. I watched it about age 14 and I’ll never forget how it made me feel.

The grudge, still find it hard to go in the loft.

@Kolo

There was a film about twin sisters - I haven't seen it Since and don't know what it's called. I'd love to know, if anyone recognises it!

Sisters travelling in a car, one falls asleep and the other ties her shoelaces together for laughs. Only the car crashes and bursts into flames and sister can't get out because shoelaces.

So dead sister haunts/possesses alive sister, and makes her kill all her friends and family. Pushes a radio in the bath while her mums in etc. The scene I remember clear as day is just the shot of a hand, with a pizza cutter in it, going up the banister as sister goes up the stairs to kill. Pizza cutter is gauging away at the woodwork as it goes up the stairs. Scared the shit out of me, but not seen it in 35 years.

I think that one is called "Don't Go To Sleep". It was an American TV film?

The ice cream man from legion. Honestly creeped me the fck* out and I still have the occasional nightmare 😂

Final Destination films - anytime something happened always wondered if I cheated death and it was coming to get me in some horrendous way (I may have mentioned my imagination goes into over drive) 🤣

The kid’s party in Signs 👽

Nightmare on Elm Street. It was so embedded in my mind that I used to see Freddie Krueger on the street, behind the curtains etc. I ended up going for a course of hypnotherapy to help.

One funny film that sticks in my mind is Mrs. Doubtfire...I can’t say the word adhesive without thinking of her saying “A little adhesive”

LORW
The ice cream man from legion. Honestly creeped me the fck out and I still have the occasional nightmare 😂*

OMG - THIS is the bit I was talking about earlier in the thread when i turned the bloody film off! I was already so freaked out and then the cars started coming and i just couldn’t hack it! I feel like no one else has ever seen it!

There was a series called The Dark Secret of Harvest Home in the late 70's which was really creepy about a family that moves to an odd and old fashioned village.and there is a scene where the husband discovers that the villagers have pagan human sacrifices and sexy fertility rituals his wife is heavily involved and with a bit of scythe action going on. Totally freaks me out till this day

Omg my dh and his younger brothers watched that film when the were kids (far too young!) when his little brothers were in bed my dh climbed on the garage roof and started knocking on their windows and absolutely terrified them.... they still talk about it now, dh is an evil bugger

A babysitter let me watch a film called shivers when I was very young, I was terrified to have a bath for months after and when I did I constantly watched the plug hole. Watched it again a few years ago and it’s rubbish and not at all scary 😂.

My scary scene was in Insidious when Tip Toe Through the tulips comes on.

Silence of the Lambs still creeps me out. A huge testament to Anthony Hopkins' acting I think

Totally agree with this too, and still think one of the cleverest things was the first sight of Lecter. It would have been so easy to have him snarling in a corner, but instead he stood there composed, rational, polite - and utterly chilling

Apparently that was Hopkins's own idea, and a wise one at that

@Whattodoffs

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 read Salem's Lot in the school library when I was about 15 and that exact scene gave me nightmares for years - I will never watch the film.

Just thought of another 80s film I found terrifying. It was about tiny little disc Aliens which stuck all over people and killed them, it turned out there was a big man looking alien throwing them from his coat pockets. I have no idea what the film was called to this day.

In the movie 'Silent Hill' there's a humanoid-monster that moves like an upside down spider. The way the creature moves just terrifies me.

Even after DS2 showed me video of the gymnast/contortionist who 'portrayed' the creature, the movement still terrifies me.

Odd, the things that 'get to' us despite knowing that it's not real, right?

I mean, it ISN'T real, is it? IS IT?

@Baconking

The opening sequence to Tales of the unexpected.

Also a Alfred Hitchcock short film where a woman ends up buried alive

Final Escape? That terrified me.

Also V with the peeling skin off.

@AcrossthePond55 I blooming hope not 🤣

A series called Maelstrom in the 1980s. A scandi style summerhouse by the lake where the lady enters a room full of dolls, some of which start crying real tears. It stills scares me thinking about it.

I know Jamie Dornan is not a scary man but the scene in The Fall when the girl is washing her hands in her bathroom and he's visible in the mirror terrified even my husband.

And yes to various scenes in Luther, the bed and bus scene in particular.

There was also a scifi type series and I think book where people were fitted with skullcaps by strange tripod aliens that controlled them.

Cannot remember what film it was, but there was a scene driving on a highway in the dark and it was foggy. The couple overtake a creepy old man on a bike. A few minutes later, they overtake him again. Just stuck with me as weird and creepy.

There was something on BBC called the Ghosts of Crickley Hall (sorry if that is wrong) with Suranne Jones and Dougie Henshall. Some creepy scenes in that, particularly the ghosts of the children who suffered leaving the Hall scene. Unpleasant subject matter.

Silent Hill just weird and scary indeed.

@Clymene

'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

Ooh yes! Great film!

This scene in Funny Games

@wasgoingmadinthecountry I must've been six and watching an episode of Rin TinTin. He was doing an incredibly complex and brave act, and I worried that he wasn't going to survive. The pressure and anxiety was so strong I had to turn off the TV and go and tell my mum about it. She gently assured me that no harm was going to come to Rinty because he was their golden ticket. I saw the logic in that and could go back and watch the rest of the show.