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Just seen a post on FB

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Whattodoffs · 13/01/2021 16:56

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 Hmm
Does anyone else have "fond" memories??

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fullofhope100 · 13/01/2021 21:05

Just remembered the final scene in 'The Hitcher'. Seen it so many times but always horrifies me Shock

ClinkyMonkey · 13/01/2021 21:14

@NastyBlouse

The Woman in Black. (The 1989 TV movie version.) 'That' scene in the bedroom.
That's the scene I was going to say. I hid under my duvet, utterly paralysed, for weeks after watching that!
TableDesk · 13/01/2021 21:14

The aeroplane crash in Emmerdale has always stuck with me. Especially the bodies stuck up in the trees and all the clothes in the wreckage. I was traumatised by this for months after and still think of it every time I fly. It was 1993 and I was 10 years old

Puzzledandpissedoff · 13/01/2021 21:16

the end of The Wicker Man freaks me out

Yes, that was a nasty one, though the worst for me was the execution of Delacroix in The Green Mile. I know it was only a movie, but it took me days to get over that terrible scene

Since someone mentioned Coma, does anyone know why I can't seem to find it on a Region 2 DVD? I've looked for ages but it just doesn't seem to be available

amatsip · 13/01/2021 21:17

The vanishing when Kiefer wakes up buried alive. That whole film scared the beejesus outta me for decades.

Doggybiccys · 13/01/2021 21:21

I’ve never watched line of duty but my friend persuaded me to watch the last series. The dead girl sitting in the small freezer completely freaked me out and I still imagine in when I can’t sleep - horrible.

skodadoda · 13/01/2021 21:30

Mine is The Wicker Man, creepy all through and horrifying at the end.

FrothyB · 13/01/2021 21:30

@Pinkfreesias

I'm not sure which film the scene that haunted me was from; possibly Halloween.

In the film, a person is lying on a bed and something like a spear comes up through the bed and through him. I had to look under my bed every day to make sure there was no one there!

I was probably about 10 and video players were very new. The rest of my family loved renting horror films but they scared the living daylights out of me. Still don't watch horrors now, 40 years on.

That sounds like Friday 13th. I believe it was a young Kevin Bacon who had an arrow pushed through his throat from under the bed. I had a bed with a space underneath at the time and had to check under it every night for months afterwards. Still don't like sleeping on beds like that now.

Event Horizon really affected me. Maybe I'm susceptible to the themes within it, but I found myself quite messed up after watching it for the first time late one night.

Jaws where Alex Kittner is eaten whilst on the inflatable thing. Has taken away my ability to go in the sea, or any deep water that I can't see into clearly. Other films such as Piranha didnt help in that regard. As an aside, Quint telling the story of the USS Indianapolis is incredibly intense.

Not one specific scene, but the 2007 film Joshua really sticks with me aswell, because it seemed so plausible. It's about a prodigy but sociopathic 9 year old boy who begins to manipulate and tear his family apart after the birth of his baby sister. A really troubling film, well before having children was even a thought in my mind.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 13/01/2021 21:34

A Dennis Wheatley film, might have been "The Devil Rides Out"
A pregnant woman's legs were bound together, & the baby had to burst through her stomach

If it really was Dennis Wheatley they took a hell of a lot of liberties with the book; I've read all of them and none contain anything like this

And yes, I also recall Threads - and like a fool bought it not long ago. I'd forgotten just how awful it was, not any particular scene as such but the despair

cataline · 13/01/2021 21:40

@kwiksavenofrillsusername

My childhood was ruined by Return to Oz and the wheelers. It was on TV on a Sunday afternoon too.
Me too. I've never watched it since being completely petrified seeing it at the cinema when I was about 6!
BraeburnPlace · 13/01/2021 21:40

Like others have mentioned, Tales of the Unexpected - watched as a child.

Not even sure if it would be that scary now but the particular show started with a child in a red hood and cape, Little Red Riding Hood style but only visible from behind, with the hood up.
I think I was lulled into a false sense of something childlike and sweet, then the 'child' turned around and inside the hood was the face of a very wizened old lady.

I was horrified. I still remember it clearly.

BonnesVacances · 13/01/2021 21:42

For me it's a film called Audrey Rose with Anthony Hopkins. All I can remember was a scene where a little girl (presumably Audrey Rose) was trapped in a burning car and couldn't get out. It haunted me for years!

Winniewonka · 13/01/2021 21:43

@Andylion - I think OP mentioned it being shown as part of scenes that didn't make make the final cut, I'm certain it wasn't in the original version. I don't think I want to see it now. If I remember in the book and I could be wrong as I was only a teenager when I last read it, the mother sees her as walking like a spider. Terrifying.

showgirl · 13/01/2021 21:46

Pet cemetery! When the dead child cuts the old man's ankle from under the bed. I spent many years diving on to my bed from afar.

Cocopogo · 13/01/2021 21:47

Teen wolf followed by MJ Thriller, when he turns and says “Go away” I was about 10 when I saw it and totally terrified me every night thinking I was going to turn in to a ware wolf.

Tezza1 · 13/01/2021 21:53

@Mothership4two The secret of harvest home is based on a book by Tom Tryon. He was a moderately successful actor in the 60s and gave it up for writing. I read his books decades ago and they were absolutely terrific. Bits of them were very frightening. Evocative, rather than cheap thrills.

Andylion · 13/01/2021 21:54

@Prettybubblesintheair , no, this one is from 1980. I have been searching for it for years and recently found it available on one of the extensions subscriptions via Prime. I think it is called Shudders. I almost got a subscription just to watch The Changeling, but I was too afraid. Grin

fluffedupferretonsteroids · 13/01/2021 21:57

The decent. The part where you first see the monster stayed with me. Always was fine with horrors till this i literally ran screaming from the room Grin

Andylion · 13/01/2021 21:58

@Mothership4two

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
Another one I rented recently to see if it still had the same effect as when I saw it as a child. It stars Bette Davis.
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Whattodoffs · 13/01/2021 22:01

@fluffedupferretonsteroids I remember seeing that and refusing to watch the rest of film!

Judging by my reaction to watching horrors/anything slightly or scary, I don't know why I bother trying lol

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Andylion · 13/01/2021 22:02

[quote Winniewonka]@Andylion - I think OP mentioned it being shown as part of scenes that didn't make make the final cut, I'm certain it wasn't in the original version. I don't think I want to see it now. If I remember in the book and I could be wrong as I was only a teenager when I last read it, the mother sees her as walking like a spider. Terrifying.[/quote]
I watched the Exorcist in the 90s, when I was in my 30s. I think had the volume turned down so it wouldn't be as scary. I did the same with The Shining. I don't recommend watching movies this way. 😁

Tanith · 13/01/2021 22:07

@Puzzledandpissedoff

A Dennis Wheatley film, might have been "The Devil Rides Out" A pregnant woman's legs were bound together, & the baby had to burst through her stomach

If it really was Dennis Wheatley they took a hell of a lot of liberties with the book; I've read all of them and none contain anything like this

And yes, I also recall Threads - and like a fool bought it not long ago. I'd forgotten just how awful it was, not any particular scene as such but the despair

That one was To The Devil, A Daughter. You're right: it bore no resemblance whatsoever to the book by Dennis Wheatley!

The Devil Rides Out was earlier and, although it cut out a lot, it was at least recognisable to the book and was probably one of the best horror films of the time.

Lollypop4 · 13/01/2021 22:10

Ive always hated scary films, the last one I watched was when I was 16 (35 now) , 'Jeepers Creepers' I dont really remember it but I do remember having sweaty palms😂

MyGazeboisLeaking · 13/01/2021 22:16

@Cocopogo

Teen wolf followed by MJ Thriller, when he turns and says “Go away” I was about 10 when I saw it and totally terrified me every night thinking I was going to turn in to a ware wolf.

@Cocopogo - me too!!!!!

Tanith · 13/01/2021 22:17

I remember a BBC horror anthology in the 70s called Supernatural. I was way too young to watch it, but I saw a lot of horror films then. These stories gave me nightmares for weeks, especially the Werewolf one, Viktoria (about a doll that comes to life and kills), and the terrifying Dorabella vampire one. They had Billie Whitelaw in one story and Robert Hardy in another.

I can still remember scenes from them now. The vampire woman flying over her terrified victim's bed predated The Woman In Black but was no less frightening.