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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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LeaveHomeNow · 13/01/2021 23:36

Don't go to sleep - pizza cutter etc. One sister accidentally kills the other....I was scared for weeks.

Funny Games, never, ever will watch this again. Never.

ChickenNugget86 · 13/01/2021 23:59

Yvonne in Bad Girls being locked in the cellar as she tried to escape prison.... Evil Jim Fenner locked her in. Gave me nightmares for some time!

Andylion · 14/01/2021 01:38

@Mothership4two

Thanks *@Andylion* I didn't think it would be available now. Was it as scary?
I would say creepy, rather than scary.
Bl3ss3dm0m · 14/01/2021 08:29

Duel. That's it. I can't remember how old I was when I first saw it, maybe 12. I had watched lots of Hammer horror films (the cobwebs and creaking doors bothered me a bit) before I saw Duel, and they were entertaining, but didn't scare me, however Duel scared the, well everything, out of me! I think that I maybe found it so scary because it seemed like it was something that could really happen. I am 62 now, and if we have a big lorry stay behind us for any length of time, I still get a bit twitchy Grin The only other film that really scared me was Hitchcock's "The Birds", but last time I watched it about 5 years ago, it had lost it's drama for me.

Kolo · 14/01/2021 08:32

@Tanith that's exactly it! Going to see if I can find it and watch it. Bet it's rubbish now - 1982, I was 8.

JustNotFunAnymore · 14/01/2021 08:52

Last king of Scotland. Hooks.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 14/01/2021 09:03

@doloresclaiborne

This scene in Funny Games
Funny Games was a horrible film - it was incredibly disturbing.

I'd bought it on DVD and couldn't wait to get it out f the house and into a charity shop.

CounsellorTroi · 14/01/2021 09:22

I don’t watch Horror films, at least nothing more than a 15 certificate. I like being scared and love a bit of supernatural but I don’t want to be disturbed by graphic scenes of torture and violence.

BooksMusicSnacks · 14/01/2021 09:52

The Nun in the Conjuring 2. I couldn't sleep that night!
Then I watched The Nun...and it was fine.

And Luther, S3 E1. Serial killer under the bed. Horrifying.

tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz · 14/01/2021 09:55

@ultrablue

Mine is the Terminator guy in Terminator 2. It's something about the way that he change into molten liquid that scares me.

Now the really weird thing is that I actually cosplay as Sarah Connor sometimes ( well when comic cons were a thing) but God his character scares me even though I've watched the film like a million times.. luckily I have never crossed paths with anyone playing his character yet.. phew...if I ever do , I am sticking to Mary Poppins and Sculder,

Ooh you've reminded me of the vision SC has in T2 when the attacks happen and you see a kids playground being nuked. That always made me feel funny.

I still believe one day SkyNet will finish us all ... Grin

tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz · 14/01/2021 09:56

@JustNotFunAnymore

Last king of Scotland. Hooks.
Another excellent/horrific one.
PhoebeSnow · 14/01/2021 09:59

@JustNotFunAnymore

Last king of Scotland. Hooks.
The worst thing is that is based on a true story
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Whattodoffs · 14/01/2021 10:11

@PhoebeSnow hate the ones that are based on a true story! always makes it so much worse!

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bumhead · 14/01/2021 11:06

I was about 11 and went to sleepover at my friend from school's house. Her older brother and sisters were 19-22 (she was a surprise baby) and her parents were much older than mine and her father had just passed away. She lived in a very old dark house and it was full of funeral flowers and you could feel the raw grief in the air.
Her brother got a video of Nightmare on Elm Street.
I had never seen a horror film before and was fucking terrified although I didn't say a word. When we went to sleep I couldn't close my eyes for hours and when I finally did drop off to sleep I was woken up by the phone ringing downstairs. It was one of those old fashioned bell ring phones (it was early 80s so everyone had them) and it scared the living fuck out of me and I didn't sleep again for about 3 months

Lizadork · 14/01/2021 12:03

IT - never will put my hand down a storm drain.

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 14/01/2021 12:37

@Lizadork

IT - never will put my hand down a storm drain.
Was that something that you were ever likely to do if you hadn't seen IT? Grin
Vinomummyinlockdown · 14/01/2021 17:23

Omg OP!!! That’s my freakiest movie moment too! Still think of it and still scares me about 30 years later! (I watched far too young lol!)

peachdribble · 14/01/2021 17:32

oh yes - the Omen stayed with me - about 10 when I first watched it - couldn't look at an aeroplane for ages just in case!

a Frankenstein-like film where a mummie was submerged in a bath full of plaster (or porridge? 🤣) that made me feel very claustrophobic!

the alien at the window in 'Signs' with Joaquin Phoenix...

hmm, I'm not a big horror fan!

Jarline · 14/01/2021 17:36

@LutherRalph1

There is a scene in Luther where a man slides out from under the bed, and honestly, it's terrifying
THIS!
browneyes77 · 14/01/2021 17:37

@TinySongstress

Blair witch bothered me for a very long time, and a scene in Nightmare on Elm St where a very young Johnny Depp is sucked intoxicated bed and spat out again.

The one that bothers me most is a film about a grotesque tooth fairy who hovers above you in the dark and if you open your eyes and see it, it kills you. Horrific.

That Johnny Depp scene in Nightmare on Elm Street, was just the one I was about to write about!

It scared the living crap outta me. I’ve got the worst overactive imagination and as a teen I was scared to go to sleep in case I got sucked into the bed a la JD style Grin

FelineUK · 14/01/2021 17:42

Paranormal Activity first time I watched it when the woman got dragged out of bed.. and the demon resided in the attic above her bedroom... we had a tiled suspended ceiling in our bathroom and I convinced myself that these tiles were 'moved' - film gave me the heebie jeebies and I couldn't sleep for months - in my 40s!!

Tubs11 · 14/01/2021 17:47

The "ghost" from three men and a little baby. Threw the remote across the room and didn't turn on the TV for weeks

starlilly88 · 14/01/2021 17:47

Scarface. Chainsaw. Saw it on Gogglebox last year, I’m still traumatised

Snaketime · 14/01/2021 17:48

Pet Semetary when Gage is hiding under the bed and slits the guys ankle.

Strangely the 'video' clip of the alien during that kids birthday party in Signs.

Darkrainbowsquid · 14/01/2021 17:48

The Wickerman - ain’t no one coming to save you Edward Woodward

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