Just seen a post on FB

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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??

How didn’t sleep after watching Silence of the Lambs for about a year, that is no exaggeration.

The scene at the beginning of The Descent - when they crash with the truck carrying long poles and it kills the husband and child - whenever I am behind a truck carrying scaffold or similar, makes me shudder.

The final scene in 'Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence', where David Bowie is buried up to his neck in sand.

Accidentally saw it as a four-year-old and it haunted me for YEARS.

I think with horror type films it's what you don't see that gets to me more than anything - your imagination runs riot.

Paranormal Activity scared me for that very reason - you don't really see anything but the music and noises you hear just gets you jittery before anything actually happens

V - alien TV series, I must have only been about 6 but my brother who's 6 years older used to watch it. I can vividly recall them removing their human skin to reveal the lizard aliens underneath...
I also saw way too many horror films at a young age, again from having an older brother

There is a scene in Luther where a man slides out from under the bed, and honestly, it's terrifying

I just rented Salem's Lot from iTunes . I remembered that window scene and wanted to see it again. It was a little disappointing this time around.

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.

@Andylion i don't think I'm brave enough to watch it again, I take my hat off to you. Although I'm sure, like you, I'd be a bit why did this scare me so much before!

@FoxBaseBeta omg I used to love that series - they were like lizards or something and used to eat mice!?

The wheelers from return to oz. terrifying 😱

@LutherRalph1 - this scene has stayed with me to the extent that the first thing I do every time I go into my bedroom is check under the bed! It is the scariest tv moment ever. I'm not freaked out by vampires, monsters, zombies or ghost because they aren't real. What got me about this is how plausible it was! Waaaahhhhhhhh 😱😱😱😱

Excellent thread OP!

Lots of good ones on here already, god I'd forgotten that scene in the Descent, horrible!

The Omen has so many - to this day the idea of falling through ice on a frozen lake river and being swept away terrifies me! X

@Tier10

Carrie scene with the blood everywhere Silence of the lambs, Anthony Hopkins in the mask cage thing.

I was thinking of the scene at the end of Carrie where the girl is visiting her grave, and bends to put down flowers, and Carrie's hand shoots from the earth and grabs her wrist! I nearly died!

Watched the Omen as a child. There is a scene where a woman was throttled from behind while she was getting undressed. It took me years before I could take my nighty off without checking there was nobody behind me! 😂

And the priest with the fallen spear 😱

The scene from Carrie where she's going upstairs and dragging the pizza wheel along the wall. Everytime I cut pizza I'm reminded of that.
Also various scenes from the Omen. I was about 13 when I saw it and it scared the life out of me.

@mum2jakie There's a similar scene in Scream except the woman's throat is slashed from behind at the cinema!! I will be at the cinema and find my hand creeping up to my neck because I'm thinking about that bloody scene!!

The opening sequence to Tales of the unexpected.

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

Oh god yes, the V alien lizards used to eat mice, in fact I can picture one of the women aliens dangling one into her mouth right now!
Lizard aliens and worrying about spontaneous combustion, basically summed up my 80s childhood

There’s a scene in a movie called Phantoms where a giant moth creature breaks the window and eats a mans face off. I’m terrified of moths and butterflies so I nearly had fucking breakdown when I saw this.

Imagine my horror when I found multiple hawk moth caterpillars by my front door too...

I'm haunted by Watership Down. All I can remember is a raggedy injured rabbit and fields turning red. I think that film is disturbing 😩

@tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz why thank you!

"The Innocents" (1961 film version of Henry James's novella "The Turn of the Screw) scared me absolutely shitless when I saw it on TV one evening when my best friend and I, aged 12, were left alone in the house. Come to think of it, that is probably why I have always refused to watch anything remotely related to horror (apart from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show").

The one that sticks with me is the 'head on a stick' scene in Wolf Creek.

Wolf Creek was totally gratuitous and the second one was even scarier than the first! There's something about that whole vast, eerie, vibrating emptiness of the outback that even film can pick up and transmit to an audience, before you've ever visited the place.

John Jarratt was magnificent. I saw that shadow in my dreams for a few nights afterwards!

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.