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??

So many of the older films already mentioned. I too had a big brother and so watched them with him. My parents clearly had no idea of the content.

Carrie, Omen, American Werewolf in London, Coma.

Omg OP you've just traumatised my for evening!! Salem's lot is the scariest film I have EVER seen! My cousin allowed us to watch it one night when they were babysitting. My brother used to scrape his fingers down my bedroom door in the same way to terrify me!

Mine was a dreadful film called Brimstone and Treacle, I can't really remember the plot but at one point the female lead is washing up and Sting is outside the window watching her and she doesn't know. I had to sleep with the light on after that! It still gives me the willies now!
Another scene was from Ghost Story where they put a dead woman in a car and pushed the car into the lake. It rolled slowly down into the water and she sat up and looked malevolently out of the window.
I don't really do horror as you can tell!

The ball bouncing down the stairs in The Changeling.

@TinySongstress I never really got Blair Witch, I just thought it was weird lol

@jerrywesterby sorry!

Am I having deja vu or was this thread posted a few days ago, how weird, I'm sure I remember seeing a thread on scenes that have stuck with you, the same wording as your OP or is this something that's going round in circles with facebook

@FoxBaseBeta do you remember the "nice" alien. He hated what the aliens were doing and had a human girlfriend. OMG I just remembered a human got pregnant by one of them and (obviously) had a baby. It was really cute until it stuck its Lizard tongue out lol

That scene from American History X. It's an amazing film but that scene really sticks with you.

@Ch3rish I don't recall seeing one sorry. Like I said I saw this post on FB and thought it was a good topic is all x

Jack Nicholson breaking down the door with an axe in The Shining. Eek!

Can't remember the name of the film but in one I watched a couple of years ago some weird naked/semi-naked man suddenly climbed out of the floor into the house - I think maybe he'd been living down there. I've not described it well but it was bleeping terrifying!

All the scenes with the original Cybermen back in the 1960s - the ones that didn't speak but simply advanced inexorably down corridors towards people...

@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

That film terrified me! I was working abroad, staying on my own in a strange flat. For the next few weeks I was convinced odd things were happening, like lights being off in the morning which I had specifically left on the night before, and so on. It's not even that scary but at the time

@MsHedgehog is that the scene where he makes a man put his mouth on the curb? I won't say too much as that was quite horrific!

When that creepy little kid Gage, on Pet Sematary, cuts through Jud’s Achilles’ tendon and kills him. Wtf. I still think about it sometimes.

Spooky horror stuff just makes me laugh, but the end of The Wicker Man freaks me out. Possibly because I'm a townie living in a small place. Not a comment on the locals at all, in case anyone who's reading thinks they know me.

@Whattodoffs That's the one. I really want to watch it again, but that single scene is too traumatising!

Your scene is mine too OP. I've never got over it. In my forties it's still the thing at the back of my mind when I am feeling on edge at night. It still influences how early I close my curtains.

I always remember an episode of Star Trek TNG where Dr Crusher is in the mortuary, it's full of bodies from another ship whose crew died in mysterious circumstances. The Enterprise crew are very jumpy from lack of sleep and hallucinating. She looks at one of the bodies and when she looks up all the other bodies are sitting up under their shrouds. Genuinely scary moment.

The bit in American Werewolf in London where he's running through the woods and SOMETHING is following him but you can't see what.

Poltergeist when she pushes the chairs back in, bends down for something and turns around and they're all piled up on the table. Also when the clown toy is under the bed. Watched it as a kid by sneaking it to a mates house, I was not prepared for it!

The Conjuring. And it’s sequel, The Conjuring 2. I know someone who is a seasoned horror-film oeficionado who found these films genuinely frightening.

The Ring has to be another contender for one of the creepiest films out there. The final scene, where the vengeful spirit of that tortured girl crawls out of the TV.

I will literally never forget that scene.

@maddening

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.

This has long been a fear of mine - I always try and overtake when I’m behind a van carrying stuff like that! But that comes from a book rather than the film.

The Descent is so terrifying, I am claustrophobic, I don’t like lifts especially (although I’m ok if they’re not tiny) and the squeezy tunnel bits are horrible.

There’s a scene from Doctor Who that terrified me as a child, I had come down to tell my mum something when I should be in bed. I don’t remember the scene just the terror I felt I was so small!

[quote Whattodoffs]@Ch3rish I don't recall seeing one sorry. Like I said I saw this post on FB and thought it was a good topic is all x[/quote]
Phew, found it, I wasn't going mad

There might be some good ones on this thread too, I guess the topic is doing the rounds all over

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4133205-what-movie-scene-stands-out-for-you-may-contain-spoilers

The Ring when Naomi Watts pulls a sensor thing out of her throat. I dream of that scene except it’s happening to me - horrible.

Another scene was from Ghost Story where they put a dead woman in a car and pushed the car into the lake. It rolled slowly down into the water and she sat up and looked malevolently out of the window.

I rented Ghost Story recently too, because of the carriage scenes.

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.

That has always stuck with me too - I get in the next lane if I have a similar truck in front of me!

There is a film called Legion with Paul Bettany which is one of the few films I have actually turned off because it was so disturbing - first of all there Is this creepy granny (who it turns out is the devil in disguise) but they do something to her face when she “turns” which I found terrifying - then there’s a bit where a man is tied to a cross and set on fire and then (they are holed up in a cafe trying to protect a baby from the devil getting hold of him - or something) and this entourage of weird people/creatures start driving towards the cafe and at that point I turned it off! It was just so creepy - and played on my mind for ages afterwards! Has anyone else seen it?

I also hate that bit in The Woman in Black where Daniel Radcliffe is at the end of the corridor and starts to hear noises coming from the bedroom. Then he goes in and the chair is rocking...That whole film terrified me actually!