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??

@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??

Compleatly off subject, 've read the book and loved it. I bought the dvd bit too scared it will be unlike the book and will spend my time moaning about the differences (I did this with IT) is it worth a watch?

Fucking bastard Blair Witch Project when whatever it is is running their fingers down the outside of the tent. Awful film.

@Tal45

The wolves on the train from the BBC's Box of Delights. Obviously I was very young but gave me nightmares for quite a while.

Oh yes!! Even now it gives me the creeps! And I watch it every single Christmas..

@TalesTheCat definitely worth a watch.....behind a cushion lol

@cricketmum84

Can't for the life of me remember what this film was called.... me and DH went to see it at the cinema about 10 years ago. It was an end of the world type thing with a super virus that had swept through the UK (bit apt I know).

There were cannibals in it and at one point they got hold of Sean Pertwee and burnt him at the stake while ripping off bits of his flesh and eating it while he was still alive.

I've not been allowed to pick a film since and those images will never ever leave me!

That's on Netflix at the moment. I like a bit of rough (or Sean Pertwee pretending to be rough) and I was quite disappointed when he hardly featured in it before dying an appalling death.

Oh and The last of the Mohycans. A scene with cutting out heart for some reason.

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.

The end of Carrie, I was sitting in my room watching on a little black and white portable and nearly fell out of bed.

The Shining. Scenes with the tricycle and the twins.

The scene in ‘IT’ where the clown is hiding behind the hanging white sheets 😱

The rape scene in Deliverance has forever haunted me.

I don't know if I'm mixing up my imagination while reading the book or the movie.
The scene in The Green Mile when Percy uses the dry sponge for the execution of Del so he dies horribly. I had a headache from crying at that book and movie.

@Baconking

The opening sequence to Tales of the unexpected.

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

Is the Hitchcock one where the woman prisoner makes a pact with the man who makes the coffins at the prison that he'll help her escape by giving her access to a coffin with a dead body in and says he'll come back and dig her up after the burial? She waits and waits and finally strikes her only match to look at the time only to realise that she's buried with coffin maker man who's obviously died?! That one is brilliant!

[quote gwilt]@Whattodoffs has anyone mentioned the classic best jump shock ever from ?

Gets me every time [/quote]
Was coming on to say that!!!!

Plus watership down - all of it!!!

And the curb scene in American History X

@Skatastic

Yes that bit in the BlairWitch is scary. I remember seeing it in the cinema & there were collective shrieks and gasps throughout. Mostly from grown men

Great thread, OP!

I'm still haunted by watching Gogglebox when they showed scenes from Gunpowder,

A woman being stripped naked and being crushed by a heavy weight, and a young man man having his limbs cut off.

I only tuned in for a some light entertainment 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

I watched Salem’s lot when I was around 7 or 8 and my cousin was babysitting. I spent months checking for vampires under the bed.

@MichelleScarn

I can't remember what is called but a film where they're trapped in a dimension of lots of different white rooms in which time/space/gravity/physics is all different and I think peoples worst fears come true. For some reason totally freaked me out!

Is that 'Cube'?

My first thought was the whole of Watership Down. Bloody terrifying. Didn't find Silence of the Lambs or Exorcist scary in comparison.

A few horror films / scenes gave kept me awake at night:

Rec - Spanish film I think, set in a block of flats where there's some sort of outbreak. I couldn't actually watch it properly I was so scared and I've never watched it again.

Blair Witch, especially the end.

Ring, same as everyone else - the TV crawling bit.

Paranormal Activity, the whole thing. I watched it with my friend who found the hand held camera footage too scary to watch so I had to watch it and tell her what was happening. I found the still camera footage too scary so she had to tell me what was happening. So technically I've only seen half but that was enough.

Animal farm when the horse is taken off to the glue factory and his friend the donkey realises but it’s to late...And also in dumbo, when the mum is cradling him whilst locked up. I’ve not watched it since lol.

Same as you op. That scene really terrified me.
Another one was a film with a warped child who was tormenting her/a family. I can’t remember the details but she picked up a pizza cutter and slowly rolled it across the walls on her way to do her evil deeds.
That scene just disturbed me so much.

As I am officially ancient, I remember going to see The Exorcist at the cinema when it was first released and St. John Ambulance were on hand for anyone feeling faint etc. I had read the book and found it much more unsettling than the film especially when as mentioned previously by OP, the mother sees the daughter walking in the crab position. Thankfully not in the film.
I'm not easily disturbed but I didn't like The Exorcism of Emily Rose as it too involved body contortions.
If you're watching a creepy film at home, a good tip is to mute the sound and use subtitles. So much fearful atmosphere is created by background music/sounds.

@Ch3rish

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

@Ch3rish - that was one I posted in Chat a few days ago - this one has more traction so I may repost my scene from 28 Days Later here!

The scene in the original Pet Semetery where baby Gage cuts the old chap's Achilles' tendon with a scalpel . I watched this film way too young (12/13!), I still can't look at a scalpel without thinking of it.

I really dislike smasher films and find them disgusting rather than scary. You know somewhere in the world right now someone us being tortured, murdered or gave their head on a stick. Not entertaining.

I like weird. Event Horizon ( too gory but the idea of hell being the other side of the black hole was good).
The Ring definitely stays with you.
Silent Hill I found frightening. Didn’t know the game and it wasn’t what I was expecting.

Candyman, I start saying his name in my head and have to stop myself. I rewatched it recently because I wanted to see if it really was scary. Nup it was terrible.

Poltergeist, the clown. I watched it when I was about 7, as you did in the 80s, still can’t stand clowns.

I can’t remember the name, but it’s a creepy girl, with long black hair covering her face.

I only ever watched a handful of supernatural but I did one episode where someone was living in the walls, that scared me.

The bathtub in what lies beneath, I remember watching it at the movies and jumping so bloody high, I almost 💩 my pants 😬