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??

I cant even read this thread because it’ll give me nightmares.

But when Freddy Krueger came up through the bed....I don’t know if this also happened but did he come through the bath in one of them too? Either was I was convinced that might happen for years. Thanks dsis.

Having said that....Blair Witch freaked dh out so much I sometimes like to rearrange the kids toys so that they are facing the wall for fun.

Poor Artax in Neverending Story. That scene puts me off ever watching it again.

@HelpMeh

Poor Artax in Neverending Story. That scene puts me off ever watching it again.

I am over 30 and I weeped a little when I watched it few months ago. Have you seen the cosplayer online?🙈 Genious.

@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

OMG this is mine too!!!

When they say the number they trace from the calls is calling from within the house!!!!!!

Prime Suspect 5, with Steven Macintosh as a truly evil drug lord.

I was already shocked by the scene when he sets his rottweilers on a rival drug dealer.
The end scene of episode 1, with the child begging for his life before they shot him stayed with me a long time.

@AgnesNaismith

Having said that....Blair Witch freaked dh out so much I sometimes like to rearrange the kids toys so that they are facing the wall for fun.

🤣🤣🤣 cruel - and hilarious!!

I never watched the film because I knew I could t handle it - i did read the Wikipedia
Plot review though - somehow that satisfies my curiosity without freaking me out for years.

Win!

Poltergeist when the tree grabs the boy out of his bed. For years after that I was terrified every time there was a storm that a tree would break through the window and grab me!!

Anything with mirrors does me in as well

Ever read Geerald Durrell's "The Entrance", @Whattodoffs

It's actually a brilliant short story, but best to hang something over your mirrors beforehand

Sometimes I download scary films on Sky and then fast forward at the slowest setting through the scary bits with no sound, that way I can see if I can cope with them before rewinding back and watching properly. I'm in my mid forties. It's pathetic really.

@MarieIVanArkleStinks

Corridors on film. There's something that screams 'horror' about these, the creepiest of liminal spaces going. My favourites:

The Shining. Danny. The trike. Stops outside room 237. Then those twins. Yikes.

Poltergeist 3, the one with the tower block. Couple walks down mirrored corridor laughing. Suddenly they're walking on the other side of the mirror (not least the other side of the physical realm). Scary.

The Silence of the Lambs. Baltimore basement prison cells and ... Hannibal Lecter.

A Nightmare on Elm Street. 'Nancy, no running in the halls!'

There's something very threatening about a long, enclosed space with many doors, or distant corners behind which could be anything.

Or corridors changing dimension and doors not leading where they should ...

Totally with you on this. I have been really fascinated by corridors for a while (from a social / psychological and architectural perspective- they're such strange, nothing places with unknowns either side. Places for waiting. You're sort of "lost" when you're in one - not settled in one place or another.

Anything where a face appeara at a window in the dark. I'm fairly sure pretty much every horror film has done a similar scene.

Doesn't help that there is a window in my kitchen that faces directly on the garden path that leads to the back gate , so if someone jumped the gate they may well (if the nefarious sort) stand at that window to see if anyone was around.

The blind has to be shut at night no matter what.

Although come to think of it ,its not really logical is it ? I mean I am terrified it will be empty one minute and I'll turn around after putting the kettle on to find a face there. Surely my brain would realise that it would give me time to run to the DC if I see a face.

But no. Blind down. So i can be happily unaware of the axe murderer looking into my kitchen .

That scene from It with the clown inside the drain. I randomly saw it while flicking channels as a 4yo. Still stressed out about drains and I’m in my 30s now.

: One for me recently was 28 Weeks Later.

Robert Carlisle character and his wife are in a farmhouse, having dinner with a jovial bunch by low candle light. Very atmospheric. Candles giving off a very shadowy, late evening vibe.

A few minutes later, the zombies are at the doors and windows, pulling off the wooden slats and boards to reveal broad daylight and the horror that the family have had to live in the dark avoid discovery.

@SchrodingersImmigrant 😂 No I've not seen that before. Even the cosplay would probably set me off. So many kids films are brutal. Mufasa's horrible death in the Lion King being another prime example and the death of mama dinosaur in The Land Before Time.

I was terrified of the killer worm thing in Tremors. But again, was viewed at far too young an age.

I went right off my bright red raincoat after seeing "Don't Look Now".

That Salems Lot window scene terrified me OP! I kept my bedroom window shut at night for about a year!

Lots of these bring memories back! Carrie, that absolutely horrifying scene, most of The Shining! The Thing! Ooh I'm going to make DH relive all these films.

Great thread OP!

Has anyone mentioned threads ? Seeing the mushtoom cloud in that still haunts me at times .

Does anyone remember Dressed to Kill??

Utterly terrifying and suspenseful and so many twists and shocks-my palms are sweating just thinking about it...

@Puzzledandpissedoff I haven't.....but don't think i will either x

When someone gets a sash window slammed down on their hand and then a knife stabbed into it in Blood Simple. I screamed in the cinema (not in a good way, not like screaming at the Sistine Chapel).

@LutherRalph1

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

😱quite a few scary moments in Luther

Shame, OP If you change your mind, The Entrance is the last story in this book: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Picnic-and-Suchlike-Pandemonium-Durrell-Gerald-Good-Condition-Book-ISBN-9780/154183928542?epid=89360740&hash=item23e6140ade:g:DnMAAOSwePdfqAcK

Actually the whole thing is a really good read, but it saves the best to the end - highly recommended to all you fans of such things

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!

Yes, she broke his glasses I think! Loved that one. They were great.

The Twilight Zone too! The boy, his sisters mouth sewn up, the wing of the plane, anyone remember those?

I hate gore but love the supernatural stuff!

The sixth sense, the scene where the little boy is locked in the tiny cupboard on the stairs at someone's birthday party. Not really scary as such, but I think it sticks with me because I couldn't stop thinking how distraught I would be if that was my little boy.

Changeling. Again not a "scary" film but horrific and heartbreaking. I would not recommend watching it to anyone.

Jeepers creepers. I used to smoke but oy outside. It was defined of the reasons for me quiting. I was terrified to go out the back in the dark. Didn’t have an outside light at that time either and the garden just disappeared into darkness.