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

This is the scene I'm on about

Heathcliff, it’s me , I’m cathy , I’ve come home, let me in your window...

Those Saloms Lot scenes also haunted me for many a year.

Film called Open Water where the two divers are left in the sea miles from anywhere. At the end only one left, she knows she's going to die so drowns herself. It's harrowing to watch. I kept waiting for the rescue.

Not sure if mentioned but Titanic where the rescue boats are looking for survivors and finds a woman with babe in arms, both froze to death. 😞

Two TV series episodes for me - the Peacock family episode on X files, and The Gentlemen on Buffy. Both gave me nightmares for weeks! And Wolf Creek has scarred me for life...

@DahliaMacNamara

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.

Dh put this on the TV during his paternity leave. We were sat there with newborn dd and me filled with hormones and co-codomol and it was quite terrifying. Even the thought of it now....

Ghostwatch. The whole bloody thing terrified me, I thought it was real and still can’t believe my parents let me stay up and watch it.

Oh yes, Wicker Man is very sinister.

The movie Sinister. The bit where the ‘child catcher’ and his victimsock their heads to the side at the end. I remember I was on my own, and after watching the movie I thought I saw his reflection in my patio doors. I was terrified for weeks after.

Great thread. SO many good examples here.

I agree with...

Salems Lot (Especially the creepy window dude.)

Blair Witch (the original one.) with the creepy clicking noises, and the noises outside the tent!

Exorcist (the original.) MOST scenes scared me, but the floating above the bed bit scared me.

The Ring (No 1.) Creepy girl in telly.

The Conjuring. Just SO creepy all the way thorough!

Nightmare on Elm street. Loads of scenes.

And not a film, but a scene.

Haunting of hill house. When the ghost of Nell was in the car with her 2 sisters.

Also Evil Dead (Original.)

This scene scared the SHIT out of me. I watched it on VIDEO, around 1983 when I was around 15/16, and on my own in the house at 10pm, and I had to switch it off and put the lights on, and turn on a comedy show. I slept with the lights on for a week.

@LutherRalph1

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

Oh god. I haven’t got to that episode yet. But was talking about it today. Apparently it’s awful.

Salem’s lot and the window scene for me too. At grandparents house I was allowed to watch hammer house of horror and remember a scene with a white rabbit being boiled in a pan and a man in oilskins by a road.
There was also a Dracula dramatisation around same time ? Late 70s early 80s I have never been able to find it.

The end bit of Psycho where Mother spins round and she's basically a stuffed skeleton dressed as a woman.

@Shinyletsbebadguys

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 .

Ah, night windows! I am the same. Curtains have to be shut or my imagination goes wild.,

There's lots of jumps in Haunting of Hill House. The dumbwaiter when the boy gets trapped with the thing in the basement 😱😱

I think it was the Twilight Zone and a girl turned around in her chair and her mouth was gone/sewn up type of thing. Freaked me out for ages.

Amityville Horror- all that blood coming out the walls. And when I heard it was based on a true story I was a goner!

Not a film, but a book. The wasp factory by Iain Banks. There's a bit where a child has maggots in their brain, slowly being eaten alive. I read it about 20 years ago and it still pops into my head and freaks me out.

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

Yes! I also saw it accidentally at around the same age and was really disturbed by it. I can still remember the music.

I was allowed to watch the original Robocop far too young.

The scene where the bad guys kill the cop in the warehouse, starting by shooting off his hand has never left me!

The witch melting in wizard of oz.

Violet blowing up into a blueberry in Charlie and the chocolate factory.

The music from exorcist.

The scene of the execution that goes wrong in the Green Mile.

Ooh. Just remembered TV show 'Sapphire & Steel'. Psycho detective drama.

You probably have to be 50+ to have watched it.

One episode - people 'trapped' within photographs. Photos set fire to / burned on a candle. People 'within ' burned too.
Stuck with me for 40+ years.

@waterlego I've not seen that film. Maybe I should give it a go?!

@Winniewonka

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.

I may be wrong but I think that crabwalk scene was filmed and can be found on YouTube.

@Thewinterofdiscontent

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.

I'd forgotten about Silent Hill! Another good one.

@ibblebibbledibble

The wheelers from return to oz. terrifying 😱

YES. Just utterly creepy. The tension in the scene where she's creeping around in the room with the sleeping heads is magnificent, too.