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Saw this question around on FB. What single shot from a film legitimately scared you? There's probably a picture of it out there or you can just describe it too.

Nothing really chills me to the core like this scene did when I was a kid.. I had the most irrational ass fear taking the trash out at night for years.. 💀
And watching it back now the CGI is so awful it's comical but I think it was just the eeriness of the whole movie that got to me back then.

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Signs, 2002
 
I live in a highly religious (or rather superstitious) country and in childhood I was fascinated in an unhealthy way by the Devil and genuinely believed he may show himself to me ... a most enduring terrifying scene was when the Devil shows himself to Professor Faust in the French movie "The beauty of the Devil" (1950) ... and is not even a horror movie, the Devil just took Faust's appearance (like a clone)

 
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Not a single shot, but rather a scene.
Terminator one. My dad rented that one night when it came out, I was maybe 5 years old. I threw a fit at the scene in the alleyway when the Terminator is running after Sarah and Kyle. Because nothing could stop him, no matter how hard you fought him. He was like a monster.

So I cried until my dad stopped it and put on another movie lol. He was real angry.
Adult me thinks I was way to young to have watched it in the first place. Wasn't the gorr, wasn't the violence. It was the mood and the inevitability that scared me.
 
The iconic scene in the movie ”The Shining” - the one with Danny on his tricycle, peddling along the hallway in the Overlook Hotel. He turns the corner and there’s those 2 creepy-ass little girls standing side-by-side at the end of the hallway. STILL gives me the shivers even now and has given me a life-long unease when it comes to narrow, long hallways. 😂😜
 
Signs, 2002
oh, honeysuckle I remember this! I watched this in the theaters and there were people who screamed when they saw the alien.

So the scene that scared me the most would be the chestburster scene from the first Alien movie. It took many, many years before I could re-watch the movie and not close my eyes when that scene comes up.
 
Most of the things in film that scare me aren't visual, they're plot-related scenarios that the clips don't make sense without the context of actually watching the movie up to that point, so I'll just write a short list, I'll try to explain why it's scary without spoilers if I can.

In The Mouth Of Madness (1994)
- Even though The Thing (1982) is probably the most scary movie ever made because it's the most plausible horror movie ever made, watching In The Mouth Of Madness at night after a couple rough days of insomnia is an experience that will surely drive you insane on an immersive level.

The Fourth Kind (2009)
- I only watched this movie because I've got an old friend who said it was the scariest movie he's ever seen while he was on acid. So naturally, I took 2 hits of LSD, and then watched it. He's right. It's probably the most insane trip I've ever had.

Annihilation (2018)
- There's no way to avoid the spoiler for this one, unfortunately. So this is a warning. If you don't want to spoil the movie, than read no further. But first a little backstory. Much of what makes the film scary is implied, rather than shown. There's definitely some disturbing and gnarly scenes in the movie, but the implication of the anthesis is what's scary. See, back in 2014, when Interstellar came out as a movie, Interstellar implied the idea that if a black hole is large enough humans wouldn't spaghettify after the redshift. What's implied in Interstellar is that light particles are the Information of Hawking Radiation on a Black Hole wherein the light particles beyond the event horizon is that imprinted Information on the Black Hole. What Annihilation (2018) implies is that if such a thing is hypothetically possible at a macrocosmic scale, than if we can pass through one for wormhole theory as implied in Interstellar, than potentially a 4th dimensional extraterrestrial could pass through it into our 3 dimensional existence were it to condense its form to be that of light particles. shaped into humanoid form So the implied theory of Interstellar is followed up by the counterpoint of the implied theory of Annihilation, which is that if a 4th dimensional extraterrestrial entered into 3 dimensional existence it would be through the formality of light particles since light particles have the least amount of mass and the highest concentration of energy, allowing it to shift and transform, mirroring and inversing mathematical and molecular structures of organisms within an area of effect to create a tesseract, or a 4D cube inside a 3D space, similarly to how Virtual Box software works. Basically, it creates a place for it to exist in the between, like a bubble of sorts. However from within the tesseract, the 4D space would seem as 3D space. And from the outside of the tesseract, from the 3D space, it would appear as a strange barrier of sorts due to dimensional perceptual differences and how light and light particles function in 3D space. It's just that, it's implied in the writing of the movie, but never formally stated.
 
No matter how many times I watched "The Eye" - and knew this was coming, it never failed. I still jumped every time.
 
This scene used to terrify me when I was younger. I could watch the rest of the movie no problems, but during this part I would usually have to leave the room and also cover my ears because the music would terrify me too. Nothing else has ever scared me like this, and I'm not really sure why it scared me to begin with since I've seen much worse.
 
Trainspotting (1996) - Scene where the baby is found dead from neglect followed by the mother having to shoot up again shortly after. The most disturbing thing I've seen on film, no contest.

Scarface (1983) - The notorious shower scene where Tony's friend Angel gets dismembered in front of him.

Kind of a silly one - The Conjuring 2 (2016) painting scene. (Although I hated the religious propaganda.)

 
Trainspotting (1996) - Scene where the baby is found dead from neglect followed by the mother having to shoot up again shortly after. The most disturbing thing I've seen on film, no contest.

Scarface (1983) - The notorious shower scene where Tony's friend Angel gets dismembered in front of him.

Kind of a silly one - The Conjuring 2 (2016) painting scene (Although I hated to religious propaganda nonsense to those films).


That bloody nun! scared the honeysuckle out of me first time I saw this movie
 
The iconic scene in the movie ”The Shining” - the one with Danny on his tricycle, peddling along the hallway in the Overlook Hotel. He turns the corner and there’s those 2 creepy-ass little girls standing side-by-side at the end of the hallway. STILL gives me the shivers even now and has given me a life-long unease when it comes to narrow, long hallways. 😂😜

You know....I always wanted to have twins. I wanted those two little girls as my daughters.....I just loved them so much.
 
Have you seen that oldddd anime spirited away? When the monster starts eating everyone jesus!

I love that anime!
It's cute.
The weird friendly ghosts that pop up every now and then in it with the masks, there used to be an anime store when I was in my late teens somewhere not far from my local college, and someone bought stickers of those ghosts and stuck them arbitrarily all throughout the college campus.😂
 
I love that anime!
It's cute.
The weird friendly ghosts that pop up every now and then in it with the masks, there used to be an anime store when I was in my late teens somewhere not far from my local college, and someone bought stickers of those ghosts and stuck them arbitrarily all throughout the college campus.😂
He’s not friendly he’s crazyyy 😂
 

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