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Paul_finch (Paul_finch)
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Registered: 11-2009
Posted From: 92.5.38.35
Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 10:13 am:   

Here's something to contribute to for anyone who happens to be bored this week.

What are those hair-raising high points from the entire pantheon of horror cinema - moments that really brought you out in a rash of goose pimples? A few to get the ball rolling, in no particular order:

Jake's descent into Hell via a derelict hospital. JACOB'S LADDER.

Karswell's pussy cat transforms into a leopard. NIGHT OF THE DEMON.

"Do you know what she did? Your c*****g daughter!" - THE EXORCIST.

A late-night caller almost pounds the door down. THE HAUNTING.

Alison learns that the the weird people she spent the previous night with at a party are all serial killers who have been executed. THE SENTINEL.
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Zed (Gary_mc)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.156.210.82
Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 10:27 am:   

I'd agree with all of those, Paul...plus:

Broad daylight phantom in the lake - THE INNOCENTS

The ending of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT

The last 10 minutes of REC

The "phone scene" in LOST HIGHWAY

The ending of RACE WITH THE DEVIL

The head-swivel in THE EXORCIST

The monster's first backward entrance in FRANKENSTEIN

John Hurt finding the Alien eggs in ALIEN

The blood tests in THE THING

The dinner scene in THE TEXAS CHAINSW MASSACRE

Several scenes in AFTER HOURS

And about a million more that I'll think of as soon as I press the "post" button...
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Paul_finch (Paul_finch)
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Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 10:37 am:   

How about ...

Phibes feeds the locusts. THE ABOMINABLE DOCTOR PHIBES.

Something with only one foot approaches the bedroom door. BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW.

Alfredo is hanged and burned by Hoptoad. MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH.

The final scene in the boat. FRIDAY 13TH.

The shadowy gunman in the pouring rain. SEVEN
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 147.252.230.148
Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 10:37 am:   

"Several scenes in AFTER HOURS"

Which ones, Zed? I think this might be Scorcese's best film.
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 82.31.19.28
Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 10:40 am:   

The bathtub scene in LES DIABOLIQUES.

The final hospital scene in THE TENANT.

The telephone call identifying the ghost in GHOSTWATCH.

And entirely predictably, the dwarf scene in DON'T LOOK NOW.
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 82.31.19.28
Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 10:40 am:   

Tis a strange mindset we all possess to get high on these moments.
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
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Posted From: 82.31.19.28
Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 10:52 am:   

The end of Charles Beaumont's Twilight Zone episode about the serial killer.

Timothy West buzzing in Tales of the Unexpected's Royal Jelly.

The hand in TotU's Man From The South.
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Zed (Gary_mc)
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Posted From: 217.156.210.82
Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 11:22 am:   

Proto - the whole film makes me feel very really uneasy, but particularly the scene with the baying mob, the moment when he finds Rosanna Arquette's photo book filled with snapshots of burn victims, and the bit at the end where Griffin Dunne is encased in plaster by that utterly insane woman in the club basement.

I think it's Scorcese's 2nd best film, after Taxi Driver.
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.66.23.11
Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 11:28 am:   

Tim West’s buzzing was rather fine wasn’t it? Possibly one of the great TV horror moments.

My additions to the list…


The creepy twin girls in the corridor in the Shining – and the river of blood from the elevator.

John Cuzack waving at the man in the room opposite in 1408

Syringe pit in Saw 2 – sorry but I have a phobia about needles…

Head Spider in the Thing

Brad Dourif explains the draining blood murder in Exorcist 3

Ju-on Grudge 2 – what’s been causing the knocking sound?

Character stolen into his own hoodie - Grudge 2 (US)
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Hubert (Hubert)
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Posted From: 178.116.51.159
Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 11:40 am:   

The thing on the bed in Mulholland Drive

The cancer ward in Mulholland Falls

The revelation of what happened to the crew in Event Horizon

The thing in the doorway in The Creeping Flesh

The unmasking of the hooded killer in La Llama nel Corpo

Samantha Eggar's performance in The Brood

The menacing figure at the end of the corridor in Session 9

The killer's stare through the slits of his mask in Bloody Bird
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Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 92.8.20.116
Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 11:43 am:   

Lord, there are many...

The little people at the end of Mulholland Drive, and also the figure behind the diner, and the body in the bed.

The breakfast scene in Fire Walk With Me.

The entire first section of Lost Highway.

Arbogast's last scene in Psycho.

The playground scene in The Birds.

The young girl's walk to the store and back in The Leopard Man.

Karloff's resurrection in The Mummy.

The face at the car window in Carnival of Souls.

"A Drop of Water" in I Tre Volti della Paura.

The unmasking of the witch's corpse in La Maschera del Demonio.

The first section of Suspiria.

The beast in Beast from Haunted Cave (doesn't work for everyone, but I think it's thoroughly Lovecraftian).
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
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Posted From: 194.66.23.11
Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 11:54 am:   

Tippi Hedren smokes her cigarette – The Birds

Night of the Living Dead/It’s a wonderful Life crossover – 976 Evil 2 (only good scene in the film, but boy is it good)

Hospital scene in walking Dead

Camera backs slowly down stairs and out of the house – Frenzy

Death in the food cupboard – Parents – also the “Mom I didn’t have a nightmare” nightmare
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Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey)
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Posted From: 92.8.20.116
Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 11:54 am:   

By gum, Hubert, you've listed one that floors me. Is La Llama nel Corpo available on DVD? I'm not even sure I ever saw it.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 147.252.230.148
Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 12:28 pm:   

A listicle, that's what this is. The ugliest neologism that's ever encountered me.
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Hubert (Hubert)
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Posted From: 178.116.51.159
Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 12:29 pm:   

Alas no, Ramsey. As far as I know DVD release was cancelled because of the bad state of the master. The soundtrack, on the other hand, is readily available. Go figure.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
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Posted From: 147.252.230.148
Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 12:29 pm:   

I still feel that Arbogast's interview with Norman Bates is perhaps the best scene in the film.
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Joel (Joel)
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Posted From: 217.37.199.45
Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 01:51 pm:   

The last scene of Psycho – rather contrived, but it dispels the cosiness of the protracted rational explanation and restores the sense of mystery.

Trelkovsky's crippled ascent of the staircase in The Tenant – so disturbing I'm still not sure (after three viewings) what is 'real' and what is delusion.

The sudden silence of the park scene in Carnival of Souls.

Heather's cry "Oh my God what the fuck was THAT?" in The Blair Witch Project.

The last scene of The Innocents, when the ghosts are nowhere to be seen and we're just left with the people and the utter despair of there being no possible redemption through 'occult' intervention, nothing but bitter failure.
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Lincoln (Lincoln_brown)
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Posted From: 121.214.55.206
Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 02:21 pm:   

Rubber ball bouncing down stairs - 'The Changeling'

When they come across the sticks hanging from the trees - 'The Blair Witch Project'.

The 'kids' trying to convince the mum to turn out the lights, while upstairs the 'mum' is doing the same to the kids - 'Darkness'.
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.66.23.11
Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 02:22 pm:   

The childrens game in The Orphanage...

Most of the Descent
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Craig (Craig)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 03:13 pm:   

Wow, some uber-scary ones listed so far!

The Lovecraftian in me votes for too many scenes to mention in ALIEN and THE THING, but I'll add....

Laura Dern stumble-walking along the night-path towards the camera in INLAND EMPIRE

Count Orlock approaches his hiding-under-the-covers visitor in NOSFERATU

The train-jumping girl wandering around the lost ruins in broad daylight in TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD (the final train scene there, too)

Sam Neill appearing at the door, his young son madly rushing to drown himself in the bathtub, at the conclusion of POSSESSION.

Donald Sutherland in the final scene of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS

Patrick McGee listening in to the graves with his invention in Fulci's THE BLACK CAT
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John Forth (John)
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Posted From: 217.20.16.180
Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 03:37 pm:   

What a good thread.

The thing with the sheet and the shears in EXORCIST III.

Sadako, of course, at the end of RING
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Zed (Gary_mc)
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Posted From: 217.156.210.82
Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 03:53 pm:   

"I live in the weak and the wounded" from SESSION 9.
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Protodroid (Protodroid)
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Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 04:09 pm:   

How could I forget that scene from Exorcist III? It's my favourite.

Oh yes, and Kaufman's BODYSNATCHERS:
"People are returning to normal."

and...

"I hate you!"
"We don't hate you."
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Craig (Craig)
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Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 04:44 pm:   

Also: black-eyed Ray Milland at the conclusion of THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES, explaining what he's seen at the heart of the universe....

Also: the eerie and surreal conclusion of THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN.
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
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Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 05:06 pm:   

And the fabled last line that was allegedly cut from the end of TMWTX-RE - "I can still see!"
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Tony (Tony)
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Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.156.233.176
Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 07:01 pm:   

My blood used to freeze while watching the bit in Candyman where the two women go through the hole in the wall.
A recent shocker for me was Tarantula of all things, the big fanny-like maw lunging up at the window.
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James Armstrong (James_armstrong)
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Posted From: 82.43.233.47
Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 07:47 pm:   

Laura Palmer's dream sequence and her realisation of Bob's other form in Fire Walk With Me.

The moment Rex shows the other characters what his hacking has revealed in My Little Eye.

Any scene in which Danny rides his tricycle through the halls in The Shining.

The shape in the sea from The Long Weekend.

The first glimpse of the penthouse creature in REC.

A peek under the sink in A Tale of Two Sisters

The baby crying in The Blair Witch Project.

The playing card scene in Evil Dead

The death of Barry Convex in Videodrome.

Cutting the bandages in Eraserhead.

The dreamlike riverboat escape in The Night of the Hunter.

The final frames of Onibaba.

There may be more to come!
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Craig (Craig)
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Posted From: 166.216.226.71
Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 08:39 pm:   

The ghost scenes in Olivier's HAMLET.

Those scary shadow ghost things in GHOST were pretty unsettling too....
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John Forth (John)
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Posted From: 82.24.1.217
Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 09:13 pm:   

The animal-masked heads appearing over the wall as Edward Woodward realises that he can't get his seaplane started in THE WICKER MAN. And, of course, the reveal of the wicker man itself at the film's climax.
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John Forth (John)
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Posted From: 82.24.1.217
Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 09:15 pm:   

CARRIE's red mist comes down.
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James Armstrong (James_armstrong)
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Posted From: 86.148.186.84
Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 - 10:11 pm:   

Also in Night of the Hunter, any time Mitchum's preacher lets forth that otherworldly cry of anger.
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
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Posted From: 109.150.142.93
Posted on Monday, June 20, 2011 - 02:28 am:   

Just to ressurect this. I can't believe I didn't mention the opening of The Stepfather!!!!

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