The Single Scariest Scene in Cinema? - Page 5

Nordicdusk · #41 20th March 2012, 11:24 PM

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Originally Posted by mr 420

You must know the bit that I mean. She looks out the window and sees Michael standing between the various items of washing that's hanging on the line.

Thats the part where she gets home from school and she is in her bedroom when she looks out he is just standing between the washing lines. When she looks again hes gone and the phones rings JUMP.

Splatterdragon73 · #42 21st March 2012, 05:58 AM

The opening moments and bathtub sequence in '81's Ghost Story.
Some spectral spookiness at the window in Jack Sholder shocker Alone In The Dark.
The supremely scary 'Dead dad-in-the-dark-room' scene in Michael Winner's The Sentinel.
Last but not least, rotten 'ol cake-cravin' patriarch Nate Grantham shows a hand from beyond the grave in Creepshow.

The same night i saw TS on video when i was a kid, yours truly can recall waking up afterwards with the above spine-tingling moment on my mind! It worked well then and it works well now.

sjconstable · #43 21st March 2012, 07:10 AM

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Originally Posted by mr 420

You must know the bit that I mean. She looks out the window and sees Michael standing between the various items of washing that's hanging on the line.

Yeah she's in her bedroom, not doing the dishes. Also that bit annoys me because she doesn't actually look away, only the camera cuts away from him so it's kind of a cheat.

Gojirosan · #44 21st March 2012, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by gasteropod

Yeah she's in her bedroom, not doing the dishes. Also that bit annoys me because she doesn't actually look away, only the camera cuts away from him so it's kind of a cheat.

All good film-making is cheating and telling lies! Unless you want everything to be like a dreary Ken Loach paean to Realism, let the film-makers use their tricks and revel in them.

sjconstable · #45 21st March 2012, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Gojirosan

All good film-making is cheating and telling lies! Unless you want everything to be like a dreary Ken Loach paean to Realism, let the film-makers use their tricks and revel in them.

But it actually makes no sense because she's looking at him the whole time, all Carpenter had to do was make her do a double-take and it'd have made sense.

Gojirosan · #46 21st March 2012, 12:57 PM

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Originally Posted by gasteropod

But it actually makes no sense because she's looking at him the whole time, all Carpenter had to do was make her do a double-take and it'd have made sense.

I see what you're saying, but it bothers me not one jot!

Splatterdragon73 · #47 21st March 2012, 01:13 PM

The 'Dreamhouse' segment of '83 horror anthology Screamtime retains the power to unsettle and disturb imo.
The famous "D'you wanna see somethin' really scary?" opening of The Twilight Zone movie still merits a mention too.
Lastly, the creepy old woman who glides past one frightened female guest in William Castle's original The House On Haunted Hill.

PaulD · #48 21st March 2012, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Splatterdragon73

The famous "D'you wanna see somethin' really scary?" opening of The Twilight Zone movie still merits a mention :

That was a film I only saw for the first time last year but I suspect if I'd seen that as a child I would have been traumatised. It's such an odd and unexpected moment, I find it hard to put my finger on what makes it so good to be honest.