Movie / TV show scenes that really freaked you out!!!
Having just watched the infamous 'boat ride' scene in Willy Wonka, I thought I'd start a discussion on which parts of films or tv shows really scared you as a child.
Here are mine :-
The scene in 'Close Encounters Of The Third Kind' where the kid gets abducted by the aliens. That really scared the absolute shit out of me when I was five and even today it sends shivers down my spine.
The man with no face in Sapphire and Steel was probably the freakiest thing I have ever seen on tv.
There was an episode of 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' that ended with a guy buried alive in a coffin. He was banging on the lid and screaming. I can't remember anything else about the episode or what it was called but it freaked me out.
Oddly enough, I don't remember ever seeing the boat ride scene in Willy Wonka so I assume that it was cut out every time the film was shown on tv. Either that or I repressed the scene as I was too freaked out by it. Probably the former though.
Necros.
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Here are mine :-
The scene in 'Close Encounters Of The Third Kind' where the kid gets abducted by the aliens. That really scared the absolute shit out of me when I was five and even today it sends shivers down my spine.
The man with no face in Sapphire and Steel was probably the freakiest thing I have ever seen on tv.
There was an episode of 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' that ended with a guy buried alive in a coffin. He was banging on the lid and screaming. I can't remember anything else about the episode or what it was called but it freaked me out.
Oddly enough, I don't remember ever seeing the boat ride scene in Willy Wonka so I assume that it was cut out every time the film was shown on tv. Either that or I repressed the scene as I was too freaked out by it. Probably the former though.
Necros.
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A "tales of the unexpected" episode where someone is drowned in the bath, but they suddenly leap out. I could not go into the bathroom without being scared until I was about 10. Even now as I think back...cold sweat....all over.
He was given a dog or a cat or something to keep him company while he was imprisoned, eventually he had the idea that if he put the dog or cat through the electric type fence then it'll stop it so he can escape.
The dilemna was should he use this animal to be killed to get his escape ! I remember this vaguely from years and years ago as i remember being upset at the time when the animal on screen was dead !
That was the Saphire and Steel episode based in WWII, and there was a kid with no face whistling "Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag".
The hitchhiker wearing the yellow souwester with the long silver finger nail in Hammer House of Horror. I had the entire series on DVD for Christmas and it still scares the arse off me.
Yeah, I remember that one. It was a small terrier type dog and he threw a stick for it to chase and it got fried!!!
I did'nt realise there were so many episodes.
http://www.tv.com/tales-of-the-unexpected/show/978/episode_listings.html
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1) Armchair thriller 1978 - Quiet As A Nun
There was a nun with no Face !!! Very Scarey
2 Beasts 1976 - a Nigel Kneale Series, particular, one particular episode was entitled "BABY" - Was Terifying for an 8 year old
"A young couple expecting a child move into an old farmhouse that they are having renovated. They discover an old urn hidden in a wall cavity that contains the body of a hideous, mutant creature. Before long, something is lurking in the surrounding woods and the wife is woken one night by what sounds like a baby crying..."
http://www.eofftv.com/b/bea/beasts_main.htm
a couple of scenes in the OMEN - again, too late at night, too young.
That wasn't Sapphire and Steel - I have the six S&S stories on DVD, on there's nothing like you describe in there. I do think that Saphire and Steel was probably the most frightening Television program I've ever seen, though.
There's a bit in the Jams Bond film, Diamonds are Forever, that always shook me up (seriously!). You know that bit where Bond goes on top of the lift, to the top of the building, and swings across the top of one skyskraper to another? The way the camera is angled, so that you see right down is very unsettling, far more so than in the countless other films/TV programs where you see the view from eighty floors (or whatever) up.
There was that TV film I mentioned in another post (where the girl kills herself, and her father (who is an inventor) saves her brain, and puts it in a clockwork body.
And there was a brilliant episode of the old Twilight Zone, where two American astronauts have been in space, being the first men to ever leave Earth's atmosphere. The two men (call them Smith and Jones, as I can't remember their names) are taken to hospital, for a few days, then Smith is released, but Jones is kept in for observation, and whilst Jones is reading the paper (with the headline: "Both astronauts return safely to Earth"), whilst sitting on one of the two beds in the hospital room, Smith returns and asks him if he remembers Johnson. Jones says "Who?", and Smith tells him that there were three astronauts, and that all three went up in space, and came down safely, but now Johnson has disappeared and no-one seems to remember him. Smith then sees the newspaper and says "that headline originally said "All three astronauts..." not two", and Jones tries to calm him down.
Smith refuses to calm down, saying that in this hospital room there were originally three beds (for Smith, Jones and Johnson) but now there are two, and Jones says "there were only ever two, I've never even met anyone called Johnson, the mission was two man only), and Smith gets hysterical, saying that he belives some force or other resents them having left the Earth, so it was wiping them from existance. He runs out of the room in panic.
Jones, very worried for Smith's mental state, rushes out, but can't find Smith, so he returns to his room. When he gets there, there is only one bed in the room, and the newspaper has the headline "Astronuat returns safely to Earth". He panics, and screams for the nurse, but when she arrives she says she's never heard of Smith, and adds how brave she thinks he [Jones] is for going into space all by himself. Jones gets hysterical, so the nurse goes to get a Doctor, and when the Doctor arrives the room is empty, there are no beds there, and no-one remembers Jones, not even the Doctor or nurse.
(Did you see the new Twilight Zone, by the way? Wasn't it weak? And the new presenter was nowhere near as good as Rod Stirling).
One of the best horror films ever, the 1946(ish) film "Dead of Night" is one of the horror comilations, so common on late night TV, where four or five people tell horror stories, usually with an encompassing story to join the people together, like the one where some people are on a train, and a mysterious stranger reads their fortunes, then they arrive at a deserted train station, and realise that they are dead (the train ride being death, and the station being their destination). There are a stack of these films, some with good horror stories, some with weak, and most having a mixture. Well, the Dead of Night, has *by far* the best overall encompassing story, which I won't say here, as it's far better if you watch it yourself.
The Ring (Japanese version, not the far inferior American version) was unsettling too, especially when [actually, I won't say, just watch the film).
And for some reason, I *always* found the TV theme tune to "Tales of the Unexpected" very disturbing (even now, as I downloaded it sometime ago from a TV theme WWW page, and it is still unnerving).
Seeing the face of Frankenstien (the Boris Carloff original) in the film for the first time was unsettling. Or how about the League of Gentleman's Christmas special, where the young Englishman sees the German bloke on the ceiling (in his dream).
Or, when I was a kid, seeing Jaws for the first time, when the diver goes near a sunken boat, and a dead face floats up on screen. Or on the old version of Salem's Lot, where the vampire kid appears at his friends window - that was terrifying when I was a kid. Or Bricktop, the evil ganster in the film "Snatch" - very nasty. Come to think of it, as a Kid, the scene in Walt Disney's Pinoccio where the naughty boys turn into donkeys was quite frightening.
One of the most disturbing things I've ever seen on TV was an advertisment (public information film, rather), a few years ago, and it was a mixture of real life and cartoon (like in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"), where there was a cartoon boy, and everything else was real. The (real) man keeps on hitting and punching the cartoon boy, who eventually falls down stairs, and then the camera pans down to where the boy, who is now real, is lying unconscious or dead, and the line "Real children don't bounce" appears on the screen. Horrible, but it had to be shown, I suppose.
Along those lines, there occasionally some upsetting adverts for the NSPCC, RSPCA, anti-drink-drive campaigns, and so on.
Anyway, more on topic, what about that horrific scene in the film (can't remember it's name) where some Nazi tortues Dustin Hoffman by drilling a hole through his teeth?
Still makes me feel sick, just thinking about it.
Oh, and finally (long post, I know) one other thing that both made me almost sick and yet I couldn't stop laughing at, was in the episode of Bottom where it's Richies birthday, and he falls off the ladder and breaks his leg, and you see it stuck up at an impossible angle, and Eddie tries to push it in straight for him. It's horrible yet hilarious at the same time.
Marathon Man. I keep meaning to watch that film. I heard it was really good.
While I'm here, does anyone remember the episode of 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' that I mentioned above (I'm certain it's not the one with the woman in the prison as I remember it was a man in the coffin at the end). What was the name of the episode? I really want to see that again as it really freaked me out years ago.
Necros.
Stephen King's 'The Thing' was horrificly gripping until you seen the hilarious monster at the end. Spoiled the whole movie!
Really weird and scary (at the time anyway).
Necros.
Strangely enough i'm okay looking at pictures of soldiers squashed by tanks etc, the minute its an animal i cant see it though !
The pictures of people found decayed and melted into a bath after months are very bad though !
Frankenstein, Dracula, Zombie type films etc, they were excellent and scary to a 12 year old but now i think theyre terrible.
Staying in a hotel in a room with a window near to lots of countryside with grasshoppers etc in Cornwall gave me the creeps after my dad actually let me watch Salems Lot. About 13 or 14 at the time, the bit with the kid at the window scratching saying 'let me in' , boy that was scary back then !!
The Ring
but most of all the Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Good call ! I was quite young when V came out which was totally hyped, thought it was quite boring at first then when i realised they were lizards it was quite cool
Near the end of V it really was quite dire with an alien man having a kid etc from what i remember.
Also Pam Ayers, the poet. I had a series of nightmares that she was really the witch from the Wizard of Oz and after that I couldn't watch her on TV. To this day, most ofmy fears exist only in my head. I shall be sending Pam Ayers the costs for all of my psychiatric help.
Wasnt she some spy or something ?!
When she hobbles james caan with the sledhammer.
That's gotta hurt...
Saving Private Ryan
The yank and the german fighting with the bayonet.
I liked it so much that I bought the box set :) It's amazing that out of all 13 of those hour long films made, this is the one that everyone remembers most.
I bet it's the birthday party scene where blood shoots out of the pipes that you're thinking of... as it had the same effect on me too.
There was another of those films that I always remember, in which Denholm Elliot plays an estate agent who has recurring dreams, that he believes are real.
In one scene, he's at the top floor in a stairwell of a tower block that is in the process of being demolished. The scene where he's running down loads of stairs, seemingly never getting down to the bottom, whilst rubble and bricks are raining down on him. Not really scarey, but the kind of situation that nightmares are made of :)
1 - When the Vampre rises up from the floor in the kitchen in Salems Lot
2 - Twilight Zone the Movie, when the kid who lives in a cartoon world says that his sister talked/or ate too much so he took her mouth away!!! Shes sat in a chair and turns round....oooooh jesus that still scares the arse off me.
Mind you Nosferatu in the 1930's version is pretty damn scary.
Todays horror films are just shite,to be honest. Too much CGI and crap monsters. Descents OK, and Ring 1 is ok, but nothing compared to older dtuff.
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There's a simple scene in The Andromeda Strain where they cut open a dead body and instead of blood coming out of one of the veins, some kind of ashy powder came out instead. That really disturbed me for some reason.