h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

What scary moments do you remember from tv and films? I often find films scary until the monster appears then its a disappointment. Genuine scary moments I find few and far apart. One exception was Alien I, that film had me seating back in my cinema chair many times.

one moment i never forget is when 'Bob' appears in a photograph discovered by Kyle MacLachlan's character in Twin Peaks

Several moments from the Sixth Sense always make my heart skip a beat, even though I'm expecting them. The vomiting girl is one, obviously (first time I saw that, I was in the middle of a row of 6 blokes who did a sort of involuntary Mexican Wave of fright); the other is the pair of legs that walk past the toilet.

The hallucination scene from The Shining still freaks me out as well.

As does the crocodile attack in Crocodile Dundee. I'm just a big girl's blouse, really.

B

the shining gets me too

how about rosemarys baby..where you see the eyes

When i was a kid:

The bit where the toys go crazy in Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind

The bit where Holly describes the gasing of the old (Sandleford) warren in Watership Down.



Now:

The woman in bath in The Shining

Most of Alien

just about all of Angelheart, very atmospheric and scary but the only monsters are human

The moment Ed Norton realises he his Tyler Durden.

Scared me, and a plot twist I didn't see coming.

Make soap, you know it makes sense.......




G

is, not his........



G

The bit at the end of Carrie where her hand comes out of the grave. Always scares the crap out of me.

Otherwise the whole of The Evil Dead (unless I'm nicely cushioned by alcohol).

the end scene of the blairwitch project makes my blood run cold

The bit in Independance day where Dr Okum is thrown against the window of the lab by the alien he's operating on, and the bit in Fatal Attraction where Glen Close sits up in the bath after she's supposed to have drowned, I was still shaking when I came out of the cinema after that

The Childcatcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Dick Van Dykes accent in Mary Poppins.

Basically all of Seven. Though that was just icky and made me fell dirty. Never seen the film again and never want to again. Good film though.

Loads of Dr Who of course.

The Childcatcher? Really?

B

He's scarey if you're aged about 6

For me it was the first time i saw American Werewolf in London ~ the big transformation scene scared me witless.

The final scenes from "The Big Pull".

*wonders if anyone else is sufficiently long in the tooth to remember this*

Noggin

The last scene in Don't Look Now (with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland) when he follows the 'little girl' into the dark tower and then . . .the dwarf . . . with the knife. . . the look on his face . . . oh, I can't go on . . .

az

Evil Dead, scared me to death too

I've jsut watched Godsend and the bit in the bath made me jump,as did the bits where the arm grabs him

the second half of the grudge scares me


thats the only thing that has ever scared me!

Anyone seen 'Saw'? The bit with the guy in the circus mask with the red swirly shapes on the cheeks. Scared the bejesus outa me! I'm a bit of a wimp really!