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Creepy movie scenes that were downright chilling material (avoid actual spoilers)

posted 7 years ago by iceflamez (102)
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Let's respect ourselves here and don't include jump scare scenes. I mean there are some meticulously crafted ones like the notorious Exorcist III one, but let's be honest, for the most part they are cheapshots.

I will include 2 :

1) Lake Mungo (2008) : Those who have seen the movie probably know which one i am talking about, movie's events culminate to something truly terrifying, one of the few times i felt genuine terror down my spine.

2) Pulse (Kairo) (2001) : The ghost sequences were creepy af, very unsettling to watch.

[–] iceflamez (102) 7 years ago

No takers? You don't watch many horror flicks around here i take it ?

[–] actionkamen (23176) 7 years ago

Sanctum (2011)
When the bad guy and his girlfriend that got separated with the rest of the team have been found, the implied scene that he might have had eaten his dead girlfriend corpse to survive is chilling eventhough it's nowhere to be seen on-screen.

[–] Cuddlebunny909 (71) 7 years ago

Does it necessarily have to be of the horror genre?

[–] [email protected] (5926) 7 years ago

Well the first scene that comes to mind IS a bit of a "jump scare". But it's not gratuitous. It's important to the plot. In Alien, Kane bends over to look at the strange egg and there seems to be something "moving" inside.

I've seen that movie dozens of times, so it no longer makes me jump. One night I played it for a guy I was dating, who unbelievably never saw the film. We were sitting on the couch and when that scene happened he literally JUMPED! I couldn't figure out why. LOL Then I remembered, it is scary the first time you see it.

But Alien did have a number of scenes which were chilling before anything bad actually happened. Brett, all alone, going searching for the cat...Captain Dallas crawling through the air ducts looking for the alien in order to drive it out of the airlock, where is it? I need to find it but do I really want to encounter it??

[–] MissMargoChanning (6630) 7 years ago

I shouldn't think that it has to be of the horror genre.
I was just thinking of They Shoot Horses, Don't They? I still get the heebie jeebies thinking about Jane Fonda dragging the dead Red Buttons around that dance floor to the finish line!

I always get the chills seeing the final scene in the original Planet of the Apes. Even having seen it a number of times, when I see what Charlton Heston sees in that last part, I get the feeling a person feels when you're in an elevator and it stops or starts.

[–] iceflamez (102) 7 years ago

No, regardless of genre!

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77571) 7 years ago

The Descent: the final scene still breaks my heart and chills me
A great horror movie...i made the mistake of showing my wife one night and she teared up :( she was miffed at me for a couple of days!

Calvaire: extremely creepy Belgian horror from 2004...the tavern dance was creepy, weird and unforgettable.

Island of Death: the lamb in the garden...thats all i will say about this murder spree oddity:o

[–] Wint3rFir3 (7188) 7 years ago

I second The Descent final scene. Chills.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21542) 4 years ago

Island of Death is one messed up movie.

[–] jriley555 (8214) 4 years ago

ditto on the calvaire dance scene - very creepy film all around

[–] MissMargoChanning (6630) 7 years ago

I have two....

The Innocents, 1961. There are actually a number of scenes that are disturbing, but the scenes that I find particularly creepy are the ones where Miss Giddens sees The deceased Miss Jessel, in the hall, the classroom and across the lake.
If you or anyone who is reading this has seen the movie, you will know what I am talking about.

The Haunting, 1963. It's where the two women are sleeping in the same bed and Julie Harris's character wakes up and experiences an intense moment. The women have been frightened. The lights in the bedroom come on, and it seems that Harris has been laying on a chaise lounge instead of the bed. Her room mate is clear across the room. Harris is stunned and looks down and says, Whose hand was I holding?
That give me the chills any time I see it.

[–] Frogarama (12942) 7 years ago

The remake of Insomnia: When Pacino sees his dead partner sitting in the shadow of the curtains, just barely... Can't quite tell if there's someone there... Then he turns to look toward Pacino. The entire thing is barely visible, and so fast. I still get chills just thinking about that scene.

The Others: When the family discovers the seance. I was really into this movie when I first saw it, and at that point the creepiness of [spoiler]realizing we're on "the other side"[/spoiler] had a big impact on me. I felt like I was living this experience with them. On the second viewing, the movie gave me a two-day powerful sensation of the futility of life.

[–] Cuddlebunny909 (71) 7 years ago

I agree with that scene in “The Others” as well. So chilling to know that little boy was the one haunting the actual living boy all along. Im getting goosebumps thinking about it all over again

[–] sut6432 (2908) 7 years ago

I have a lot, but most recently I watched "1922" on Netflix, and let's just say there is a scene with a bunch of rats and someone walking slowly down the basement stairs approaching a man who has fallen down, and it was VERY creepy and unsettling.

[–] TexasJack (12516) 7 years ago

Blair Witch Project (1999) https://moviechat.org/tt0185937/The-Blair-Witch-Project

In the last shot the camera pans around the room and shows the one guy facing the corner, seemingly frozen even though Heather is screaming at him — just like the story they heard earlier where the child killer made one of his victims face the corner while he killed the other one. Chilling!

[–] iceflamez (102) 7 years ago

You nailed it. That was definitely top 10 chilling scenes material.

[–] ColumboKate (5678) 4 years ago

Yes!😱 this terrified me when I saw it at the cinema.