Anyone who has seen this film knows what i am talking about...How many of you jumped and or shat your pants!!! Holy Jesus, that scared the wits outta me.
Among other things, it's the timing. Even after watching the film umpteen times, sometimes I'm still caught off-guard by it. Brilliant filmmaking at its best.
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I'm watching it with my daughter tonight and all I have told her about it is that this movie has the single scarriest moment I have ever experienced in a movie theater. I can't wait to see her reaction to it!
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Best timed scare scene in a movie that I think I've ever seen.
Without spoilers:
When I saw it in the theater, people were still laughing...then they dropped the big scare. Slept with a light on for a week after that.
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yep, this is the scariest scene in any movie I've ever seen. Pretty sure this why they closed down Friern Barnet hospital a year after this was made. The longest corridor in europe doubled in length overnight....
shareI've probably never jumped so hard than in that scene. Sure, on the one hand, it's a cheap scare, but on the other ... IT. IS. EFFECTIVE. Even after multiple viewings, there's just something about the perfection of the timing that usually throws me off-guard.
shareI saw this one in the theatre and I swear I had to tighten my sphincter or I would've let loose my bowels. All in all, this movie isn't the greatest, but that one scene is probably the biggest scare I've had watching any movie.
shareNo one was expecting it. It takes it's time to build up and then BAM! When I saw it in the theater I went with a friend of mine and we both jumped out of our chairs...and so did the rest of the theater.
My friend's cousin is getting married to this guy who goes around saying he's not afraid of anything. So my friend decided to show both his cousin and her future husband the movie. None of them have ever seen it before. My friend decided to leave the room by saying he was going to the bathroom, he lied. He just went out the room, closed the door, and stayed there waiting to hear some screams. Sure enough, the scene happens and this "i'm not afraid of anything" guy starts screaming like a little girl. No one can escape that scare.
After this movie there has been no other horror film that has scared me.
I guess I know what scene this is in reference to and it was frightening. But it's the scene about 1 minute BEFORE that particular scene that scared the effin s**t out of me.
shareOk, I'm the clueless one. Which scene is everyone referring to?
Is it the one where the nurse is checking rooms and the cop puts on his hat and walks off screen?
Yep, that's the one. A perfcet example of how to film a scare scene. A lot of modern moviemakers would do well to learn from it. I love the whole film, flawed as it is and this one moment really raises it above a lot of horror movies for this jaded old cynic.
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I didn't care much for the film, although I thought Brad Dourif gave a great performance.
However, that was one fantastic scene!
One of the best scares EVER! I remember it on the big screen, something about the fact that it is an old lady, the white hair!
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I didn't jump myself but I was watching Scream Queens this week and they referenced the kill and my flatmate pointed it out.
So today I watched the Exorcist III for the first time and once I saw the nurse at the reception I knew what scene he was talking about so maybe I was prepared.
RAWR!
I just got through watching that scene on the FEARNET Channel . Even after all these years it still never ceases to freak me out a bit ( even when I gear myself up to know when that scene will be on - but still lol ) including the very first time I saw it at the movies totally didn't expect that . Plus the description of the victim after that scene it was quite disturbing to hear as well . I'm relieved I wasn't the only one here . It must be the combination of the timed shocking music and the sudden swing in close up of the scene . It gets us every time . Thanks sillyheart1977 for your subject post .
shareMy step daughter is 12 and is into "scary" movies of her generation. Some are ok. She always says how none ate really scary. So I decided to show her this movie. And if you've seen the movie it's a slow build to the real scary stuff, and then this scene made her jump out of her seat. All she could say is "don't tell mom"... Lol!!
shareTotally agree stephen_dunston this was quite an effective scene even before the " jump out of our seats scene " also lol . We feel the tension just moments beforehand too - definitely quite memorable . Great story here as well thanks for sharing it with us .
shareThere's something that I'd like to share and please bear with me, this is not a put down of that perfectly executed, jump-out-your seat moment that Blatty got so right.
Last night, after many years, I re-watched WAIT UNTIL DARK directed by Terence Young and starring Audrey Hepburn. I'm willing to bet money that Blatty was inspired (either overtly or subliminally by the time he helmed his film) by the now classic jump-scare moment during the last minutes of DARK. I'm not going to go into detail so as not to ruin for anyone who hasn't seen it - although this kind of shock moment has been done to death since then.
If you go to the boards for WAIT UNTIL DARK, you will see that there are several viewers who also picked on this.
With that said, Blatty did craft a superb terror scene. I was watching his film laying on the bed and, when "it" happened, I almost levitated from the mattress. I took me quite a while after that to calm my heart-poundings...
Good observation - yes, I do see a similarity between "that" scene in Legion and "that other" scene in Wait Until Dark :)
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Yes, a jump scare, but
... it's not a doctor who wakes up. The nurse checks out crackling noises from a patient's room, and in doing so the patient wakes up and yells at her.
It's a doctor having a nap.
The ice in his water are making the noise. He wakes up. Angry for disturbing his rest, demands her name and promises to report her.
Why on earth would a patient be sleeping on the floor, wearing a doctors uniform? Further more, why would the receptionist give a damn if a patient threatened to report her? It's a doctor.
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It is NOT a doctor having a nap, it's a patient in bed wearing a patient's garb, not a physician's coat. Either you're blind as a bat, or you're just a stupid troll. See my reply to your other egregiously off-base post on this board.
shareJust to be clear, are we on about the bit where headless statue goes shooting across the corridor?
shareNo headless statue shoots across the floor. It is a patient, possessed by the Gemini, wrapped in bedsheets and armed with a stolen surgical shears. Yes, that scene is prefaced by Nurse Keating startling a sleeping patient.
shareThat's what it was?
It looked like a cartoon mummy to me, I didn't understand what the big deal was
Yeah, if you slow it or screencap it, it's clearly someone, perhaps female, wrapped in a bedsheet. Other than the great setup, I don't know why there's any mystery to it. Some people think that it's the Christ statue come to life. Of course, there's no precedent for a Christ statue to begin with, it was a bust of Christ.
Interestingly or not, some people also think that some of the ice-clinking sounds are the killer testing out the surgical shears, because, to them, the sound resembles that made by the shears when the doc demonstrates them to Kinderman earlier in the film...
Great Scene!!!
shareOK, wow, calm down, psycho.
Hmmm... Now I've got to watch Wait Until Dark
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