Creepiest or scariest scene in a movie.

I think the murder sequence in Taxi Driver is the most frightening five minutes of film I have ever witnessed because it is so completely uncinematic. As familiar as I am with De Niro and Keitel, I always feel as if I'm looking at a documentary (or, in this case, a snuff film). I don't know how many times I've seen this film, but I always find myself looking away from the screen or closing my eyes during this part.

The "Lost Hightway" post was dead-on--Lynch is definitely the master of creepy. I think I've posted this elsewhere, but I remember the girl with scoliosis from "Pet Cemetary" freaked me out to no end when I saw the movie as a kid.

The scenes in the beginning of the Exorcist with Max von Sydow in the Iraqi desert.

The last ten minutes or so of the Blair witch Project were somewhat creepy.

David Cronenberg's movies always have a few creepy scenes, but usually in the more visceral, make-you-squirm kind of way.

But as far as creepiness in the classic sense, David Lynch owns this thread.

Also, I know it's uncool to cite visually explicit scenes in this context, but the torture scene at the end of Audition... ach!

Also the scene in Fire Walk With Me with the creamed corn.

Me and my room mate at the time, saw that Mystery Man scene on Leno when David Lynch was a guest, and it was so creepy we were freaked out for the rest of the night.

Mostly it's the stuff I watched as a kid that still freaks me, like the moment in Silver Streak where the dead body falls off the train, or the librarian at the start of Ghostbusters. Or John Gordon-Sinclair being cannibalised on some Channel 4 TV movie.

The end of "Seconds'. ...unforgettable....

Fish...fish...the fish

or some shit like that. They're all dressed in some freaky weird costumes with bendy distorted limbs and I feel major revulsion seeing that. I try to avoid that scene if the movie is on. Truly disturbing to me.

... and it went... wherever I... did go!

I think the freakiest part of that scene is peering deep down that fish-eye-lens-shot hallway (as scary as any of Kubricks, sort of) and seeing a fucking freaky shape hulking up from the distance and coming closer and closer and thinking "Oh God, what is that?!" and it comes up right to the lens.

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REB

i knew something was going to happen, but holy FUCK was that terrifying.

..excellent screen saver

YOU ARE GOING TO DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

The little kid in Storytelling is the creepiest non-supernatural child I've seen in film, I think.

Most of Fellini Satyricon; the prostitute fondling the money with her feet at the end of L'Avventura; most of Straw Dogs; John Hurt in I Claudius (especially in regards to Drusilla's death); Karen Carpenter viewing her own death at the beginning of The Karen Carpenter Story (I only saw it once when it premiered, but that was among the freakiest things I remember seeing at the time).

??? The beginning of Superstar is a dramatic recreation of Karen's death through the eyes of her mother Agnes.

Se7en - Sloth. Oh come on! Admit it got you first time you saw it!

Wild at Heart - Sherylin Fenn as the car crash girl, or Jack Nance's cameo as the mad old boy. Or the bit when the assassins kill Harry Dean Stanton.

The Shining - I'd acknowledge that the two girls are very creepy, but having watched The League of Gentlemen, whenever they appear I try not to laugh! However the woman in room 237 and the ghost of the previous caretaker do still get to me - something about the cold clinical way he speaks his lines...

"Did you know, Mr. Torrence, that you son is attempting to bring an outside party into this situation? Did you know that?"

Love the way he rolls his rs on 'bring'

-- Eric H. (ephende...), April 20th, 2004.

No, I'm talking about the made-for-TV movie from 1989, not Todd Haynes's film.

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