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  • DrBanjo@reddthat.com
    16·
    7 days ago
    1. Signs - the aliens terrified me and I was scared walking to school for a long time
    2. The scarabs from The Mummy - I thought they would come out from under the sink and the closets to eat me alive
  • antsu@discuss.tchncs.de
    16·
    7 days ago

    In general I never cared much about scary movies, but there is ONE SCENE (in an otherwise crappy movie) that left a strong impression on me.

    In the movie “Signs”, there’s a moment when the news are showing footage from an alien sighting in Brazil. Usually, whenever a US movie tries to depict another country or culture, it ends up being so poorly done it’s almost like a caricature. But not this one…

    The scene is from a birthday party, and every little detail is so authentic that, as a Brazilian, it’s immediately obvious that it was actually recorded in Brazil, at someone’s actual house.

    It’s shaky footage from a camcorder (remember those?). There’s the party decorations, the kids’ hats, the car outside, the voices (which are intelligible Brazilian Portuguese, not gibberish). Everything felt so real and familiar, I could swear I have been in that exact party at some point in my life. And then the alien shows up and HOLY SHIT did that scare me!

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    6 days ago

    To be clear, it still terrifies me.

    I enjoy the rest of the movie but this is one of the greatest horror sequences ever. A remake that truly surpasses the original.

    EDIT: I have to give a shoutout to the movie that had the most real world effect on me. That would be Arachnophobia. I couldn’t function normally for months. Sitting on the toilet. Putting my shoes on. Sticking my hand in a bag of chips. I was a wreck.

  • AAA@feddit.org
    7·
    6 days ago

    Volcano (1997) terrified young me. How could anyone sleep peacefully when lava could just appear out of nowhere?

    Needless to say I never lived even remotely close to any kind of geologically active area, let alone a volcano.

  • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
    7·
    6 days ago

    Darkness falls.

    It’s a movie about the tooth fairy but the tooth fairy is actually an old woman who used to collect the teeth of the children in her village until the townspeople burnt her alive and then she became a spirit who was essentially the tooth fairy but if you ever saw her she’d kill you.

    It’s cheesy as hell but it was terrifying when I was younger

  • psycotica0@lemmy.ca
    10·
    7 days ago

    When I was young, but not that young, there was a show called Duckman or something like that. I didn’t get the channel at home, but I was sleeping over at a friend’s house, and he got this channel, so it was on late at night.

    In the episode the main character breaks up with a woman, and she’s like stalking him for revenge or something, I don’t remember the plot. But in one short scene he’s taking a bath to relax after the stress she’s been causing him, and she pokes her head up out of the bath water with crazy eyes and then pulls him under.

    There was something about that I very much didn’t like. That was the only episode of the show I ever saw, but I’m pretty sure it was supposed to be a burnout comedy ala Beavis and Butthead or something, and I don’t even think this particular moment was meant to be scary. It was probably meant to be exaggerated and silly. But the crazy lady coming out of the water where she shouldn’t be able to be? Nope.

    That fucked me up, on and off, for years. I’d just be laying in bed, and then the image or even the concept would come to me, and I’d feel uneasy. Despite not being in a bath at the time! Ugh.

  • carstenraddatz_fca@nerdica.net
    1·
    4 days ago

    @Suck_on_my_Presence Jaws did, I lived near a lake. Took me a while to realize the lake was really much too small for sharks, but the movie gave me vivid dreams.

    Alien terrified me, as the house I lived in had long dark hallways where those beasts or eggs could hide. Saw the film when video2000 and Betamax were still competing. I never found xenomorphs in my house and terror faded, but the franchise stayed with me including Disneyfication.

    What actually scared me more was Poltergeist. What a terrifying world, house, family, setting, glow from behind closed doors and the TV sucked you in to the other side.

  • TeaAndHotDogs@lemmy.zip
    6·
    6 days ago

    I think it was from one of the Creep Show movies, Tales from the Crypt, or a similar collection, but a short about teens on a raft on a lake being picked off by some kind of black slime/algae thing. Never been comfortable swimming in lakes since

    • uid0gid0@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 days ago

      That story is The Raft by Stephen King. It was included in the book Skeleton Crew, which was a collection of his short stories. The movie version was in Creepshow 2.