The climactic scene of the 1950s French film Les Diaboliques is absolutely terrifying and brilliantly executed. It’s impossible! He’s alive! A detective looks at a piece of paper, with the location of Burton’s next attack scrawled across it: “Windscale”. Just as the doctor reaches to disconnect the life support machine, the heart monitor triggers back into life, Burton’s arms move and eyes open. TheRickles The Medusa Touchīeaten, lying dead in a hospital, the psychokinetic antagonist, played by Richard Burton, who has wrought disaster and death on a global scale, has just destroyed a cathedral with all the people inside. The only time I’ve ever seen everyone on both sides of me in the cinema jump out of their seats and scream together. The moment when Audrey Hepburn realizes Alan Arkin is still in the room. babystrange Wait Until DarkĪ still from 1967’s Wait Until Dark. badchampionsįor me, it’s got to be the conversation in the gents between Jack Nicholson and the very, very English butler in The Shining … impeccably acted, shot, as creepy as anything. If you were to strip it of its supernatural and uncanny elements, you are still left with a disturbing portrait of domestic violence and coercion. Two things stand out: Wendy Carlos’s punishing soundtrack and the expression of pure fright and horror in Shelley Duvall’s eyes. The Shining is the scariest movie I’ve ever seen. It’s nearly 40 years since I saw it, and I haven’t had a bath since. The bathtub scene in room 237 of The Shining. The more times she did this, the more invincible and ubiquitous she became until I was convinced that she was able to transgress all boundaries and actually crawl out of my TV into my room. The effect of Samara – an emotionless entity due to her long black hair covering her face – appearing from the well in the distance and then vanishing only to reappear slightly closer until she was looking at you through the screen and then (in the film) actually crawling out of it. None has affected me quite like The Ring though, it literally got into my head and stayed there for a while. I love horror films it’s my favourite genre and I have watched most. The Ring and Samara coming out of the well, getting scarily closer to the TV screen. waste,” then takes his foot off the clutch! MoaningOldMan The Ring The scene in the truck stop when he dares C Thomas Howell to stop him, Howell can’t, Hauer sighs, says, “You. The bit in The Hitcher where the Jennifer Jason Leigh character is …Īll the worse because Rutger Hauer’s acting convinces you that yes, he’d really do that. I watched The Thing when I was 11 (thanks again, cousins) and that husky scene and, later, the spider head bit has stayed with me ever since. It is now viewed as a classic, but I said that back in 1982. I thought it was a masterpiece, but the hostile reviews and the cute melodrama of ET took a huge toll on John Carpenter, who never really recovered. The sequence regarding the blood test had members of the audience screaming in genuine terror. When I first saw it in 1982, the staff turned down the heating to make the cinema even colder. nightswim The Thingįor me, hands down it is The Thing. All the more upsetting because he’s a nice guy, doesn’t deserve it, and it’s an act of wickedness designed to prey on his greatest fear that he’d disclosed to the antagonist in confidence. It’s horrific, even if he technically only “hallucinates” pulling live hornets out of his bodily orifices, with a massive swarm of them stuck to his back, driving him to suicide. The scarab beetle terror was taken to another level, I feel, with the Bradley Cooper “hornets” scene in Case 39. Photograph: Photo Credit: Kimberley Franch/Kimberley French
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