tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post8778978434799006044..comments2024-03-29T08:45:57.792-04:00Comments on Patricia Abbott (pattinase): The Scariest Scene in a Horror Moviepattinase (abbott)http://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-65247701848944651892011-08-27T22:43:57.054-04:002011-08-27T22:43:57.054-04:00I need to point out I know the difference between ...I need to point out I know the difference between "herd" and "heard."Cap'n Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11783977137812876489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-52256392967590794972011-08-27T08:21:03.297-04:002011-08-27T08:21:03.297-04:00Memories of polio scare me even now.Memories of polio scare me even now.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-78125206653921128512011-08-27T00:36:04.897-04:002011-08-27T00:36:04.897-04:00One last note. When I was a very young lad there w...One last note. When I was a very young lad there was a joke running around that went like this:<br />"I hear you have polio."<br /><br />"No I don't."<br /><br />"Then how come your middle leg's so short?"<br /><br />So this kid comes up to me and says, "I hear you have polio." Not having herd the joke before, I thought he knew something that I didn't and a cold knife of fear went right through me.Cap'n Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11783977137812876489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-78112101668220826172011-08-26T11:46:16.069-04:002011-08-26T11:46:16.069-04:00I can't think of too many contemporary movies ...I can't think of too many contemporary movies that are classified as horror that really scare me any more. Most horror movies these days do nothing but repulse me with gore, torture porn and brutality. I have to think of the first movies I saw when I was a kid. How about the scene where the mutants are worshiping the "strange god" in BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES and pull off their masks to reveal their true selves and the "god" is revealed to be... All that weird chanting and the music. I was <i>freaked out.</i> Terrified! I was only nine years old. It was the first movie we were allowed to see at night in a movie theater on our own.<br /><br />Usually claustrophobic scenes and people in perilous situations terrify me and scare me as an adult. The movie about the mountain climber in Peru who is cut from his lifeline and plummets into a crevasse scared the hell out of me. That whole movie to me is a nightmare come true. People trapped in caves, trapped underwater, trapped in elevators. Adult everyday fears more so than spook stuff. Kristin Scott Thomas being left in the cave in THE ENGLISH PATIENT thinking that Ralph Fiennes will return but he is detained and he can never go back to rescue her. So horrifying and so sad. That haunted me for days afterwards.J F Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-90851929444298495842011-08-26T06:07:30.040-04:002011-08-26T06:07:30.040-04:00Polio scared all of us to death, I'm afraid.Polio scared all of us to death, I'm afraid.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-8964746589093657122011-08-25T23:55:36.484-04:002011-08-25T23:55:36.484-04:00Jerry Lewis singing You'll Never Walk Alone at...Jerry Lewis singing You'll Never Walk Alone at the end of his telethon scares the pants off of me, too. Seriously, I saw a film about polio when I was a shcool kid--before they had a vaccine--and it creeped me out badly. Ditto a film about frostbite I saw in the Army.Cap'n Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11783977137812876489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-8418554688341473132011-08-25T21:57:45.823-04:002011-08-25T21:57:45.823-04:00The exoricist would be my choice too. Several real...The exoricist would be my choice too. Several really creepy scenes. Ghost story when the woman is pushed under the water in the tub and comes up screaming.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-49804045228729292632011-08-25T21:30:54.909-04:002011-08-25T21:30:54.909-04:00THE BODY SNATCHER being the best film to feature b...THE BODY SNATCHER being the best film to feature both Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. Though THE BLACK CAT wasn't too shabby.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-48321209372505391672011-08-25T21:29:44.449-04:002011-08-25T21:29:44.449-04:00THE CRAWLING EYE was one of the films written by B...THE CRAWLING EYE was one of the films written by Brit hero Jimmy Sangster (appropriate surname), who just died (I like other of his films better, but that one made for a good MST3K).<br /><br />THE LEOPARD MAN (Harlan Ellison's favorite from childhood, too), like CAT PEOPLE, was from the Lewton Unit at RKO. THE BODY SNATCHER from them is my next-favorite, certainly for horripilation...though their suspense film, THE SEVENTH VICTIM, deserves every good thing Ed Gorman writes about it.<br /><br />My friend Steven Durost, still in high school, was brilliant in a community(!) stage production of an adaptation of Poe's "The Black Cat"...it's a pity he probably wouldn't want to do that sort of thing as an adult.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-87643049416068715222011-08-25T18:10:31.438-04:002011-08-25T18:10:31.438-04:00Yes, those two from The Shining are up there. Cool...Yes, those two from <i>The Shining</i> are up there. Cool stuff. The Goebbels lookalike in the bar is pretty scary, too.Erik Donald Francehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02332500850365598564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-8698479805791399042011-08-25T17:02:54.301-04:002011-08-25T17:02:54.301-04:00Phil saw it at the theater but not me. On TV is lo...Phil saw it at the theater but not me. On TV is lost a bit but not all of its power.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-29508343271769411862011-08-25T16:16:58.999-04:002011-08-25T16:16:58.999-04:00I'm not sure what the difference might be betw...I'm not sure what the difference might be between "scared" and "white-knuckled anticipation of something bad" but if the latter counts then for me it's any one of several scenes in ALIEN. I watched it in the afternoon in an otherwise empty theater and gripped the chair arms so hard I had trouble losing my hands. Yikes. Dark, wet, creeping horror.<br /><br />I also agree with Todd on the final confrontation in FIVE MILLION YEARS TO EARTH.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-41592203054255936532011-08-25T14:56:58.968-04:002011-08-25T14:56:58.968-04:00True. Days after I saw THE ENTITY and POLTERGEIST ...True. Days after I saw THE ENTITY and POLTERGEIST I had a foreboding that something awful was going to happen to everyone at home. I find movies based on the paranormal more terrifying than the normal horror fare, because they seem so real. Everything within your peripheral vision starts coming to life, especially at nights. And what's worse, you can't shake off the dreadful feeling.Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-91254782200189137172011-08-25T14:22:06.918-04:002011-08-25T14:22:06.918-04:00Somehow imaging what was going on was worse than w...Somehow imaging what was going on was worse than watching it.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-80378543876396031382011-08-25T13:45:02.467-04:002011-08-25T13:45:02.467-04:00I remember a play that had one very frightening sc...I remember a play that had one very frightening scene. I think it was DEATHTRAP. (Not a hundred percent sure about the title.)<br /><br />There's a scene when a person thought dead suddenly lunges onto the stage through a window. My daughter and her friend and I jumped out of our seats. Literally.<br /><br />The most frightening scene in a film for me has always been one in an old black and white noir movie, THE LEOPARD MAN.<br /><br />A girl is being killed by an escaped leopard out of sight of the audience. The action takes place behind a closed front door. We are inside the house as her frantic family tries to open the jammed door.<br /><br />We hear thuds,screams and the dreadful snarls and scratching of the cat.<br /><br />Then suddenly, black liquid seeps under the door into the room. Blood. <br /><br />We never see the body.<br /><br />For years I could not watch the movie again. Even now, I have a problem. The scene gave me nightmares when I was a kid.Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-26696243060121834272011-08-25T07:42:46.444-04:002011-08-25T07:42:46.444-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Bankruptcy Discharge Papershttps://www.bankruptcylive.com/bankruptcy-discharge-papers/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-65971998156286410242011-08-25T07:18:02.087-04:002011-08-25T07:18:02.087-04:00I don't know that I have ever seen a play that...I don't know that I have ever seen a play that was scary. Interesting.<br />Yes, kids today are inoculated more than then.<br />So interesting about the music. I never thought about how big an impact it must have. <br />I was always scared as a kid with Twilight Zone. I remember checking under my bed after that one. <br />Some scary ones from Tom Tryon around then but I don't think I saw THE CHANGELING or EXPERIMENT IN TERROR OR THE CRAWLING EYE>pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-83320626133383549602011-08-25T07:09:12.140-04:002011-08-25T07:09:12.140-04:00The Excorcist ... any number of scenes in that one...The Excorcist ... any number of scenes in that one, but the one that got me the most was one that was cut out; her spider walk down the stairs. I scare the shit out of myself to this day whenever I look up at the stairs leading to our 2nd floor. That movie ...<br /><br />The weird thing is kids today (my kids for sure) didn't flinch at it; probably because they weren't brought up as catholic as I was. They have no fear of that stuff. Me and my wife ... forgetaboutit, scared shitless.Charlieoperahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08876755029099726686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-46364162029226024242011-08-25T06:57:11.867-04:002011-08-25T06:57:11.867-04:00I'm sure I've posted this before, but the ...I'm sure I've posted this before, but the scariest scene to me is the one in "The Conversation" where Gene Hackman is in a hotel room and knows that a murder has been committed in the next room. He flushes the toilet and a head and lots of blood gush up into the toilet bowl. I think one of the reasons I find the scene so scary is that it's so quiet, you're simply not expecting what happens.Debnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-12398717379509780982011-08-25T01:10:58.760-04:002011-08-25T01:10:58.760-04:00For me, it's the 'hair-raising' scary,...For me, it's the 'hair-raising' scary, not the 'jump' scene variety, that meets your criteria for me, Patti. And the first that comes to mind are the two scenes with the bouncing ball and the child's wheelchair at the top of the stairs in Peter Medak's <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080516/" rel="nofollow">The Changeling</a> from 1980. They still creep me out.le0pard13https://www.blogger.com/profile/09421175808461787862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-61511433536180948392011-08-25T00:49:47.591-04:002011-08-25T00:49:47.591-04:00JAWS and THE EXORCIST. I saw the latter on a cousi...JAWS and THE EXORCIST. I saw the latter on a cousin's VCR one late night and had no hesitation in sleeping next to my parents. You did this sort of thing at the age of 12. Switch off the sound and JAWS is a yawn. Another horror/sci-fi movie that had me sufficiently spooked was THE FLY, the original version starring David Hedison. This is fun...Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-39082515381888436822011-08-25T00:20:06.247-04:002011-08-25T00:20:06.247-04:00Horror movies bore me now, but when I was a kid th...Horror movies bore me now, but when I was a kid they'd scare me so badly I have to sleep with a light on. A little pic called The Crawling Eye had me hiding under my covers after I saw it.Cap'n Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11783977137812876489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-15084323841428408592011-08-24T22:49:00.647-04:002011-08-24T22:49:00.647-04:00Patti, I saw WAIT UNTIL DARK on stage, starring Le...Patti, I saw WAIT UNTIL DARK on stage, starring Lee Remick, and it was indeed scary. Michel, I agree on EXPERIMENT IN TERROR.<br /><br />Now, BLAIR WITCH, on the other hand, I thought was stupid and boring.<br /><br />Jeff M.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-10914242758168813702011-08-24T22:42:07.248-04:002011-08-24T22:42:07.248-04:00Yes, and Ross Martin in "Experiment in Terror...Yes, and Ross Martin in "Experiment in Terror." Yikes!<br />MichelAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-37715261336297308492011-08-24T22:03:06.704-04:002011-08-24T22:03:06.704-04:00Misty was scary and I'll tell you another one ...Misty was scary and I'll tell you another one that scared me. Audrey Hepburn in Wait Until Dark when the guy opens the refrigerator.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.com