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Scary Moments that Made for a Jaw-Ripping Good Time!

I can’t stop watching the red band trailer for Mirrors. That jaw-ripping thing is one of the most brutal things I’ve seen…and it’s JUST a trailer. I’m a little unhinged, I know, but watching that scene pleases me and scares the living daylights out of me at the same time. I might actually cave and see the movie just to see that scene on a giant screen. While slightly obsessing over it earlier today, I tried to think of movie moments that made me just plain uncomfortable and/or scared shitless. Being the horror film connoisseur I am, I was surprised to see the list I compiled was actually quite long. I’m warning you now: there is a crap-ton of spoilers in this post, so if you haven’t seen a lot of horror movies, stop now, rent some flicks and start scaring yourself! Tell me your favorite terrifying moments when you’re done reading mine!

20. Scanners

The ending scene was just so long and drawn out that it made me uncomfortable. Once Cameron’s veins started popping, I knew I was in for it, so the suspense of what was going to happen next totally took over my body. Needless to say, I wasn’t disappointed when he eventually caught on fire.

19. Saw

When Jigsaw gets up off the ground after Dr. Gordon “leaves” to get help, shuts off the lights, does his whole “Game over” bit and closes the door...pretty much made me say, “WHAAAAAT?!” out loud. It wasn’t scary, but it was pretty damn bizarre.

18. Maniac

I’m so upset more people don’t know about this movie because honestly, it’s pretty genius, especially the ending. The main character, Frank, is obsessed with girls…well, more so than most guys. He stalks the shit out of them and kills them, putting the victim-of-the-week’s hair on one of several mannequins in his apartment. In the end though, during his uber schizoid breakdown, the mannequins come to life and kill him. Totally creeptastic.

17. Suspiria

The opening scene has this girl freaking out, seeing eyeballs, getting attacked from something behind the window (I’m not telling you what it is) and in the end leads to one brutal stabbing/hanging. As if that’s not terrifying enough, her friend, who’s trying to help her the entire time, gets turned into sushi (aka hacked up) by the window the first girl falls through. In-friggin’-tense.

16. Misery

I literally just got pain in my ankles thinking about this movie. What a rough way to find out what “hobbling” means. I, along with half the planet, can no longer look at a sledgehammer the same way.

15. Cabin Fever

I’m sure part of it is because I’m female and have to shave my legs on weekly (sometimes daily) basis, but the leg shaving scene is by far the best thing Eli Roth has put on film. I still have to make sure my legs are flesh-eating-virus-free before shaving.

14. Tenebre

Definitely making the most of the whole loud-noise-then-action horror movie formula, the end of Tenebre is just shocking. It would be cruel for me to tell you exactly what happens without you seeing it, mostly because the reason why it’s so insane is because of the movie’s backstory. It was a shock not only because of what happened, but also because of who it happened to. Hitchcock homage, anyone?

13. Zombie

Here’s the deal: you KNOW it’s going to happen, but it takes so long to actually happen, the suspense almost kills you. At least that’s how it was for me. I didn’t breathe throughout the entire scene and I must say this is the first (and hopefully only) case when I’m glad someone’s eye got gouged out.

12. The Orphanage

One scene in this movie just made me want to vomit and perhaps may be the reason why I’m attracted to the Mirrors trailer so much. A mysterious woman, Benigna, comes to Laura’s house (she’s the main character). After a series of events, Benigna is hit by a car. When they show her TOTALLY FUCKING MUTILATED FACE I sobbed a little on the inside out of sheer terror.

11. Freaks

Being attacked and turned into a freak by other fellow freaks is not my idea of a good time. That bitch Cleopatra had it coming though. Either way though, watching those freaks eerily walk (or roll, in The Torso’s case) toward the girl actually made me feel bad for her for a split second. And I thought rednecks were bad…

10. The Thing

If aliens really look like the aliens in this movie, I’m checking out now. I mean, that poor dog! That fucking runaway head?! I still have a hard time sleeping at night after watching that and I’ve seen it a few dozen times. Yes, I’m aware I’m a masochist.

9. Oldboy

There are so many screwed up things that happen in this movie that it’s really hard to pick just one moment, but of course, the ending literally shocked the boots off everyone who’s seen it. Between cutting off his tongue and finding out he’s been banging his daughter (and maybe even knocking her up), this guy messed himself up BAD!

8. Tideland

Watching a little girl prepare AND inject her own dad with heroin was pretty hardcore, but when he dies, she uses him as a giant doll. HE’S FILLED WITH MAGGOTS AND GAS BECAUSE HE’S DECAYING AND SHE JUMPS ON HIS STOMACH, MAKING HIM FART AND SHE LAUGHS?! Jeebus fuckballs that’s so fucked…

7. Gozu

Between the tanned human skins and breast-feeding, I thought it couldn’t get any worse. That was until I saw a grown woman give birth to a grown man. I’m sure watching this movie at 3 a.m. didn’t make things easier, but come on, that’s just outright scarring.

6. Full Metal Jacket

It’s official: Vincent D’Onofrio is the most chilling fucker alive. DID YOU SEE THAT LOOK ON HIS FACE?! I was literally so uncomfortable when I saw it that I immediately started laughing. Private Pyle and his crazy talk totally scared the bejesus out of me.

5. The Exorcist

I had such horrible sympathy pains after watching that vagina-meets-crucifix scene that I got rid of my Ouija board, stopped going to church and remained a virgin until I was 18. Quite an impact, don’t you think?

4. Un Chien Andalou

Hands down, watching this movie was the weirdest 16 minutes of my life. I couldn’t believe I just saw a REAL EYE get cut open. Sure, it wasn’t a human eye, but that’s not the point. It’s close enough to cause projectile vomit, therefore it works for me.

3. Irreversible

I worked at a video store in college. A friend of mine, Mark, told me to watch this movie because it was one of his favorite movies and I’d totally love it. When I came into work the next day, I chucked the movie at his head and screamed as loud as I could, “WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!” You want to know why? The 9-minute anal-raping scene. As if rape scenes aren’t horrible enough! It takes a lot (and I mean A LOT) to offend me, and this totally did. **NOTE: EVEN YOUTUBE DIDN'T HAVE A CLIP OF IT. THAT SAYS SOMETHING**

2. Cannibal Holocaust

This film is fucked up on epic proportions. He literally kills a handful of animals in this movie, but nothing worse than that helpless turtle. The poor thing was kicking (and I’m sure it would’ve screamed too if it could) even after it got its cute little head hacked off. That shit was brutal but not that good, brutal way (it’s a Metal thing, you wouldn’t understand).

1. Sleepaway Camp

I will NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER forgive my friends for making me watch this movie. EVER. The movie starts off being this totally harmless, typical psycho killer 80s horror flick then does a total 180 and travels to Crazyville. Nothing in my entire life has scared me more than the end of this movie. Not only does the look on Angela’s face scare the crap out of me…but that SOUND SHE MAKES?! It’s so ridiculously animalistic and savage that it just sent a chill down my spine. In fact, to this day I can’t watch it without feeling totally sick.

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Comment by moratmarit on October 10, 2009 at 10:47am: I don't like scary movie..:(
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Comment by Samouflange on February 24, 2009 at 2:27am: Either Mission to Mars, or Red Planet.. Forgive me I forget which part this was in. (Can't blame me) But the part when some poor shmuck gets inhaled by a martian dust cyclone and he gets spun into oblivion- ugh. Just thinking about it f*cks me up a little bit. Oh yeah and the latter half of Holstile when the guy snips that chicks dangling eyeball out and let's the cheese fondue fireworks entertain all. Heheh, kick ass blog! I really wanna watch Videodrome now. xD

Comment by Alex Blaine on February 1, 2009 at 3:01pm: One note: replace Oldboy with the Japanese Miike film Ichi the Killer. It came out beforehand with a tongue-cutting scene and it is far gorier than Oldboy. Otherwise, amazing list!

Comment by Steven Smith on October 8, 2008 at 2:12pm: Its off how not a single scene from the Excorsist made the cut.

Comment by Lowclef on September 10, 2008 at 1:02am: The last 10 seconds of the movie "May" may be one of the creepiest things ever. Its a pretty standard slasher through 99.9% of the movie except for the last 10-20 seconds and then it just skips the rails and flies away into the next dimension. SEE IT!!!

Comment by Rosie on August 19, 2008 at 12:42pm: I had never been to this site and a friend emailed me a link to this blog because he said he felt like there were so many similarities that I could have written it. Anyway, here are some comments and additions.

First, Sleepaway Camp is insane. I love that movie and one of the most disturbing things about it is the freaky mannequin-looking mom. It's seriously one of my favorite movies.

I have to second someone's earlier comment mentioning the original Black Christmas. In fact, Bob Clark's other horror movies are interesting, too--Deathdream in particular. I encourage people to check those out.

Audition--that scene where she walks into the bathroom, pukes into a bowl, walks back out and feeds it the mutilated man she's been keeping in the giant burlap sack--and he slurps it up like it's delicious--I almost hurled and actually hated Takashi Miike a little bit for doing that to me. I have to say, if you're just looking for gross, he's the master--but I often get pissed off at him for it. His movies are often more gross than scary and I feel like it's a cheap trick--but I give him credit for coming up with new ways to be disgusting all the time.

Am I the only one who was terrified the first time they saw the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre? When Leatherface slides the door open, bops the guy on the head with the sledgehammer, and then drags his twitching body back in and slams the door shut, my mouth hung open in horror.

Also, nobody mentioned the Ring--Ringu--whatever you wanna call it--the original Japanese movie. I know it's cliche' to talk about these movies now, but when I saw the original movie that started it all, I spent a lot of time mildly creeped out, waiting for it to get scary. When that crazy bitch crawled out of the TV, I didn't have to wait any longer. It scared the SHIT out of me! I think the way that the remake failed was actually with its higher budgeted special effects. Actually having a woman crawl out of a TV and using editing to make it so incredibly REAL was sooooooo scary to me! I literally jumped and yelled a string of curse words.

A newer one for you guys is The Ruins. I loved the book and was anxious to see how they would pull off the film. That girl digging in her own leg with a knife to get the vine out was horrible!

And for a super-cheesy one that I've always liked (embarrassingly), one of my favorite deaths of all time was in the opening of Urban Legends 2--the kidney thing. The whole scene is crazy intense and painful to watch--and when he throws the kidney out to the dog at the end--disgusting!!!

I agree that Irreversible was INSANELY disturbing and the thing that disturbed me most was the fact that with the exception of one guy, everyone else I had talked to about it before watching it had really harped on the whole fire-extinguisher to the face scene. I wanted to put each one of them in therapy afterwards for not having been as affected by the rape scene. Seriously--that guys face was mangled--but I was chilled to the bone by that rape scene and have a hard time believing a more terrifying one has ever been committed to celluloid, exceptions for the possible existence of snuff.

Comment by Maggie on August 15, 2008 at 11:44pm: i was just thinking sleep away camp had the worst ending then i saw it was the first one :P

Comment by Tessa on August 14, 2008 at 9:56am: Xero-never heard of it. I will most definitely check it out.

Comment by Xero on August 14, 2008 at 2:54am: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0856288/

That is all I have to say to this list.

Sincerely,
-Xero

Comment by raye on August 14, 2008 at 2:22am: the scene in ju-on: the grudge where the spirit gets the girl in her bed is pretty fucking creepy. i've seen it a million times and it never fails to horrify me...i guess it's because people generally go to their beds and hide under the covers when something scares them. but you've definitely got some great movies there-i was really excited to see suspiria and freaks, as well as fmj. good stuff :]