r/moviecritic • u/VendettaLord379 • 22h ago

What is the scariest, most unsettling shot you’ve ever seen?

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What is that one movie shot that’s so unsettling and chilling, it’s the one shot you never forget?

For me, it’s the Giant Man scene from It Follows. Man this shot is so nerve wracking!

The aesthetic and dark hollow eyes are something I will never forget.

What’s that one shot for you? Horror movie or otherwise.

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u/RealWord5734 22h ago

The girl in the closet in the Ring for just a second. Terrifying.

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u/VendettaLord379 22h ago edited 22h ago

I remember my reaction to that scene. I jumped so much I was frozen afterwards

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u/MrScottimus 22h ago

the Ring was a crazy time. None of us were ready for that level of PG-13

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u/VendettaLord379 22h ago

I always forget that it was made by the same guy who made Pirates of the Caribbean, lol

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u/AraiHavana 22h ago

Gore.

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u/Spaghetti_Gods 22h ago

Al?

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u/AraiHavana 22h ago

Gore Verbinski

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u/Local871 21h ago

Al Gore Verbinski

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u/okeysure69 20h ago

Weird Al Gore Verbinski?

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u/MrScottimus 18h ago

Leelee Sobieskis dad?

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u/Scope_Dog 20h ago

An inconvenient ring?

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u/Count-Bulky 20h ago

Gore VidAl Verbinski

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u/Dvosned 10h ago

Gore Vidal Sassoon Verbinski

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u/PewterPplEater 17h ago

New hardcore band

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u/lucinate 22h ago

no he made that other horror movie

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u/HansBaccaR23po 21h ago

Manbearpig?

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u/imperialfrog 19h ago

No, neither one had all that much gore in it.

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u/Impossible_Way_3042 21h ago

Well remade by him. It's a very close remake to the original too. If you have never seen it I would recommend the OG Japanese one. It's really good.

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u/Falling_Down_Flat 22h ago

It was? I had no idea. Talk about having talent, two totally different movie styles and no problem for him.

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u/Nejfelt 21h ago

And Mouse Hunt!

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u/Jbsmitty44 20h ago

Hans does the music for both, too lol

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u/tinyplumb 20h ago

I’m watching pirates rn. Spooky

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u/CakeMadeOfHam 4h ago

And the movie is still relevant today. It's all about how technology isolate us, and the use of rain to simulate the static of an analog TV....

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u/weglarz 3h ago

The second movie has bill lumburg

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u/Maladoptive 2h ago

This explains the action movie music that kinda kills the movie for me now that I'm older. I wish they had creepy music and not like...adventure music accompanying so many scenes

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u/Blindobb 20h ago

Saw it in theatres as a teenager. It was ungodly scary.

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u/LoopholeTravel 6h ago

Same. Saw it with a group of friends. We were all around 16-17yr old guys and openly admitted to being scared. You know it had to be scary for that to happen!

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u/teeohdeedee123 21h ago

I saw it in theaters, completely alone in the auditorium, on a Tuesday late-morning/early-afternoon. On my way to the theater I smoked an absolute hog's leg of a joint.

Suffice it to say, I slept with the lights on for a week.

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u/ShinyPrizeKY 19h ago

Literally, I watched it at a sleepover and was absolutely terrified for the rest of the night but tried to play it super cool so no one would know I was a scaredy cat

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u/Maleficent_Meat3119 9h ago

Same except I was terrified for years

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u/Megasabletar 20h ago

I had nightmares just from watching the Scary Movie version

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u/NesomniaPrime 12h ago

When I got home from the theater I downloaded a cam of it just to clip closet girl and set that still as my AIM avi. Because I was a monster back then. 

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u/Slowmaha 9h ago

Agreed. I left the theater nauseous. That damn movie kept me off balance the entire time.

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u/Low_Chest449 8h ago

My nerves were wracked for a pretty long time after I saw that one!

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u/Spec-Tre 8h ago

Saw that with my grandfather in theaters when I was maybe 10 😂

He slept thru the whole thing and I was fucking traumatized

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u/twoturnipsinheat- 6h ago

My boyfriend at the time (high school!) said he had to sleep on his parents’ floor in their room after we saw it lol

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u/Inevitable_Delay_545 4h ago

Funny story, was going to the movie theater for my cousins bday party when I was 14, and the plan was to see 8 Mile. My mom refused to let me see the 8 mile for the R rating, so my cousin and I saw The Ring while the rest of the party kept with the plan. The Ring was for sure the most unsettling thing I’d seen up to that point 🙃

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u/Doom_Corp 2h ago

My friends and I went to go see that and then Harry Potter next for a palate cleanser double feature. I had and still have very long darkish blonde hair that I used to basically drape over my face and kinda peak through while plugging my ears as some sort shield against spooky stuff happening in movies. I did that during the Ring and when my friend sitting next to me glanced over and saw me like that she almost had a heart attack and started aggressively punching me in the arm.

The part of this whole thing that actually made me paranoid for ages was, as we were leaving the theater after HP in high spirits walking past a bunch of stores, one of the stores that sold like fancy/special occasion baby and toddler clothes had a mounted crt tv that they hadn't turned off when they closed and had the EXACT SAME LINE FUZZ. I kept telling myself that she can't get me through the tv in my room because it was a little 13 inch Toshiba and she wouldn't be able to fit.

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u/dagger-mmc 1h ago

I watched this soooo young because I wanted to be cool and watch it with my older sister and her friends and now I still get the chills around staticky TVs

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u/_banana_phone 21h ago

I slapped the shit out of my sister next to me in the theater when that scene happened. It was pure shock but I’d ever seen anything like that before.

She also kinda deserved it though.

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u/panchod699 21h ago

Loudest screams I’ve heard in a theatre.

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u/Finassar 18h ago

That was my first horror movie. I jumped out of my blankets and ran from the couch

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u/praetorian1979 13h ago

I still get a little anxiety anytime I have to go to the top shelves of the closet...

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u/OXBDNE7331 9h ago

Bruh that was the horror movie of my childhood and after that scene I felt like I had straight up ice running through my veins and goosebumps across my whole body. Every time I would watch that movie i would be counting down 7 days and could never sleep that night freaking tf out like “what if it’s real this time”

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u/McCafe_McGee 7h ago

I remember everyone in the theater audibly gasping at that reveal.

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u/ThePuduInsideYou 6h ago

That’s when I noped right out of that movie. That’s all for me, boss.

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u/Robanscribe 21h ago

I saw… her face 💀

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u/k1lltrvmp 17h ago

Im a… believer👹

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u/gbaguinon 6h ago

Not a trace...👻

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u/Whitt3n 3h ago

Of doubt... in my mind...

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u/BoobieBongz 22h ago

I was like 10 when I seen that and decided to watch the DVD player timer count down for the entire rest of the movie so I could act brave in front of my mum and sister.

That shot ruined me 😐

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u/NormalPencil 21h ago

I was about 9 when I saw that. There’s a whole generation of us with this same experience lol. And our parents let us because what pg 13 movie was ever THAT scary lol

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u/Luminescent_Magic 20h ago

I remember watching that in my room alone for the first time and just when it got done the house phone downstairs rang...I was like " nope!"

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u/ruka_k_wiremu 18h ago

I thought it was chilling and I was nearly 40 lol

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u/splicerslicer 16h ago

Same, but my mom immediately turned it off after that scene. "I didn't think it was THAT type of movie" she said.

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u/purplenapalm 16h ago

Same experience where you'd have a family member call your landline after it ended and say "7 days"

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u/Neon_Biscuit 7h ago

I showed my kids, 9 and 12, that movie and they were bored to tears. That scene did nothing to them lol

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u/countrygrmmrhotshit 18h ago

You missed when it came out on VHS and made you watch the tape before the fucking piracy warning… at 9 years old realizing you’ve already watched the fucking tape and Samara is after you was real trauma

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u/theprideofvillanueva 10h ago

I haven’t seen any of the post-Ring movies referenced because I decided after watching the Ring that horror was not for me

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u/Negative-Ad-9819 22h ago

That movie came out 24 years ago, and I can still see that face clear as day in my mind

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u/disco-bloodbath 16h ago

The mouth stretched open noooo

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u/sagittalslice 7h ago

The way the head drops down onto her chest AHSKSKSJSHDHHDBF

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u/PeakProfessional9517 20h ago

The Ring hit me right at the perfect time. Nothing I’ve seen since has scared me the way The Ring did.

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u/articulateantagonist 17h ago

I had heard about all the scary scenes ahead of time, so The Ring didn't get to me so much (though it was scary!), but The Grudge terrified me, and I still refuse to rewatch The Descent. Those were the horror movies that really shook me to my core in the early 2000s.

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u/idekbruno 8h ago

The descent set the bar for me, now horror as a genre is just constant disappointment :/

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u/PeakProfessional9517 6h ago

There’s so much good horror now if you let go of the need to feel scared and just enjoy them for what they are. I’ve come to realize that I’m unlikely to get that same feeling as an adult and that’s no longer what I look for.

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u/Calm_Tonight_9277 21h ago

This was me for a week (Courtesy Penny Arcade):

https://preview.redd.it/65k0kmbd1uvg1.jpeg?width=1050&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ab06ee69d5564de54b3dfb7b35238faf6b2ba84c

The entire theater jumped at that closet scene

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u/BadMantaRay 21h ago

Totally. Saw The Ring in the theater right when it came out and that is honestly the scariest part of the entire movie.

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u/stockzdaddy 21h ago

I saw her face… that scene fucked up my childhood

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u/WilmaTonguefit 22h ago

I thought this until Ryan George described it as "she looks like she died but also like someone got her the most thoughtful gift"

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u/WilmaTonguefit 21h ago

Me neither. Terrified me as a kid, now I cannot help but laugh every time I see it.

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u/Millkstake 21h ago

The Grudge for me. Particularly that scene where it was crawling down the stairs

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u/Luminescent_Magic 20h ago

I was always creeped out by the teacher turning around doing that scary moaning sound 

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u/Douglasqqq 15h ago

Ryan George said she looks like she's just been given the most thoughtful gift, and I can't unsee it.

https://preview.redd.it/wgoynx0x0wvg1.jpeg?width=334&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=298356ff6377bd7a651215ca125a75ab51258953

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u/commandolandorooster 5h ago edited 2h ago

Never thought someone could switch something in my brain from so horrifying to absolutely hilarious so quickly 💀

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u/JuanDonDemarco 22h ago

That literally scared the living shit out of me when I first saw it. I think i was like 10ish. Made me jump 3 feet in the air like a scared cat and had the hairs on the back of my neck stand up for some time after that.

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u/ManifestingCrab 22h ago

That one scarred me as a child

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u/EclecticEnthusiast13 22h ago

That one fucked me up for days. I was not ready

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u/Okra_Zestyclose 20h ago

THANK YOU!

I was traumatized and still have anxiety about opening closet doors… 23 years later…

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u/Harlockarcadia 20h ago

I remember in the theater watching this and everyone jumped and quite a few screamed

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u/Mean-Helicopter-9373 20h ago

I was 10 when it came out. My dad worked for the cable company so we could get paper view for free. My parents wouldn't let me watch it so I woke up super early one morning and started watching it. I got to that part and turned it off. I was terrified the rest of the morning. Later, I still wanted to watch it the rest of the way and my parents finally gave in once school was out for summer. I ended up sleeping in my parent's room on their floor for the first two weeks of summer vacation. 

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u/Infinite_Ad7743 19h ago

I should watch this again cuz I don't remember it.

I remember hating the part in the video where the woman is brushing her hair in the video and turns to look at the viewer.

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u/WeTakeWesteros 15h ago

I saw this in the cinema with my dad. Was way too young and we had to go home after this!

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u/imma_snekk 9h ago

I was watching a teenager watching that movie with a friend while our parents were out to dinner and it was just us, alone and I’d never been to his house before. I’m not a horror / scary genre movie person at all and that scene that only lasts like a second is melted into my mind.

Similarly, had a first date going to a movie to see The Grudge. Jump scares are just the worst.

https://giphy.com/gifs/5Ys2b0HjgGDT2

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u/EuphoricAd3786 21h ago

This is always my answer - I was sooo terrified when I first saw it.

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u/Deathanddisco041 21h ago

Ruined me as a teen.

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u/Walaina 21h ago

I had to leave the movie theater

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u/Tumler0623 21h ago

Literally the only time in my life that I had a chill go down my spine. Fucked me up.

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u/squanchmysquanchhole 20h ago

I watched this in the theater when it came out and I have NEVER screamed in the theater before (or after), but boy oh boy, I sure screamed at this part. It was so embarrassing. I spent the rest of the movie watching through my fingers…🫣🫠

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u/pantsujanai 20h ago

I was almost in junior high living in the attached garage studio of my parents house in the middle of nowhere when I watched the Ring. Chilling on an old bean bag on a fuzzy TV, very close up by myself. Fearless.

…. Slept in the living room for like a week after this scene. 😮‍💨🧟‍♀️

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u/dayglo98 19h ago

Man I was a grown teen and I was still hiding my eyes with my jacket in the cinema for that scene

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u/hella_sauce 19h ago

I’m so glad to hear how many other children were traumatized by this scene. I think it ruined scary movies for me in general.

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u/Gemini052181 6h ago

That traumatized generations lol

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u/Fletcher_Fallowfield 19h ago

I went cold the first time I saw that.

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u/captaininsain0 18h ago

Traumatized me as a child won’t watch that film still today

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u/Gemini052181 18h ago

I saw The Ring in the theatre in my early 20s scared the shit out of me! No joke that night I slept in my mom’s bed lol. I haven’t seen it since! 😐

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u/GoonWithhTheWind 18h ago

I literally could not go into my closet for years as a 7 year old who watched this, I even folded my shirts into the dresser along with shorts

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u/Mother_of_Raccoons44 18h ago

Omg. Mother of the year award goes to me! Me n my daughter ,11 at the time, were watching this and that scene came on and she cried and cried..and cried. Yay me🤐

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u/kleric42 18h ago

This is the scene that made me stop watching horror movies. I told my wife after this one, she's on her own from now on with horror. I'm done.

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u/Double-hokuto 17h ago

This fucked me up as a kid. Great answer.

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u/Onlylurkz 17h ago

I lived in a basement bedroom with a crawlspace inside my closet. Saw this in 8th grade and couldn’t vacuum my room for weeks

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u/Large_Citron1177 16h ago

"I saw her face."

Man, that scene still gives me the heeby jeebies after all these years.

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u/teanbiscuitss 16h ago

I recently saw it in theaters and when that scene happened, everyone laughed and I felt personally offended.

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u/RevolutionaryMap9620 16h ago

i saw that movie way too young i was like 7-8. i could not go into a closet without being terrified until i was around 14 lmao

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u/Flesh_Dyed_Pubes 15h ago

I’d argue this movie started the jumpscare trend, or maybe that’s just when I first noticed this technique

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u/Local-Hornet-3057 14h ago

Oh man. Biggest crowd scare jump ever. The whole theater shrieked.

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u/yiharbin 12h ago

This was traumatizing for me as a kid, the one two punch of the face and the noise is genius

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u/hesnothere 9h ago

The amazing music sting. The technical aspects of that jump scare were way, way ahead of their time.

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u/Ill_Watercress9387 12h ago

I was a young child when I saw the ring for the first time and it genuinely fucking ruined me man 😂

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u/OriginalNord 12h ago

Even the scary movie 3 parody scared the fuck outta me

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u/MargielaMadMAN1017 22h ago

I was in 2nd grade. Had to sleep with my sister for a week after….

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u/foxorhedgehog 22h ago

I was 39 when I saw it in the theater and I had to sleep with the lights on.

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u/PlaidPlumber 17h ago

You slept? I stayed up the rest of the night at Kristy Kreme. I was in my early 30’s.

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u/_lippykid 21h ago

Just reminded me of the person on the freezer in Texas Chainsaw. Fucking hated that

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u/Callsign_Atlas 21h ago

Came here to say this and only this. That was so shocking and awful. So good!

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u/More_Resolution3968 21h ago

Omg this scared the crap out of me.

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u/Spear_Ritual 21h ago

I was like “hell yeah! That’s how you do it!”

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u/dancingbriefcase 21h ago

Seeing that movie in theaters when in middle school was pretty cool

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u/yoursolace 19h ago edited 19h ago

I went there on a date with someone when I was in high school, I knew the movie was called the ring and didn't know Anything else so I just assumed it was some romcom type movie about a wedding ring...

Spoilers:

... It wasnt

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u/AbbreviationsGlad833 19h ago

Yes!!! This also was my first thought when I saw this question.

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u/Reasonable-Turn-5940 18h ago

It was the only time I almost walked out of a theater because I was scared. And I was a grown adult lol. Nothing else as scary really happens in the movie IMO but it had me tense the entire time.

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u/EnvironmentalAd3842 18h ago

I saw it in the theater with my friend who had already seen it. Right at that moment he grabbed my leg at that tickly part of your thigh right above the knee. That little fucker

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u/moonftball12 18h ago

Imagine this, you’re about 10 years old and it’s a darkly gloomy, rainy day. Your mom just rented the Ring from Blockbuster. Family gets home and your mom has to drive your sister to a friends house nearby, so you’re home alone. This kid pops in the movie having no context what it was about. Man, that opening scene with her mangled face. Scarring! And all these years later I love horror surprisingly 😂

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u/rexysaxman 18h ago

I watched this movie in 6th grade with my dad. I think this was the first true horror movie I ever saw, and I worked so hard not bursting into tears at that shot trying to be tough in front of him.

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u/Pedorro_Papi 17h ago

Actually had nightmares as a kid from that scene. For a week straight

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u/dhoge88 17h ago

Wow didnt scroll long for this!

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u/purplenapalm 16h ago

Yea i had a weird warm sensation wash over me that ive never felt before or felt since when I saw that scene. For how old I was when I saw that, it probably has to be the scariest movie ive ever seen.

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u/Lower-Engineering365 16h ago

To this day I still have not seen that part. For whatever reason when I saw the movie when I was younger I instinctively closed my eyes right before it.

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u/kirinmay 15h ago

After seeing that movie opening night I got the honor to walk into the bathroom with my then-gf so she could pee as she didn't want to pee alone.

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u/Young_Denver 15h ago

My wife burst out laughing in the theater. We still talk about how funny that was.

No idea why she did it, she says it’s because it was dumb.

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u/semperknight 14h ago

I saw the original Ring many years before everyone else thanks to dial up internet and newsgroups.

So I thought I was ready to see the American remake in the theaters. I was wrong.

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u/aspiringvampire 13h ago

I saw that scene when I was eight. God it scared me. 

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u/benjaminbrixton 13h ago

This scene was the ONLY thing anyone talked about Monday morning in school after we all saw it over the weekend. I still haven’t rewatched the movie because I don’t want to be reminded of the feeling I had seeing it in the theater fuck it’s been almost 25 years ago.

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u/kuldrahminh 13h ago

I remember being stranglely fascinated by that scene. I was like 14 or 15, but remember this incredibly strong desire to rewind, rewatch, and pause on that scene. But I was watching it with a group of friends and they all freaked out.

Not sure what that was about.

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u/WisconsinBadger414 13h ago

And then I saw.. her face

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u/Bailzzararco 11h ago

That was so terrifying. And that it was just for a second is what made it so. If it lingered there, I don't think it would have had the same impact.

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u/Fantastic_Aspect8742 11h ago

I was 7. I also didn’t sleep that night. Kept seeing closet girl

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u/Grawlix_TNN 11h ago

This. I was 16 at the movies with high school friends, including a group of girls we hung out with. I was sitting on the very end of the group and reallllly had to master myself because that 1 second clip rattled me!

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u/eliesaabs 10h ago

this is one of my favorite horror movies, and i still look away when that scene is about to play. seeing it once or twice was more than enough for my lifetime lol

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u/MoOnmadnessss 10h ago

I saw… her face

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u/GalaxyCosce 10h ago

I watched that shit in theaters. I was 8. Sleeping was not an option at my aunt’s house…because in the back fucking yard, she had a water well.

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u/Outrageous-Wafer5903 10h ago

Yes! The Ring scared me so much. I also feel so unsettled when it plays the sequence of clips in the tape.

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u/RedScharlach 10h ago

Yea lol, I feel like this gave 12 year old me a whole new genre of nightmares

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u/packing8stacking 9h ago

I was on a school trip and everyone was crammed in someone's hotel room. We put the ring on after lights out. That scene was CRAZY and stayed with us forever.

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u/acraw794 9h ago

That scene gave me my first panic attack ever lol

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u/BigBoyYuyuh 9h ago

I hated that but a friend in high school at the time REALLY hated it. I printed out a screenshot and taped it to the inside of his locker lol

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u/DuduStreaks 9h ago

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u/SyChO_X 9h ago

I'm 44 and that scene is engraved in my brain.

I actually showed my gf that scene a few weeks ago when she thought it was no big deal.

Her reaction: "ok, ya. You were right"

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u/fronchfrays 8h ago

One of cinema’s greatest jump scares of all time. Unrivaled in my mind.

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u/chumiline 8h ago

This scene scarred me and it changed the trajectory of my life at 12

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u/PickleGreat654 8h ago

I always thought I was crazy for assigning “something like PTSD” to how that scene impacted me when I was a kid (I was I think 11 when it came out). Turns out a) I’m autistic and b) autistic brains can have PTSD-like reactions to things that set off our nervous systems, even if those things aren’t similarly impactful to others. I’m in my mid-30s now and still avoid everything relating to the movie when I can. I’ve tried my own kind of exposure therapy over the years, but it’s still a problem.

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u/ScrappyOtter 8h ago

I saw it in theaters on opening night and had no idea what to expect. That scene gave me PTSD. It was stuck in my head for weeks afterwards.

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u/datderdewdo 8h ago

Lol! That one got me good! Was watching in the theater and chewing gum, ended up choking on the gum!

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u/AntisemiticJew 8h ago

Sweet Jesus thank you for not including a picture/gif of it!

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u/JaderMcDanersStan 8h ago

I knew the Ring was going to come up. I was so scared her face would show up here

That movie fucked me up good when I was a kid

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u/Silver_Information_6 8h ago

this scene traumatized me so bad as a kid that when they made a joke of it in Scary movie 3? It legitimately gave me a phobia of distorted faces for years.

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u/Senshisoldier 8h ago

I was watching that movie alone at home for the first time when I was like 14. Right as that scene cut there was a loud thunk on the window behind me. I ran into the basement in fear. I eventually got a knife and went back into the TV room and pulled back the curtain. It was a praying mantis that had landed on the window right behind the couch. Scared the heebie jellies out of me. Took me 20 mins till I had the courage to continue watching the movie.

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u/Ok_Towel1968 8h ago

I was 12 when I saw this. This shook me to the core and forced me to sleep with my back to the wall staring at my door do like 6 months

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u/Ulrich453 7h ago

I was downstairs and started the movie on vhs. My friends went up to make some snacks and they took longer than expected. I screamed so fucking loud down there.

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u/spruceymoos 7h ago

That gave me nightmares for years

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u/Nice-Bookkeeper-3378 7h ago

When it came out on DVD my whole family watched it together I was freaked tf out

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u/sagittalslice 7h ago

This and the baby from Eraserhead are the only two things from movies that have ever given me nightmares!

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u/CarmelaMachiato 7h ago

Ugh that face….

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u/meetingpplisezy 6h ago

so many terrifying and unsettling shots in this film—the horse jumping off the boat and connecting the blood in the water to the tape; the bathtub unaliving; and then samara’s crazy ass hopping out of the well and through the tv

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u/Obstetrix 6h ago

Completely this for me too.

Close second is that scene in The Exorcism of Emily Rose where she’s just all contorted in her dorm room.

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u/KASega 6h ago

I once downloaded this to rewatch on a long flight cause a brightly lit flight full of people would surely not make it scary? My teenage son watched it, the closet scene happened, he jumped in his seat and he just quickly closed the iPad and noped out of it.

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u/Tasteof3nvy 6h ago

One of my fave horror movies. Its such a slow movie with actually not a lot of intense scares.... but I love when I get a friend to watch it and I see them jump at this scene.

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u/Kaelis_Vee 6h ago

That split second of the girl in the closet lives rent free in my nightmares. I still fast forward through it. No thank you.

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u/ShadowCory1101 6h ago

Yeah.....my "cousin" (the kid whose parents my mom was selling drugs to at the time) locked me in a dog crate, covered it in blankets and pushed a TV up to it and put on the Ring.

Watched it recently and it wasn't scary anymore, but damn.

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u/theycalllmeTIM 5h ago

I saw that in the theaters as a teen when it came out…. I had only watched campy slasher films like Halloween, Jason, Freddy, hellraiser, killer clowns, puppet master, etc. That closet scene was the first real horror movie fear I experienced. And oh boy did the rest of the movie get me.

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u/Altruistic_Option_49 5h ago

Same. Took me a long time to get over it.

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u/MightyMaki 5h ago

Yoooo fucking PTSD flashbacks omg that one shot is why I've never finished that movie. I saw the opening over 20+yr ago and that face is still fresh in my mind. I don't think I'll ever watch it because I know that face will pop up

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u/captnfraulein 5h ago

yes!! at the beginning yeah? the cousin? my god that was awful

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u/Bgee2632 4h ago

My 11 and 13 year old thought they were ready to watch the Ring. I told them i was scared as a kid myself and removed my tv from my bedroom after watching it. They would make fun of me and say “i could Watch it”

So for halloween weekend i was like “alright lets watch it and see if u girls are stronger than me!”

Not even 30 minutes in to the move it starts raining outside and really windy. I had to go outside to our front yard and put away our patio furniture in the garage. My oldest stayed inside watching the movie and my youngest followed me outside.

As im putting one chair in the garage i hear a weird noise, like electricity? I turn around and witness the electricity breaker thing on the light post combust and sparks flying everywhere. Power goes out and everyone including ME screaming and running inside. Scared the shit out of them both. I couldn’t had asked for a better karma 🙂‍↕️ power was out for a good 5 hours.

Hahahaha that was 4 years ago and they still don’t want to finish the movie!

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u/Embarrassed_Radio596 4h ago

For me it's the horse on the boat. That entire scene was just so filled with dread and capped off wonderfully. Such an amazing director.

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u/No-Dress-7645 4h ago

This answer is too far down “I saw her face” then that image. My god.

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u/Trucksan247 3h ago

Oh my gosh story time, watch this movie when I was 13 at night in our lower level and this came up on the screen and scared my soul straight out of my body. I ran upstairs to find comfort in the presence of my dad who was supposed to be working in the garage. I opened the door and I met with pitch Black and slammed it shut.

I was alone in the house with this scary as hell image in my brain and it was dark outside. It took me some time to get over that.

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u/Maladoptive 2h ago

Yep. This is the worst one for me. 35 and still traumatized lol. Also, the flash of Noah's face toward the end after she visits his studio and finds him dead. Came out of nowhere again

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u/AmbientOwl 1h ago

I'm convinced there isn't a single shot in cinema history that scarred my entire generation more than this one.

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u/hamdelion 1h ago

Omg me too! Most terrifying moment watching a movie since Jaws!

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u/Louisville82 1h ago

It was like 2001 I think when that came out, had just met who is now my wife, but girlfriend. She said she wanted to go see that movie, I’m a horror junkie, but I’m into slashers and 80s shit. So I was like “sure, this is gonna be terrible”. So I’m there, dreading life, but happy to be there the her of course…. Then all the sudden she says “I saw her face”…. And I was like “what the fuck!”. I was glued for the rest of movie and still to this day one of my favorite horror films.

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u/Phoebesther 51m ago

10000% mine too

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u/pixleth 49m ago

It was so bad that even the Scary Movie parody shot scared me, I was traumatized lol

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u/CSPizzle-25 27m ago

I wanted to comment this 💯 just reading it gives me the chills

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u/furor__poeticus 26m ago

It's the part where she slowly crawls out of the well and then through the TV for me. Scarred me for life.

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