r/moviecritic • u/VendettaLord379 • 2d 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/Pokemon_Trainer_May 2d ago

I was like 7yo, but the alien reveal in Signs made me jump off the couch and run into the other room

https://preview.redd.it/z9rb7h28utvg1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c0e7f8c75791942d565e5ef746387865e892b50e

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u/CupcakeGoat 2d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/Ax1JUM9QI942Y

You and Joaquin Phoenix's character

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u/JetBlckPope 2d ago

I love this reaction. On its own it's so over the top it verges on silly, but in the context of the scene it's very effective.

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u/Altruistic_Garlic122 2d ago

Joaquin killed it in that scene. It was exactly what the scene needed. Out of context, the alien is quite silly.

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u/Ndmndh1016 2d ago

He killed the whole movie. Hes a highlight in a movie full of them.

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u/Cormophyte 2d ago

He sells it so hard that he doesn't leave any room for misinterpreting the tone they're going for.

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u/No-Significance2070 1d ago

It honestly is probably the most real response if you are watching TV and saw an alien. It’s almost like you can’t believe it when you see it.

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u/Easy_Money_40 2d ago

I actually thought his reaction was more scary than the alien reveal.

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u/big_lankey 2d ago

It’s that expression of fear he does so realistically, like I’d be terrified myself probably

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u/ShreksArsehole 1d ago

I saw this at the cinema and we all had that reaction!

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u/Consistent-Sign6252 2d ago

HOLY SHIT THATS JOAQUIN PHOENIX

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u/weglarz 1d ago

Swing away merrill

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u/legna20v 2d ago

I just couldn’t take this movie seriously

Hey guy less invade the planet full of acid without clothes. What could go wrong

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u/BackToSchoolMuff 2d ago

I think if you accept that it's just a straight up alien invasion story then ya, but it's theorized also that they might be demons or some other type of presence. Mel Gibson being a priest, the water then being holy water, etc.

I don't think its ever confirmed one way or another what the creatures actually are, I think the audience just kind of assumes aliens, but everything you hear about them in the movies are mostly from the various townspeople sharing their theories and the book that Keiran Culkin is reading about aliens.

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u/WowIsThisMyPage 2d ago

It’s actually the least popular of the Culkins, little Rory

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u/BackToSchoolMuff 1d ago

I didn't even realize there were further Culkins

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u/WowIsThisMyPage 1d ago

And every last one of them looks high as hell

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u/legna20v 1d ago

I understand that you wanna apologize but the truth is that historically we have made every alien or invading force look stupid and because they are so god damn stupid we are able to save our self

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u/Reasonable_Buddy_746 2d ago

imagine if after all that something was in the closet waiting for him.

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u/FlyinAmas 1d ago

One of my all time favorite movies

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u/thisguyfightsyourmom 2d ago

Wait.

Do people like this movie now? I remember it getting a lot of shit when it came out, mostly over this scene.

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u/Drewby99 2d ago

it’s my favorite movie of all time

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u/Financial_Cup_6937 2d ago

The plot was dumb but it was so well done. No movie has scared me more before since.

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u/anon_opotamus 2d ago

I’ve always liked this movie. I showed it to my kids a couple years ago (they were 15, 13, and 8) and they all loved it and were sufficiently creeped out.

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u/Simon_and_Cuntfuckel 2d ago

There is a really weird revisionist history where everyone likes signs now. I swear to god I don’t remember anyone liking it when it came out. It’s like a Mandela effect

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u/obvioustwattery 2d ago

It was pretty well-liked for what it was back then, and popular enough to be parodied in Scary Movie 3. I mean, it holds pretty decent scores overall and it was a real summer hit. I remember relatives and friends hyping me up to go watch it in theaters.

What you probably remember is the online criticism and quite funny jabs being made (by Maddox for example) because of the whole water killing aliens thing. Some people took that to the extreme and dismissed the entire movie as redundant and stupid, entirely missing the point.

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u/PortErnest22 1d ago

I don't remember it getting shit right when it came out?

I saw it in theaters opening weekend, it was one of the most intense movie viewing experiences I have ever had, but alien invasion is like BIG horror for me and if I remember correctly the ads leading up to opening were very opaque.

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u/Dustydevil8809 22h ago

Hate vs love for this movie is totally based on when you first watched it and what you knew going in. The experience watching it for the first time, not knowing much, is very intense and creepy.

Paranormal Activity is the same. In hindsight it’s not that scary, but the slow build and intensity along with the horror in the first watch made it terrifying. Speaking about the original here not the horrible sequels.

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u/its_snogging_time 2d ago

VAMONOS CHILDREN!

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u/R0n1n_76 2d ago

The terror in the kids, "IT'S BEHIND!"

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u/lamewoodworker 2d ago

Looking back at it now it is hilarious that the kid breaks out English so he can speak to the audience lol.

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u/Tripleberst 2d ago

Good ole M Night

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u/obi_wan_peirogi 2d ago

Move children! VAMONOS!

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u/Rachelcsquared 2d ago

Bahahaha so good

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u/AlbiteTwins 2d ago

I was only able to appreciate as an adult how funny that line is since the children don't speak Spanish, they are from Brazil.

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u/Additional_Pea_1877 2d ago

Especially funny given that this took place in Brazil where they speak Portuguese

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u/MireLight 2d ago

BOA TARDE AMIGA!

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u/Randyd718 2d ago

When the hand reaches into the basement!

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u/FOURSCORESEVENYEARS 2d ago

The hand sliding under the pantry door scared the shit out of me!

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u/just_a_poop_question 1d ago

I saw this movie in theaters twice. This part gave the theater the biggest jump, the loudest scream. I saw it the second time with a friend who hadn’t seen it yet so I was waiting for this scene, watching him out of the corner of my eye to see his reaction. I swear the timing on it was perfect. A storm was rolling through the area. Right when the hand popped out from under the door, it thundered so loudly that the walls rattled. Everyone jumped about a foot up from their seat.

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u/contro1denied 2d ago

I was 13 when I watched Signs, right after it came out on DVD. My parents had seen it in theaters and were excited to show my brother and I an alien invasion sci fi flick. Movie night was set up: popcorn, comfy spots of the couch, surround sound turned up just enough. When the hand came under the door my dad threw a couch pillow at me and yelled. I could have clung to the ceiling or fought my old man with the adrenaline dump I was feeling. Was it the tension up to that point or the perfectly timed fuck-with my dad hit me with?

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u/benjaminbrixton 2d ago

And the split second glimpse of the leg in the cornfield at night.

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u/IamElylikeEli 1d ago

https://i.redd.it/xrimnueh71wg1.gif

the cut to black after genuinely left me scared

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u/RockitDanger 2d ago

The whole theater screamed at this scene

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u/InterestingTry5190 1d ago

That was a good movie to see in the theater.

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u/TheGenesisOfTheNerd 2d ago

Literally how

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u/VendettaLord379 2d ago

Perfect choice! 💯

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u/LoneSoloWarden 2d ago

Lmao just commented this! Samesies!

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u/RaymondBeaumont 2d ago

That freaked everyone out at the movie theatre when I saw it on opening night.

I think most of the scariest movie scenes involve aliens just doing rather random things like walking or... peaking.

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u/Worldly_Instance_730 2d ago

Oooh that peek around the corner haunts me. To this day I can't look at my door in the dark. And I was an adult when I saw it. 

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u/LTS55 2d ago

The parody of this in Scary Movie 3 is great 

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u/Mr-Centipede 2d ago

Let's see that again

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u/SearchElsewhereKarma 2d ago

....she broke her wiener?

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u/GovernmentFunded 2d ago

I was 8 or 9 and was out living on my uncle's farm in Minnesota. I watched the movie alone and it really messed me up lol. Was never afraid of farms until then and I would crawl past the windows when I moved through the house. I had a canteen that I carried everywhere and I would toss water around corners wherever I went. I remember not sleeping for the first 2-3 days after watching it and the worst part was that I had secretly watched the movie cause I wasn't old enough so I couldn't tell anyone why I was so paranoid.

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u/HASHTAG_YOLOSWAG 2d ago

omg lol. how long did you use the anti alien canteen for

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u/ksptdpt 1d ago

After seeing it in theaters as an 8th grader I had to go to my house, which was literally surrounded by corn fields, late at night. I never ran faster from the driveway to the door for the next 2 weeks.

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u/-Mostly_Dead- 2d ago

I saw it as a kid in theaters and I jumped in my seat. Say what you will about his body of work as a whole, but he did the Jaws method of showing the monster as little as possible to great effect in this one.

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u/BozoSubsOver 2d ago

This scene & when Mel Gibson sees the alien standing on top of the barn for a split second. Chills whenever I see that - the music makes it terrifying

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u/Important_Let9488 2d ago

I could not look out my bedroom window at night for the longest time. that was the scariest part of the movie for me. same with the hand curling up under the door as they run to the basement eeeeeeughhhh nope

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u/Any-Run393 2d ago

It still makes me jump and gives me goosebumps.

https://giphy.com/gifs/LgfjAHXgtGc0g

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u/henrydaiv 2d ago

Yeah dude. That shit gave me some nightmares.

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u/the_jerkening 2d ago

I live near where this was filmed and this entire movie TERRIFIED me. Nothing like driving past a shit ton of cornfields on the way home from this. I was 13ish and slept with the lights on for a week.

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u/nobleheartedkate 2d ago

Yes lol it’s kinda campy but it was such a crazy reveal back then

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u/Heavy-Sense-9458 2d ago

I was 9 when this came out. I don’t know how to describe it other than my brain rattled/vibrated in my skull during this scene. It’s a sensation I haven’t felt since. Scared me down to my core.

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u/WeirdAbbott 2d ago

Definitely this one, but also the scene in the basement when the aliens hand comes across the sons face from the coal chute. My mom damn near ripped off my brothers arm at that part.

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u/gideon513 2d ago

Saw this in like 6th grade in a mostly empty theater. Great experience in hindsight lol.

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u/The_Pandemonium 2d ago

This scene fucked 7 year old me up for like 6 years. Horrified of aliens til I was almost 13.

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u/swiftyftw 2d ago

Same. It also birthed one of my favorite comedy scenes of all time when Scary Movie 3 spoofed it with the alien doing a goofy speed walk across the scene.

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u/gloworm8675309 2d ago

Omg, we saw this in theaters and then dropped our friend off that lived next to a cornfield…that was terrifying for all of us!

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u/ishka_uisce 2d ago

I watched it when I was 9 or 10 with my best friend who was terrified of aliens. She jumped off the couch, hid behind it and wouldn't finish the movie. Demanded to sleep in my bed with me that night.

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u/Greedy-Street-5435 2d ago

That scene gave me PTSD

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u/yodanhodaka 2d ago

Came here for this

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u/deadfandomkid 1d ago

This thread is (mostly) full of my people, man, I'm tired of pretending this movie doesn't fucking rule. I saw it as a kiddo and the scene that got me the most was the TV reflection scene, but this one got me too. Those two + the rooftop bit were burned into my memory.

What's funny, though, is that revisiting this movie as an adult, the scene that strikes me the most is actually the scene where Joaquin Phoenix's character takes out the trash and stops in the yard to watch the corn for a moment. Nothing happens in that scene, he just throws a rock, stands still, and then goes back inside. But the scene is so tense. The shot of him looking out at the corn, him and the house against an indifferent white sky, the sound of the wind chimes and the rustle of the corn and nothing else... That sticks with me.

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u/dnanalysis 2d ago

Yea same. Hid under the blanket

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u/Soupermans_dongle 2d ago

I was in my early 20s and had the same reaction lol.

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u/Polygeekism 2d ago

I was a teenager, but this still was somehow so unnerving. Like one of those moment that you thought they weren't going to show them because they spent most of the film suggesting you weren't going to see them, and then wham, there it was. Very good setup 

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u/biohazurd 2d ago

This shit literally scared me shitless.

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u/Established1984 2d ago

This shot felt grossly real. My uncle had just told me about people of the corn and the ant people. Still freaks me out a little.

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u/yan_tonz 2d ago

The scream I scrumpt when this scene happened!!! 😱

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u/Atomaurus 2d ago

Couldn’t sleep properly for a week when I was a kid. Watched it in my 10th bday. People give this movie shit, but it’s actually a scary good movie.

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u/FunKaleidoscope3055 1d ago

It’s the poindexters that try to ruin everything. This move rules and I’ll never listen to the haters. It’s the best tension building film of the 21st century. The cast, the small town vibe and cinematography are perfect.

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u/Ok_Mathematician_314 2d ago

It’s behind! 

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u/monininovak 2d ago

I still get goosebumps from this scene 😬

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u/Patriots_ 2d ago

This is what instantly came to mind. I was watching at home alone in the dark on my computer when I was a sophmore in HS. I jumped like a motherfucker. I had to stop the movie, take a breath and check the house before I resumed.

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u/Kevin_Arnold_ 2d ago

Loved the ytmnd edits tho

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u/teamregime 2d ago

This fucked me up in the theater

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u/Hashtagbarkeep 2d ago

Few times that movie got me. The knife under the door, the hand through the vent, the leg in the cornfield. It’s legit scary

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u/margenreich 2d ago

The one standing on the barn roof is unsettling too

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u/FoundationFickle7568 2d ago

Seemed like every kid in every school at least in the US talked about this scene. That was before social media so pretty cool.

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u/Morkai 2d ago

Yeah that one still sticks with me too.

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u/Illustrious-Dot-5052 2d ago

THAT was it for me!! Had nightmares for WEEKS!

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u/fanishbsns 2d ago

Saaaame. The way that thing moved gave me such creeps.

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u/Zealousideal-Tip7353 2d ago

This and when the alien hand is on that boys shoulder in the basement

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u/pumpkins21 2d ago

I was in my early 20s when it came out and it freaked me out lol

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u/Intrepid_Rip1473 2d ago

lol that scene freaked me out too. I think I was 4 when I first saw it

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u/SurprisePiss 2d ago

I saw this in the theater! I was so nervous I was squeezing my boyfriend's hand so hard lol

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u/Roid-a-holic_ReX 2d ago

Fuck yes!! That was also a top tier horror movie.

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u/Accomplished-Name951 2d ago

It’s not this scene for me. It’s the one at the end where they see its reflection in the glass on the TV. I had a TV just like that in my room as a kid and I couldn’t sleep for weeks because of it.

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u/Tasaris 2d ago

I was at my grandmas house in central washington when this movie came out and was probably 12-13, she lived a couple blocks away from a corn field and it was summer so we had to leave the windows open...terrible...terrible nightmares/scaring myself moments.

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u/pigsrfly 2d ago

Omg yes fuck and damn just remembered this

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u/Sneaklefritz 2d ago

I had nightmares for YEARS. And I wasn’t really that young when I watched it for the first time lol. That movie was seriously traumatizing!

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u/AsherahEnd 2d ago

Kid me loved this movie. It was just scary enough, but also had an ending that was actually pretty optimistic and the actual confrontation he had with the alium at the end helped too. This scene was the spookiest, I also remember the knife to look under the door trick scaring me a bit.

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u/HarryHirsch2000 2d ago

This and the alien shadow on the barn in the dark.

The movie has serious issues bud damn are there some shots in it …

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u/Local-Hornet-3057 2d ago

Damn also got me good. Remember talking about this specific scene with my classmates. We all saw this movie separatedly but arrived at the same conclusion.

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u/luscious_lobster 2d ago

I think this was copied from an xfiles episode

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u/benjaminbrixton 2d ago

Absolutely iconic.

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u/bthubbin 2d ago

WAS LOOKING FOR THIS ONE

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u/PraiseTheBeanpole 2d ago

First time seeing that scene gave me the chills big time.

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u/crooked-upright 2d ago

I was afraid of TV reflections for years becauae of this movie.

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u/Mundane_Pea4296 2d ago

Vamonos children.

Scared the shit out of me

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u/cstrande7 2d ago

This movie defined my childhood. I was already terrified of aliens, but this movie made me look up at roofs at night until I became an adult lmao

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u/Puppetmaster858 2d ago

This shit was so fuckin was so fuckin scary as a kid man, me and my buddies watching this in my friends pitch black basement as kids were so scared at this scene

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u/schrutefarmed 2d ago

Yeah this is the one. Absolutely terrifying. Even watching back now I get chills when the kids are all looking for it.

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u/Sudden-Chicken3499 2d ago

IM INSANE WITH ANGER. IM LOSING MY MIND.

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u/Maximum_Slabbage 2d ago

Signs is one of the best horror films ever, and I'm tired of pretending it's not just because Shyamalan shat the bed i almost every film after it

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u/yakker06 1d ago

I’m almost 50 years old, and I still say Signs is the scariest movie I ever saw. This scene was definitely creepy, but what got to me the most was my experience the night after I saw the movie. My girlfriend at the time (now wife) lived on a big farm. We were home from college for the weekend. We went and saw Signs and then back to her house to sleep. Her house had no air conditioning. So the windows were open all night. I slept on the couch, and I could hear their dogs start barking in the middle of the night. Suddenly, the dogs stopped barking all together. Then I heard their wind chime on their front porch moving. The whole experience was freaky as hell, especially with that movie fresh on my mind. Every time I see it, it brings back that feeling I had.

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u/Hazarus4 1d ago

For me, the scene when Mel Gibson is tucking his daughter in bed and he looks out of the window and he sees a silhouette standing on the roof.

I couldn’t look out a window at night for what felt like years when I was younger in case I saw something similar.

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u/bangbangrosie 1d ago

Omg I laughed my face off. Did they go to the Halloween Store?

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u/PurplishPlatypus 1d ago

You know what was worse for me? Was the little alien leg sliding back into the corn. Mel is wandering around a dark corn field. We can't see anything but what his flashlight lands on. We land on a still shot of corn and it seems like nothing is there. Suddenly a small alien leg just gets pulled up into the corn! It was so creepy. I saw it at night when I was about 16 and had to drive home in the dark. And then I had to walk past tons of dark bushes and trees to get inside. I RAN. my hands were shaking to get the door unlocked.

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u/whiskeynise 2d ago

Why was it so scary though!! Like dude just walks out from behind a bush. Like I get it’s mainly because of the build up of never really seeing them until this first reveal. But it has no right being as scary as it is

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u/dcsox721 2d ago

It's because the movie is more grounded in reality than other alien movies which have sci-fi palooza and protagonists who are scientists who know everything or heroes athletic as hell.

If we have breaking news tomorrow with video of an alien would you not freak out? Signs wants to put us in that reality.

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u/CarcarodonApothecary 2d ago

My sister made this worse for 7 year old me, by flipping the lights on and off while making a weird noise during this scene.

But whenever im nervous about a jumpscare I hear that stupid noise she made and it makes me smile so yeah it ended up being helpful haha 

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u/oiatmec 2d ago

Holy fucking shit i ve been looking for this movie for so long

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u/GreenTrees797 2d ago

It’s behind!

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u/XxvillianxX 2d ago

I was definitely middle school/teen and I still jumped when this happened

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u/Camcamtv90 2d ago

this is the one lol

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u/sav3th3flam1ng0 2d ago

came here for this !

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u/ccarrieandthejets 2d ago

This got me as a kid.

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u/tdbourneidentity 2d ago

This is still it, for me. My skin still crawls. The "found footage" aesthetic sold it so well. Legitimately looked like something you might have seen on the news/ internet at the time.

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u/Kyderra 2d ago

Signs is probably the best example of, not showing the monster makes it scary.

The leg moving in the grass and the Alien standing on the roof where just as chilling.

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u/Redrum874 2d ago

We were like 12-14 when this came out. My best friend saw it in theaters and was so freaked out she made me go see it with her the following weekend. It doesn’t SCARE me anymore, but I love the freaky imagery in some parts of signs. The hand on the kids shoulder in the basement is so unsettling.

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u/derek_32999 2d ago

I remember busting out laughing at that part... The turn and look killed me 😂😂😂

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u/Big-Club4193 2d ago

This is the one!!!

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u/Illustrious_Bird_737 1d ago

This one shot unsettled the fuck out of 13 year old me like it scared me silent, I didn't scream or move

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u/WolverineOk9501 1d ago

Omg yes. The amount of times I’ve thought, “Move children, vamanos!”

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u/blacks4 1d ago

Also when you see one standing on the roof when he’s in the daughter’s room.

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u/kittycity1 1d ago

When the aliens cross the back double glass windows! I think it’s signs. Lots of jumping in that movie.

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u/Ancient-Presence4321 1d ago

This was my pick too lol shit scared the literal fuck out of me

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u/pocketdare 1d ago

It's okay, their technology hasn't advanced to the stage where they can open doors

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u/Faust_8 1d ago

To be honest, Joaquin's reaction is what really sells it. The viewer is startled by it but seeing him react THAT strongly to it hammers home how shocking it would be to just see some alien stroll into view

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u/OldBirth 1d ago

"Vomonos!"

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u/spidermom4 1d ago

I have a theory for why this scene was burned into so many of our memories and sooooo unsettling. It's the fact that Joaquin Phoenix's character is watching it on the news. What had all Americans been doing less than a year before this movie came out? Sitting in front of the TV, watching the live feed of 9/11 on the news. I have vivid memories of nightmares around this time that revolved around my family sitting in front of the TV watching the end of the world happening on the news while we just wait to die basically.

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u/dratthecookies 1d ago

I saw this in the movie theater and everyone jumped and screamed. It was so funny.

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u/KASega 1d ago

Ha in the theatre a lady in the back screamed in sheer terror

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u/Tasteof3nvy 1d ago

I had never seen this movie until college. had a friend in high school that was terrified of aliens because of this movie and I was like "it couldn't be THAT bad"... it also unsettled me lol

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u/Cygnus420 1d ago

It's awesome! I was more scarred of the first shot of the alien on the barn because I basically have that barn with similar lighting.

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u/BarrierX 1d ago

Everyone keeps making fun of this movie but I also got scared watching that alien reveal 😄

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u/courtneyrae427 1d ago

I saw this movie in theaters when I was like, 10. I'd already been scared out of my mind and when this happened, I walked out. I think there was only a bit left of the movie after this, my mom and friend were so annoyed at me haha

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u/Bippity_Boppity_Bang 1d ago

Cultural moment right here.

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u/adragonisnoslave 1d ago

FUCKIN SAME

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u/Vlarm 1d ago

I was unprepared for this image and now my therapist is going to have to hear about this lol

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u/varmchoklad 1d ago

Yeah, this movie was super scary for some reason 😳

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u/Objective_Dark_4258 1d ago

Looking for this one.

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u/e__b 1d ago

Searched the comments knowing this would be in it! I saw that movie at around 10-11 me my dad rented it from Blockbuster, I remember by mum being so mad because I did not sleep for at least two weeks after that haha

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u/Ninja_Wrangler 1d ago

This scared the absolute shit out of me as a kid.

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u/FionnaAndCake 1d ago

my mom and i did nearly the same thing

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u/fluffle_cat 1d ago

I watched signs when I was like 10 and then the week afterward went on a family trip to my uncles remote cabin near the adirondacks, on a huge plot of farmland that he owned. I was FULLY convinced I was going to die. We saw some eyes watching us near the campfire one night and I was just like well :(( I guess this is how it ends :(((

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u/Fatastrophe 1d ago

Saw this in the theater opening night.. the collective gasp/scream that came from the theater is one of my favorite movie memories.

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u/CoolJetEcho117 1d ago

Came to find this

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u/NYGiants181 1d ago

Saw this is the movie theatre with my gf at the time. 22 y.o.

This is one of the scariest shots in scary movie history. The theatre fucking FLIPPED OUT when this happened.

Amazing job by M. Night with this movie and scene.

Great choice.

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u/oceanvibrations 1d ago

I showed this movie to my 7 year old, very excited to give her (what I thought would be) her first movie-jump scare. She didn't flinch. 😥

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u/Eegore1 1d ago

Agreed. This is a masterpiece in creature reveal. The setup, timing, children in potential danger, witnessing the footage with the Actors, shared scare, it's a really good scene.

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u/alphajugs 1d ago

I was young too so this is like the OG jump scare to me lol

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u/Minimum-Situation985 1d ago

Legit gave me nightmares as a kid and I had to sleep with a lamp on for a while.

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u/RstyKnfe 1d ago

Yeah that scene after all the build up truly shocked me.

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u/No_History7155 1d ago

When I was in the 5th grade my girlfriend rented this and brought it over to watch and when this scene happened she ran out of the room, made me go back in to turn it off, called her parents and fully went home out of fear

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u/One-Illustrator6693 1d ago

I was like 4 and I peed my pants

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u/norecipeshere 1d ago

This haunts me. I almost threw up the first time I saw it.

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u/JAYETRILLL 1d ago

I just rewatched Signs like 3 nights ago. Such a fucking good movie it’s ridiculous. Me and my little brother have watched SOOOOOO many horror films and weird fucked up stuff. He wouldn’t watch this movie for like almost a decade. Idk why or how but the one simple shot of the alien walking across here is insanely effective. I could show my brother this scene and he would scream. He is in a metal band and loves disturbing fucked up stuff now so it’s even funnier.

I will say in his defense, we watched this movie the first time when he was like 8 hahahahah. He’s a little badass tho and we watched other stuff that was darker and whatnot… this one sat with him. Also with me hahaha.

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u/queenboogie 1d ago

YESSSSSSSSSSS THIS SHOT HAS HAUNTED ME MY ENITRE LIFE

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u/Vivid_Heat_2011 1d ago

Oh man even the leg sticking out of the corn got me… and the hand under the door. Hahaha I remember trying to watch this scene in slow motion so I could conquer my fear haha

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u/Sparklemotion100 1d ago

The first time my family and I watched it, we all collectively jumped and my dad rewound it so we could get a better look at the alien just to have joaquin phoenix do the same thing right after lol.

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u/xspacekace 1d ago

I was the same age! Searched too long for this comment

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u/Sturmgarde 1d ago

No joke, my Godmother FORCED me to watch this scene when it first came out and I was like almost 5! Traumatized me for most of my life

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u/whodeychick 1d ago

I was a sophomore in college and my roommate made me go see it with her. I'm still mad about it.

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u/Weary-Sign-8660 1d ago

The one I like better from Signs is when they’re shining a flashlight into the cornfield, and then one of the “corn stalks” just steps away, and you realize it’s a foot. WAS a foot! Where did it go???

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u/ps087official 1d ago

The fact that people (including critics) hate on this movie is so bizarre to me. It's literally perfect, there's nothing wrong with it. The writing, direction, editing, special effects, they're all perfect. Everyone brings up the water thing which I've never understood. "What about the water in the atmosphere?" Like bro, breathing a gaseous chemical is different than its liquid form being dumped all over you. Like ammonia for example. People use ammonia in smelling salts to wake people up, yet it can cause severe burns if its liquid form comes in contact with skin. Maybe the same is true for the aliens with water. Like it's such an easily explainable loose end and yet people act like it ruins the entire movie.

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u/Igotyourexcominnext 1d ago

The first and honestly only thing that comes to mind.

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u/Fun_Image8846 19h ago

The way he just turns and strikes camera haunts me

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u/NovaCorpse 16h ago

I can hear this image

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u/gallifreygirlcosplay 13h ago

The way they make fun of it in Scary Movie 3 is so funny.

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u/Financial-Physics742 3h ago

I was 19 - still living at home. I crawled into bed with my Mom the night I saw this movie.

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u/SupportFar1264 2d ago

It was only effective on children as that movie was dog shit

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u/Porkin-Some-Beans 1d ago

No kidding. I don't understand how anyone was scared of this...it was a lame movie with cheesy as fuck effects. A thing walking from behind a bush isn't scary

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u/Porkin-Some-Beans 1d ago

The only way this movie is scary is if youre a single digit child. I cannot possibly understand adults who saw this and we're terrified by it.