What’s the scariest thing you’ve ever seen?

[lunababymoonchild]

Inspired by @France ‘s horror of clowns, what have you seen or read that scared you the most?

 

Mine is, without doubt, the Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Even now, as an adult I cannot watch the parts of the film with him in it. Played by Sir Robert Helpmann at the very end of his career as a classical ballet dancer (well practiced in the art of non-verbal communication, he didn’t need to have lines to speak) he gives me the shivers every time. As a child I had to leave the room, as an adult I turn it over or leave the room.

 

The most horrific thing I ever read was Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Hit far too close to home for me.

[KEV67]

I have never managed to watch Alien all the way through. There was a scene in which an android, played by Ian Holm, had been attacked by the alien. Instead of blood he was squirting hydraulic fluid.

Another film I could not bear watching was Tess by Roman Polanski, starring Natasja Kinski. It was well acted, but I had to stop watching after about twenty minutes, because I could see what was coming next.

[lunababymoonchild]

I've never watched either of those. When Alien came out I saw the trailers and decided against it. I did go to the cinema as a teenager - before video recording and Sky TV - and lied my way into an over 18 film (some zombie apocalypse film which was popular at the time), which scared the livin' daylights out of me so much that I was too scared to get up out of my seat in the dark to go to the toilet. It put me off lying about my age for life!

[Nataweeee]

i've always been pretty good with scary stuff, at least in media, but one thing that really upset me as a child was one scene in the Spawn animated tv series where a priest kills someone by dropping a grenade into their pants and i think just the absurdity and the fact that it happened to a completely random person going about their day was something my 7 year old brain wasn't ready to cope with lol.

 

the only thing i can think of that's kind of gotten me in my adult years is one scene in Inland Empire with the demon with a horrifically distorted Laura Dern face.

 

as for things i've read i don't have a ton of experience with horror books but there's a SA scene in Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin that really made me squirm.

[KEV67]

There was a film called The Vanishing, which was a remake of a Dutch film, which was based on a book by Tim Krebbe. I have not actually watched the film, although I had heard how creepy it was from film review shows by Barry Norman. I was at work once, and I overheard someone describe the plot. It freaked me out just listening to it.