Scenes that heavily affected you [Archive] - Horror.com Forums

Vodstok

06-23-2005, 03:33 AM

Name scenes which, long after the movie was done, left a lasting impression on you, good or bad. here are a few to start out with:

Just about any scene with inbreds in Deliverance. The Banjo boy gives me the willies, and i wont even get into Ned Beatty's "Squeal like a pig" scene. People can laugh about it after the fact all they want, but i have never seen anyone even crack a smile at that while watching the movie, it is brutal.

The end of Sleepaway camp scared the shit out of me the first time i saw it. The rest of the movie was basically a "campy", kinda crappy little horror flick, then the end fucking blinsides you like a train in the fog. It was completely unexpected and damn effective.

There was a part in Airforce One where Gary7 Oldman shoots one of the female hostages. It was one o fthose things where you really hoped he didnt kill her, and the woman playing the part looked Terrified, then blam. i just stared at the screen in disbelief, they usually dont have the balls to kill someone in a movie like that without establishing that they are corrupt to some degree, but if i remember correctly, she wqas just a nice lady who worked for the president.

AUSTIN316426808

06-23-2005, 05:08 AM

Requiem for a Dream- the entire film is harsh imo but the last 6 or 7 minutes just fucks your head up. I wouldn't say it's unexpected because through the whole film you know that eventually everything is going to come crashing down but the way they did it was just fucking ROUGH.

Passion of the Christ- various parts through out the film fucked my head up. I remember still thinking about it several days after watching it.

Million Dollar Baby- The first two hours are uplifting, inspirational, there's a little humor thrown in and then Clint just decided to pick up a sledge hammer and wack everybody right in the face. The last 40 minutes are rough.

Empire of the Sun- There were some sad parts but the reason I'm listing it is because it's just a powerful movie overall.

Friday Night Lights- One of the characters is damn near a copy of me, I fucked my leg up and couldn't play anymore and I lost a championship game on the last play(when I say ''I lost a championship game'' I literally mean it was my fault) so it was like reliving all of it.

urgeok

06-23-2005, 05:44 AM

empire of the son - for sure .. especially the salute scene ..

schindlers list ... most of it - but especially the end - after the movie when the survivors put the rocks on his tombstone .. you suddenly realize it was about real people - embellished or not.

2 scenes that were powerful (but didnt exactly affect me other than to go - 'wow' :

1) Year of the Dragon - John Lone (who almost stole the movie from Rourke) is running at Rourke on the train tracks at the end ... going 'WHAT - What do you want !!!'

the most empassioned performance i've seen by a chinese actor.. i find these people culturally reserved and desperately afraid to give up control(which requires trust) - but this was a huge exception..excellent scene - excellent actor.

2) by the same token - Angel Heart - the scene where Rourkes character realizes who he is - powerful stuff

Vodstok

06-23-2005, 06:08 AM

A rather odd part of Blackhawk down affected me quite a bit. Some of the Americans are outside a hummer shooting at people on rooftops, and a Somali pops over the side, fires a single shot with an ak-47. it hits one of the Americans dead-center in the chest and BAM, he's dead. A little later, the same thing happens to the roof gunner on Tom Sizemore's hummer, one shot, right in the throat, instantly dead.

Kind of drove home that in those kids of conflicts, you can be dead in under a second, and not even see it coming. Kind of steals all sense of security.

urgeok

06-23-2005, 06:10 AM

Originally posted by Vodstok
A rather odd part of Blackhawk down affected me quite a bit. Some of the Americans are outside a hummer shooting at people on rooftops, and a Somali pops over the side, fires a single shot with an ak-47. it hits one of the Americans dead-center in the chest and BAM, he's dead. A little later, the same thing happens to the roof gunner on Tom Sizemore's hummer, one shot, right in the throat, instantly dead.

Kind of drove home that in those kids of conflicts, you can be dead in under a second, and not even see it coming. Kind of steals all sense of security.

thats the way i felt when i first saw platoon ...
the panic of being in a firefight - tracers flying around you - you cant tell friend from foe ...

it was a long time before war films actually portrayed war as the fucked up mess it really is, and not just a showcase for heros..

AmarylandPsycho

06-23-2005, 06:25 AM

Children of the Corn: Isaac says, " He wants you too Malachi." That part gave me nightmares for weeks

Poltergeist II: When the old man is walking up to the door singing " The Lord is in His temple, The Lord is in His house."

Scared the crap outta me just a really creepy actor who did a great job.

Heres one from the X files that stuck with me for a while. The epsiode with the imbred mountain people who had a mom with no legs and would club people to death. I remember a scene where a women is hiding under the bed and she sees the imbreds walking around infront of the bed then they flip the bed over and beat her. <shudder> crazy

ShankS

06-23-2005, 06:39 AM

We Were Soldiers...

when Joe Galloway aka Barry Pepper is photographing, when napalm lands too near the Yanks, one guy gets burnt legs, and Galloway's shouted at to help carry the burnt, but still alive soldier to safety... he slings back his camera, bends down to grasp the injured guys legs, and the surface skin from both calfs comes clean away in his hands....horrific scene.

Vodstok

06-23-2005, 07:50 AM

Originally posted by AmarylandPsycho
Children of the Corn: Isaac says, " He wants you too Malachi." That part gave me nightmares for weeks

Poltergeist II: When the old man is walking up to the door singing " The Lord is in His temple, The Lord is in His house."

Scared the crap outta me just a really creepy actor who did a great job.

Heres one from the X files that stuck with me for a while. The epsiode with the imbred mountain people who had a mom with no legs and would club people to death. I remember a scene where a women is hiding under the bed and she sees the imbreds walking around infront of the bed then they flip the bed over and beat her. <shudder> crazy

I havent seen potergeist 2 yet, butr you are dead on on the other 2.

That x-files episode was "Home", with the Peacock family (the inbreds)

That scene forever chnaged how i view Johnny Mathis music. I think "Chances are" was playing in the background, meanwhile 3 inbred boys are going lowland gorilla on some poor woman with baseball bats...

The end of American History X always leaves me feeling cold. It goes a long way to de-glorify shooting someone to death. It is completely heart wtrenching.

Thats not to mention Vinyard getting raped in the shower, and killing the guy on the curb. That whole movie is almost completely laugh-free. Oh, and i forgot the skinhead raid on the grocery store.... No matter how many times i see it, i am always afraid for the casheer. That is the kind of thing that could traumatize someone for life.

newb

06-23-2005, 07:55 AM

Deer Hunter.....the russian roulette scenes.

Vodstok

06-23-2005, 08:00 AM

Didi-mau! Didi-mau!!

I never saw it, but i am familiar with the scene.

The frog (i think) went through the same thing in "Meet the Feebles"

Renton's detox in Trainspotting is pretty painful to watch, no matter how many times i see it.

One of the worst for me is in the Abyss when Ed Harris is trying to revive his wife after she drowned..... There is almost no part in any movie that hits me harder than that.

filmmaker2

06-23-2005, 08:04 AM

Night of the Living Dead - The moment when the first ghoul looks up at Barbra after killing Johnny. Four stars ****

The Land Unknown - A pterodactyl flies absolutely out of nowhere and smashes into the helicopter with our heroes in it, causing it to crash. This is before you are aware that this movie is about dinosaurs--it's the introduction of the dinosaur element. A real WTF moment. Five stars *****

Frankenstein - The Monster (Karloff) has snuck into Mae Clarke's bedroom and is coming after her, but every time she almost turns around and sees him, she's distracted by something and looks the other way, as he gets closer. Five stars *****

Haunted

06-23-2005, 09:42 AM

It's a movie based on a play, but G'Night, Mother with Sissy Spacek and Anne Bancroft. The daughter spends the last night with her mother going over everything before she (the daughter- Spacek) committs suicide. She actually tells her mother that's what she's doing.

The scene that gets me is when Bancroft is banging on Spacek's door telling her she won't fulfill any of her final wishes...trying to coax her into opening the door. While she's screaming you hear the gunshot. Powerful. Depressing as hell.

ChEEbA

06-23-2005, 09:55 AM

2 come immediately to mind, both to do with impending death.

Giovanni Ribisi's medic character in saving private ryan, He knew he was gonna die, and while still in shock, said he could use some morphine pretty calmly, but from that point, became more and more terrified, and called for his mother - I thought that was messed up.
It's funny, he's a very under-rated actor.

Another one while not so serious, The death of ?Frank? In 28DL, Right from the moment the drop fell towards him, you knew it was coming, but it was a horrible way to go, how he told his daughter he loved her, then screamed at her to get away from him...then Jim realising he'd have to kill him in front of his daughter - all the way through to the point he was shot suddenly with high powered rifles, it was...yeah, pretty daunting.

Vodstok

06-23-2005, 10:05 AM

Frank dying in 28 days later killed me. He was such a good guy, i hate seeing good people die in movies.

Charlize Theron cutting her own throat in Devil's advocate always bugged me. it's like Keanu had some miraculous vision in that scene and actually sounds like a man destroyed over watching his wife kill herself.

newb

06-23-2005, 10:08 AM

Originally posted by ChEEbA
2 come immediately to mind, both to do with impending death.

Giovanni Ribisi's medic character in saving private ryan, He knew he was gonna die, and while still in shock, said he could use some morphine pretty calmly, but from that point, became more and more terrified, and called for his mother - I thought that was messed up.
It's funny, he's a very under-rated actor.

Agreed....another one from that movie...other than the first 20 minutes,which were pretty intense,was the fight between Adam Goldberg's character and the german soldier,culminating in the death of Goldberg via bayonet.

Vodstok

06-23-2005, 10:18 AM

Originally posted by newb
Agreed....another one from that movie...other than the first 20 minutes,which were pretty intense,was the fight between Adam Goldberg's character and the german soldier,culminating in the death of Goldberg via bayonet. Oh god, that part was unbearable.....

The end of Big Fish tore me apart. I cant quite put my finger on it, but when Albert Finney is laying in bed and his sone is telling the story about him turning into the fish, i lose it.

ShankS

06-23-2005, 10:30 AM

women slitting their wrists in the bath... wrists and razor blades in the same scene make me crindge.

Tat2

06-23-2005, 03:25 PM

Passion if the Christ: From when they started scourging Him through the crucifixion. I'm considered a "hard-ass" by most others, but I tell you, I had tears running down my cheeks through all of those scenes. That movie could make the biggest, baddest asshole cry.

Last House on the Left: When the chick bit off the bad guys "dinkey".....made me cringe then and still does to this day.

alkytrio666

06-23-2005, 04:21 PM

The Exorcist...the whole cross masturbation scene. Something about how young the girl is and the things she does...

*shudder*

Haunted

06-23-2005, 04:40 PM

I share this with Rob Zombie:

That scene in the original House on Haunted Hill where that woman is investigating her room and sees that wicked old lady ghost that just glides out of her room. Brrrr. Creepy.

Babygurl20

06-23-2005, 04:53 PM

In the movie Boys Don't Cry, the part where they beat her and rape her left me emotionally beaten. It tore me up inside knowing that this really happened. I couldn't believe that there are people out there that can be so brutal and uncaring for other human beings

In the movie Kids, the very end where he rapes the girl who just found out she had AIDS. I was shocked, I guess he got what he deserved in the end though in a sense for taking advantage of her.

And last but not least, the movie Irreversable, when that guy raped the woman in the subway tunnel. It looked so real I had nightmares about it. Also had nightmares when the one guy beat the other guys face in with the fire extinguisher. Horrified me it looked so real.

Haunted

06-23-2005, 05:06 PM

Yeah, I tend to avoid rape scenes myself. It's why Zwoti warned me off of, I Spit on Your Grave.

Babygurl20

06-23-2005, 05:09 PM

Originally posted by Haunted
Yeah, I tend to avoid rape scenes myself. It's why Zwoti warned me off of, I Spit on Your Grave.

In Irreversable, you just did not see that scene coming at all. It is a very horrifying scene. I recommend it to no one.

urgeok

06-23-2005, 05:36 PM

Originally posted by Haunted
Yeah, I tend to avoid rape scenes myself. It's why Zwoti warned me off of, I Spit on Your Grave.

i hate rape scenes - rape and execution scenes ...

i have to say I spit on your grave handled it a lot better than i was expecting ... it wasnt exploitive at all ....

terrible and disgusting - but not exploitive ...

(like it would have been had Jesse Franco directed it ..)

jenna26

06-23-2005, 07:09 PM

Funny, the one that instantly comes to mind is from a movie that I actually didn't like......but in Monster's Ball the suicide scene was like a punch in the stomach. The dialogue and what is going on there is just so sad.

In Trainspotting, when the baby is found dead, and Sick Boy ("Say something. Fucking say something....") is crying over the body. Then the first thing the mother asked for is, of course, another fix. That was a hard one for me.....I absolutely love that movie though.

Almost every single minute of Platoon traumatized me for life, a movie I will definitely not be watching again.

And someone mentioned the very end of Schindler's List and that stuck withme too. But I cried throughout that whole movie just about. I admit it. In fact, I avoided watching it for years because I knew it would hit me like that. So I didn't even see it until last year.

The_Return

06-23-2005, 07:18 PM

The end of the original NotLD...I dont care how much Romero claims that movie wasnt meant to have racial undertones, that ending blows me away more than anything in any movie Ive ever seen. How really...maybe, the zombies arent that much worse than us anyway....

Peter Weller's "death" in Robocop was a tad brutal aswell....definatly stayed in my head.

The "ice cream" scene, as it's often called, in Assualt on Precinct 13 [original] is one of the most disturbing things Ive ever seen....totally unexpected, something that you just dont see in movies cause it's so...violent.

Babygurl20

06-23-2005, 07:22 PM

Another movie that made me cry like a baby was Forest Gump. Not because I'm from Alabama, But just the fact that when he finds out he has a son, the first thing he asks Jenny is if he is smart. It just hit me right in the heart and at the very end where he is talking to Jenny's grave. Man I wanna cry just thinking about it.

The Green Mile when John Coffee dies and Tom Hanks knows the truth to the whole murder situation is awful to, great movie, but an awful situation.

And the last one for real, that shocked me by what happened the most is in Pet Semetary when Gage gets killed. Just seeing and knowing that a child had just been killed tore me up completely and I just lost it, even though he did come back just a little mean. It was sad.

alkytrio666

06-23-2005, 07:41 PM

I've seen it now probably 4 or 5 times and own it, but the first time I saw The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) around the part of the movie where that one chick is the only one left and they're just terrorizing her and she's so helpless...I seriously felt like crying. It's just so horrible and sick. But God do I love that movie.

jenna26

06-23-2005, 07:57 PM

Originally posted by alkytrio666
I've seen it now probably 4 or 5 times and own it, but the first time I saw The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) around the part of the movie where that one chick is the only one left and they're just terrorizing her and she's so helpless...I seriously felt like crying. It's just so horrible and sick. But God do I love that movie.

Oh, that is one for me too, can't believe I didn't think to mention it....the scene at the table. That is horrifying and incredibly uncomfortable to watch. But it is one of my favorites....lol....because that just flat out terrified me the first time I saw it and it still gets to me, to be honest. It is done almost too well, if you know what I mean.

alkytrio666

06-23-2005, 08:01 PM

Originally posted by jenna26
Oh, that is one for me too, can't believe I didn't think to mention it....the scene at the table. That is horrifying and incredibly uncomfortable to watch. But it is one of my favorites....lol....because that just flat out terrified me the first time I saw it and it still gets to me, to be honest. It is done almost too well, if you know what I mean.

Yah! And the whole "Grandpa sucks the blood out of her finger" scene...wow.

jenna26

06-23-2005, 08:09 PM

Originally posted by alkytrio666
Yah! And the whole "Grandpa sucks the blood out of her finger" scene...wow.

Have you watched it with commentary on? Because I will never view that scene the same way again after hearing what happened there...:eek: That poor girl...LOL....

alkytrio666

06-23-2005, 08:11 PM

Originally posted by jenna26
Have you watched it with commentary on? Because I will never view that scene the same way again after hearing what happened there...:eek: That poor girl...LOL....

No, I just have this really old like vintage VHS copy...no commentary. Why, what happened??

Marroe

06-23-2005, 08:19 PM

Big Fish. The enitre movie stuck with me, but what really got to me was the ending. He finally understood his father, and became just like him. I get teary everytime I watch the scene where he dies
Also the scene in Finding Neverland where Kate Winslet's charachter dies.....I guess I have a soft spot for the fantacy death scenes. I would like to be around people who care as much about me when I go.

jenna26

06-23-2005, 08:23 PM

Originally posted by alkytrio666
No, I just have this really old like vintage VHS copy...no commentary. Why, what happened??

Well, if I recall correctly (been awhile since I have watched so anyone else that has, correct me if I am wrong), the fake blood just wasn't working.....so he got frustrated and really cut her. And I don't think she had much in the way of warning...LOL...

alkytrio666

06-23-2005, 08:26 PM

Originally posted by jenna26
Well, if I recall correctly (been awhile since I have watched so anyone else that has, correct me if I am wrong), the fake blood just wasn't working.....so he got frustrated and really cut her. And I don't think she had much in the way of warning...LOL...

WOW. That's freaky.

Steve_Hutchison

06-25-2005, 06:18 PM

A lot of titles I had in mind were mentions. I'd have to add to the list the way Sean gets whacked on the head over and over in King of the Ants and especially the intent of the bad guys in doing so.

Shade

06-25-2005, 06:40 PM

American History X. That entire movie just stuck in mind, especially the ending and when he had the man bite the curb and the combat boot. Agh, I really don't think I could watch that movie again even if it was amazing.

sandy_x

06-26-2005, 04:53 PM

the scene in man on fire when creasy gave his life for the little girl peeta knowing it was based on a true story realy got to me.

Vodstok

06-27-2005, 03:54 AM

Originally posted by Marroe
Big Fish. The enitre movie stuck with me, but what really got to me was the ending. He finally understood his father, and became just like him. I get teary everytime I watch the scene where he dies
Also the scene in Finding Neverland where Kate Winslet's charachter dies.....I guess I have a soft spot for the fantacy death scenes. I would like to be around people who care as much about me when I go. Jesus, i forgo6t finding neverland. i was fine until i saw how destroyed that little boy was at the loss of yet another parent. That tore me to pieces. I think we watched the incredibles right after, which i really needed.

AI was a terrible one. That poor kid just wanted to be loved. another movie that the ending left me drained.