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Old 06-18-2004, 04:50 AM
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Creepiest horror image

Ever see a movie or read a story that had an image you couldn't get out of your head due to its utter creepiness (as opposed to "bloody/nasty/gory")? A memorable one for me is actually from a book (whose title I've long since forgotten), which was supposed to be a nonfiction account of a demonic possession. The house the family was living in had fallen under demonic forces, that would haunt them constantly. One haunting in particular is the subject of this post:

A boy, whose bedroom was in the basement (go figure), wakes up to hear a soft murmurring sound. He locates the sound to his makeshift closet, which uses an old, red curtain as a door. As his eyes adjust to the darkness, he notices the curtain is slightly open ... and behind it is standing the figure of an old man, grey and bony, eyes rolled up into his head. The man's lips are the only thing on his body that is moving, and it is from these lips that the murmurring comes. The boy has to run past the curtain to leave the room.

Typing it up now, it doesn't seem so creepy. I wish I still had the book so I could quote it directly.

A couple more:

Dead girl in closet from "The Ring" (what is it with me and closests?)

Final scene from "Blair Witch Project"
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Old 06-18-2004, 05:16 AM
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Actually, for me it was a scene from a movie that I can't remember the name of...I was only about 8 years old at the time (which is probably why it made such an impression)...Anyway, either the name of the movie had something to do with "Ruby" or the girl in it was named Ruby.
..I remember a part where the girl was holding a mason jar with two eyeballs in it...They were both trailing long muscle tissue and nerves, apparently she had gotten them from an elderly relative in a wheelchair, as they showed this person with no eyes....Okay, that isn't the part that creeped me out...It was in the end (well, it was either the end, or the part where I couldn't watch anymore)
...There was a lake, and the girl was walking to the lake...a guy came up from the water and walked towards her (actually, I may have the male and female roles reversed, I can't really remember)...As they came together, they embraced, walked into the water, and the parts of the body, of the person that came out of the water, that were submerged (damn, this is difficult to explain) were skeletal...The parts that were above the water were normal...and as the person would get deeper into the water, all of the parts would become skeletal, but ONLY if they stayed under water, like if the water level lowered or something, from the splashing, the parts that came back out of the water were normal again, sorta like the water was an x-ray image...Okay, now comes the creepy part...the person who was taken into the water, seems to snap out of the trance, and starts to struggle, the "thing" pulls the person all the way underwater...When it is completely submerged, it is all skeletal except that it has a beating heart in the ribcage and a brain with eyeballs in it's skull, it is laughing maniacally, as it drowns its victim, it looks like its doing some crazy dance underwater.......
Anyway...that's the image that stuck with me...That skeleton, with a red beating heart, eyeballs and a brain, crazily laughing and "jumping around" underwater, drowning someone...
I wish I could watch it again...It would probably make a little sense now...It was at the drive-in...A double feature...It came on right after "Rabid" (Funny, I remember almost ALL of that one), so...It would have been right around that same time period...:confused:
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Old 06-18-2004, 05:20 AM
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Doesn't ring a bell with me, Bloodrayne. But that was an excellent post! Creeped me out just reading it. If you ever find out the title to that one, let us know!
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Old 06-18-2004, 05:24 AM
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Doesn't ring a bell with me, Bloodrayne. But that was an excellent post! Creeped me out just reading it. If you ever find out the title to that one, let us know!
LOL, thanks...I don't know why I never thought to ask here...Thanks for this thread, too...Perhaps this will help me figure it out...It actually seems like something that Zwoti would know about...Or maybe Vodstock...Maybe even Bwind...
Dr. Kelvinstein or Avenger definitely would have known, maybe Ritualistic, too...I certainly wish that I would have thought to ask about it while they were here:(
So...What about it, Guys?...A little help?
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Old 06-18-2004, 05:46 AM
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LOL, thanks...I don't know why I never thought to ask here...Thanks for this thread, too...Perhaps this will help me figure it out...It actually seems like something that Zwoti would know about...Or maybe Vodstock...Maybe even Bwind...
Dr. Kelvinstein or Avenger definitely would have known, maybe Ritualistic, too...I certainly wish that I would have thought to ask about it while they were here:(
So...What about it, Guys?...A little help?
well there is a horror film called ruby
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I wouldn't call it "creepy" but it is a scene that comes-and-goes. It's from "The Silence Of The Lambs" when Hannibal gets off the strecher and pulls that mans skin off his face. Y'know, the one he was wearing as a "mask".
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Old 06-18-2004, 06:08 AM
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well there is a horror film called ruby
Thanks for that link, Zwoti...I don't know why I didn't think to look up "Ruby" myself...I read the synopsis, and the review, as well as viewer comments (there were only 7 :rolleyes: )...Much of it does sound about right, mostly the parts about the disturbed, mute little girl killing people...But, it seems that the overall theme was supposed to be that her mother ran a drive-in, and I can't, for the life of me, remember anything about that...Of course, I was only 8 years old...I will definitely have to see this one to be sure, but everyone said (in viewer comments) that the ending was editted out after the original theater release...Which would mean that the main part I would be looking for, would be gone...Oh well, I still believe that if it were the right movie, I would begin to recognize other parts as I watched it...Thanks again..You are so helpful:)
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Lets see, I have a couple...

Theres when the tech. guy turns around in his chair, and has no face in House on Haunted Hill(Remake) , Also in House on Haunted Hill, when Price is in the Saturation Chamber, The naked girl with a mouth-face thing, hard to explain...


And BTW, how did Blair Witch end? I was like 10 when I saw it, and near the end I got freaking terrifyed, so I ran out of the house, and told my mother never to tell me how it ended. Now that I actually wanna know......She forgot.
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Old 06-18-2004, 06:29 AM
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Good images! I forgot about the first one ... the Exorcist face. Unfortunately, I can't place the second. Doesn't seem too creepy to me though ... he looks like an old roommate I had once, when I walked in on him taking a dump.

As for Blair Witch, it ended with Heather and the short, stocky guy running through the mysterious house looking for Josh. Stocky guy hears a yell coming from the basement, and takes off looking for the source, leaving Heather screaming her ass off (once again.) She follows the guy down to the basement, and captures a brief image of him standing with his nose in the corner (a la the method used by Rustin Parr against his victims). Heather, still screaming, is finally shut up by some unknown attack. The camera drops to the floor, filming nothing but earth ... then shortly stops.
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