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happybird

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12. For some reason, The Birds scared me more than Psycho

Reply to some_of_us_are_sane (Reply #11)

Thu Dec 12, 2024, 09:01 PM

Dec 12

I blame it for my lifelong fear of birds. Not songbirds, and I ended up loving chickens once I got to know some personally, but parrots, macaws, emus, ostriches, and gawd help us, cassowaries scare the hell out of me. It’s the big, peck-y beaks and weird scaly feet.

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Top Ten List of the Most Terrifiying Scenes in movies [View all] AZLD4Candidate Dec 12 OP

How about the classic jump-scare scene in Wait Until Dark? Ocelot II Dec 12 #1

Wait until Dark was an awesome movie. . .an even better stage production though. AZLD4Candidate Dec 12 #3

Exactly the first movie I thought of sorcrow Dec 12 #10

I was going to mention this leftieNanner Dec 12 #5

The last five minutes of Friday the 13th? BOSSHOG Dec 12 #2

I tend to agree due to the lasting power of the franchise, but I found F13 to be too cardboard and wooden for me AZLD4Candidate Dec 12 #4

Dick Halloran getting an axe to the chest in The Shining happybird Dec 12 #6

A couple more scenes from The Shining. wnylib Dec 22 #40

#4 Correction - you are describing "The Mist" TexasBushwhacker Dec 12 #7

Oops. . .you're right. Changed. AZLD4Candidate Dec 12 #8

First thought was KitFox Dec 12 #9

I thought that "Wait Until Dark" was more suspenseful than terrifying ailsagirl Dec 12 #16

"The Tingler" was creepy as hell and scary! My sister and I would watch it together and yellowdogintexas Dec 23 #43

Psycho. Two Scenes some_of_us_are_sane Dec 12 #11

For some reason, The Birds scared me more than Psycho happybird Dec 12 #12

That's because birds are dinosaurs. Ocelot II Dec 12 #17

Ah, our tiny mamalian ancestral memories of living back during the Age of Dinosaurs! electric_blue68 Dec 13 #19

😰 Floyd R. Turbo Dec 12 #13

Oh, yeah.... PlanetBev Dec 23 #45

😬 Floyd R. Turbo Dec 23 #46

The shower scene in The Shining JMCKUSICK Dec 12 #14

The Last House on the Left (1972) was sickening and terrifying ailsagirl Dec 12 #15

first move he ever did. AZLD4Candidate Dec 12 #18

Rated "V" for "violence. no_hypocrisy Dec 13 #26

We were at a drive-in, so I don't know if they did or didn't ailsagirl Dec 13 #27

I rarely ever watch horror movies, and usually avoid horror-laced Sci Fi movies, too! But I did go to the.... electric_blue68 Dec 13 #20

Card reading scene from the "Evil Dead." C0RI0LANUS Dec 13 #21

I'm not a big horror flick fan so I haven't seen many of the ones listed here 10 Turtle Day Dec 13 #22

Chest-bursting scene in first Alien movie. Intractable Dec 13 #23

The first time I saw it I jumped. Woodwizard Dec 13 #32

This one VGNonly Dec 13 #24

For me it was this scene nuxvomica Dec 16 #35

+1 oasis Dec 22 #38

I'll Add One ProfessorGAC Dec 13 #25

The Serpent and the Rainbow AZSkiffyGeek Dec 13 #28

The Blair Witch Project - Tent attack Shermann Dec 13 #29

Almost passed out holding my breath during the ending of Dead Calm... ultralite001 Dec 13 #30

Great list! Luciferous Dec 13 #31

"The Haunting" (1966) is a superb movie ailsagirl Dec 15 #33

The Exorcist: Regan starts levitating nuxvomica Dec 16 #34

I got chills when I saw that, even 20+ years later oasis Dec 22 #39

Ear problem VGNonly Dec 19 #36

Exorcist 3 happybird Dec 22 #37

The hospital scene, where you get the jump scare followed by the creepy guy chasing the nurse with hedge clippers AZLD4Candidate Dec 22 #41

The scene near the end of the original "Carrie" bedazzled Dec 22 #42

Trilogy of Terror PlanetBev Dec 23 #44