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some_of_us_are_sane

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11. Psycho. Two Scenes

Reply to AZLD4Candidate (Original post)

Thu Dec 12, 2024, 08:54 PM

Dec 12

The shower scene, when we first meet Mrs, Bates, and then when Detective Arbogast also meets her at the top of the stairs, where she springs out and stabs him in the head. BOTH are "jump scenes" for sure.

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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 Sunday #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

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Psycho. Two Scenes some_of_us_are_sane Dec 12 #11

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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 Monday #45

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

first move he ever did. AZLD4Candidate Dec 12 #18

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This one VGNonly Dec 13 #24

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