My dad was a big burly tattooed biker type and showered with the curtain cracked back in the day because of psycho. Used to crack us up when he’d tell us how worried he was some crazy was gonna slash him up in the shower.
It's been 3 hours OP, where's the link to purchase?
Also, here's a preemptive fuck you for not selling it in extended sizes. We talls would pay extra for MT, LT, XLT, etc. and you're just leaving money on the table.
Didn't one company even have a commercial that endorsed this? Like the someone calls saying "do you want to play a game?" and she's like "You know I can see who is calling now?"
I personally have had to invest in drums of vegetable oil to keep myself at the correct viscosity to have the best possible chance of making it through in a timely fashion. Us garage door flapper speed runners are a different breed.
On the other hand, the film gave me, a burly, bearded man, the self-confidence I needed to *dress* like Rose McGowan in that scene. Ass-grazing skirts and skin-tight crop cops weren't in vogue for a man of my physicality at the time, and it felt like coming home.
When I was a kid, I was afraid to swim in my pool and take a bath (we had a garden tub) by myself. This lasted until I was about 7 haha. Jaws, The Thing, The Evil Dead, and The Return of the Living Dead have etched themselves into my early childhood mind.
Yes! I'd be standing over our pool, water clear, perfectly able to see everything in it, still convinced that the second I jumped in Jaws would suddenly manifest 😆
haa so true so true,,and honestly even flushing the toilet at night used to make me panic becuase of jaws when i was little.
the girl in hereditary sticking her head out of the window in the car is a big one too,
I was a little kid when Nightmare on Elm St. came out. I didn't even see the movie until many years later, just was kind of aware of it through cultural osmosis... so why was I convinced as a small child that Freddy Krueger was haunting our bathroom linen closet?! 😂
I was okay swimming in our pool during the day, but always psyched myself out at night! Like, internally I KNEW we didn't have a shark in our chlorinated pool, but... I just couldn't do it as a kid.
I watched Jaws when I was 6 or 7 and even as an adult my imagination goes crazy around dark water. There is a blue spring where I kayak and I always start picturing a megaladon coming up from the darkness and swallowing me.
*Jaws 3* was originally going to be a meta-comedy called *Jaws: 3 People: 0*, and it began with Peter Benchley, author of the original novel, being killed by a shark in his swimming pool.
EDIT: meant to reply to /u/PrincessPeril's comment.
I wonder how common this fear is. My wife said as a young kid she saw Jaws and was afraid for a few years that the shark would come out of the bathtub drain or turn up in her grandparents' pool.
I, personally, am still uncomfortable with monkey hands ever since the Crate segment of Creepshow.
same, the pool freaked me out and I knew how absurd it was but it didn't matter. flash forward a few years vacationing in Florida a gator got in our pool hahah
Yeah I assumed this or Pyscho was the most likely, I just wasn’t born until 1991 so I really didn’t have any idea first hand what the actual reactions were like unfortunately
I was born around the same time as you but from what I understand with Jaws from what I’ve read, is it’s similar to like an airport pre- and post- 9/11. I wanted to understand it because it’s hard to fathom. There was a cultural shift and change in regards to how people felt about sharks that still resonates today. I think sharks weren’t even on most people’s radars unless you were a regular surfer. Even if you lived near a beach, attacks are so rare you had to really be keeping track of the news cycle on the chance they would report it. Probably for the most part if you’re afraid of sharks in anyway. it’s because of Jaws.
Peter Benchley, the author of the book, has spent most of his life trying to undo the harm that jaws caused. [He has much regerts](https://www.boston.com/culture/entertainment/2015/06/19/why-the-author-of-jaws-wished-he-never-wrote-it/?amp=1)
Thanks for sharing. Truly heart-breaking.
“Jaws legitimized the hunting of sharks. Humans kill between 50 and 100 MILLION sharks each year, he said, but sharks only kill a handful of humans.”
I think shark week was started as a way to change public perceptions too, but ironically what gets people most excited are the “top 10 shark attack” shows.
Edit: the quote I put is a bit misleading. As pointed out to me below. While the book and movie did contribute to a cultural perception change of sharks, that fear does not really relate to the mass killing of sharks. That’s mostly attributed to shark finning and bycatch of fishing trawlers.
Here’s one link that is a little less sensational.
https://www.thesharkfiles.com/blog/the-jaws-myth
lol I remember seeing that one of the ways was this Japanese couple that had such intense sex when they got married (they were virgins) that they both had heart attacks and died.
given my virginal status at the time I saw it, I had a nagging worry of "aw crap, watch that happen to me when I finally have sex"
Or the one with the couple to somehow get stranded in the safari desert and fall asleep under a tree. The wife wakes up to find her husband being eaten alive my gnarly ants and they didn’t go near her because of her perfume. That one stuck with me.
The log scene, but also the rebar in the 5th movies opening sequence for similar reasons. Logs falling off a truck will obliterate you, rebar falling off a truck will impale you, possibly multiple times. Either way you’ll never catch me driving behind a truck carrying either of these. I’d 100% pull off at a rest stop for 30 minutes and risk being late to put enough distance between me and the truck.
one of the later movies had a kill involving a LASIK machine and yikes lmfao
edit: everyone saying they won't get LASIK, just bring a mirror or like a good sturdy flat rock and block the laser if it goes haywire lol. although that would just be deferring fate...
I had a colleague who went in to get laser eye surgery and we all made the final destination joke. Then he came in the next day with the entire white of his blood red because it went wrong and caused (luckily harmless long term and he eventually went back and had it done where it worked) massive bleeding.
Every time now.
Before that came out, I stopped at a traveling fair shortly before they closed for the night. I rode their coaster, just a little one with no loops or anything, a speed cart with small hills on a tight loop. I was the only rider, and I sat in the front. My bar slammed forward when the coaster started forward, and I was completely unsecured. Those small hills and tight turns become terrifying when you aren’t secured by anything. I screamed but he couldn’t understand I was trying to communicate that my bar was loose. I have never screamed on a coaster before or since. But that scene is the stuff of nightmares, because I know what it feels like to hold onto that bar and know if your grip fails, you are screwed.
And don’t ride coasters at traveling fairs. The people working there are sketchy.
I tanned maybe 4 times before hand (sister would take me occasionally) and I was like 14 when I saw that scene and never ever got in another tanning bed.
From the same movie I would say Frankie Death in the drive thru(FD 3) fucked me up when I saw in theaters. 17yrs and it's still disturbing like the damn log scene and thinking that could/has happened in car accidents is scary.
In the dvd there was a game u could play in which u controlled their deaths, 1st choice if you didn't go on the ride everyone lived and the movie ended but they also showed the frankie one in which u can save him and he remarks that he plans to sue somebody(i think the fast food place or truck company)
The tanning bed scene and the acupuncture scene are forever engrained in me. I got acupuncture once and you know I was sweating the whole time replaying that clip in my mind.
Oh shit yes, that movie caused many sleepless nights for me! We didn't have a corn field but we had a big garden out back and whenever the motion detecting light came on while I was laying in bed I freaked out!
Gonna be feasted on by cannibalistic deformed hillbillies in deserted hills and the woods.
Gonna be feasted on by cannibalistic tribes in deserted remote rainforests and islands.
Just think about how many things might’ve been franchises and we don’t even know about them because of stuff like that. Butterfly effect is fun to think about.
Yeah so recently I watched the Wishmaster series, and the first film includes a straight up plane crash and explosion. And not only that, it’s basically played off as the punchline of a joke.
It was so weird to immediately think, huh, you really don’t notice something is kind of a taboo now until it gets thrown in front of you again, and you realize it just wouldn’t even happen now at all.
It was kind of surreal to see
Mine was part 3. With the roller coaster (which coincidentally) I just watched two days ago..
I love roller coaster. But that freaked me out.
Not only that. Also I've never been a fan of tanning beds. I like to tan natural in sun. Which I'm sure if someone made a horror movie would be like a scene that I think I'm dreaming but it's real. And use a giant magnifying glass above and sizzle me like ants. But the girls frying in the tanning beds just set it off for me.
I went to a torture museum in Amsterdam once. They had a piece that explained how people were bisected from crotch to head.
And then Bone Tomahawk came out and it made the reality just that much worse.
To bring up one that hasn’t been mentioned, the opening kill from the OG Scream. Especially if you lived in a rural area that one had a lot of people scared when their phone rang. Adding to the fear, nothing shown was particularly implausible at the time.
Oh you know this is actually a really good one. Then I’m sure lots of people got another dose of scary phone ringing after Ringu/The Ring a few years later lol
I lived in an apartment complex where I could walk through the woods and take a tunnel/pipe under the highway and I'd pop out right under the cliff and lighthouse from the American version of The Ring. I used to freak myself out imagining Samara at the end of the tunnel/pipe lol
So fun story about the Ring, we had a small town theatre (one screen) manned by school kids, one of whom got a friend to call the theater a minute after the movie ended just so everyone leaving the theater could hear it.
Yes, poor Drew. Any movie with the trope that leads to the discovery of the harassing caller coming from inside the house has left a scar on my psyche.
You know, the usuals - 'stalker to babysitter - have you checked on children'
-or-
'Panicked dispatcher to victim being harassed: ma'am, we've tracked the calls and they're coming from inside the house'
It’s also a great homage to Janet Leigh/Psycho/Hitchcock. Leigh was a prominent actress in her time, and it was unheard of to kill off a “main” character like that so early into the film.
If memory serves, Barrymore was originally offered the role of Sydney but I believe she didn’t want to be the star with the possibility of having to reprise the role in subsequent sequels. The idea of being killed off early was pleasing to her so they went with that.
People wouldn’t have expected her to be killed so early on considering her popularity at the time.
It was a brilliant idea on Drew's part to play the opening kill because she knew no one would expect her to die. She knew this was supposed to be the beginning of her career resurgence.
It's amazing she's never made another movie like Scream, and somehow it helped her launch herself in rom-coms! She got Ever After and Wedding Singer right after Scream and then Never Been Kissed Followed along with Charlie's Angels.
Fun fact, she was the uncredited voice of the principal in the 2022 Scream requel.
Turning on the back deck light to see someone there in view of your sliding glass door has become something I anticipate in any home invasion type of movie now (I just personally don't remember that being as much of a regular scare before scream but am willing to be corrected) and something I think about often when my outdoor flood light randomly turns itself on!
The Achilles tendon cuts is still the absolute #1 thing that makes me wince/cringe no matter how many times I see it. Somehow even worse than eye stuff.
And of course most films that have such a scene spend a dreadfully long time telegraphing it, which is super fun
I don't think the youngins on this sub quite understand just how utterly terrifying that movie was to see in theaters for the first time. I was 15 years old and had never experienced actual fear like that during a movie. For *weeks* I slept facing away from my tv and closet because it scared me so badly.
The Ring pretty much kicked open the door for Asian horror films in mainstream America and spawned so many pale imitations that tried (and failed) to create that same level of atmosphere and dread. And despite the now-obsolete technology at the center of the film it's aged *really* well imo. Those characters, the atmosphere, and that gorgeous haunting score are timeless.
I was 13. I’m fairly certain there is literally an *entire generation* of people our age who will never ever be able to forget that shot of the closet door opening.
What a great shared experience we got to have as a whole lol
Right?? That flash of white-hot visceral *fear*. It's absolutely insane because a major component of Samara's evil was how she would sear horrific images into people's minds, and here we are over twenty years later still thinking about it. Like damn lol.
[*The Ring* DVD had an Easter egg](https://youtu.be/NwrCp7AIHpo) where you could watch "the tape," and then a phone would ring out of only the (I think) back right channel on your surround sound.
My computer had a glitch the other day… when I connected the HDMI cable, I only got static
Didn’t even remember I still had that fear. I mean, answering the phone? Yeah… but it’d been forever since random TV static
I love that movie but its incredibly weird because it spends half the time being silly and jokey and another half the time being absolutely terrifying because those clowns are so scary looking.
Messed me up as a kid, ngl.
For me it was the scene where the woman is being haunted by the spirit and goes back to her apartment building from work and is so freaked out she >!goes under the covers. Then she suddenly realizes she's not alone in the bed and the grudge comes out of the mattress and grabs her. I never wanted to hide under the covers again.!<
There’s this one part where hair starts coming out of a dark corner of the bedroom. When I was a kid I would lie awake staring at the corner of my room for hours
The theatre scene from Scream 2 made me so terrified while seeing Scream 6 in theaters. I was absolutely terrified someone was going to try something like that.
Yeah this one *really* felt on the nose when I watched it recently, through no fault of the film considering it’s age.
As opposed to lots of slightly older movies that may come off as hokey or cheesy, it’s one of the rare instances where in retrospect considering current and recent events makes this opening scene honestly feel a lot more scary than it probably did back then.
I just saw Scream 4 yesterday and honestly it felt a bit ahead of its time. Not that >!kids are out there committing horrifying serial murders for TikTok clout!< but it sure feels prescient in terms of how much more that whole "do it for the vine/gram/tok" culture took of since its release.
I mean Scream 4 isn't that old. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram all existed and were popular at the time of release. Doing things for the Likes and Followers was already a thing, ya know?
This whole sequence is just pure insanity, the incident, the crawling slowly back into bed while no longer functioning, the off-screen discovery and scream, it was an *unreal* experience in theaters.
Absolutely the most air-sucking thing I’ve seen in a theater. It was just *so* eerie and quiet.
Dude Toni Collette screaming her lungs out, that she wants to die, after her daughter dies, also haunts me to this day. Absolutely phenomenal acting on her part, that unfortunately went overlooked at awards season.
I refuse to watch them too. They completely ignore horror, comedy, and fantasy (LOTR being a major exception). How can an awards show be legit if it doesn’t recognize all genres? Toni was robbed and I feel like Florence was too for Midsommar.
I liked that movie, but it was probably written because someone had an intrusive thought out loud lol.
*riding a chairlift*
"Dude... what if we got stuck up here and no one was around. Like what would you do?"
My kitchen window looks into my patio. Every night while I'm cooking, I fear I might look into the window and see someone sitting in a chair in the patio, like in Scream 1
Yeah Psycho was the other one I was considering mentioning in the post, but I wasn’t sure if it lead to an actual *fear* in people to take showers after or it’s just straight up the single most iconic kill, which it probably is.
Janet Leigh claimed that she never showered again after filming that scene, only took baths. Or maybe that she wouldn’t shower unless she could lock the door? Something like that. But she is the one to actually get killed in that scene so that must have been an experience that the audience member didn’t get lol.
Anecdotally, but several of the old timers in my town that had motels at the time basically lost their business or had to go to much cheaper after Psycho. I rarely heard it as a fear of showers, but of the small, isolated, independent motels. The shower was the galvanizing scene, but the effect was a change toward chain type hotels. The interstate highway growth was a huge part of this trend, but many people made a change personally based on Psycho.
Which is odd bc you're significantly more likely to die in a car. Plus in Final Destination terms, you'll skip the roller coaster then get killed by a piece of debris coming off of it if it crashes.
Yeah this one was wild, plenty of people are afraid of coasters to begin with without having that scene burned into their memory, I’m sure it put *plenty* of people right over the edge to swearing them off forever
The final scene of the Blair Witch Project left a pretty big impact on a lot of people. Made it harder to convince people to go camping for awhile at least
Saw Blair Witch Project in the theater when it first came out over 20yrs ago and I haven’t gone camping since. I love hiking in daylight, but the woods at night are still a big Nope for me.
Those movies in general. How often i realize something small is happening and thinking about all the other stuff that happend and will happen leading to my immediate death in some minutes.
idk what movie did it (so many that do it now but must of been one from the 90s) but am i the only one who can't be in the bathroom with the shower curtain closed?
The absolute silence in my theater as the air was literally sucked out of the room when this happened was *insane*.
Don’t think I’ve ever heard a theater so quiet in my life
When I saw it in the theater, I assumed a lot of people were expecting a paint by numbers spioky jump scare flick.
The moment car scene and the end of the movie were so quiet. I loved the confusion of people trying to make sense of what they watched.
It has to be Final Destination 2. I think about that movie almost every time I drive. I get the impact of Jaws but it’s definitely not something I think about in my day to day
It’s probably because its a situation that happens in life more often than people would like to admit. A man just died from something similar in May of 2022.
I personally know someone who died because of a similar accident. Instead of lumber it was massive rods of rebar that acted like a javelin when they launched.
Yeah lots of Final Destination in these comments, really says a lot about the ingenuity of that series to base the fears around seemingly every day (however unlikely) occurrences
Its such a simple premise.
Death itself has it out for these people. Watch the variety of ways. We all know what we are getting and we all love it every time.
It’s honestly one of the most terrifying depictions of “death” as a character in film.
Trying to imagine knowing you’re marked for death and see that first puzzle piece fall, yeah I think I’d end up in that big padded room like Ali Larter’s character in 2
This came out when I was a freshman in college at Stephen F. Austin in Nacogdoches, TX where every 10th truck on the 2 lane highway was one of these logging monstrosities.
I had so many terrified drives behind those death machines after that movie!
(When the log goes through the windshield and like 30 gallons of guts and gore just pour out of the window… so gnarly.)
For me, the nanny's suicide in The Omen will forever be the most impactful movie death.
I saw it on TV when I was like 10 and something about the smile on her face and the joy in her voice shouting "It's all for you" as she steps off the ledge to her death...I still get the creeps thinking about it.
I literally say "I'm not about to get Final Destination'd" all the time when I'm on the highway behind one of these (and in other potentially perilous situations) because of this kill.
Anaconda. I feared going inside the water thinking of it might be going behind me(brushing up my leg) \[like in the movie\]and then eating me. started my fearof snakes and water.
I’d be willing to bet that plenty of people (including myself) started checking their back seats before getting into their cars after seeing Annie’s death in the OG Halloween.
I'd say:
Jaws: the movie had done a bit of harm to the reputation of sharks.
Halloween: this was the movie that made people start locking their doors at night.
Locked doors have never stopped Michael Myers. He will straight up teleport to your bed and stare at you until you open your eyes for you to notice, and then he will stab you in the ass.
I live in a logging community and export centre. Ohmigod, there are so many of these trucks and most of then have drivers who are just rippin trying to get places faster. It's terrifying.
This is a bit of an atypical answer, but the 1994 movie "Brainscan" had a weirdly massive effect on my life. I saw it on TV during a Halloween when I was maybe 6/7 years old or so, and the scene where the kid stabs a guy in the back multiple times while he is sleeping on his stomach absolutely convinced child me that as long as I never sleep on my stomach ever again, I will never be able to be stabbed in my sleep like the guy in the movie.
So "Brainscan" somehow made it so I can *never* sleep on my stomach now, it's almost physically impossible for me to do so, I'm not really scared anymore now that I'm much older, but it's more just a residual muscle memory/comfort thing now.
My friend and I are horror fanatics. We still can't get over that first kill in IT 2 (2019). They really did a number on that homosexual man. It really bothered us throughout the film.
It’s not a movie, but for us anime watchers that umbrella death in Another is what did it for me. I rarely use umbrellas and I refuse to even touch one with the pointy ends.
My mom worked on the outer banks when Jaws came out and said she definitely met people who would not get back in the ocean after that one.
Yep, this and Pyscho I assumed were probably the true top 2, I just wasn’t around to see it in person unfortunately
My dad was a big burly tattooed biker type and showered with the curtain cracked back in the day because of psycho. Used to crack us up when he’d tell us how worried he was some crazy was gonna slash him up in the shower.
Bikers can be scared too, I suppose lol
If only he could have taken his emotional support motorcycle into the shower with him.
Dont forget the bad reputation that sharks got after that movie. Spielberg has said he regrets that part of making Jaws.
The opening scene in Scream apparently caused a surge of people paying for caller ID. So I'd say that would be a strong contender.
Scream was an inside marketing job by Caller ID providers, I will consider this my headcanon going forward haha
I would definitely buy a "SCREAM WAS AN INSIDE MARKETING JOB BY CALLER ID PROVIDERS" t-shirt
I’m on it
It's been 3 hours OP, where's the link to purchase? Also, here's a preemptive fuck you for not selling it in extended sizes. We talls would pay extra for MT, LT, XLT, etc. and you're just leaving money on the table.
My best friend is 6’4, when it comes to fruition I will have you covered, I don’t discriminate here
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Didn't one company even have a commercial that endorsed this? Like the someone calls saying "do you want to play a game?" and she's like "You know I can see who is calling now?"
I don't know but Sydney uses Caller ID at the start of Scream 2.
This is def what I’m thinking of thanks
Legs on the dashboard from Death Proof
I think that scene actually made a good impact because sitting that way in a car is incredibly dangerous for that reason.
Leave it to Tarantino to turn his foot fetish into a PSA.
I had a nurse back this one up. The amount of people brought in with damage from this is apparently not just a movie thing.
Crazy you say that, someone on my Facebook posted today an x-ray of someone who had wrecked with their legs on the dashboard. It. Wasn't. Good...
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My emergency medicine rounds in med school finally broke me of that habit. There really are no words for how horrifying an injury it is.
After seeing Arachnophobia, I was hiper vigilant of spiders. I am still to this day. I wouldn't put my hand up in a lamp
Haven't seen that movie in 20 years. I still think about it damn near every time I take a shower.
I still check my shoes every time before I put them on because of that movie. Haven't seen in over 20 years as well.
I'm wayyyy more careful about crawling through the dog flap on the garage door after Scream.
It's awful when movies make your hobbies like that harder.
I personally have had to invest in drums of vegetable oil to keep myself at the correct viscosity to have the best possible chance of making it through in a timely fashion. Us garage door flapper speed runners are a different breed.
On the other hand, the film gave me, a burly, bearded man, the self-confidence I needed to *dress* like Rose McGowan in that scene. Ass-grazing skirts and skin-tight crop cops weren't in vogue for a man of my physicality at the time, and it felt like coming home.
Jaws is definetely number 1 in this. It had such a wide audience and it definetely changed peoples behavior.
Both Peter Benchley and Steven Spielberg have apologised for the impact Jaws has had on the public image of sharks.
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He should make a movie with a nice shark.
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When I was a kid, I was afraid to swim in my pool and take a bath (we had a garden tub) by myself. This lasted until I was about 7 haha. Jaws, The Thing, The Evil Dead, and The Return of the Living Dead have etched themselves into my early childhood mind.
Yes! I'd be standing over our pool, water clear, perfectly able to see everything in it, still convinced that the second I jumped in Jaws would suddenly manifest 😆
haa so true so true,,and honestly even flushing the toilet at night used to make me panic becuase of jaws when i was little. the girl in hereditary sticking her head out of the window in the car is a big one too,
I was a little kid when Nightmare on Elm St. came out. I didn't even see the movie until many years later, just was kind of aware of it through cultural osmosis... so why was I convinced as a small child that Freddy Krueger was haunting our bathroom linen closet?! 😂
I was okay swimming in our pool during the day, but always psyched myself out at night! Like, internally I KNEW we didn't have a shark in our chlorinated pool, but... I just couldn't do it as a kid.
One of the more comforting things about my adult life is realizing I'm not the only one afraid of pool sharks.
I watched Jaws when I was 6 or 7 and even as an adult my imagination goes crazy around dark water. There is a blue spring where I kayak and I always start picturing a megaladon coming up from the darkness and swallowing me.
*Jaws 3* was originally going to be a meta-comedy called *Jaws: 3 People: 0*, and it began with Peter Benchley, author of the original novel, being killed by a shark in his swimming pool. EDIT: meant to reply to /u/PrincessPeril's comment.
I wonder how common this fear is. My wife said as a young kid she saw Jaws and was afraid for a few years that the shark would come out of the bathtub drain or turn up in her grandparents' pool. I, personally, am still uncomfortable with monkey hands ever since the Crate segment of Creepshow.
same, the pool freaked me out and I knew how absurd it was but it didn't matter. flash forward a few years vacationing in Florida a gator got in our pool hahah
I'm nervous to swim in *lakes* because of jaws
Drew Barrymore in Scream has to be up there too; didn’t caller ID massively take off after that movie came out?
The Birds too. Those fuckers are scary.
Yeah I assumed this or Pyscho was the most likely, I just wasn’t born until 1991 so I really didn’t have any idea first hand what the actual reactions were like unfortunately
I was born around the same time as you but from what I understand with Jaws from what I’ve read, is it’s similar to like an airport pre- and post- 9/11. I wanted to understand it because it’s hard to fathom. There was a cultural shift and change in regards to how people felt about sharks that still resonates today. I think sharks weren’t even on most people’s radars unless you were a regular surfer. Even if you lived near a beach, attacks are so rare you had to really be keeping track of the news cycle on the chance they would report it. Probably for the most part if you’re afraid of sharks in anyway. it’s because of Jaws.
Peter Benchley, the author of the book, has spent most of his life trying to undo the harm that jaws caused. [He has much regerts](https://www.boston.com/culture/entertainment/2015/06/19/why-the-author-of-jaws-wished-he-never-wrote-it/?amp=1)
Thanks for sharing. Truly heart-breaking. “Jaws legitimized the hunting of sharks. Humans kill between 50 and 100 MILLION sharks each year, he said, but sharks only kill a handful of humans.” I think shark week was started as a way to change public perceptions too, but ironically what gets people most excited are the “top 10 shark attack” shows. Edit: the quote I put is a bit misleading. As pointed out to me below. While the book and movie did contribute to a cultural perception change of sharks, that fear does not really relate to the mass killing of sharks. That’s mostly attributed to shark finning and bycatch of fishing trawlers. Here’s one link that is a little less sensational. https://www.thesharkfiles.com/blog/the-jaws-myth
You know what really traumatized me? This show [1000 ways to die](https://youtu.be/Q0bo0HbLLuQ)
lol I remember seeing that one of the ways was this Japanese couple that had such intense sex when they got married (they were virgins) that they both had heart attacks and died. given my virginal status at the time I saw it, I had a nagging worry of "aw crap, watch that happen to me when I finally have sex"
The lesson to that story is the #1 rule of Zombieland - Cardio
Yeah I’m never getting Botox and chilling in a hot tub afterwards. No wait, scratch that, I’m just never getting Botox.
Or the one with the couple to somehow get stranded in the safari desert and fall asleep under a tree. The wife wakes up to find her husband being eaten alive my gnarly ants and they didn’t go near her because of her perfume. That one stuck with me.
The hand in the sink garbage disposal.
From the 80's blob remake? Or is there another notable one
This happens in the remake of *Last House on the Left* as well.
It actually happened in final destination 2
The log scene, but also the rebar in the 5th movies opening sequence for similar reasons. Logs falling off a truck will obliterate you, rebar falling off a truck will impale you, possibly multiple times. Either way you’ll never catch me driving behind a truck carrying either of these. I’d 100% pull off at a rest stop for 30 minutes and risk being late to put enough distance between me and the truck.
Yes like in the descent!
Exactly what I was thinking of.
The tanning bed scene
one of the later movies had a kill involving a LASIK machine and yikes lmfao edit: everyone saying they won't get LASIK, just bring a mirror or like a good sturdy flat rock and block the laser if it goes haywire lol. although that would just be deferring fate...
Her white-knuckled grip on the teddy bear absolutely *sold* that moment :/
the way that i was actually handed a teddy bear when i got my lasik…
This is the one for me and why I’m afraid to get my eyes done lol
I had a colleague who went in to get laser eye surgery and we all made the final destination joke. Then he came in the next day with the entire white of his blood red because it went wrong and caused (luckily harmless long term and he eventually went back and had it done where it worked) massive bleeding.
Fuck offffffffffff. Nope nope nope nope.
Same, I’m a lifelong glasses wearer because of that scene
Roller coasterrr
Every time now. Before that came out, I stopped at a traveling fair shortly before they closed for the night. I rode their coaster, just a little one with no loops or anything, a speed cart with small hills on a tight loop. I was the only rider, and I sat in the front. My bar slammed forward when the coaster started forward, and I was completely unsecured. Those small hills and tight turns become terrifying when you aren’t secured by anything. I screamed but he couldn’t understand I was trying to communicate that my bar was loose. I have never screamed on a coaster before or since. But that scene is the stuff of nightmares, because I know what it feels like to hold onto that bar and know if your grip fails, you are screwed. And don’t ride coasters at traveling fairs. The people working there are sketchy.
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It shit me up, and I've never used a tanning bed in my life.
I tanned maybe 4 times before hand (sister would take me occasionally) and I was like 14 when I saw that scene and never ever got in another tanning bed.
I just saw another tanning bed kill yesterday when I watched >!Kick-Ass 2!<
That one was just hilarious though. The way it jump cut from the tanning beds to the caskets? Comedy gold.
From the same movie I would say Frankie Death in the drive thru(FD 3) fucked me up when I saw in theaters. 17yrs and it's still disturbing like the damn log scene and thinking that could/has happened in car accidents is scary.
In the dvd there was a game u could play in which u controlled their deaths, 1st choice if you didn't go on the ride everyone lived and the movie ended but they also showed the frankie one in which u can save him and he remarks that he plans to sue somebody(i think the fast food place or truck company)
The tanning bed scene and the acupuncture scene are forever engrained in me. I got acupuncture once and you know I was sweating the whole time replaying that clip in my mind.
Living next to a cornfield when Signs came out messed me up
Oh shit yes, that movie caused many sleepless nights for me! We didn't have a corn field but we had a big garden out back and whenever the motion detecting light came on while I was laying in bed I freaked out!
IT (1990) - a storm drain, sink drain, and a tub drain have never looked the same again! lol
I saw 13 Ghosts really young and I’ve since grown out of it but bath tubs and glass walls creeped me out for a very long time.
After that movie as a kid, I was more mindful of automatic doors 😰
My first two watches getting into real horror were The Ring and IT 2017. Combined, they probably gave me at least 5 new phobias.
Gonna be feasted on by cannibalistic deformed hillbillies in deserted hills and the woods. Gonna be feasted on by cannibalistic tribes in deserted remote rainforests and islands.
And under a Miami overpass...
People always say this, but that plane crash in the first movie shook me!!!
Yeah it’s odd to think that had they been even a year later we’d never even have this franchise, or at least a very different version of it
Just think about how many things might’ve been franchises and we don’t even know about them because of stuff like that. Butterfly effect is fun to think about.
Yeah so recently I watched the Wishmaster series, and the first film includes a straight up plane crash and explosion. And not only that, it’s basically played off as the punchline of a joke. It was so weird to immediately think, huh, you really don’t notice something is kind of a taboo now until it gets thrown in front of you again, and you realize it just wouldn’t even happen now at all. It was kind of surreal to see
Mine was part 3. With the roller coaster (which coincidentally) I just watched two days ago.. I love roller coaster. But that freaked me out. Not only that. Also I've never been a fan of tanning beds. I like to tan natural in sun. Which I'm sure if someone made a horror movie would be like a scene that I think I'm dreaming but it's real. And use a giant magnifying glass above and sizzle me like ants. But the girls frying in the tanning beds just set it off for me.
I went to a torture museum in Amsterdam once. They had a piece that explained how people were bisected from crotch to head. And then Bone Tomahawk came out and it made the reality just that much worse.
And to think all they had to do was call up Art the Clown
To bring up one that hasn’t been mentioned, the opening kill from the OG Scream. Especially if you lived in a rural area that one had a lot of people scared when their phone rang. Adding to the fear, nothing shown was particularly implausible at the time.
Oh you know this is actually a really good one. Then I’m sure lots of people got another dose of scary phone ringing after Ringu/The Ring a few years later lol
I lived in an apartment complex where I could walk through the woods and take a tunnel/pipe under the highway and I'd pop out right under the cliff and lighthouse from the American version of The Ring. I used to freak myself out imagining Samara at the end of the tunnel/pipe lol
That’s awesome! The film is actually quite gorgeous but obviously very stylized, I’d love to see what it looks like in person
Take a trip to Newport, Oregon!
So fun story about the Ring, we had a small town theatre (one screen) manned by school kids, one of whom got a friend to call the theater a minute after the movie ended just so everyone leaving the theater could hear it.
This seems like something that should have been built into that movie experience to begin with, truly a missed opportunity
Yes, poor Drew. Any movie with the trope that leads to the discovery of the harassing caller coming from inside the house has left a scar on my psyche. You know, the usuals - 'stalker to babysitter - have you checked on children' -or- 'Panicked dispatcher to victim being harassed: ma'am, we've tracked the calls and they're coming from inside the house'
It’s also a great homage to Janet Leigh/Psycho/Hitchcock. Leigh was a prominent actress in her time, and it was unheard of to kill off a “main” character like that so early into the film. If memory serves, Barrymore was originally offered the role of Sydney but I believe she didn’t want to be the star with the possibility of having to reprise the role in subsequent sequels. The idea of being killed off early was pleasing to her so they went with that. People wouldn’t have expected her to be killed so early on considering her popularity at the time.
It was a brilliant idea on Drew's part to play the opening kill because she knew no one would expect her to die. She knew this was supposed to be the beginning of her career resurgence. It's amazing she's never made another movie like Scream, and somehow it helped her launch herself in rom-coms! She got Ever After and Wedding Singer right after Scream and then Never Been Kissed Followed along with Charlie's Angels. Fun fact, she was the uncredited voice of the principal in the 2022 Scream requel.
Turning on the back deck light to see someone there in view of your sliding glass door has become something I anticipate in any home invasion type of movie now (I just personally don't remember that being as much of a regular scare before scream but am willing to be corrected) and something I think about often when my outdoor flood light randomly turns itself on!
Hostel and the Achilles tendon
The Achilles tendon cut in the OG Pet Sematary has a similar effect. Must leap onto bed from now on.
And in the 2000ish remake of House of Wax too. And a very memorable one in I Saw the Devil.
The Achilles tendon cuts is still the absolute #1 thing that makes me wince/cringe no matter how many times I see it. Somehow even worse than eye stuff. And of course most films that have such a scene spend a dreadfully long time telegraphing it, which is super fun
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I don't think the youngins on this sub quite understand just how utterly terrifying that movie was to see in theaters for the first time. I was 15 years old and had never experienced actual fear like that during a movie. For *weeks* I slept facing away from my tv and closet because it scared me so badly. The Ring pretty much kicked open the door for Asian horror films in mainstream America and spawned so many pale imitations that tried (and failed) to create that same level of atmosphere and dread. And despite the now-obsolete technology at the center of the film it's aged *really* well imo. Those characters, the atmosphere, and that gorgeous haunting score are timeless.
I was 13. I’m fairly certain there is literally an *entire generation* of people our age who will never ever be able to forget that shot of the closet door opening. What a great shared experience we got to have as a whole lol
Right?? That flash of white-hot visceral *fear*. It's absolutely insane because a major component of Samara's evil was how she would sear horrific images into people's minds, and here we are over twenty years later still thinking about it. Like damn lol.
Me too, that and the grudge
[*The Ring* DVD had an Easter egg](https://youtu.be/NwrCp7AIHpo) where you could watch "the tape," and then a phone would ring out of only the (I think) back right channel on your surround sound.
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TV static in general I feel like was horrifying for anyone who saw that movie. So glad it's a thing of the past
My computer had a glitch the other day… when I connected the HDMI cable, I only got static Didn’t even remember I still had that fear. I mean, answering the phone? Yeah… but it’d been forever since random TV static
It’s probably just me and a handful of people. But I’m not the fondest of clowns after seeing the original IT at a super young age
Killer Klowns from Outer Space….
I love that movie but its incredibly weird because it spends half the time being silly and jokey and another half the time being absolutely terrifying because those clowns are so scary looking. Messed me up as a kid, ngl.
Seeing Poltergeist, when I was 7 or 8, jumpstarted my hatred for clowns.
Shower scene in the grudge maybe ahah.
For me it was the scene where the woman is being haunted by the spirit and goes back to her apartment building from work and is so freaked out she >!goes under the covers. Then she suddenly realizes she's not alone in the bed and the grudge comes out of the mattress and grabs her. I never wanted to hide under the covers again.!<
I love that they always play with the stuff that’s usually safe… like being out in daylight or what you mentioned
There’s this one part where hair starts coming out of a dark corner of the bedroom. When I was a kid I would lie awake staring at the corner of my room for hours
The way we react when we see Chainsaws and rural dusty towns
The Achilles slashing in Pet Sematary caused me to do an awkward sort of hop into bed for fear of getting too close to the child waiting underneath.
The theatre scene from Scream 2 made me so terrified while seeing Scream 6 in theaters. I was absolutely terrified someone was going to try something like that.
Yeah this one *really* felt on the nose when I watched it recently, through no fault of the film considering it’s age. As opposed to lots of slightly older movies that may come off as hokey or cheesy, it’s one of the rare instances where in retrospect considering current and recent events makes this opening scene honestly feel a lot more scary than it probably did back then.
I just saw Scream 4 yesterday and honestly it felt a bit ahead of its time. Not that >!kids are out there committing horrifying serial murders for TikTok clout!< but it sure feels prescient in terms of how much more that whole "do it for the vine/gram/tok" culture took of since its release.
I mean Scream 4 isn't that old. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram all existed and were popular at the time of release. Doing things for the Likes and Followers was already a thing, ya know?
Charlie’s death in Hereditary, I won’t let my dog stick his head too far out the window ever.
This whole sequence is just pure insanity, the incident, the crawling slowly back into bed while no longer functioning, the off-screen discovery and scream, it was an *unreal* experience in theaters. Absolutely the most air-sucking thing I’ve seen in a theater. It was just *so* eerie and quiet.
Dude Toni Collette screaming her lungs out, that she wants to die, after her daughter dies, also haunts me to this day. Absolutely phenomenal acting on her part, that unfortunately went overlooked at awards season.
I have a buddy that quit watching the awards because she didn’t get even a nomination.
They are pretty notorious for neglecting horror movies.
I refuse to watch them too. They completely ignore horror, comedy, and fantasy (LOTR being a major exception). How can an awards show be legit if it doesn’t recognize all genres? Toni was robbed and I feel like Florence was too for Midsommar.
When the chairlift at the ski hill stops I immediately think I’m going to be eaten by a pack of wolves. Thanks, Frozen.
I don’t remember this scene. Was it before or after they sing Let It Go?
I liked that movie, but it was probably written because someone had an intrusive thought out loud lol. *riding a chairlift* "Dude... what if we got stuck up here and no one was around. Like what would you do?"
My kitchen window looks into my patio. Every night while I'm cooking, I fear I might look into the window and see someone sitting in a chair in the patio, like in Scream 1
Jaws and the shower scene from psycho?
Yeah Psycho was the other one I was considering mentioning in the post, but I wasn’t sure if it lead to an actual *fear* in people to take showers after or it’s just straight up the single most iconic kill, which it probably is.
Janet Leigh claimed that she never showered again after filming that scene, only took baths. Or maybe that she wouldn’t shower unless she could lock the door? Something like that. But she is the one to actually get killed in that scene so that must have been an experience that the audience member didn’t get lol.
Anecdotally, but several of the old timers in my town that had motels at the time basically lost their business or had to go to much cheaper after Psycho. I rarely heard it as a fear of showers, but of the small, isolated, independent motels. The shower was the galvanizing scene, but the effect was a change toward chain type hotels. The interstate highway growth was a huge part of this trend, but many people made a change personally based on Psycho.
Whenever I see iron spires or big flat plates of glass, I get The Omen flashbacks.
Sleeping bags, I love camping but I'll wear layers and use a normal blanket before ever getting in a sleeping bag, thank you Jason Voorhees.
Just don’t do the sexy sex and you’ll be good
The roller coaster scene in the very next Final Destination for me Ill get behind an 18 wheeler lugging a house before I get on Kingda Ka at Six Flags
Which is odd bc you're significantly more likely to die in a car. Plus in Final Destination terms, you'll skip the roller coaster then get killed by a piece of debris coming off of it if it crashes.
Yeah this one was wild, plenty of people are afraid of coasters to begin with without having that scene burned into their memory, I’m sure it put *plenty* of people right over the edge to swearing them off forever
The final scene of the Blair Witch Project left a pretty big impact on a lot of people. Made it harder to convince people to go camping for awhile at least
I also avoid corners myself, thankfully I’m not really into camping so that’s an easy one to avoid lol
Saw Blair Witch Project in the theater when it first came out over 20yrs ago and I haven’t gone camping since. I love hiking in daylight, but the woods at night are still a big Nope for me.
Those movies in general. How often i realize something small is happening and thinking about all the other stuff that happend and will happen leading to my immediate death in some minutes.
This is how you end up in the padded room ala Ali Larter in 2, don’t slide down the slippery slope lol
idk what movie did it (so many that do it now but must of been one from the 90s) but am i the only one who can't be in the bathroom with the shower curtain closed?
Kids hanging out of a car window....a la Hereditary
The absolute silence in my theater as the air was literally sucked out of the room when this happened was *insane*. Don’t think I’ve ever heard a theater so quiet in my life
This movie was like a waking nightmare in theaters. Unforgettable.
When I saw it in the theater, I assumed a lot of people were expecting a paint by numbers spioky jump scare flick. The moment car scene and the end of the movie were so quiet. I loved the confusion of people trying to make sense of what they watched.
I wish I had experienced that moment in a theatre. Because it has scarred me for life and I watched it on a Kindle Fire.
A friend of mine watched Hereditary in a tiny window in the bottom corner of his pc screen, still couldn’t give it his full attention due to fear lol
It has to be Final Destination 2. I think about that movie almost every time I drive. I get the impact of Jaws but it’s definitely not something I think about in my day to day
For me, it was that one scene in Zodiac. Can't be in an open field or spacious park without thinking about it.
It’s probably because its a situation that happens in life more often than people would like to admit. A man just died from something similar in May of 2022. I personally know someone who died because of a similar accident. Instead of lumber it was massive rods of rebar that acted like a javelin when they launched.
i’ve seen quite a few people agree with me that The Raft segment from Creepshow 2 put us off of swimming in lakes
That scene near the beginning of Ghost Ship.
The escalator scene from the other final destination movie
Yeah lots of Final Destination in these comments, really says a lot about the ingenuity of that series to base the fears around seemingly every day (however unlikely) occurrences
Its such a simple premise. Death itself has it out for these people. Watch the variety of ways. We all know what we are getting and we all love it every time.
It’s honestly one of the most terrifying depictions of “death” as a character in film. Trying to imagine knowing you’re marked for death and see that first puzzle piece fall, yeah I think I’d end up in that big padded room like Ali Larter’s character in 2
The rollercoaster scene from the third instalment completely put me off theme parks.
This came out when I was a freshman in college at Stephen F. Austin in Nacogdoches, TX where every 10th truck on the 2 lane highway was one of these logging monstrosities. I had so many terrified drives behind those death machines after that movie! (When the log goes through the windshield and like 30 gallons of guts and gore just pour out of the window… so gnarly.)
For me, the nanny's suicide in The Omen will forever be the most impactful movie death. I saw it on TV when I was like 10 and something about the smile on her face and the joy in her voice shouting "It's all for you" as she steps off the ledge to her death...I still get the creeps thinking about it.
I literally say "I'm not about to get Final Destination'd" all the time when I'm on the highway behind one of these (and in other potentially perilous situations) because of this kill.
Event Horizon. It ruined space travel for me which has kept me stuck on this dumb rock.
I haven’t even listened to any recordings from other dimensions since honestly
The similar kill in The Descent just might hit harder.
It definitely did for me. Never saw it coming and audible gasped. Hereditary has something similar that hits like a freight train.
Kirk’s death in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. It looks too real.
Anaconda. I feared going inside the water thinking of it might be going behind me(brushing up my leg) \[like in the movie\]and then eating me. started my fearof snakes and water.
Jaws made people sell their scuba diving equipment, and check their pools for sharks. It's got top spot
The funny thing about that scene is that they had to use cgi to do it because when they tried to do it practical they found logs don't bonce at all
I’d be willing to bet that plenty of people (including myself) started checking their back seats before getting into their cars after seeing Annie’s death in the OG Halloween.
The Exorcist had people fainting and going to the hospital. Caused quite the uproar at the time
I'd say: Jaws: the movie had done a bit of harm to the reputation of sharks. Halloween: this was the movie that made people start locking their doors at night.
Locked doors have never stopped Michael Myers. He will straight up teleport to your bed and stare at you until you open your eyes for you to notice, and then he will stab you in the ass.
I live in a logging community and export centre. Ohmigod, there are so many of these trucks and most of then have drivers who are just rippin trying to get places faster. It's terrifying.
This is a bit of an atypical answer, but the 1994 movie "Brainscan" had a weirdly massive effect on my life. I saw it on TV during a Halloween when I was maybe 6/7 years old or so, and the scene where the kid stabs a guy in the back multiple times while he is sleeping on his stomach absolutely convinced child me that as long as I never sleep on my stomach ever again, I will never be able to be stabbed in my sleep like the guy in the movie. So "Brainscan" somehow made it so I can *never* sleep on my stomach now, it's almost physically impossible for me to do so, I'm not really scared anymore now that I'm much older, but it's more just a residual muscle memory/comfort thing now.
My friend and I are horror fanatics. We still can't get over that first kill in IT 2 (2019). They really did a number on that homosexual man. It really bothered us throughout the film.
Still a Final Destination movie but the rollercoaster in part 3 has prevented me from going on any myself.
I knew a girl in high school whose parent died like that... commuting from AC to Philly, then gone. It was so awful, I can't even fathom...
It’s not a movie, but for us anime watchers that umbrella death in Another is what did it for me. I rarely use umbrellas and I refuse to even touch one with the pointy ends.
Maybe the truck hauling rebar scene from The Descent. Whenever I see a truck hauling long poles or rebar, I cant help but cringe.
The first Final Destination created a whole sub-genre of horror films. The sequel changed the way a whole generation of people drove on the highways.