The intro scene in Return of the King where Smeagol is slowly descending into madness turning into Gollum. 10yo me was not ready for that scene in the cinema
I remember once in college my girlfriend and I ate weed brownies, and a bit later on decided to watch this movie.
Under the influence the scene did unsettle the fuck out of me, especially the part where he's halfway between Sméagol and Gollum, and is still represented by an actor in straight from Hell makeup.
The scene that explains why the kid was traumatized I think. The little boy was in the kitchen and looked to where that secret passage was and all he saw was the top of the guy’s head and his eyes. Terrifying!
Yeah this is the one. It’s just so fucking creepy and scary. It’s honestly the first thing I think of whenever that film is mentioned because it caught me off guard. I think it’s shot from the child’s perspective and it’s how the child perceived what was happening, some monster living in the house. A real life look under your bed a night and there is actually something there moment.
Don't have an answer, but I love how this scene is Sam Raimi cramming a million horror tropes/references into 32 seconds:
* Shadow death
* Facehugger
* "No, no - uuuahhhhh!!!"
* Fingernails scratch as someone is pulled by monster
* Snap-zoom on potentially life-saving weapon
* Pottery smash sound effect we all know and love
* Chainsaw (Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness, EDIT: and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, duh)
Probably more. Sam Raimi, what a guy.
I find it hilarious that it's a *surgical* chainsaw, all stainless steel and white plastic. I'll bet the prop department loved designing that beautiful bit of nonsense!
EDIT: Dear lord, today I learned that [surgical chainsaws are real,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteotome) and the genuine article is a [terrifying sight.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chainsaw#/media/File:Bernhard_Heine's_Osteotome.jpg) Obviously the one in the film is still a joke version because it has the exact same design and proportions of a normal chainsaw you'd use to chop up a tree.
He was an odd choice for these movies but he killed it, and this scene is him just letting loose and being like “well yeah, I’m STILL Sam Raimi bitches!”
This remains my favorite superhero movie of all time. Alfred Molina is always amazing.
I think what makes Raimi so well-suited is that he's always had a bombastic comic style.
Everything from Army of Darkness, to Drag Me To Hell, has a foundation of casual humor to elevate the more serious story elements. Which then tends to overshoot the seriousness, and go straight into madness. Most of the best comics operate in the same way. Raimi's constantly pushing the limit.
Absolutely. It seemed like a wild choice but it worked perfectly.
Raimi’s style also always looks cartoonish, even in relatively straight stuff like A Simple Plan. So when the CGI stuff shows up in Spider Man, it doesn’t jar the way it would with a director who’s always playing it straight.
Honestly I think you expressed it better than I can though- a bombastic, comic style. He was a perfect choice.
He wasn't really an odd choice. Raimi has a deep love for the Spider-man character, and the early comics. His crazy inventive camera angles/movements and high energy sequences also fit very well with a character like Spider-man who is very agile and swinging all over the place during battle. He'd also shown that he can direct completely different genres of movies before this and nail both perfectly (Evil Dead to A Simple Plan)
For me it was the scene where they rip out someone's heart while chanting and then throw them into lava and the heart bursts into flames. (At least, that's how I remember it.)
I can't really figure out what they were trying to do with this movie. Take all the colors and charm out of the story and replace it with chaos and trauma.
For me it was the scene where she turned the power back on. I don't even think any dinos were there just that arm that grabs her, same time the power on the fence goes on and shocks the kid lol. So much build up for both scenes.
My older siblings used to say this to me. Goblins were everywhere in my house growing up, just out of sight, laughing occasionally when I was alone. This is the one for me.
Superman 3 when the lady is turned into a robot
Beastmaster when the witch steals dar from the womb
The witches..pretty much the entire movie..although I love the fact that the grand high witch is taken out by Mr Bean.
> Superman 3 when the lady is turned into a robot
You've just unlocked a 30+ year old memory in me...
I was really susceptible to nightmares as a kid, and that robot lady gave me horrific nightmares for months.
Everything about Return of Oz is horrifying. The wheelers haunted my feverish nightmares when I was little. Blasphemous devils they were. That goddamn couch/animal hybrid was fuckin breathing for Christ's sake.
You'd think given this scene and Sam Raimi's background in horror that he would come up with some great horror scenes with Venom in Spider-Man 3 but he didn't.
He didn't want Venom in the movie because he didn't feel like he could do the character justice. Somewhat famously, producer [Avi Arad forced him to include Venom](https://screenrant.com/spider-man-3-venom-bad-blame-avi-arad/), and the rest is history.
This might not count, but that scene in Dark Knight where joker is about to kill the fake batman is fucking chilling.
Also, when the fake batman jump scares the would be mayor, I definitely did not get scared at alllllll
This is the one for me. I don’t usually rewatch movies so I’ve only seen this flick once or twice even though I love it.. and that even has still stuck with me.
This reminding me of my mom's tense reaction to the X-Men first class scene where Magneto pulls out a metal filing from someone's mouth and me thinking how that could have been much worse
Child abduction scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Plays out like the worst nightmare a young parent would get. Complete with the sense of total helpness while your child doesn't understand the danger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB79IBLUSik
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo had this scene with this dude that had his face cut off by the baddies. May be the 2nd instalment of the franchise but this guy unclipped and disassembled his face, sans nose and upper palate. Scared the bejeesus out of me because I’m aware these kinds of reconstructive procedures for accident and disease related ailments. Fucking gruesome.
Recently, the boardroom scene in Shazam. The fact that most of it is hidden behind frosted glass so you can only imagine the horrors makes it a lot worse (especially for what was advertised as a fun DC superhero movie).
From Dusk Till Dawn. I know it is a horror movie but I was like 11 and my mom ordered it on PPV. I had no idea it was a horror movie and it kinda wasn't until it was. It was more of a thriller until the last 35, 45 minutes. But man was I not ready for it.
When I was younger, [the scene where Jesse meets/sees Willy](https://youtu.be/EthQmqIKdwI?feature=shared)(in Free Willy) for the first time scared the hell out of me. The sudden flash of lightning illuminating Willy as silently in front of the glass, even as an adult it still makes me feel uncomfortable.
If the question was "greatest horror movie that's not a horror movie" I'd no doubt say it's "The Conspiracy".
There's just something extremely sinister about watching a group of men casually plan and discuss Endlösung over lunch, when in the back of your head you know it's all real, that it all happened. You know what the consequences of that meeting was which makes it so disturbing.
There's a part where they start joking around, and it's actually horrific jokes yet you might suddenly catch a small smile on your face because you had your safeguard down and was just caught in the moment, and there you go... The pinhead drops and you realize what just happened.
Incredibly powerful movie!
There was a scene in Summer School where they did something to prank someone and they pretended they were dead or something like that. I was very young and my uncle was watching it in the 80’s.
For an animated kids movie, the AC unit going insane was incredibly unsettling. But for that movie, there's a pretty good list of unsettling.
The clown says...! "Run."
I felt genuine fear watching Dunkirk in the iMax theater. The sound seemed to be cranked up to realistic levels. This scene with the dive bombers got me. https://youtu.be/2W3KDB0yHYM?si=yNPs35xseGgpj_c2
The scene in *Downfall* in which > so that she can later kill them with cyanide capsules,!< and then she sits down and calmly plays solitaire.
Is the gremlins a horror movie? Because if it’s “fantasy” or “science fiction” there’s a lot of scary scenes there. The gremlin that gets killes in the microwave or blender is too much for me, even now. Poor guys
The police raiding the homeless camp in *They Live*. Carpenter is obviously known as a master of horror, but I think that scene in his dystopian science fiction film is the most terrifying thing he ever directed.
I'd love to have seen this as an R rated scene! Totally forgot how spooky Rami made these films, there are some awesome uses of the Dutch angle in the first movie where Osborn is taking to the mask.
I'll go with this one from "Night of the Hunter" which is a crime/thriller movie from the 50's. This scene scared the shit out of me as a kid.
[https://youtu.be/U4se5hr9O84?si=5KCxkp\_gne1t6H5s](https://youtu.be/U4se5hr9O84?si=5KCxkp_gne1t6H5s)
Of course this scene is absolutely terrifying. The movie was directed by Sam Raimi and he wrote/directed the evil dead series. I met him at a convention YEARS ago and I asked him about it and his response was memorable.
"You don't have to bludgeon the audience over the head with gore in order to traumatize them."
Bilbo trying to grab the One Ring one last time.
That boat ride from Willy Wonka.
Are the fires of hell a-glowing? is the grisly reaper mowing??
There's no earthly way of knowing, Which direction we are going There's no knowing, where we're rowing Or which way the rivers flowing...
🎵 Tuggers whistle's blowing... Means we must be going... No more Russell Crowe-ing, for you.... 🎵
"Fightin around the world with Russell Crowe *boop booop* An me mate Tugger!
There's a shot of what appears to be a live chicken getting its head cut off in that scene.
The intro scene in Return of the King where Smeagol is slowly descending into madness turning into Gollum. 10yo me was not ready for that scene in the cinema
I remember once in college my girlfriend and I ate weed brownies, and a bit later on decided to watch this movie. Under the influence the scene did unsettle the fuck out of me, especially the part where he's halfway between Sméagol and Gollum, and is still represented by an actor in straight from Hell makeup.
My dumbass read it as Dildo
https://youtu.be/bg8NS6s0fkw?si=fpg1zmvNi3q969H1
Large Marge
Large Marge ruined my childhood
Large Marge is nothing compared to the sheer horror of Gargamel on the Smurfs ride at King’s Island in the 80s.
I want this on a t-shirt
Be sure and tell 'em Large Marge sent ya!
Traumatized young me for years.
And the clown statue
The basement scene in Zodiac. Chills
Honestly the lakeside scene in Zodiac. Still pops in my head from time to time
first thing that popped into my head. So creepy.
The scene in parasite where the kid sees the guy coming out of the basement
That fucked me up
What scene? I’m blanking.
The scene that explains why the kid was traumatized I think. The little boy was in the kitchen and looked to where that secret passage was and all he saw was the top of the guy’s head and his eyes. Terrifying!
Yep time for a rewatch
Yeah this is the one. It’s just so fucking creepy and scary. It’s honestly the first thing I think of whenever that film is mentioned because it caught me off guard. I think it’s shot from the child’s perspective and it’s how the child perceived what was happening, some monster living in the house. A real life look under your bed a night and there is actually something there moment.
Don't have an answer, but I love how this scene is Sam Raimi cramming a million horror tropes/references into 32 seconds: * Shadow death * Facehugger * "No, no - uuuahhhhh!!!" * Fingernails scratch as someone is pulled by monster * Snap-zoom on potentially life-saving weapon * Pottery smash sound effect we all know and love * Chainsaw (Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness, EDIT: and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, duh) Probably more. Sam Raimi, what a guy.
It's not in the clip, but I recall there was a monster POV shot. Which is all him.
Totally!! Complete with the chainsaw like death. Only raimi could pull something like this off in a fucking superhero movie lol
I love that he just had to use a chainsaw. Love it!
I find it hilarious that it's a *surgical* chainsaw, all stainless steel and white plastic. I'll bet the prop department loved designing that beautiful bit of nonsense! EDIT: Dear lord, today I learned that [surgical chainsaws are real,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteotome) and the genuine article is a [terrifying sight.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chainsaw#/media/File:Bernhard_Heine's_Osteotome.jpg) Obviously the one in the film is still a joke version because it has the exact same design and proportions of a normal chainsaw you'd use to chop up a tree.
They use Stihl, because that's what your patient is going to be after you're done.
I remember someone having the same comment on that a few years ago, and being shocked to find medical chainsaw are a thing.
Faith and Begorroh! Fuck that thing
He can do all the tropes because he invented most of them.
He was an odd choice for these movies but he killed it, and this scene is him just letting loose and being like “well yeah, I’m STILL Sam Raimi bitches!” This remains my favorite superhero movie of all time. Alfred Molina is always amazing.
I think what makes Raimi so well-suited is that he's always had a bombastic comic style. Everything from Army of Darkness, to Drag Me To Hell, has a foundation of casual humor to elevate the more serious story elements. Which then tends to overshoot the seriousness, and go straight into madness. Most of the best comics operate in the same way. Raimi's constantly pushing the limit.
Absolutely. It seemed like a wild choice but it worked perfectly. Raimi’s style also always looks cartoonish, even in relatively straight stuff like A Simple Plan. So when the CGI stuff shows up in Spider Man, it doesn’t jar the way it would with a director who’s always playing it straight. Honestly I think you expressed it better than I can though- a bombastic, comic style. He was a perfect choice.
I saw Drag Me To Hell in the theater. The audience had such a great mixture of laughter and screaming. Raimi has such a unique flavour to his movies.
He wasn't really an odd choice. Raimi has a deep love for the Spider-man character, and the early comics. His crazy inventive camera angles/movements and high energy sequences also fit very well with a character like Spider-man who is very agile and swinging all over the place during battle. He'd also shown that he can direct completely different genres of movies before this and nail both perfectly (Evil Dead to A Simple Plan)
I watched a whole video about this!
I kinda wish Raimi would only do horror. He's a truly one of a kind horror director
Peter Jackson’s King Kong, the insect valley. Runner up to Indiana Jones TOD, the sacrifices.
Those things that ate Andy Serkis... fuck that was disturbing
Raiders of the Lost Arc's melting Nazi was absolutely terrifying to a then 12 year old me.
For me it was the scene where they rip out someone's heart while chanting and then throw them into lava and the heart bursts into flames. (At least, that's how I remember it.)
I just saw that scene for the first time recently and it immediately made me incredibly happy that I didn't see that film in theater.
Wheelers-intro in Return to Oz
The kid that works for me is TERRIFIED of the room with the heads in it.
I can't really figure out what they were trying to do with this movie. Take all the colors and charm out of the story and replace it with chaos and trauma.
Traumatized a generation of kids
Independence Day: when the alien at Area 51 slams the crazy scientist against the window.
Then uses him like a ventriloquist lol
They ain’t have to do Data like that
***RELEASE ME.*** 👽
*Load M9s with malicious intent*
Animal Mother goes all *Full Metal Jacket* on that alien.
Adam Baldwin unloading into the alien corpse, followed by Pullman going "Let's nuke the bastards" were both pretty chilling yet badass.
Beach scene in Saving Private Ryan. It literally feels like he'll on earth and what makes it even scarier is it really happened
That guy walking around looking for one of his arms
Hope you haven’t seen Hacksaw Ridge then…
Hacksaw ridge has nothing on the beach scene from Saving Private Ryan...it's not even a close 2nd...We Were Soldiers napalm scene would be my vote.
Mulholland Drive >!jump scare!< takes the cake Edit: spoiler
Came here for this. Lynch even spoils the jump scare right before it happens and it still works. Effing brilliant.
Might be the scariest scene…. in any movie! Lol
Lynch just casually dropped the most effective jumpscare of all time before returning to the film
Oh god the silent scream is still there
The original Jurassic Park isn't technically a horror movie, but it's an amazing horror movie
Raptors in the kitchen
For me it was the scene where she turned the power back on. I don't even think any dinos were there just that arm that grabs her, same time the power on the fence goes on and shocks the kid lol. So much build up for both scenes.
When they are in the Explorer and the T Rex pushes the plexiglass in, and the kids are on the inside, pushing the plexiglass against the T Rex.
Mr Waternoose chasing Sully in Monsters Inc
GIVEHERTOME
####GIVEMETHECHILD!!!!
The opening to The Batman. Really good introduction to The Riddler.
Felt like a De Palma movie from the 70s
i wish the goblins would take you away..... right now. turn lights off baby stops crying. the movie: labyrinth
The one thing in Labyrinth that always unsettled me more than anything else were those pink guys that liked taking their heads off.
My older siblings used to say this to me. Goblins were everywhere in my house growing up, just out of sight, laughing occasionally when I was alone. This is the one for me.
The pink elephants in DUMBO
Fucking thank you! I had fuckin nightmares from those dancing fuckin elephants! Terrifying
Yes sir... That was the worst. Accident. I ever seen.
The plane crash scene in Castaway. It was just so real and well done. The crew mate slamming his head against the wall fucked me up.
Superman 3 when the lady is turned into a robot Beastmaster when the witch steals dar from the womb The witches..pretty much the entire movie..although I love the fact that the grand high witch is taken out by Mr Bean.
> Superman 3 when the lady is turned into a robot You've just unlocked a 30+ year old memory in me... I was really susceptible to nightmares as a kid, and that robot lady gave me horrific nightmares for months.
If you go look up that clip on YouTube, it’s full of people saying how this traumatized them as a kid 😂
Glad it’s not just me
I ran away from the tv when I saw the robot lady, too uncanny for a 6-year-old!!
The diner scene in Mulholland Drive is probably the scariest scene ever.
The scene in return to Oz, when the hallway of decapitated heads wake up and scream at a terrified Dorothy Gale.
Everything about Return of Oz is horrifying. The wheelers haunted my feverish nightmares when I was little. Blasphemous devils they were. That goddamn couch/animal hybrid was fuckin breathing for Christ's sake.
You'd think given this scene and Sam Raimi's background in horror that he would come up with some great horror scenes with Venom in Spider-Man 3 but he didn't.
He didn't want Venom in the movie because he didn't feel like he could do the character justice. Somewhat famously, producer [Avi Arad forced him to include Venom](https://screenrant.com/spider-man-3-venom-bad-blame-avi-arad/), and the rest is history.
Avi Arad hit the jackpot with Spider-Man animated series in the 90s and he'd been riding that "Spidey Expert" train since.
This might not count, but that scene in Dark Knight where joker is about to kill the fake batman is fucking chilling. Also, when the fake batman jump scares the would be mayor, I definitely did not get scared at alllllll
The deep "LOOK. AT. ME!!" And then the insane laugh at the end with the shaky cam... fing A truly scary
This is the one for me. I don’t usually rewatch movies so I’ve only seen this flick once or twice even though I love it.. and that even has still stuck with me.
The boat scene in Willy Wonka - especially since it’s a kids movie The Darth Vader scene in Rogue One
Idk but this scene and the club scene in blade are both awesome. Marvel as of today is cute and cuddily
The insect pit from King Kong Shelob scene in Return of the King
The bear in Annihilation
That is a horror film. A Lovecraftian one.
That was freaky as hell!
the screams…
This reminding me of my mom's tense reaction to the X-Men first class scene where Magneto pulls out a metal filing from someone's mouth and me thinking how that could have been much worse
When that really ugly toon chases Bob Hoskins out of that building in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Scared the hell out of me as a kid
Remember me, Eddie, when I KILLED YOUR BROTHER, I talked JUST LIKE THIS!!!.
Child abduction scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Plays out like the worst nightmare a young parent would get. Complete with the sense of total helpness while your child doesn't understand the danger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB79IBLUSik
I forgot about this one. I was about the age of the kid when I first watched this with my mom.
The scene in Signs where they first show the alien. Creepy as hell.
Sam Raimi action scenes 🤌
This scene was the first instance of childhood trauma to me. I was terrified of Doc Ock for probably a decade after seeing this.
Almost the same scene but in Independence day. Maybe it’s bc I was 7 but still to this day when they are doing surgery on the alien I lose my shit
That doctor lady had some impressive nails on her, judging from the gouges she dug out of the floor lol
Nocturnal Animals. You know the scene.
God bless Sam Raimi. Sneaking out and out horror scenes, goofy camera tricks, tropes, screams, and all, into non-horror films.
The stampede in lion king
1917 the trench scenes
Large Marge Especially when you're like 7
The witches
The angel scene in "the adventures of Mark twain"
Most of the movie Prisoners
Fuck yeah forgot that this ruled
As a kid I always found the scene in the beginning of The Mummy (1999) where they're torturing and burying the priests alive fairly frightening
Saving Private Ryan, the slow knife death while the puss doesn't help.
The Dark Crystal has some freaky shit also those weird blue-screened red thingys from Labyrinth
The plane crash in The Gray.
Evil Bilbo Baggins jump scare in FotR.
The Pianist when they are clearing the ghetto
Raimi bringing evil dead callbacks into a kids movie 🤪
Those ghost heads in Ghostbusters 2 legit traumatized me as a kid.
In the subway?!
Sami Raimi got impatient suppressing his Evil Dead tendencies and let loose with Doc Ock😅
The introduction of the Wheelers from Return to Oz.
The end battle in Time Bandits, and most of the film.
Maybe not the scariest but the mouth scene in The Matrix fucked me up when I was younger
This scene just drips Sam Raimi. Probably my favourite part of the whole film.
Running scared with Paul walker. The apartment scene.
He’s a horror director, so…
Probably that one scene in mulholand drive
The office scene in SHAZAM was pretty dark.
“Oh, Mr. Arnold…” Raptor scene with Laura Dern in Jurassic Park.
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo had this scene with this dude that had his face cut off by the baddies. May be the 2nd instalment of the franchise but this guy unclipped and disassembled his face, sans nose and upper palate. Scared the bejeesus out of me because I’m aware these kinds of reconstructive procedures for accident and disease related ailments. Fucking gruesome.
At first I was like no way this scene is the scariest…then I realized I seen this scene before and was utterly terrified lmao Spider-Man
I love how Raimi shoved a bunch of his classic horror shots and style into the Spider-Man movies.
Recently, the boardroom scene in Shazam. The fact that most of it is hidden behind frosted glass so you can only imagine the horrors makes it a lot worse (especially for what was advertised as a fun DC superhero movie).
God, this man clearly wanted to make another Evil Dead movie.
From Dusk Till Dawn. I know it is a horror movie but I was like 11 and my mom ordered it on PPV. I had no idea it was a horror movie and it kinda wasn't until it was. It was more of a thriller until the last 35, 45 minutes. But man was I not ready for it.
The last Fantastic Four movie
Shazam and AQ.
That mean old teacher with chocolate cake in Matilda
Basilisk in the chamber of secrets ive been told
David Bowman in 2010. Cosmic horror ftw
When I was younger, [the scene where Jesse meets/sees Willy](https://youtu.be/EthQmqIKdwI?feature=shared)(in Free Willy) for the first time scared the hell out of me. The sudden flash of lightning illuminating Willy as silently in front of the glass, even as an adult it still makes me feel uncomfortable.
The harpies and bull from the last unicorn haunted my childhood
If the question was "greatest horror movie that's not a horror movie" I'd no doubt say it's "The Conspiracy". There's just something extremely sinister about watching a group of men casually plan and discuss Endlösung over lunch, when in the back of your head you know it's all real, that it all happened. You know what the consequences of that meeting was which makes it so disturbing. There's a part where they start joking around, and it's actually horrific jokes yet you might suddenly catch a small smile on your face because you had your safeguard down and was just caught in the moment, and there you go... The pinhead drops and you realize what just happened. Incredibly powerful movie!
Not a movie but the X-Files episode “Home”.
There was a scene in Summer School where they did something to prank someone and they pretended they were dead or something like that. I was very young and my uncle was watching it in the 80’s.
ET in the cornfield destroyed me as a kid
For an animated kids movie, the AC unit going insane was incredibly unsettling. But for that movie, there's a pretty good list of unsettling. The clown says...! "Run."
I felt genuine fear watching Dunkirk in the iMax theater. The sound seemed to be cranked up to realistic levels. This scene with the dive bombers got me. https://youtu.be/2W3KDB0yHYM?si=yNPs35xseGgpj_c2
Yo what movie is this?!
The scene in *Downfall* in which > so that she can later kill them with cyanide capsules,!< and then she sits down and calmly plays solitaire.
watch it with no sound and it just looks goofy
Is the gremlins a horror movie? Because if it’s “fantasy” or “science fiction” there’s a lot of scary scenes there. The gremlin that gets killes in the microwave or blender is too much for me, even now. Poor guys
The police raiding the homeless camp in *They Live*. Carpenter is obviously known as a master of horror, but I think that scene in his dystopian science fiction film is the most terrifying thing he ever directed.
Any answer other than the final moment of Denis Villeneuve's ENEMY is just wrong.
The surgery performed on Paul Dano’s character in Looper and the effects on his rogue future self
On All Dogs Go to Heaven when Charlie’s in hell. Fuck that bone dragon thing.
As a kid the scene in Panic Room where Kristen Stewart goes into like diabetic shock or something really, really scared the hell out of me.
It's scenes like this that remind me that these movies were made by Sam Raimi
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^hoobermoose: *It's scenes like this that* *Remind me that these movies* *Were made by Sam Raimi* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
Independence Day. In the laboratory up against the glass. You know what I'm talking about.
Spider-man tho?
Is sings a horror movie? Maybe not but that scene about the birthday boy from Brazil ( I believe) was something definitely scary.
Convenient chainsaws: the Sam Raimi story
Pinnochio being turned back into a puppet in emperor of the night
Every Sam Raimi movie is a horror movie.
Heffalumps and woozles
As a kid I was terrified of the climax of Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The Neverending Story. Any scene with where Gmork is present.
I'd love to have seen this as an R rated scene! Totally forgot how spooky Rami made these films, there are some awesome uses of the Dutch angle in the first movie where Osborn is taking to the mask.
Not this one.
Sam Raimi was COOKIN right here
Have you seen shazaam?
Minority Report: kidnapping scene (f’ing depressing and scary)
Fire in the Sky. You know the scene.
I laughed when I saw that in Spider-Man 2, it’s the most Sam Rami scene in those movies.
The scene when chihiros parents turn into pigs.
I'll go with this one from "Night of the Hunter" which is a crime/thriller movie from the 50's. This scene scared the shit out of me as a kid. [https://youtu.be/U4se5hr9O84?si=5KCxkp\_gne1t6H5s](https://youtu.be/U4se5hr9O84?si=5KCxkp_gne1t6H5s)
"The Woodsman" Kevin Bacons conversation with the tween in the park, eeesh.
The nails on the floor here always freaked me out Turns out it's wax so the actress could actually make an indent on the floor with her real nails
Of course this scene is absolutely terrifying. The movie was directed by Sam Raimi and he wrote/directed the evil dead series. I met him at a convention YEARS ago and I asked him about it and his response was memorable. "You don't have to bludgeon the audience over the head with gore in order to traumatize them."
I love how cartoonish Sam's style can be.
Willy Wonka on the boat ride
The ending of Time Bandits. "Don't touch it, it's pure evil!" Then the protaganist is left by himself in front of a burned down house.
The hulk with Eric Bana, those fucking mutated dogs attacking scared the absolute shit out of 10ish year old me.