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This is probably the 6th or 7th 100 list we've got running right now, but I wanted to post this before I forgot it. Basically just moments in movies where you were either shocked, repulsed, or just flat out awe struck trying to process what you had just seen. Usual list rules apply. Try to list the movie your scene takes place in too, in case not everyone has seen the flick you're referring to.

No.1 - Suzanne's Lipstick Hungry Ta-ta (Night of the Demons) - Sadly there's no way to post a clip or screen shot of the actual scene mentioned b/c it's got nekkid boobage in it, but a demonically possessed Linnea Quigley runs lipstick over her face and chest... before her boob eats the lipstick tube! 


No.1 - Lipstick eating demon boob (Night of the Demons)
No.2 - Angela's big reveal (Sleepaway Camp)
No.3 - Hammer shot to Kirk's head/Pam in the bone room (Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
No.4 - Music composition/Random crap montage (Hard Rock Zombies)
No.5 - Post-drugging blue nightlight scene (Murder On the Orient Express)
No.6 - Kung-Fu albino "PANCAKES!" (Cabin Fever)
No.7 - The wedding dream sequence (Glen or Glenda)
No.8 - Everything in El Topo (El Topo)
No.9 - Travis Bickle's swan song (Taxi Driver)
No.10 - The maggot scene (Galaxy of Terror)
No.11 - The whipping death scene (High Plains Drifter)
No.12 - The "disappearing body in the road" scene (I Married A Monster From Outer Space)
No.13 - Jason makes his first appearance (Friday the 13th)
No.14 - The "belly of the Star Destroyer" opening (Star Wars IV: A New Hope)
No.15 - The Star Child (2001: A Space Odyssey)
No.16 - Killer intestines (Re-Animator)
No.17 - Templar rape initiation (The New Barbarians)
No.18 - Ben's final fate (Night of the Living Dead)
No.19 - Killing of the 8 Russian mobsters (Boondock Saints)
No.20 - Anthony Piana's push-broom (War of the Worlds - Timothy Hines version)
No.21 - "Hand from the rubble" epilogue (Carrie)
No.22 - Final scene of Germany Year Zero (Germany Year Zero)
No.23 - Final scene of Session 9 (Session 9)
No.24 - Unmasking of the Phantom (Phantom of the Opera - 1925)
No.25 - The shower murder (Psycho)
No.26 - Carl Maitland realizes he's dead in "Reflection of Death" (Tales From the Crypt)
No.27 - Surprise sewer opening segment (A Name for Evil)
No.28 - Solder belly wine dispenser (Caligula)
No.29 - Lionel's lawnmower bloodbath (Dead Alive)

2. Fay Wray from King Kong

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3. the end of Sleepaway Camp

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4. From the 1974 TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE-Kirk getting hammered and Pam  in the room of bones.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=267v9Rp35TI
 When the steel door slams shut...and the ominous music goes "DRUMMMMMMM"....(brrrrr!)
 The first time I seen this movie....I had no idea how scary this would be. I had thought I was beyond being scared fom "horror" movies....this sh1t left me in shock and dumbstruck. It still gives me chills....!

 

I'm not sure I follow CC. What particular moment of the movie shocked or awed you? :question:

I do apologise I have misread this, thought you just meant moments of shock and awe in films in general - my bad  :lookingup:

5.) 99% of Hard Rock Zombies.  However if I were to pick a scene, I'd say the part where the lead singer is composing the dead rising song and and odd montage of crap happens.  Taken from my review...
1.) Shot of werewolf in wheelchair
2.) Shot of old lady in wheelchair
3.) Shot of Chuck approaching lady in wheelchair
4.) Shot of black and white photos of violent acts
5.) Shot of Tommy and Robby laying on benches.  Tommy has blood on his face and isn't moving
6.) Shot of black and white photos again
7.) Shot of old woman and Chuck hanging out
8.) Shot of Tommy scaring Robby
9.) Shot of Chuck looking at Bimbo who is walking up the stairs
10.) Shot of Jesse playing bass
11.) Shot of pickled hand in jar moving
12.) Shot of tarantula

Ah, I see what you were going for now. No prob CC.

6) After Richard Widmark is drugged in Murder On The Orient Express, Jean-Pierre Cassel enters his compartment, switches off the overhead light then moves out of shot and puts the night light on, which turns the compartment and everything in it an eerie blue colour.  :buggedout: That scene still gives me chills to this day ~ thank Sidney Lumet and the brilliant cameraman Geoffrey Unsworth B.S.C. for that.

No.6 - Kung-Fu Pancake Attack - Odd little inbred weirdo Dennis gives us the most random scene of crazy from Cabin Fever.  :buggedout:

7. The sudden appearance of Satan at Geln's wedding during the dream sequence of GLEN OR GLENDA?  Heck, the whole sequence is one long episode of shock and awe!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy9C80NIk2o

8. El topo. Not a scene, but the entire movie. It blowed my mind. I just couldn't find words...

9. the Ending of TAXI DRIVER....awesome.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCDXRTbXd2Q

In no particular order:

Galaxy of Terror - the maggot
Given, I had seen that snippet from that Traci Llords vehicle a few years earlier, so I knew how it was going to end. Still, previous experience with stinkers made before & since lead me to assume the scene would be set up by dumber cliches. For instance, I first figured on some scenario in which Taaffe O'Connell would conveniently get naked first (ie, the obligatory shower scene), followed by a "Have you tried RUNNING AWAY?" scene.
Of course, the obligatory "Behind You!" scenes only served to reaffirm this assumption. All the way up to the moment when Damea turns around & screams, I still didn't expect the maggot scene to come on as suddenly as it did, nor did I expect such fast paced violence.

Mad Max - this one's full of anachronisms to classic cliches
Seriously, starting with a day in which everything goes wrong, we're introduced to a wimpy cop & a bullish oaf with the mentality of a pair of twelve year olds who hate each other, followed by a stubborn dispatcher who refuses to upgrade the status of a situation in order to preserve squad cars, which ultimately backfires, costing them every car involved, followed by an introduction to the most irresponsible cop on the force. Later, we meet a public official who wears battle armor with his three piece suit, a bodybuilding captain "with a sensitive side", and the gangsters aren't a bunch of identical shirtless guys on fat hogs, but rather punk rockers on race bikes, each unique in style & attitude.
I'd better stop before I give away the whole movie.

Cat People (1982) - Irena's "nature walk"
No matter how many times I watch this, I always find this scene every bit as confusing as I find it hot.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly - the opening & closing scenes
This one really plays with your head the first time you see it. Another example of a film that sets up dozens of cheesy cliches, only to completely surprise the viewer.

Roller Blade - Mother Speed inspects the fallen sisters
Even in my hormone infested youth, I found this scene silly.
""- Young Christopher discovers Satakoy's "affliction"
I'm still speechless after all these years.

I have no clue what number we're on now.  However my next nomiation is
The Whipping Death Scene In High Plains Drifter
I recall my father watching the movie when I was a kid and coming into the room during this scene.  Until this day, it disturbs the hell out of me to watch it. 

#16) In  "I Married a Monster from Outer Space", the scene in which Tom Tryon as Bill Farrell is driving over to wish his bride to be good night, he sees what appears to be a body in the road, stops the car, gets out and goes to the front of the car expecting to find a body. There's nothing there, as he's looking at the ground you see a shadow move across the windshield and then an alien claw reaches out and grabs him. My wife and I just watched this while eating dinner, it made Poogie jump and even though I knew it was going to happen it always startles me, probably because the first time I saw it I was 8 years old and it really scared me.

How about when Jason pops out of the water at the very end of the first Friday the 13th film?  Admit it, the first time you saw that, it was a real jump moment!

This one fits more in the awe department:

18. The opening shot of Star Wars, with Princess Leia's blockade runner soaring overheard, followed by the Imperial Star Destroyer which keeps going and going and going and...

As an eight year old in 1977, that shot blew my mind.

The Star Child at the end of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY ...WTF...?  But I was thrilled.
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Okay, I guess Cerb isn't familiar with the "one nomination per post" rule of the "100" lists. As such I took his first choice and updated the master list accordingly, meaning we're now at #16.

No.16 - Attack of the Killer Intestines - Couldn't find a screen cap or YouTube clip, but the finale to Re-Animator as West is entangled in the constrictor-like large intestines of Hill's over-juiced body had me wondering if someone had slipped something into my Sloppy Joe before I watched it. :buggedout:

I nominate the Templar 'initiation' scene from THE NEW BARBARIANS. . .

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I think all here who've seen the movie will agree this was an awfully shocking (and disturbing) WTF moment.  You expect a lot of things to happen to the hero of a post-apoc western when the bad guys capture them.  Bloody noses and black eyes or getting tied backwards on a donkey and sent out into the desert, sure, but rape!?

 :buggedout:

18.  The end of the original NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD.  Caught me totally off guard.  So bleak, and so perfect.

When the twins were hanging upside-down from the collapsed air duct while killing those 8 Russian mobsters in Boondock Saints. They each had argued with the other over the need for the rope and the knife, both of which were ultimately crucial to their survival in that scene.

If not that scene, the one in the beginning where the butch woman kicks the one in the nards, , only to get KTFO by the other. I KNEW from that scene alone that I was going to like that movie.

Sorry, but Mad Max can't be reduced to just one scene. There are just too many eye popping moments to count, even within the "eyes popping" moment.

15) Timbo Hines' WOTW - Anthony Piana's pushbroom
Seriously, how can one not be awed by something so ridiculously obvious?

17.  The hand coming up from the rubble at the end of Carrie.  Really surprised me.

I'm not CERB and can I post now...??    :question:   :bouncegiggle:

I'm sorry, but I have to nominate this. :bluesad: The finale of GERMANIA ANNO ZERO (aka GERMANY YEAR ZERO 1948) this clip is 6 minutes, it is cut a bit, but it is there.  I know of know more devastating denoument in cinema (hey BELA, put that in yer pipe and smoke it.)   :wink:   Though edited down, please don't watch the last 30 seconds of this 6 minute clip if you're easily disturbed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jWi3JymbSI  

 :bluesad:   :bluesad:   :bluesad:

That wasn't in reference to you Wonka, it was about Cerb's post where he posted several scenes instead of just one on the previous page of submission. It's always gotta be about you, doesn't it? :twirl:

19. The ending sequence to Session 9, when we find out exactly what the hell is going on.

20? Umasking Erik from THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1925)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8zkYCEOUJY&feature=related

21. Copied...immated....never equailed....the original  slasher...from   PSYCHO...the shower scene!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLJ2qv_Wcug.....in 1960,this really scared the p**s outta people! Still packs a punch!

:bouncegiggle:  Yeh, Mr 100 Moments!! 

No.22 - A cheesy one this. The end of the "Reflection Of Death" segment of "Tales From The Crypt" where Carl Maitland (Ian Hendry) walks back to his old house after the crash terrifying everyone he meets along the way, then going to his now blind mistresses flat where he finally sees his true, zombie-like face in a mirror, thus realising that he is actually dead.

37) A Name for Evil - The shot just before & just after the opening credits
The camera pans through the trees, then zooms in on sunlight reflecting off a pool of water, the we roll through the opening credits, the back to the same pool of water. The camera zooms out & pans up revealing it's actually a backed up sewer in the city.

As dumb as the plot is (if you can call it that), the trick shots scattered throughout this movie always get to me.

I have no idea what # this one is in the line up but it's definitely a shocker. .

The scene from Caligula where wine is forced down a soldier's gullet then a sword is thrust into his belly releasing said wine.  If you stick with the movie past that scene you only have yourself to blame.

:hatred:   :wink:

Okay, official numbering has been updated. As such...

No.29 - Lionel's lawnmower bloodbath - Dead Alive

#30  The end of The 6th Sense. 
I was one of those people who totally did not see the twist coming.

Strange numbering scheme, Ash.   :wink:

I'll assume this is

31.) John Hurt gives birth to an alien (ALIEN)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlGw1zPUsfM

32. Father Karras' dream sequence in "The Exorcist".

This part of the film was the only truly scary part, the most I've ever been disturbed by any film. During his dream when this face pops up, I nearly had a heart attack it shocked me so much. I actually really hate this face alot and freaks me out to even post it, so I don't reckon I'll be looking at this list again.

(http://captainhowdy.com/images/The%20Exorcist/186.jpg)

Speaking of faces popping up, in "Mothman Prophecies" (2002), which is mostly about mood rather than in-your-face shocks (the whole thing made me feel disconnected from reality in a very strange way), there is a very fast moment where Richard Gere is alone in his hotel room, swings open a closet door and THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIRROR! It comes and goes in a flash, Gere's character never even sees it, and it doesn't mean anything much except just part of the general weirdness of the events in this town. But that shocked the hell out of me and it still makes my hair rise on end a little to describe it.

Oh uh... I guess this is Number 33

Another face popping up-
The picture of "Adam" from Devo-Vision: The Men Who Make The Music

No.35 - The opening "hands in the wall" dream sequence in "Day Of The Dead".

I just did a re-review on this film recently.  I hope to be posting it in a few weeks. 

I'll add the following...

No. 36 Caligula - A soldier get his unit cut off and it is fed to the dogs who gobble it up like milk bones. 

#37  The Joker's pencil magic trick in The Dark Knight.
Everyone in the theater (including me) yelled, "OH!!!" when he did that.   :thumbup:  (followed by laughter)
It just happened so fast and unexpectedly.

(sorry about the numbering thing earlier.  Don't know what I was thinking.  The scene above was on my old post but I moved it so it could be #37)

I thought of another one.

#38  When what's her name comes out of the TV at the end of The Ring.
That freaked me right the f**k out!

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39. The climax of AUDITION

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