We've seen Top 100 scariest moments. Now let's give our ideas for top goofy moments in horror films. These either break the scary mood or make no point in the plot.
I'll start us off while I try to think of some others (wish Crow and Tom Servo was here to help. They are good at this) in no particular order.
1. In Bloodthirsty Butchers, Sweeny Todd gets in a fight with the manager of a music hall backstage and the fight is broken up by a butt-ugly transvestite.
2. The Brain That Wouldn't Die has strippers in a cat-fight.
3. Manos, the Hands of Fate, the wives of Manos get into a funny looking cat-fight.
4. Omega Man and those clips from Woodstock (Warner Bros cross promotion)
5. I'm not sure which one it was, but in one of the Friday the 13th films a dumb kid does a hand stand and spreads his legs apart. Guess where Jason puts the axe.
I did not see 100 scariest movies,was Childs play on it and what scene did they find scary,this is of topic butdid you get your username Ozzymandias of a poem from years ago.
Sleeping bag death in Prophecy. You can see it in the review here. One of my favorites.
The entirety of both Dr. Phibes films -- Vincent Price singing "Over the Rainbow" as he poles off on the River Styx. Can't think of a thing to top that -- even from our Ed Wood.
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In "Re-Animator"... the decapitated guy when he gets the girl tied up... you know the scene.
1. Um everything in Killer Klowns from Outer Space
2. The Gun Shot to the head in Cannibal the Musical while he's singing let's build a snowman
3. Heart attack in Bubba Ho-Tep while shotting mummy yelling "a***ole"
Did see the top 100 and yes I took my moniker from the Percy Shelley poem.
My absolute favorite goofy horror movie moment is in Dr. Butcher, when they drop the mannequin out the window (it's actually supposed to be a body) at the beginning, and when it hits the ground, its arm flies off.
Sci-Fi Channel just showed another "original" movie called "Gargoyles: Wings of Darkness." The entire movie was a goofy horror movie moment. Borderline softcore porn with silly fake European accents, awful CG gargoyles and some sort of convoluted but ultimately meaningless secret-religious-order subplot. Plus the line "Have you ever heard of gargoyles?" No. No, I haven't.
Although a good film, The Picture of Dorian Grey has that scene in the pub with those goofy tap dancing puppets.
Bloood Surf - towards the end, two girls are fleeing the giant crocodile. When they get away, they start taunting the croc and flash their boobies at it.
This from the review of "Lair of the White Worm" "Kevin--'goofy' boy scout, seduced and emasculated by Lady Sylvia." If this moment is good enough for Andrew, it's good enough for me.
Dr. Butcher reminds me:
In both "Dentist" horror movies, there are moments when the camera does a "closeup" on the damage the Dentist is doing to the insides of peoples' mouths. In each case, the "closeup" is actually a real-size shot of giant, painted, plywood teeth. It's fun to freeze-frame on the splinters!!
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Jack Frost- "look ma I'm a piccaso"
Suspira- the scene where the lady keeps injuring herself -door, window pane, barb wire. reminded me of the Scene in Naked Gun with O.J.
The Story of Ricky- The books on the "book shelf" in the warden's office are actually Porn vids. It's hard to tell on a small screen, but in the theater it's clear.
A short shot in the Italian space epicac "War of the robots" While the crew goes to action stations....a chewman pops a tictac. What, he wanrted to meet his doom with fresh breath?
Also, in my cheesey pan and scan of "Yongarry, monster from the deep", while the fleeing populace is, well, fleeing...a woman runs past the hero, heroine and kenny...and she scratches her ass while she runs!
I kid you not!
That poem kicks ass. In "The Birds", when, through a long chain of coincidences, the birds blow up the gas station. For me, it undermines the whole idea of birds being scary by seeming to argue that the REASON they're scary is that if they go berzerk and attack a guy who's smoking while refuling his car and spilling gas all over the place, and some other things go wrong (like he dosen't see the sign, can't understand people trying to warn him, and I think something was wrong with the attendant too) then the birds might knock the burning cigar into the gasoline, which then might ignite...
Ah this one's easy....any time "the giant claw" is on screen in The Giant Claw!
Great topic BTW
Oliver Reed -- or whoever is in that wolf outfit -- stops to pull his werewolf gloves/hands on tighter whilst being pursued by the villagers over the rooftops of Spain in Hammer's Curse of the Werewolf. It's fun to run that scene over & over!!
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gotta be the scene in feddy vs. jason where jason crashes the open air rave and the fat guy hurls his drink over jason. The scene is so badly edited I had to watch it three times to realise the burning torch the guy then jabs at jason was next to them already.
On the Topic Freddy Vs Jason how about the goofy "wanna be Jason Mewes" character.
You ever notice that guy looks like John Kerry?
LOL You're right! Makes you wonder...
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert... Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
I think John Kerry looks like that new reporter muppet.
I'm not familiar with the reporter guy your talking about but all I'm saying is any guy who can get his head cut off, pick it up, and then use it to go down on a tied up girl, earned my vote!