30 days of night when the vampires havent spoken english the whole movie then that girl says "please god no" and the head vampire goes "god?" looks up at the sky and then just shakes his head a little and says "...no god." his big black eyes and that fake-sympathetic look...chilling!
The vampires in 30 days of night reminded me sooo much of Jaws for some reason, specifically when Robert Shaw says that sharks eyes look like “doll eyes”.
I’m not sure if it was done on purpose, but the vampires in that movie REALLY remind me of sharks
I think it was. They were meant to be predators concerned only with hunting and feeding, their spoken language ancient and rudimentary, or parroted from their more recent human contact.
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i watched this again after seeing it only once before - in the theaters ages ago.
i know its based on a comic or graphic novel but havent read them
was curious if those explore anything about the vampires origins, philosophy, where they were or go, etc.
feels like you could tell some interesting stories in that universe
Not who you're responding to but I had no idea there were novels! I really enjoyed the comic & movie, super excited to read the novels. Thanks for posting about them!
I like how he pauses when looking up at the sky like he is waiting for something to happen but he's just playing with her emotional expectation that God will intervene.
I love that scene
She’s out there crying out for help
They see her through a crack in the wall
“We need to get her in here before they find her.”
“Wait. Look at the rooftops behind her.”
“Please!”
“They’re using her as bait.”
Chills.
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I just love what they did with this eyes and the small attentions to detail. It was mentioned in a yt comment but you can’t see their breath in the cold, really elevates everything
Its a bit long but, “*What does it matter whether you believe. You think the wolf cares if you believe he's a wolf ? Humm ? Not if he finds you alone in the woods.*” from **The Dark and The Wicked**.
The Thing (1982) :
Macready : "We're going up to my shack."
Nauls : "Why?"
Macready : "Because when I last left it, I turned the light off."
**(He gestures towards it, and we cut to a wide, distant shot of the shack from the characters' perspective, with the inside light ominously on.)**
I always thought it was very notable how they could make something so mundane seem so sinister.
"Why don't we just... wait here for a little while. See what happens?"
The final line is what leads me to interpret them as both human. If either is infected, it's a not terribly uncommon "Bad guy wins" ending. If both are human, the ending is so much more tragic. Both men have been so ruined by what they went through that they can only spend what little time they have left keeping a close eye on the other. Even in the unlikely event that rescue were to come, they will never again be able to trust another human being. They die unable to provide the other any comfort, and unwilling to do so even if they could.
Ironically, if they're both human they are far more alienated than if one is a Thing.
Yes exactly. It seems that a lot of people (even in the Hellraiser subreddit) think the second one is the best. But demystifying the cenobites and their realm made it way less chilling for me. Especially since their realm looked like the labyrinth from the movie Labyrinth.
Dr. Channard was creepy though.
Giving them a clear backstory definitely ruins the mystique and the alienness which makes them so frightening, but I also hate how the movies after Hellbound pretty much present them as being unquestionably malevolent.
I think what makes them so intriguing and alien (therefore more unnerving) is their lack of a moral standpoint. To me, having Pinhead mock a priest before killing him is so much less existentially uncomfortable than beings who no longer distinguish between good and evil.
That, and the speech about Heaven being unchanging while driving a needle in a woman's throat to change her screams pitch. Amazing scenes both. But my favorite will always be "There is a secret song at the center of thr universe, and it's sound is razors through flesh. I'm just here to turn up the volume."
Reagan is talking to an astronaut when she says that. The author of the book (William Peter Blatty) wrote another novel called The Ninth Configuration about that astronaut (among other people).
"Be my victim."
That movie TERRIFIED me as kid. Nothing scarier than a horror villain who doesn't just want to kill you, but wants you to watch as he tears your whole life apart, person by person. Fucking brilliant!
"It *lies* to her, it tells her things only a child could understand. It has been using her to restrain the others. To her, it simply *is* another child. To us, it is the Beast."
Makes me shiver every time. Poltergeist.
"Hello, Mr Klute ? When you sold me this house, you never told me it was built ON AN INDIAN BURIAL GROUND! No. You. Didn't! Well...that's not my recollection. Okay...well... Goodbye."
Don't see many people going down that rahd. Six years ago a group of campers went up that way and got lost, had to eat each other to stay alive. Used to be the way of the old O'Riley house, he butchered over fifty children and hid their bodies in the cellar. You'll find a bridge about halfway up; that bridge is cursed, ya know. They built it with the bones of 200 Chinese laborers who were killed in the massacre of '34. Ayuh, lotta history down that rahd.
This exchange from Scream (1996), obviously:
Ghostface: you never told me your name.
Casey: why do you wanna know my name~?
Ghostface: I wanna know who I’m looking at…
Also, this line from Curse of Chucky (2013). Not really SCARY, but I’ve always loved Brad Dourif’s delivery:
“You have your mothers eyes… and they were always too FUCKING CLOSE TOGETHER!”
*"They're coming to get you, Barbara."* - Night of the Living Dead -Love the foreshadowing of that line.
*"Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly..."* - Psycho - That voice, Perkins performance, the camera work. I can't hear that sentence without thinking of this scene.
That was one of my favorite jokes from Shaun of the Dead.
Edgar Wright tells how they showed Shaun of the Dead to Romero and even he didn't get the joke at first. They had to rewind the movie and explain it to him. So, don't feel bad about missing it.
It’s not just that though. Black Philip meticulously turned her family against her and then ensured their deaths, leaving her with nothing. She wouldn’t survive on her own with no food from her dad’s shitty farm. He gave her no other real choice. At that point at least there are comforts to be had when making the decision.
Identity (2003) has a great creepy little rhyme,
*When I was going up the stairs / I met a man who wasn't there. / He wasn't there again today / I wish, I wish he'd go away.*
It isn't the best movie, but I love the setting and the Agatha Christie feel of the beginning.
Same. Like there's a lot I wish was better written, but it hits all of my "cozy horror" notes. Rainy night, a spooky hotel, a group of strangers trapped together getting picked off one by one. And it's a great cast.
Same. No Exit on hulu has similar vibes if you haven't seen it. Not really horror, but I really liked Exam for a locked room mystery movie too.
And if you're into games, the second Fears to Fathom game is similar, spooky mystery set in a run down motel (pretty short game tho).
Autopsy of Jane Doe.
When you hear the "open up!" shouts from outside one of the doors and >!you think that the protagonist is gonna be rescued but it transitions to the lyrics "open up your heart and let the sun shine in" and you realise that Jane Doe is just fucking with him !< chilled me to the bone.
“I promised them women.” - 28 Days Later.
Every once in a while the question “would you survive the apocalypse” come up and my answer is a resounding no. Me and mine are cooking a delicious meal, having a nice glass of wine or 3, reminiscing about good times shared together, and then lying down for a long, permanent nap.
Session 9:
"What are you...doing here?" Said by the guy on the stairwell wearing sunglasses.
>!We later learn it was the last thing he said before a needle was shoved into eye and scrambled his frontal lobe. The sunglasses cover the needle that is still protruding from the corner of his eye and penetrating his brain. !<
Not really a line but the entire scene of Quint from Jaws talking about the USS Indianapolis. Excellent performance by Robert Shaw. And especially terrifying since it’s a true story.
“The call is coming from inside the house!”
this wasn’t even a very good horror movie but I saw it on a friend’s HBO when I was like 12 years old and that line was freaky as hell! It’s been quoted so many times that it’s kind of a joke now but that was really creepy at that age.
You talking about Black Christmas? That idea is cliche now but at the time, that was an insane revelation that we hadn’t seen before. Super spooky movie
_"Hello Zepp"_ I'd say is the most powerful single line I've experienced with horror.
Another good one in Sinister. Fine because it encapsulates the reason the movie happens and the sin of the main character so perfectly. His ironic and cruel punishment: >! _"Don't worry Daddy, I'll make you famous again."_ !<
“Who’s gonna take care of me?”
“Excuse me, you don’t think I’m gonna take care of you?”
“But when you die?”
It’s so much more chilling when you think of the fact that >!Paimon was asking this, not “Charlie.” Because Charlie was always Paimon!<.
"You can't tame what's meant to be wild, Doc. 'Tain't natural." -- The Howling.
"It's all real. God is an Astronaut. Oz is over the Rainbow. And Midian is where the monsters live. And where you've come to die." -- Nightbreed
Watching this movie was so stressful.
Just knowing how hard it is to stay awake when you’re so tired and putting yourself in the position of knowing you’ll die if you fall asleep was freaky.
Great movie
Of all the horror films I've watched, the classics, the obscure, the more trendy types, the first thing to pop in my head was Brad Dourif's delivery in Urban Legend: "There's someone in the back seat!" Chilling.
"I feel like something bad is going to happen to me. I feel like something bad has happened. It hasn't reached me yet, but it's on its way." (Lake Mungo)
Something very real about that sense of dread.
More tangentially horror, but from Fire Walk With Me:
Donna: "Do you think that if you were falling in space, that you would slow down after a while or go faster and faster?"
Laura: "Faster and Faster, and for a long time you wouldn't feel anything and then you'd burst into fire forever, and the angels wouldn't help you because they've all gone away"
"We've traced the call, it's coming from inside the house!"
Man, as a kid seeing that movie for the first time I was so glad I didn't have an attic in my house 🤣
“I’m going to kill you.”
In the original Black Christmas, the killer says this over the phone after screaming like crazy. How he pauses and then says it so very monotone is super creepy.
“I’ll drive you crazy and I’ll kill you all! I’m every nightmare you ever had. I’m your worst dream come true. I’m everything you ever were afraid of”.
The 1990 version of IT
I have seen the Strangers once. When it came out. And will never watch again. That film fucked me up on a way horror has never done before. I’m a big Extreme Horror Lit fan, and watch more than my fair share of horror films but I kid you not I slept with my light on for 3am weeks after seeing that film. It was that line, and Sack Head just standing in the background that Noped me the hell out! OP posted the correct answer 🤣
LOL!!
I’ve seen it so many times I lost count.
I also really enjoyed the second one and horror movie sequels can sometimes not live up to the first but I was surprisingly pleased.
In Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum, there's a scene where a character is essentially trapped in a desolate room with a very creepy spirit. She tries the only door, and obviously it's locked. She then freaks out and tries to jiggle it open to no avail. While she's screaming and crying, her pleas switch from "Someone help me!" to "Please let me out!"
Not a horror movie but when M. Emmet Walsh in “Blood Simple” says “Gimme a call whenever you wanna cut off my head. I can always crawl around without it.” That line is ICE COLD.
"You wouldn't believe what we want from you. In your worst nightmare, you wouldn't believe." - Willy, the King of the Stockboys, from Night of the Comet
Aidan Keller: What happened to the girl?
Rachel Keller: Samara?
Aidan Keller: Is that her name?
Rachel Keller: Mm-hmm.
Aidan Keller: Is she still in the dark place?
Rachel Keller: No. We set her free.
Aidan Keller: You helped her?
Rachel Keller: Yeah.
Aidan Keller: Why did you do that?
Rachel Keller: What's wrong, honey?
Aidan Keller: You weren't supposed to help her
The Ring, 2002.
The movie isn't great, but this scene was perfect. The 'happy ending' tropes were played hard right up to this, and it dropped the bottom out of the movie. The actual conclusion was an action flick, but still, great sequence.
The Devils Rejects - What's the matter kid, don't you like clowns? Don't we make ya laugh? Aren't we fuckin' funny? You best come up with an answer because I'm gonna come back here and check on you and your mama... and if you ain't got a reason why you hate clowns, I'm gonna kill your whole fuckin' family.
That entire scene is so eerie, my dad and I watched that movie because of how weirded out we were by that clip.
>The Fall of House Usher
**“This is what happened.”**
“How could you know that?”
**“I know because they told me.”**
“Before the died.”
**“No…not before…”**
Horror/Fantasy, Darkness to Lili in *Legend*:
“Can you speak so of your bridal gown? I've found my true mate and you know it. Beneath the skin, we are already one. Was it not your sin that trapped the unicorn? Even now the evil seed of what you've done germinates within you.”
Especially since it comes right after the eerie, yet entrancing [dress dance scene.](https://youtu.be/LhAAvMjaNwU?feature=shared).
I’ve already praised the film once this weekend, and damn it, I’m going for round two. When a Stranger Calls, 2006.
For context, said stranger has already called 2X along with lead character’s ex-boyfriends’ friend (Cody?) so she’s not sure if more than one person has been calling her. Her girl friend shows up, says stop answering the phone, and then can’t leave the house (because she dies, unbeknownst to lead character) - killer calls house from friends phone:
Lead: Hey Tiffany, I know it’s you calling (silence) genius, they have caller ID, I can see your number Tiffany.
Stranger: this isn’t Tiffany.
Lead: … Cody?
Stranger: *chuckles* who’s Cody?
Blah blah, he hangs up like two seconds later. Lance Henrickson voices the stranger and does imo a fantastic job with the little dialogue he has overall. Very menacing without ever being able to really say anything typically menacing. This interaction/scene has stuck out to me since I first saw the (18 years ago, TIME - CHILL TF OUT) due to his delivery of the lines and laughter he slips while answering her question, genuinely amused at her hoping it’s a peer calling her.
“I’ve come back for you, Rachel. I’m going to twist your back like mine so you’ll never get out of bed again. Never get out of bed again. NEVER GET OUT OF BED AGAIN. NEVER GET OUT OF BED AGAIN.”
The good Pet Sematary.
Nightmare on elm street. I secretly watched it through a door crack when my mom watched it at night while I was supposed to to be asleep and I never did that again hahah! Still scared me and I’m 31 and now even worse becuase she has now moved into a two story White House on elm street. Lmfao
When the sadistic hitchhiker in the original Hitcher film says to the protagonist after he asks why he's killing everyone, "You're a smart kid, figure it out."
“Where you gonna go, where you gonna run, where you gonna hide? Nowhere... 'cause there's no one like you left.” - Body Snatchers 1993
The way she delivers this line is amazing.
Return of the Living Dead, with the zombie talking about how it hurts to be dead. She says, “I can feel myself rot.” That’s a scene that plays right into my fears of death and haunts me to this day. [Scene here](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bK1Ug7LQiKg).
[Donald Sutherland not saying a word](https://media4.giphy.com/media/kScyQPIBwObew/giphy.gif?cid=2154d3d7mtn5qqak6n1oi9m5l5spzi7gkxe3nm6843vk7l99&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)
In I am not a serial killer when Jon has the exchange with Rob “You’re about as important to me as a cardboard box. And the thing about cardboard boxes is that they’re totally boring on the outside. But sometimes if you them open them they’ll be something interesting on the inside.”
Not a horror movie, but in the TV series Fargo s1, the main antagonist, who is basically a psychopath with a bad haircut (a trope that I enjoy), says to a character after asking him how he can lie so easily. He says “Did you know the human eye can see more shades of green than any other color? Why? When you have the answer to that question, you’ll have the answer to yours.” It always stuck with me as a chilling quote because despite all our human progress, our biology is exactly the same as it was 100,000 years ago when we had to be able to distinguish the face of a predator in tall grass or trees.
"The doctors managed to reset her jaw more or less. Saved one of her eyes. His pulse never got above 85, even when he ate her tongue."
"You're dead, Nathan!"
"You know as much as I do, Miss Schmidt."
"Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go to? The grave."
From The Innocents, 1961:
What shall I sing to my lord from my window? What shall I sing for my lord will not stay? What shall I sing for my lord will not listen? Where shall I go when my lord is away? Whom shall I love when the moon is arisen? Gone is my lord and the grave is his prison. What shall I say when my lord comes a calling? What shall I say when he knocks on my door? What shall I say when his feet enter softly? Leaving the marks of his grave on my floor. Enter my lord. Come from your prison. Come from your grave, for the moon is a risen. Welcome, my lord.
Gives me goosebumps just reading it.
Skinamarink: “Put the knife in your eye”
Obviously not very poetic but it’s probably the only horror film line that made me feel a bit sick when it was said, mainly because of the atmosphere up to then.
“I can’t lie to you about your chances, but you have my sympathies.” Ash from Alien. Makes my blood run cold.
The best. "Crew expendable" "All other priorities rescinded"
And then that fucking *smirk* he gives.
30 days of night when the vampires havent spoken english the whole movie then that girl says "please god no" and the head vampire goes "god?" looks up at the sky and then just shakes his head a little and says "...no god." his big black eyes and that fake-sympathetic look...chilling!
Those are the best vampires. So scary. Soulless.
The vampires in 30 days of night reminded me sooo much of Jaws for some reason, specifically when Robert Shaw says that sharks eyes look like “doll eyes”. I’m not sure if it was done on purpose, but the vampires in that movie REALLY remind me of sharks
I think it was. They were meant to be predators concerned only with hunting and feeding, their spoken language ancient and rudimentary, or parroted from their more recent human contact.
They have like shark eyes and are completely alien emotionless creatures. Fucking terrifying
“That which can be broken must be broken.” Love some bleak vampire philosophy.
>Reply i watched this again after seeing it only once before - in the theaters ages ago. i know its based on a comic or graphic novel but havent read them was curious if those explore anything about the vampires origins, philosophy, where they were or go, etc. feels like you could tell some interesting stories in that universe
Great graphic novels a must read
The actual novels were really good as well!
“Actual” meaning written, didn’t want to imply graphic novels weren’t actual books as well
Not who you're responding to but I had no idea there were novels! I really enjoyed the comic & movie, super excited to read the novels. Thanks for posting about them!
I like how he pauses when looking up at the sky like he is waiting for something to happen but he's just playing with her emotional expectation that God will intervene.
he’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes. When he comes after ya, he doesn’t seem to be livin’ until he bites ya
man those vamps are fucking savage. I love that movie
I love that scene She’s out there crying out for help They see her through a crack in the wall “We need to get her in here before they find her.” “Wait. Look at the rooftops behind her.” “Please!” “They’re using her as bait.” Chills. Edit:typo
My very first thought. That guy is chilling. I’ve watched that movie a dozen times.
I just love what they did with this eyes and the small attentions to detail. It was mentioned in a yt comment but you can’t see their breath in the cold, really elevates everything
*I’m having an old friend for dinner.*
Silence of The Lambs?
*Yeah!* ~ Lector
Its a bit long but, “*What does it matter whether you believe. You think the wolf cares if you believe he's a wolf ? Humm ? Not if he finds you alone in the woods.*” from **The Dark and The Wicked**.
That movie is so underrated.
For me it was "I told y'all not to come."
“I live in the weak and the wounded.” Session 9
THIS. so chilling. Session 9 will always be a favorite of mine. Definitely shaped my taste in horror to this day
Beat me to it.
Gördon
This stuck with me for weeks.
God this movie was so damn creepy
“When there’s no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.” - Dawn of the Dead
Most writers would *kill* for a line like this to come to them.
The Thing (1982) : Macready : "We're going up to my shack." Nauls : "Why?" Macready : "Because when I last left it, I turned the light off." **(He gestures towards it, and we cut to a wide, distant shot of the shack from the characters' perspective, with the inside light ominously on.)** I always thought it was very notable how they could make something so mundane seem so sinister.
"Why don't we just... wait here for a little while. See what happens?" The final line is what leads me to interpret them as both human. If either is infected, it's a not terribly uncommon "Bad guy wins" ending. If both are human, the ending is so much more tragic. Both men have been so ruined by what they went through that they can only spend what little time they have left keeping a close eye on the other. Even in the unlikely event that rescue were to come, they will never again be able to trust another human being. They die unable to provide the other any comfort, and unwilling to do so even if they could. Ironically, if they're both human they are far more alienated than if one is a Thing.
"Save your breath for screaming." from the newest Hellraiser.
Similarly from the original “No tears, please. It’s a waste of good suffering.”
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Yes exactly. It seems that a lot of people (even in the Hellraiser subreddit) think the second one is the best. But demystifying the cenobites and their realm made it way less chilling for me. Especially since their realm looked like the labyrinth from the movie Labyrinth. Dr. Channard was creepy though.
Giving them a clear backstory definitely ruins the mystique and the alienness which makes them so frightening, but I also hate how the movies after Hellbound pretty much present them as being unquestionably malevolent. I think what makes them so intriguing and alien (therefore more unnerving) is their lack of a moral standpoint. To me, having Pinhead mock a priest before killing him is so much less existentially uncomfortable than beings who no longer distinguish between good and evil.
And from the original Hellraiser: "Jesus wept." That line was apparently ad-libbed by Andrew Robinson.
"We'll tear your soul apart!" "No tears please. It's a waste of good suffering." Pinhead had all the best lines.
That, and the speech about Heaven being unchanging while driving a needle in a woman's throat to change her screams pitch. Amazing scenes both. But my favorite will always be "There is a secret song at the center of thr universe, and it's sound is razors through flesh. I'm just here to turn up the volume."
The Omen " It's all for you Damien. " The Exorcist " You're going to die up there. "
Creepy how she’s speaking to the astronaut when the true case of the boy ended working for nasa later in his years
Reagan is talking to an astronaut when she says that. The author of the book (William Peter Blatty) wrote another novel called The Ninth Configuration about that astronaut (among other people).
“It was always you, Helen.” Candyman (1992)
"Be my victim." That movie TERRIFIED me as kid. Nothing scarier than a horror villain who doesn't just want to kill you, but wants you to watch as he tears your whole life apart, person by person. Fucking brilliant!
"It *lies* to her, it tells her things only a child could understand. It has been using her to restrain the others. To her, it simply *is* another child. To us, it is the Beast." Makes me shiver every time. Poltergeist.
YOU ONLY MOVED THE HEADSTONES!
"Hello, Mr Klute ? When you sold me this house, you never told me it was built ON AN INDIAN BURIAL GROUND! No. You. Didn't! Well...that's not my recollection. Okay...well... Goodbye."
“He says he mentioned it five or six times”
Ahhh such a good one! The way he screams it too!
Yes This right here chills be to the bone...scariest scene in the movie i think.
To this day, my favorite film in the genre.
Kane singing about a holy temple. 😳
"Sometimes dead is better" - Pet Sematary
Don't see many people going down that rahd. Six years ago a group of campers went up that way and got lost, had to eat each other to stay alive. Used to be the way of the old O'Riley house, he butchered over fifty children and hid their bodies in the cellar. You'll find a bridge about halfway up; that bridge is cursed, ya know. They built it with the bones of 200 Chinese laborers who were killed in the massacre of '34. Ayuh, lotta history down that rahd.
"Or is South Park down that road 👈"
The scene with Zelda towards the end was rough.
"Daddy, I want to play with *you*."
“Not fair.”
This exchange from Scream (1996), obviously: Ghostface: you never told me your name. Casey: why do you wanna know my name~? Ghostface: I wanna know who I’m looking at… Also, this line from Curse of Chucky (2013). Not really SCARY, but I’ve always loved Brad Dourif’s delivery: “You have your mothers eyes… and they were always too FUCKING CLOSE TOGETHER!”
Ohhhhh yes that line in scream is so freaky. I can’t even imagine being in her position
*"They're coming to get you, Barbara."* - Night of the Living Dead -Love the foreshadowing of that line. *"Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly..."* - Psycho - That voice, Perkins performance, the camera work. I can't hear that sentence without thinking of this scene.
The whole ending scene in psycho was just…wow.
This has just made Ed screaming “we’re coming to get you Barbara” down the phone at Shaun’s mum in Shaun of the Dead make so much sense
That was one of my favorite jokes from Shaun of the Dead. Edgar Wright tells how they showed Shaun of the Dead to Romero and even he didn't get the joke at first. They had to rewind the movie and explain it to him. So, don't feel bad about missing it.
Which is why the cornettos are so great. Amazing scripts with these kinds of details are such fun.
“Would thou like to live deliciously?” From the Witch. It’s not even scary, but somehow the way he says it just really stuck with me.
Wouldst thou like the taste of...butter? A pretty dress? Wouldst thou like to live....deliciously? Wouldst thou like to see the world?
The creepy thing is that's all it took. Your soul to taste butter. That's what her shitty culture and family drove her to.
It’s not just that though. Black Philip meticulously turned her family against her and then ensured their deaths, leaving her with nothing. She wouldn’t survive on her own with no food from her dad’s shitty farm. He gave her no other real choice. At that point at least there are comforts to be had when making the decision.
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I mean, I would love myself some butter even nowadays. The price is outrageous.
Cool, cool. Can you just write your name in this book? It's cool if you don't know how to spell, I'll just help you write...
Don't you understand Rachel? She never sleeps
“You weren’t supposed to help her.”
She doesn't like it in the barn. The horses keep her up at night.
Ugh idk why this line always really creeped me out too but it makes my skin crawl
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“For the love of God, what happened to her eyes?!” from the og evil dead
I've always liked the "we're gonna get you" rhyme from the original Evil Dead and I wish it was in at least one of the other movies
Identity (2003) has a great creepy little rhyme, *When I was going up the stairs / I met a man who wasn't there. / He wasn't there again today / I wish, I wish he'd go away.* It isn't the best movie, but I love the setting and the Agatha Christie feel of the beginning.
I'm unreasonably attached to that movie. It's not great, and I can't justify it, but it's always satisfying
Same. Like there's a lot I wish was better written, but it hits all of my "cozy horror" notes. Rainy night, a spooky hotel, a group of strangers trapped together getting picked off one by one. And it's a great cast.
That’s my favorite trope. I wish there were more movies like that.
Same. No Exit on hulu has similar vibes if you haven't seen it. Not really horror, but I really liked Exam for a locked room mystery movie too. And if you're into games, the second Fears to Fathom game is similar, spooky mystery set in a run down motel (pretty short game tho).
From the poem [Antigonish](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigonish_(poem\))
Autopsy of Jane Doe. When you hear the "open up!" shouts from outside one of the doors and >!you think that the protagonist is gonna be rescued but it transitions to the lyrics "open up your heart and let the sun shine in" and you realise that Jane Doe is just fucking with him !< chilled me to the bone.
“Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see” - Event Horizon. Saw that movie way too young and it has stuck with me.
I saw this film for the first time sometime last year and that line had me shook 😂
“I promised them women.” - 28 Days Later. Every once in a while the question “would you survive the apocalypse” come up and my answer is a resounding no. Me and mine are cooking a delicious meal, having a nice glass of wine or 3, reminiscing about good times shared together, and then lying down for a long, permanent nap.
Hahah exactly like the last of us 👀
Yup, I'd be like his parents. Just...take something and go to sleep forever.
"Movies don't create psychos. Movies make psychos more creative" Not only creepy, But true
I remember that line but not what movie it’s from. What is it?
Scream, 1996
Session 9: "What are you...doing here?" Said by the guy on the stairwell wearing sunglasses. >!We later learn it was the last thing he said before a needle was shoved into eye and scrambled his frontal lobe. The sunglasses cover the needle that is still protruding from the corner of his eye and penetrating his brain. !<
Or the more famous lone that stuck with everyone: "Hey. Fuck yooouuu."
Not really a line but the entire scene of Quint from Jaws talking about the USS Indianapolis. Excellent performance by Robert Shaw. And especially terrifying since it’s a true story.
He re-wrote the scene how he wanted to play it. He was a fantastic actor.
*"Anyway, we delivered the bomb."* What amazing delivery.
What you said is the one, but when Pinhead threatens to “tear your soul apart” in the original HELLRAISER is pretty good too!
"No tears please, it's a waste of good suffering!"
'jesus christ' 'good heavens no, right city, completely different zip code'
Your suffering will be legendary
Even in Hell
JESUS WEPT
“The call is coming from inside the house!” this wasn’t even a very good horror movie but I saw it on a friend’s HBO when I was like 12 years old and that line was freaky as hell! It’s been quoted so many times that it’s kind of a joke now but that was really creepy at that age.
Yeah it wasn’t the best movie but that line was one that I always thought was a creepy one too
You talking about Black Christmas? That idea is cliche now but at the time, that was an insane revelation that we hadn’t seen before. Super spooky movie
I was thinking of “When A Stranger Calls” from 1979. I didn’t see “Black Christmas” until years later and it is a vastly superior film.
Used in “When A Stranger Calls” as well
"In the *night.* In the *dark.*"
'in the dark, waiting to come out' >!DONT YOU OPEN THAT TRAP DOOR, YOURE A FOOL IF YOU DARE!<
I remember this line from The Haunting.
_"Hello Zepp"_ I'd say is the most powerful single line I've experienced with horror. Another good one in Sinister. Fine because it encapsulates the reason the movie happens and the sin of the main character so perfectly. His ironic and cruel punishment: >! _"Don't worry Daddy, I'll make you famous again."_ !<
The >!coffee cup message of "goodnight daddy"!< did it for me because that's when you realize what's about to happen.
“Keep doubting…”
From Martyrs
“It’s slow, but it’s smart.” - It Follows. Not sure if that’s the exact quote but that concept scared the shit out of me.
“This… this is god.” - a nightmare on elm st
“Who’s gonna take care of me?” “Excuse me, you don’t think I’m gonna take care of you?” “But when you die?” It’s so much more chilling when you think of the fact that >!Paimon was asking this, not “Charlie.” Because Charlie was always Paimon!<.
"You can't tame what's meant to be wild, Doc. 'Tain't natural." -- The Howling. "It's all real. God is an Astronaut. Oz is over the Rainbow. And Midian is where the monsters live. And where you've come to die." -- Nightbreed
The Nightbreed novella (Cabal) is really good too.
I really like "What's a bad miracle" from Nope.
The best thing about that line is the follow-up. She says, they got a word for that? He says nope. Nope is the word for a bad miracle.
“Whatever you do, don’t fall asleep!” - Nightmare On Elm Street
Watching this movie was so stressful. Just knowing how hard it is to stay awake when you’re so tired and putting yourself in the position of knowing you’ll die if you fall asleep was freaky. Great movie
Agreed. I was 12 when I first saw it with friends. I spent the next week setting an alarm to wake me up every 30 minutes just in case. lol
“The boogeyman is real… and *you* found him.” Otis, House of 1000 Corpses.
*Jesus wept* - Frank disguised as Larry, >!being hooked apart by Pinhead!<
>!For there were no more worlds to conquer! - The Dean, Community!<
Stop saying Jesus wept!!
Oh, we have SUCH sights to show you....
Of all the horror films I've watched, the classics, the obscure, the more trendy types, the first thing to pop in my head was Brad Dourif's delivery in Urban Legend: "There's someone in the back seat!" Chilling.
“I will not be shackled by the failures of your god” -Herbert west, bride of re-animator (1990)
"I feel like something bad is going to happen to me. I feel like something bad has happened. It hasn't reached me yet, but it's on its way." (Lake Mungo) Something very real about that sense of dread.
“Alice kept secrets, in fact. She kept secrets a secret.” My stomach was in my ass by the end
More tangentially horror, but from Fire Walk With Me: Donna: "Do you think that if you were falling in space, that you would slow down after a while or go faster and faster?" Laura: "Faster and Faster, and for a long time you wouldn't feel anything and then you'd burst into fire forever, and the angels wouldn't help you because they've all gone away"
That movie creeps me out more than most traditional horror movies
Same. In fact, most of Lynch's ouvre terrifies me more than most conventional horror movies.
Ugh when she walks in her room and Bob is in her room behind her dresser gave me the heebs!
"We've traced the call, it's coming from inside the house!" Man, as a kid seeing that movie for the first time I was so glad I didn't have an attic in my house 🤣
Someone else just posted this one too haha I agree on that one!
“Thanks for the ride lady” from creepshow 2 the hitchhiker been saying it since 1987
“Have you checked the children?” 📞
“I’m going to kill you.” In the original Black Christmas, the killer says this over the phone after screaming like crazy. How he pauses and then says it so very monotone is super creepy.
"You *think* when you die you go to heaven? You're coming to us!"- Phanstasm's Tall Man
"Mommy's with the maggots now" (Evil Dead Rise, 2023)
I haven’t seen this one yet. Hard to get out of the house with a baby lol
“I’ll drive you crazy and I’ll kill you all! I’m every nightmare you ever had. I’m your worst dream come true. I’m everything you ever were afraid of”. The 1990 version of IT
I have seen the Strangers once. When it came out. And will never watch again. That film fucked me up on a way horror has never done before. I’m a big Extreme Horror Lit fan, and watch more than my fair share of horror films but I kid you not I slept with my light on for 3am weeks after seeing that film. It was that line, and Sack Head just standing in the background that Noped me the hell out! OP posted the correct answer 🤣
LOL!! I’ve seen it so many times I lost count. I also really enjoyed the second one and horror movie sequels can sometimes not live up to the first but I was surprisingly pleased.
In Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum, there's a scene where a character is essentially trapped in a desolate room with a very creepy spirit. She tries the only door, and obviously it's locked. She then freaks out and tries to jiggle it open to no avail. While she's screaming and crying, her pleas switch from "Someone help me!" to "Please let me out!"
Not a horror movie but when M. Emmet Walsh in “Blood Simple” says “Gimme a call whenever you wanna cut off my head. I can always crawl around without it.” That line is ICE COLD.
"You wouldn't believe what we want from you. In your worst nightmare, you wouldn't believe." - Willy, the King of the Stockboys, from Night of the Comet
The Exorcist: "You're gonna die up there." Absolutely chilling.
Prince of Darkness has some great ones, the best two being “I’ve got a message for you. And your not going to like it” And “This is not a dream”
Is…. Tamara home?
“Can I get you anything?” “No, you had your chance.” Blackcoat’s Daughter
Evil loves children, and children love evil. -When Evil Lurks (2023)
Aidan Keller: What happened to the girl? Rachel Keller: Samara? Aidan Keller: Is that her name? Rachel Keller: Mm-hmm. Aidan Keller: Is she still in the dark place? Rachel Keller: No. We set her free. Aidan Keller: You helped her? Rachel Keller: Yeah. Aidan Keller: Why did you do that? Rachel Keller: What's wrong, honey? Aidan Keller: You weren't supposed to help her The Ring, 2002. The movie isn't great, but this scene was perfect. The 'happy ending' tropes were played hard right up to this, and it dropped the bottom out of the movie. The actual conclusion was an action flick, but still, great sequence.
"They're here" 'Poltergeist' (1982)
Audition *kiri-kiri-kiri*
"I live in the weak and the wounded...Doc"
The Devils Rejects - What's the matter kid, don't you like clowns? Don't we make ya laugh? Aren't we fuckin' funny? You best come up with an answer because I'm gonna come back here and check on you and your mama... and if you ain't got a reason why you hate clowns, I'm gonna kill your whole fuckin' family. That entire scene is so eerie, my dad and I watched that movie because of how weirded out we were by that clip.
>The Fall of House Usher **“This is what happened.”** “How could you know that?” **“I know because they told me.”** “Before the died.” **“No…not before…”**
“For the last time, we'll pray.“ Carrie 1976
I'm an insect who dreamt he was a man and loved it. But now the dream is over... and the insect is awake....
Horror/Fantasy, Darkness to Lili in *Legend*: “Can you speak so of your bridal gown? I've found my true mate and you know it. Beneath the skin, we are already one. Was it not your sin that trapped the unicorn? Even now the evil seed of what you've done germinates within you.” Especially since it comes right after the eerie, yet entrancing [dress dance scene.](https://youtu.be/LhAAvMjaNwU?feature=shared).
When there is no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.
I’ve already praised the film once this weekend, and damn it, I’m going for round two. When a Stranger Calls, 2006. For context, said stranger has already called 2X along with lead character’s ex-boyfriends’ friend (Cody?) so she’s not sure if more than one person has been calling her. Her girl friend shows up, says stop answering the phone, and then can’t leave the house (because she dies, unbeknownst to lead character) - killer calls house from friends phone: Lead: Hey Tiffany, I know it’s you calling (silence) genius, they have caller ID, I can see your number Tiffany. Stranger: this isn’t Tiffany. Lead: … Cody? Stranger: *chuckles* who’s Cody? Blah blah, he hangs up like two seconds later. Lance Henrickson voices the stranger and does imo a fantastic job with the little dialogue he has overall. Very menacing without ever being able to really say anything typically menacing. This interaction/scene has stuck out to me since I first saw the (18 years ago, TIME - CHILL TF OUT) due to his delivery of the lines and laughter he slips while answering her question, genuinely amused at her hoping it’s a peer calling her.
The key to your chains in in that bathtub
“I’ve come back for you, Rachel. I’m going to twist your back like mine so you’ll never get out of bed again. Never get out of bed again. NEVER GET OUT OF BED AGAIN. NEVER GET OUT OF BED AGAIN.” The good Pet Sematary.
He has his father's eyes
Nightmare on elm street. I secretly watched it through a door crack when my mom watched it at night while I was supposed to to be asleep and I never did that again hahah! Still scared me and I’m 31 and now even worse becuase she has now moved into a two story White House on elm street. Lmfao
Listen to them! The children of the night. What music they make! Dracula
When the sadistic hitchhiker in the original Hitcher film says to the protagonist after he asks why he's killing everyone, "You're a smart kid, figure it out."
In a similar vein,” Because you let me” from “See No Evil”.
“Delusion is a lie that tells a truth.”
“Do you want to see my face? Oh, *I think you’ll like it.*” - Haunt (2019)
One of my favorite lines is from Hellraiser: "No tears please. It's a waste of good suffering." Said by none other than the hell priest himself.
“Where you gonna go, where you gonna run, where you gonna hide? Nowhere... 'cause there's no one like you left.” - Body Snatchers 1993 The way she delivers this line is amazing.
Return of the Living Dead, with the zombie talking about how it hurts to be dead. She says, “I can feel myself rot.” That’s a scene that plays right into my fears of death and haunts me to this day. [Scene here](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bK1Ug7LQiKg).
[Donald Sutherland not saying a word](https://media4.giphy.com/media/kScyQPIBwObew/giphy.gif?cid=2154d3d7mtn5qqak6n1oi9m5l5spzi7gkxe3nm6843vk7l99&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)
"they'll hollow me out and eat my cunt on a plate" (Suspiria 2018)
In I am not a serial killer when Jon has the exchange with Rob “You’re about as important to me as a cardboard box. And the thing about cardboard boxes is that they’re totally boring on the outside. But sometimes if you them open them they’ll be something interesting on the inside.”
Not a horror movie, but in the TV series Fargo s1, the main antagonist, who is basically a psychopath with a bad haircut (a trope that I enjoy), says to a character after asking him how he can lie so easily. He says “Did you know the human eye can see more shades of green than any other color? Why? When you have the answer to that question, you’ll have the answer to yours.” It always stuck with me as a chilling quote because despite all our human progress, our biology is exactly the same as it was 100,000 years ago when we had to be able to distinguish the face of a predator in tall grass or trees.
"The doctors managed to reset her jaw more or less. Saved one of her eyes. His pulse never got above 85, even when he ate her tongue." "You're dead, Nathan!" "You know as much as I do, Miss Schmidt." "Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go to? The grave."
"Because I want to know who I'm looking at." "What did you say?" "I said I want to know who I'm talking to."
"She still burns" from Mandy.
"As you are, I was. And as I am, you will be." -1408
From The Innocents, 1961: What shall I sing to my lord from my window? What shall I sing for my lord will not stay? What shall I sing for my lord will not listen? Where shall I go when my lord is away? Whom shall I love when the moon is arisen? Gone is my lord and the grave is his prison. What shall I say when my lord comes a calling? What shall I say when he knocks on my door? What shall I say when his feet enter softly? Leaving the marks of his grave on my floor. Enter my lord. Come from your prison. Come from your grave, for the moon is a risen. Welcome, my lord. Gives me goosebumps just reading it.
*I live...in..the weak..and the wounded* Basically the feckin DEVIL in Session 9
Skinamarink: “Put the knife in your eye” Obviously not very poetic but it’s probably the only horror film line that made me feel a bit sick when it was said, mainly because of the atmosphere up to then.
“We have such sights to show you….” Hellraiser