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List the five scariest scenes ever.

no way I'm keeping it to five

book/short story:
- The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson
When everything goes dark in Theo and Eleanor's room.
I can post a ton of Shirley Jackson moments, but this one sticks with me the most.
- "War Games" by Philip K. Dick
The implications of the ending are frightening.
- "Pickman's Model" - H.P. Lovecraft
The ending.
- there's a Thomas Ligotti story with a weird carnival in a darkness-filled dimension and everything is askew and I can't remember if there's a clown or a fortune-teller machine inside the ticket booth and ack
- King Rat, by China Miéville
The rat battle scene at the rave. It's better than that description sounds.

television
- "Hush," Buffy the Vampire Slayer
when the Gentlemen pull out their tiny knives.
- the opening credits of The Outer Limits
- Doctor Who: either "Blink" -the angels have the phone box- or various parts of "Midnight"
- "It's a Good Life" - The Twilight Zone
the jack-in-the-box shadow.
- "The Midnight Sun" - The Twilight Zone
when everything is melting.
lol I haven't even included Talky Tina and other Twilight Zone creations in this
I still haven't caught up with Supernatural yet, but, remember when it used to be scary? Really horror scary? I was so glad that we had a horror television show that wasn't serialized stories (Buffy took horror elements but was rarely horror) but the whole apocalypse drama takes away from horror-ness. And it's not like demons and angels never inspired horror scares in other things, so it's not entirely the fault of the angels and apocalypse turn. /rant
I haven't watched The X-Files and I was very young when my parents had Twin Peaks on the TV so I'm obviously lacking those.

film
haha so many I have to divide these

CLIMAXES AND ENDINGS
Carrie
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Psycho
Wait Until Dark
Audition

MID-MOVIE GROSS OUT
- Eyes Without a Face (Les yeux sans visage
the face transplant scene
- Hara-Kiri (Seppuku)
the titular scene
- The Hitcher
dog in the police station, or the car draw-and-quarter
- A Tale of Two Sisters (Janghwa hongreyon)
the hanged ghost
- Martyrs. Just Martyrs.

EARLIER SCENES THAT ARE CREEPY WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THEM
- M, the opening and any scenes where the killer could be anywhere
- The Trap (Wana) (the third film in the Maiku Hama trilogy)
so many scenes; seriously one of the most underrated psycho killers ever on screen
- Suicide Club (Jisatsu sakuru)
the school mass suicide. There are moments when I'm hanging around high school kids and when I hear them talking, this scene becomes much more realistic than it might seem upon viewing. That's what freaks me out.
- Carnival of Souls
I know it's a B-movie, but that carousel dance scene...
- Intacto
the forest scene, and the whole system of stealing luck

MISCELLANEOUS

The end of the "Thriller" music video, and the final sequence in Fantasia.

somewhere out there

first: A Song of Ice and Fire corner
Jane Espenson (Buffy, Battlestar Galactica, Caprica) and series creator George R.R. Martin will write one episode each of the 10-part Game of Thrones HBO series.
I'm on the third book right now, which is much more consistent than the second book (that one had a brilliant and thrilling climax though).
also, via misachan: Inspired by a character showdown contest, George R.R. Martin has written Jaime Lannister vs. Cthulhu.
Slight spoilers for the third book, but otherwise fantastic.


two links via subtle__sarcasm:
101 Lost t-shirts.
I want the Black Rock, word cloud, any Numbers, and "I survived..."
Misha Collins makes truffles for fans. "Dear Sir or Madman," :)


via gossy16: Vote and help playgrounds get built!
Anyhow, to my point. I hate to spam you guys, but our kids at the St. Louis Language Immersion School (a.k.a. SLLIS) really, severely need a new playground. And there's these guys here who want to give us $5,000 for that if we wind up snagging a top 3 spot in their poll, how cool is that?
Currently we're in 4th place. However, my learnings on the internets have led me to conclude, if there's one thing livejournalfolk can do, it's vote to win. So it only seems logical that I turn to you lot for help: you can vote once a day every day (please make a note?) and pass it on.



After watching Community (AHA BOATS AND PARKING LOTS AND TONY HALE AND BANNING MOVIE REENACTMENTS AND STEALING CLOTHES AT THE YMCA AND INNER NARRATION AND LEE MAJORS WHAT), I was helping my brother with a project. At one point, I started humming random things, like a cat food commercial song. I then did the theme to Rocky and Bullwinkle, and continued on to say, "Hey there, Rocky!"
The only thing:
I said it in Rocky's voice.
I continued on, knowing that my brother and mother (in the same room, no not the same person) are used to my weirdness and probably tune me out.
So I continued on, this time saying, "Hi Bullwinkle!" "Hey there, Rocky!" in the correct voices.

And then my brother called me out on it.
He said something like, "Ha ha you got the voices wrong."
I was so surprised that he caught my mistake (and also amused at my mistake) that I started laughing so hard I cried.

Oh, and I also made biscuits.

That came sometime afterward. My biscuits are not made of tears.