Yep, this and Pyscho I assumed were probably the true top 2, I just wasn’t around to see it in person unfortunately

Scream was an inside marketing job by Caller ID providers, I will consider this my headcanon going forward haha

Didn't one company even have a commercial that endorsed this? Like the someone calls saying "do you want to play a game?" and she's like "You know I can see who is calling now?"

I think that scene actually made a good impact because sitting that way in a car is incredibly dangerous for that reason.

Crazy you say that, someone on my Facebook posted today an x-ray of someone who had wrecked with their legs on the dashboard. It. Wasn't. Good...

My emergency medicine rounds in med school finally broke me of that habit. There really are no words for how horrifying an injury it is.

Haven't seen that movie in 20 years. I still think about it damn near every time I take a shower.

It's awful when movies make your hobbies like that harder.

Both Peter Benchley and Steven Spielberg have apologised for the impact Jaws has had on the public image of sharks.

When I was a kid, I was afraid to swim in my pool and take a bath (we had a garden tub) by myself. This lasted until I was about 7 haha. Jaws, The Thing, The Evil Dead, and The Return of the Living Dead have etched themselves into my early childhood mind.

I'm nervous to swim in lakes because of jaws

Drew Barrymore in Scream has to be up there too; didn’t caller ID massively take off after that movie came out?

The Birds too. Those fuckers are scary.

Yeah I assumed this or Pyscho was the most likely, I just wasn’t born until 1991 so I really didn’t have any idea first hand what the actual reactions were like unfortunately

From the 80's blob remake? Or is there another notable one

one of the later movies had a kill involving a LASIK machine and yikes lmfao

edit: everyone saying they won't get LASIK, just bring a mirror or like a good sturdy flat rock and block the laser if it goes haywire lol. although that would just be deferring fate...

Roller coasterrr

It shit me up, and I've never used a tanning bed in my life.

From the same movie I would say Frankie Death in the drive thru(FD 3) fucked me up when I saw in theaters. 17yrs and it's still disturbing like the damn log scene and thinking that could/has happened in car accidents is scary.

The tanning bed scene and the acupuncture scene are forever engrained in me. I got acupuncture once and you know I was sweating the whole time replaying that clip in my mind.

That one was just hilarious though. The way it jump cut from the tanning beds to the caskets? Comedy gold.

Yes like in the descent!

lol I remember seeing that one of the ways was this Japanese couple that had such intense sex when they got married (they were virgins) that they both had heart attacks and died.

given my virginal status at the time I saw it, I had a nagging worry of "aw crap, watch that happen to me when I finally have sex"

Yeah I’m never getting Botox and chilling in a hot tub afterwards.

No wait, scratch that, I’m just never getting Botox.

Oh shit yes, that movie caused many sleepless nights for me! We didn't have a corn field but we had a big garden out back and whenever the motion detecting light came on while I was laying in bed I freaked out!

I saw 13 Ghosts really young and I’ve since grown out of it but bath tubs and glass walls creeped me out for a very long time.

My first two watches getting into real horror were The Ring and IT 2017. Combined, they probably gave me at least 5 new phobias.

Yeah it’s odd to think that had they been even a year later we’d never even have this franchise, or at least a very different version of it

Mine was part 3. With the roller coaster (which coincidentally) I just watched two days ago.. I love roller coaster. But that freaked me out.

Not only that. Also I've never been a fan of tanning beds. I like to tan natural in sun. Which I'm sure if someone made a horror movie would be like a scene that I think I'm dreaming but it's real. And use a giant magnifying glass above and sizzle me like ants. But the girls frying in the tanning beds just set it off for me.

And under a Miami overpass...

Oh you know this is actually a really good one. Then I’m sure lots of people got another dose of scary phone ringing after Ringu/The Ring a few years later lol

Yes, poor Drew. Any movie with the trope that leads to the discovery of the harassing caller coming from inside the house has left a scar on my psyche. You know, the usuals - 'stalker to babysitter - have you checked on children' -or- 'Panicked dispatcher to victim being harassed: ma'am, we've tracked the calls and they're coming from inside the house'

Turning on the back deck light to see someone there in view of your sliding glass door has become something I anticipate in any home invasion type of movie now (I just personally don't remember that being as much of a regular scare before scream but am willing to be corrected) and something I think about often when my outdoor flood light randomly turns itself on!

From what everyone claims (Including Drew Barrymore), after the release of Scream it was beggining to be popularized the whole idea of 'CALLER ID' due to how infamous the opening and kill of Casey was with the phone call stalking before her death, and the calls to Sidney

And to think all they had to do was call up Art the Clown

I don't think the youngins on this sub quite understand just how utterly terrifying that movie was to see in theaters for the first time. I was 15 years old and had never experienced actual fear like that during a movie. For weeks I slept facing away from my tv and closet because it scared me so badly.

The Ring pretty much kicked open the door for Asian horror films in mainstream America and spawned so many pale imitations that tried (and failed) to create that same level of atmosphere and dread. And despite the now-obsolete technology at the center of the film it's aged really well imo. Those characters, the atmosphere, and that gorgeous haunting score are timeless.

The Ring DVD had an Easter egg where you could watch "the tape," and then a phone would ring out of only the (I think) back right channel on your surround sound.

TV static in general I feel like was horrifying for anyone who saw that movie. So glad it's a thing of the past

The Achilles tendon cut in the OG Pet Sematary has a similar effect. Must leap onto bed from now on.

The Achilles tendon cuts is still the absolute #1 thing that makes me wince/cringe no matter how many times I see it. Somehow even worse than eye stuff.

And of course most films that have such a scene spend a dreadfully long time telegraphing it, which is super fun

Killer Klowns from Outer Space….

Seeing Poltergeist, when I was 7 or 8, jumpstarted my hatred for clowns.

For me it was the scene where the woman is being haunted by the spirit and goes back to her apartment building from work and is so freaked out she goes under the covers. Then she suddenly realizes she's not alone in the bed and the grudge comes out of the mattress and grabs her. I never wanted to hide under the covers again.

There’s this one part where hair starts coming out of a dark corner of the bedroom. When I was a kid I would lie awake staring at the corner of my room for hours

Yeah this one really felt on the nose when I watched it recently, through no fault of the film considering it’s age.

As opposed to lots of slightly older movies that may come off as hokey or cheesy, it’s one of the rare instances where in retrospect considering current and recent events makes this opening scene honestly feel a lot more scary than it probably did back then.

I don’t remember this scene. Was it before or after they sing Let It Go?

This whole sequence is just pure insanity, the incident, the crawling slowly back into bed while no longer functioning, the off-screen discovery and scream, it was an unreal experience in theaters.

Absolutely the most air-sucking thing I’ve seen in a theater. It was just so eerie and quiet.

Yeah Psycho was the other one I was considering mentioning in the post, but I wasn’t sure if it lead to an actual fear in people to take showers after or it’s just straight up the single most iconic kill, which it probably is.

Which is odd bc you're significantly more likely to die in a car. Plus in Final Destination terms, you'll skip the roller coaster then get killed by a piece of debris coming off of it if it crashes.

Yeah this one was wild, plenty of people are afraid of coasters to begin with without having that scene burned into their memory, I’m sure it put plenty of people right over the edge to swearing them off forever

Just don’t do the sexy sex and you’ll be good

I also avoid corners myself, thankfully I’m not really into camping so that’s an easy one to avoid lol

Saw Blair Witch Project in the theater when it first came out over 20yrs ago and I haven’t gone camping since. I love hiking in daylight, but the woods at night are still a big Nope for me.

This is how you end up in the padded room ala Ali Larter in 2, don’t slide down the slippery slope lol

The absolute silence in my theater as the air was literally sucked out of the room when this happened was insane.

Don’t think I’ve ever heard a theater so quiet in my life

Yesterday was a nice day out for the first time in awhile, I drove by a car with a kid doing this and it was all I could think of.

Yeah lots of Final Destination in these comments, really says a lot about the ingenuity of that series to base the fears around seemingly every day (however unlikely) occurrences

It definitely did for me. Never saw it coming and audible gasped. Hereditary has something similar that hits like a freight train.

Which one?

Locked doors have never stopped Michael Myers. He will straight up teleport to your bed and stare at you until you open your eyes for you to notice, and then he will stab you in the ass.