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Yeah, these are great choices. I'm so glad that the shocking moment was not when Jack axes his way through the bathroom door and croons "Heeeeere's Johnny!" but when Wendy find his absolutely huge stack of typing paper... All work and no play make Jack a dull boy. All work and no play...
I remember seeing that for the first time and being utterly horrified at her realization.
Ah...the only box I didn't look at! I never saw the movie, but have heard about it a bazillion times.
Movies that I found shocking (even if only for a second):
The Tin Drum
Wait Until Dark (old movie with Audrey Hepburn as a blind woman)
Children of the Damned
NIght of the Living Dead
Sophie's Choice
The Birds
Seconds (that horrible Rock Hudson movie - but how freaky)
I'm kind of surprised they didn't include the french fry scene from The Hitcher. That scared the pants off me.The chainsaw scene in Scarface shoulda made it in, too.
The Birthday Girl gets some credit for almost making me forget that Nicole Kidman speaks English. It was almost a shock when her character suddenly began to.
ico, Wait Until Dark is wonderful! My mother insisted we watch it at a slumber party I had when I was 13 or so, and we all thought it was going to be lame. Of course, we ended up loving it. My mom said when she saw it in the theater, a lady in front of her threw her coke straight up in the air when the guy leaped out from behind the couch.
Actually, Mick Reed (Penn's character in Bad Boys) would be one of my personal favorite movie badasses. Clint Eastwood in his Dirty Harry/Spaghetti Western days, Superfly, RP McMurphy, Joe Pesci in Goodfellas, Lee Marvin in The Big Red One, and countless others I'm forgetting would be the rest.
Speck, I think that was my mom...for reals! She jumped up out of her seat, screamed, and threw her soda...hehe.
And goatdog reminds me of that Clint Eastwood movie, The Beguiled - he cons all the women at a boarding school and they cut off his legs to pay him back. That was wild. I wouldn't say it was shocking, but it was freaky.
the most shocking -- Richard Widmark in the original Kiss of Death, throwing the wheelchair down the stairs and cackling like a madman.
the most unwatachable -- the murder scene and the rape scene in Gaspar Noe's Irreversible. I actually walked out during the rape scene, so maybe even worse stuff after that -- I doubt it though (I loved loved loved Seul Contre Tous, truly hated Irreversible).
and re: "the shocking moment in The Shining": the racist ghost ranting about the "nigger cook" -- these ghosts are so evil they're even racist. and, of course, the man in the dog costume going down on the other guy. I mean,wtf?
The most "Oh NOOOOO" moment - Fright Night when the kid, who has been trying to tell everyone that his neighbor is a vampire, comes home and discovers that his mother has invited the vampire in. I saw it at the theatre and it completely wigged me out.
The Bad Seed....yes! The whole movie is shocking in its badness. The end, which I first saw on late night tv as a kid, totally freaked me out. I was disturbed by it for years afterwards.
Specklet: I saw Wait Until Dark when they showed it at my Junior High School! In the auditorium! For bringing in enough newspaper during the newspaper drive.
Whoever made this movie choice was incredibly brave (and incredibly popular.) The other years, we were rewarded with pap-- something "wholesome" like The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes.
Oh and a shocking moment that stands out for me? The "My Mother, My Sister" scene in Chinatown.
Ok, the scariest thing I have ever seen was in Blue Velvet when Kyle What's-His-Face and Laura Dern are walking down the street. So much freaky stuff had gone on before this, we were all expecting something to happen, but all we saw were shadows of trees on their faces. The music was scary, and we KNEW something would happen, then nothing did. For like 3 minutes. I could barely watch the rest of the movie without wanting to hurl.
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