It’s the season for witches and awkward rap. This scene from 1989’s Teen Witch asks if you can top that. This is what the Carrie remake needed.
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Horror Scenes That I Love: The Opening of House on Haunted Hill
Today’s horror scene that I love comes from 1959’s House on Haunted Hill. As the film opens, Vincent Price takes a moment to speak directly to the audience and introduce the characters who are coming to spend the night at the house. Price, who is one of the patron saints of October, delivers his lines with such relish that it’s impossible not to stick around to see who survives the night.
Horror Scenes I Love: Eros Explains Solarmite From Edward D. Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer Space
In this scene from the classic Ed Wood film, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Eros the Alien (Dudley Manlove) explains that he and his comrades had no choice but to invade Earth and raise the dead because mankind’s scientists have created …. SOLARMITE!
What is Solarmite?
Don’t worry, Eros will explain it to us and it will all make total sense….
Horror Scene That I Love: The Pool Scene from Cat People
Today’s horror scene that I love comes to us from the 1942 psychological thriller, Cat People!
In this noirish scene, Alice (Jane Randolph) goes for a swim, just to find herself suspecting that she may not be alone.
Horror Scenes That I Love: Lynda Day George Goes To Pieces
This scene comes from the 1982 film, Pieces. It’s not easy find an appropriate scene to share from Pieces, or at least a scene that I can share without this site getting in trouble. Just about every scene in the movie features either nudity or really bloody violence. It’s probably nothing that would shock our wonderfully jaded readers but still….
But then there’s this scene right here. Now, in order to understand what’s happening here, you should keep in mind that Lynda Day George is playing an undercover cop who also happens to be a tennis pro. She’s been assigned to the local college. Her job is to figure out who is using a chainsaw to kill all of the students. Unfortunately, she sucks at her job so she has to get this kinda nerdy college student to help her out.
Anyway, after a fun-filled morning of playing tennis and not looking for the killer, they’ve just discovered a dead body in the showers. Yes, the killer has struck again and …. well, it was really messy. Speaking as someone who appreciates a clean house and a carefully organized day, I can relate to the reaction below.
Horror Scenes That I Love: Cheatin’ Harry Gets Grabbed In Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
From 1958’s Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Harry discovers that cheaters never get away with it. Especially when they’re cheating on someone who is 50 feet tell….
Horror Scenes That I Love: Dr. Loomis Inspects The Classroom In Halloween 2
Today’s scene that I love comes from the 1981 sequel, Halloween II.
In this creepy scene, Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) and the police take a look at a classroom that Michael Myers has turned into his own personal art studio. On the front board, written in blood, is SAMHAIN. Loomis’s inspection is interrupted by the arrival of Nurse Chambers, who has been sent to get Loomis out of Haddonfield.
(People need to remember what David Gordon Green and his stupid reboot took away from us. Shame on you, David Gordon Green!)
As far as I’m concerned, Laurie and Michael will always be siblings and Dr. Loomis will always be the fractured heart of the series.
Scenes that I Love: John Grant Meet Doc Tydon in Wake In Fright
107 years ago today, the great actor Donald Pleasence was born.
Pleasence is, of course, best-known for playing Dr. Loomis in Halloween. He’s so identified with that franchise that it’s always seemed appropriate that he celebrated his birthday in October. And usually, to celebrate his birthday, we would share a scene of Dr. Loomis yelling at or shooting Michael Myers.
This year, though, I’m going to do something a little different and share a scene from a different type of horror movie, 1971’s Wake in Fright. In this Australian film, Donald Pleasence plays Doc Tydon, an alcoholic doctor who lives in the Australian outback and who befriends John Grant (Gary Bond), a naïve school teacher who has become stranded in a town full of people who don’t have much respect for Grant’s intellectual pursuits. Actually, befriends is perhaps the wrong word. Tydon allows Grant to stay with him but it soon become apparent that Tydon, like almost everyone else in this movie, might have a less-than-friendly agenda of his own.
Wake In Fright features what may be Pleasence’s best performance. In the scene below, Tydon and Grant meet for the first time and Pleasence shows that he was capable of far more than just playing Blofeld and Dr. Loomis.
Horror Scene That I Love: Charlton Heston And Woodstock In The Omega Man
Today would have been the 103rd birthday of actor Charlton Heston.
This scene that I love comes from one of the few horror films in which Heston appeared. An adaptation of Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend, 1971’s The Omega Man featured Charlton Heston as Robert Neville. By night, Neville protects his house against the mutant horde. By day, he tracks those sleeping mutants down and watches Woodstock over and over again.
“They don’t make them like that anymore,” Neville says.
This scene gets a lot of attention because of the contrast between the conservative Heston and the hippies in the film. To me, the reason that it works is because Woodstock is a documentary. Neville isn’t watching an actor pretending to be a character in a film. He’s watching an actual human being who went to the Woodstock music festival and who is presumably either now a mutant or dead. Imagine being the hippie interviewed by this scene and seeing yourself in The Omega Man and knowing you didn’t survive the apocalypse. For that matter, we also have to assume that all of the Woodstock performers have been turned into mutants as well. Write a song about that, Country Joe.
(I choose to believe that Arlo Guthrie made it to safety. Sha Na Na, though? Doomed.)
Neville’s right. They don’t make them like this anymore.
Horror Scenes I Love: Catriona MacColl and Cinzia Monreale in The Beyond
Today, the Shattered Lens wishes a happy birthday to actress Catriona MacColl.
This scene that I love comes from Lucio Fulci’s 1981 masterpiece, The Beyond. In this scene, Liza (MacColl) first meets the mysterious Emily (Cinzia Monreale). To those not familiar with Fulci’s aesthetic, it may seem strange that Liza would not be more surprised to find a blind girl waiting for her on one of Louisiana’s infamous bridges to nowhere. Those of us who are familiar with Fulci, though, recognize this as being one of his most gloriously dream-like moments.
This scene is also memorable for bringing together two of the best actresses to have worked with Fulci. MacColl appeared in all three of the Beyond films, though she played a different character each time. Monreale also appeared in several Fulci films, including the family western Silver Saddle and the underrated Sweet House of Horrors.
