Any scenes that scared you in this?
For me it's the following.
The bedroom scene where Dana is possessed. Her face gets very disturbing. Sigourney is brilliant in that scene.
The hands coming out of Dana's armchair.
The end of the world discussion between Ray and Winston is creepy. Pretty dark stuff.
The dog transformations.
I love how this film perfectly blends horror and comedy.
Go to bed Frank or this is going to get ugly .
Probably the ghostly librarian when I first saw it. I don't think any of the scenes scare me now.
share1. When I was a kid I thought the fridge scene when Dana first sees the monster dog thing and it bellows "Zuul!"
2. The librarian turning into an ugly screaming monkey looking thing
3. When the dog thing cornered Louis Tully and the closeup of the hideous monster and its drooling fangs.
4. Gozer almost killing the Ghostbusters right after she screamed "die!"
The end of the world scene is probably one of the most memorable scenes in the movie to me. It's so creepy and eerie. Especially when that stringed instrument starts playing in the background when Hudson delivers "the dead have been rising from the grave" line
shareThe only scene that scared me was the skeleton taxi driver. Today it would be neat to see it as he was originally supposed to be which was a biker.
shareDana being pulled into the fridge before being possessed by Zuul.
Though personally, I found the ghost nanny in the second movie to be a lot more disturbing than anything in the first movie.
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She was pulled into the fridge?
I guess that makes more sense now that I think about it. I had thought she was pulled through the door to her bedroom or (and I know this sounds even more ridiculous) the hallway.
Still, wasn't the fridge facing a wall on the other side of the kitchen? How could she have been looking directly at the front from the living room, much less pulled in what looked to be a straight line without any obstacles in the way?
I'll watch the apartment scenes more carefully next time. I have been confused with directions and locations in places in movies before.
I was six when I first saw this and it scared me big time. I had one of them movie-in-pictures book and couldn't even look at the library ghost (who took up two whole pages).
shareThe hands coming out of Dana's armchair.🐭 share
My older brother Richie used to sit on me and hold my hands down so I couldn't cover my eyes when the Terror Dog attacks Dana in the chair. That scene used to freak me out and I would cry! lol
That scene is so brilliant b/c I focused on the light and danger coming from the door on the far side of the room and was totally surprised when the arms come flying up through the sofa chair!
So scary! Love this flick!
Cheers.
That's a new look for you, isn't it?
Dana getting possessed by Zuul probably takes the cake. That scene would have fit well into almost any 80s horror movie.
As others have said, Ray and Winston talking about Revelation and the end of the world has a very nice chilling feeling to it, as does Egon describing Evo Shandor and the history of Dana's building. I've also always thought that the scene where the grid is shut down and all the trapped ghosts are freed is fairly creepy, what with Dana blowing out the apartment wall and that strange "I believe it's magic" song playing in the background.
Well said Brian about the "Magic" scene and end of the world scene.
And this:
The end of the world scene is probably one of the most memorable scenes in the movie to me. It's so creepy and eerie. Especially when that stringed instrument starts playing in the background when Hudson delivers "the dead have been rising from the grave" line
Personally, I thought the decaying taxi driver was amusing.
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