What are Most Chilling End of The World Scene(s) You seen In the movie and On Television

[hardsciencefanagain]

there's something very bleak about a certain scene in Terminator two.

 

[soulsinging]

Slightly off topic, but I am constantly astonished to see all the Harry Potter books in Children's sections of bookshops, often the young kids section, not just young adults.

A good few 10/11 year olds must get nightmares after reading Deathly Hallows! In one late scene, Voldermort tortures the much loved Neville Longbottom, by putting the Sorting Hat on his head, then setting it on fire, as Neville screams in pain, for example. The film is OK, because they pretty much removed and desenitised any horror from all the books.

Anyone that grew up in the 80's and watched the Nevernding Story film with the agonizingly slow death of Artax knows that massive trauma slipped into children's works is nothing new. You can take it back to children of the 50's with Old Yeller and Bambi.

I'd completely forgot that scene though. I REALLY need to reread those books!

 

[JunkMonkey]

To take this even more Off Topic:

Slightly off topic, but I am constantly astonished to see all the Harry Potter books in Children's sections of bookshops, often the young kids section, not just young adults.

A good few 10/11 year olds must get nightmares after reading Deathly Hallows! In one late scene, Voldermort tortures the much loved Neville Longbottom, by putting the Sorting Hat on his head, then setting it on fire, as Neville screams in pain, for example. The film is OK, because they pretty much removed and desenitised any horror from all the books.

Do you have kids, Caledfwlch? I have 3 (aged 6, 11, and 13) keeping them away from the creepy and the weird and the nasty is a losing battle. Kids love being (safely) scared and poking at the horrible just to see how far they can go. They know their limits too; if something is "Too Scary" they'll stop. I think it's a natural thing for adults to want to protect their kids from things that are too 'grown up' but cocooning them from all things nasty and wrapping them in a fluffy cloud of Care Bear niceness is not possible. It's part of my job as a parent to make a safe place for my kids to be scared in.

There's no knowing what will give people nightmares. Doctor Who used to deliciously scare me as a kid (early 70s) and I had endless nightmares about being chased down a corridor my some nameless unseen thing - but never anything directly Doctor Whoish. I had a girlfriend who had nightmares after watching Disney's Sleeping Beauty as a kid. (As an adult she read endless cheap and nasty eyeball ripping horror novels with covers so grotesque I could barely look at them.)

Don't worry about 10/11 year olds reading about Neville Longbottom getting tortured. (Most of them are reading Creepy Pasta and slash fiction far more graphic.) Just revel in the fact that kids are reading books!

 

[hardsciencefanagain]

In the normal course of thing,kids will move on from garish horror.

 

[Droflet]

The very last scene in Take Shelter. It is the realisation that the dreams of Michael Shanahan's character are true visions of the future. And it is not a nice image.

Sometimes I imagine Take Shelter as a prequel to The Road.

Yep, couldn't agree more. I think Shannon is a vastly underrated actor.

 

[BAYLOR]

there's something very bleak about a certain scene in Terminator two.

In the beginning to the film and the dream that Sarah Connor has later in the film . Indeed.

 

[BAYLOR]

The Light Brigade eclipse on The Outer Limits