The entire episode when the police arrest Ben Horne and then Cooper and Truman go to the Roadhouse and then it cuts to the Palmers' house with Leland and Maddy. You have this scene at the start where What a Wonderful World is playing on the gramophone, and Leland, Sarah and Maddy are having a really nice chat. But later on, the same record has come to an end and no one has stopped it or taken off the needle.

 So there is a contrast between the beautiful things in the world and the great evil that lurks in the woods. And when it cuts backs to Julee Cruise singing The World Spins and the atmosphere in the Roadhouse becomes overwhelmed with sadness... Every time I watch that I cry, because it's so sad. And you can see that even Agent Cooper is on the brink of crying, because he looks upwards. He has just had this revelation and he's trying to make sense of it.

 It's just one of the most moving things I've ever seen. It's a bit like some of Lars von Trier's films, eg, Breaking the Waves and Dancer in the Dark.

Very eloquently put Fred.

I think all of Twin Peaks is like that.  About light and shade, and showing us things in the world that we perhaps don't want to deal with, or simply pretend don't exist, when infact it is happening all around us.  But often our fears of the darkness are worse than the reality of what we find there, because it's the darkness within our emotions, and the only power it has is that which we project on to it.  That's sort of how that episode comes across to me.  Traagic, but it sort of has a beautiful ending at the same time.  Not necessarily a happy one, but  a peaceful one. 

Laura screaming in the lodge still scares the crap out of me, but the most disturbing moment would definately have to be Bob crawling ove the couch towards maddie. Creepiness.

 That was always the scariest one to me, too.  I remember the first time it was on, I got really freaked out after that scene and had terrible nightmares.  And it wasn't just from listening to "Just You and I"!

-cg

greets folks, this is my first post.

 Speaking of most disturbing TP moment.. there's one scene that haunted me for nearly 15 years. The scene after maddy, dona and james record a song. There's this empty shot of the living room and the sofa and maddy being disturbed by something. All of the sudden, with no warning in any way, BOB appears and starts walking towards the sofa and walks over it geting close to the camera. JESSUS CHRIST i swear to god I was 4 years old when i watched the show on television and i remmembered this scene with details for nearly 15 years.

 The other scene that really amazed me was the scene in the end of "The path to the BL" episode. The mayor was struggling with his mic and then everything went black. 2 spotlights on cooper and the Giant who appeared on stage, waving his hands "NO" . Seconds later everything goes back to normal and then the mayor says "This isn't right.. there's something wrong here.." and some shots of the empty TP streets at night while he's saying that. That scene was downright brilliant.

 There are MANY shockingly amazing scenes in the series but these 2(as a single scene) were the very best cinematic history has to offer to me :).

TP has lots of scary and disturbing moments, but BOB's murder of Maddy is undoubtedly the scariest to me. No scene moves me or scares me like that scene. It is the most effective and scariest murder scene I have ever seen. Laura screaming in the Black Lodge and the doppelganger midget both get honorable mentions, but the scene that gets under my skin most after that (oddly enough) is when the old man gives Coop the coffee in ep 29. I don't know why, but the way he shuffles forward saying "Coffee" over and over again scares the hell out of me... the stuff that nightmares are made of. Oh and that scene in FWWM where Leland is angry over Laura for not washing her hands is pretty tense and scary as well.

When it went off the air.  Just kidding.  I would have to think about it.

Odd.. I think that's the one dream sequence in the entire TP saga that falls flat. Especially after the murder scene in FWWM (although that itself paled in comparison to Maddy's murder).

That's an amazing scene, one of my favorite from the series. It's not much talked about around here though. This scene is more creepy than scary or disturbing to me though... like the Club Silencio scene in Mulholland. It's one of Lynch's best scenes.

Agreed.  It's such a good moment that Mark Romanek kind of made an entire Beck video out of it.

"Devil's Haircut"

However, officially the inspiration for that video is Francois Truffaut's "Les 400 coups" ("The 400 Blows"). I agree that it looks a lot like the Twin Peaks scene, though.

I didn't know about the 400 Blows inspiration, but that's neat information. I can see the frozen image idea paralleled effectively.

As far as the BOB thing, I wasn't referring to the look of the video so much as the use of the double-take trick. We're shown something dangerous, and it's suddenly focused on in a jarringly mechanical way, pulling us toward it, which increases the danger further. And because it's been revealed within a scene we remember from so recently, at which time we didn't see it, we're forced to wonder "was it really there, hiding all the time?" That gives it a sinister feel. The overall effect is disturbing and exciting, and definitely memorable.

I'm not saying we're conscious of that process, I'm just trying to describe what I see underyling it.

(And for the record, this scene with BOB at the foot of the bed is pretty much the BOB scene for me, the perfect combination of scary and creepy.  For pure fright inducement, it's BOB behind the dresser -- even typing it made me cringe a little...)

Glad to see everyones responses here... Interesting !  

The last scene of ep.27,when we see the Roadhouse,then RR cafe,the corridors of the school,the hotel and the sheriff station when we hear the telephone ringing and at the same time that frightening music that sounds, and finally we see the dark forest ,the sound of the wind is so creepy..and then the black lodge and BOB's hand emerging...all this gives you the feeling that something terrible is going to happen!oh...when i watch that scene,i feel really very scared and disturbed!Really very very creepy!