What is the scariest scene in any movie you have watched?

[RamseyGordon]

If you watch horror movies, what is one scene that you can think of that sticks out as being one of the scariest scenes you've watched?

I think it is interesting to see what is effective and what different people find scary.

For me it's the scene in hereditary where she's on the ceiling sawing her head off with chicken wire. Absolutely hated that imagery and felt so disturbed!

When Sadako climbed put of the well in Ringu the first time I saw it.

Everything about Sadako in fact. It was the first Japanese horror I watched and the film language was so different to any of the British/American films I was used to.

They filmed Sadako's movements backwards which was why she moved so awkwardly.

I'm.constantly disappointed by the lack of scare in films. I long to have that visceral fear and nothing come close to that.

Not a horror movie but;

The very last scene in the BBC docu-drama "Threads". Ruth's daughter gives birth in a post apocalyptic Britain in the early 80's. The baby is hideously deformed due to radiation poisoning and she just screams. It has always haunted me.

I'm a huge horror junkie, but I can't think of anything recently that's stuck with me. Maybe also Hereditary, the bit where she's battering the attic door creeped me right out.

Bizarrely a scene that still sticks with me a decade two decades (just realised how old I am) after it first scared me is the bit in Signs where Joaquin is watching the grainy home video footage of the birthday party and an alien walks across the scene, visible for like .5 seconds. I don't know why but that completely shit me up when I first saw it, and still lingers!

I don't really find them scarey (I am usually laughing), though Eden Lake was thought provoking - a couple in the wrong place at the wrong time kind of scenario. Some bloody awful kids. No monsters (well the kids were vile)

I’m a massive horror fan in general but the one scene I really don’t like is the spider walk down the stairs in the Exorcist.

If you count TV series then surely it's pretty much any episode of Motherland season 1? Far more traumatic than anything else I've watched.

I don't really like horror precisely because horrible scenes stick in my brain. One that creeps me out is in Event Horizon where you see just the briefest second or two of video the previous 'possessed' crew, with horrible screaming and moaning and you can't quite see what's going on in the background, but just enough to know truly appalling things are happening and your imagination fills in the gaps!

This scene was moreso disturbing than anything else...and not in a horror film....

The dead baby in the cot in Trainspotting. Absolutely horrific and scares me more than anything in life really as a mother to two boys.

I haven't seen some of these but yes I agree with Eden lake too! That's a hard watch.. not necessarily scary but still pretty horrific

As a young girl, Kevin Bacon's death in Friday 13th part one. It absolutely spooked me and I filled the space under my bed with storage boxes for years after.

As an adult, Toni Collette banging on the attic door in Hereditary as mentioned by a pp.

There's a film called Creep set in the London Underground. It's basically a creepy bald monster thing that lives there. The first time it emerges is pretty awful.

Got completely freaked out at a scene with Martin Freeman in it in the film "Ghost Stories" where he enters a room where his wife's ghost appeared to him as she died giving birth to an (it is implied) inhuman child - very very scary

Yeah Toni Collette banging her head on the door is one of mine too, it just got overshadowed by the part after where she's sawing her head off

The Haunting 1963 film "who's hand was I holding?" I shouldn't have watched that on my own a teenager. Never again.

Like PP I am a big horror fan but the Salem’s Lot window scene still puts the hairs on the back of my neck up.

Me too. One of the scariest things I've ever watched.

Was just coming on to say exactly this.

Not a horror but I find the ‘transformation’ bit in Mrs Doubtfire with him phoning his wife in silly voices.

Kind of shows the depth that sinister and angry men will go to.

In actual horror it’s in Buffy when she’s asleep in bed and she can hear the ventriloquist dummy running around her bedroom.

Shower scene in psycho. Anything that has insects crawling out of mouth,or people jamming something sharp in someone's eye

I've never seen trainspotting but I've just found that scene on YouTube. Have decided folding laundry can wait while I hug my children. And I love horror in general, but that particular scene is distressing

When you first see It in the storm drain (the 90s version)

The ending of Blair Witch Project where he’s stood in the corner awaiting his fate.

Another one for Eden Lake here. The final scenes where she's in the bathroom at the house with Shaun Dooley (fantastic actor) and the other parents of the kids, is terrifying. You don't actually see anything, it's left to your imagination. It's the ordinariness of the house, the fact the women are sat in the lounge knowing what's going on but nobody does anything to help her, because in their eyes she's guilty of the murder of their kids. They've got the whole situation so wrong. Then the young lad upstairs, who's caused all this just carries on as if nothings happened, while that poor young woman is having god knows what done to her, all because of him.

The sister in Pet Sematary. I saw it as a child and it Terrified me for years. I used to think I would see her if I looked into windows at night.

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When I was a kid the scene that stuck out for me was the part in sixth sense when he is having a wee and feels someone walk past the doorway. He goes into the kitchen and thinks his mum is stood at the counter but when she turns around she's full of cuts and starts shouting LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO

That scene stuck with me for yearssssss I was too scared to go to the bathroom in the night. I probably watched it too young. The scene doesn't scare me now though.

Has anyone watched the new horror movie Talk to Me? There's a scene in that where I had to cover my eyes and hide under the blanket and I never do that!