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!

I'm a complete wuss, and a lifetime ago my ex took me to see Gremlins when it first came out, and I found it so jumpy that I ended up in tears and had to be taken home.

This film really got to me. I usually love horror but this disturbed me like nothing else. I remember I got to the bit where the police find photos of her from after she's abducted, and they're just... awful. I actually had to stop watching and basically googled whether it gets worse. I came across a reddit post where someone had got to the same bit and wanted to know if it got any worse from there and if they should keep watching. For some reasons most of the replies said that was the worst bit so I made the mistake of continuing to watch it. But yeah, that ending is definitely one of the most horrific things I've ever seen and still haunts me.

A whole generation started bathing in the bath after this one (and some people still got nervous doing that) the novel is even more unsettling, the first attack scene is very disturbing the way he can write it, and the Chief Brody first encounter with the shark at sea is even more scary in the novel because it just sits 30ft or so away from the boat watching him with it`s black soulless eye.

Haha really? Why that episode in particular?

@Ladypugs60 I haven't but it sounds great. I really don't care for the way all horror now is based on violence, most of it over the top and nasty- there's so much more creepiness in suggestion and little subtle touches

I hate that one!!

• The Ring- when the mother is talking to the main character in the kitchen, distraught at her daughter’s wake and says ‘ I saw her face..’ and the shot cuts to a flash scene of the daughter sat down in the cupboard with that awful face that Samara’s victims would get when met their fate.

Oh God yes. That was so unprovoked I literally had no clue that was going to happen!

Not a horror but the scene in Dantes Peak where the grandma pushes the boat to safety and melts her legs off in the process. This TRAUMATISED me as a child. The visuals but also the self sacrifice.

Loving this thread BTW :)

Late to the thread but

I can watch most things but I had to turn off the

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Rape scene in I spit on your grave. It was so graphic and so disturbing I couldn't watch it

There was a scene in all hallows Eve where the clown is butchering someone I struggled to watch that yet am usually fine with everything so not sure why that affected me so much. Going to watch the 2nd one tonight which I've heard is very gory so could be interesting!

I refuse to watch water ship down as I like bunnies and know it'll traumatise me and I'll bawl my way through it

I feel recent horrors have been really underwhelming and can't recall being truly scared by one in a long time

I lived in the attic staff bedrooms above the guest bedrooms in the hotel I worked in. My best friend and I watched The Exorcist... Apparently there were a lot of residents complaining about a screaming woman the next morning!!! 🙊 🙊 🙊 🙊 🙊 🙊 🙊 🙊 🙊 🙊 🙊 🙊

THAT scene in The Woman in Black (based on the Susan Hill novel) If you have seen it you will know the one I mean.

Not just scary but mind blowingly horrific, that scene in Sarah's Key when the young Sarah goes back to the house and looks in the wardrobe. 😭😭

The bit in The Taking of Deborah Logan where she's eating the child 😭I hate humans changed into grotesque forms

Eden lake proper
Made
Me
Feel stressed watching back when it was out.
The scene in the strangers with Liv Tyler when one in a mask walks behind her with out her knowing made me
Jump so hard I spilt my glass of wine all over me

The final scene in Carrie where her hand shoots out of the grave! Jumped out of my skin!

A scene in Les Diaboliques, an old B&W French film.
Anyone who’s seen it will know which one I mean!

Definitely spider walk in the Exorcist. And the head spinning thing. And near the end where she giggles. I just can't watch it again, it freaks me out.

Rec, where they finally make it to the top apartment and you see the girl walking around in the night vision. I really like the ambiguity of whether it's a virus, or whether it's demonic possession. I can watch it ok now, but the first time I watched the bonus content of the making of the film after to sort of bring myself back to reality of "it's only a film". Probably didn't help I watched it alone at night.

The ending of Blair Witch Project, just unnerving. I like that they never show the Witch (or whatever it is), and leave it to your imagination. Not an overall scary film, but if you imagine you were in that situation you'd absolutely shit yourself.

And the Conjuring film with the painting of the nun scene.

Smile..because its the smiles the people are giving that are creepy and bery unnerving

Yes! It was done really well

I can watch most scenes in horrors but while I thought sinister was great I had to shut my eyes during the lawnmower scene even though you don't actually see anything

I saw the trailer for the Mrs Browns Boys movie, that was scary enough that such drivel ever got to the screen.

A film I watched as a child called Paperhouse I think, about a girl who draws a picture of a house and people and then in her dreams she’s there. Her dad is in the picture and she scribbles out his eyes, I think because they’re wrong? And then in her dream he is screaming, with his eyes all bandaged up, coming after her. That has always stayed with me.

is that based on the book Marianne Dreams? I find the book rather scary!

Sinister is the film I have been most truly scared at - such a good and yet freaky film.

Ohh maybe you can help me here. I did a lot of babysitting in the 80's and watched a lot of spooky stuff as there wasn't a lot on TV past midnight back then.
One film really freaked me out, I can't remember the name of it so if this scene jogs anyone's memory please let me know the name of it...

A woman is held captive by a bald headed skinny guy ( like Richard o' brien from the Crystal maze).
He brings her breakfast in bed,( fried eggs?) he leaves the room, she hides in the wardrobe you see her peeking out he's looking for her and she stabs him in the back and the fork snaps off in his back.

That's all I remember!