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 hated the scene in hereditary where she finds out about her daughters accident and she is screaming on the floor and her dh is trying to calm her. It's so awful. Amazing acting.
That's scarier to
Me than the rest of the film. Made me feel awful for days.
Her pain was so raw.

I find most recent horror films disappointing. I think The Counjouring etc are a bit boring. I'm not really scared by jump scares or silly gore BUT I happened across Hostel years ago and it absolutely horrified and disgusted me. More because - how can you write that? Awful. I will never watch it again.

I hate gory horror, or mutilation stuff so don't watch it.
I watched 'The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover' thinking it was more an arty film. Ugh made me gag, and I'm curious to watch it again but cant!

Hostel 2. When they photocopy the passports and they get sent everywhere and people are bidding.
And obviously the scenes afterwhere they get kidnapped and killed.
Put we off travelling for life

This scared the shit out of me as a child and it still makes me feel edgy

YES! I famously watched that scene once and forever after hid behind the sofa during it.

I lived in a very small village in the 80s and my mate and I rented the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre before it got banned, along with Cannibal Holocaust...
The second one was absolutely revolting and deserved to be banned.
The first one had us scared out of our wits! The scene where she's on the swing and he's approaching from behind! Just no!
Not really a horror I don't think (🤔) but Antichrist with Willem DaFoe is very chilling and from a womans point of view, one scene is particularly gross!
I remember the kids scratching at the windows, freaking me out in Salems Lot too! Couldn't sleep for weeks after that!
I'd also say Demons, the original one, I couldn't get past the demon running down to the front in the theatre during the escape panic and starting to rip a blokes throat out from behind... And I wasn't as squeamish back in the late 80s, as I am now!
I like psychological horror more than gore. All the Hostel movies were unnerving and awful as I can see some of the rich elite actually doing that...

I love that this thread is still going on! I need to watch some of these films as I watched a lot of them😆

REC?

Aha! At last someone who's actually seen this film! I watched it about 15 years ago,bit no one I know has seen it! I agree,the monster was pretty ghastly.

Every scary bit of "The Orphanage". Not one part is a new scary thing, but so beautifully done it doesn't matter. When I watched it in the cinema I jumped with fright at one scene and nearly grabbed the woman next to me, who was doing the same!

The DVD version, last time I saw it, has one scene censored, quite unnecessarily.

That's what they're called, yeah. If you google "rec movies" they'll come up. It's REC as in, short for record, that comes up on screen when you're recording video.

Right, got it now, cheers.

I was going to say Wolf Creek but see it’s been covered. The whole thing I found really disturbing.

My absolute worst one though is the scene in Halloween when the teenage boy goes downstairs and gets killed and Michael Myers goes upstairs with the sheet over his head and the boys glasses on. The girlfriend thinks it’s him obviously but it’s not. It properly freaks me out!

I've heard absolutely terrible things about Eden Lake. Only watched reaction videos to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre but Leatherface reminded me in several respects of a very beloved ex (let's not even GO there, he obviously wasn't a violent serial killer) and also of myself in that he's obviously one slice short of a sandwich and his family are using him in dreadful ways - in another life he'd be happily making afternoon tea for his granny and grandad and fussing a puppy/kitten/baby donkey/other vulnerable animal. But TCM fell so far short of what Eden Lake even sounds like... and I've only heard vaguely about the Human Centipede and it made me want to erase myself from the human race.

I don't like horror movies so mine are probably tame but the scenes that had the most impact on my were the scenes with the baby in mother! And it's not a film but in the TV series Hannibal, the scene where Mason starts cutting his face and feeding it to the dogs made me retch, had to turn it off.

Yes, that is great scene with P.J. Soles (I think it"s her? ) much copied across different movies, but Halloween also borrowed from movies like Black Christmas which is 1974 I think.

It’s not a film but an honourable mention has to go to the X Files. If you’ve seen the episode “Home”, you’ll know what I mean 😱

I am watching Hannibal for the first time at the minute and literally watched that episode a few nights ago! Yes it was awful I agree 🤢

God yes, not scary as such but horrifying.

Was just coming on to mention this. Hideous as it could so easily happen.

Oh hell no! I think I know which one you mean! Revolting and disturbing springs to mind! 😱

Nightmares for weeks!

DH and I watched The Descent last week.
I am not good with the idea of being trapped and unable to turn . When one of the wpmen was stuck in the tunnel I felt queasy ( it's a film , it's a FILM ) far worse than the creept cave dwellers .

Any films that feature being buried alive are not for me .

My DSis used to go pot holing ( organised group) I think "how could you" but she'd never get on a horse whereas I used to .

Me too! They went a bit above and beyond with that one!