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!

Same! I've saved the whole thread for future reference 😆

I'm doing the opposite and noting all the films I will not touch with a bargepole and am generally very well reminded why I dislike horror films. Even just reading the plot of films like Midsommer, Hereditary and Eden Lake made me feel quite sad and depressed and that's how I feel after I've watched something like that in the past. Certainly not pleasantly thrilled after being scared or entertained and uplifted. It takes all sorts I guess - DD2 likes horror very much. I guess I'm just too sensitive.

Dark Night of The Scarecrow has scary atmosphere, Black Christmas (early 70`s version) is disturbing most of the way through, and they were doing the hand held camera stuff quite a few years before Halloween.

For me it’s the outback horror film Wolf Creek. I found the whole thing so disturbing that I had to leave the cinema more than once. The torture scenes & the build up are horrifying. Also it’s got a slightly low budget Blair Witch Project feel to it that makes it feel more authentic.

That Nun is just incredible imagery, isn't it. So haunting!

I do love the bit in that film where the grumpy old git ghost at the Enfield House goes 'My house!' from behind the telly! Classic!!

Black Christmas (originally titled Silent Night, Evil Night in the United States and retitled Stranger in the House on television screenings) is a 1974 Canadian slasher film produced and directed by Bob Clark, and written by A. Roy Moore. It starsOlivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, Andrea Martin, Lynne Griffin and John Saxon. The story follows a group of sorority sisters

Absolutely classic film, first saw it in the early 80`s, unsettling then still unsettling now. Does anyone else think that the girl in the Scarecrow clip is an amazing actress, she would be about 9 in that clip and the depth she brings to the scene is stunning IMO, seems she got quite famous for being in Knotts Landing later on then sort of disappeared from the TV/movie business.

Onethingatatime23 I'm like you. The last horror film I ever watched was Friday 13th at the cinema. Things stay in my head so it's not a good idea!

I was going to say this! I remember going to the cinema to see this when my baby was about 6 weeks old and I found it very disturbing.

So many! I'm someone who imagine all the scary things happening in my own house every night for weeks afterwards!

1. The lift scene in the Japanese film The Eye 2002).
2. I can't remember the name of the film but it's Joe Absolom playing some possessed kid (do they do a Ouija?) and he's stalking others and one hides in a cupboard with slats and is peering out and Joe is getting closer and closer...
3. Any film with a girl wearing a white dress with long dark hair!
4. Agree with Blair Witch ending.
5. TV-wise, yes to the Dr Who angels!
6. Also TV - The Haunting Of Bly Manor when the nanny is talking to the kids at night and has her back to the stairs and the ghost walks across in the back of shot... Argh!

@MaisyMary77 I've loved the original Woman in Black for years, the bit where he's in the graveyard at the house and suddenly feels she's behind him.

Hereditary terrified me as well; when the film started I thought it would be about mental health issues; pretty soon I realised there was more to it!! Really frightening. As I've got older I've lost my appetite for horror films. This one really frightened me.

God this film freaked me out as well; for a while after I was uneasy when I walked my dog in a field and saw someone walking towards me in the distance! I kept thinking about It Follows!!

I agree with this.

Also, the scene in When a Stranger Calls, when the babysitter realises the calls are coming from within the house.

And more recently, in Talk to Me, when Mia has been possessed and says repeatedly ‘run, run, run, run’, in a spooky, raspy voice. An altogether great horror film, with superb acting.

Has anyone seen evil dead rise that came out this year? I got such intense chills and felt actually scared during the scene at the beginning where the girl who is possessed sits bolt up right on the bed facing away from us and she starts reading the words of the book that her friend has behind her. The way it gets louder and louder and her voice more demonic and the way she shouts LET ME IN

One of my favourite moments of horror, I was really effective for me

It’s a really crap film, with very dodgy acting but 13 ghosts scared the absolute shit out of me.

"Theres something on the wing"

13 ghosts is an underrated masterpiece!
I still get excited whenever there's talk of a TV series.

I bought the original tv adaptation DVD from Amazon and always watch it on on Christmas Eve eve! The ending on the boating lake😯
Have you seen the theatre production of Woman in Black? Jesus H Christ, I get the heebie jeebies just thinking about it.

Yes to this!! I was terrified of woodlouse creeping in my ears after too!😄

Eden Lake really freaked me out, all so real and horrific.

Also Wolf Creek was horrific, I couldn’t sleep after it and wished I’d never seen it.

I hate horror films in general.

Salems Lot when the Master first appears on screen.

Wolf Creek head on a stick scene.

There was one years ago called, I think, Puppet Masters or something like that where toys come to life, the person is on all fours looking under the bed and the puppets slit the back of their ankles.

@MorrisZapp , I'm with you on that. I saw it in the cinema too. So shocking.

Really cool Hungarian film called Taxidermia - at the end, the main character basically taxidermises (?) himself - creates a special machine to do that and its shown in quite a lot of detail - while he is still alive. I watch a lot of horror films but I could not watch that.

Also, not a horror - a thriller - Miss Violence, Greek film. Pretty much all of it is unwatchable. Involves graphic child abuse.

13 Ghosts is one of my favourite horror films, it has a real 80's feel about it.