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!

@MsAdoraBelleDearheartVonLipwig what are your favourite zombie films? I absolutely love anything zombie related

The Invisible Man, when he pulled the bed sheet off her whilst she was asleep. Probably quite a mild film on the 'scary scale' but I couldn't sleep for a couple of nights afterwards.

Most of Poltergeist.

Can't remember the film but the one with the twin girls standing at the end of the corridor.

That scared me too. Lots of good scary bits in It Follows….the bit where they’re on the beach and she’s suddenly being attacked, the bit where it shoved its head through a cat flap type thing.

My scariest scene is in Sinister though where a family is hanging from a tree and a saw is cutting the branch on its own. In fact that whole film scared me and the music is just so horrible it make it worse. So an ace horror film then!

28 Days Later (although the Q wasn’t addressed. To me!)

Ooooh the bit where zombie Robert Carlyle gouges his poor wife’s eyes out with his thumbs in 28 week later, that’s pretty unwatchable.

@MinnieL absolutely anything! Love the old Day of the Dead type films. Love the Korean series on Netflix, All of Us are Dead, etc. And of course the Walking Dead. Have also been downloading lots of zombie series books on my kindle reader. They can be a bit cheesy but I love them. There’s a series called Surviving the Evacuation that’s quite good.

Can't remember the film but the one with the twin girls standing at the end of the corridor.

The Shining? I watched it today.

@AdrianaLaCerva oh God don’t even remind me about Sinister. The lawnmower scene? And the fact that Ethan Hawke looks scared shitless throughout the whole film doesn’t help either. That’s another film I’ve only watched once and wouldn’t watch again.

I enjoyed 28 days later! The scene where he says ‘hello’ in the church and those zombies sit straight up😭 I hated that but it was so good! The opening scene of 28 weeks later is 10/10. I’ve heard that a 28 years later is in the making so we’ll see if that ever gets released

@MsAdoraBelleDearheartVonLipwig oh yes I really enjoyed All of Us are Dead, it was so good! Funnily enough I’ve never watched The Walking Dead. I remember starting it but I got quite bored. I may give it another go. Have you seen Z Nation on Netflix? That’s a really good series! First 3 series are amazing

The scariest film I’ve watched was Poltergeist. No idea if it’s really that scary, as I was about 11 when I watched it at a friend’s house. I remember a scene with the TV and it utterly terrified me. 35 years on and it still scares me!

Yes this one for me too. The film gives me nightmares. Can’t wait for the sequel

I fell asleep while watching this alone when I was ill and feverish and woke up at precisely this point wondering wtf was going on!

Yeah Zombie Flesh Eaters.

Not a horror film (I'm a wuss and don't like them) but the scene in Sleeping with the Enemy where she opens the cupboard and sees all the tins perfectly aligned. In the film it's utterly terrifying.

Dog Soldiers - soldiers being pursued through the woods by the werewolves.

Final scene of Blair Witch Project, also the girl's videoed monologue from inside the tent with the sounds of branches snapping outside.

Moor and subway scenes in American Werewolf In London.

Clifftop ceremony in Midsommar.

Blood testing scene in The Thing.

Finally, a nasty little Australian single-shot movie called Piggy. Unremitting torture from the start with one hell of a twist at the end.

In Hotel Mumbai where the gunmen are in the hotel room looking for people to kill and a mother is hiding in a wardrobe with a baby, desperately trying to stop the baby from making a noise and giving them away. I think just the fear of this as a mother stuck with me

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Them(20066_film)

That's my enduring nightmare. Subtle but horrifying scene which is embedded in my mind forever 😳
And I don't scare easily

Absolutely horrifying. I've bought the original and can't bear to watch it again 😳

Chilling nightmarish scene 😳

Brilliant film. My late father passed the dvd over to me and didn't say a word about the film...
That last scene 😳

Not a horror film but Black Mirror - Metalhead still haunts me. It’s the one with Maxine Peak and the robotic dogs…

Not a film but TV. Haven't seen anyone else mention Luther yet.

One episode, I've blanked out the specifics, but there is a scene where the woman is on her bed and an intruder is downstairs. The woman's partner has left the bedroom and omg I felt actual fear for her like I've never known watching TV before!

The Sixth Sense

Cole gets up in the night to pee, you see the temperature dial go down and a woman suddenly walks past

it could have been his mother there is nothing odd looking about her at that point but it’s really terrifying you know it’s know something is very wrong

The scene in Se7en where the guy that's been starved to near death takes a breath. It's such a chilling, disturbingly brilliant film.

Also, an episode of Tales of the unexpected- the home sauna one, think it's prunella scales.