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!

The Shinning

Danny has run from his dad into the area of where they are staying in the hotel and sees a couple dressed up in animal costumes having oral sex (or seem to be)

its so uncomfortable and very very creepy even more scary than the twins

It’s Wendy not Danny that sees the man/woman dressed in an animal costume

makes me shiver

Some scary stuff on here! I don’t know why but a really creepy moment for me is in It Follows when the main character is driving away in a car and a man is standing on the roof of a house, looking at her.

Oh god - and this scene! Definitely the creepiest in the film imho.

Ditto the scene where a woman is asleep in bed and the killer slides out from under the bed.

I just watched Talk to Me on Halloween and rate it as really good.

The scene that haunts me the most from any film is The Road, they have found a house and there are piles of belongings everywhere. He looks in the cellar and the cannibals have people all chained up in there with various limbs hacked off as they eat them slowly and keep them alive so the meat is fresh.

Also one called Shutter the main guy has lost his mind and is catatonic in a mental hospital, he had been suffering from back ache. Turns out the ghost of his dead ex girlfriend who he let his friends rape and who then committed suicide is hanging round his neck.

@HRTQueen I watched sixth sense at the cinema and the entire cinema jumped when she whooshed past when he was having his pee.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Wolf Creek. Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian said it was a film that didn't want to be your friend, and he wasn't wrong.

I calmed myself down over a week by watching the guy who played the baddie in Neighbours, which is where he started out.

Me too! And the bit where someone is being operated on by a ghost iirc but you can't see them, just their arm twitching.

All my friends thought I was weird to be freaked out by that film

Mentioned a few times already…it is definitely one of the most traumatic films I’ve ever seen. I could never watch it again.

The nun in the conjuring terrifies me and a clip of the exorcist I watched as a teen.

Not a movie though i forgot about ghostwatch my whole family had a sleepless night after watching it. I watched it not long ago again and it seems silly now and obvious it is fake.

I never watched trainspotting I had to know it off after the baby scene.

I’ve thought of more - these still aren’t horror films, sorry.

The scene in the English Patient where the nurse is forced to cut someone’s thumbs off with a razor. The film is only a 15 and that scene is unforgettably graphic and horrific.

Blade Runner - again a 15. When Roy crushes a man’s head while forcing his hands into his eyes - I’ve never watched that scene through entirely. It’s intolerable.

I also can’t watch the final sequence in Saw (spoilers). The twist is brilliant, but watching someone cut their own foot off followed by the brutal smashing of someone else’s head had me crawling over the back of the sofa and biting it so I wouldn’t cry or worse. I really like the movie as a whole, but for those few minutes I need to tune out and hug a stuffed animal.

On the other hand, the Exorcist which I saw recently left me completely unmoved - nice film, but I wasn’t scared or disturbed at all.

Eden Lake was really good will have twitch this one I also like I spit on your grave movies.

Oh god I hate wolf creek. Nasty derivative torture porn that wishes it could be even a hundredth as good as Texas Chainsaw. It's not based on true events and the killer is like a cartoon character. Absolute garbage of a film.

I've read the first page but it's too late at night for me to read more

My offering , it's the saddest and most desperate final scene

The Human Centipede <SPOILER>

The three unfortunates are surgically attacted
The one in the middle is the dark haired woman (who I really wanted the Mad Surgeon to Kill Now because her screaming was pissing me off)

The Mad Surgeon is dead
The policeman is dead
THe woman in front and the man behind are dead.
The woman in the middle is literally stuck with no hope ......and the camera pans out .

I haven't watched HC2 or HC3

@70isaLimitNotaTarget

SPOILERS

I’ve never managed to watch any of those films but I’ve seen reaction videos.

She is in a really dire predicament but she might have been able to reach a scalpel to cut the stitches.

As far as I know the subsequent films don’t resolve her storyline but I don’t know.

The ideas behind those films are so depraved.

@RiderOfTheBlue it could well have been that episode tbh, like I said I have blanked out parts of it!!

Love this thread! Here are a few that spring to mind for me…

• 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.

• The Grudge- Most scenes- especially the one with the woman seeing the creepy woman on cctv at work and rushes home to then be attacked by her in bed.

• The Others- ( watched as a child) when Nicole Kidman comes back to get her daughter back out of her communion dress and sees the old woman’s hand poking out when she’s playing with the puppet

• Signs- Alien on the TV during the children’s party

• The Conjuring- When one of the sisters is with her younger sister in the bedroom and goes to look in the wardrobe then the camera shoots up to the demon on top of the wardrobe ( I SCREAMED in the cinema)

• Jeepers Creepers- when they drive past and see him putting bodies down the pipe and the music and slow motion is so chilling AND the scene where they’re in the police station and he pops his head round the wall to chase them

• Blair Witch Project- the guy stood in the corner awaiting his death

• Them ( Ills)- the girl waiting in the opening scene in the car for her mum ( won’t say anymore as I can see some are wanting to watch it)

The whole film makes my blood run cold since I heard what Kubrick and Nicholson put Shelly Duval through. Sadists. Used to love the film and now can never watch it again

He had his operating theatre in the cellar IIRC and the last scene was on the ground floor ? So no handily placed scalpels (and the other two people would've been a tad of a hinderence !)
There was one scene where the swimming pool cover was closing and she was either going to drown under the cover or get out (and meet her inevitable fate )

@70isaLimitNotaTarget Ive only seen reaction videos, not the whole movie! Was just relaying what I’d gathered. I think I mentioned on my first post about a skin-tearing scene in Hannibal and it involved ripping out stitches- I guess it depends how strong the survival instinct would be. I’d probably have drowned myself in the FEED HER scene tbh, anything would be better.

I can't watch The Shining - it creeps me out right from the title sequence.

It probably doesn't help that I have had a phobia about long empty corridors since I was at school!

@Dawn17

Exactly ! Never mind monsters, what human beings can do to each other!

While I can happily rè_watçh The Texas Chain saw massacre and the Japanese ones I am not sure I would want to see Eden Lake again!

These are so good, I'm loving reading them!