What's the scariest scene in a film that's stuck with you?

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There's not many, but one being Wolf Creek, my mum let me watch it with her when I was 13 and it's stuck with me ever since. Another is The Descent from when I was a similar age - the caves and creatures have stuck with me ever since and I refuse to watch either of them again.

I agree about this - I would never watch a slasher film such as hostel or saw, I find nothing enjoyable about them. But a good scare that makes you jump or an idea which haunts you.... Loved Get Out, such a clever idea and the building of the horror is amazing. The bit where the guy comes running towards him out of the dark...... Another one is a film I cant remember the name of set in an old hospital which has a bunch of religious stuff around the building. One of the things is a statue of the grim reaper and there is a really quick scene where you see a nurse walk one way across the other side of a door way, then come back and the statue is walking behind her. Its a really quick scene and makes you jump out of your skin.

For those who dont understand the appeal of horror - I never used to like them, but find it is a genre where there is an amazing amount of creativity and some really interesting social commentary.

Halloween. Opening scenes. It's creepy as hell.

I did live on my own when I started watching. I turned it off.

I just looked up the plot. I'll definitely be giving that a swerve!

Phoned up the BBC to complain after saw that film on TV, could not sleep all night. They now put a warning on screen before opening sequence. Just awful and nearly pornographic.

An old one, but it’s really stayed with me.
Soldier Blue. Based on true events. I vividly remember a soldier on horseback beheading a native American child and the head rolling towards the viewer, stopping with the face in full view. Also brutal rape and mutilation of women.
Don’t watch horror or violence these days.

yes The Others just not talking nothing nothing it really got to me

Anyone ever see Weapons? Brilliantly messed up film. The ending is quite something

I never, ever, ever, ever want to watch Threads again. I watched in a student shared house when it was first broadcast. We were all stunned into silence and I had nightmares for weeks afterwards.

Soldier Blue just left me sobbing.

I'm not a fan of horror movies by any stretch, but the final scene of the Wicker Man freaked me out a bit. Not so much the burning effigy, but the islanders merrily dancing round it singing Sumer Is Icumin In.

I don’t watch horror now. I like a psychological thriller though. The most scared I remember being is around age 11 at a sleepover and my friends had got a film called something like Witchboard. I don’t remember a lot but the fear of someone standing quietly just out of sight will always be more terrifying than slasher gore!

I doubt most people enjoy the gore and rape, it just feeds into the fear thing especially as it could happen.

Just the camera panning by…

All of Halloween!!! 🎃

Just thought of another one - British horror called Mum and Dad. Seriously disturbing on so many levels. I actually felt a bit unclean having the DVD on my shelf.

Another vote for the whole of Eden Lake, makes the Hostel/Saw films look like watch with mother!
Two stand out scares for me are the alien caught on camera in Signs, still makes me jump, and in the brilliant original The Changeling mentioned upthread, then George C Scott’s character is re-playing the tape from the previous evenings séance, spooky!!!

My DH once shit me up completely by just standing in the corner of the bedroom facing the wall in the half-dark. I swear I actually screamed when I walked in.

Oh my gosh that is so mean!!!!!

@MrsChristmasHasResigned I'm not a fan of Jordan Peele's other films but Get Out is a legitimate masterpiece.
Kind of film you have to watch more than once to get all the subtlety and the nuances.

That made me laugh 😆 DH and I like to sneak up behind each other and freeze in Weeping Angel poses. The more uncomfortable close you can get without being noticed, the better.

Oh yes!

I kept wondering how he was going to escape. And then he didn't. How my boyfriend of the time laughed!

The Alien movies are amongst my absolute favourite films - but I don’t really think of them of ‘horror’ films funnily enough.

Although - I was discussing this thread earlier with my dh and DD’s and I said the scariest film I saw last year was the latest Alien film, Romulus. The scene with the alien baby thing. I actually covered my eyes in fear in the cinema and my heart was beating like mad!

Frigging love all of the Alien films. Prometheus is probably my favourite.

I agree that’s a horrible film and I turned it off at that scene. I didn’t even want to know what happened to Michael Clark Duncan at the end bc I was already traumatised!

Real human suffering I can’t stand to watch.
Just remembered another horror film I turned off which was “Legion” (?) with Paul Bettany. I think it was a flop and noones ever heard of it but it freaked the absolute bejesus out of me. Paul Bettany plays the angel Gabriel come down from heaven to protect a baby who is the second coming (if I remember rightly) and a load of demonic type things are trying to enter the diner where he and some innocent bystanders are all holed up. there’s a scene where a load of freaky creatures are descending on them in a sort of wacky racers type scenario and it was bloody terrifying!! Also a scene where a granny (who is actually the devil) turns and her face turns all evil and she starts crawling up the walls. It gave me nightmares and Il never watch that again.

I love that book! It would make such a fantastic movie as well.
For me it was Event Horizon, the airlock scene. But that whole movie was terrifying, my flatmates and I threw the dvd out of the window as we didn’t want it in the house! 😂

Also the scene in 28 Days Later when the zombies break into the house towards the end. Haunting music and imagery.

@Dollyfloss you're right. I think only Alien could be considered horror, and that's pushing it 😁
Aliens is a war film.
We'll have to agree to disagree on Prometheus!

I didn’t like that film but agree the ending was quite shocking.