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

[lilybit2025]

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.

Probably the bleakest ending EVER 😢

Honestly I was in tears 😭

I had a really scary nightmare last night and woke up very upset and then had to sleep with the light on and I think it’s because I’ve been reading this thread and thinking about all these scary films and scenes

The Descent for me too. I still think about it. Scared the fucking life out of me and I’ll never watch it again. I was in the middle of my engineering masters and spending my days down mines. Could’ve done without watching than damn film 😆

Also, never watch The Long Walk unless you want to be haunted until your dying day. I watched it with my teenage son and actually had to leave the room at points.

I hate it when it's a superb film but you still can't bear to watch it!

Can I ask why? One of my adult kids wants me to watch this, and I am not very tolerant of extreme violence/gore…would I hate it?

I have 2 and no doubt it will cause laughter, but seriously I’m 51 now and still have bad dreams occasionally about the first one - the first one is, the scene in terminator where the baddie turns into melted silver and metamorphosis’s into another thing - this has haunted me for 35+ years in my dreams he morphed into the people I’m most afraid of and I wake terrified.
thevsecond one is a very old film called Blythe spirit where the first wife haunts her husband and his new wife and she is green to show her dead …. It completely traumatised me.

I also used to find the tea pot lady In telytubbies deeply disturbing.

It's just a very bleak watch. King wrote in 1967 and it's a clear allegory of the Vietnam war... The two leads are incredible though, acting superb.
It's really good though. Not much gore, it's more psychological. I'd go for it with your child if they want to watch it 🙂

My fifteen year old rolled his eyes and said "you know it's not real, right?"
Teenagers 😁

The sixth sense, the bit where the girl is in the tent. It isn't that scary really, but it has always stuck with me and still gives me the creeps.

Not a film but that horrible, hovering man with the walking stick and tall hat in Haunting of Hill House.

The wet ball bouncing down the stairs in The Changeling.

Great, thanks for replying!

Lake Mungo for me - just the whole film really, I felt really unsettled by it and was thinking about it for days.

Not into horror, but after watching the scene in Manchester by the Sea where the dad comes back to a house ablaze and his children all died in the fire it must have done something to me as I immediately started to work out how to make the house escapable in a fire and tested alarms, made the kids do a drill, the works... so I hope never to need it but some good may have come from that film.

I have quite a thick skin for jump scares, ghosts etc. But this scene where she opens the cupboard and that tune he plays starts playing loud and the realisation hits you as it hits her ... Shudder!!

An American Werewolf in London put me off fried eggs for about a year (because of the hospital scene).

I’ve seen loads of horror films including all the main “torture porn” trend ones like Hostel and was also going to suggest The Vanishing, the original one.

Ah man I was fuming after watching that. It barely touched on the book and the ending was completely wrong. Really irritated me.

Me too!!!

Agree re Wolf Creek, started watching and had to turn it off!

Was there any need to change who won? The whole thing was from garratys perspective and they do that? I know they had to change something at the end like they did with the mist but that film was pure laziness.

Was really looking forward to it as well. The long walk is one of my favourite books.

And don't get me started on stebbins!!

I've annoyed myself again now

I completely agree with you about the ending of The Long Walk. Unnecessary.
The acting was really good. Cooper Hoffman has obviously inherited his Dad's talent.

No! I really don't understand the thinking behind changing the ending. It was great the way it was. It is one of my favourites and really disappointed me. I agree that the acting was good.
They did the same with the newer Pet Semetary film where they swapped around the child 🤷‍♀️
The (apparently) more book accurate version of The Running Man is coming out this year, so we will see what happens with that one.