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

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lilybit2025 · 01/01/2026 23:33

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.

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SwirlyGates · 05/01/2026 17:45

Just remembered another - "The Road." Not one scene it particular, lots of them. I decided I'd rather die in the apocalypse than face that.

TheatricalLife · 05/01/2026 18:12

SwirlyGates · 05/01/2026 17:45

Just remembered another - "The Road." Not one scene it particular, lots of them. I decided I'd rather die in the apocalypse than face that.

I didn't find The Road scary, just incredibly depressing. It stuck with me for weeks (the book did as well). I also made the choice I'd rather be dead than live through that.

gamerchick · 05/01/2026 18:31

TheatricalLife · 05/01/2026 14:23

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.

Ooo really? The running man made me laugh. All they took was the idea, sortof and the name. The books excellent though, I'd like to see that on the screen.

louderthan · 05/01/2026 20:11

The ending of Martyrs. Sickening.
And Threads. The most disturbing thing I’ve ever seen.

louderthan · 05/01/2026 20:17

Oh and I saw Nosferatu last year and the whole thing was just viscerally awful.
Also A Field In England; one of the most oddly disturbing films I’ve ever seen. Trippy and weird and unsettling.
And the final scene in Kill List. Ben Wheatley is a genius.

DarkEyedSailor · 05/01/2026 20:21

The Vanishing is my film for tonight. Haven't seen it before but it looks good.

wendywoopywoo222 · 05/01/2026 20:44

i came in to say Wolf Creek too. Still have nightmares about this one sometimes.

Rosesonroses · 05/01/2026 21:22

louderthan · 05/01/2026 20:17

Oh and I saw Nosferatu last year and the whole thing was just viscerally awful.
Also A Field In England; one of the most oddly disturbing films I’ve ever seen. Trippy and weird and unsettling.
And the final scene in Kill List. Ben Wheatley is a genius.

Kill List is brilliant, one of my favourite films

LetsGoFlyAKiteee · 05/01/2026 21:29

TheatricalLife · 05/01/2026 14:23

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.

I looked up the ending after as hadn't read the book and it doesnt make sense why they changed it! Was still a bleak ending shouldve left it how it was

Namechangeyname · 10/01/2026 09:25

Yorkshirelass04 · 02/01/2026 22:55

@NamechangeynameI can't believe they made us watch Threads in year 9 history class

Bloody hell! 😱

Sadcafe · 10/01/2026 09:41

Probably looks tame these days, but the scene in Salems lot where the boy taps on the upstairs window

Springonway1 · 10/01/2026 12:45

Children of the Corn 1. When Isaac peers through the window.

Peering through windows is obviously quite a scary thing to do in horror films!

wavingfuriously · 10/01/2026 13:06

sprigatito · 02/01/2026 21:56

There are a couple of scenes in The Others that genuinely terrified me. That film is often regarded as tame because there’s no gore or violence, but it’s one of the most frightening and unsettling films I’ve ever seen.

The scene in the original screenplay of The Woman In Black where the woman comes through the window…I had a full blown panic attack when I first saw it aged 11, and it gave me nightmares for years.

Are you talking about the 80's TV film, yes really frightening agree 👍

wavingfuriously · 10/01/2026 13:13

IDontHateRainbows · 05/01/2026 00:43

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.

saddest film ever ...😢

lilybit2025 · 11/01/2026 00:44

Only just come back to this thread and it's blown up! Taking my time to read...

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lilybit2025 · 11/01/2026 00:51

Another one is 'The Village', such a strange movie.

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