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.

Mine also

There was an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents with a prisoner bribing the doctor I think, to escape. When the bell rang for someone dying, he had to get in the coffin and then the doctor would rescue him afterwards. Anyway, bell rang, got in coffin, nothing happens. He lit a match to find he was in the coffin with the doctor! This still upsets me after about 40 years!

Wasn’t Wolf Creek based on Joanna Lees and Peter Falconio incident?

Was coming on to write this one and the one where she gets in the car and you just see the silhouette of a man come up from his hiding place.

Both of those just prey on my worst fears.

The goonies. I was about 7 or 8 and the mum abusing her disabled kid horrified me

Haha yes! There’s a bit earlier in the film (haven’t seen it for years) where they talk about how one child was killed while the other stood in the corner facing the wall. Then the scene happens. Gahhh!

definitely bob it still haunts me but i loved it

final desrination first one saw it at the cinema screamed when the plane went

Blair Witch….the teeth….scariest film
I’ve ever seen

Same! Never recovered

This thread is giving me acute anxiety. 😂

Agree with the posters RE Wolf Creek. Particularly the “head on a stick” scene. Grim.

Also, The Descent. There’s actually a bit in the film, before the real bad stuff happens, where they’re crawling through a tunnel and one of them gets stuck and starts to panic. That would be me.

There’s a film called Spit On Your Grave about a woman who takes revenge on a group of men. I think it has the longest rape scene in cinema history - it’s about 45 minutes long - and is very, very difficult to get through. Not classic horror, as such, but really awful.

Special mention to The Human Centipede. Never seen it, but it’s reputation says it all.

The house on haunted hill remake (c2000) where the mad scientist is doing operations on conscious people. I was terrified and appalled. There is also a dream sequence in that film that is terrifying in a surreal sort of way.

The Vanishing has stuck with me since I was 11 and I’d still say the scariest. I saw the Jeff Bridges version and I’ve heard the original
was worse. I had to sleep with the lights on for a week, I was terrified. And I still can’t watch him in anything - he terrifies me.

I found Blair Witch really boring and I’m a wuss who can’t do horror or gore very well. Threads is really the worst film and sticks with you forever. The original black and white The Haunting (not the newer one with Catherine Zeta Jones and Owen Wilson) is brilliantly creepy.

Final destination the plane crash! Just the thought of being in that situation

Also the tower from the latest. The build up took so long but so many nervy moments..and all the sounds and them jumping to the sound "shout'

Sinister and the lawnmower

I hate gore, I lasted precisely 5 minutes with ‘Interview With A Serial Killer’ - a shop owner gets his hand screwed to the counter. About the same with ‘Twin Peaks’ (tweezers being dug into a corpse’s nail bed) and ‘Saw’ (someone chained up cutting their own limbs off).

I loved ‘The Others’ and ‘The Ring’. Was bored stiff by Blair Witch and didn’t get the ending at all.

The. Shining.

going to have nightmares now.

ive given up on fd films is the last one worth it-i heard its a prequel

I couldn’t watch Jack Nicholson for years after seeing just a short scene from the shining 😥 It was awful and only once I was in my 40s did I watch a few of his films, but I’m still not keen x

I watched so many horror films and then realised my life felt like it had actually become one. Estranged from all my family. It literally felt like waking up in a horror film. Everything you knew has changed and you now have to navigate an entire new life. It's hard when people ask about family. Not knowing what to answer (People may assume you must have been/done something incredibly awful) It's been incredibly scary and disorientating, especially learning that close relatives have since died and I'll never see them again.
Sorry, I know that's not the topic, but just wanted to write it down as I've often likened it to living through a nightmare that I can't ever escape.
At least if it were a film, I could wake up and it would be over.

I don’t do horrors as I such a scaredy cat! But as a teen, it was the Entity, where the ghost in the wall presses her breasts. You see the dimples appear. (I know now as an adult it was compressed air but as a child really thought it was true)

We live rurally near a huge wood(about 20 yards from our back door) and when I let the Ddog out I’m always a bit worried about the scene from Dog Soldiers when the creatures surround the house.

The Birds 🦅
the eyes pecked out …….
i was a child when I saw it.

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

The red bull from The Last Unicorn chasing the unicorn in to the sea.

Also the drunk psycho skeleton when his eyes go red in the same film.

Cape Fear - when the camera panned down to see him under the car.
Its the only time I’ve screamed at a film.

I only watch horror films, I find them calming rather than frightening. I watch horror every night before bed. The nastier the better. Zombies, apocalypse, hideous deaths, I love it.

The ONLY thing that has ever scared me in a film was in The Others when the servants are walking up to the house.