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.

Fabulous film! (Just said I only watch horror, but I love The Last Unicorn.)

5 was a prequel. This one the diaster is in the past but everything else in the present. Like its a bit over the top as they all are but Tony Todd's last time on screen is lovely in a bittersweet way

It’s not a horror film but Vertigo, when ‘Madelaine’ plunges to her death from the tower and you think she’s committed suicide. Genuinely made me gasp. Poor James Stewart.

Wolf Creek is the first one I thought of too. I watched it when I was about 14 and it really stuck with me, I haven’t watched it since.

I love horror films but Human Centipede 2 was so disturbing. It’s one of the only horrors I actually thought about turning off halfway through because I was watching it thinking this is just horrible

The Ring - both the original and the remake. Awful.

Have you ever read the Savernake Forest thread on here? (It’s in classics)

If not, I suggest you don’t 😱

I can’t even remember the details, I was that traumatised I’ve blocked it out! I just remember watching the entire film behind a cushion. It’s called 1408 I think and based on a Stephen King book.

Edited to put the right number

Much of my little eye, especially the suffocation scene

Totally agree about The Descent. I feel sick thinking about it.

The bit in Halloween where she thinks it's her boyfriend coming in to the room and messing about but he's actually skewered to the wall. I've never watched that full film but that scene has never left me.

I never watch horrors. Fuck no.

My Little Eye! So glad someone mentioned it.. under rated and really scary film, even more so now that reality tv is so much more of a thing then it was when the film came out.

Lots of others on here too. Would add.. the opening scene of A Quiet Place 💔💔

the chasing scenes in It Follows are genuinely terrifying.

The Ring. That evil little bitch climbing out of the tv has never left me.

Everyone keeps saying The Descent. I've never seen the movie, but the book by Jeff Long is one of my favourites. It doesn't look like the movie is based on the book, aside from the overall premise. The opening chapter is a bit bloody but after that I can't remember anything to that level.

In Suspiria where the main character realises the ballet school is a coven. It's just terrifying from that point.

Have you checked the children...

I love horror and I'm totally with you on the Descent.

Wolf Creek is scary in a completely different way. It creates a visceral and real fear that all women can relate to.

Otherwise for me:
-a sequence in the Hills Have Eyes. Absolute seared into my retinas forever.
-The last 30 mins of Hereditary. My legs were like jelly by the time I finished!

Surprised no one has mentioned Silence of the Lambs when Clarice is in buffalo bills house in the dark and he’s stalking her or when Hannibal Lector escapes and cannibalises the guards.

The movie se7en (where a psycho acts out the 7 deadly sins). Brad Pitt and his team discover the victim representing Sloth, tortured to death in his bed. I swear the entire cinema audience shat themselves when the "corpse" coughed and woke up. I should never have agreed to go to a midnight screening.

Rosemary's Baby is a classic, I've seen it both before and after having children, the film really does set up the paranoid thoughts of a post natal woman extremely close to how it is, just builds and builds layers and layers of anxiety.

Apparently the actors were told it was a mannequin on the bed so their reactions are supposed to be authentic in that scene.

I saw Carrie in the cinema in 1976, at the very end her friend is putting flowers on her grave and her hand comes up from the ground and grabs her - I nearly ended up on my wife's lap!

Completely agree re the ending of The Vanishing (1988 version). I feel sick just thinking about it. Just appalling...

If people liked Wolf Creek, are you aware that there is a sequel (not as good) as well as 2 seasons of a TV series which came on Sky around 10 years ago I think? It has the same killer and explains more about his back story. Obviously stay away if the first film scarred you 😅

I was going to add:
Exorcism of Emily Rose, when the boyfriend wakes up in the night when visiting Emily at the dorm, and she's lying on the floor in a rigid pose staring at him with black eyes. There were many scenes in that film that freaked me out, it's one of my fave horrors.

The Grudge when she's at the office late at night going down (or up) in the lift, and the little Japanese boy appears in the lift window as she passes several floors! Again, same Japanese boy appears in her bed when she looks into the covers

Paranormal activity 2, when Kate is possessed and goes to take Hunter, the way she appeared in her sister's house and charged at her sister while she was holding Hunter in her arms

Paranormal Activity 3 when Toby is terrorising the young sisters. And when the boyfriend is filming at the mum's parents house at the end and bumps into loads of old women in the garden shed or something

Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the one with Jessica Biel, where leather face confronted her wearing the face of her boyfriend as a mask!

That scene in “parasite” where there’s a shot of the basement stairs and you can just see the top of someone’s head with eyes. The whole psychology of that film screwed be up

A film called Tusk, iykyk 😬 when he has tears at the end 😭

There’s a movie and I can’t remember the name where a really skinny man lives in this couples home without them knowing and he basically fucks with them, causes them to break up and kills the boyfriend. I was traumatised for a few months it actually gave me paranoia and anxiety that someone was living in my house 😂