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.

The Haunting (original version) when the thing is banging on the walls.

The scene towards the end of Silence of the Lambs where the killer is following Clarice around with night vision goggles. I was so with her in that moment I was shaking, eeeeek.

I found this hilarious rather than scary, maybe that’s a me problem…

Not a horror film but I have never recovered from the first episode of Shogun. It contained two deaths that were both so awful I didn't know which one to focus on. I've seen quite a lot of horror films too but somehow that show was what really got me.

The end of SAW when the guy stands up. Horrible.

The child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. That scene traumatised an entire generation of kids in the 1960s, myself included. I went to the cinema circa 1968 as an innocent child of 7 years old to watch an uplifting family film and was instead fed the stuff of nightmares. I jumped out of my skin when that creepy fucker appeared.

So there's 2. Neither are from a horror film.

When I was about 6, I got out of bed and needed a drink, went down to my parents and they were watching Mannequin. I walked in at the exact point that Kim Cattrall comes alive. A little while later I woke up again and went in to my parents, at the exact point that they're in the factory and Kim Cattrall falls in to the pit of mannequin parts. For years and years I thought Mannequin was a horror film!

The other was in Blood Diamond, where the child soldiers are being given heroin to make them dependent on the army. Terrified me.

I was scrolling down to say Hereditary.

The scene where the brother beheads his younger sister whilst driving to a hospital, then just drives home instead and goes to bed, followed by the sound of Toni Collettes character screaming when she finds the body in the morning.

The opening scene of Antichrist.

When the little brother in Talk to Me gets taken over by spirits who try to get him to commit suicide.

All of Beau is Afraid. That movie frustrated and unsettled me more than any other movie I've seen. 😅

Oh, I’ve just thought of another one, but it’s not from a horror film. The execution of Mandy and Billy in Bangkok Hilton. And the scene near the end where she’s running through the tunnels trying to escape from the prison. I was only a child watching it and I felt sick with fear.

I couldn't sit through longer than 20 minutes of the Smile film, as every "smile" was deranged. After 30 years of watching horror films, who knew that smiles would be the limit of my tolerance

Eugene Victor Tooms (X-Files S1). One of the few videos I still own despite no means to play it!

I was going to say this too. Utterly horrifying!

It did happen, and the man was caught. Obviously, it’s all quite gruesome, but the Wikipedia gives a fairly good, sanitized view of things. He would kidnap women, chain them in a cargo container, and when they awakened, a recording of his voice would play, telling them they were going to be tortured and r**ed, and there was nothing they could about it. The psychological torture aspect was beyond chilling.

SOURCE:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Parker_Ray

There also is a film my parent were watching when I was about nine (late eighties) which depicted a concentration camp and some jews being burned to death in a gas chamber. I came downstairs for something at this moment and I had nightmares about it for months.

Same. I still shudder when I think about the ending.

The ending of Don’t Look Now..

I'm rarely scared of any films, but Paperhouse terrified me as a child and still sends a shiver down my spine.

If anyone hasn't seen it, briefly, it's about a young girl who dreams about what pictures she draws. There are bits involving her dad where she had scribbled his eyes out in her drawing that gave me nightmares.
It's an odd one to be scared of, and nothing newer has ever got me as much as that.

The end of A Nightmare on Elm Street where Freddy’s arm comes smashing through the window of the front door. It looks a bit shit now, but when I saw it in the cinema back in the eighties, I screamed my head off. My friend drove me home and we sat outside the house chatting. It was pitch black outside. My brother came up and innocently rapped the window of the car and I nearly shat myself🤣

Oh my god , this. Terrible nightmares for years as a child (my mum was checked out of parenting and I had free reign). Tried watching x files again recently but couldn’t do it!!

I was thinking of the very same scene!

Well fhis is great. The Daniel Radcliffe Woman in Black scared the shit out of me (eg when she appears in the rocking chair) and I didn’t know until now there was an older version and now i’m trying not to see her in my room right now!

Another vote for The Ring where she comes out of the tv. I went home as a teenager and turned my bedroom tv screen against the wall.

And Saw 2, 3 and 4 all give me nightmares. I sometimes dream i’m in a trap. And yet i still go to see the new ones in the cinema

Also I always drive past a log truck as quickly as possible.

The scene with the Magic Tree air fresheners in Seven. Made me jump and scream. In a cinema in Glasgow😂

I don’t watch horror films but for me it’s Ladder 49. Joaquin Phoenix plays a fireman trapped in a burning building whilst his life flashes before his eyes. The look on his face when he realises he’s going to die is horrific. Followed by the scene of the car turning up at his wife’s house and she knows he’s dead when she sees his boss. I couldn’t watch it again. Joaquin plays it too well!

That older version of the Woman in Black was much scarier. They didn’t need special effects to create fear.