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 is from Luther. The scene on the top deck of a London bus. Horrid.

Same! Me and dd (aged around 15 ish) watched it after it was suggested to us on Netflix. We’d watched a few similar cave diving etc films so thought it would be run of the mill trapped underwater scenario! When the figure appeared in the cave we both instantly shouted wtf is that!! Had to pause the film to compose ourselves and mustered the courage to watch the rest! We laugh about it now but we were both terrified and had to finish the film from behind cushions! 😂

The scene is Carrie where a car drives towards her and she goes a funny shape so it misses her. That must have been 30 years ago since I last saw but it still freaks me out!

Quite a few Luther episodes were really scary - I remember one where the killer had hidden in the loft.

Oh gosh YES!!

The ending of The strangers, where the main characters have to watch each other getting stabbed to death. It has stuck with me as It's something that could happen, unlikely but possible. I haven't watched it since

The car park scene in Candyman.

This, it totally freaked me out.

also there’s a film with sigourney weaver where she goes to the loo in a conference centre or office and looks up to see the person chasing her looking out through the ceiling tiles. It’s horrifying and has stayed with me, always look up in the loo.

All the ghosty ones scare me, but I love them.

The worst I've seen is Creep.
The whole film is gross and I've never got it out of my head since I saw it maybe two years ago! Shudder

This scene upset me so much, I could never that movie again because of it.

I don't really like gory slasher type because I am a chicken but for psychological terror the 1980 Dressed to Kill properly terrified me.

What a brilliant film!

An Alfred Hitchcock film, where a prisoner is planning an escape and ends up buried alive.

Two scenes that have stuck with me and still disturb me years later.

The rape scene in Scum.

When Matt Damon beats Jude Law to death in The Talented Mr Ripley- in fact, all the murders in that film.

Not a specific scene but Hellraiser. Pinhead is the scariest horror film character for me.

Smile is another one. I’m usually ok with horror but the awful, creepy smiles really freaked me out. I think the one where she’s sat speaking to a therapist or something quite normally then she does the smile and she realises the therapist has the curse too…that one was hideous.

Any sort of rape scene makes me feel ill. There’s a horrible one in Last House on the Left and also I Spit on your Grave.

The dry electrocution scene in The Green Mile made me feel sick.

More recently I found it hard to watch parts of Bring Her Back especially bits with the possessed little boy doing awful things to himself.

Event Horizon where there is the Hieronymous Bosch type vision of hell certainly stayed with me!

I’ve seen a lot of horror films but had to switch off Wolf Creek as it was so unpleasant, also Cannibal Holocaust (DH had found the uncut version, just unwatchable).

The endings of Don’t Look Now and Blair Witch are just excellent.

Straw Dogs and Rosemary’s Baby are the films that scared me too much to ever watch again.

The scene in The Ring when the girl with the long matted black hair climbs out of the well.

The Childcatcher in CCBB looking sideways so you can see his nose sniffing for children.

The scene in the Descent where one of the women notices a cave man in the distance for the first time and the part where one of them gets stuck in the narrow passageway.

The scene in the shining where he is locked in the pantry and you hear the door unlocking.

the scene in the Texas chain saw massacre when leatherface first appears and drags a guy through a door and slides it shut

Yeah this one for me too.

Love the way in that film you never actually see anything much.. but it’s completely terrifying at the same time.

Oh yes! And the camera pans away from the grave and you can hear his muffled shouting getting fainter and fainter. Or is that another horrid film. Hideous.

Feel quite out of sorts now.

It was such a game changer that film. Id forgotten how new and different it was. So scary.

I don’t really do horror so for me it’s the escape scene in Room - unbelievably tense and terrifying.

The plot twist at the end in The Others with Nicole Kidman..I honestly didn’t see it coming. I thought all along her house was haunted. Had no idea she was actually haunting it herself too 😱

I thought Blair Witch was the most awful dross first time I watched it. Second time actually took note of the ending - terrifying.

Wolf Creek

Woman In Black where the ghost kind of jumps towards the door in stages

Something I saw years back (possibly a TV series) where a murderer is lying under a blanket in the back seat of the car. I've never not checked since.

When A Stranger Calls - woman trying to shake her husband awake in bed and it's the stalker under the covers. Also the thought of a killer ringing from inside the house.

Carrie - when the arm comes shooting out of the ground.

Suspiria - eyes blinking outside the window in the dark then an arm shooting through to grab the victim when she looks closer. Still don't look through a dark window. Just in case.

In summary, I never learn 🙄😁