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.

Oh, another.

The twins in The Shining asking Danny if he wants to play for ever and ever...

A couple of scenes in the visit where the grandma starts chasing the children under the house and when they are watching her walking around the house at night.

crab scene and the girls face scenes from the exorcist

I also only recently looked at the lady bathroom scene from the shining as always covered my eyes. I actually felt more scared when I hadn’t looked due to the sound etc and it’s not too bad when I did finally look

The very last scene in Threads. The baby and Ruth's daughter screaming.

The last scene in Threads for sure.. 😳

Revenge Ride, made in 2020, is about a group of female bikers who get revenge on a pervert who attacked one of their girls.

Pollyanna McIntosh played Trigga, the leader, who killed a man who was trying to help the women. And Serinda Swan as Maggie.

Trigga physically ripped him apart.

The pervert, Keegan Harris, was played by Jake Lockett.

Brilliant acting by everyone, and the stunts, special effects, etc. Quite a lot of blood and gore and f-bombs!

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!

This is cracking me up! 🤣

The scene in (I think it's called) the Grudge where the scary girl comes up the bed under the covers. Everyone knows once you've dived under the covers you're safe! That film ruined my sense of security forever after.

The whole film is horrific, I thought it was amazing but I've only ever seen it once it was so disturbing.

Antichrist is also an amazing film, I saw it in the cinema and people were walking out, it was an exhilarating but disturbing watch. I think Beau is Afraid is my favourite Ari Aster film to date very unsettling and due a rewatch soon!

I haven't seen Talk to Me but I may watch seeing as it made your list!

Yes!!

OK, aeons ago, and I was only about 14, but IIRC the first appearance of Dracula in the first Christopher Lee version. I had a very old hardback copy of Dracula that had belonged to my GM - scary Gothic script on the front - I couldn’t even have that in my bedroom, in case it somehow summoned him! Even though I knew vampires didn’t exist…

Many years later, a scene out of a horrible western called Ulzana’s Raid, that still haunts me in the small, sleepless hours.

I don’t know the film but it was an 80s (?) horror film, and there was someone trapped beneath ice in a frozen pond.

Also, the film ‘ Misery’, a sublime psychological , thriller.

Actually, thinking about it, the film ‘Alive’ based on a true story made me feel sick throughout.

And of course, the child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!

That was mine too.

I mentioned that film to DH recently so he bought me it as an extra for Christmas. I haven't told him about that scene so I'm interested to see how he reacts. He hates anything horror related. I'm feeling quite wicked knowing what I know. 😆

Not a film but I have memory of a scene in an episode of Twilight Zone. I was in primary school maybe 9 or 10.

Iirc a kid meets a man in town and takes him to his house. He points out his sister. The sister had no mouth or nostrils.

It scared the bejaysus out of me.

Wasn't hostel based loosely on a real thing?

I'm a big horror fan but one thing sticks in my generations head, is the final destination log truck bit. Will never drive behind one.

The Others where the little girl is playing with the puppet and suddenly looks like an old woman.

Im sure that film is only a 12 certificate but one of the scariest I’ve seen!

That film was billed as a black comedy, but I found it much more black than comedy. It was pretty disturbing really.

I watched so much horror , nothing is scary enough…. Till yesterday when I watched The Visit , specifically the scene where Grandma grabs the camera, kids had set up , and then a knife to go get them . For the first time in 20+ years I got goosebumps out of fear!!!

Fallen where Denzel Washington is walking along a street when he has is just beginning to understand that the crimes are part of a possession, then people start singing the same song as they walk past and you realize the demon is moving between people to possess them. It totally freaked me out.

Also as a small child saw the end of the version of Scrooge where the ghost of Christmas future pulls back its hood and is a skull. Scared me silly.

YES.

Yes I remember that one too. Living with a maniac they had to be nice to.

I think the girl in the tent in Sixth Sense who then throws up. No way would I even have looked inside.

The ending of The Quiet Earth. Only people who were dying at the exact moment of an earth “shift” survived. The whole film is the 3 of them finding each other and surviving , (the babies in hospital who had also survived and died later as no one around to care for them was bad too). But then there is another shift right at the end. Just one bloke is all alone watching a completely alien sky - beautiful and horrific all at once.

The Omen was the trapped under the ice

I’ll preface by saying: I love horror movies. Even shit, low budget ones. I’ve watched an endless number, and generally I’ve got a really strong stomach when it comes to gratuitous gore and violence in movies……

but THAT famous “kerb stomp” scene in American History X will never leave me. I watched the movie in my late teens, and it really shook me. I’ll never watch it again.

The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), great cult classic, but that scene in the house where the two brothers are trying to get their decrepit Grandpa to smash Sally’s head with a hammer over a bucket is just so chilling and uncomfortable to watch.

Also not a movie, but a TV show: Sons of Anarchy, there’s two scenes that really shook me emotionally.
Season 1, where Tig shoots Donna in the back of the head, thinking it was her husband Opie driving the car. In the build up, I kept telling myself “No, he’ll realise it’s Donna driving”……but nope. He just unloads into the back of her head.
Then later on, Season 5 I think? Where Jax, Opie, Tig and Chibs are all in jail and are told one of them has to fight to the death with other inmates in the basement room…..and Opie sacrifices himself. His death is just so raw and brutal. That last look of defeat on his face directly into the camera broke me. I cried for ages afterwards.

I watched an American werewolf in London when I was very young and 2 scenes still terrify me to this day. The scene where he changes into a werewolf and the scene in the underground where the yuppie is being stalked. megashudder.

Time is on my side, yes it is.