To ask what's your favourite horror movie scene ever?

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In celebration of Halloween!

Mine is this one from Poltergeist II. What makes it more upsetting is that Julian Beck who played Henry Kane was suffering from stomach cancer during filming.

Freddy Kruger was the ultimate scare tool in our house too! I'm alone at home right now and am scared he'll pop out somewhere. I still get occasional nightmares about him though.
There's another scene in a Freddy film where I think Tina falls into a coffin and suddenly she's in a big mound of pink satin and Freddy starts crawling towards her through the sheets. Terrifying!

A lot of people associated with the Exorcist died, same with Poltergeist. Carol Anne died of a heart attack aged 12.

Let the right one in, the scene at the swimming pool.
The sixth sense, when he gets up in the middle of the night and that girl appears.
Terrified by both scenes!

Thankfully I watched Nightmare on Elm Street 3 Dream Warriors and realized I could control my dreams if I had too and turn the tables on him. I wonder if that was it was made because they realized that the first two had terrified a lot of kids whose older siblings allowed them to watch it for a laugh.

For me it's the scene when Samara comes out of the TV in The Ring (or Sadako in the Japanese version, which is even more terrifying)

The scene in The Strangers where the creepy masked people are tormenting Liv Tyler from outside the house. She thinks she's safe in the bathroom and then they start banging on the bathroom window! It's so intense
It's the one film that shit me up more than most

Maybe I should watch part 3, so I can learn how to defeat him!

Yes The Ring girl coming out of the TV was horrible. Really crooked movements

When Ash hacks off his own hand in Evil Dead. Funny and horrifying in equal measure!

When the guy gets up off the bathroom floor at the end of Saw. It's one of those things where either you got it straight off or ( like me) you were like 'OMG' and didn't sleep for a month.

Never understood why people found Freddy scary. Apart from perhaps the first film, the rest were just silly and more outlandish and playing on his cult appeal and as a result were no longer scary, just funny.

I've never found any horror film scary - unsettling, yes. I think that scene from Poltergeist 2 with Rev Kane is unsettling and incredibly eerie. Much of the black and white film The Innocents is very unsettling and incredibly eerie too.

The first film I agree was the terrifying one. I remember him using someone's veins as puppet strings in another movie 😆. But to a child something like that is terrifying! I would've have hated to have been related to Robert Englund. His gait and shadow was Freddy Kruger..imagine walking next to that or seeing him walk by your bedroom door.

The Freddie veins scene is in number 3, my 13 year old has watched number 1 & 3 and The Grudge and The Ring at her cousins and thought they were all unscary crap.

They scare me though.

Ghost Ship. When they all get sliced by the wire.

I was going to say Ringu too. But the first scare when the school girl is found. Absolutely love that film. But the original Japanese version.
Also love the new version of IT am watching it right now and my heart is pounding .

The underground scene in American Werewolf in London with the business man in the tunnels.

One of my favourite films!

The hills have eyes when the mutants are saying "Daddy, Daddy...." in really creepy voices.

The scene in "The Thing" where they are trying to resuscitate someome and the hands holding the paddles go through the rib cage which closes on the hands and chops them off. The guy is walking around in shock and the head on the "body" kinda grows legs and tries to scurry off.. one of the others blasts it with aflame thrower "you have got to he fucking kidding"

Amazing scene

American werewolf in London, the dream sequence with the muppets! Those monster things with guns are terrifying!

The one that really did me in is the scene at the end of Carrie where Sue Snell is laying flowers on Carrie's grave.

There's a great scene in Audition where the main character phones his new, seemingly perfect, girlfriend. She's chatting to him quite normally, and there's a big white human sized sack in the background. Then the sack suddenly rolls over...and you realise this is not a romance!

That Carrie scene was filmed in reverse to give it that eerie feel. I watched Carrie last week, its always odd how you find yourself rooting for her to wreak horrible revenge at the end.

I think the original Haunting from 1963 is another one with a genuine sense of evil.

I don’t have much of an appetite for seriously scary horror, but I also love the scuttling head in The Thing, and the scene where it all kicks off in Cabin In The Woods.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=a0dkF8CZxks

The bit in Long Weekend (the 2008 remake) when they wake up in the morning and the dead manatee thing, that has been slowly dragging itself from the shore to their campsite, is right beside them ...

The bit in Banshee Chapter when you see what's happened to James's body now that the creature is "wearing" him ...

The ending of the Lights Out original short ...

I got a million of 'em.

The scene in Exorcist 3 with the old lady crawling across the ceiling.

The lawnmower segment towards the end of Braindead is glorious.

The Indonesian section in VHS2