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.

I hate the bit in the Grudge where she comes from under the duvet. It broke the rules for me.... that's a safe space.

Not a film but I also hate the bit in the first series of ashes to ashes where Alex is stood in the street and the clown comes running towards her. Terrifying.

Dracula shadow creeping up the stairs in Nosferatu from about 1923 takes some beating if you ask me. The way it's filmed is so odd and terrifying.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=mCUW4SwmfGc

Cabin In The Woods when they go down in the glass lift!

and 'why did it have to be a merman?'

Puppymonkey that is a brilliant scene. I agree its how its shot. To many horror movies now IMO show you the monster/killer straight away and then relay on increasingly graphic violence for scares rather letting the audience scare themselves using their imagination. The fear of the unknown is greater than the known.

The start of Jeepers creepers was terrifying until you saw the big stupid monster. Buffy would have kicked that things ass before the credits.

The creepiest bit ever for me was in The Shining when the sisters appear in the room... then instead of vanishing (like ghosts should!) they turn around and walk away...

So simple but so effective

I love the end of The Fog (1980) when Father Malone has given the gold to Blake, the fog has receded and all seems well again...

Also love the blood testing scene from The Thing (1982), so tense.

The single creepiest scene I can think of is from A Field in England. So unsettling. In fact the whole film is pretty unsettling, I would highly recommend it!

Yeah the Shining terrified me, another one I watched far to young. My parents left me in alone when I was about 13 while they went out for the evening and I thought I'd watch that. When they came in they found every light in the house on.

The scene between Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder on the bed in Francis Ford Coppolas Dracula...........where he holds her and tells her he loves her too much to condemn her (to a life undead) she replies "i want to see what you see. i want to love what you love Take me away from all this death" V. hot.

Re. Hammer films Watched loads growing up. BBC1 often had them on late on a Friday night in autumn/winter sometimes in a double bill. The Creeping Flesh was the one that petrified me as a kid.

I love Peter Cushing. Will watch anything with him in it.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Creeping_Flesh

Original Texas Chainsaw Massacre when they wheel Grandpa in and he sucks the girls blood and later needs help to whack her with a hammer. It's just totally bizarre and unsettling.

Racheelllll, Rachelllll. From Pet Semetery. (not misspelled)

The Orphanage, when the mum is standing in the attic, doing the 'one, two, three, knock on the wall' game to get the ghost children to come to her.
I'm getting goosebumps just thinking of it.

Twisted nerve when he’s following the girl and whistling.

Cooper its a weird film and there are aspects of it that dont sit well with me.

The end of The Wicker Man.

Loved Gary Oldman as Dracula (fwoah) Lucy's death scene in Dracula and when they go to the tomb and put a steak in her heart is brilliant.

Some of these are frightening me just reading about them.
One film that stayed with me because I was young at the time was salems lot when the vampire appeared at the boys window.
Not a particular scene but the film silence of the lambs terrified me at the time too, when the police officer was on the lift and when Hopkins was in the ambulance.

The scene at the end of Event Horizon where it isn't clear whether they've been saved, or have just gone mad anyway.

Theres a scene in Dark Skies where the husband is just standing at the end of the garden...
I find jumps and tension more scary than gore.

The TV series 'Salem's Lot' (with David Soul) had the floating vampire boy scratching at the window. Scared the absolute shite out of me as a young teen.

sumthucker kids nowadays! I let my 9 year old watch the sixth sense and she thought it wasn't scary. Not sure if I should expose her to Freddy ever, though she'd probably think that's stupid too!

Another vote for the Tube station scene in An American Werewolf in London. Love that film. Also the scene on the moors near the beginning.