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.

So many good scenes described here, I must watch these films. I really want to watch Woman in Black the tv version now because the Daniel Radcliffe one was crap.

@cornflake another Field in England fan here. That was somehow the most unsettling and horrifying film I've ever seen in a way I can't quite pinpoint.

Dr Phibes revealing his face

ooh I LOVED dr phibes

Blair Witch Project scared me so much, and I'm fairly hardcore

The 1989 Woman in Black is on YouTube.
Blair Witch is only frightening if you hear them being told early on in the film the witch makes her victims face the wall so she can kill another one, I think.

I missed that so googled afterwards what the significance was and it made my heart literally flip. Not sure what it was about it that I found so so scary. I may have been pg at the time!!

Texas chain saw massacre 2003, when the killer turns round to face the girl and he has her boyfriends face on.
Also the bit in drag me to hell where they are doing the seance thing and the demon takes over the blokes body and starts doing weird dancing and shit. Also when he spits the dead cat out.

I haven’t watched the new Woman in Black. Those who think it’s awful: is that because it’s Daniel Radcliffe, or it’s just not as scary as the old one? That old one is genuinely frightening.

wanderings i loved it. Thought DanRad nailed his role. Also the book is do different to both films.

The Dan version was alright. Although there is one scene in it that scared even my friend who laughs at horror films.

I can't get past the fact he's Harry Potter I think that's what ruined it for me. I'm going to watch the old one on my nightshift today and see if it spooks me!

Daniel Radcliffe was far too young to play that part in Woman in Black. Or maybe he just looked young? I dunno but it should have gone to someone in their 30s! I’m not sure he’s even 30 now!

In the 1989 version, you'll the guy who played James Potter, playing the same character DanRad did.

He's 28 😱

Cornflake that scene from A Field in England is absolutely mesmerising. So well done! Makes me want to see the film.

Slightly o/t I know but Reece Shearsmith is really good at playing those unsettling roles isn't he. I suppose it's the contrast with his looks which are very boyish and quite sweet (for want of a better word).

My favourite horror films are spooky than grisly/jump-scary (sorry I can't English properly today).

Dark Water and The Eye - the original versions, not the remakes. Watched most of the latter through my fingers. Brilliant stuff!

*rather than

I don't watch horror films these days and ofc special effects back then were less technically advanced so apologies if this seems really lame but The Shining where Jack is caressing a beautiful woman who has got out of a bath and she ages really rapidly and turns to gloop. Yikes!

The end scene in Carrie. I first watched it when I was 15, in bed on my old black and white telly.
I nearly fell out of bed I jumped that much.
I've never seen The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the pictures of Leatherface were enough for me

End scene in Rosemary's Baby.

Everything about it. The fact that you don't SEE the baby. The fact that everyone is hanging around babbling and cooing about this horrific demon child, "Oooh, look at his little hands!" For some reason, the bit where she drops the knife and one of the nice middle-aged neighbor-lady "witches" stoops and picks it up and fussily picks the splinter out of the floor.... I don't know why, but there is something so comic-horror-grotesque about that little detail.

The scene in the The Thing (1982 version) where the head turns into a spider....... That scene is horrible. That's about the only horror film that's ever got to me (shudder)

Bloody hell I am sitting here in broad sunshine with my big dogs and I've scared myself! Over active imagination here! I used to love the double bill on horror films on BBC 2 Saturday nights.

Not technically a horror but Kathy Bates and the sledgehammer in Misery. I hate anything to do with feet and I felt sick after that

Was coming on to say this. Everything about that film gives me the heebies but that scene is awful.

Cool
Me too scared me witless but wouldn't let parents turn t.v over😀

grilled , that's exactly what I put.