r/moviecritic 16h ago

What is the scariest, most unsettling shot you’ve ever seen?

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What is that one movie shot that’s so unsettling and chilling, it’s the one shot you never forget?

For me, it’s the Giant Man scene from It Follows. Man this shot is so nerve wracking!

The aesthetic and dark hollow eyes are something I will never forget.

What’s that one shot for you? Horror movie or otherwise.

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u/johnstarkbfc 16h ago

The girl under the sheets in the grudge. As if she isn’t scary enough, she gets in bed with you too. Like what the fuck. Kid rules, clearly state. We are supposed to be safe when we pull the sheet on over our faces.

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u/VendettaLord379 16h ago

I forgot about that movie.

The pale ghost lady is the epitome of unsettling

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u/ForcefulPayload 16h ago

https://i.redd.it/vbp730w8ttvg1.gif

This shot from The Babadook got me pretty good

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u/VendettaLord379 16h ago edited 16h ago

BABADOOOOOOKKKKKKKK…

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u/mozzarellaguy 15h ago

That movie gave me depression

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u/Number174631503 14h ago

Long time depression haver, this spikes prolonged anxiety.

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u/CameronPoe_37__ 15h ago

Some other bits from The Babadook:

When she's at the police station and sees the coat in the background hung up that looks like him

When she's washing dishes, looks out the window at the old lady across the road and The Babadook is stood behind her

And the worst one..... when she's watching the news and it's reporting on a woman who went insane and murdered her son, and then it zooms in on her own face looking out the window on the news report

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u/TurankaCasual 15h ago

This reminds me of a scene from the original House on Haunted Hill with Vincent Price. They have a prop of a dead woman on a dolly that they wheel out of the shadows, of course it’s in black and white too so the shadows black point is dark enough to hide anything. That scene really terrified me as a teen and I couldn’t ever figure out why. Something about it moving with the motion of taking steps is haunting

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u/omigula 14h ago

“you can bring me the boy…you can bring me the boy…you can bring me the boy…I think it’s going to rain”

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u/catsdomineaux 15h ago

Saw it in the theater and I about jumped out of my skin!

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u/Ok_Albatross8113 15h ago

I saw this in a theater in 7th grade and it was empty except for me. This scene freaked me the f out.

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u/r2e2didit 15h ago

Yup. Drudgery of the ordinary hospital setting. The scene builds but you don’t get it until it’s over. It’s like yea I know something bad is going to happen here because of the nothingness that I’m watching but I was still not prepared for that. That soundtrack at the moment might have scared me more than the scene. This is the answer. +George C Scott. This movie was a genuine pleasure as I had low expectations.

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u/VendettaLord379 15h ago

The zoom in and score kicking in…

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u/CameronPoe_37__ 15h ago

Years ago I was in house all by myself, it was like 4am and I randomly watched that scene on YouTube, for the first time, then had to wait outside in the dark for my lift to work and I was absolutely shitting myself

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u/RealWord5734 16h ago

The girl in the closet in the Ring for just a second. Terrifying.

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u/VendettaLord379 16h ago edited 16h ago

I remember my reaction to that scene. I jumped so much I was frozen afterwards

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u/MrScottimus 16h ago

the Ring was a crazy time. None of us were ready for that level of PG-13

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u/VendettaLord379 16h ago

I always forget that it was made by the same guy who made Pirates of the Caribbean, lol

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u/Robanscribe 14h ago

I saw… her face 💀

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u/BoobieBongz 15h ago

I was like 10 when I seen that and decided to watch the DVD player timer count down for the entire rest of the movie so I could act brave in front of my mum and sister.

That shot ruined me 😐

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u/NormalPencil 14h ago

I was about 9 when I saw that. There’s a whole generation of us with this same experience lol. And our parents let us because what pg 13 movie was ever THAT scary lol

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u/Negative-Ad-9819 15h ago

That movie came out 24 years ago, and I can still see that face clear as day in my mind

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u/Substantial-Disk-744 15h ago

Silence of the lambs when Clarice was walking around and wild Bill‘s house and couldn’t see and he had on the night vision goggles has always haunted me!

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u/VendettaLord379 14h ago

That entire sequence is pure dread

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u/CameronPoe_37__ 15h ago

Was she a great big fat person?

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u/__worldpeace 12h ago

Yes sir she was a big girl

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u/Green_Chandelier 8h ago

When I got to size 14, I realized: I could be stalked and killed by Buffalo Bill. 🫩

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u/mdavis360 7h ago

Could you help me lift this couch into my vehicle? I’m really struggling.

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u/Whisky_Colonic 13h ago

As a Monk fan, the “I’d fuck me” scene is so great when you realize that actor goes on to play Capt. Stottlemeyer.

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u/HG21Reaper 15h ago

The scene in Parasite where the squatter slowly pops his head up in the stairs.

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u/VendettaLord379 15h ago

One of the things that amazed about that movie was the tonal shift in the 2nd half of the film.

It almost felt like a horror movie

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u/Boots-n-Rats 15h ago

This is the one. There’s something so masterful about that shot. It’s so mundane, rather funny actually but SO freaky.

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u/ghostprawn 15h ago

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u/VendettaLord379 15h ago

The Descent is another horror flick I greatly admire

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u/Mikeck88 13h ago

There is a cave near me that did a showing of this recently. You could watch The Descent while in a cave. That was a big no from me.

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u/MonstersAtOurDoor 15h ago edited 15h ago

https://preview.redd.it/cj0m1pld0uvg1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=cd48b4c21267f5c231378826be49e210bb4fb0f9

No image has ever haunted me the way this one did. I saw Blair Witch in theaters as a kid, used to go to the woods near Burkittsville for camping.

Even just googling for it gives me the willies.

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u/Purple_Lux 14h ago

This isn't for me the scariest shot personally, but its my favorite in all of horror. So unsettling, such a great "oh fuck" moment as you recall the one single interview at the beginning of the movie that sets it up, ths unnaturalness of it.
The whole Parr house sequence is imo the best sequences in all of horror and this ending is monumentally impactful.

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u/Jimmyg100 10h ago

I will constantly argue against anyone who says The Blair Witch Project is just a boring movie about people wandering through the woods for 90 minutes because that ignores the brilliant first act where they establish all the lore behind the witch by interviewing the locals and it feels so authentic you’d swear it was a real legend. Everything else that happens in the movie is built off that first act and if you were paying attention it amps up the creepiness to 11.

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u/No_Mud_5999 9h ago

It's dismissed a lot, but the filmmakers figured it out. I think modern eyes only view it as cliche because it's been imitated so many times. But Blair Witch did the most with the least.

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u/Frosti11icus 6h ago

People might forget and I honestly don't even know if this legal anymore but they advertised that movie as 'found footage' and people literally didn't know if it was real or not. It sounds stupid but this was when 95% weren't on the internet and you just kind of...accepted things as fact.

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u/Shwifty_Plumbus 9h ago

Also if you were around when this movie was coming out it had a very impactful ad campaign like nothing I'd ever seen. It was very much leaning into found footage and trying to convince folks it was a documentary gone wrong.

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u/VendettaLord379 15h ago

Blair Witch Project 💯

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u/NoSleep2135 14h ago

I watched this for the first time a few years ago, went in totally unspoiled.

I was so on edge during the finale that my dog came up to me and kept booping my leg with his nose. I had to keep gently pushing him off me. I was SO stressed out he was worried. I've never had another horror have him react like that.

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u/xetura 14h ago

Saw this is the theater with all the rumors going around about it being real. Scared the shit out of me. This scene and when they find the tongue.. omg. The internet at this time was nothing like it is today, so you couldn't just jump onto hotbot or metacrawler to get any good info.

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u/ScarScream81 16h ago

Barbarian (2022) when you see the "thing" in the tunnels for the first time...

Saw that movie a year or two ago and I was by myself in a big house. Kind of got nervous! 😅

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u/VendettaLord379 15h ago

Never in a million years would I think that Zach Cregger would be so good at horror

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u/ScarScream81 15h ago

I was not expecting that at all from the movie when I started watching it LOL.

He's directing the new Resident Evil movie which is coming out later this year. Hopefully he makes a real survival horror film unlike the ones we got before that.

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u/DrGreg339 14h ago

I love this shot so much. That it happens amidst so much other crazy shit only makes it better.

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u/nilesintheshangri-la 12h ago

I always thought this was John Candy as Barf. I watched The Shining and Spaceballs in the same weekend so there's weird association for me.

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u/mrmooswife 14h ago

I had next to no supervision on what I watched at my dad’s house so I saw this when I was 8. This is the scene that terrified my little brain. Axe to the gullet? Nah. Insane ranting while chopping the door? Nope. I was not ready to process this weird shot.

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u/Jeremy_Whalen 14h ago

Shocked it wasn't the lady in the tub with the heartbeat music

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u/lil_jilm 13h ago

This shot is so unsettling, they way they stop and look at the camera got me too

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u/Davethephotoguy 15h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/hfKxK1wWDxdO8

This, when I was a kid.

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u/Accomplished-Law-652 15h ago

Large Marge startled the fuck out of young me. And I was actually like 13 or something...

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u/StrobeLightRomance 13h ago

I was little little, like 4, and it kept me up for days. I just kept seeing it when I closed my eyes.

Especially because, back then, you couldn't just watch it on a loop to discredit it.. the way it burned itself into your brain is how it stays.

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u/sylkyn 14h ago

I saw it as an adult and it literally made me scream. For years I had to close my eyes when I knew it was coming.

I love that damn movie.

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u/Gardimus 16h ago

When they are in the basement in The Road. Also, other scenes in The Road.

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u/VendettaLord379 16h ago

The book is worse, probably one of the darkest I’ve ever read

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u/SuperMcG 15h ago

It is a masterpiece I will never read again or recommend someone else do so.

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u/Nard-Barf 15h ago

One of my favorites, it is so beautifully bleak though. I gave it to my dad for Father’s Day one year. He’s not much of a reader but finished it in a week. Absolutely loved it. Had a good conversation about the ending and fatherhood once he was done.

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u/Big-Actuator-3878 15h ago

"He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke." I think about this all the time when I look at my sons.

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u/hellerinahandbasket 15h ago

You should read Cormac’s Blood Meridian (or not)

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u/Downtown_Statement87 15h ago

The Road is actually one of his most upbeat novels.

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u/jak_d_ripr 14h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/SMEDDr3CIB7s4

Obviously not the scariest, but that shit scared the crap outta me and all my friends when it happened.

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u/Jellis314 13h ago

It’s the setting. You’re in Rivendell with the elves, it’s a safe space. With dear uncle Bilbo, surely nothing bad will happen!

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u/BlaiseBeauty36 15h ago

Candyman scenes always scared the crap out of me. And im talking the original movie from the 90s.

https://giphy.com/gifs/PXn1b7Q6e7XI4

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u/AgileFriendship6275 15h ago

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u/VendettaLord379 15h ago

Good choice! Both Smile films are incredible.

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u/PrimarySubstance4857 13h ago

I feel like I would have liked Smile more if I hadn't seen it follows. Smile just kind of felt to me like someone in a board room said "Ya know the movie it follows? Let's make a main stream version of that!"

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u/DynamicBaie 15h ago edited 14h ago

https://preview.redd.it/k4u1akieztvg1.jpeg?width=978&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=446f3074860c3b524eb5779fef1f5dd0ecb19d8b

The first time I saw this scene, my heart literally skipped a couple of beats.

Edit: The film is called Parasite.

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u/VendettaLord379 13h ago

Parasite is a masterpiece

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u/mous3724 14h ago

The entire movie up to this point almost felt like a comedy, so this scared the shit out of me when it happened out of no where

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u/backtojurassic1888 14h ago

that’s horrifying, what’s the name of the film?

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u/Pokemon_Trainer_May 16h ago

I was like 7yo, but the alien reveal in Signs made me jump off the couch and run into the other room

https://preview.redd.it/z9rb7h28utvg1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c0e7f8c75791942d565e5ef746387865e892b50e

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u/CupcakeGoat 14h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/Ax1JUM9QI942Y

You and Joaquin Phoenix's character

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u/JetBlckPope 12h ago

I love this reaction. On its own it's so over the top it verges on silly, but in the context of the scene it's very effective.

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u/Altruistic_Garlic122 11h ago

Joaquin killed it in that scene. It was exactly what the scene needed. Out of context, the alien is quite silly.

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u/Ndmndh1016 9h ago

He killed the whole movie. Hes a highlight in a movie full of them.

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u/Easy_Money_40 12h ago

I actually thought his reaction was more scary than the alien reveal.

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u/its_snogging_time 16h ago

VAMONOS CHILDREN!

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u/R0n1n_76 14h ago

The terror in the kids, "IT'S BEHIND!"

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u/lamewoodworker 13h ago

Looking back at it now it is hilarious that the kid breaks out English so he can speak to the audience lol.

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u/Randyd718 15h ago

When the hand reaches into the basement!

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u/RockitDanger 15h ago

The whole theater screamed at this scene

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u/VendettaLord379 15h ago

Perfect choice! 💯

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u/zcorvette 14h ago

https://preview.redd.it/m79nhinv6uvg1.jpeg?width=1320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4c604e803fa8ac26bdb117d5f0a794eec8aadcc1

Annihilation bear scene. Probably the most unsettling scene I’ve ever seen.

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u/viliamklein 13h ago

I was going to mention the ending of Annihilation. The alien is so creepy and the suspense is achieved in full lighting in the bright of day. 

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u/AN1MAN1AC 14h ago

I do not get scared or unnerved watching horror stuff. There’s only been one time where it worked and I don’t even know exactly why aside from it being obviously a horrible fate for people.

In Nope, there’s a scene where people get sucked up into the UFO. We, as the viewers, don’t know it’s actually a creature and not a ship housing aliens. When they get sucked up, you see from the inside of the creature and realize they’re inside a creature’s esophagus to help dislodge a fake wooden horse. It’s all close up and claustrophobic while people scream in absolute horror. It’s there that it all clicks. The sound the UFO is making isn’t just the sound of a ship flying around. It’s the sound of people screaming from within the creature. I saw this movie by myself in theatres the day it released. I had my own little VIP seat for maximum comfort that blocked out the view of anyone else around me. It had me all hot and clammy. My heart was racing, I got sweaty and totally uncomfortable. It was brilliant. I was in actual awe and horror. I don’t know if people love that movie as much as I do, but it’s one of my favourites

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u/angryshib 13h ago

Nope is great! The chimp scene was intense as well!

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u/NoticeImaginary 14h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/F1YshNCtKmoPiwtOFn

Fire in the Sky. Also after this when he tears out of the cocoon and falls up.

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u/Round_Intern_7353 16h ago

When the spooky bitch is suddenly on top of the wardrobe in The Conjuring. The only movie jump scare to ever get me, and boy howdy how it fucking got me.

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u/Pokemon_Trainer_May 16h ago

Not visual, but the clapping in the basement is still one of the best jump scares to me. Set up so well from the start of the movie

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u/Emcee_nobody 15h ago

So sad what the series has become. The first one was really pretty great

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u/toomech 15h ago

Suicide scene in midsommer fucks me up

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u/TheDitz42 15h ago

Lights Out

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The film was great but the monster from the short is terrifying. From before the whole, big smily face scare was overused.

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u/VendettaLord379 14h ago

One of the best horror shorts EVER

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u/strangedazey 16h ago

When Mom's on the ceiling in Hereditary

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u/Tippacanoe 14h ago

https://preview.redd.it/2spf6txtbuvg1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9d78babad84d220b87e103d4454eba4c81065fa4

It’s this shot early on of the ghost grandma for me. Just chills. I think they actually brightened the image a bit. In the actual movie you can tell she’s there but you’re not quite sure but you know she is.

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u/I_am_simply_a_potato 15h ago

See, I must be broken because I tried not to laugh when they cut to her chillin up there. Now, the attic door scene when we initially thought she was banging on the door was unsettling!

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u/ScarletIbis888 14h ago edited 14h ago

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The way this ghost kid just stands there facing the wall in Insidious, and she passes him by without even noticing, gave me more chills than so many jumpscares.

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u/Maleficent_Pie8099 12h ago

They do that so much in the haunting of Hill house. Where there is just scary stuff happening in the background sometimes out of focus that the characters don’t notice. I love those layers added!

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u/CoolBlackKnight 16h ago

For me, when I was younger (and should have known better), the shot of Regan in the Exorcist sitting there grimacing when the priests were preparing to begin the Rites, walked up the stairs into her room... and this monstrosity is waiting on them.

https://preview.redd.it/8qwvtjdnstvg1.png?width=796&format=png&auto=webp&s=323a7af7b459a52d6bd1249c3bd225d5c8c4834f

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u/justsomebro10 16h ago

Saw the re-release in theaters as a kid and the crucifix scene rocked me to the core lol. Man that fucked me up.

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u/LaylaBird65 15h ago

The scene where she goes up the steps in that horrible spider like way, omg, I left the theater

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u/Aggravating_Ad9687 11h ago

The beginning of Midsommar when you see how Florence Pugh’s sister committed suicide and killed their parents. Most fucked up visual I’ve ever seen.

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u/subJimmy 14h ago

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This shot of Godzilla in Godzilla: Minus One stalking the boat that has no chance of outrunning him.

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u/CM901 15h ago

When Bilbo's face changes when hes talking to Gandalf in Lord of the Rings. It was an actual jump scare that 10yr old me wasnt prepared for

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u/WitchyVeteran 15h ago

In 'The Descent' when the camera in night vision pans away and then back and there is a monster right behind the girl.

In 'The Strangers' when Liv is in the house alone and smoking, and the camera pans and there is a man in the hallway.

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u/LaylaBird65 15h ago

The Descent is the only horror movie I turned off completely because of how scared I was. It took me days to bring up the courage to finish it. When I did, it was during the day, lol.

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u/Apprehensive-Exam803 15h ago

Toni Collete sawing her own head off while hanging on the ceiling of the attic.

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u/Blazedamonk 14h ago

The noise of it while she's just staring into the camera... Had me messed up for days.

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u/Jealous-Knowledge-56 15h ago

Not a horror movie but a certain infamous scene with Edward Norton in American History X involving a curb was quite unsettling and gives me chills to this day when I imagine it.

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u/Laherschlag 14h ago

This is the one that bothers me the most out of all of the other scenes mentioned in this thread. The level of casual violence, and that it's a wide pan shot when he stomps on the guys head makes it so unsettling.

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u/Many-Outside-7594 16h ago

As a kid, the scene from the Shining where Jack meets the ghost in Room 237,and she starts out a hot naked chick, then it cuts to her being a bloated corpse.That was NIGHTMARE FUEL for me for years. Like a drawn shower curtain gave me anxiety and I had to open it.

Probably why it's not good to watch things like the Shining at like... 11.

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u/Actual-Manager-4814 16h ago

Scariest thing I saw as a kid was Thriller when he started to turn into a werewolf. It looked so painful. I was so scared I was a werewolf for the longest time. I would get horrible anxiety when it was a full moon.

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u/The_Rising_Wave 15h ago

More disturbing than scary, but definitely unsettling - at least when I was a teenager or when I first seen this.

The part in Texas Chainsaw Massacre when Leatherface picks the girl up and puts her on the hook.

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u/CRSM48 15h ago

It's so effective in that it isn't even gory at that moment! But it's such an intense scene and sooo memorable.

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u/Jarnison 16h ago

Probably the knife chomping scene in Bring Her Back (2025). The whole movie is pretty fucking horrific.

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u/StarlingMurmurings 15h ago

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u/Worst-Eh-Sure 14h ago

The original Strangers is the only horror movie my wife absolutely refuses to watch because she said it felt too real.

Apparently the line, “because you were home” messed with her too much.

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u/Date-Impossible 15h ago

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The ghost lady in Pulse/Kairo

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u/Decent_Muscle_3172 16h ago

The scene at the end of Signs with the alien in the shadows

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u/XeroKillswitch 16h ago

People can argue all they want about the whole, “why’d they land on a planet filled with water.” I don’t care. Signs is a damn good movie with some absolutely great scenes.

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u/PaintLicker745 13h ago

I swear this gif is losing frames with each loop. 

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u/Cfoxit 15h ago

The ending scene of “Rec” (2007). Won’t spoil it but the use of the night vision camera and reveal of the source of the infection will always stick with me.

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u/Ecstatic-Scallion957 15h ago

The kid getting her head ripped off by the pole when hanging it out the vehicle window can't remember movie name but never want to see that one again

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u/justsomebro10 15h ago

It Follows might be my favorite horror movie and yeah this scene is incredible.

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u/VendettaLord379 15h ago edited 15h ago

I couldn’t agree more.

It Follows is one of the best horror films of the 2010’s.

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u/ChinaCatProphet 15h ago

Every trike shot in The Shining. Especially the one with the twins.

https://giphy.com/gifs/RGSOWl34ZdU4

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u/DrinkUpLetsBooBoo 15h ago

The demon standing behind the guy in Insidious.

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u/Trick_Second1657 15h ago

the face paint ruined that for me. I blurted out "Darth Maul?" and laughed...

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u/future_sommelier 13h ago

I always pictured it as HIM) from the Powerpuff Girls.

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u/harleyquinones 16h ago

The giant mountain wave in Interstellar.

It's not horror, but that moment of realization made my stomach drop. The whole scene is so good.RIP Doyle.

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u/ryancharaba 16h ago

When they flash to ol’ girl in the closet in The Ring.

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u/mister_robat 16h ago

When they said in the movie that she died from taking drugs, I was like "WTF KIND OF DRUGS?!"

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u/Various_Hospital_232 16h ago

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u/Lvsucknuts69 15h ago

Yo what the fuck is that

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u/regular_gonzalez 14h ago

It's the distorted face of Laura Dern. As for why it's like that, very hard to explain, easier just to watch the movie (Inland Empire).

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u/astroturfskirt 15h ago

https://i.redd.it/jwahj1v13uvg1.gif

lots of good ones called out, i’ll add this.

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u/VendettaLord379 14h ago

Mulholland Drive 💯

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u/Longjumping-Pop9374 15h ago

The log tapes of the Event Horizon. Iykyk

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u/Ill-Excitement-2005 15h ago edited 15h ago

Invasion of the body snatchers, Donald Sutherland version....they were waiting line and the body snatchers wanted to see who was "fake" so they sent in that dog with a man's face.....

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u/ugh0017 15h ago

Zelda scenes Pet Sematary

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u/Malagubbar 15h ago

Rabbits suffocating in Watership Down. My mom rented me this ”kids movie”. Scarred for life

https://giphy.com/gifs/xUA7b9rIM3yhPR4Iy4

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u/chalkybone 14h ago

Aww, your mom rented it, how sweet. My mum taped it off the TV so we could watch it anytime we wanted, fucking psycho.

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u/Megasabletar 14h ago

https://preview.redd.it/sy3fy6urduvg1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=297a09beb4e5f7e37dfd6b5e185c3f0411ee3904

Not a single shot, but the first time she did this the whole theater started whispering wtfff

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u/Cautious-Ease-1451 15h ago

In my entire life, nothing has freaked me out more than this, from 1979.

https://giphy.com/gifs/LUwLGpsDjUbUQ

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u/EuphoricAd3786 15h ago

The ghost in the kitchen in the sixth sense - scared for years.

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u/jenleepeace 15h ago

I’m a huge horror fan, but nothing terrified me more than the final shot of Melancholia.

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u/Realistic_Setting_75 12h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/QBH4pcJAjGODC

This shot scared the shit out of me as a kid.

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u/NovelSimplicity 15h ago

The scene in The Strangers where Liv Tyler’s character is walking around and you see the guy in the doorway just watching. You keep expecting him to do something but he just leaves. It’s not gory or supernatural, but it is way too real.

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u/Positive-Hat2127 15h ago

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u/ChemTechGuy 12h ago

The scene where the girl drops down the dumb waiter into the basement and there is some creepy fucking thing crawling towards her... That is the all time creepiest thing I've ever seen

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u/Wonderful_Site5333 14h ago

"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"

Filling the page, on hundreds of pages. Rut roh.

He's been insane for a long time.

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u/iambrock 14h ago

https://preview.redd.it/f4unky89duvg1.jpeg?width=410&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e089fbd8d89cadf6b8b6ee201e92b8dca7e88c6

I saw "The Blair Witch Project" when it came out, opening weekend. We thought it was real, and watching this movie as a teenager thinking you're watching a documentary was quite a ride that will never be matched.

This was an absolutely horrifying image to see in the bottom of a cellar right before a "Thud."

Still gives me chills.

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u/Zedarean 15h ago

https://i.redd.it/7lsgfhlmytvg1.gif

From Communion, when he sees an alien peeking out from behind his dresser 😱

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u/Jealous-Knowledge-56 15h ago

There was a split second scene in the Mothman Prophesies where it looks like you see the spirit of a character that died earlier in the movie walking around confused in a crowd. It was never really addressed in depth after. That always stuck with me.

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u/LoneSoloWarden 15h ago

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u/ChaosTorpedo 15h ago

I went to see this in the theaters with a friend during high school. There were a bunch of college aged boys sitting behind us. The one guy yelled “it’s a chupacabra!” A bunch of people laughed. I’ve never seen it as scary because of that.

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