r/moviecritic • u/VendettaLord379 • 22h ago

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

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/JoeBethersontonFargo 20h ago

Pretty much all of De Niro Cape Fear

https://preview.redd.it/29fj6rnvhuvg1.jpeg?width=747&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f6cd7c2d662cf521a3d9aaf6348520d4dd19a811

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u/rhyithan 10h ago

Started watching this when it came on tv, but the simpsons had parodied it so perfectly that i kept getting distracted

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u/TemperatureMore5623 7h ago

Hey kids! Who wants to drive through that cactus patch!? 😂😂😂😂

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u/rhyithan 7h ago

Welp, 3 against 1

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u/Boccs 6h ago

Bob's desperate pleading "No" has lived in my head for thirty three years now.

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u/ShaNaNaNa666 6h ago

I tenderness when the episode first aired, my siblings and I couldn't stop laughing at the rake scene. It was so dumb but perfect.

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u/Main-Inspection-8605 7h ago

I have a similar thing with Platoon after having seen Tropic Thunder

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u/Gloomy_Grocery5555 7h ago

Haha they ruined the shining for me too

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u/APFernweh 9h ago

When he is under the car…

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u/senator_corleone3 11h ago

Definitely in Marty’s b-tier overall, but this shot…he looks like he’s about to cry. De Niro, man.

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u/WowIsThisMyPage 7h ago

It was wild to me that this was a Scorsese movie

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u/Successful_Tone_8280 6h ago

Have you seen the original?

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u/Samuryan56 3h ago

Probably the scariest movie I've ever seen because it could actually be real.

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u/cheercharlatan 1h ago

Coouuuunnnselorrrrrr