What Is the Best Horror Scene?
 

Not just good ones. What's the best? For me it's the chest burster scene from Alien.

A. It's the gnarliest thing a horror villain could ever do to you. It didn't just cut you up, eat you like a zombie, or do something really scary to make you scurred. The chest burster grows inside you and uses your body as a weapon against you before slowly eviscerating you from the inside out.

B. It's so ****ing visceral that it defies the concept of horror to just be real like a National Geographic special. We've all heard of wasps that inject their eggs into tarantulas that then devour the tarantula while it's still alive, except this is about people. That's not horror. That's biology.

C. No matter what you think in horror movies embodies Lovecraft there is absolutely nothing that embodies him more than xenomorphs and nothing that embodies the horror of xenomorphs more than chest bursters. Xenomorphs are a space anomaly beyond our comprehension that murder us simply because it is their nature and not because they don't like us. And the chest burster is the ultimate embodiment of an ultra-Earth entity that uses us because we are there to be used in whatever way is the most efficient.

All other horror is self-indulgent and innocuous by comparison.

You're the enemy of this thread to be perfectly honest.

Young Jason jumping out of the water at the end of the original Fri 13.

It has not aged well imo. Feels like a cheesy ending to a pilot episode of a horror show. Maybe its overbearing clichedness is simply a mark of its influence though, sort of like The Beatles where it's genuinely difficult for a modern ear to pinpoint their innovation.

Tetsuo: The Iron Man



The Howling



Possession



Black Swan

@Frown

That movie was Resolution, right? Cause I'm about to watch it and I think that's what it was but it's now in my external hard drive with five million things and I can't be sure.

Yup, Resolution and The Endless were the two films.

I thought there were three movies.

1. You spoiler ass clicking bitch.
2. There are, but I haven't seen Spring and that didn't dwindle my appreciation of the endless, but **** it, watch Spring as well.

Until the day you realize that I was its one true ally.

You mentioned Spring. I haven't seen a single thing about any of these movies besides what you have said and whoever else on this site said something. I know not a single ****ing thing about any of these movies and am totally blind. And I'm on board btw. I don't know if Resolution is a horror movie but 20 minutes in and it's got me for the same but different reasons as a horror movie and is awesome for totally unique reasons and if this is somehow a Lovecraftian trilogy then OMG. Or if it's just something that redefines what I think of as Lovecraftian then OMG. Or if I'm completely off base then this is still totally the ****. Damn it this totally reminds me that I feel useless for never finishing Gerald's Game. Which I still have on my external hard drive. Weirdo late 2010 horror is some of the best horror I've ever seen tbh.

Oh and tbh I think I'm going to completely ignore this thread for the next little while cause I don't even want to know what this movie even is.

Okay, so there are a couple of little scenes I don't understand about Resolution.



Would it just solve everything if I watched the movie again?

I have to watch it again.

**** you that's not helpful. The movie was so coy for so long and then it seemed not coy enough while still being coy and never really gave me anything to latch onto. I love the idea of a horror movie building up so slowly but it didn't seem to make sense at the end. I thoroughly loved the movie other than that but I felt like I didn't even know if I was being jerked off without my knowledge.

I have to watch it again to be helpful, bitch.

Big fan of this part of Beyond the Black Rainbow. Intense as ****.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8hkLhMuzk3E

I remember being freaked out by Jacob’s Ladder. Looking back I was just a big pûssy.

Oh you should check out Convergence and The Invitation. You've seen The Witch, right? That has a nice slow burn.

Watch The Endless next!!!!!!!!!!!!

Other slow burn horror movies that I would absolutely recommend: Hereditary (one of the all-time greats), The House of the Devil, The Blackcoat's Daughter, Pyewacket, The VVitch

First ones that come to mind:

I wouldn't call it a best horror scene or anything, it's a completely cliche sequel teaser scene, I just wanted to share my thoughts on it.

The end of Freddy Vs. Jason where Jason comes out of the water carrying Freddy's head and Freddy looks at the camera and winks. I think most people interpret that as a continued battle but to me it felt more like Freddy got exactly what he wanted. He only brought Jason back to spread fear in Elm Street. He then got mad because Jason was killing all of his victims. They end up taking Jason back home so Freddy's territory is no longer being intruded on. I know it's just a dumb slasher flick that I'm reading too much into.

That and the F13 reboot were actually way more fun than they had any right to be

And let's be real, Freddy has been subjected to way worse ****

Beautiful

Poetic

True art

Both characters have. And while that film definitely had it's bad moments the final fight scene was absolutely great.

I think the approach to this movie came from an understanding that both characters became more like comic book villains rather than anything truly scary.

There's a pretty gruesome scene in the first half of the new Suspiria movie that immediately jumped onto my list.