Most INTENSE Scenes
 

What do you guys think are the most intense scenes from horror movies? Like, edge of your seat "holy crap!" stuff?

I think the last 30 minutes or so of scream 3, with the big house, and people getting slashed every 2 seconds, leading up to that ending, is insane. I'm trying to think of some others, but drawing a blank. The end of red eye, or just the whole part after she escapes the plane is very intense.

Don't ask me why, but the scene in "Dead Alive'' where there eating their pudding (which reminds me of those old gay cowboy movies) and the one dude it's her blood. I almost puked at that scene and couldn't eat pudding for months. I can take all the gore you throw at me, but if somebody eats pudding blood, I freak out! I'm weird like that.

The rape scenes from Ichi The Killer make me say "holy shit!" out loud. Theyre intense...

I meant more like, violence, climactic fight kind of thing, but, yeah.

I felt the same way during the rape scenes in I Spit on Your Grave. *shudders*

@Posher- Hmm, that'll take some serious thought. Though, I know I've had this feeling before.

Have you ever seen Ichi The Killer

it doesnt get much more intense and violent than the rape scenes in that film.

yes i do agree with you on those scenes.

Re: Most INTENSE Scenes
 

the diareah scene in dumb and dumber

definately 'edge of the seat - holy crap' !

The infamous two scenes from Irreversible. Just flat out difficult to watch. Other than that, there's the final scene in Audition, and the incest scene in I Stand Alone, but those two are definitely milder.

Posher778: If Scream 3 is the most intense thing you've seen, you have a lot yet to see my friend (your "top ten" reinforces this). Just a few that spring to mind and which I found intense:

The rape scene from Irreversible: a single shot, with no cuts; and the guy who just walks past. Humanity doesn't get much lower.

Irreversible again: the fire extinguisher scene. I find that very uncomfortable viewing.

Men Behind the Sun: the autopsy. Very drawn out and sadistic.

Mordum: quite a few intense, sick scenes in that one.

Cube: the first character to fall victim to the booby traps, who gets diced.

Wu Shu (Run & Kill): the burning of the daughter is pretty extreme. There are probably a load more HK Cat III scenes of notoriety that I've not seen yet.

Cannibal Holocaust: quite a few intense moments but the final dismemberment is quite heavy going.

Brain Dead: the whole film. Absolutely hilarious though, so perhaps not intense, just extreme.

And I've yet to watch some recent acquisitions which might feature here post-viewing: Ichi the Killer, New York Ripper, Nekromantik, Aftermath...

I gotta go with the 'kerb scene' in American History X, the pus pudding in Braindead, about the last half hour of Silence of the lambs, the rape scene in irreversible, Weasel's dream in Last House, and basically all of the dentist/the dentist 2... I'm fine with extremely graphic gore, but anything to do with teeth and I'm squirming.

Ichi... I thought the nipple stretch and cut was worse than the rape heh.

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Going by your definition of intense, I'd say the quiet room scene in Cube.

Different kind of "intense", but the last 15 minutes of The Blair Witch Project.

That's a good one. I thought there were quite a few intense parts in that movie.

the bunny vaccuming scene in Wallace & Gromit - I shudder each time i see it



oh, and all of Curious George, for personal reasons

the rape scenes in I spit on your grave.

That's the stuff!!

That whole movie is "in tents".

Thank God I'm not the only one!

Son of the Mask. The whole movie was just to hard for me to watch! FACTOID: Son of the Mask in #1 on Yellow Jacket's "Top Ten Worst Moives".

The village scene in Platoon used to really bother me.

Not much really gets to me now.

Last thing the messed me up was the final scene in the documentry Executions where a guy is dealt some vigilante justice in his village had half his jaw blown off and lies there gasping till he dies. Fucked up shit.

I thought War of the Worlds (2005) was pretty intense. I was up on my seat the whole movie.

What, throwing stuff at the screen?:p

Doin what Pee Wee Herman did?

Grrrrr!

Haha :p

yeah, just about everyone misinterpreted what I said. I mean intense as in suspenseful violence and stuff, and I don't really think rape counts. Blair Witch yes, WotW-hell yeah.

And Skaboy, movies don't have to be gory and sick minded to be intense, and the ending to scream 3 is quite intense, mainly just the first time you watch it, as is the last 15 minutes of halloween.

Do you just want us to say "Scream is intense?" Everyone's answers seem to be wrong.

Nugh-uhn. Mine was right:p

I agree that movies don't need to be gory and sick-minded to be intense: the final scenes in Close Encounters are intense but that's not a horror film and this is a horror forum.

Have you seen The Woman In Black? Probably not as you seem to be of the Halloween and Scream school. For really intense, you need to look outside of your local video rental store to places like the far east and on ebay.

The Woman In Black is intense throughout with its creepiness and its ability to actually scare: not to shock or gross out; genuinely frighten you, like your own nightmares do.

You asked for intense scenes though and the ones that I and others mentioned are considered intense by the respective posters. This is a subjective issue so opinions will vary.

In my humble opinion, the films that you find intense and that you list as your favourites are weak compared to some of the stuff you could be watching.

If you really want to see films that affect you, give The Woman in Black, Men Behind the Sun, Nekromantic and other hard-to-come-by movies a look. Your definition of "intense" will alter, I guarantee you.

i found all of magnolia intense ..

the entire movie was an exercise in tension ..
from the kid who had to pee, to tom cruise being put on the spot - to the cop who lost his gun.

very difficult movie to sit through .. you feel like there's a hand clasping your heart the whole way through and it leaves you exhausted by the end.

i dont think i enjoyed it .. its not the kind of tension i can appreciate when it's relentless like that ... but i respect the film.



ps. ... i didnt give away any spoilers - if you havent seen it ..

There is something about the scene in True Romance between Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper which is really intense. I suppose its the promise of extreme violence coupled with pretense of polite conversation (well almost polite).

i love that scene .. walken getting pissed at himself because he got suckered into what hopper was trying to do ...

pure tarantino moment

Thought I would add one to the list:

Funny Games. There's very little actual violence in this film, but the whole movie is incredibly tense. You spend the whole time wondering just what those two boys are going to do next. Michael Haneke really made his reputation with this film, and if you're a fan of European nihilistic filmmakers such as Noe or Breillat, you'd do well to look up his films.

I have to second what scouse mac said: the scene in True Romance with Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken.

You just know that Hopper knows he's going to be killed so decides to have some fun at Walken's expense. I particularly like the way he takes the previously proffered Chesterfield so that he can savour the moment.

Excellent and a very intense scene: well pointed out.

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it wasnt that he was having fun ... he was going to be tortured to give up his kid so he goaded walken into killing him instead.

And No... I don't expect you to say scream, i used it as an example... but people didn't understand what i meant, so i used it as an example again.

It wouldn't have been that bad if it was just blood, but it was like a mix of puss and blood. It was freakin gross. By the way, it wasn't pudding, it was "custard". ;)

As of late- Haute Tension had some intense moments. Saw 1 and 2 had some pretty intense scenes as well.

I agree about Saw. the ending is really the only intense part, i think. or at least the part that stuck out the most.

True. Oh, and custard reminds me of pudding for some apparent reason. I also find a lot of The Exorcist intense (that's why I love it so much). I'm not referring to the masturbation scene, I'm more and less referring to the scenes where they get a close-up of Reagan. For some reason, her face (when possessed) gices me chills up and down my spine. The head turning and spiderwalk were quite intense as well.