Happy Halloween! Hope you’re having a terrifying day in a totally safe and appropriate way that has nothing to do with all the genuinely horrifying things happening in the world right now.
Movies. Scary movies. They’re kinda safe, right? And so:
What’s the scariest scene ever in a movie that isn’t considered horror?
(Back in early 2009, I asked “What’s the scariest movie you’ve ever seen?” Comments are still open there! Feel free to (re)join that convo. And even if you replied way back then, it’s been almost 15 years — you might have a new scariest-movie-ever.)
My pick: the alien-examination scene in 1993’s UFO-abduction flick Fire in the Sky. This is not a good movie, not least because the supposedly true story it is based on is pretty universally regarded as a hoax, even by the people who usually believe in these sorts of things. That said, the scene in which D.B. Sweeney’s alien abductee is treated by ET doctors like the biological specimen he is to them is beyond nightmarish.
Here it is. But be warned: it will haunt your dreams.
The botched execution in THE GREEN MILE is so disturbing that I did not watch the movie again for over 20 years after I saw it first in the theatre.
the scene in Stowaway where they have to climb the tether to retrieve the spare oxygen. Terrifyingly captures the vast void of space.