The Top 10 Frightening Movie Scenes For People Who Hate Jump Scares

This horror film about a shape-shifting clown that terrorizes the children in a normally quiet town features a blood-chilling scene that many viewers can't get out of their heads.

While a kid is in the library, Pennywise disguises himself as an older woman with a sinister smile on her face. The camera work is excellent because she becomes more and more in focus as she draws closer and closer to the child.

The Ritual is about friends reuniting to honor their dead friend by embarking on a hiking journey in Scandinavia. After the group gets lost in the eerie wilderness, they come upon a cabin to get some rest. When they awake, one of them realizes he's completely naked and worshiping a strange statue without knowing how he got there.

When two reporters investigate a fire at an apartment building, they soon realize the dangers are worse than they imagined when they're quarantined inside the building after an outbreak of a virus that makes people belligerent and violent.

The final scene in this found footage film takes place in the basement of the building, where a gaunt woman roams through the dark searching for her victims. "The visuals and atmosphere are pure horror," writes one fan.

The classic 90s slasher Scream opens on a famously chilling note. When a young woman is alone in her home, she receives a phone call from a man who she believes is friendly.

But the conversation turns from flirtatious to menacing when she asks him, "Why do you want to know my name?" He replies, "Because I want to know who I'm looking at."

When a couple's car breaks down on a road trip, they find a strange and isolated hotel nearby to stay the night until their vehicle is repaired. Little do they know that they're being watched by a mysterious sadist with a taste for snuff films.

The most terrifying scene is when the couple watches some scary movies they find in the hotel only to realize they're not fictional and are filmed in the very room they're staying in.

Nope is a horror film about a strange, dangerous alien presence in the sky. But the most terrifying scene in the movie, according to many fans, has nothing to do with the aliens.

It's the flashback scene on the set of an old sitcom when the chimpanzee in the show goes on a murderous rampage and violently kills almost every actor on set except for a little boy.

Jacob's Ladder follows a veteran who recently returned to the States after serving in Vietnam. He suffers from terrifying hallucinations and flashbacks that turn his reality upside down. The film's fans claim the hospital sequence is horrifying and feels like a bad acid trip.

When a young couple moves into a new apartment with a large window, the woman notices a man across the street who watches her through the window every night.

When she learns there is a violent murderer on the loose, she begins to fear that the man who watches her and the murderer is the same person. One night, the woman sees the man watching her, and she decides to wave at him, and he waves back. The scene is so eerie that one viewer says the scene "legitimately made my skin crawl."

On the hunt for a psychopathic killer known as Zodiac, investigators do everything they can to track him down in a cat-and-mouse chase of life or death. One particularly disturbing scene in the film occurs on a sunny day by the lake as a young couple relaxes. They're approached by the killer, thinking they're going to be robbed, before he ties them up and stabs them both to death.

The Silence of the Lambs is a famous psychological thriller about a young FBI agent who interviews a terrifying serial killer in prison to track down another killer called Buffalo Bill, who's currently at large.

When the agent finally discovers Buffalo Bill's whereabouts, she finds herself alone in his basement in the dark. But the audience and Buffalo Bill can see her struggling in the dark through his nigh-vision camera.

What scenes from horror films make your blood run cold?

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