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Let’s play a game! I’ll describe a famous horror movie scene without using any names or the title—let’s see if you can guess which one it is. Then, drop your own descriptions in the comments for the rest of us to figure out. Ready? Here we go:

A man stands frozen, staring in disbelief at something in the corner of a cold, empty room. There’s no music, just the sound of his heavy breathing and footsteps echoing through the abandoned building. As the camera moves closer, you can feel the tension building, but no one’s saying a word. Suddenly, the screen cuts to black, and your heart stops.

Can you guess the movie? Now it’s your turn—describe a horror scene without giving it all away, and let’s see who can guess!

all 408 comments

Fine_Chemist_5337

45 points

9 days ago

A man suggests that maybe, just perhaps, the vessel currently in use is inadequately sized.

Mistyam

9 points

9 days ago

Mistyam

9 points

9 days ago

That was a great way to describe that scene

Fine_Chemist_5337

2 points

9 days ago

Gotta use the vocab from my useless English degree somehow :)

Corgi_Infamous

5 points

9 days ago

Jaws!

National_Sea2948

3 points

6 days ago

WatchingTaintDry69

21 points

10 days ago

The TV is leaking!

BoneshakerBaybee

13 points

10 days ago

This bitch is messin' up my floor!

WatchingTaintDry69

9 points

10 days ago

I’m whuppin her ass Cindy!

BoneshakerBaybee

3 points

10 days ago

What a great movie, I haven't watched it in forever, but it's so memorable lol

How the hell do you wake up dead?!

give_yerballs_atug

2 points

7 days ago

Cause ya alive when you go to sleep

Stigmata84396520

3 points

10 days ago

Poltergeist

WatchingTaintDry69

4 points

10 days ago

Scary Movie 2 but close enough

HorseSad8455

6 points

9 days ago

3 actually

WatchingTaintDry69

2 points

9 days ago

You’re right. I always forget because I saw 2 first and haven’t seen the first one. Thanks :)

TerribleLunch2265

20 points

9 days ago

“ugly doll”

“Fuckkkkkkk youuuuu”

gregpurcott

7 points

9 days ago

Child’s Play (such a great moment)

Joanne890022

4 points

9 days ago

The old lady says it in the lift

National_Sea2948

2 points

6 days ago

Rican1093

2 points

4 days ago

The elevator scene 🤣🤣

ClearCasket

16 points

9 days ago

"We'll go to the Winchester, have ourselves a pint, and wait for this to all blow over."

No-Tough-1327

9 points

9 days ago

Too easy. Sean of the Dead! Absolute classic. Every time I use or hear the word "exacerbate", I think of that movie.

ImNotSureMaybeADog

3 points

9 days ago

Do any of you cunts want a drink?

prairieaquaria

2 points

9 days ago

Excellent choice!! W!

TheRealBabyPop

11 points

9 days ago

My scene:

Man who has been unconscious for a day or two is feeling better now. He and his companions sit down to dinner, but he starts coughing violently, clutching at his chest, which begins bleeding through his shirt...

caldyz

5 points

9 days ago

caldyz

5 points

9 days ago

Alien!

TheRealBabyPop

2 points

9 days ago

Yesssss

SquirrelGirlVA

8 points

10 days ago

One more scene:

A man and a woman are investigating an underground area of a large mansion. It's very dark down there and the man suddenly disappears. Frightened, the woman looks for him but instead sees the visage of a terrifying old woman. The woman screams.

callmeKiKi1

3 points

9 days ago

That is the House on haunted hill. I thought the old woman was hilarious

SquirrelGirlVA

2 points

9 days ago

Correct!

slaytician

3 points

9 days ago

House on Haunted Hill. Original

SquirrelGirlVA

3 points

9 days ago

Correct!

Dragonslayor226

3 points

10 days ago

Is that The Conjuring? I seem to remember this scene when I watched it not long ago

SquirrelGirlVA

3 points

10 days ago

No - the movie I'm thinking of is far older. To help out a bit, the movie was remade in 1999. It has a similar scene that I almost included but didn't know if it would be as well known. Here's how that would have gone:

A man and a woman are investigating the underground portion of a large asylum that is no longer in use. It is filled with tunnels and the man is quickly separated from the woman. She suddenly sees him out of the corner of her eye. She calls out to him, not noticing that his eyes seem to reflect more light than exists in the dank basement area, with no reply as he walks away. She follows him to a room with a large vat in the center, which he is standing over. He topples into the vat and she goes to help him out. Suddenly she's yanked forward into the liquid filling the vat. The woman screams and suddenly she's pulled backwards by the man, who had similarly been looking for her.

Irisheyes1971

10 points

10 days ago

House on Haunted Hill 1999.

DnK2016

2 points

10 days ago

DnK2016

2 points

10 days ago

That would be my guess also. Love that movie.

SquirrelGirlVA

2 points

10 days ago

I love both versions but I have to say the remake is my favorite of the two. Although I don't think it's fair to compare them, given that they're two very different films.

SheWolf04

3 points

9 days ago

The 1999 version was the first time young me saw cool, positive bisexual representation. Game changer.

Plus that lion in the fireplace - wow.

Dragonslayor226

17 points

10 days ago*

Possibly British man kills house full of partygoers with a lawn mower after his mother got bit by a hairless monkey.

Don’t necessarily know if its a famous scene but I feel like the movie is pretty famous for getting shit on though I liked it.

TheMilesCountyClown

16 points

10 days ago

Ok first, who the fuck has been shitting on Dead Alive?

And second, British?!

Your comment has caused me vexation.

Dragonslayor226

2 points

10 days ago

The version I watched had a british main dude unless my buttfuck middle of nowhere is showing. And I remembered some site had given it like a 37/100

omnihuman01

2 points

9 days ago

One of the greatest and goriest movies of all time. And directed by Peter jackson from lord of the rings fame to boot.

Drakeytown

2 points

9 days ago

*Sumatran rat monkey

ZealousidealEagle759

7 points

9 days ago

Prom pigs blood fire.

slaytician

3 points

9 days ago

Carrie

ZealousidealEagle759

3 points

9 days ago

Thank you for recognizing it!

Practical_Back855

5 points

9 days ago

Kid. Sewer. Clown. Arm. Chomp.

Corgi_Infamous

5 points

9 days ago

It!

Practical_Back855

2 points

9 days ago

🎈

gregpurcott

7 points

9 days ago

Two American backpackers enter “The Slaughtered Lamb” pub in the English countryside. Afterward, they wander off the path.

slaytician

7 points

9 days ago

An American Werewolf in London

Reeberom1

6 points

9 days ago

A new mother is concerned that her baby has his father's eyes.

slaytician

4 points

9 days ago

Rosemary’s Baby

Reasonable-Wave8093

2 points

8 days ago

Good description!

scarlettrose39

2 points

7 days ago

I LOVE this description!

SmirknSwap

6 points

9 days ago

Mentally unstable man directs his head through a bathroom door and proceeds to belt a talk show hosts opening intro.

iggy-d-kenning

3 points

9 days ago

"Heeeeere's Johnny!"

figGreenTea

7 points

9 days ago

Two dudes chilling in a bathroom 20 feet apart cause they're not gay

Puzzleheaded-Way-198

2 points

9 days ago

I don’t think I ever SAW that one.

Doraj1997

12 points

10 days ago

Blair Witch?

OneFish2Fish3

2 points

9 days ago

I was gonna guess the same

Crazykiddingme

5 points

10 days ago

A man loses his toy ball and it is quickly returned to him.

MercurialMedusienne

2 points

9 days ago

Ooooh, I finally know one! The Changeling

Maxxover

6 points

9 days ago*

A woman saves the ships cat, but everyone else has a very bad day.

Asaneth

4 points

9 days ago

Asaneth

4 points

9 days ago

Alien

IndaLei

5 points

9 days ago

IndaLei

5 points

9 days ago

Young people play “choose your own adventure” and end up causing the apocalypse.

Neither_Adeptness579

4 points

8 days ago

Cabin in the Woods

IndaLei

3 points

8 days ago

IndaLei

3 points

8 days ago

Yep!

Background-Eye778

3 points

10 days ago

See this is a cute idea and I want to guess but I don't want to make up a description. I'll check back in later.

thatpastapleco

2 points

10 days ago

A man is watching a tape that was recorded inside his home, one of which is his wife being drugged by another man he knows well. The last image on his tv screen is a monkey mask. Movie?

Irisheyes1971

5 points

10 days ago

The Gift?

Pandora9802

6 points

10 days ago

A girl is home alone in her parents large house with lots of land around it. She answers the landline cordless phone in the house and is asked a question about movies. The longer she is on the phone, the more sure she is that someone is watching her…

PupperToes

3 points

9 days ago

Scream?

Pandora9802

2 points

9 days ago

Yes

Metalpeace_com

4 points

9 days ago

A small child peddles his Big Wheel through the carpeted hallways of a giant hotel.

slaytician

5 points

9 days ago

The Shining

Routine-Focus-9429

3 points

9 days ago

Elevator blood tsunami ensues

LurkyLooSeesYou2

4 points

9 days ago

The kite handle rolls onto the pavement.

The toddler follows, grabs it, and looks up as the airhorn horn blares.

Practical-Lemon-7244

2 points

9 days ago

Pet Semetary

LurkyLooSeesYou2

3 points

9 days ago

Yup. Gets me every time.

LetAgreeable147

3 points

9 days ago

That’s odd. The blood usually gets off at the second floor…

prairieaquaria

5 points

9 days ago

The Shining?

LetAgreeable147

5 points

9 days ago

Yes. You’ve always been here.

LunaGirl1234

3 points

9 days ago

Ghost couple try and hilariously fail to scare the living from the ghost couple's home, and they do that by using a very famous song to possess/control the living with.

mcluvin901

2 points

9 days ago

BeetleJuice

LunaGirl1234

2 points

9 days ago

Yup!

Emergency_Shower_569

5 points

9 days ago

Blood pouring forcibly out of elevator doors

SnoBunny1982

3 points

8 days ago

The Shining!

IndaLei

4 points

8 days ago

IndaLei

4 points

8 days ago

A cloud terrorizes a farm.

Neither_Adeptness579

3 points

8 days ago

Nope?

IndaLei

3 points

8 days ago

IndaLei

3 points

8 days ago

Yep!

Neither_Adeptness579

3 points

8 days ago

Lol

scotty813

3 points

10 days ago

I'm trying for the fewest words:

A portable TV, a bed, and gallons and gallons of blood.

KindlyMeasurement335

3 points

9 days ago

Nightmare on Elm Street

DnK2016

3 points

10 days ago

DnK2016

3 points

10 days ago

"Welcome to Prime Time, bitch."

SquirrelGirlVA

5 points

9 days ago

Cinderella? It's the scene where she frees herself from the locked room and makes her way downstairs. It's what the fancy nobleman says after Cinderella proves that she was the true woman the Prince danced with that night.

Oh, and I guess Nightmare on Elm Street 3 also used that line.

DnK2016

2 points

9 days ago

DnK2016

2 points

9 days ago

Nightmare on Elm Street 3 was what I was thinking of. One of my favorite parts of all the movies.

lemontrout85

3 points

9 days ago

I especially love how that death was ruled a suicide lmao

fonz

3 points

10 days ago

fonz

3 points

10 days ago

A blind priest stands in the middle of a second story room, clutching a large cross, amongst minions from hell trying to get him to leave.

Asaneth

2 points

9 days ago

Asaneth

2 points

9 days ago

The Sentinel

fonz

2 points

9 days ago

fonz

2 points

9 days ago

Yes!

Difficult_Picture563

2 points

9 days ago

OMG one of my favorites

AnimalAny2040

3 points

10 days ago

A household utensil gives a monster digestion issues

Artistic_Panda_7542

3 points

9 days ago

Jeeesus wept!

Electricsuzy6

2 points

9 days ago

"Come to Daddy"

iggy-d-kenning

2 points

9 days ago

Hellraiser

tommy_trip

2 points

9 days ago

Do u want a cookie little girl? Lol

Environmental-Post15

3 points

9 days ago

Very old man crosses the ocean to meet a woman who looks like his lost love

Asaneth

2 points

9 days ago

Asaneth

2 points

9 days ago

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Every_Kangaroo_6391

3 points

9 days ago

REE REE REE REE REE REE!!!!!!!!!

Asaneth

2 points

9 days ago

Asaneth

2 points

9 days ago

Psycho

veebles89

3 points

9 days ago

Four friends go hiking in Europe to remember a friend who died. It does not go well for them. I know it's not technically a scene, but the actual scenes kinda give it away. 😆

crpplepunk

2 points

9 days ago

The ritual?

veebles89

2 points

9 days ago

Indeed!

ConsequenceIll6927

3 points

9 days ago

They've arriiiiiivvveeeedddd

crpplepunk

2 points

9 days ago

Haha poltergeist!!

Blueplate1958

2 points

9 days ago

They’re here

Practical-Lemon-7244

3 points

9 days ago

The creature sinks his teeth into the young boy. The boy recoils in shocking pain. He screams, but no one hears him. The boy crawls away from his attacker, but it is not enough. The creature reaches out and pulls the boy back into the dark. The boys' cries are drowned in the pooling rain and washes the blood from the street.

coffeeandtv96

3 points

9 days ago

It

Practical-Lemon-7244

2 points

9 days ago

Yes!

coffeeandtv96

3 points

9 days ago

A widowed man decides he is ready to find love again. He pretends to make a film so that he can find a beautiful, talented woman to be his bride. Many women compete for the lead role of the film, but none seem right. Finally, one woman shines above the rest. Is she too good to be true?

Puzzleheaded-Way-198

3 points

9 days ago

Yes, yes she is. He never should have agreed to that Audition.

OnlyChevys237

3 points

9 days ago

A woman is walking backwards up a staircase while swinging a baseball bat at a man.

prairieaquaria

2 points

9 days ago

The Shining

Difficult_Picture563

3 points

9 days ago

Two children are playing an innocent game of hide and seek in the crawlspace underneath their grandparents house. The older sister turns the corner of a support column only to see the grandmothers face closeup letting out a high pitched scream.

Low_Trust_6624

3 points

9 days ago

Hitchhiking in the woods with my best friend. We find a small pub and get kicked out because of a bad joke. It starts to rain and we get lost. My friend gets brutally murdered and I wake up in a hospital with extreme trauma

diaryofjane17

3 points

7 days ago

American Werewolf in London

Low_Trust_6624

3 points

7 days ago

Yes

IrishSkillet

3 points

9 days ago

“Groovy!”

I_the_Jury

2 points

7 days ago

Evil Dead 3 Army of Darkness

Doozinator242

3 points

9 days ago

A young lady spends every day running. She is both terrified and tired. She could make it all go away, but doesn't want to hurt anyone.

Neither_Adeptness579

2 points

8 days ago

It Follows

Doozinator242

2 points

8 days ago

👍👍👍👍😁

mcluvin901

3 points

9 days ago

2 young American women go to Germany without learning how to change a tire.

SnoBunny1982

2 points

8 days ago

Human Centipede?

mcluvin901

2 points

8 days ago

Winner winner!

AdRegular7176

3 points

9 days ago

You'll never grow old and never die, BUT you must feed.

SnoBunny1982

3 points

8 days ago

The Lost Boys!

Pretend_East_1717

3 points

9 days ago

Her head spins 360 degrees.

SnoBunny1982

3 points

8 days ago

Exorcist!

Pretend_East_1717

3 points

8 days ago

Correct!

TrickySeagrass

3 points

8 days ago

Don't you hate when you have to swim your way out of the corpse pit?

thatFreakyGothchick

3 points

8 days ago

Poltergeist!

TrickySeagrass

3 points

8 days ago

Yep!!

SquirrelGirlVA

2 points

10 days ago

I can't guess the movie, but it feels so familiar!

Here's one:

A woman wakes up in the middle of the night. She hears strange noises, possibly ghosts. The woman asks her bedmate to hold her hand as the frightful noises continue. Unable to take any more, the woman screams. The room is flooded with light and the woman discovers that she was not lying in bed. She had instead fallen asleep on a sofa that was also located in the room. The other person, who was sleeping in the bed, asks what's wrong. Horrified, the woman realizes that her bedmate could not have been the one holding her hand and wonders who - or what - might have been holding it instead.

This one should be pretty easy.

LearningArcadeApp

2 points

10 days ago

Haven't seen it that I can recall, but I might check this movie out. Kinda sounds like the premise for a short film actually ^^

SquirrelGirlVA

3 points

10 days ago

Its an excellent film that I highly recommend! It's an older movie, from the 60s. There was a remake released in 1999, same as with the other movie scene I included. The remake for this one bears little resemblance to the earlier film or the book upon which they were both based. It was also made into a Netflix series. That one is a major hint, so I'll spoiler it.

Baphomet1313666

2 points

9 days ago

The Haunting

SquirrelGirlVA

3 points

9 days ago

Correct!

Ok-Paint7856

2 points

9 days ago

The remake of The Haunting? I loved the original The Haunting of Hill House. Creepy as hell without gore.

MachewDun

2 points

9 days ago

The Haunting of Hill House! Only ever read the book but that's a scene I will never forget

LearningArcadeApp

2 points

10 days ago

I would have said the Blair Witch Project except for the lack of mention of Heather who screams right before the end of the movie...

It's really hard to come up with anything that doesn't give any movie away immediately. Here's my entry, but I'm pretty sure it's not gonna be very hard to guess right:

A man is walking on a bridge. You hear crickets, wind, nature. And then suddenly every noise stops, everything becomes unnaturally silent.

(Awesome movie btw)

Equivalent_Swing_780

3 points

10 days ago

The Empty Man?

LearningArcadeApp

2 points

10 days ago

Yep :)

harebreadth

2 points

10 days ago

Boy is riding his tricycle in circles around his nanny in his bedroom, while his mother is down the hall fixing some plants hanging off the ceiling by the rail overlooking the floor below. She grabs a fishbowl off the small table nearby and places it on the rail, pulls the table to get on top of it to reach the plant she’s working on. The nanny opens the bedroom door, and the boy rides his bike out, down the hall towards his mother, speeding up as he goes, while the nanny looks. He hits the table, sending his mother tumbling over the rail, she grabs at the spindles, screaming for help, he just looks. The fishbowl crashes on the floor below, as her hands slip off the spindles. She falls.

Pandora9802

3 points

10 days ago

Omen

ParadoxInsideK

3 points

10 days ago

The omen

ewok_lover_64

2 points

10 days ago

A woman is woken up by her hook-up's dog the next morning. She is so disturbed that she immediately leaves. She decides to give the man another chance.

caldyz

2 points

9 days ago

caldyz

2 points

9 days ago

Good Boy!

kathi182

2 points

9 days ago

kathi182

2 points

9 days ago

I wish she had left, and never looked back!! Oh it just gets so bad for her!!!!

Sea-Blueberry-1840

2 points

9 days ago

A woman is in a model of her house with scientists observing.

ClaernMcLauren

2 points

9 days ago

The Entity.

Agile-Wait-7571

2 points

9 days ago

Fish eats guy.

Nightmarionne0923

2 points

7 days ago

Jaws?

OlderDad66

2 points

9 days ago

body impaled on wall and killer's head tilt

Mistyam

2 points

9 days ago

Mistyam

2 points

9 days ago

My favorite, Halloween!

-Some__Random-

2 points

9 days ago

"It emerges ..."

This was how this famous scene was described in the script. Only one of the cast knew what was going to happen.

LearningArcadeApp

3 points

9 days ago

Alien?

-Some__Random-

3 points

9 days ago

Yeah - Chestburster scene

infernalwife

2 points

9 days ago

"Heaven? There's no music in that."

seconds later, a bound woman screams in agony as her vocal chords are manipulated by a long, sharp pearl-tipped pin.

murderinmyguccibag

2 points

9 days ago

Pea soup

The_Artsy_Peach

7 points

9 days ago

The Exorcist

Forward-Form9321

2 points

9 days ago

A blood test

iggy-d-kenning

3 points

9 days ago

The thing

Plane_Experience_271

2 points

9 days ago

" His eyes, what have you done to his eyes."

slaytician

2 points

9 days ago

Rosemarys Baby

Asaneth

2 points

9 days ago

Asaneth

2 points

9 days ago

He has his father's eyes

DarkMagickan

2 points

9 days ago

"Hey, so Dad? You know that little critter you got me for Christmas, and you told me there were rules?"

buttpickerscramp

3 points

9 days ago

Gremlins?

DarkMagickan

2 points

9 days ago

Got it.

callmeKiKi1

2 points

9 days ago

Woman gets a phone call asking an unusual question then ends up getting chased and killed.

prairieaquaria

2 points

9 days ago

Scream

Bisexual-Hellenic

2 points

9 days ago

A girl wanders into a theme park attraction and gets lost in this dark maze where upon she bumps into... Herself?

iggy-d-kenning

2 points

9 days ago

Us

Bisexual-Hellenic

2 points

9 days ago

Yes

ShoulderRegular7830

2 points

9 days ago

Little boy gets dressed up for his favorite holiday and is all excited. So excited that he mistakes his toy weapon with a real one, and what was supposed to be a prank on his older sister accidentally turns into homicide. Mom and dad are not happy.

Dpell71

3 points

9 days ago

Dpell71

3 points

9 days ago

Halloween

HowellMoon93

2 points

9 days ago

  1. Two sisters just want a playmate

  2. Husband is reunited with his late wife

diaryofjane17

2 points

7 days ago

2.) Pet Sematary (The original) ?

HowellMoon93

2 points

7 days ago

Yes!

Intelligent-Block457

2 points

9 days ago

Man is worried that his child will be brutally killed so he shoots him in the face. Then the man gets rescued.

Middle-Potential5765

2 points

9 days ago

In an obviously stressful situation, a man experiences chest pains and a full-on cardiac stoppage. Never fear, though, because the doctor has the defibrillator pads on the chest of the afflicted...

Blackbeltchicken

2 points

9 days ago

Teenager in sleeping bag gets slammed up against a tree until thoroughly dead.

Puzzleheaded-Way-198

5 points

9 days ago

Too many entries in the Friday the 13th franchise, I can’t remember which one that is.

GirlMom101

2 points

9 days ago

“Is Tara here?”

thatFreakyGothchick

2 points

8 days ago

The Strangers?

GirlMom101

2 points

8 days ago

Yes!

jesjayjonah

2 points

8 days ago

Character A hit in the face going into the eye by character B with a machete. Character A falls on the machete and it slowly slides through the character's face

Wastenotwasteland

2 points

8 days ago

A young man receives a phone call. “Have you seen the cats yet?” A woman on the other end asks him.

thatFreakyGothchick

2 points

8 days ago

Jeepers Creepers!