16 hours ago
6
FYI, it's not ALL exorcism films.
We precocious asked fearfulness movie fans of the BuzzFeed Community to archer america which spiritual fearfulness films person the scariest scenes of each time. We besides recovered immoderate bully entries connected Reddit, excessively (here and here). This is what everyone said:
🚨Warning: Spoilers ahead.🚨
1. The Wailing (2016) — "I saw The Wailing connected my tiny TV, which wasn’t large for an immersive experience, but my bosom inactive dropped into my tummy during the devil reveal. And past I was like, mmm, not that scary. But I wanted to slumber with the airy connected and woke up the adjacent time inactive reasoning of the devil's reveal, and I inactive deliberation astir the devil months after. Then I had to ticker it again."
20th Century Fox
What happens: In a acheronian and creepy cave, the Japanese antheral is shown shedding his quality signifier — he’s caught connected camera with glowing eyes, turning into a demon with claws and a monstrous look beneath his quality skin.
2. The First Omen (2024) — "When the pistillate is giving commencement and the demon claw comes retired of her vagina."
20th Century Studios
What happens: Margaret, the protagonist, witnesses a pistillate successful labour astatine the orphanage. As the pistillate gives birth, a demonic manus emerges from her vagina successful a highly graphic and grotesque sequence.
3. Silent Hill (2006) — "The mode Christabella is killed. On the 1 hand, it's precise cathartic due to the fact that Alessa yet gets justice, but connected the other, that is simply a beauteous messed up mode to go."
Alliance Atlantis
What happens: Alessa, who is the driving unit of the disastrous events successful the municipality of Silent Hill, emerges arsenic a disfigured being bound to a infirmary furniture and tears Christabella isolated with razor wire.
4. Legion (2010) — "I emotion the movie, but the grandma connected the ceiling is terrifying. Absolutely horrific."
Sony Pictures Releasing
What happens: A seemingly saccharine aged pistillate walks into the diner wherever astir of the movie takes place. At first, she seems harmless, but past she turns monstrous and climbs up connected the ceiling similar a spider and attacks people.
5. The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) — "Pretty overmuch the entirety of the movie. But if I had to take 1 country that has stuck with maine each of these years, it’s the country of her fellow waking up to her contorted connected the level successful her dorm room. It’s truthful subtly horrific. To this day, I’m acrophobic I’ll aftermath up adjacent my hubby similar that astatine 3 a.m."
Screen Gems
—Anonymous
What happens: Emily’s boyfriend, Jason, is staying with her successful her dorm country due to the fact that she’s been having unusual experiences. He wakes up successful the mediate of the nighttime and realizes Emily is nary longer beside him, and past sees her connected the level successful a wholly unnatural, twisted, and contorted position.
6. The Exorcist III (1990) — "The movie is not arsenic bully arsenic the original, of course, but the country with the shears/nurse is truly a favourite successful fearfulness circles successful presumption of leap scares."
20th Century Fox
What happens: A caregiver is going astir her rounds successful a quiescent infirmary astatine night. The camera stays fixed successful a wide changeable for a agelong time, hostility builds, past retired of nowhere, a white-robed fig with elephantine shears abruptly steps retired down the nurse in cleanable sync with abrupt shrieking music.
7. The Conjuring (2013) — "For me, it’s erstwhile a creepy look pops up successful the mirror. That crap truly frightened the beingness and Jesus retired of maine fr fr. The Conjuring is the champion scary movie of each clip (in my opinion, LOL)."
Warner Bros. Pictures
—Anonymous
What happens: Little April Perron shows Lorraine an aged euphony container she found. When the euphony plays, the reflector connected the container spins. She tells Lorraine, “When the euphony stops, you tin spot him successful the mirror, lasting down you.” Later, Lorraine doesn't spot thing erstwhile she archetypal tries it, but she tries it again and catches a glimpse of a ghost standing down her.
8. Borderlands (2013) — "The spot astatine the extremity wherever the lads are arbitrarily dissolved successful a soma conduit for nary reason. One of the astir uncanny, unusual parts of a fearfulness movie I've ever seen."
Metrodome Distribution
—[Deleted]
What happens: Deacon and Gray descend into a constrictive passageway beneath a church. As they crawl through, they recognize they're wrong a surviving organism. The walls statesman to secrete almighty enzymes, dissolving them arsenic they recite the Lord’s Prayer.
9. Hellhole (2022) — "This was a precise unsocial fearfulness film. It’s acceptable successful a Polish monastery that performs exorcisms. But that ending..."
Netflix
What happens: In a failed ritual, the Devil emerges from a well. The priests, who it is revealed sought to go apostles of the Devil, are alternatively destroyed arsenic the Devil claims his spot successful the universe.
10. Hereditary (2018) — "Not a 'traditional' spiritual movie but beatified fucking shit, I'm getting the chills adjacent typing this. In horror, you ever spot jumpscares arsenic thing down you, successful beforehand of you, supra oregon beneath you. It's ne'er supra AND behind. That had maine shitting bricks. The subtlety of it arsenic well…then each of a sudden, hellhole breaks loose. Chilling."
A24
What happens: As Peter lies successful bed, we dilatory announcement Annie clinging to the ceiling successful the background. She’s wholly silent, astir spider-like, and it’s truthful subtle that galore viewers don’t announcement her close away.
11. The Exorcist (1973) — "Gotta spell with a classic. The country wherever Captain Howdy pops up arsenic a flash framework successful the room ever makes my tummy drop! It's a blink and you'll miss it infinitesimal and truthful effective. Subliminal panic astatine its best."
Warner Bros.
—Anonymous
What happens: Chris enters the room and the lights flicker disconnected and on, and for conscionable a split second, there's a flash of the white-faced, demonic visage — Captain Howdy — conscionable behind/next to her.
12. The Exorcist (1973) — "The iconic 'spider walk' scene. I cognize this was a deleted country and not successful the theatrical release, but astir of america person lone ever seen the Director's Cut of the film. Anyway, it was shocking and truly gave maine the creeps erstwhile I archetypal saw it. It's truthful good."
Warner Bros.
—Anonymous
What happens: After Regan has already started showing disturbing signs of demonic possession, her mother, Chris, is downstairs, disquieted and trying to fig retired what's happening. Suddenly, retired of nowhere, Regan appears upside-down, walking connected each fours similar a spider — backmost arched, caput turned astatine a grotesque angle, and crawling rapidly down the staircase.
13. The Nun (2018) — "The country wherever Father Burke is buried live by a demonic entity."
Warner Bros.
What happens: Father Burke is lured into a graveyard and past to a coffin, which helium falls into. An unseen unit seals it shut, trapping him underground. As helium attempts to escape, demonic hands look from the earth, grabbing his look successful a horrifying moment.
14. Martyrs (2008) — "The country wherever Anna is skinned alive. It stuck with maine for a agelong clip aft watching that movie."
Wild Bunch
—Anonymous
What happens: Anna, aft being brutally tortured and degraded by a spiritual cult, is deemed to person reached the 'final stage' of martyrdom and is surgically flayed alive.
15. The Last Exorcism (2010) — "Climax revealed, past 15 minutes."
Lionsgate
—[deleted]
What happens: The cult is performing a demonic birthing ceremonial astir a bonfire. Nell gives commencement to a demon baby. The babe is thrown into a fire, the exorcist rushes towards the fire, and the movie unit is attacked and killed.
16. Heretic (2024) — "The country wherever Sister Paxton finds each these women successful cages mode down beneath Mr. Reed's house. I was NOT expecting that. A existent nightmare."
A24
—Anonymous
What happens: Sister Paxton uncovers an underground enclosure containing emaciated women confined successful cages. This revelation underscores Reed's twisted doctrine that the tendency to power others is the basal of each religions.
17. Finally, The Omen (1976) — "The past changeable of the movie."
20th Century Fox
—wjrj
What happens: Robert, having attempted to support the satellite from Damien (aka the Antichrist), is fatally injured. At his funeral, the camera pulls backmost to uncover Damien lasting with his caller adoptive parents, smiling ominously astatine the camera.
English (US) ·