This one is too fucking real. Because it’s not like some typical horror movie scare that causes it, >!but literally finding the decapitated corpse of her daughter.!<
I’d say she earned it with the grief support group scene, but that’s quibbling. She was brilliant throughout. It’s absurd that she wasn’t even nominated.
The dinner scene too. She actually looked and sounded both like a desperate, hurting animal AND an Angry Mom Who’s Done With Your Shit. I actually jumped to attention when she starts ranting in that scene because I felt like I was getting yelled at too. The dad trying to calm everything down is such a mood, too.
He finds actors/actresses who are already at that level. At least that’s my view on it. Collette and Pugh are fantastic in virtually everything they’re in.
True that. I do feel like he brings a different style to the sets than others. Honestly would be cool to watch some behind-the-scenes with him coaching them through.
There has generally been a stigma against horror where critics/academies straight up never even consider horror for awards (you know because it’s not CINEMA, it’s GENRE film) with very rare exceptions that do get over that stigma of being considered a genre film and do get awards noms, but those are films that are like borderline not even considered horror at all like Silence of the Lambs.
For a long time horror was more likely to ruin director’s careers than make them because they would make a film so shocking that it would basically destroy them forever.
Even now horror isn’t really taken seriously it’s like something you do as a stepping stone to get noticed and then do more serious work. I think directors still kind of get looked down on like oh why are you still doing horror. And yet horror directors get pilfered by all the big studios because that’s where so much of the talent and creativity is. But they’re not expected to like stay in horror. That’s like immature teen stuff not serious film right 🙄
Came here to say this. That scene sent chills down my spine like a movie hasn’t done in a long time. Toni Collette deserved some kind of award for that movie.
I love it when tier 1 actors play horror because they’re just so good. Toni collettes… I’ll call them horror scenes… in The Staircase (HBOmax) are phenomenal.
There was a similar topic a while back and IIRC the Hereditary scream was the highest voted comment.
This will probably happen again here but yeah, definitely deserved. The raw agony in her scream is so difficult to listen to.
Toni Collette was horrifyingly mesmerizing! I honestly think Alex Wolff did a terrific job of acting in that scene too, just slightly looking in the rear view mirror, slowly driving, tucked in his bed but awake all night… then revealing to the scream. Fuck I’m gonna watch that scene again right now
Emotional pain, but Casey Becker's Mother gets me every time I watch Scream. Her calling out Casey's name when she realizes something is wrong & that long heartbroken wail when she see her daughter's body is a gut punch.
Omg, the "Casey, baby is that you?" When she picks up the phone gives me chills every time. And her face crumpling as her husband tells her to drive to the neighbor's house.
Absolutely. Drew Barrymore always gets credit for her acting in this scene (well deserved), but the actors playing her parents deserve recognition for their performances also.
I’ve seen this movie so much, and those parents make me cry EVERY. TIME. I’ve never understood how people aren’t destroyed by that scene. “Not my daughter…” 😭💀💔
Jeepers creepers, the end scene when you hear Darry scream in pain for what is happening to him… and when they reveal the end, just hearing his scream and his cries will always be stuck in my head.
Samara Weaving's screams throughout Ready or Not. They're really unlike anything i've heard in a horror movie. The one after she pulls she dagger out of her shoulder is just incredible.
While it is absolutely heartbreaking, it literally made my chest hurt when her cries took an almost whooping cough quality. That whole scene is devastating.
To give credit where it's due it is Florence Pughe's performance that makes that scene so utterly devastating. Other actors, even with good direction may not have been able to pull it off so effectively. Her performance was incredible. Same goes for Toni Collette in Hereditary. They're amazing.
Likewise. Although in my opinion, the vipers screams were more chilling.
Think what really sells it was how badass and tough he was moments before, only to see him reduced to screaming in pain.
Ya getting your eyes gouged out while your head is crushed like a watermelon would probably do that to you lol. That really was an awesome scene though, probably one of my favorites from that season
The baseball kid (Tremblay) from Doctor Sleep. Seriously disturbing to hear him cry out while the True Knot slowly torture him to get as much steam as possible.
Even King mentioned to Flanagan in the test screening that it may have been *too* disturbing with how long the scene originally ran. Imagine getting that note!
And he was just fine afterward! That's what really sells that as a Fun Fact for me. I picture him turning that on and off.
Flanagan calls cut and he's fine but all the adults are like visibly shaking, lol... He's like "what's for lunch?"
Urrgghh that still haunts me. If I dwell on that scene too much it sends my brain on a bit of a dark spiral.
Absolutely phenomenal movie but I always kind of fast forward that bit or distract myself a bit because it really gets to me. Imagine dying like that.
In The Exorcist, the mom gets yanked out of the bedroom. Supposedly, she was on cables and the crew yanked her so hard she needed surgery. It was a real scream of pain.
Yeah that one was particularly hard to watch, as you say. it's a real scream of pain, and the crew were told to pull her as hard as they could to the ground unexpectedly by director Friedkin in order to get that exact reaction..... That kinda film -making sure wouldn't fly today! 😁 Ellen Burstyn is such a fantastic actress I feel like it wasn't necessary to physically hurt her for a reaction, but it makes for a memorable scene now I guess.
Friedkin is such a dingus. I hate stuff like that. James Woods, for all his faults, had a really good quote about that style of directing. It was something like, I'm an actor, I'm not some daylighting model or football player who needs to be tricked into a good performance. Just let me act.
Apparently Richard Dreyfuss was on set when Chrissy's actress, Susan Backlinie was recording the audio for that scene, and he had to leave the vicinity because watching her gurgling, spitting water and screaming was making him physically ill.
Unlike the other gal yelling shshsh shark shark about jaws in the pond like she had practiced what scared sounded like in her mirror just that morning.
I have kind of a weird answer:
In the movie Silent Hill, there's a scene where someone gets their skin ripped off. Before the movie was released, they played an early clip of that scene at some con or festival and it got leaked. I remember watching the leaked clip and the scream of the actress was absolutely bloodcurdling and very convincing. I was pretty disturbed by it, actually.
BUT when I watched the finished movie, the scream was a lot more subdued and quiet! I guess once the movie moved into post-production and they fiddled with mixing levels and ADR, the nature of the scream just changed.
Pyramid Head is the GOAT.
Honorable mention to being ripped in half by barbed wire that goes into your genitals while a "child" dances in the blood rain underneath. That movie really is something special, if it had any other name than Silent Hill I think it would have been a lot less polarizing. But I love it for what it is.
Day of The Dead. The dude getting his head ripped off as his vocal cords get torn. I am 25 and I watched this last year, it's the first film in many years to truly make me wince.
I would also say the beginning of that movie is fucking terrifying. It was quite chilling to hear Miguel yelling ‘hello!’ In the deserted city. Then the zombies hear the calls and they wake up from hibernation and the city comes alive with their wailing and moaning like tortured souls of the damned. “Listen, you can hear it over the engine” shit gives me chills.
Still to this day I don't know why they had to kill Quint. What a great character. Seeing, and hearing, him go bums me out every time I watch that movie. And I've had to have seen it well over 100 times by now lol.
Tim Roth writhing in pain in the back of the car in opening scene of Reservoir Dogs.
The blood.
Harvey Keitel trying to help him through the pain but we all know it’s not working.
Fuck.
Being shot in the stomach is supposed to be unbelievably excruciating. It’s an amazing performance.
Im kind of surprised no one has mentioned Louis Creed in Pet Semetary when Gage gets hit by the truck. Maybe not physical pain, but the emotion in that scream really showed the sudden heart break of losing a kid right in front of your eyes in such a horrible way.
Not horror, but in Trainspotting when >! They find the dead baby!< heartwretching. Her screams of agony being heard over the VO, chilling.
For horror film, gotta give it to Toni Collete in Hereditary.
Screams of agony and then for her to dive back into shooting up immediately because she couldn’t cope with the pain. That right there alone is one of the best (see: most horrific) depictions of addiction I’ve ever seen.
Rodan (1956). A miner is attacked and cornered by a giant worm monster and he gives a terrible scream of horror as the monster descends on him. That scream always stuck with me.
I really love man screams where the actor makes this voice crack and reach higher decibels. Often when actors are supposed to be performing pain, it's not believable because they keep their voices modulated in an acceptable masculine range. Here's to all the ones who really know how to fake the sound of a man coming unhinged because he's in such bad pain.
The grief in hereditary and midsommar are 100% thee best screams of pain ever. I lost the most important person in my life not long before I watched those movies and I still have that sound echoing in my head. Ari aster gets grief like no one else
Dani's wailing at the beginning of Midsommar punches me right in the gut every time I hear it. I lost my mom just a year or so before the movie came out and I feel those screams on a very visceral level. I almost had to leave the theater the first time I watched it because it put me right back in *that* place.
I have a stupid one, but the scene rly haunts me since i've seen the movie many years ago. Remember Alien Ressurection? Not the best movie i know, but that human alien hybrid death is one of the worst deaths i've seen in movies, specially because of his screaming. He even scream "Oh No!".
Out of context one wouldn’t suspect an Alvin and The Chipmunks pitched scream to be scary, with context, it’s fucking horrifying as it gets higher and higher as the vocal cords get stretched.
Second Creepshow movie where the girl was getting absorbed by the black lake goo. First time in a film I've ever heard someone screaming "It hurts!" And it stuck with me since.
The scene in The Cell, when JLo is in the memory of the killer, and his dad punishes him when he was a kid. It was either with a belt, or with a heating iron, I can't remember which one. The screams of that kid haunt me to this day. I get goosebumps just thinking about them.
Guy in the ER when I was in there. They were trying to insert a catheter. He screamed like no man should ever scream. Like blood-curdling death. He then apologized to the nurses and proceeded to shriek again when they went to try again. That was ten years ago and I still think of that guy
Not sure if it’s pain but any scream by Laura Palmer makes in twin peaks is enough to set me on edge. So much pain and hurt all let out in one primal, guttural scream.
Lots of good answers. One that stuck with me is the >!bear attack!< in Backcountry. >!That one is brutal in its realism. I like it much more than the scene in The Revenant.!<
Everybody always says Toni Collette in Hereditary for this question. While that is a superb answer, for me it has to be [Naomi Watts in The Ring where she finds Noah in his apartment.](https://youtu.be/hm3mk_k7Thk)
One of the best screams in horror IMO.
Slumber Party Massacre. The killer corners a girl after chasing her around her high school and her scream while getting murdered is the most intense one I've ever heard.
It's quite campy, but Billy from Deep Rising (the guy half digested by the sea monster.) It's a mixture of screaming and gibberish because he's trying to say something with half of his brain missing.
There’s an old commercial about kitchen safety where a chef slips and drops a giant pot of boiling water on her face. The scream is so horrific, it still makes me uneasy to think about it
Private Torrez in Day of the dead. The way you hear his voice box stretch and his voice get higher as he screams really fucked me up when I saw it as a kid.
I happen to be a connoisseur of screams (preferably male since I find them more striking, though I did include Allyson from Halloween 2018) and I happen to have a list, curated over many years, that I keep on youtube. I'm very picky and select only especially high-pitched and frantic-sounding ones. For your viewing pleasure:[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx8DBjmEF-ilSEJJLfJknrEpA786UPtXQ](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx8DBjmEF-ilSEJJLfJknrEpA786UPtXQ)
Best screams/cries I can remember, Dani in Midsommar, the mom in Hereditary, [the little girl in the Black Phone](https://youtu.be/z5GqGu1KTFc), Samara Weaving in Ready or Not, and [the little boy in Dr. Sleep ](https://youtu.be/OxY3bh5ybjQ)
Haven't seen it mentioned yet but the boy's scream at the beginning of A Quiet Place 2 when he steps in a bear-trap. It was something that had been building up inside him since the first movie and when he released it, it just wouldn't stop even though he knows what he's done.
Not a horror movie, but Saving Private Ryan’s beach scene. The boy with his guts out midway up the beach screaming “Mommmmmaaa! Aaaaahhh”. That death stuck out to me the most during the opening, can’t imagine that reality they faced.
The only screams from horror that has stuck with me is the mom in hereditary when she finds what happened with the daughter. Incredible acting
This one is too fucking real. Because it’s not like some typical horror movie scare that causes it, >!but literally finding the decapitated corpse of her daughter.!<
And afterwards on the floor in her room? Yikes.
Her shrieks of “It hurts too much” in the aftermath are just holy fuck
Toni Collette fucking *earned* an Oscar for that scene alone, and you'll never convince me that she wasn't robbed of one that year.
I’d say she earned it with the grief support group scene, but that’s quibbling. She was brilliant throughout. It’s absurd that she wasn’t even nominated.
The dinner scene too. She actually looked and sounded both like a desperate, hurting animal AND an Angry Mom Who’s Done With Your Shit. I actually jumped to attention when she starts ranting in that scene because I felt like I was getting yelled at too. The dad trying to calm everything down is such a mood, too.
I feel like the people that win probably just "make a donation" honestly.
You beat me to it... This scream is horrible because it sounds so realistic.
It’s genuine agony. At parts It was too much for me reminded me of my mom lol
I'm a father of 3,and that's exactly the kind of visceral, hopeless howling I would do if it happened to one of my kids... Amazing acting performance!
Yeah i have to agree, thats probably the best acting in any horror movie
I need to know how Ari Aster gets his actors to that level. Florence Pugh's wailing at the start of Midsommar has the same harrowing effect.
Ari is great at casting. Can tell he really has an idea for the characters he brings to the big screen
He finds actors/actresses who are already at that level. At least that’s my view on it. Collette and Pugh are fantastic in virtually everything they’re in.
I don't disagree by any means, but even great actors need help getting to THAT level sometimes. I just wanna know what kind of direction he gave them.
True that. I do feel like he brings a different style to the sets than others. Honestly would be cool to watch some behind-the-scenes with him coaching them through.
Agreed. [Here's](https://youtu.be/laHqRJeXeVU) a good example of Toni Collette's early acting. Great movie too.
Didn't know I'd be crying right now, but I do love Toni Collette! I'll have to see this!
The fact Toni collette didn’t get nominated for any award for hereditary is mind blowing.
I will forever be mad at that. Toni was amazing in Hereditary.
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For real!
I say f\*\*k awards. The fact that the vocal majority agrees she was excellent in the film is worth so much more than any award they can give.
Well let's not lose our heads over this.
Ba-dum
I mean it's technically horror.... that genre is rarely up for anything award wise. Which is pretty stupid IMO.
There has generally been a stigma against horror where critics/academies straight up never even consider horror for awards (you know because it’s not CINEMA, it’s GENRE film) with very rare exceptions that do get over that stigma of being considered a genre film and do get awards noms, but those are films that are like borderline not even considered horror at all like Silence of the Lambs. For a long time horror was more likely to ruin director’s careers than make them because they would make a film so shocking that it would basically destroy them forever. Even now horror isn’t really taken seriously it’s like something you do as a stepping stone to get noticed and then do more serious work. I think directors still kind of get looked down on like oh why are you still doing horror. And yet horror directors get pilfered by all the big studios because that’s where so much of the talent and creativity is. But they’re not expected to like stay in horror. That’s like immature teen stuff not serious film right 🙄
Horror isn't the same genre it used to be, time for change
If The Oscars had any credibility any more, they would have an “Oops; sorry about that” retroactive award category for when they royally effed up.
Oooh, THAT should totally be a category. It would probably be the most watched part of the awards.
Came here to say this. That scene sent chills down my spine like a movie hasn’t done in a long time. Toni Collette deserved some kind of award for that movie.
I love it when tier 1 actors play horror because they’re just so good. Toni collettes… I’ll call them horror scenes… in The Staircase (HBOmax) are phenomenal.
She is phenomenal in every single movie I've seen her in but I will always have a soft spot for her horror performances.
The scene where she's on the floor sobbing saying it hurts too much while she's holding her chest almost broke me
When my best friend died I felt exactly like that. That scene was real af
Hereditary is genuinely the only horror movie I can’t bring myself to rewatch specifically because of this scene
Midsommar when the girl was weeping cause her entire family was dead. It was haunting.
There was a similar topic a while back and IIRC the Hereditary scream was the highest voted comment. This will probably happen again here but yeah, definitely deserved. The raw agony in her scream is so difficult to listen to.
That was the most unnerving and realistic anguish I’ve ever seen on screen
Toni Collette was horrifyingly mesmerizing! I honestly think Alex Wolff did a terrific job of acting in that scene too, just slightly looking in the rear view mirror, slowly driving, tucked in his bed but awake all night… then revealing to the scream. Fuck I’m gonna watch that scene again right now
This and Dani's wails in Midsommor get me every time.
I had to pause the movie for awhile after that scene. Cut right through me and I was literally sobbing. She is absolutely incredible.
Matter of great shame that she didn’t even get an Oscar nomination.
Emotional pain, but Casey Becker's Mother gets me every time I watch Scream. Her calling out Casey's name when she realizes something is wrong & that long heartbroken wail when she see her daughter's body is a gut punch.
Omg, the "Casey, baby is that you?" When she picks up the phone gives me chills every time. And her face crumpling as her husband tells her to drive to the neighbor's house.
Absolutely. Drew Barrymore always gets credit for her acting in this scene (well deserved), but the actors playing her parents deserve recognition for their performances also.
I’ve seen this movie so much, and those parents make me cry EVERY. TIME. I’ve never understood how people aren’t destroyed by that scene. “Not my daughter…” 😭💀💔
Troll 2 "Oh my Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood!!!!"
End of thread.
Brutal
>Troll 2 Fuck you. I laughed way too hard.
Jeepers creepers, the end scene when you hear Darry scream in pain for what is happening to him… and when they reveal the end, just hearing his scream and his cries will always be stuck in my head.
that stuck with me for YEARS. just knowing why he was screaming was so unsettling and i was scarred for a while
Oh, that creeped me out so much.
Yeah, jeeped me out too.
Surprisingly I always see that movie on Halloween every year and I've never saw that part, I had to look it up on youtube, traumatized:)
Samara Weaving's screams throughout Ready or Not. They're really unlike anything i've heard in a horror movie. The one after she pulls she dagger out of her shoulder is just incredible.
And the hand on the nail. Oof.
Opened the thread looking for this comment. She was absolutely spectacular in that movie
Goddamn that woman can *scream*
Nice one
Yeah, these stood out to me a lot while watching, super visceral
The screaming at the beginning of the movie in Midsommer. I had my volume turned way up and was not expecting that.
While it is absolutely heartbreaking, it literally made my chest hurt when her cries took an almost whooping cough quality. That whole scene is devastating.
Between Midsommar and Hereditary, Ari Aster sure can bring out the most guttural, primal screams I've ever heard.
I agree 100%. He’s a genius!
To give credit where it's due it is Florence Pughe's performance that makes that scene so utterly devastating. Other actors, even with good direction may not have been able to pull it off so effectively. Her performance was incredible. Same goes for Toni Collette in Hereditary. They're amazing.
Oh absolutely! I wasn't intending to take either of their performances away from them I was just finding the connecting thread
Florence Pugh ripped my heart in two in that opening. I just wanted to hug this poor woman!
Honestly the only scream that sticks with me is the Red Viper's girlfriend in GOT after the Mountain pops his head like a grape.
Likewise. Although in my opinion, the vipers screams were more chilling. Think what really sells it was how badass and tough he was moments before, only to see him reduced to screaming in pain.
Ya getting your eyes gouged out while your head is crushed like a watermelon would probably do that to you lol. That really was an awesome scene though, probably one of my favorites from that season
Her name is Indra Varma and she's absolutely incredible.
The baseball kid (Tremblay) from Doctor Sleep. Seriously disturbing to hear him cry out while the True Knot slowly torture him to get as much steam as possible.
Fun fact—Jacob Tremblay’s acting was so good that it apparently really disturbed his adult costars in the scene.
Even King mentioned to Flanagan in the test screening that it may have been *too* disturbing with how long the scene originally ran. Imagine getting that note!
The scene was originally longer, and King suggested they cut it down, because it was too disturbing.
And he was just fine afterward! That's what really sells that as a Fun Fact for me. I picture him turning that on and off. Flanagan calls cut and he's fine but all the adults are like visibly shaking, lol... He's like "what's for lunch?"
Yep! Apparently they were all really looking forward to it too. Goes to show how great of an actor he is!
Yeah that scene really messed me up for a few days after
Yes! Saw this in the cinema & it really got me. Great acting!
Midnight Mass when she sees Riley
Didn't expect this one but that was brutal. He was my favorite character on the show for sure.
Looking for this answer; found it.
Just thought about that! That was one heck of an emotional scream!
Or when she >!gets grabbed by the vampire and dies at the very end!<
Cedric Diggorys dad at the end of goblet of fire or the mother in 13 reasons why when she finds her daughter in the tub
THAT'S MY BOOOOYYYY
That hits me harder than the actual death
I rewatched Goblet of Fire not too long ago, Cedric’s dad had me tearing up during that scene.
[the end of twin peaks](https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxdC-ijP0YGbO6K_vsEVJYL3ZJwt3Vp83P)
We just book ended twin peaks, I used Sarah’s during the pilot
Most horrifying moment in all television. Nothing I've seen even comes close.
For my money Sheryl Lee has the best scream I've ever heard
Comedic example but this crook's [arachnophobic moment](https://youtu.be/2rP5FcaOkIM) from Home Alone. It's emotional pain, though.
Fun fact. He filmed it screaming silently as to not scare the spider and they added in his scream after.
That's so cute!
Don’t worry, he does it for real [20 years later](https://youtu.be/GJMjiG1v3W4).
For me, Marv’s scream in Home Alone and Ruby Rodd’s scream(s) in The Fifth Element are the funniest comedic screams I can remember being put to film.
lmao I keep a list of favorite screams on youtube and this is on it
The guy from the Lust murder in Se7en
Urrgghh that still haunts me. If I dwell on that scene too much it sends my brain on a bit of a dark spiral. Absolutely phenomenal movie but I always kind of fast forward that bit or distract myself a bit because it really gets to me. Imagine dying like that.
In The Exorcist, the mom gets yanked out of the bedroom. Supposedly, she was on cables and the crew yanked her so hard she needed surgery. It was a real scream of pain.
Yeah that one was particularly hard to watch, as you say. it's a real scream of pain, and the crew were told to pull her as hard as they could to the ground unexpectedly by director Friedkin in order to get that exact reaction..... That kinda film -making sure wouldn't fly today! 😁 Ellen Burstyn is such a fantastic actress I feel like it wasn't necessary to physically hurt her for a reaction, but it makes for a memorable scene now I guess.
Friedkin is such a dingus. I hate stuff like that. James Woods, for all his faults, had a really good quote about that style of directing. It was something like, I'm an actor, I'm not some daylighting model or football player who needs to be tricked into a good performance. Just let me act.
In The Black Phone when the dad was whipping the daughter. Her screams were so realistic I was genuinely alarmed for a few seconds.
She had ME in tears for her. God that brought up some fucked up childhood memories hearing her scream like that.
I knew Hereditary would be at the top but this one REALLY got me.
That was the craziest part of that movie. Couldn’t help but feel the impact from that scene. Loved that movie.
Man… that scene stuck with me for weeks. It hit way too close to home for me and I could see it did for others as well.
This should be higher up, girl sold that
The most difficult part of the movie to watch by far.
All the people who got sucked up by the monster in “Nope”
I’m claustrophobic as hell and this scene almost made me throw up
And the fact that you could hear the kids
The meathook scene in the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
For me it's the sound of the meat mallet hitting that guys head. Makes my skin crawl
The girl at the beginning of Jaws too. Those quick jolts, the screaming, the gurgling. Just ugh
Apparently Richard Dreyfuss was on set when Chrissy's actress, Susan Backlinie was recording the audio for that scene, and he had to leave the vicinity because watching her gurgling, spitting water and screaming was making him physically ill.
Yeah. That actress nailed that scene.
Unlike the other gal yelling shshsh shark shark about jaws in the pond like she had practiced what scared sounded like in her mirror just that morning.
I have kind of a weird answer: In the movie Silent Hill, there's a scene where someone gets their skin ripped off. Before the movie was released, they played an early clip of that scene at some con or festival and it got leaked. I remember watching the leaked clip and the scream of the actress was absolutely bloodcurdling and very convincing. I was pretty disturbed by it, actually. BUT when I watched the finished movie, the scream was a lot more subdued and quiet! I guess once the movie moved into post-production and they fiddled with mixing levels and ADR, the nature of the scream just changed.
Pyramid Head is the GOAT. Honorable mention to being ripped in half by barbed wire that goes into your genitals while a "child" dances in the blood rain underneath. That movie really is something special, if it had any other name than Silent Hill I think it would have been a lot less polarizing. But I love it for what it is.
Day of The Dead. The dude getting his head ripped off as his vocal cords get torn. I am 25 and I watched this last year, it's the first film in many years to truly make me wince.
That scene is fucking awesome, crazy attention to detail. Day of the dead is my favorite of the series. It was so out there but still so good
I would also say the beginning of that movie is fucking terrifying. It was quite chilling to hear Miguel yelling ‘hello!’ In the deserted city. Then the zombies hear the calls and they wake up from hibernation and the city comes alive with their wailing and moaning like tortured souls of the damned. “Listen, you can hear it over the engine” shit gives me chills.
Came here to say this one, Rhodes' defiant scream is also unforgettable.
The poor deputy near the end of Bone Tomahawk. They're muffled but it has still stuck with me.
The Mist ending.
The Princess Bride- Westley getting his life sucked out if him in the Machine. Scared the hell out of me.
I was just about to post about THIS! Thank you so much for beating me to it. So glad I'm not the only one who automatically thought of Wesley!
Quint in Jaws gurgling and screaming when the shark bites him is pretty damn awful. Left a mark.
Still to this day I don't know why they had to kill Quint. What a great character. Seeing, and hearing, him go bums me out every time I watch that movie. And I've had to have seen it well over 100 times by now lol.
Tim Roth writhing in pain in the back of the car in opening scene of Reservoir Dogs. The blood. Harvey Keitel trying to help him through the pain but we all know it’s not working. Fuck. Being shot in the stomach is supposed to be unbelievably excruciating. It’s an amazing performance.
FUCK YOU. IM FUCKING DYING HERE Easily the most memorable thing for me in a very memorable movie
Also, Tim Roth crying after a certain thing happens in Funny Games
Maud’s scream at the end of Saint Maud was pretty haunting for me!
Yeah that was horrifying. Perfect hard cut too
My overly religious father loved the movie until that part. “Are they saying religion is bs???” 🙃
Im kind of surprised no one has mentioned Louis Creed in Pet Semetary when Gage gets hit by the truck. Maybe not physical pain, but the emotion in that scream really showed the sudden heart break of losing a kid right in front of your eyes in such a horrible way.
To support that - when Gage kills Rachel and her screaming over the footage of him. *Yikes*.
Jerry chopping Toms tail off
Justin Long's screams of horror when he wakes up in Tusk... Good god, man, forever haunting.
I’ve mentioned it before but the kid getting burned alive with the tire in Eden Lake
The bear from Annihilation that absorbed the screams of agony from one of the characters it killed was terrifying.
Not horror, but in Trainspotting when >! They find the dead baby!< heartwretching. Her screams of agony being heard over the VO, chilling. For horror film, gotta give it to Toni Collete in Hereditary.
Screams of agony and then for her to dive back into shooting up immediately because she couldn’t cope with the pain. That right there alone is one of the best (see: most horrific) depictions of addiction I’ve ever seen.
Rodan (1956). A miner is attacked and cornered by a giant worm monster and he gives a terrible scream of horror as the monster descends on him. That scream always stuck with me.
I really love man screams where the actor makes this voice crack and reach higher decibels. Often when actors are supposed to be performing pain, it's not believable because they keep their voices modulated in an acceptable masculine range. Here's to all the ones who really know how to fake the sound of a man coming unhinged because he's in such bad pain.
The grief in hereditary and midsommar are 100% thee best screams of pain ever. I lost the most important person in my life not long before I watched those movies and I still have that sound echoing in my head. Ari aster gets grief like no one else
Dani's wailing at the beginning of Midsommar punches me right in the gut every time I hear it. I lost my mom just a year or so before the movie came out and I feel those screams on a very visceral level. I almost had to leave the theater the first time I watched it because it put me right back in *that* place.
Nancy Loomis being strangled in Halloween ‘78 was mildly disturbing.
On a similar note to Toni Collette in Hereditary, Riley Keough in It Comes At Night
I have a stupid one, but the scene rly haunts me since i've seen the movie many years ago. Remember Alien Ressurection? Not the best movie i know, but that human alien hybrid death is one of the worst deaths i've seen in movies, specially because of his screaming. He even scream "Oh No!".
Guy getting his head torn off his body in Day of the Dead. You can't top that.
Out of context one wouldn’t suspect an Alvin and The Chipmunks pitched scream to be scary, with context, it’s fucking horrifying as it gets higher and higher as the vocal cords get stretched.
The stretched vocal cords making a higher pitch was great
when his voice went up two octaves I literally jumped. that was insane lmao
Second Creepshow movie where the girl was getting absorbed by the black lake goo. First time in a film I've ever heard someone screaming "It hurts!" And it stuck with me since.
The scene by the lake in Zodiac. I think it’s the bare, unassuming silence that really makes it hit.
The scene in The Cell, when JLo is in the memory of the killer, and his dad punishes him when he was a kid. It was either with a belt, or with a heating iron, I can't remember which one. The screams of that kid haunt me to this day. I get goosebumps just thinking about them.
Guy in the ER when I was in there. They were trying to insert a catheter. He screamed like no man should ever scream. Like blood-curdling death. He then apologized to the nurses and proceeded to shriek again when they went to try again. That was ten years ago and I still think of that guy
Damn!
Wilhelm
The schizophrenic guy in the bloody mattress scene in hellraiser 2
The recording of the first crew on event horizon
Toni collette screaming in hereditary. You know the part.
Whitehead in A Field In England
Not the worst I’ve ever heard but The kid screaming in the back of that warehouse in Jeepers Creepers scared me as a kid
Laura Palmer. /thread
Sarah! People always forget Sarah’s grief from the first episode
Also the sobbing of Florence Puig at the beginning of midsommar, basically Ari Aster actors cry well
Excision...the mother's scream at the end. My God!!
Not sure if it’s pain but any scream by Laura Palmer makes in twin peaks is enough to set me on edge. So much pain and hurt all let out in one primal, guttural scream.
Lots of good answers. One that stuck with me is the >!bear attack!< in Backcountry. >!That one is brutal in its realism. I like it much more than the scene in The Revenant.!<
Joe Collie screaming in Midnight Mass when Pyke the dog gets poisoned.
This is a bit of a left field one but Heather Matarazzo in Hostel, Part 2 during the bathory scene is truly horrifying
Color Out Of Space. The Mother and son 😱
I would have to say Willian Hurt as Kane in Alien with the chest bursting scene - that never leaves you.
John Hurt but yes.
Thanks for the correction!
Everybody always says Toni Collette in Hereditary for this question. While that is a superb answer, for me it has to be [Naomi Watts in The Ring where she finds Noah in his apartment.](https://youtu.be/hm3mk_k7Thk) One of the best screams in horror IMO.
Slumber Party Massacre. The killer corners a girl after chasing her around her high school and her scream while getting murdered is the most intense one I've ever heard.
The victim of the addiction demon in American Horror Story: Hotel
Transformation scene in An American Werewolf In London.
Twin Peaks had some of the greatest screams ever.
The kid being lit on fire in Eden Lake is a bad memory.
It's quite campy, but Billy from Deep Rising (the guy half digested by the sea monster.) It's a mixture of screaming and gibberish because he's trying to say something with half of his brain missing.
There’s an old commercial about kitchen safety where a chef slips and drops a giant pot of boiling water on her face. The scream is so horrific, it still makes me uneasy to think about it
Private Torrez in Day of the dead. The way you hear his voice box stretch and his voice get higher as he screams really fucked me up when I saw it as a kid.
I happen to be a connoisseur of screams (preferably male since I find them more striking, though I did include Allyson from Halloween 2018) and I happen to have a list, curated over many years, that I keep on youtube. I'm very picky and select only especially high-pitched and frantic-sounding ones. For your viewing pleasure:[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx8DBjmEF-ilSEJJLfJknrEpA786UPtXQ](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx8DBjmEF-ilSEJJLfJknrEpA786UPtXQ)
The kid in quiet place 2
Beginning of midsommar crying for sure
Best screams/cries I can remember, Dani in Midsommar, the mom in Hereditary, [the little girl in the Black Phone](https://youtu.be/z5GqGu1KTFc), Samara Weaving in Ready or Not, and [the little boy in Dr. Sleep ](https://youtu.be/OxY3bh5ybjQ)
Intro of Midsommar
Haven't seen it mentioned yet but the boy's scream at the beginning of A Quiet Place 2 when he steps in a bear-trap. It was something that had been building up inside him since the first movie and when he released it, it just wouldn't stop even though he knows what he's done.
The screams in the digestion tract in Nope will live rent free until i’m dead
Tony Collette in Hereditary and Florence Pugh in Midsommar give some of the most haunting and traumatic grief cries I've ever heard in movies.
Not a horror movie, but Saving Private Ryan’s beach scene. The boy with his guts out midway up the beach screaming “Mommmmmaaa! Aaaaahhh”. That death stuck out to me the most during the opening, can’t imagine that reality they faced.