Most Intense Movie Scenes Of All Time

[nycbadboy128]

Silence of the Lambs (1991)

When Buffalo Bill is using a sewing machine stitching together a suit made of human skin and then starts dancing naked to the song “Goodbye Horses” while putting on makeup and wearing a wig from the scalp of one of his victims. He then does the infamous mangina tuck at the end of that scene...I was traumatized!

 

[Carmine Falcone]

If you're talking about the rape scene, isn't that midway or even 3/4 into the movie? For sure, the movie doesn't end with it.

Ah! I am talking about the rape scene. I know the movie is shot in reverse. Only seen it once so that explains why I got mixed up. I also know the actual scene wasn't shot exactly as seen on screen but apparently that didn't stop Monica Bellucci from being a little traumatized by it. Can't say I blame her.

 

[EagerBeaver]

Marathon Man.
The acting was so good that the pain seemed real and you could feel it in your seat.

Marathon Man made going to the dentist as scary as Jaws made going swimming in the ocean.

Intense part of scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP-Nlb549J8

Full scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xBJERznOgA

 

[EagerBeaver]

My teeth still tingle whenever I think about the curb stomping scene in American history x

You mean this scene?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT-8yFCsBWQ

 

[ThePervert]

The Unforgiven (Final scene with Clint Eastwood)

https://youtu.be/7_uvEuNwUj4

Heat (Shootout scene)

https://youtu.be/ZL9fnVtz_lc

 

[GaryH]

I can think of two more:

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - The Final Duel (The music builds the tension)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJCSNIl2Pls

The French Connection car chase (One of the most original gritty depictions of 70's NY)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzEloJ5venk

 

[Valcazar]

I love the truel in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, but I still prefer the ending shoot out in For a Few Dollars More. The way it goes through the whole sequence, gets interrupted, and then starts again just great.

https://youtu.be/0JPnR7C8mZQ

 

[EagerBeaver]

IThe French Connection car chase (One of the most original gritty depictions of 70's NY)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzEloJ5venk

GaryH

You only posted the car chase, but not the climax which occurs after the car chase, which can be seen here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYMJal35N0o

 

[hungry101]

For a car chase scene I thought the best was in "To Live and Die in LA"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOK9QW21VPo

I think that the wood chipper scene in Fargo was pretty intense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YzsWVUO-_o

But the most intense scene probably has to be the Omaha Beach scene in Saving Private Ryan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSKerypwUDM

Or maybe it was the scene in The Fury where the thinly armored, and under gunned Sherman tanks take on the Tiger:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ47bGAL9Dg

 

[GaryH]

GaryH

You only posted the car chase, but not the climax which occurs after the car chase, which can be seen here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYMJal35N0o

EB - You are so right. I was wondering why that clip cut out the climax. After all that tension of the chase there needs to be a release with the climax.

All these clips are great. I think there are alot of movies here I need to rewatch in the next few weeks!

 

[Skym]

Not from a movie but in season 4 of Breaking Bad, the scene where Jesse Pinkman confronts the thugs that killed her girlfriend's kid was intense.

He just went up to them, was about to have a shootout with them and then Walter White comes crashing in with his vehicle & kills the thugs...i was like wtf..

And Walt says to Jesse... "run..."

I was like..wow that was intense. Holy shit.

 

[Numerati]

Robocop. When they killed Alex Murphy. Such a brutal scene.

Alien and Aliens. The Chestbuster scenes first time I saw them I was around 10 years old and those scenes freaked me out.

 

[Motok]

Monica Belluci's rape scene in Irreversible

 

[Doc Holliday]

The restaurant scene in The Godfather where Michael Corleone avenges his father’s attempted murder & decides to leave a clean life for a life of crime. The minute he walks into the restaurant & sits down after being frisked to the moment he drops the gun & walks out is one of the most suspenseful scenes in movie history.

If you’ve never seen the movie you wonder will he have the nerve to go ahead & do it? And if he does will something go wrong? Will he walk out of the restaurant alive? Is he being set up also? This scene was a masterpiece in Pacino’s very young acting career at the time. The facial expressions, his eyes, the anxiety, the nervousness…what is he thinking? Does he realize that the next moments will decide his destiny…that his life will likely change forever? And if it goes south it likely means that this is very possibly the end of the Corleone empire? What a great, great scene…and a masterpiece in cinema making!

 

[cloudsurf]

Monica Belluci's rape scene in Irreversible

Agreed.
There were also several intense scenes in the movie Caligula. My wife along with several audience members walked out.

 

[parmenides]

Pasolini: "Salo"
Warhol/Morrissey-"Heat"

 

[parmenides]

The restaurant scene in The Godfather where Michael Corleone avenges his father’s attempted murder & decides to leave a clean life for a life of crime. The minute he walks into the restaurant & sits down after being frisked to the moment he drops the gun & walks out is one of the most suspenseful scenes in movie history.

If you’ve never seen the movie you wonder will he have the nerve to go ahead & do it? And if he does will something go wrong? Will he walk out of the restaurant alive? Is he being set up also? This scene was a masterpiece in Pacino’s very young acting career at the time. The facial expressions, his eyes, the anxiety, the nervousness…what is he thinking? Does he realize that the next moments will decide his destiny…that his life will likely change forever? And if it goes south it likely means that this is very possibly the end of the Corleone empire? What a great, great scene…and a masterpiece in cinema making!

So true, and based on actual archive murder photos. Such craft went into that scene. I'd be honoured to get wacked with such care

 

[peacemaker88]

D day invasion on Omaha Beach from Saving Private Ryan

 

[S.S neo]

Never could decide which scene is better between D DAY in Saving private Ryan or when they attack the camp in Thin Red Line ...

 

[25624]

The Deer Hunter (1978). The Russian roulette scene in the Viet Cong prison camp. Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and John Savage. I saw this film when it first came out in theaters. During this scene I could feel the tension in the theater rise. Very intense.


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