10 Best Horror Movie Shower Scenes

10. The Grudge

The terror of Ju-On/The Grudge's shower scene is a literal blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, but it's one of the most memorable shower scares in horror history.

Of course, the greater Grudge franchise is an absolute monster of a series, amassing a total of 13 feature films, several shorts, countless graphic novels, video games and even a TV series. One standard trope that has been present in three of those movies, is the use of a chilling shower scene reveal.

Shown in the 2002 movie, the 2004 US remake, and again in last year's 'side sequel', audiences have been treated to the exact same scene of a hand making its way out of one of the franchise star's hair during a shower sequence.

In 2002's Ju-On: The Grudge, it was Megumi Okina's Rika Nishina who was the first to be tormented by this creepy hand. Skip ahead to the US do-over of that picture, and Sarah Michelle Gellar's Karen Davis likewise had the same thing happen to her, before John Cho's Peter Spencer found himself experiencing that same eerie phenomena in the most recent entry in the franchise.

Elsewhere, 2016's Sadako vs. Kayako - as in, a crossover movie bringing the Ring and Ju-On series together - also had a haunting shower scene, which was more a nightmarish scenario of hair falling out rather than any rogue hand making an appearance.

Authored by Andrew Pollard

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First Posted On: 19th Feb 2021