10 Genuinely Terrifying Scenes Trapped In Terrible Horror Movies

10. Bob Goes Into The Basement - The House By The Cemetery

Depending on your tolerance for gory Italian horror, you may or may not feel that The House by the Cemetery is a particularly terrible film, but when judged on a filmmaking level, it certainly is lacking the usual kind of spark that one would associate with the grandmaster of gore Lucio Fulci.

The plot is fairly non-sensical and the characters woefully underdeveloped, but it does have some potent atmosphere and genuinely hair-raising moments. Case in point, the scene in which the perpetually irritating Bob ventures into the titular house's basement after hearing the sounds of his babysitter Ann being brutally butchered.

Once that initial shock of seeing Ann get her throat hacked open wears off, the scene manages to maintain a great deal of its suspense. Fulci makes great use of the basement set, with only small pockets of light illuminating the dusty and cob-webbed covered furniture. Things only go from bad to worse though when Ann's head is flung down the stairs towards Bob, prompting him to flee, only to get caught in the door.

Things reach a fever pitch as the unseen killer makes their way up the stairs, and with this being an Italian horror film, anything is possible...