10 More Moments That Literally Stopped Horror Movies

10. The Car Crash - 28 Days Later

Danny Boyle almost invoked the ire of everybody watching his low-fi post-apocalyptic horror 28 Days Later when he seemed determined to end the film on an elliptical cliffhanger.

The movie's climax sees survivors Jim (Cillian Murphy), Selena (Naomie Harris), and Hannah (Megan Burns) fleeing from the rogue soldier Major Henry West (Christopher Eccleston), desperately driving their cab into the metal gate of West's compound in an attempt to escape.

At the precise moment of impact, however, Boyle freeze-frames the image of Jim and Selena being catapulted forward, as the audio stops and the movie suddenly cuts to black.

But just as viewers started to believe that Boyle had ended the movie on an infuriatingly non-committal sequel-baiting ending, the words "28 days later" appear on the screen, before a brief epilogue reveals that the trio have survived and are awaiting rescue.

For a moment there, though, it sure seemed like Boyle was actively trying to piss everybody off - an act of cinematic trolling if there ever was one.