10 Most Horrific Horror Movie Scenes Where Nobody Dies

2. Degloving - Gerald's Game

Mike Flanagan did a fantastic job of adapting Stephen King's famously "unfilmable" novel Gerald's Game, and anyone who'd read the source material was surely dreading how the movie would realise the gnarly "degloving" scene.

The story revolves around a woman, Jessie (Carla Gugino), who is left handcuffed to a bed in an isolated house after her husband drops dead of a heart attack.

Later in the film, a desperate Jessie resorts to breaking a glass to cut her wrist, allowing her to then lubricate the cuff with her blood and free her hand, albeit ripping the skin off and degloving her hand in the process. It's frankly one of the most discomfortingly raw gore scenes in any horror film - or any movie period - from the last decade. 

We're not watching someone get hacked in half by a masked killer - Jessie's predicament is decidedly more plausible, and the superbly authentic gore effects combined with Carla Gugino's amazing performance make it a scene even seasoned genre fans might have to watch through splayed fingers.