10 Most Stressful Movie Scenes Of All Time

10. A Silent Birth - A Quiet Place

Child birth is fairly stressful at the best of times.

Now take that intense scenario of a mother pushing out their baby, add in a terrifying alien creature that murders anything that makes even the slightest of sounds, and you have a recipe for a truly mesmerising/horrifying scene.

That's precisely what occurred during John Krasinski's first A Quiet Place picture, with the director's real-life wife and top class thespian Emily Blunt playing the poor Evelyn Abbott trying to squeeze out a newborn in this hellacious environment.

From the moment Evelyn's waters break, every second that follows feels like an agonising lifetime. Things then go from bad to excruciating as Abbott only goes and pierces her foot on the gigantic nail protruding from one of the basement steps.

That step on Lego x1000 perfectly sets the stressful stage for the arrival of the aforementioned sightless creature, with each bathtub contraction, gasp, and cry as Evelyn prepares for the inevitable big push possibly being her last as the frightening monster edges closer.

Thankfully, her clever family had some fireworks handy to draw the blind villain away just in time, but that still couldn't completely erase the memories of one of the most nail-biting births in movie history.