9 Horror Movies Everyone Remembers For One Scene

9. Misery - Hobbling

Misery continued the trend of adapting Stephen King's bestselling novels for the big screen, starring regular collaborator Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes alongside James Caan's Paul Sheldon.

After a car crash, writer Sheldon is rescued by mega-fan Wilkes, and is taken back to her cabin to recover. Luckily, she's a nurse and treats his injuries.

The problem is, she's a little upset with Sheldon for killing her favourite character, so holds him hostage and forces him to write her back to life.

The writer does everything in his power to escape, leading to one particularly unpleasant and brutal scene where we see just how far Wilkes is willing to go. Putting a log between his ankles, she swings a club hammer at his feet, painfully hobbling him and rendering him even more helpless to resist her.

It's dark, visceral and entirely brutal, and it's a scene that people still talk about whenever Misery is mentioned.

It could have been very different, though: in the book, Wilkes cuts off one of Sheldon's feet with an axe. In this case, less is most certainly more, and the sickening sound of Sheldon's ankle breaking was more than enough to cement Misery's place in horror movie history.