20 TERRIFYING Scenes In Non Horror Movies

20. Circe Turns Men Into Pigs - The Odyssey

The Odyssey confirmed beyond any doubt that Christopher Nolan could make one hell of a horror movie, because among the several genuinely bone-chilling sequences in the movie, there's the already-legendary pig transformation sequence.

When Odysseus' (Matt Damon) men seek refuge with the witch Circe (a brilliant Samantha Morton), she responds to the uninvited intrusion by feeding the men a laced stew which allows her to turn them into pigs.

The nauseatingly prolonged sequence shows Circe moulding their flesh into a porcine form - a marvel of practical effects combining makeup prosthetics, animatronics, and clay-like props which Samantha Morton was able to manipulate live on set.

That Nolan executed such a strikingly tactile sequence without CGI is absolutely jaw-dropping, and in a film with several memorably unsettling set-pieces - namely the Cyclops escape and battle against the giant Laestrygonians - it's the one that most were left talking about.

Fingers crossed we might see Nolan make an out-and-out horror flick in the future, because he'd clearly knock it out of the park.