10 Most Anxiety-Inducing Horror Movie Scenes EVER
6. Buried Alive - The Vanishing
As someone who firmly believes that thrillers are simply horror movies for people who claim to not like horror, The Vanishing's status as something more cerebral and less outright scary still earns it an important spot on this list. Released in 1988, Rex's partner Saskia disappears, and plunges his life into an ongoing search to find her.
Director George Sluizer remade the film as English-language in 1993, and whilst this version wasn't received nearly as well - both films utilise an absolutely breathtaking scene as their climax. And I mean that quite literally.
Claustrophobics may want to turn their head away from this particular clip, since we're forced into a tiny box just about big enough for a human containing Rex, who has been buried alive. Condemned to the same fate as Saskia by a man with no conscience, he's left to experience the same fate she did to truly understand what happened years ago - resulting in his instant panic and futile scrabbling to escape.
It's nauseating, to say the least.