10 Most Stressful Movie Scenes Of All Time
9. Funny How? - Goodfellas
What's more terrifying than a blind alien monster creeping around your home? Joe Pesci questioning why someone thinks he's amusing, apparently.
Undoubtedly one of the most iconic big-screen verbal exchanges of all time, Pesci's Tommy DeVito reacting to Ray Liotta's Henry Hill's "funny" comment after delivering a story to the blokes around him is pure, unfiltered tension.
Flipping the mood from jovial to unnerving with two simple words, Tommy's "funny how?" response begins a menacing grilling of Hill that feels like it could get alarmingly out of hand at any moment.
As Hill squirms and attempts to wriggle his way out of what felt like an innocent compliment, so too does every stressed out soul watching on, waiting for the moment an increasingly pissed off Tommy will finally erupt.
The silence is unbearable as Tommy demands to know exactly what is so funny about the mobster. And just when the scene is at its most intense, Liotta cuts through the quiet with a nervous laugh.
But while Tommy may have just been cruelly teasing Harry this time, the guy who owned the restaurant wasn't quite as lucky, with a sensational Pesci soon unleashing that aforementioned explosion of violence on him to the sound of panicked chuckles.
And breathe.