10 Most WTF Moments From 2024 Horror Movies
5. The Baby Dies - The Coffee Table
Spanish comedy-horror The Coffee Table features one of the most WTF moments from any horror movie ever, as protagonist Jesús (David Pareja) attempts to stop his newborn son Cayetano from crying.
In the process, he accidentally bumps into the titular piece of furniture he recently bought, in turn dropping the baby on the table's sharp glass pane and killing him instantly. It's a truly stomach-churning "you went there" moment of shock for the audience, making it clear that the next hour-or-so of this blacker-than-black comedy is going to be an absolutely gruelling sit.
Though filmmaker Caye Casas mercifully avoids showing a clear glimpse of the poor baby's corpse, we do later learn that it was decapitated by the glass pane, as if the situation isn't already unbearably horrible enough.
Having to spend the rest of the movie with Jesús as he desperately attempts to hide the truth from his partner is a special kind of hell, and arguably even worse than the whole "headless baby" setup.