10 Scariest Opening Horror Movie Scenes Ever
7. It Follows
Built on the concept of creeping dread in more ways that one, It Follows is a cult favourite of the genre for all the right reasons; its slow-burning, intense, inescapable narrative spearheading the trend for spooky smart movies like we’ve never seen before.
The film itself is one that follows a terrifying, invisible entity that stalks those like an STD, attaching itself to a host that it relentlessly walks after when they have sex with an infected person, and moving onto the next when they boink someone new. In the opening, we see the terrifying effect of being a part of the string of sexy targets, in which a young girl flees an unseen pursuer and says goodbye to her family, before turning up crumbled like a ryvita biscuit on the beach.
It’s a gripping opening and one that’s terrifying for the unknown quantity of the attacker - but becomes all the more deeply upsetting when you’ve seen the film and rewatch. The stark rationalisation, death of hope, and grisly end become all too real by the end of it all.