10 Scariest Opening Horror Movie Scenes Ever
3. A Quiet Place
What better way to introduce an almost entirely silent film than with some… well, silence? Very clearly setting the tone through a raid in an abandoned shop for medicine, a family executes their movements with painstaking precision, letting us know that the ‘who can stay quiet the longest game’ is actually a serious endeavour and not something dire to entertain their children. Car trips, bus rides, apocalyptic nightmare alien invasions - it’s all the same really.
Of course, the one time a toy comes with batteries included leads to the break-neck speed death of the youngest child, executed with terrifying speed and visuals that will make your stomach turn. What started as a movie that you’d assume to build slowly and carefully suddenly comes crashing in with all guns blazing, and the quietness you sit through afterwards becomes an exercise in self preservation as much as dramatic tension.
Honestly, it’s just a bloody scary opening, and one that keeps you on your toes for the entirety of the feature.