20 Anxiety-Inducing Moments That'll Terrify You Senseless

William Friedkin's Sorcerer, a surprisingly great and frequently underrated remake of the French classic The Wages of Fear, had a famously hellish production, with the bridge scene being the most difficult part to film. This sequence - in which two trucks, loaded with unstable cargo, drive across an unstable bridge in the middle of a rainstorm while one man walks on ahead to guide them - took several months to do and cost $3 million on its own. 

Honestly, watching it back now, it still feels remarkable that they pulled this off at all, but thank the lord that they did. This sequence is a miniature masterpiece, wonderfully directed and nerve-wracking in the extreme. In fact, it could just be the single best sequence of Friedkin's career. The fact that it's all being done with minimal special effects adds a potent layer of realism and believability to the whole enterprise, making it all even more nerve-shredding. 

If Sorcerer was made today (in fact, an unsuccessful second remake of The Wages of Fear was recently released on Netflix), it almost certainly would be done largely with lots of special effects, and it inevitably wouldn't hit as hard. The limited technology of yesteryear forced filmmakers to be more creative, and often, this really was for the best.