20 TERRIFYING Scenes In TERRIBLE Horror Movies
4. Charlie Dies - The Cave
When The Cave was released in the summer of 2005, it was often compared unfavourably to another cave-dwelling monster movie released less than two months prior - Neil Marshall's brilliant The Descent.
As tense, well-acted, and sharply written as Marshall's film was, The Cave was largely total schlock - not unentertaining if approached with the right mindset, but in no way a genuinely "good" film.
But amid the junkiness of its conception, there is one legitimately harrowing scene when pro rock climber Charlie (Piper Perabo) is attacked and killed by one of the deadly creatures roaming the Romanian cave.
After having an up-close encounter with one of the creatures, Charlie leaps to a nearby cave wall in an attempt to escape it.
However, at this point she realises that the creatures can fly, letting out the immortal one-liner "They fly, they freakin' fly!" before it lands on Charlie's position and overpowers her.
She puts up a good fight, stabbing the creature and setting it on fire, but not before it mauls her and delivers fatal injuries.
In an otherwise trashy horror flick, this sequence is genuinely tense, stressful, and well acted.