10 More Horror Movie Shots That Will Send A Chill Down Your Spine

Horror movie shots that left a lasting impression on traumatised audiences.

by Andrew Pollard
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The humble horror movie has the ability to instill you with instant dread, total discomfort, or simply scar an image into your brain with just one solitary, nicely crafted shot or sequence. These are those moments that prove tough to shake, come a little out of left-field, or are just so well built to, you can't help but be equal parts impressed and equal parts absolutely terrified.

Having already covered 10 Horror Movie Shots That Will Send A Chill Down Your Spine earlier this year, that means Hell House LLC, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Rob Zombie's Halloween II, Hell Is Where the Home Is, The Strangers, The Amityville Horror, The Blair Witch Project, The Exorcist III, Jaws, and Speak No Evil are all off the table this time out.

Still, fortunately there are a whole bunch of other spine-tingling shots out there from the murky world of horror. As such, there's another ten here that have been known to put the willies up many a horror hound.

So, with that in mind, then, here are ten more horror movie shots that left a lasting impression on traumatised audiences.

10. The Doctor Will See You Now - House On Haunted Hill (1999)

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A remake of the 1959 film of the same name, William Malone's House on Haunted Hill sees a group of strangers offered $1 million each if they can survive the night in the long-abandoned Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute for the Criminally Insane.

One such stranger is Melissa Marr (Bridgette Wilson), a former TV star desperate to get her hands on this cash and boost her star power. And when our group split up to explore this old asylum, it's Melissa who has the most startling encounter of the entire movie.

With a camcorder to hand, Melissa, looking through that item's viewer, finds a doctor and two nurses operating on some unfortunate fella. Immediately assessing this scene through her own eyes rather than through the camcorder, Wilson's character can only see an empty, dusty, cobweb-ridden operating table.

Upon looking back through the camcorder, though, Melissa not only once again sees these ghoulish figures, but in spine-tingling fashion, the doctor and nurses slowly turn to stare at Melissa, making her fully aware that they're watching her.

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Once described as the Swiss Army Knife of WhatCulture, Andrew can usually be found writing, editing, or presenting on a wide range of topics. As a lifelong wrestling fan, horror obsessive, and comic book nerd, he's been covering those topics professionally as far back as 2010. In addition to his current WhatCulture role of Senior Content Producer, Andrew previously spent nearly a decade as Online Editor and Lead Writer for the world's longest-running genre publication, Starburst Magazine, and his work has also been featured on BBC, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, WhatToWatch, Sportkskeeda, and various other outlets, in addition to being a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic. Between his main day job, his role as the lead panel host of Wales Comic Con, and his gig as a pre-match host for Wrexham AFC games, Andrew has also carried out a hugely varied amount of interviews, from the likes of Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, Adrienne Barbeau, Rob Zombie, Katharine Isabelle, Leigh Whannell, Bruce Campbell, and Tony Todd, to Kevin Smith, Ron Perlman, Elijah Wood, Giancarlo Esposito, Simon Pegg, Charlie Cox, the Russo Brothers, and Brian Blessed, to Kevin Conroy, Paul Dini, Tara Strong, Will Friedle, Burt Ward, Andrea Romano, Frank Miller, and Rob Liefeld, to Bret Hart, Sting, Mick Foley, Ricky Starks, Jamie Hayer, Britt Baker, Eric Bischoff, and William Regal, to Mickey Thomas, Joey Jones, Phil Parkinson, Brian Flynn, Denis Smith, Gary Bennett, Karl Connolly, and Bryan Robson - and that's just the tip of an ever-expanding iceberg. Where his beloved Wrexham AFC is concerned, Andrew is co-host of the Fearless in Devotion podcast, which won the Club Podcast of the Year gong at the 2024 FSA Awards.