20 AWFUL Horror Movie Moments You Wish You Could Forget
"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget."
Horror cinema has given us many, many amazing cinematic moments over the years. The shower scene in Psycho, the prom in Carrie, the chase sequence in Halloween, Room 237 in The Shining, the Chest Burster in Alien, the final exorcism in The Exorcist, Hannibal and Clarice's meetings in Silence of the Lambs, the finale of The Substance... the list goes on and on and on.
There are these moments of pure cinematic majesty... but that, of course, means that the opposite is also there. Namely, horror movie scenes so bad you wish you could scrub them from your memory. Do such moments exist in abundance? Oh yes. You better believe it.
These following twenty scenes, all of which comes from terrible horror offerings, are prime examples of such material. They vary heavily, ranging from bad special effects to poorly-executed scares, from ghastly bits of dialogue to rock-bottom bits of filmmaking from one of the most infamous directors in the industry. What they all have in common is that they'd best be represented by the famous meme of Captain Jean-Luc Picard face-palming.
Kicking off with an obscure yet entirely deserving inclusion from the late 2010s...
20. The Haunting Of Sharon Tate: The Re-Enactment Of The Murders
Horror films do sometimes explore real-life tragedies and that's all well and good, but it has to be done respectfully and in a way that isn't exploitative. The Haunting of Sharon Tate most definitely didn't get the memo.
This risible horror film, which sees Sharon Tate (Hilary Duff) experiencing premonitions of the murders before they happen, received several Razzie nominations and it was absolutely deserved. In 2019, we already saw the Manson Family Murders reduced to an idiotic fight sequence in Quentin Tarantino's overpraised Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and somehow, that very same year, we got an even more infuriating treatment.
The premonition of the murders comes in the form of an abysmally-executed load of gratuitous, exploitative violence, and it's further brought down by the sub-par acting and writing that plagued the rest of the film. At one point, while victim Abigail Folger (Lydia Hearst) is being stabbed she literally says aloud "You got me. I'm already dead." Who wrote this?
The Haunting of Sharon Tate was quite possibly the most offensive movie released in 2019, and this scene alone confirmed that.