20 Most WTF Moments From 2025 Horror Movies
10. Emily's Death - Opus
A24's Opus may have been a relatively underwhelming riff on the well-worn cult horror flick, but it did at least serve up one of the more memorably effed-up death scenes of the year.
Once the veil drops and it's confirmed that reclusive pop star Alfred Moretti (John Malkovich) is operating a cult from his remote compound, we find out what happened to Emily (Stephanie Suganami), an influencer invited to Moretti's abode who became ill earlier on.
Emily eventually emerges from inside a beanbag chair that she's been stuffed inside, with her face horrifically swollen due to being injected with a toxic unknown substance by one of Moretti's acolytes. Moreover, the injection makes Emily's tongue balloon in size, causing her to slowly suffocate - all while protagonist Ariel (Ayo Edebiri) can only watch in horror.
This is one of those deeply unnerving, viscerally unsettling death scenes that you'll nevertheless be unable to look away from.