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Impediment
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The most suspensful/tense scenes in cinema.

What scenes from film have made you clutch the seats with anticipation and/or dread? Any suspenseful scenes that have shaken you wide awake?

Mine are:

-The adrenaline shot from Pulp Fiction

-The striking of the match to activate the fire stone in the climax of The Fifth Element.

-The bucket scene in Carrie.

-Doc Brown fumbling around trying to reconnect the wires in the climax of Back to the Future.

-Bilbo's angry face when he see the One Ring for the last time on Frodo's necklace from LOTR: TFOTR.

-Marathon Man "Is it safe"?

-The famous "How am I funny"? scene in Goodfellas.

I'll think of more later.

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A good recent example is the opening scene in Inglorious Basterds.

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Halloween(1978) - When Jamie Lee Curtis encounters Michael Myers for the first time in that dark house. The scene builds to almost unbearable scariness.

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F*ck, so many. It'll take me awhile to compile a list, but right off the top of my head, the bomb scene at the end of TDK.

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Halloween(1978) - When Jamie Lee Curtis encounters Michael Myers for the first time in that dark house. The scene builds to almost unbearable scariness.

There's nothing genuinely scary about that film.

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Deckard only just making that jump onto the other roof in Blade Runner.

Indiana Jones racing to get under that closing door in the opening Raiders, being chased by the boulder.

The last 20 mins of Alien.

The bit where McClane is stuck in that vent in Die Hard, and Karl is shooting the shit out of the vent from below...the moment of suspense as it looks like he has found McClane just before Karl is called away.
The elevator shaft fall scene.

The buildup and final attack in Ringu.

The attic scene at the beginning of "The Grudge"
The office building scene.

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Paranormal Activity literally had me on the edge of my seat during the scene when she was pulled off the bed.

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The Dummy scene in Argento's Deep Red.

The swimming teens in Jaws.

The Family killing in Haute Tension.

The first death in Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

And my all time fave....the arrival of the Cenobites in Hellraiser.

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When Michael Corleone has to assassinate those two guys in that restuarant in the first Godfather.

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Holy f**k yeah. Good picks, guys.

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When Brody killed Jaws in the first Jaws movie.

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Aliens special edition scene with the sentury guns.
Terminator 2 when arnie sees John in the hallway and then you realise he is there to protect him.
Then climax of arlington road.
start of cliff hanger.
what happened right after sam jacksons speech in deep blue sea.

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Die hard 4.0 waiting for Mac to say yippee kai motherf*cker

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quote: (post)
Originally posted by SnakeEyes
When Michael Corleone has to assassinate those two guys in that restuarant in the first Godfather.

That's whats cool about the Godfather. That scene is so great in building up suspense that it is later surpass by the killing of the families later in the film.

Both scenes loaded with suspence and murder...can't top that...

Good choice.

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The scene in The Shining when Scatman Crothers arrives back at the Overlook, before his death.

Also the end of Unitied 93, when they rush the hijackers, probably the most intense scene I've ever experienced.

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Holy f**k yeah.... The crazy thing about united 93 is that the experience and tension, and will for the passengers to win is existant in the face of knowing how it comes out every time, (Even if they left out the whole US military shooting them down, maybe after they regained control thing) and is a real dependable nail biter every time.

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