Pay attention, not all of us are spooky season film marathoners. Perhaps you favor to twist up with a pleasant, soothing interval drama as an alternative of a slasher on a wet October night time, and you recognize what? That’s okay. Don’t let the true-crime ghouls persuade you that you need to get cozy with blood and guts to have an excellent fall time.
Typically, although, a film you weren’t anticipating to comprise any springs it on you anyway. For instance, The Inexperienced Mile is basically a drama, and except you recognize it’s primarily based on a Stephen King novel, you don’t have any purpose to count on it to get scary. Nonetheless, “The dry sponge execution in The Inexperienced Mile is essentially the most horrifying scene in any piece of media I’ve ever seen (I’m a horror film coward), and nothing comes shut,” Redditor _JR28_ vowed to r/Films.
“The music is terror and hopelessness personified, the visible of Eduard’s physique spasming and burning is chilling and the reactions of the characters is horrific: Everybody is aware of precisely what’s taking place and understands the monstrousness of what they’re seeing, however they can not step in to cease it.”
They then requested, “What’s the scariest scene in a non-horror film?” and their fellow Redditors introduced all types of surprising jump-scares.