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Prepare to be on the edge of your seat as we count down the most stressful movie scenes of all time. This compilation explores the suspenseful sequences from films like 'Uncut Gems', 'Mission: Impossible', and 'Annihilation' that left audiences breathless.
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00:00Whether they involved a truck trying its best not to be blown to smithereens,
00:04iconic characters coming horrendously close to saying goodbye for good,
00:09or prehistoric menaces stepping into the kitchen for the very first time,
00:13this is WhatCulture and here are the most stressful movie scenes of all time.
00:18A silent birth, a quiet place.
00:21Take that intense scenario of a mother pushing out their baby,
00:24add in a terrifying alien creature that murders anything that makes even the slightest of sounds,
00:29and you have a recipe for a truly mesmerizing slash horrifying scene.
00:34That's precisely what occurred during John Krasinski's first A Quiet Place picture.
00:39From the moment Evelyn's waters break, every second that follows feels like an agonizing lifetime.
00:44Things then go from bad to excruciating as Abbott only goes and pierces her foot
00:49on the gigantic nail protruding from one of the basement steps.
00:53That step on Lego x1000 perfectly sets the stressful stage for the arrival of the aforementioned
00:59sightless creature, with each bathtub contraction, gasp and cry as Evelyn prepares for the inevitable
01:05big push, possibly being her last as the frightening monster edges closer.
01:10Thankfully, her clever family had some fireworks handy to draw the blind villain away just in time,
01:15but that still couldn't completely erase the memories of one of the most nail-biting births in movie history.
01:20Howard's luck runs out, uncut gems.
01:23Just when gambling addict slash jeweler Howard Ratner's luck is seemingly finally in,
01:27life finds a way to throw him right back into a perilous scenario.
01:31And that's exactly what makes the final stretch of the 2019 Safdie Brothers Netflix thriller
01:36Uncut Gems so damn gripping.
01:38After choosing to bet the money that could have repaid his debt with the Mafia on a Boston Celtics
01:43game, Ratner foolishly decides to lock those same gangsters within his store's security doors.
01:49Oh boy.
01:49If the stress of witnessing a defiant Howard be dangled out of a window by the understandably
01:54incensed gangsters wasn't bad enough earlier, the subsequent minutes of a charming Ratner
01:59poking the bears within this particular cage becomes more unendurable with each passing moment.
02:04Then, after witnessing Howard's million-dollar gamble remarkably pay off, all of that dreadful
02:09tension appeared to have actually been worth it.
02:11But rather than celebrate with this volatile character, an infuriated Phil opts to blow a
02:16hole through the slippery Ratner's head out of nowhere.
02:19It's a masterful and believable swerve conclusion to what initially seemed like a surprising
02:25happy ending for this doomed figure, after the longest and most intense basketball game
02:30you'll ever see.
02:31The Close Call, Mission Impossible.
02:33Attempting to get his hands on an all-important list in Tom Cruise's first Mission Impossible
02:38outing, Ethan Hunt is lowered into a CIA vault that will set off a massive lockdown should a
02:43noticeable sound be made, or the temperature rise above a certain level.
02:47Oh, and if any weight hits the floor when CIA analyst William Donlow isn't present.
02:53Sure enough, just as Hunt looks to have somehow pulled off this suitably impossible mission,
02:57a rat entering the overhead duct results in disavowed IMF agent Franz Krieger almost dropping
03:03his pal onto the sensitive floor.
03:05The stress is real as Cruise jolts and winces inches off the ground while the temperature slowly
03:11rises.
03:11Knowing a single bead of sweat could also blow the whole operation.
03:15Thankfully, a droplet is caught and Hunt is yanked back out of trouble just in time.
03:20But Close Calls do not get much closer.
03:23Enter the Bear, Annihilation.
03:25After already losing one of their fellow Shimmer explorers during a shocking mutant bear attack
03:30earlier in 2018's sci-fi horror Annihilation, Gina Rodriguez's panicked Anya suddenly snaps
03:36after noticing her fingerprints are moving and decides to tie the rest of the team to chairs.
03:41However, just when it looked like Anya was about to start slicing up her defenceless former allies,
03:46a familiar voice wanders into the room.
03:49Cassie, presumed dead after that aforementioned bear encounter, seemingly calls out for someone
03:54to help her.
03:55But in a distressing turn of events, said freaky animal was simply using the dead geomorphologist's
04:00voice to lure in their prey.
04:02Anya takes the bait and an utterly petrifying few minutes ensue.
04:06From here, this grotesque, disfigured carnivore stalks the three frozen women, letting out
04:11the occasional horrendous Cassie, HELP ME, from its blood-soaked jaws.
04:16At any given moment, this nightmare fuel could very much add the rest of the squad to its
04:21list of victims.
04:22And it's those never-ending seconds of the creature slowly figuring out its next move
04:27that leave your heart sitting in your mouth right up to the point Anya makes a welcome
04:31return.
04:32The Toys in Serious Trouble
04:34Toy Story 3
04:35Anyone who was raised on the glorious adventures of Woody, Buzz and the gang in the 90s will
04:40likely tell you that 2010's Toy Story 3 contained one of the most traumatic movie moments of
04:45them all during its fiery climax.
04:48With the beloved clan of Toys actually going out of their way to save the film's main antagonist,
04:52Lotso, from being shredded to pieces when the team end up at a landfill, the purple villain's
04:57betrayal moments later is even harder to swallow.
05:00Leaving the cowboy and his mates on the conveyor belt, dragging them towards a toy-ending incinerator,
05:05few will ever forget the stress that was felt watching Bullseye trying to wiggle away from
05:10a fiery death.
05:11The poor guy.
05:12Hands were held, tears began to flow.
05:15Surely it couldn't all end like this?
05:16Of course it didn't.
05:18The faithful claw yanked them out of danger in the nick of time.
05:21But your childhood being dangled over a burning fire for a while there was about as stressful
05:25a cinematic experience as they come.
05:28Crossing the Bridge, Sorcerer
05:29The late William Friedkin's 1977 thriller, Sorcerer, tells the story of four men who find
05:35themselves in a South American village, with each of them eventually helping to move some
05:39dynamite from one location to another.
05:42Sounds simple enough?
05:43The only problem is that said explosives are sweating and are rather unstable, meaning
05:48that even the slightest jarring movement could set off the dynamite.
05:52So the squad set out on a 200 plus mile journey in two trucks.
05:56What could go wrong?
05:57Well, during this extremely dangerous endeavor, the two vehicles end up caught in the middle
06:02of a massive thunderstorm.
06:03And if that didn't already make carefully driving these two highly explosive trucks somewhat
06:08difficult, the fact they were then faced with having to make their way across a pretty
06:12flimsy bridge, swiftly turned a hard job into a seemingly impossible one.
06:16Even Ethan Hunter'd struggle.
06:18Every inch the heavy machinery travels along the rickety and slippery surface sends a shiver
06:23up your spine.
06:24Then after watching Roy Scheider incredibly get across the death trap, you're then treated
06:28to the other half of the unit going through the whole ordeal again.
06:32Hans Lander enters the farm, Inglourious Bastards.
06:36Unleashing a masterclass intention, Quentin Tarantino gets Inglourious Bastards started with
06:41the arrival of the iconic Colonel Hans Lander, as the officer stops by the Lepidit farm for
06:47a glass of milk and a quick smoke.
06:49If only that were the truth.
06:51Instead, as the tension ever so slowly rises with the reveal of Lander being on the lookout
06:56for a Jewish family known as the Dreyfusses, it soon becomes clear that Denis Menoshe's
07:01Perrier Lepidit has been lying about what he knows about them.
07:04They're actually sitting right beneath the floorboards as they speak, adding a whole new
07:09layer of intolerable stress to the interrogation.
07:12After much deceptively charming and tense discussion, Lander finally offers Lepidit one last
07:17chance to confess in order to keep his own family safe.
07:20And as Perrier's silence grows more deafening, Lander precisely peels back the lies, asking
07:26his host to point out where they're hiding below them.
07:29While you dare to believe there's a world where Perrier could outsmart such a ruthless
07:33and clinical SS officer throughout, Lander was simply waiting for his moment to strike during
07:39the stressful opening, likely knowing all along that what he was looking for was literally
07:43right underneath his nose.
07:45The bathtub moment, what lies beneath?
07:47Robert Zemeckis' chilling psychological horror, What Lies Beneath, contains another
07:52bathtub moment that is guaranteed to leave you feeling all kinds of stressed out.
07:57In the wake of being paralysed by her husband, Norman, not long after he admitted to killing
08:01the woman he was having an affair with, Michelle Pfeiffer's Claire Spencer is placed in a tub
08:06by said hubby.
08:07Here, the doctor proceeds to fill the container with water, as Claire can do nothing but watch
08:12on, completely frozen.
08:14As the water rises, so do the stress levels.
08:17Not even Norman knocking himself out after seeing the ghost of the murdered Madison,
08:21or Claire finally regaining the ability to move her foot, can stop the rapidly falling
08:26liquid from submerging the rest of her immobile body.
08:29And accidentally breaking the chain with her escape attempts, seemingly acts as the excruciating
08:34nail in the liquid coffin.
08:35But just as Claire looks to be done for, the shower head knocked into the bath by the slipping
08:40Norman comes to the rescue.
08:42Pulling it just enough to nudge the tap and slow down the water, Claire finally drains
08:47her aquatic tomb with one last plug pull, and both herself and the audience are given the
08:51opportunity to catch their breath.
08:54The velociraptors arrive in the kitchen, Jurassic Park.
08:57Forced to sprint into one of the park's kitchens as the two realise they're not alone mid-feast,
09:02Tim and Lexi Murphy soon learn the hard way just how clever Jurassic Park's velociraptors
09:07actually are.
09:08Every panicked scurry or fearful gasp feels like it could be the catalyst for another
09:13shocking dino dinner, with both the impressive CGI and practical versions of the pair of
09:18vicious killing machines, fully convincing you that one accidental sound could bring this
09:23chaotic ride to a tragic end for the youngsters.
09:26The stressful and entirely iconic moment, Tim almost ends up getting caught by a sniffing
09:31monster, before Lexi successfully just about distracts the two murderous beasties with a
09:36clever reflection trick alone, is Spielberg at his marvellous best?
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