Featuring in our frightening database of the Scariest horror movie moments ever, it's time to prepare your pillow for something especially terror-inducing.
Alex Garland's part supernatural part existential ecological horror Annihilation (2018) was eerily suspenseful, grimly apocalyptic, and endlessly mysterious.
Yet, one terrifying sequence, in particular, screams out above the rest.
In Annihilation (2018), a strange supernatural phenomenon known as the "Shimmer" has miraculously destabilized the surrounding ecosystem - wildly upsetting the genetic structure of flora and fauna within and terraforming them into freakishly unfamiliar forms.
Upon investigating the environmental enigma, a group of scientists stumbles upon a chilling diagnosis. To their unimaginable terror, they soon realize that the "Shimmer" fatally affects all organic lifeforms crossing into the quarantine zone.
Worse still, were life to potentially perish inside said radius, then any leftover DNA would intertwine with that of existing wildlife, thus, creating a sinister gene pool of hideously malformed creatures.
Eventually, in a heart-stopping suspense sequence, the group is torturously interrogated by a ravenous mutated bear. Nothing short of a feral, frighteningly ferocious hybrid that creepily carries the voice of their dead colleague Cass. If that wasn't chilling enough, it slowly stalks them, crying and screaming in her voice - waiting for the slightest exhale to pounce.
Suddenly, having detected Anya's presence, it lunges, ripping out chunks of flesh with razor-like teeth and dragging her left and right like a helpless ragdoll in a bloodthirsty display of uncensored rage.
No cut away, no quick kill. Just a brutal, bloody, and bruisingly drawn-out exchange that will forever leave lasting scar tissue. Without a doubt, one of the scariest horror movie moments ever; Annihilation (2018), thank you for turning our dreams into hellish nightmares.
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