10 More Moments That Literally Stopped Horror Movies

once movies get going they generally

want to sustain a consistent momentum as

they hurtle towards the Finish Line to

ensure the viewer is engaged from

beginning to end without any boredom

inducing dead air but sometimes films

intentionally hit a jolting stop to

intentionally jarring effect effectively

pressing pause on the ongoing story and

bringing it to a standstill and this can

prove especially unnerving in horror of

all genres where filmmakers deliberately

upend the story's momentum for one

reason or another so following on from

our prior video on this subject I'm

Ellie with what culture here with 10

more moments that literally stopped

horror movies number 10 the car crash in

28 Days Later Danny Boyle almost invoked

the eye of everybody watching his Lo-Fi

post-apocalyptic horror 28 Days Later

when he seemed determined to end the

film on an elliptical Cliffhanger the

movie's climax sees survivors Jim Selena

and Hannah fleeing from the Rogue

Soldier major Henry West desperately

driving their cab into the metal gate of

West's compound in an attempt to escape

at the precise moment of impact however

Boyle freeze frames the image of Jim and

Selena being catapulted forward as the

audio stops and the movie suddenly cuts

to black but just as viewers started to

believe that Boyle had ended the movie

on an infuriatingly non-committal

sequel-baiting ending the words 28 Days

Later appear on the screen before a

brief epilogue reveals that the trio

have survived and are awaiting rescue

spoiler alert for a moment there though

it sure seemed like Boyle was actively

trying to put everybody off an act of

cinematic trolling if there ever was one

number nine a strange idea of

entertainment in Friday the 13th Part 6

Jason lives the sixth Friday the 13th

movie got the franchise briefly back on

track with its more self-aware tone

which extended to even occasionally

peeling back the fourth wall and winking

at the audience and in one case writer

director Tom McLaughlin even straight up

stops Jason for his Massacre to jokingly

admonish the series fans for their

Macabre interest in watching a hockey

mask wearing dudes slaughter people with

a machete one of the film's most

memorable supporting characters is

Martin the caretaker of Eternal peace

Cemetery where Jason's corpse is

inadvertently resurrected by Tommy

Jarvis at the very start of the movie

when Martin discovers Jason's undone

grave he grumply re-digs it while

mumbling to himself why'd they have to

dig up Jason at that moment Martin then

peers directly at the audience as he

says some folks have a strange idea of

entertainment and keeps digging as

fundamentally ridiculous as the Friday

the 13th movies are this is the first

time they've ever directly addressed the

audience briefly bringing the film to a

wildly unexpected halt at the same time

number eight Ronnie read the script in

the dead don't die the dead don't die

has a number of meta moments for

audiences to savor or winsat and the

most overt comes late in the story when

cops Ronnie and Cliff find their patrol

car overcome by the undead horde even as

their predicament seems inescapable

Ronnie who has claimed their situation

would end badly from the outset

maintains a cool head all while Cliff

starts to Lose It cliff asks Ronnie how

he knew things wouldn't end well for

them and how he seemingly knew many

other things in advance Ronnie replies

that he knows because he's read the

script and even mentions filmmaker Jim

jarmash by his first name Cliff

hilariously doesn't take this too well

noting that he only received the script

Pages for his specific scenes before

calling the director a dick for not

appreciating everything he Bill Murray

has done for him over the years the

movie's meta elements ultimately proved

quite divisive with critics and fans

alike considering it literally involved

the two Central actors breaking

character and discussing the inside

baseball particulars of the production

itself it's easy to appreciate why

number 7. Charlie's death in hereditary

arista's masterful hereditary slams to

both a literal and figurative stop at

the end of the first at when Annie's 30

18 year old daughter Charlie is brutally

killed in a traffic accident after going

into anaphylactic shock at a party due

to accidentally ingesting nuts Charlie's

weed huffing brother Peter frantically

drives her to the hospital she

desperately leans out of the car window

while gasping for air just as Peter

swerves to avoid a dead deer in the road

causing her head to make contact with a

nearby telephone pole decapitating her

it's one of horror Cinema's all-time

great we have just lost cabin pressure

moments a completely shocking

traumatizing death scene that's all the

more unexpected given that the trailers

were edited to suggest that Charlie

would appear in most if not all of the

movie instead she's dead meat by the 35

minute Mark in a rare horror movie

moment so genuinely horrifying and

upsetting that viewers might genuinely

forget to breathe number six the

animated segment in Krampus 2015's

Delirious horror comedy Krampus

literally presses pause on the ongoing

Carnage of the titular demonic Beast

laying waste to a whole neighborhood to

explain the cree his Origins the angle

family's matriarch Omi narrates a

gorgeous animated segment detailing her

own upbringing in an impoverished

village where the desperate locals

fought over bread and lost sight of the

spirit of Christmas omi's own parents

similarly lost their Christmas spirit

and so too did she eventually wishing

that her parents would disappear and

that they ultimately did when Krampus

arrived in town taking omi's parents to

hell but sparing her instead leaving her

with a bauble with krampus's name on

it's a gorgeous affecting animated aside

and while absolutely unnecessary in

taking us away from the present day

Mayhem for three minutes is absolutely

well worth all that time spent number 5.

Keith's death in barbarian barbarian was

one of last year's most taught about

horror films for very good reason above

all else it's a movie which benefits

from knowing little about it beforehand

because writer director Zach Krieger

sure has some deranged surprises in

store The Story begins conventionally

enough with protagonist Tess turning up

to her Airbnb house to find it

apparently double booked by Keith a man

she's immediately suspicious of

eventually Keith is able to bring Tess's

guard down and the pair agree to stay at

the place together until the matter can

be resolved however they eventually find

a secret tunnel in The house's basement

where Keith ends up going missing Tess

subsequently heads down there to find

him but moments after they're reunited

Keith has his head smashed into a gory

pulp by a large mutated naked woman

residing down there before either Tess

or the audience has any time to process

what they've just seen however cracker

cuts to Black in the scene jarringly

shifts to an entirely different setting

to introduce us to AJ the owner of the

house the majority of the second act

doesn't feature tests at all as we're

brought up to speed on both AJ and the

original owner of the house Frank before

finally getting back to the Fallout of

Keith's death number four the opening

credits in Climax Gaspar no way ever the

master of audacious opening titles

sequences pulls off an especially

outrageous one in his mesmerizing

psychological horror film climax rather

than sandblast audiences with a face

melting credit role at the start of the

film as per his 2009 movie entered the

void climax Waits until almost exactly

halfway through its 96 minute run time

to finally get it done the story

revolves around a group of dancers whose

party takes a turn for the worse when

their communal sangria bowl is spiked

with LSD and as the drugs begin taking

euphoric effects on the dancers no way

decides to pause the movie for a minute

to roll the credits the gorgeous

stylized credits set to Thomas

bongalter's hypnotic what to do so

perfectly capture the movie's overall

lunatic Vibe at once inviting you to

dance while being acutely aware that

nothing good is awaiting the film's

characters needless to say if you're

going to stop a movie mid-flow to throw

the credits up you'd better be confident

that they're worth interrupting the

narrative for and in this case they

absolutely were number three scream for

your lives in the tingling the deepest

and weirdest cut on this list now with

1959's Vincent Price starring The

Tingler the titular entity is a parasite

which uses human hosts and as with

William Castle's other films namely

House on Haunted Hill Castle relied upon

gimmickry to help sell the movie One

such trick involved pulling back the

fourth wall when the titular creature is

let loose in a cinema evidently hoping

that audiences watching the movie in an

actual Cinema will feel especially on

edge more to the point when The Tingler

runs a mock in the cinema Dr Warren

Chapin literally stops the movie both

the one screening in the movie and

effectively this movie itself the screen

suddenly going black as he warns

audiences not to be alarmed the film

within a film resumes for a moment

before it suddenly stops running as The

Tingler crawls across the projector's

lens broadcasting the tingler's

terrifying shape onto the screen at this

point the screen again goes black with

Chapin this time imploring the audience

to scream for their lives as screens

prevent The Tingler from maintaining a

grip on its host evidently Castle

expected audience is on mass to screen

their lungs out on Chapin's instruction

after which he announces that The

Tingler has been Paralyzed by the

screens and the rest of the movie can

now resume number two Rachel watches the

tape and so do we in the ring he's an

especially fun and memorable one

engorbinsky's surprisingly Stellar

remake of the Ring protagonist Rachel of

course ends up watching the infamous

curse videotape and to ensure maximal

audience immersion we too are forced to

sit through it Rachel watches the tape a

haunting collage of surreal and

unsettling visuals which is presented to

the audience as a near uninterrupted

92nd Montage of creepy stuff only

cutting briefly to Rachel's horrified

Expressions which will surely match the

viewer's own moments later Rachel's

phone rings and she receives the

terrifyingly iconic seven days message

needless to say if your phone rang

shortly after this scene it sent shivers

down your hold down spine more than 20

years later it Remains the most

brilliantly unsettling part of the

entire entire movie a glorified short

film that interrupts the movie proper

and it's all the better for it number

one the visible cue cards in gozu

there's no filmmaker horror or otherwise

like the great Takashi Mikey a

singularly weird Twisted genius who

evidently thrives on bucking cinematic

convention case in point his genre

bending horror comedy crime film gozu

features a brief aside which grinds The

Narrative to a halt to remind the

audience that yes they're watching a

movie roughly halfway through the story

Yakuza protagonist minami's bizarre

Odyssey leads him to a liquor store

where the Japanese owner's wife is an

American woman with a demonstrably poor

grasp of Japanese after a moment Minami

notices the woman staring up and reading

something as she speaks at which point

he walks towards her and realizes she's

reading phonetic cue cards for the

Japanese dialogue Legend dictates that

the unnamed actress in question didn't

know any Japanese and genuinely relied

upon the cue cards for pronunciation

which Mickey thought would be hilarious

to display in the scene itself it's

suddenly doesn't feel that out of place

in such a profoundly odd piece of Cinema

but all the same it does briefly bring

the ongoing story slamming to a sudden

outrageous stop and that concludes our

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