Most Haunting Scenes/Moments in a Movie?

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Chelsea R

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Moments that stay in your mind long after the credits have rolled. Powerful, Moving, Poignant, Provocative, Powerful, Awesome. For example 'The Wicker Man' was on ch4 in the early hours of the morning just recently and i watched it. I have seen it before and have an old video knocking about somewhere. The ending to this film stays with me for quite sometime afterwarRAB on each viewing. It is such a horrifying conclusion. In the very final image before the credits roll the giant wicker man weakened by the flames collapses with the sun watching on in the distance. Powerful image. Also earlier in the movie when Britt Ekland is trying to seduce Howie with that haunting song. I use 'The Wicker Man' because i have just seen it again but something else that sticks in my mind is at the end of Schindlers List when he breaks down and says he could have saved more Jews if he hadn't wasted so much money. Any other suggestions for most haunting scenes:)
 
'Sophie's Choice', where Sophie Zawistowski (Meryl Streep) has to choose between her son & her daughter.
I saw it in the early 1980s and it made me thoroughly depressed.
I could never watch that film again.
 
most haunting scene was from Heavenly Creatures featuring kate winslet and another girl where they bash her mother to death with a brick

unfortunately she didn't die after the first blow and it was based on true story

found it very un-nerving and wouldn't like to see it again
 
The bit in Schindler's List when he is high on a hill on horseback looking down on the Jewish ghetto when the Nazi soldiers are clearing it; and he watches a little girl in a red coat moving through the crowRAB and appearing to find a hiding place.
 
The bit in The Orphanage where she is holding her son
and then he gradually disappears and all she is left holding is the blanket he was in and then she sees a child's dead body on the floor and realises it is infact her son, and then we realise that she accidently trapped him down in the hidden basement and that if she had gone to see where her son's friend lived when he asked earlier in the film, she wouldn't have lost her son

That's when I cried, at the blanket part and just went on...
 
There's a scene in The Exorcism of Emily Rose where she's "possessed" which is quite creepy. I don't really find films haunting or scary in general.
 
the Mulder and scully kiss in the hallway in FTF or the last M&S kissing scene in I want to believe X files movie.

The aria in Hanibal

The final scene in the Rose.
 
I think most movies involving war scenes disturb me most.

Apocolypse Now
Casualties of War
The Deerhunter
The Pianist


Just a couple of examples...but there's loaRAB and I find the essence of the stories being told truly haunting and chilling.
 
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