21 Nightmare-Inducing Horror Movie Moments You’ve Probably Never Seen, But Now Will Never Forget

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A triptych of visceral visions from East Asian filmmakers, Three... Extremes is exactly as you might think, with truly provocative, boundary-pushing segments from some of the most acclaimed directors in the genre. Out of the three segments, the most accessible (and, somehow, most outright blood-curdling) is Park Chan-wook's "Cut," in which a film director and his pianist wife are kidnapped by a sociopathic extra, who forces them into an unthinkable ultimatum. Stylish in an incredibly harrowing fashion, its strength lies in building the tension between the extra, the director, and the pianist as the situation gets more and more horrific, and that sinking feeling that there will be no happy ending eventually evolves into palpable terror.