My opinion : Now comes an emotion thats similar to the other one, but relies more on the fear from the viewer, how to scare its viewer in any way shape or form, this could be the ending scene of Enemy by Denis Villeneuve or the night vision scene in The Silence Of The Lambs or the terrifying Second Book scene in the 2014 masterpiece The Babadook but i’m gonna have to go for the most recent film on our list ; Charlie’s death in Hereditary.
Throughout the film the audience is led to believe that Charlie is actually the main protagonist in the film, and for over 30 minutes that is true. But once we arrive into the second act of the film when Charlie starts choking on the cake because of her dangerous nut allergy, everything falls. Peters thinking on the spot and speeds on the road as he struggles to arrive at the hospital to stop his sister from choking to death. And as the music rises, so those our worry and fear for our “protagonist” as she sticks her head out the window and out of nowhere, when the music is at its peak and the entire audience shakes in desperation and worry, Charlie hits a pole and decapitates herself. What happens after is a moment of shock and fear as there no longer is music, and silence lingers chillingly across the film and the room you are watching the film in. Our expectations are diverted and dread takes control of our emotions. We feel exactly how Peter feels as he stops the car and his blank expression, which to me is the most realistic portrayal of what would happen in that scene, and it goes on for a minute as he struggles to even look at his sisters severed head, and he struggles to even know what to do. But even through all that the scene simply does not finish, we are left in silence as Peter calmly drives home in a state of shock but its as if, nothing really happened which doubles the fear value in it of itself. When he arrives home the day with a full shot of Peters face as he’s in bed, eyes wide open, completely traumatized and void of much emotion, and through the incredible acting itself we can fully imagine the things he must be thinking in his head as to what to do, what happened? Was all this the truth? Or just a bad dream.. after we hear the mother Annie walking to the car, she gives off one of the scariest and realest screams i’ve ever heard and it truly is haunting as we get a pan shot of her screaming in pain in a room with the husband saying she wants to die and as the camera moves to the right we see a sinister silhouette of Peter as if he’s been possessed or that he just decides on hearing his own mothers reaction to his mistake. And the fact that we are lost, speechless and deeply in shock at the plot twist and not knowing what happens next, the fear of even knowing what happens next in the film, is why this to me is one of the scariest and disturbing psychological scary scene of cinema. Making Hereditary, a modern masterpiece.