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Predator (1987)

I love this bit in Predator (just as much as I love the rest of the film of course). In this scene, the commandos are moving around in the jungle looking for whatever enemy is lurking between the trees, not knowing the predator is nearby and about to strike. Everyone is treading carefully. Blain, played by Jesse Ventura, is carrying a hefty mini-gun which he used earlier to good effect. Unfortunately, he gets ambushed quite easily by the roaming predator. Mac, played by Bill Duke, runs up first and discovers his dead buddy’s body before unleashing a torrent of bullets into the jungle. When the ammo runs out, he picks up Mac’s awesome mini-gun and uses that up too. The others join in and completely destroy the entire bit of jungle in front of them, and a spooky silence descends on the scene of utter destruction. What a brilliantly played out scene.

It’s worth noting that in the book, it’s mentioned that Mac and Blain served together during the Vietnam War. When Blain is killed and Mac is the first to arrive, Mac becomes a bit unhinged and has a kind of flash back, calling for his old squads Sergeant as if they were being ambushed back in the jungles of Vietnam. As you can see in the movie too, this is why he isn’t quite the same after Blain’s death.

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Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

Possibly one of the most perfectly scariest scenes ever, especially if you imagine being in Ofelia’s shoes at the time, who has to get past the Pale Man to find some key or something to progress through Pan’s Labyrinth. Unfortunately, having been trekking for quite some time now, the poor child’s hunger takes over, and before she leaves she can’t help but take just a tiny bit of the fruit on the Pale Man’s table… which really wasn’t a good idea…

Suggested by Grumbledook.

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Blade Runner (1982)

The incredible moment of Roy Batty’s retribution, played wonderfully by Rutger Hauer. Just as you think he is about to finish off the battered and hanging Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), he saves the blade runner’s life and sits down to give a sublime and legendary farewell ode to life. The lines were completely unscripted, and probably weren’t supposed to make much sense, but the words always conjure up magical images for me, mixed with heartfelt pain at the truth of them.