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This isn't an attempt to bump my own thread, but another sequence that made me assume the contours of my theater seat was that in which David Naughton and Griffin Dunne are on the moors, lost, and realize that the frightening sounds they are hearing are encircling them.

John W: I, too, was unnerved by a sequence in THE OTHERS, but my choice is the one in which the children are in their dark bedroom, and the boy hears the ghost voice for the first time. There is a palpable sense of absolute terror here, putting me much closer in touch with my childhood assurance...

Blaine, glad you mentioned ALIEN. The sequence that just about gave me a coronary was the one in which Harry Dean Stanton goes looking for Jones, the cat. You're expecting him to get zapped at every corner (and he turns plenty of corners) as he calls, "Here, kitty... here, Jonesy..." The actual...

Wait - I don't mean scenes that SHOCKED YOU or scared you for a second or two. I mean the sequences that built slowly from a dead calm until they created such suspense you could barely stand it, and sustained that tension for a good bit of screen time. They needn't be action sequences with...