Top 10 'Haunting' Movie Scenes

Top 10 'Haunting' Movie Scenes

By Kris Rasmussen

When I talk about my favorite "haunting" moments in film, I'm not using the word in reference to spooky movies about ghosts, but rather in the way that the great Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor used the concept—the part of a story that is at once completely true and yet surprising in the way it gives us insight into the human condition. These moments aren't necessarily inspiring in a feel-good, happy-ending sense—though sometimes they can be. But they do bring revelation to our souls in some big or small way. In other words, it's that scene in a movie that you can't get out of your head days later because it's making you think and feel something new.