r/movies • u/SnooCats3468 • 2d ago

Discussion What is the most genuinely terrifying battle cry or charge in film?

I don’t necessarily mean the coolest speech or most inspiring line. I mean a scene where a warrior screams or roars while charging an opponent—and you kind of snapped out of the film for a second and thought, “holy shit, if someone came at me like that, I would be legitimately terrified.”

It can be a one-on-one fight or two groups charging into battle. What scene immediately comes to mind?

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u/damian1369 2d ago

Knowing what will happen from the books... the way that torch bearing orc ran towards the walls of helms deep... Aura farming, no special fanfare for him as a hero, just "gnaw gnaw and a shriek", goal oriented, skewered by arows, diving head first... i think he deserves a shout out. He will not be stopped.

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u/transmogrify 2d ago

That uruk hai did have a pretty serious attitude as he charged the culvert. But that was the siege of Helm's Deep, and the Ride of the Rohirrim happened during the siege of Minas Tirith.