Stomach-churning scene voted most shocking start to a horror movie in history

The gorier the better, right? Well, when it came to one opening scene, even the most avid horror fans could hardly hack it.

There's a lot to think about when it comes to horror and what you're wanting to get from it.

Some love nothing more than to be scared s**tless, left cowering behind their eyes, and others? Well, the more gore the better. One movie release earlier this year saw people walk out, and one viewer even threw up.

However, there's one horror film which shocked even the more hardcore of horror nuts, and it managed to do so in its opening scene. The headline should've given it away, but if you're not a fan of blood, gore or gruesomeness, you should probably click off.

One noughties film's opening scene has been voted as the most shocking. (Warner Bros.)

And the opening scene is so impressively disgusting it's even led to the movie being ranked as containing the most shocking horror opening there is on Ranker.com.

The film in question - so you can choose to avoid it or go and watch it straight away, depending on your love of horror - is 2002's Ghost Ship, with a cast including Karl Urban of Lord of the Rings and The Boys fame.

The film follows a crew of marine salvagers as they comb through a haunted ship which has gone adrift in the Bering Straight. Haunting stuff indeed.

However, it's not the actual salvage and inevitable supernatural encounters on the ship that makes it stick out, but the opening.

This opening shows how one moment can be filmed in incredible detail in a movie. Take a look:

At the start of the film, we join a group of people dancing on a ship in the 1960s, and everyone is having a great time - this can't possibly end well, right?

Sure enough, while everyone is right in the swing of things, a wire cable snaps.

There's a moment as it whips through the entire crowd, taking the heads of a bunch of flowers first, leaving us with the sight of the cable covered in blood.

The movie seems frozen in time as the horrified guests contemplate what happened. Then, one by one, they start to literally fall apart after the wire bisects them.

Ghost Ship follows a crew of marine salvagers as they comb through a haunted ship. (Warner Bros)

Limbs drop off, top halves separate from bottom halves.

Only a little girl survives, and that's because she wasn't tall enough to be hit by the wire.

The idea is pretty horrifying in itself, but the way it's done and the effects it shows, definitely crosses over into the campier side of horror as well - something that is so over the top that it is almost too ridiculous to be actually scary.

However, no matter how you feel about it, I think most people can agree it is certainly memorable.