# Opening scene: someone being chased through woods

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**Created:** [March 12, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-scene-someone-being-chased-through-woods/489244 "2009-03-12T19:38:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-scene-someone-being-chased-through-woods/489244/1 "2009-03-12T19:38:53Z")

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The movie I watched part of last night, **Skinwalkers** , begins with someone being chased through the woods.

**Whisper** , another horror movie, begins with someone being chased through the woods.

I’m drawing a blank, but I know that there are several other movies that begin in exactly the same way: a person is running headlong through the woods, being chased by man or beast. Can you think of some more where that’s the first scene in the movie?

Ones that don’t involve anyone being on horseback or in a vehicle, though, please. Just all parties on-foot chases.

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**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-scene-someone-being-chased-through-woods/489244/2 "2009-03-12T20:28:33Z")

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**Octopussy** , but you have to not count the pre-credits sequence.

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**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-scene-someone-being-chased-through-woods/489244/3 "2009-03-12T21:43:24Z")

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I do remember **Cry Wolf** beginning this way. There was a novel bit at the end of the chase sequence where the chaser calls the chasee’s cell phone, which rings and gives away her position. But other than that, I don’t have many memories of the movie.

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opening-scene-someone-being-chased-through-woods/489244/4 "2009-03-12T21:53:25Z")

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Not a movie, but a couple of episodes of _The X-Files_, including one of the best: “Bad Blood.”