Top 10 Jenna Ortega Moments Ranked from Easy Viewing to You in Danger, Girl!

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Jenna Ortega, you always in danger, girl. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for Jenna Ortega’s scariest scenes in film and television.

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00:00Ghosts aren't real. Only gullible people believe that kind of crap.

00:04Welcome to Ms. Mojo.

00:06And today, we're counting down our picks for Jenna Ortega's scariest scenes in film and television.

00:11Since these moments detail key plot points, a spoiler warning is now in effect.

00:16Who's the lady?

00:18What lady, honey?

00:20The lady standing behind them.

00:25Number 10. Mabel is questioned by Weeks. Finest Kind.

00:29In 2023's Finest Kind, half-brothers Charlie and Tom find themselves in need of a lot of money

00:35to unseize their dad's fishing boat from authorities.

00:38Hey, Tom.

00:41Tom, I'm gonna get you through this.

00:47Charlie hits it off with Jenna Ortega's Mabel,

00:49a dealer who tries to help by getting them involved in a lucrative substance smuggling job for local crime boss Pete Weeks.

00:55After the crew is ambushed and robbed,

00:57Tom immediately believes Mabel to be behind the attack.

01:00Who were they?

01:04Who's who?

01:05The guys who jumped us?

01:07Are you asking me?

01:09How would I know?

01:10Later, Weeks tells them that Mabel had nothing to do with it because he questioned her himself.

01:15Mabel doesn't know squat.

01:17And trust me, we asked her hard.

01:19We don't see Weeks assault Mabel on screen,

01:21but we do witness the awful aftermath.

01:24Which is enough to make our stomachs drop.

01:26God, Charlie.

01:27Mabel.

01:28Charlie, I just...

01:30I don't want you to look at me right now.

01:38Netflix's 2020 follow-up to their well-received horror film The Babysitter

01:42sees Jenna Ortega portraying a new student named Phoebe Atwell.

01:46Basically, they're a blood cult.

01:47And they made a deal with the devil,

01:49and in exchange for their souls, they get any life they want.

01:54Thank God I thought they were zombies.

01:56I hate zombies.

01:57At the lake, she and Cole Johnson work together to evade the cult members,

02:01who Cole's best friend Melanie has just been revealed to be part of.

02:04People will do anything to get what they want.

02:10And what Cole wants.

02:16Melanie captures Phoebe to lure Cole for sacrificing,

02:20and he comes to her rescue,

02:21offering to take her place.

02:24Ultimately, though, it's Bea who saves them both.

02:26Phoebe proved early on that she was too much of a badass

02:29to ever be in any real danger.

02:31But her encounter with the drifter did have us worried for a minute.

02:35Get your hands off me!

02:37Wow, you guys making s'mores?

02:38I absolutely love s'mores!

02:43On Netflix's You, Joe Goldberg is usually the one everyone should worry about.

02:48But for Ortega's Season 2 character Ellie Alves,

02:51Joe turns out to be her savior.

02:53Okay, this cannot be our thing.

02:55What are you, following me?

02:57No, I was at the show.

02:58Why?

02:59You're not funny.

03:00The young, aspiring filmmaker tries to get a foot in the door

03:03by screening her short film for a stand-up comedian named Henderson.

03:06Her sister Delilah had her own traumatic experience with him.

03:09So when Ellie visits Henderson's house alone,

03:12we know nothing good can come of it.

03:14You have to promise me you're not gonna tell anybody

03:16that you were here alone with me, okay?

03:18I get it.

03:19I'm a Vogue.

03:20Scout's honor.

03:22This is his clever trick to make her feel safe like she chose.

03:27A stealthy Joe sees him slip something into her drink

03:30when she's not looking.

03:31In turn, he gives Henderson a stronger dose

03:34and also becomes Joe's next victim.

03:36Help me!

03:37I'm going to help you after you confess

03:39to what you've been hiding in this little secret room.

03:43Thankfully, Ellie wakes up and leaves unharmed.

03:45Had Joe not been there, however,

03:47we know what likely would have happened.

03:50All right, later, loser.

03:51I'm leaving.

03:52Number 7.

03:53Camila and company escape the facility.

03:56American Carnage.

03:57In 2022's twisted horror comedy American Carnage,

04:01Governor Harper Finn orders all undocumented immigrants

04:04and their children to be arrested and detained separately.

04:07Issuing a surprise executive order.

04:10Governor Finn has declared a state of emergency.

04:13Issuing a surprise executive order

04:15commanding the task forces across the state

04:17carry out widespread arrests of illegal immigrants

04:20in what many are calling a blatant political ploy

04:23to galvanize his base

04:24before the upcoming gubernatorial election.

04:27Ortega plays Camila Montez,

04:29one of the many youths chosen to work at a nursing home

04:32in exchange for their parents' freedom.

04:34As if this imposed community service wasn't messed up enough,

04:37she and her friends uncover an even darker conspiracy.

04:40Essentially operating as a slaughterhouse,

04:43the facility's elderly patients

04:45are actually tenderized young detainees.

04:48Next we add hormone to the mix,

04:51converting lean muscle to tender meat.

04:56That's hard work on your body.

05:00After Camila discovers something she shouldn't,

05:02she's taken and injected with the same stuff

05:04and it rapidly ages half her face.

05:07The get-out-like scenario is as disgusting

05:09as it is terrifying.

05:10Luckily, she manages to free herself and others

05:13but is still left disfigured

05:14and most certainly traumatized.

05:37As the title character in her show,

05:39Wednesday Addams has significant plot armor.

05:42The audience knows she won't die,

05:44so any uneasy situation loses some of its scare factor.

05:47However, when a resurrected Joseph Crackstone

05:49straight-up stabs Wednesday in the Season 1 finale,

05:52we were shocked, to say the least.

05:54Her ghostly ancestor, Goody Addams,

05:56is able to heal her,

05:57only for her to face Crackstone again

05:59and promptly take an arrow to the shoulder.

06:02Howdy, Pilgrim.

06:09The ever-resilient Wednesday keeps it pushing, though.

06:12She makes it look like it's just another Wednesday.

06:22Tara Carpenter recuperates in the hospital

06:24after miraculously surviving a ghostface attack.

06:27But as Scream fans know,

06:29the relentless masked killer

06:30will come back to finish the job.

06:37Her injuries more than slow her down

06:39and thanks to Ortega's amazing performance,

06:41we can truly feel her pain

06:43as she desperately tries to get away.

06:48With Sam and Dewey on the way,

06:49we know she will likely survive

06:51but some real damage is not out of the question.

06:54Tara makes it out alive again

06:56but this is far from her last near-fatal encounter.

07:00I'm sorry.

07:01For what? You saved my life.

07:08Jenna Ortega has a very brief

07:10but memorable appearance

07:11at the beginning of Studio 666,

07:13the 2022 horror-comedy starring the Foo Fighters.

07:16Okay, you guys, check it out.

07:17The sound of this house

07:19is the sound of Album 10.

07:22Ortega's Sky Willow is the drummer

07:24for the 1990s heavy metal rock band,

07:26Dream Widow.

07:27But the only time we see this character,

07:30she's crawling away from someone

07:31trying to kill her

07:32who we later find out

07:33is the band's demon-possessed frontman.

07:35As time went on,

07:37something truly sinister

07:39took a hold of Greg.

07:41As she tries to save herself,

07:42she sees the remains of a bandmate

07:44and we just know

07:45she's about to meet the same fate.

07:50Sky is already injured

07:52and unable to run away

07:53so we know the chances

07:54of her making it out alive

07:56are non-existent.

07:57It's definitely one of Ortega's

07:59most hopeless horror scenarios.

08:06If there's one scene in Scream 6

08:07that proved the new slasher behind the mask

08:09wasn't playing around,

08:10it's the bodega scene.

08:15After almost being attacked by Ghostface,

08:17Sam and Tara run inside for help.

08:19While customers and the bodega owner

08:21try to protect them,

08:22Ghostface doesn't hesitate

08:24to kill anyone standing in the way.

08:26Go out the back!

08:28All bets are off

08:29when the weapon of choice

08:30switches from the signature knife

08:31to a shotgun.

08:33Of course,

08:34we don't expect Tara to be dispatched

08:35this early in the movie

08:36but during this intense scene

08:38all we were thinking about

08:39was how this vicious Ghostface

08:41is genuinely terrifying.

08:43Run!

08:44Go, run!

08:49Number 2

08:50Lorraine's Basement Discovery

08:52X

08:53In Tai West's X,

08:54Jenna Ortega plays

08:55the quiet and reserved Lorraine Day

08:57who finds herself on a trip

08:58to a secluded farm in Texas

09:00to assist her boyfriend R.J.

09:01as he shoots an adult film.

09:03This wasn't what I had in mind

09:04when I agreed to help out on your film.

09:06Thought I'd start somewhere, Lorraine.

09:08But what began as an uncomfortable situation

09:10for Lorraine

09:11swiftly became a nightmare.

09:13While roaming the property

09:14looking for R.J.,

09:15she runs into the owner Howard

09:17who convinces her

09:18to find a flashlight

09:19in the basement

09:20alone.

09:21Down the stairs

09:22you see my workbench.

09:25Believing his helpless old man act

09:27the wary but too trusting Lorraine

09:29ventures into the dark cellar

09:31and as we feared

09:32gets locked in.

09:33She stumbles upon a grisly scene

09:35and appropriately lets out

09:36an award-worthy

09:37blood-curdling scream.

09:43Lorraine finally escapes

09:44with the help of Maxine

09:45but just as soon as

09:46we're starting to feel hopeful

09:48she's killed.

09:49I hate you!

09:50I hate you all so much!

09:52Lorraine!

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10:15To say the opening scene

10:16of 1996's Scream

10:18is iconic

10:19would be an understatement.

10:20Drew Barrymore's

10:22Casey Becker answers

10:23the phone

10:24plays the anonymous caller's

10:25movie guessing game

10:26and dies horribly.

10:28Listen it was Jason

10:29I saw that movie

10:3020 goddamn times!

10:32Then you should know

10:33Jason's mother

10:34Mrs. Voorhees

10:35was the original killer.

10:36Jason didn't show up

10:37until the sequel.

10:38For 2022's Scream

10:39the fifth installment

10:40in the franchise

10:41Jenna Ortega

10:42stepped into the role

10:43of Tara Carpenter

10:44Ghostface's first victim.

10:46What's your favorite

10:47scary movie?

10:48Uh...

10:49The Babadook.

10:50It's an amazing

10:51meditation on motherhood

10:52and grief.

10:54Isn't that a little

10:55fancy pants?

10:57Well it's

10:58elevated horror.

10:59With her friend's

11:00life on the line

11:01the caller forces Tara

11:02to answer questions

11:03about in-universe

11:04stab movies.

11:05As always

11:06Ortega's authentic

11:07performance makes

11:08the fear and physical

11:09pain feel real.

11:10Question one

11:11who wrote the

11:12original book

11:13that the stab movies

11:14are based on?

11:16Um...

11:17Um...

11:18The...

11:19The chick from TV.

11:20The chick from TV

11:21is not gonna cut it

11:22Tara.

11:23But unlike

11:24the Scream queens

11:25before her

11:26Tara survived

11:27the brutal attack

11:28completely subverting

11:29our expectations.

11:30Little did we know

11:31she would be

11:32our final girl

11:33one who even

11:34made it to the sequel.

11:37Hey!

11:38Hey Sam!

11:39Sam!

11:40Sam!

11:46Oh you're not going

11:47anywhere without me.

11:50Don't worry

11:51I'm gonna hold your

11:52hand all the way there.

11:53Which scary

11:54Jenna Ortega moment

11:55had you on the edge

11:56of your seat?

11:57Let us know

11:58in the comments below.

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