The 7 Most OMG Moments From Emerald Fennell's '"Wuthering Heights"'!

Emerald Fennell’s "Wuthering Heights" doesn’t aim for restrained literary accuracy. Instead, it embraces excess and emotional volatility, turning a classic Gothic romance into a love story for the modern audience. If you walked into "Wuthering Heights" expecting windswept glances and the yearning ache of a traditional period drama, you were definitely surprised by the creative liberties taken with the source material. This bold new adaptation, led by Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie, feels engineered to detonate across group chats before the credits even roll.

Here are the scenes that had audiences audibly gasping in theatres!

(Warning, spoilers ahead!)

1. Cathy Hides Outside Heathcliff’s Room 

Early in the film, Cathy slips into Heathcliff’s bedroom intending to apologize, only to freeze when she realizes Joseph and the housemaid are downstairs in a sensual encounter involving the stables’ leather tack. Cathy hides, pressed flat against the floorboards, listening. Suddenly, Heathcliff’s hands cover her eyes and mouth. The camera shot changes, revealing him stretched over her as her breath quickens and the sounds below drift upward. The scene is built on tension and intimacy, not least Elordi’s imposing physicality, which makes it unforgettable.

2. Heathcliff Finds Cathy Alone on the Moors 

The following day, after that night’s unraveling, Cathy flees into the moors. Heathcliff follows and stumbles upon her in a private moment she clearly never meant to share. Ashamed, she blames him. He challenges her, then pulls her toward him by the laces of her corset, a gesture that drew audible gasps in theatres. 

3. Cathy’s Wallpaper

During a tour of Cathy’s new house after her marriage to Linton, he reveals that the wallpaper in her room is made from her own skin,  because it is the "loveliest color". In a Q&A, director Emerald Fennell revealed the wall was crafted from a cast of Margot Robbie’s skin, leaning into the film's Gothic themes of the domestic as a site of horror for Victorian women. 

4. Heathcliff Returns 

Heathcliff returns with a haircut, a gold tooth, and a three-piece suit. No need to expand.

5. Cathy and Heathcliff’s First Kiss 

After Cathy’s father dies, Heathcliff consoles her, and they return in the rain to the childhood refuge where they once hid from storms. Sheltered briefly, Cathy confesses her love and kisses him. He pulls away, but then, unable to resist, returns and tells her to kiss him again. Swoon!

6. Heathcliff Discovers Cathy’s Pregnancy

Furious that Cathy failed to meet him, unaware that Linton had forbidden her from seeing him, Heathcliff hurls a stone at her window. Cathy meets Heathcliff outside, and they kiss. Linton calls for her from inside, suspicious. "It’s cold," he warns. "I don’t mind the cold," she replies. "But our son might," he answers, revealing to Heathcliff that Cathy is pregnant. 

7. "Drive me Mad" 

When Cathy’s condition deteriorates, Heathcliff races across the moors after hearing she is dying. He arrives too late. Collapsing over her body, he begs her to haunt him and to drive him mad rather than leave him alone in a world without her. Say less!

"Wuthering Heights" is in theatres now!