"gripping scene" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a compelling or tense moment or situation, particularly in a story or film. For example, "The audience was on the edge of their seats during the movie's gripping scene."
One gripping scene after another is masterfully managed by the director, Claudia Weill, and a first-rate cast: Hamish Allan-Headley, as a young priest; Kate Lydic, as a whip-smart, foulmouthed teen; Patricia Conolly, as her dotty great-aunt; Arielle Hoffman, as her curry-loving best mate; and Billy Meleady, as the elder priest in the rectory.
One morning, Okwe is brusquely instructed to clean up a room where a guest has been with a prostitute, and has to unblock a lavatory overflowing with blood - a gripping scene in which nausea gives way to astonishment, then fear as Okwe realises that the obstruction is caused by a human heart.
What follows is a gripping scene in which Decker's voice lowers in pitch and his demeanor becomes more threatening.
The rest, no matter how much work you put into it, will probably be skimmed until they hit the next seat gripping scene.
In another gripping scene, Oscar becomes a grumpy dad, picking up his unhappy teenage daughter from a party.
In an especially gripping scene, Mr. Jackson slowly bends his body at painful angles as Erik agonizes over whether to show his face to Christine.
In a series of gripping scenes, they chip away at his account, and at his sense of self.
There is an intensity reminiscent of the gripping scenes of Sapper disarming bombs in "The English Patient".
But analysts say voters, turned off by politics after an unpopular war in Iraq, a scandal over lawmakers' expense-account abuse and the deepest recession since World War II, may tune out if the debates do not quickly produce gripping scenes.
This is a scene - the gripping opening scene - from The Grand Tour, Brian Sewell's new series for Five, a travelogue in which he examines 'the dark underbelly' of the supposedly educational journeys that were undertaken in the 18th century by young Englishmen from wealthy families.
In a gripping final scene, charged by Stravinsky's piercing, ominous music, we see the despairing emperor dying.
