Naging nakakatakot ang eksena.

Naging is the completed aspect of maging, which means to become.

So naging nakakatakot means became scary or turned scary.

This tells you there was a change:

• before: the scene was not scary, or not as scary
• then: it became scary

Compare:

• Nakakatakot ang eksena. = The scene is scary.
• Naging nakakatakot ang eksena. = The scene became scary.

Because nakakatakot and natakot mean very different things.

• nakakatakot = frightening / scary
  
  • describes the thing that causes fear
• natakot = got scared / became afraid
  
  • describes the person or creature feeling fear

So:

• Naging nakakatakot ang eksena. = The scene became frightening.
• Natakot ang bata. = The child got scared.

A good way to remember it:

• nakakatakot = causes fear
• natakot = feels fear

Ang marks the topic of the sentence. In many simple sentences, it often behaves a lot like the subject marker.

Here, ang eksena is the topic:

• ang eksena = the scene

So the sentence structure is roughly:

• Naging nakakatakot = became scary
• ang eksena = the scene

In natural English order, that comes out as The scene became scary.

Because Filipino often uses predicate-first word order.

That means the part describing the topic often comes first, and the topic marked by ang comes after it.

So this is normal:

• Naging nakakatakot ang eksena.

A more English-like order is also possible:

• Ang eksena ay naging nakakatakot.

Both are correct. The first one is very natural in everyday Filipino.

Yes. That is correct.

These two are both grammatical:

• Naging nakakatakot ang eksena.
• Ang eksena ay naging nakakatakot.

The difference is mostly in style and structure:

• Naging nakakatakot ang eksena. = more typical predicate-first order
• Ang eksena ay naging nakakatakot. = topic first, often a bit more formal or deliberate

Learners often like the second one because it looks closer to English structure, but the first one is very common and natural.

The difference is the idea of change.

• Nakakatakot ang eksena.
  = The scene is scary.
  This just describes it.

• Naging nakakatakot ang eksena.
  = The scene became scary.
  This shows that it changed into that state.

So if a scene starts normal and then turns frightening, naging is the right choice.

It comes from the root takot, which is related to fear or being afraid.

The form nakakatakot is a very common kind of adjective in Filipino that means something like:

• causing X
• making someone feel X

So nakakatakot means fear-causing, or more naturally, scary / frightening.

This pattern appears in many other words too:

• nakakatuwa = delightful, amusing
• nakakainis = annoying
• nakakapagod = tiring
• nakakalungkot = sad-making, depressing

So when you see nakaka- forms, they often describe something that produces a feeling or effect.

No. You do not use a linker here.

After naging, the next word can directly describe what something became:

• naging maganda = became beautiful
• naging mahirap = became difficult
• naging tahimik = became quiet
• naging nakakatakot = became scary

So naging nakakatakot is already correct as it is.

Eksena usually means scene, but the exact sense depends on context.

It can refer to:

• a scene in a movie, play, or story
• a situation or incident
• sometimes even a dramatic or embarrassing public episode

In this sentence, the most likely meaning is simply the scene.

It is a common word in Filipino and is a borrowing ultimately related to Spanish escena.

A simple syllable breakdown is:

• na-ging
• na-ka-ka-ta-kot
• ang
• ek-se-na

A rough pronunciation guide:

• naging ≈ na-GING
• nakakatakot ≈ na-ka-ka-ta-KOT
• eksena ≈ ek-SE-na

You do not need to make the ang very heavy. In normal speech, it is short and smooth:

• Naging nakakatakot ang eksena.

If you say it at a natural pace, the flow is more important than making it sound exactly like English spelling.