Top 10 Scariest film moments

[Krug]

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1071808,00.html

1) The Shining Jack Nicholson chops through the door and shouts "here's Johnny" (1980)

2) The Exorcist (1973) Possessed girl's rotating head and projectile vomit

3) Jaws (1975) Severed head falls from boat

4) Alien (1979) - Alien bursts out of John Hurt's chest

5) The Blair Witch Project (1999) Heather Donahue in tears in the woods

6) Ring (1998) Sadako crawls through the television

7) Halloween (1978) Serial killer Michael's face appears behind Jamie Lee Curtis in a house full of dead bodies

8 ) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) Leatherface's general reign of terror

9) The Omen (1976) Oscar-winning eerie music score

10) A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984) First appearance of horror icon Freddy Krueger

 

[Null Boundry]

I was just a little bit curious about some of the other entries in the program. For example there are adverts more scary than the first appearance of Darth Vadar crushing someones throat. There are also music videos that beat Night of the Living Dead.

 

[Tom Cashel]

Krug, it seems to me your moments are more iconic than scary. Here's mine...SPOILERS abound!

In the Ring (US version, sorry), my scariest moment was the kid saying "You helped her? Why did you do that? She never sleeps." Then the blood rolls out of his nostril. Just that bit still makes my hackles rise.

In the Blair Witch, the final scene, when Josh is facing into the corner of the basement...then the camera falls...that's the piece that still terrifies me.

David and Jack being circled by the wolf, on the moor at the beginning of An American Werewolf in London is pretty creepy. David's nightmares, the one where he's a white-faced ghoul in the bed, but especially the one where Nazi monsters kill his whole family (Hello there, Godwin!), are no less than harrowing.

In the Shining, I found Jack Nicholson funny and a little buffoonish. ("I'm not gonna hurt ya! I'm just gonna bash...your...brains in!") But the corpse-lady coming out of the bathtub, the spooky twins...those still haunt me.

The very end of John Carpenter's remake of The Thing, when Kurt Russell and Keith David are sitting there waiting to freeze to death..."So what do we do now?" "Why don't we just wait around for a while...see what happens?" Every time I watch it, I think I can see one or the other of them getting ready to make a move. (This one's got plenty of good 'spring-loaded cat' scares, too...)

The end of Night of the Living Dead, after Duane Jones gets shot in the head, dragged out on meathooks and thrown on a bonfire...surviving the whole night for nothing...it's all grainy B&W imgaes but it's scarier than any music video, I'll promise you that!

The smile on Damien's face at the end of The Omen. Very scary.

 

[Hand of Evil]

5. One Flew over the Cookoo's Nest.

4. Pycho shower!

3. Everything in John Carpenter's The Thing.

2. Everything in Alien.

1. Squeal like a pig from Deliverance.

 

[DanMcS]

In the Blair Witch, the final scene, when Josh is facing into the corner of the basement...then the camera falls...that's the piece that still terrifies me.

Yeah, you know, that movie was on TV over the weekend, and it's not nearly as scary when it's daytime, and you come in halfway through so you don't get the full emotional buildup, but when they're wandering around the house at the very end of the movie, and then come around the corner and see the guy, facing the corner, wow, it was still scary, and I'm getting creeped out just thinking about it now.

 

[Mark]

I thought The Sixth Sense had many moments much scarier than a lot of those mentioned above...

 

[s/LaSH]

I was always partial to Poltergeist... couple of scary bits in there.

And my friend swears by IT, but I've never seen it...

 

[Atridis]

- Doctor Lecter coughs up a paperclip while the guard's back is turned in "The Silence of the Lambs".

- Selena realizes that Mark has been bitten by one of The Infected and kills him with a machete in "28 Days Later...".

- Brian, in a final dream, sees Catherine emerge from the church in "Prince of Darkness".

- The landing craft begins to decelerate as bullets smack off the hull in "Saving Pvt Ryan".

 

[gregweller]

"Don't Look Now" ...the entire movie...

"Trilogy of Terror" ...the segment where Karen Black is being chased around her apartment by that doll ...and that was a made for TV movie! When was the last time a made for TV movie scared anyone? I'm getting creeped out just thinking about it...

 

[Kai Lord]

Kathy Bates disrobing in "About Schmidt."