Well I am currently going through the list of scariest moments and was wondering, what are the 5 scenes that you found the most scary in films?

My Choices:

5. Taking Lives
The scene in which Angelina Jolie is on the matress in the killer's room and suddenly his arm bursts through right beside her was one of the few movie moments that made me jump. I also saw the rest of the audience jump in their seats.

4. The Exorcist
The scene in which Linda Blair does unspeakable acts with a crucifix really freaked me out when I first saw it.

3. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Not really a horror movie but when I was a kid the tunnel scene was the most desturbing thing I had ever seen. I always loved horror movies but a scene as gross/weird as that in a children's film just threw me off a bit.

2. The Ring
Watching the dead girl crawl through the TV just gave me the chills, end of discussion.

1. Seven
For the ultimate jump moment watch the scene in Seven where they find the "sloth" victim... not only is it a disgusting thing to see/imagine but when it sat up I almost lept straight in the air.

Thank you, shadowhound. I must now go watch the shining. Hearing about a kid just absoultely losing it, and chanting "Red rum" is too cool. :D

Good list and good site, too bad they completely botched up the screen caption of the closet scene in The Ring. That scene was the most shocking I have ever seen in a movie theatre, but that screen caption doesn't do it justice at all.

On topic, at least three scenes in The Shining are on my top 5 scary scenes. When the boy rides his little toy bicycle through the corridor and encounters the twin girls, when he chants redrum over and over again in a slow crescendo, and when the mother is running through the hotel in panic and from a distance sees a man in a bear costume doing... something with a man in a suit.

[ 10-22-2004, 11:36 AM: Message edited by: Rataxes ]

Yeah The Shining is a classic :D

I know you may all laugh at me when I say this... but the scariest movie I have ever watched is

"Ernest Scared-Stiff"

I saw it when I was about 8. At the time, it was soooo scary. A little girl was in her room... and was scared because she thought something was under her bed. After calling in her mother to check the bed, and the mother leaving, she checks under the bed herself. She sees nothing. This is, of course, until she finds THE MONSTER WAITING FOR HER WHEN SHE LOOKS BACK UP! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHH!

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I literally jumped behind the lounge I was sitting on.

In HALLOWEEN (The first one) when I was young, I remember Loomis (the doc) coming up to the insane prison at night, and then you see all the crazy people in sheets wandering around in the field was a REALLY freaky moment.

Another moment was in THE FOG (another J.C Movie) when the fog people/undead knocked on the door at night. totally scary!

Basically, all of the scenes from The Shining. Best horror movie in my opinion.

Also, the scene from The Thing. Great movie. Pretty freaky.

And the clown scene from Poltergeist. Scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.

1. The Evil Dead, when that one girl "changed" and they had her trapped in the basement, and chained the trap door that lead to said basement, but it wasn't chained to where it was completely flat on the floor, so you could still see her peeking out with those hideous eyes.

2. Exorcist, the head turning part, and the body wording part.

3. Trilogy of Terror - The Tikki Doll one that comes alive, when the woman (portrayed by Karen Black) went through a lot to get it into a suitcase, and it starts sawing its way out, the sound effects from it while it is sawing was just plain creepy LOL.

4. Day of the Dead (I could be wrong, not really sure, was one of them anyways). It was the one where there was this lab that was experimenting on the zombies, and it was just really the sickest thing I've ever watched, as one "doctor" was experimenting on his parents, who he apparently hated too. And the zombie killing was really graphic, i.e., one would tear someones throat out and their screams were just horrible, with the vocal chords all being severed. I really don't know if this movie is the "scariest" per se, maybe more the most horrid and disturbing, and not in a fun horror movie way either, ugg.

5. I'm out of movies now, umm... Guess I'll use my last one to say The Ring, the mirror parts where you could see this adult woman with long dark hair, just little takes of her here and there along the movie, but especially that one part where it looks like she sees "you" looking at her while she is looking into the mirror. Creepy!

Some of the top 100 are more about gore than actual frights.


1) Invaders from Mars (50's version): watching the sand pit close after it's sucked up an earthling coupled with that choral music
2) Alien: Exploring that ancient ship (chest buster wasn't scary just amazingly gruesome)
3) Psycho: shower scene, to this day I always check the bathroom
4) Them: The sounds the ants make
5) Poltergist (2?): this old guy comes to the screen door and starts talking crazy and he looks like death warmed over. the actor who played that role died shortly after the film was released.

Well I just seen Gothika(sp it is late and my mind is not working). Anyways that movie made me jump a few times and also the ring, had its moments. And what about that new one. The grudge that looks very cool. :D

I was just chatting to someone and they mentioned The Grudge, I had not heard of it until 4 minutes ago.

Ill do it later when my computers running a bit faster.

The Grudge is scary only if you consider someone jumping onto you in the dark and saying boo. Yeah you get scared but it is hardly noteworthy.

There are so many Aww-come-on moments in the Grudge that most people simply cant take the movie seriously. Curiously though, I saw the movie with a big crowd and the screams and laughs made for an enjoyable evening with a bad film.

I can't think of a thing, only because I very rarely watch horror. I just find sooo much of it is sooo bad! I liked Poltergeist, but I think they intended to make a good movie instead of just trying to scare people. Too many of these are just blood and gutts for the sack of blood and gutts.
I do remember Alien being a bit scary at times though.

<font color=plum>Cool list, <font color=silver>shadowhound</font>. I do NOT like horror movies (though I've seen a few and found them to be far less scary than I expected) so I didn't expect to see many scenes I would recognise.

The one scene that was near the top of the list that DID scare the ever-lovin-CRAP outta me was the scene from Jaws where Richard Dreyfuss is inspecting the sunken boat and the disembodied head floats down into the hole.

I've watched Poletergeist, Shining, Hellraiser, Chucky and a few other horror films - and found they weren't nearly as frightening as I expected.

One resounding testimony to "The Ring" comes from a good buddy of mine who absolutely LOVES horror movies (he even took a class in college studying the techniques used in different movies). He and one of my other college buddies have probably seen basically every horror movie worth mentioning. While many of the films scared them (in a good way), my buddy said "The Ring" was the scariest movie he had EVER seen. It scared him SO bad that - during the night when he got up to get a bottle of the baby - he got a physical chill down his spine from just walking past the DVD lying on the table.

Our other buddy asked if he planned to buy a copy of the film when it came out and he said that since the sheer physical presence of the DVD scared him so bad, he didn't think he would be adding that one to his collection.

Coming from a guy that thinks movies like Evil Dead, Living Dead, etc etc are good refreshing fun - that is a pretty strong statement to how terrifying The Ring was.

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Hmm, now thats a subject I would love to study :D

Oh come on, the Evil Dead trilogy was good refreshing fun. It was far too funny to be taken as a serious horror.

[ 10-26-2004, 07:06 AM: Message edited by: shadowhound ]

I dunno, man, I watched the Ring, and it seemed really stupid to me. I was far too busy admiring the graphics work of when the chick crawls out of the tv to be scared. Well, that, and checking out the eye-candy that surrounded me. ;)

1. Exorcist - watch this film when I was a kid. Of course it freak me out. It's the scariest movie for me.

2. Salem Lot ( the one about vampires ) - again I watch this when I was a kid. The scene were this dead man rise up from his coffin and bite the grave digger neck really jumped me. This is also due to that stupid music effect. Like when the dead man wakes up ( slow music ) when suddenly he bite ( fast loud sudden stop music ).

3. Haunted ( old version ). I also watch this when I was a kid. The scene where the spiral stair began to shake uncontrolbly is a disturbing sight. This is also due to my aunty house where I watch this movie got a spiral stair.

Strange though when I grew up horror movie don't scare me anymore.

I don't know about the rest of you but every scene with that Clown from IT scared the crap outa me. I hate clowns!

'The Ring' is vastly inferior to the Japanese original. Sadako is much scarier than Samara. Neither film does justice to the book.

I agree Dirty Meg.

There's a book? So what's with the book then? More detail?

It was written by Koji Suzuki, and first published in 1991. There are a series of four books (Ring, Spiral, Birthday and Loop), two of which (Ring and Spiral) have been translated into English. The book Ring has a lot more to it than the film, and is very readable and will leave you to scared to go near a TV for some time. Giving you all the more reason to read Spiral, which is in my opinion even better than Ring. Ring is a horror novel, and while it outshines anytihng else in the horror genre, Spiral could hold its own as a serious novel.

Hmm, I will have to get my hands on those 2 books then. Thank you for that info Meg.

Birthday is Ring 0 right? I take it that spiral is Ring 2... don't know with loop though.

The thing behind the television was it scared me for a bit... what I don't like is that she can still pop up out of nowhere, your tv only being a sign. Tsktsk [img]smile.gif[/img]

It will be difficult, but I will look into it thanks a lot [img]smile.gif[/img]

Ring 2 is not actually an adaptation of Spiral. When Ring was made they made the sequel Rasen, an adaptation of Spiral, at the same time. It was a complete flop. They didn't want to make two adaptations of the same book, so Ring 2 was an original story, which has almost nothing in common with the book.
I just watched Ring 0 on tv. The actress Yukie Nakama, who played Sadako was amazing. Her scream at the end sounds like fingernails scraping against the inside of your skull. Shame the script was complete cack.

The Grudge is also based on a Japanese version of the same film - I saw the original with my cousin, and when I saw the trailers here, I was like: "Hey, that looks familiar!" :D

That film was one of the scariest I've ever seen...man, it haunted me for months. If you want good horror, wath Japanese horror. They are (for the most part) friggin' scary. I mean, The Grudge never lets up, not even when it's day during the film! For me, whenever it's daytime in a horror film, there's a lapse in the jumpy moments, but The Grudge abolished that for me.

The Western version looks like a cheap copy to me...

While I don't watch horror in general, my five moments were:

1) Most of The Shining.
2) Practically all of the original Japanese The Grudge. The whole film was freaky.
3) Not really horror, but Signs made me jump a hell of a lot of times. A great thriller film.
4) I have to admit, Scream has its moments too...
5) I have no idea what this film was called, but when I was very young and with my cousin I saw this really odd film and this one part stuck with me...it took me about a year to get over it.

Basically there were these people trapped in some kind of advanced complex with a robot that was working against them, trying to kill them I think. One of them gets taken away, and later on in the film you see half his face grafted onto the robot's one. Ugh, that part creeped me out, gave me nightmares for ages and made me dislike robots. Hey, I was young, okay? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Yeah it's like this one old B&W horror film I saw when I was really young, like 6 or 7, back in the early 70's. I have no idea what the movie was called. I just know it was some movie to where the bad guys would put people into these tubes, standing up, and it would suck all their rings and jewels off of them, but it also would suck their brains, which would start pouring out of their ears. I don't remember anything else but that one part LOL. Was pretty disturbing to watch though as a youngun, and those movies back then were so weak compared to the ones out there now. I can't imagine how I would have reacted to some of the stuff out there now, if I were to watch them at that age LOL.

I loved Ringu. It was quite scary. I watched the Ring after that and hated it - I was being very nitpicky and paid attention to all changes that they made in the remake and I hated all of them. ;)

I also loved the Shining. I just find that scene where there's a person in a bear costume next to a waiter extremely fascinating, because when I first saw it, it was so bizarre and absurd, yet quite scary.


The ending scene for Carrie made me jump.


The Friday the 13-th was in my opinion one of the best suspension movies ever made('til the part where they showed who the killer was) due to well placed camera angles and many completely silent scenes.


EDIT: Was the Grudge really good?Its image in IMDB makes it look like it's a rip off from Ringu.

[ 11-12-2004, 12:56 PM: Message edited by: uss ]

'The Grudge' sucks. It doesn't have a plot, and while it is quite scary, 90% of the scary bits are directly taken from Hideo Nataka's 'Ring'. I despise remakes of films, but I'm half expecting the US version of 'The Grudge' to make history and be the first remake to be better than the original.

To be honest, I love The Shining, and it has plenty of scary moments, but the part where she is running through the hotel and sees all of the ghosts just has never scared me for some reason. And the part with the guy dressed in the bear/boar outfit I have never understood. What is so scary about that scene? Even watching the film as an adult, I still can't understand what would make that scene scary (maybe it's just me...).

Just wondering about that, as it has always been something that bothered me ("why does everyone freak about that scene?").

The movies I won't even watch because they have scenes that guarantee nightmares for me:
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• Eraserhead: the whole mutant baby/dancing on fetuses really creeps me out</font>
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• The Exorcist: the head spinning is bad, but so are some of the parts before that (like when she is thrashing on the bed uncontrollably screaming, or even the part with "help me")</font>
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Not much on scary movies, but that was an interesting read. I foyu read their take on the bear scene, it describes why its kinda freaky, Nerull. ;)
I've seen previews for the "Grudge," with sarah Michelle Gellar. If I ever even think about seeing that movie, it will be because of her. ;) Otherwise, it looks pretty dumb. I mean, a little pale kid who screams like a cat? (Backhands the boy) Shaddup, I'm watching the hot chick! [img]tongue.gif[/img] ;)

Actually, I read the description on the site, and I still don't understand why that would freak someone out. The blood flowing down the hallway? Sure, people get freaked by blood. The ballroom filled with skeletons and cobwebs? People do get freaked out by skeletons, bodies, etc. But some guy getting "pleasured" by a furry? I guess it's the whole "sexual taboo" thing. Those things have never bothered me. I guess that's why I don't get it. But to each their own... ;)

Man, I didn't realize how much scary stuff is out there for kiddy movies. Dumbo (that did freak me a bit when I was little), Wizard of Oz (it surprises me how many people are freaked by the flying monkeys), Willy Wonka (there are several freaky parts in that movie, not just the one mentioned on the site). Heck, Disney had a version of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, then there is Harry Potter, etc. We are traumatizing our children at a nice young age... :D

The scene with the bear and rabbit in Akira was awesome. I love that movie. :D

Ah... okay then, I didn't like Ring 2 that much. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Ring ) was great, Yukie Nakama is pretty, but then she will be forever linked with Sadako... hehe. Anyway yes she screams great, and I also like the scene on where the actors were "beating" her. The sound effects were... that movie was more depressing than scary, and in the end, you'd actually be rooting for her. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Have you guys watched "Dark Water"? [img]smile.gif[/img]