We all know there are certain movies that we remember due to a very frightening scene that has affected us in some way or form. Now I’m not talking about the unoriginal BOO scares that pollute many horror flicks.
I’m talking about when the Alien came out of the stomach, when Jaws popped out of the water, when Michael Myers trapped Laurie Strode in the closet; these were all parts of movies that made people jump or squirm and maybe even scream.
This was a tricky top ten to do, because everyone has their own definition of horror. What is scary to one person, may not seem as scary to the next, but this is the list of scary moments that has made ME scared sh*tless. (Please note there were many more scary moments, but I couldn’t put them all down!)
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Five words. Five little words made this scene one of the most terrifying scenes in horror film history. “Have you checked the children?” Everything about this scene gave me chills. From when Carol Kane (the babysitter) answers the killer’s phone calls, to when the police calls her and tells her the calls are coming from inside the house. This scene is frightening and it also spawned other films with the same kind of horrifying premise. (E.g. Scream) It may not be your scariest moment, but it definitely is frightening. Don’t watch it alone or if you’re babysitting!
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To most, The Exorcist is known for being one of the scariest movies of all time, but I think it was one of the scariest movies of its time. I say this because when I had seen the special 25th anniversary version in theatres a few years back, I was surrounded by an audience full of loud mouthed teenagers who were laughing at the same scenes that were making people leave the theatre and throw up years ago. Nobody was scared anymore from the pea soup vomit, or the 360 degree head spin. It just seemed like a big joke now, but suddenly the audience went silent when the scene where Regan(Linda Blair) is crawling down the stairs backwards, like a spider with her mouth full of blood. You could have heard a pin drop in that theatre, and if it caused that reaction now, I wonder how people would have reacted in 1975 when the film first opened.
This film had many memorable scary moments (unfortunately, it’s probably the only one in the series that actually had any) but, it was the scene when Tina gets attacked in the alleyway that will forever be embedded in my memory. The outstretched mutant-like arms, the ginsu knifes scraping against the building wall, and the creepy chase scene were scary enough to make me never want to fall asleep again. (* Note: I was only 5 when I first watched this!*)
If there was one other weapon in TCM besides the chainsaw that made this movie more horrific, it would have to be the sharp meat hook used to gruesomely torture Pam. The scene with Leatherface hanging Pam on the meat hook shook me to the core. It didn’t show gallons of blood, and the camera didn’t linger on the hook going into her back, which made this scene more much grittier and realistic. I think that’s what made it even MORE horrifying.
I watched this movie drunk and with a few of my guy friends and we were dying of laughter. It just seemed like a forgettable slasher to us, but when the main character Jess (Olivia Hussey) finds the bodies of her fellow sorority sisters and sees “Billy” spying on her through the crack of the door, we all jumped up and screamed! (Yeah…I did mention my other friends were GUYS, right?) One of the creepiest moments in slasher history if you ask me.
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I am on of those people who are blessed and cursed with a wild and vivid imagination. When I watch a horror film, it is the violence that takes place off-screen that scares me the most; because I’m constantly thinking about what horrible thing(s) happened. So you can understand how freaked out I was when this movie ends with the demise of the two remaining characters without actually showing us how they died. I left the theatre with my knees shaking. (Unlike the other people who had left to vomit due to the shaky camera work!)
I was six years old when the made for television adaptation of Stephen King’s IT premiered, and I wasn’t able to watch it for another four years due to the fact that the image of Pennywise’s evil clown face on the TV Guide gave me ongoing nightmares for years. Although the movie was nowhere as chilling as the book, it did have a few good scares. One scene that managed to scare me was the scene when the young group is looking through a family album and it starts to come alive. Pennywise growls, (who is in the album) then climbs up a pole in the picture and screams to the children that he’s going to kill them all. (Yep…I’m surprised I haven’t grown up to have a huge phobia on clowns!)
This film is most famously known for its notorious shower scene, but it was the death of Martin Balsram’s character on the stairs that frightened me. Sure, Janet Leigh’s death scene was scary and has forever made me lock the door when I’m taking a shower, but it didn’t scare me as much as seeing the detective slashed in the face and getting stabbed to death at the bottom of the staircase. I don’t think it was the actual death itself that freaked me out, it was the camera angles that the death was shot at. Seeing “mother” jetting out of the room with a huge butcher knife from a bird eye’s view was surprisingly disturbing, and the final image of seeing “Mother” raising the knife(with his/her back turned to the camera) to repeatedly stab the detective to death was truly haunting.
I’m going to be honest with you, when I was watching this movie for the first time; I had no clue as to why everyone was saying it was the scariest thing they’ve ever seen. (I jumped in my seat because of BOO scares a couple of times, but that was it) It wasn’t until the ending of the film when Samara popped out of the television screen to kill Martin Henderson that I actually yelled out. Seeing the dead girl slither out of the TV was a very creepy and well done image, and is most likely the only truly scary moment in this flick. (Including its lame ass sequel)
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This film may not be known to most, (due to poor marketing) but it is one of the most disturbing films I have seen in a long time. In case some of you don’t know the story, this Blair Witch Project meets Big Brother film is about a group of people who agree to stay in a house for six months in the middle of nowhere to win a million dollars on an Internet reality show. The part in this movie that sent chills up my spine was when the group stumble upon the revelation that explains exactly what’s going on. The film may sound like something many of us horror fans have stumbled onto in the straight to DVD section in our local video store, but its gritty camera work makes watching it even more of a morbid experience. NOTE: Watch this movie on DVD with a special killer eavesdropping commentary in the background that will most likely disturb any viewer.
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