Bravo's The 100 Scariest Movie Moments

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100. 28 Days Later

99. Creepshow

98. Zombie

97. Cat People

96. The Birds

95. Jurassic Park

94. Child's Play

93. Pacific Heights

92. Village of the Damned

91. Shallow Grave

90. Night of the Hunter

89. Alice Sweet Alice

88. Invasion of the Body Snatchers

87. Black Christmas

86. Wizard of Oz

85. Blood & Black Lace

84. Blue Velvet

83. The Others

82. Terminator

81. The Howling

80. Poltergeist

79. Dracula

78. The Brood

77. Signs

76. Evil Dead

75. Candyman

74. Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory

73. Blood Simple

72. Them!

71. The Sixth Sense

70. The Stepfather

69. Re-Animator

68. The Black Cat

67. Duel

66. The Tenant

65. Marathon Man

64. Near Dark

63. Deliverance

62. The Wolf Man

61. The Devil's Backbone

60. The Beyond

59. Fatal Attraction

58. Cujo

57. House of Wax

56. Single White Female

55. The Vanishing

54. The Changeling

53. Demons

52. The Phantom of the Opera

51. The Dead Zone

50. The Last House on the Left

49. Diabolique

48. The Thing

47. Nosferatu

46. The Sentinel

45. The Wicker Man

44. The Game

43. It's Alive!

42. An American Werewolf in London

41. The Hills Have Eyes

40. Black Sunday

39. Dawn of the Dead

38. Peeping Tom

37. House on Haunted Hill

36. Cape Fear

35. Aliens

34. The Hitcher

33. The Fly

32. Pet Sematary

31. Friday the 13th

30. Blair Witch Project

29. Serpent and the Rainbow

28. When a Stranger Calls

27. Frankenstein

26. Seven

25. Phantasm

24. Suspiria

23. Rosemary's Baby

22. Don't Look Now

21. Jacob's Ladder

20. The Ring

19. Hellraiser

18. The Haunting

17. A Nightmare on Elm Street

16. The Omen

15. Freaks

14. Halloween

13. Scream

12. Misery

11. Audition

10. Wait Until Dark

9. Night of the Living Dead

8. Carrie

7. Silence of the Lambs

6. Shining

5. Texas Chainsaw Massacre

4. Psycho

3. Exorcist

2. Alien

1. Jaws

 

http://www.bravotv.com/The_100_Scariest_Movie_Moments/

 

Don't get me wrong, I love JAWS, but it shouldn't be number one this list. I don't care if you didn't see the shark until 2/3 of the movie was over. Maybe somewhere in the top 10-15 though, but not number one.

[Guest Fook]

74. Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory

 

guh?

 

Those Oompaa-Loompa's weren't THAT scary...

[razazteca 0]

Try watching #74 after a hit of acid, man.....

[syxx2001 0]

The Birds is 98? Scream being in the top 20 is crazy enough. Then Blair Witch in top 30? That movie was a bore fest.

[Guest LooneyTune]

(goes to check out which moments for which movies when there are multiple selections)

[Ted the Poster 0]

I only caught the last episode, but I marked out when I saw that Audition was 11th.

[Guest LooneyTune]

Was Willy Wonka really put #74 because of the Oompa Loompas? I thought they were cool, not scary... unless you mean Mikes mother. (vomits violently)

[Mole 0]

5. Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Please tell me it is the old one.

[AmericanDragon 0]

Was Willy Wonka really put #74 because of the Oompa Loompas? I thought they were cool, not scary... unless you mean Mikes mother. (vomits violently)

It was the boat scene.

[nl5xsk1 0]

5. Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Please tell me it is the old one.

It was the old one, don't worry, Mole.

 

I had no issues with some non-scary or random movies being on this list ... you have to think about it's target audience and things like that. A movie like Willy Wonka isn't scary at all, but considering it was targeted as a kids movie, then, yes, it was scary (for the genre). Same with the old Hitchcock flicks; they're really not that scary but when you consider when they came out and what the audience was used to or expecting, then, yes, they'd have to be considered comparitively scary.

 

I only caught the last episode, but I marked out when I saw that Audition was 11th.

Any movie that creeps out Rob Zombie HAS to be on the list.

[Special K 0]

If it were my list, there would be many more surrealist movies on this list. They have Jacob's Ladder, I would include El Topo, Eraserhead, Iron Man, Tetsuo: the Iron Man, hell even Akira before many of these.

 

Scream? Alien at number TWO? Jurassic Park? Pacific freakin' Heights? Terminator? Re-Animator? Near Dark? The Devil's Backbone?

 

I like all these movies (OK, I'm sort of ambivalent to Pacific Heights), but they never scared me ONCE. Them! Wasn't scary when I was a 4 or 5. They do have a lot of great movies on this list, but it's pretty messed up. Suspiria's scarier than most of the top 20.

[Guest Mosaicv2]

Was Willy Wonka really put #74 because of the Oompa Loompas? I thought they were cool, not scary... unless you mean Mikes mother. (vomits violently)

It was the boat scene.

GOD CHRIST... that scene scared the hell out of me as a kid... I had nightmares day-in and day-out i'm telling yeah.

[Ripper 0]

Yeah that list is rather worthless because they pointed at specific moments in the film. People are saying "so and so movie wasn't scary" which is indeed true, but certain parts were.

[Nighthawk 0]

Right, so which moment was it from Jaws? That probably is the scariest movie. I mean, people quit going to the beach, yeah, it had kids afraid to sit on the toilet.

[nl5xsk1 0]

I was only paying half attention, but I'm pretty sure it was the scene when the girl is out for a night swim by herself and you see her kind of get tugged downward once or twice before getting pulled under. They basically said the fear of the unknown coupled with her legs getting munched added to the terror.

[2GOLD 0]

Yeah that list is rather worthless because they pointed at specific moments in the film. People are saying "so and so movie wasn't scary" which is indeed true, but certain parts were.

 

Michael Keaton yelling at Melaine Griffith wasn't scary, it was unintentional comedy gold.

 

The guy from Mr. Mom yelling like a psychopath? Classic funny.

[Guest El Satanico]

I thought I saw them show the scene where they're underwater and a head suddenly floats out of a hole in the side of a boat. I think they also showed the girl swimming at night and the big scene where he's throwing bait from the boat and looking at the camera when the shark pops up.

 

I don't remember which scene they picked.

[Nighthawk 0]

I was only paying half attention, but I'm pretty sure it was the scene when the girl is out for a night swim by herself and you see her kind of get tugged downward once or twice before getting pulled under. They basically said the fear of the unknown coupled with her legs getting munched added to the terror.

Hm, not too much unknown. You already know what the movie's about before you watch it. Probably would be about the scariest thing in the world if it actually happened to you, watching it not so much.

 

Scariest part of that movie I always thought was when it ate that one guy with the kid watching and you see his leg floating down to the bottom. The leg wasn't scary, I mention it so you know which one I mean. That scene had a kind of mood where you know something bad's happening but it's too quick and there's too much going on so you can't quite get your head around it before it's over. I find that a very unsettling sensation.

Think that was the first clear view of the shark you got, as well. Sharks can be some scary bitches. Prehistoric, you know, and primal, and when you encounter them it's in their element and not yours. Probably about the scariest natural creatures under the right circumstances.

[Guest ken adams]

They forgot the scariest scene of ALL TIME:

 

Rosie O'Donnell in dominatrix clothing in "Exit To Eden."

 

I still have the shakes.

[nl5xsk1 0]

I was only paying half attention, but I'm pretty sure it was the scene when the girl is out for a night swim by herself and you see her kind of get tugged downward once or twice before getting pulled under.  They basically said the fear of the unknown coupled with her legs getting munched added to the terror.

Hm, not too much unknown. You already know what the movie's about before you watch it. Probably would be about the scariest thing in the world if it actually happened to you, watching it not so much.

By that logic, though, no movie is scary. Before you see Halloween, you know it's Michael Myers (or at least know it's a 'boogeyman') Same with Friday the 13th or Nightmare on Elm St. Before you see The Exorcist, you know it's Satan.

 

And I meant the unknown to the character. Not us, as the viewer.

[Guest LooneyTune]

I forgot all about the boat scene in WW... god that scared the shit out of me.

[CBright7831 0]

Right, so which moment was it from Jaws? That probably is the scariest movie. I mean, people quit going to the beach, yeah, it had kids afraid to sit on the toilet.

Probably the opening scene.

[CBright7831 0]

I'm just happy Chucky go on to the list.

 

*comes alive and starts swinging*

"YOU STUPID BITCH, YOU FILTHY SLUT! I'LL TEACH YOU FUCK WITH ME"

[Ravenbomb 0]

Halloween should've been in the top 10. First time I watched it (I was 5, mind you), I had to quit watching it after the part where Michael sat up after getting stabbed in the closet.

[Nighthawk 0]

I was only paying half attention, but I'm pretty sure it was the scene when the girl is out for a night swim by herself and you see her kind of get tugged downward once or twice before getting pulled under.  They basically said the fear of the unknown coupled with her legs getting munched added to the terror.

Hm, not too much unknown. You already know what the movie's about before you watch it. Probably would be about the scariest thing in the world if it actually happened to you, watching it not so much.

By that logic, though, no movie is scary. Before you see Halloween, you know it's Michael Myers (or at least know it's a 'boogeyman') Same with Friday the 13th or Nightmare on Elm St. Before you see The Exorcist, you know it's Satan.

 

And I meant the unknown to the character. Not us, as the viewer.

Well yes, but I don't find those movies too scary either. Not having seen this program myself, I assumed they had perhaps cited fear of the unknown in regards to it's presentation to the audience. Your point is valid, in that the unknown is scary, and it's not often utilized in that manner, but it isn't the only thing that's scary.

Good example of it's use in a movie, Jeepers Creepers, that's why the first half was pretty good and the second half wasn't.

[EdwardKnoxII 0]

Bravo is having a marathon of this on right now.

[Downhome 0]

They forgot the scariest scene of ALL TIME:

 

  Rosie O'Donnell in dominatrix clothing in "Exit To Eden."

 

  I still have the shakes.

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A certain scene in About Schmidt beats that.

 

This this list is more about the top 100 "scariest moments", I'm shocked that a certain scene from Exorcist III didn't make the list.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

I'm loving Phantasm in the top 25...but really, that movie was never too scary. I saw the whole series (well, aside from part 4, but that came out just a couple of years ago) before I was 10 and wasn't scared once. Hrmmm...it's probably about the first appearance of the Ball. That shit kinda IS scary when you think about it: a floating Ball that whizzes through the air and attaches itself to your head with blades and then drills in between your eyes to drain your blood from your body. Don Coscarelli is one fucked up son of a bitch.

 

And that scene from Alien that made it number 2 BETTER be the Chestburster scene. The very thought of something popping out of my chest scared me so much when I was little that I had oh so many nightmares (then again I watched Alien and Aliens a million times when I was 7, so that could be why). Nice to see Evil Dead on the list, but it should be higher. A LOT higher. That movie freaks out a lot of people just by the tension it builds all throughout it. Starts off with a creepy atmosphere and the character goofing off, and then BAM! Tree rape. BAM! Stabbed in the ankle. BAM! Everybody's dead/possessed but Ash, the PUSSY of the bunch.

[Ravenbomb 0]

I'm loving Phantasm in the top 25...but really, that movie was never too scary. I saw the whole series (well, aside from part 4, but that came out just a couple of years ago) before I was 10 and wasn't scared once. Hrmmm...it's probably about the first appearance of the Ball. That shit kinda IS scary when you think about it: a floating Ball that whizzes through the air and attaches itself to your head with blades and then drills in between your eyes to drain your blood from your body. Don Coscarelli is one fucked up son of a bitch.

 

And that scene from Alien that made it number 2 BETTER be the Chestburster scene. The very thought of something popping out of my chest scared me so much when I was little that I had oh so many nightmares (then again I watched Alien and Aliens a million times when I was 7, so that could be why). Nice to see Evil Dead on the list, but it should be higher. A LOT higher. That movie freaks out a lot of people just by the tension it builds all throughout it. Starts off with a creepy atmosphere and the character goofing off, and then BAM! Tree rape. BAM! Stabbed in the ankle. BAM! Everybody's dead/possessed but Ash, the PUSSY of the bunch.

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Yeah, it was the chest buster

[Downhome 0]

Is there a list of all of the "moments" anywhere?