Top 100 greatest scary moments vote

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The full vote can be found here
http://www.channel4.co.uk/film/newsfeatures/microsites/S/scary/results_100-91_1.html but I have listed the top 30 below.

So do you agree with this vote?

1. The Shining
2. The Excorcist
3. Jaws
4. Alien
5. The Blair Witch Project
6. Ring
7. Halloweeen
8. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
9. The Omen
10. Nightmare on Elm Street
11. Psycho
12. The Evil Dead
13. The X-Files
14. Seven
15. Friday the 13th
16. An American Werewolf in London
17. The Thing
18. 28 Days Later
19. Hellraiser
20. Don’t Look Now
21. Twin Peaks (tv series)
22. Scream
23. The Wizard of Oz
24. The League of Gentlemen Christmas Special
25. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
26. Jam
27. Carrie
28. The Silence of the Lambs
29. Poltergeist
30. Carry on Screaming

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

For me personally, I would say that the Blair Witch should be at number 1 as this is the only movie that continually affects my sleep. I can open my eyes in the darkness & I can see that guy standing in the corner.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

was that X-Files the movie of the series at #13? i caught most of the film again the other night and i do think that bit where the guy goes down to the lab and finds the hybrid ebe has gestated and left it's host but then he sees it, looks down to prepare the injection with which to kill it, looks up again to find it has gone (!) and then is attacked while his colleagues worriedly seal up the hatch is quite scary and very well done.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I was most concerned to see one of my old lecturers (Xav1er Mend1ck) acting as a talking head on there; we weren't very keen on him because he always seemed more keen on that type of self-promotion than on actually helping students or doign research.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

the film Signs is under-rated esp. for the suspense it generates so masterfully e.g.

1) mel gibson in the corn field with the torch, 2) the alien gangly striding across the alleyway as the brazillian kids scream, 3) when the dog suddenly barks at the little girl, 4) omg! the claw under the door!, 5) omg omg! the claw grabbing the boy thru the coal shaft! and a few more entertainingly frightening moments

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it's the series of the X-Files Steve.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Moment #2 of those was shivery but all the others were a larf Steve, and I write as somebody who avoids 'scary' films.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

oh come on, the shining is scary!

― mohammed abba (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

"come play with us, tom"

― mohammed abba (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

No I was just talking about Steve's list of scary things in Signs!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

All the Top 30 sound scary to me except maybe Buffy and Carry On Screaming. Oh and I'm not sure about the Wizard of Oz too.

TV moment that scared me when little - end of an episode of the Enchanted Castle when the 'uglies' were rampaging through London.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

The little girls in the shining are terrifying!

x-post The Wizard of Oz used to scare me when I was younger, that witch was nasty!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

as i suggested Tom, they were entertainingly scary rather than actually chilling you to the bone or freaking you out. M Night Shamalyan is a Spielberg disciple in that respect - Spielberg was great at such things e.g. when the Nazis lift the lid off the Ark in Raiders Of The Lost Ark, most of the velociraptor scenes in Jurassic Park and The Lost World, Jaws obv. - but even when Elliott has the baseball thrown back at him from the shed in E.T. (that scared me as a kid, but in a good way)

is The Cell (with J Lo) scary?

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

surprised The Sixth Sense isn't higher (not seen it tho)

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

and just where the heck is John Carpenter's The Fog ? This scared the shit outta me !!

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh god yes, me too! I had completely forgotten about that.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha ha, silly British people, frightened of jam. Look out, it's a potted fruit product!

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yes, silly us!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I was pleasantly surprised to see Children of the Stones somewhere around the 80s.

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't recognise most of them in the end nearer to 100.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

MOONDIAL!

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes can I help you?

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Cue the War of the Worlds music....

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

DARK TOWERS

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

The Zuni fetish doll episode of "Trilogy of Terror" belongs on this damn list somewhere.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't seen the Shining and will never watch it. I am a horror pussy. Im scared of whales for christ sakes.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, steer clear of the Blair Witch!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

The only movie on that list to give me honest-to-god-wake-up-sweating-nightmares = 28 Days Later.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I've seen Blair Witch and yes I made a boom in my pants.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

are specific moments in the movies named in the list? or is it just a list of top scary movieS?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

The Prodigy's "Breathe" video but no Tool videos, eh? Them shits scared the fuck out of teenage me, lemme tells ya.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought it was scary moments as such, but it seems to be moments in general. When they showed the 'Jaws' clip they showed Roy Sheider shovelling the chum when Jaws comes out of the water for the first time & then when Richard Dreyfuss is diving & pulls a tooth from the boot and a severed head appears. So I guess it picks out the most scary part/s but it is the film in general. When they spoke about American Werewolf they talked about his metamorphosis into the werewolf & one of the dream sequences.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I've only seen a handful of these, I hate horror. Although I love all of the Hannibal tales.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah when he crossed the alps it freaked my shit right out!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

ha haha!

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

AWIL dream sequence - has to be the bit where they are watching the Muppet show and all those Nazi werewolfs storm the place, pretty freaky.
Or is it the bit where he is in a bed in the forest and wakes up suddenly with fangs, scaring the bejezus out of yer.

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, the funniest thing about it is, that AMIL is my fave film ever!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

AMIL ?

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

American Manwich in London

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

oh that's why you were here

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I covered myself in sauce for a reason.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

For a season?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

What's your name, who's your daddy...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I liked how the Come to Daddy video was in it (though disturbing /= scary). I found precisely none of them scary though, as they are only scary moments in context.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yes!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)

thirteen years pass...

I don't know where else to put this, but anyone here who's a slut for real bone-chilling, sleep destroying, regret creating, nightmare inducing, genuine fright, you need to check out the defunct Syfy Channel series called _Paranormal Witness_. There are a ton on dailymotion dot komm, start with The Saint of Death or The Apartment or Dining With the Dead, but you almost can't go wrong. I know you're incredulous, but I'm tellin ya, it's the goods.

― rip van wanko, Monday, 19 June 2017 06:45 (eight years ago)

Will do

The shining isn't scary. Does anyone else think the shining is scary? It's good, like, but ... not scary

― quet inn tarnation (darraghmac), Monday, 19 June 2017 07:14 (eight years ago)

I don't think the shining is that scary fyi

― quet inn tarnation (darraghmac), Monday, 19 June 2017 07:14 (eight years ago)

not so scary. it does creepy pretty well, almost to the point of scary in the relationship b/w Hallorann and Danny

― rip van wanko, Monday, 19 June 2017 07:33 (eight years ago)

nah it's not scary. it is great.

the scariest thing i think I remember seeing in a long time was that documentary about sleep paralysis, The Nightmare. Much scarier than any haunted house movie

― Shat Parp (dog latin), Monday, 19 June 2017 08:45 (eight years ago)

Any list of scary film moments that doesn't include Repulsion is invalid.

― I Love It When They Call Me Big Pharma (Old Lunch), Monday, 19 June 2017 10:23 (eight years ago)

my wife refuses to watch the shining because the image of the sea of blood rushing through the elevator doors and down the hall scared the living shit out of her as a kid

― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 June 2017 10:30 (eight years ago)

there are a few images from martyrs which have stuck with me indelibly - the grainy black-and-white pictures of previous 'martyrs' are absolutely haunting, and i'm still not sure whether they were created for the film or not

the scene in the original korean version of the eye where the lead character sees an eerie eyeless ghost surging across a room towards her literally sent a shiver up my spine when i saw it in the cinema, a sensation which i don't think any other movie has inspired. it was awesome, i wish it would happen again!

― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 June 2017 10:41 (eight years ago)

Lake Mungo contains some of the legit scariest moments in horror.

― glumdalclitch, Monday, 19 June 2017 10:58 (eight years ago)

Inland Empire contains one of the creepiest face freezes in any movie IMO

― Unchanging Window (Ross), Monday, 19 June 2017 22:49 (eight years ago)

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