Halloween is right around the corner , so here's an updated list of the 100 most scariest scenes of all time !


Do you agree with their picks ? What were your favs ?

http://www.retrocrush.com/scary/

I found the head-spinning sequence in The Exorcist more funny than scary... The final movement, when the wayward priest got thrown from the window, was a fright though. Not so much - I was able to sleep that nite after the film, and no nitemare - but it was hair-prickling.

I'm pretty sure it didn't make the list but the scene in Session 9 when Hank is in the asylum tunnels at night and he shines his flashlight down the hallway and someone steps out into the hallway.

Those frantic shaking-head people in Jacob's Ladder really freaked me out, or the whole hospital scene where the guy is taken deeper and deeper into the hospital, where it gets considerably less sanitary than it really needs to be.

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The things that scare me are the movies I saw as a younger kid. The 'scare' seems to stay with you.

To this day I can't watch the bit in Jaws were the severed head floats out the hull of the boat - and Jaws is one of my all time Top 5 movies.

Another one is American Werewolf in London. Lots of that scaried the shit out me when I was a kid but I'd especially pick out the dream sequences (Werewolves in Nazi uniforms burst into a home and slaughter a family; Man jumps out from behind curtain and stabs nurse to death).

EDIT: And those penis mask people in Fire Walk With Me, scary!

When the guy wakes up from his dream in Audition.

The Shining....."All work and no play..." scene still scares me.



oh, and these 2...

Silence of the Lambs, when Bill puts on the infrared goggles and reaches toward Clarisse.

I can think of two that they missed:
Freaks - The final scene where the beautiful acrobat has been turned into a freak by the vengeful sideshow performers:
Gooba-gabba we accept her; one of us...

Blair Witch Project - Yeah it was overall a shit movie, but the final scene, when the camera falls and you see the one fellow classmate standing and facing the corner before the screen goes black. That was haunting.

The beginning van scene of Texas Chainsaw Masacre, the original one.

Fuck yeah. I thought that movie actually had a lot of scary moments, but I was raised in The Woods, so getting lost and being stalked can be kind of scary if you can relate to it a bit better. Similarly, I found The Edge with Alec Baldwin and Anthony Hopkins fucking scary as I've come across a bear in the woods more than once. Nothing quite as large, but it's still pretty frightening. Nobody ever comes out ahead when you tangle with those guys.

That scene still gives me goosebumps.

oh definitely yes on number 57... that shit still scares me when I see it.

did any friday the thirteenth scene make the list? It didn't seem so at first glance...

Another one that gave me nightmares as a kid was # 46.


#46 SALEM'S LOT (1979)
VAMPIRE BOY FLOATS OUTSIDE WINDOW

I know the scene in the first one at the end when little Jason pops out of the water made it. There could be more. There SHOULD be more.

Yeah , that scene made it at # 43 . They should've had more , I agree , but they probably wanted to get as many other films in there as they can.

Yeah, that scene is kinda scary when the mom comes in.

There are scarier scenes in that movie, though, like the house full of people sniffing glue with all the bugs everywhere.

I liked the movie.

I really don't understand why there are 8 or so Shining scenes in this list. We get it, you like the flick. There are tons of other deserving movies omitted.

And Blair Witch is in my top 3 of scary movies, if only because of the circumstances under which I first saw it.

I'll take issue with the remake of Ringu being on here because there is nothing in it as scary as when Sadako comes out of the tv.

Actually, that did make the list.They explicitly dismiss this scene (with which I agree -- maybe I just didn't get it) in lieu of an earlier scene when the tent is shook (with which I also agree).

I agree with a lot of their John Carpenter scenes, although I can't believe they left out the final scene of Halloween.

The only one they explicitly missed (to me) is the one in Nightmare on Elm Street where the guy falls asleep with his headphones on. I lost sleep that night because of that scene. I know it's a gorefest, but what rocked the most about that movie is that it was truly scary as well.

Good choice.

I like the list, but a few I would include on my list...

"Whatever Happened to Baby Jane"; when Joan Crawford lifts the cover to her lunch and there's a dead rat (or was it a bird?)

"The Omen"; When the guy is scewered with a very large pole

"Rosemary's Baby"; nothing specific, just a real scary movie that deserves a mention.

"The Entity" The first scene when the demon rapes Barbara Hershey.

and from "The Wizard of Oz" I would have included the scene when Dorothy is traped in the castle and the hourglass is running pout. She sees her Auntie Em in the crystal ball call her "Dorothy, where are you?" then the image changes to the wicked witch mimicking Aunti Em. Scary stuff.