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Greatest Scariest Movie Moments
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Greatest Scariest Movie Moments
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Greatest Scariest Movie Moments and
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The chilling, repellent, super-intelligent and intriguing Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), noted for his dialogue and the sound effects of sifting him through his teeth: "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti...fpt-fpt-fpt''; and later the scene in which he lunged at Sgt. Pembry (Alex Coleman) with bloody, face-eating cannibalism, then savagely beat Sgt. Boyle (Charles Napier) to death with a police riot baton, and relaxed afterwards to Bach's Goldberg Variations; also the scene in a dark storage shed of young FBI trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) discovering a glass jar with a grotesquely-bloated man's ("Miss Hester Mofet") severed head preserved in a laboratory specimen jar; and the final scene in a cellar of serial killer Jamie Gumb (Buffalo Bill) (Ted Levine) with night-vision goggles (from his POV) creeping up on Clarice and reaching out |
   
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Silent Hill (2006)
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The chilling yet spectacular climactic scene in which pious, ultra-conservative, evil cult leader Christabella (Alice Krige) and her witchcraft followers in the small West Virginia town of Silent Hill (a portal to another darker reality or other-world) are slaughtered by vengeful, burned and disfigured psychic girl Sharon Da Silva/Alessa Gillespie (Jodelle Ferland) - she ascends up from a fiery hell with long strands of snake-like barbed wire that painfully wrap around Cristabella, lift her off the floor, penetrate her body and cause bloody wounds, and eventually rip her in half |
 
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Single White Female (1992)
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The eerie scene in which psychotically-unbalanced and frumpy Hedra Carlson (Jennifer Jason Leigh) demonstrates the lengths she will go to insinuate herself, steal (or control) the life of someone else and become nearly identical - she walks down the stairs of a salon with a complete make-over - her hair is colored red and cut short exactly like roommate Allison Jones (Bridget Fonda) |
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The Sixth Sense (1999)
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The terrifying scene of emotionally-disturbed Cole Sear's (Haley Joel Osment) hiding in his small, make-shift protective red tent 'sanctuary' from ghosts, created from bedsheets and blankets tied to chairs and bureaus, when a shadow begins to creep slowly across the wall - the ghost of a sickly young girl is in the tent - she vomits white goop from her mouth, causing Cole to flee from the tent and collapsing it in his haste |
 
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Slither (2006)
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Advertised as having "heart-stopping horror", this cheesy, sometimes funny seat-squirming B-horror movie featured little red slug creatures crawling all around in the quiet rural town of Wheelsy, South Carolina; resident Grant Grant (Michael Rooker) becomes a mutant, flesh-eating, killer intergalactic life form (looking like a giant, mucus-covered squid and ear of corn with bad teeth with a distended mouth); in another tense scene, blue-finger-nailed teen beauty Kylie Strutemyer (Tania Saulnier) encounters her first slug-like maggot viewed through her legs in the water while taking a bath - with her struggle to extract it from her mouth and then burn it with her electric hair styler; in the film's most memorable scene, infected Brenda Gutierrez (Brenda James) has turned into a ball of enormously stretched flesh with a small head in the middle of it - her fattened, pregnant self splits open and her body explodes in a gruesome mess with huge "worms" expelled and some ending up in people's mouths |
    
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
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The scene of the flight of Snow White into the enchanted, seemingly-alive forest; and the scene in which the Wicked Queen morphs into the guise of an older, hunched-over woman, so that she can deliver a fatal dose of poison (in a red apple) to Snow White |
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Society (1989)
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The shocking, deranged, and repulsive surrealistic finale of director Brian Yuzna's bizarre film (his directorial debut) was criticized as disturbing and "sodomy-gore"; the film's story included cannibalism, a sex orgy, death by anal fisting, a "shunting ceremony" and shape-shifting/mutating 'Society' members; in the climax - a slimy incestuous rape/orgy of perverted body horror, popular Beverly Hills high-school athlete and senior Bill Whitney (Billy Warlock) witnessed a horribly grotesque initiation 'Society' house party in which bodies transform, mutate, break down and merge with one another to form a single lubricated mass of writhing and twisted flesh-colored goo |    
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Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
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In this psychological thriller's final scene, bedridden hypochondriac Leona Stevenson (Barbara Stanwyck), after overhearing a murder plot for that evening, realizes - alone in her Manhattan apartment - that she is going to be the object of the homicide, as she frantically calls for help before it's too late and hears the film's title - the last line of dialogue |
 
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
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An unusually scary transporter accident scene in this G-rated film, in which two crewmembers are trapped in a malfunctioning transporter beam - an anguished female is deformed and materializes (gratefully) off-camera at the remote transport location; a jolt of horror occurs when a shaken crewmember informs Admiral Kirk (William Shatner): "Enterprise, what we got back didn't live long... fortunately" |
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
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The scene in which Khan (Ricardo Montalban) puts parasitic, insanity-causing Ceti eels into Chekov (Walter Koenig) and Terrell's (Paul Winfield) ears |
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One of the scariest, most-suicidal and terrifying stunts ever performed - the well-timed fall of the two-ton facade of a house during a cyclone over the figure of Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Buster Keaton), perfectly positioned to escape being crushed by standing where the upper story window is located |
 
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The Stepford Wives (1975)
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The scene of Stepford, Connecticut suburban wife Joanna Eberhart (Katharine Ross) suspecting that her friend Bobbie Markowe (Paula Prentiss) has been transformed into a 'perfect' housewife - when Bobbie acts robotically in the kitchen while serving coffee; to test her humanity, Joanna stabs her in her lower abdominal/genital area ("Do you bleed?") - causing her android friend to go berserk due to severed wiring as she twirls and repeats monotonously: "I was just going to give you coffee? How could you do a thing like that? I thought we were friends!" |
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Strange Days (1995)
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The contraband virtual reality snuff clip ("blackjack") in which the murderer forces the female victim Iris (Brigitte Bako) to be 'jacked in' to physically experience her own brutal rape, strangulation and death from the rapist's point of view; and the added plane of perception of Lenny Nero (Ralph Fiennes) experiencing her experiencing her own torture and demise as he 'jacks in' to unknowingly experience the clip given to him anonymously by the murderer/rapist |
 
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A crazed and corrupted rustic farmer (George O'Brien) fell prey to the seductive wiles of a city vamp and tempting mistress (Margaret Livingston) in an illicit affair; she also planted in him the evil idea to kill his beautiful and loving wife (Janet Gaynor) during a boat trip to the temptation-ridden city; the man stood in the boat, threatened with plodding steps toward his wife as she leaned back and then brought her hands together and prayed for mercy |
 
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Suspicion (1941)
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The famous sequence in which Johnny (Cary Grant) carries a glowing glass of milk (that may or may not be poisoned) upstairs to his sick wife Lina (Joan Fontaine) and Lina's staring at the glass which she thinks is poisoned |
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Many sites
and horror books have attempted to compile listings of the scariest
scenes in film history. In late October 2004, the Bravo cable
network first presented a countdown of 100 movies that contained the
100 Scariest Movie Moments in Film History, later supplemented with
30 Even Scarier Movie Moments in October, 2006. Other sites and film
critics have presented their own compilations of cinema's scariest scenes,
such as the UK's Channel Four and RetroCrush. The selections
of Entertainment Weekly for the "20 Scariest Movies of All
Time" in October 2004 are marked with this symbol -- 
