Scariest Movie Moments and Scenes

	Greatest Scariest Movie Moments and Scenes Part 2

Introduction: The following list, in unranked alphabetical order by film title, presents a solid collection of the most classic, 'scariest' scenes in movie history, including film scenes that were once considered 'scary' upon their initial screenings (or scary for young viewers), but have lost some of their shock appeal. Films represent some of the best and worst of the horror film genre including entries from the classic Universal 30's monster films to some of the scariest, most shocking, bloodiest and gore-ridden slasher films of the recent past. [Author's Note: Admittedly, the word 'scariest' may also be interpreted as most horrifying, shocking, or many other such synonyms.] Other areas of this website have scariest scenes also - see Greatest Film Scenes with some descriptions of scary scenes included, or entries in Best Film Death Scenes.

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- Entries in Entertainment Weekly's "20 Scariest Movies of All Time" (October, 2004 issue)

Movie Title	Brief Scene Description	Example
(L'Arrivée D'Un Train À La Ciotat) (Train Pulling into Station) (1895)	In this early short film (actualite) by the Lumiere Brothers, a train locomotive was depicted pulling into Marseilles' Ciotat Station; the film was so real to early unsophisticated audiences that they experienced panic and dashed for cover
Audition (1999, Jp.)	The latter scenes of sadistic, torture and dismemberment revenge that seemingly-demure and dutifully-humble 21 year-old 'auditioned' bride-to-be Asami Yamazaki (Eihi Shiina) exacted on middle-aged widower Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi) with syringes, acupuncture needles (stuck into his eyelid), and piano wire (used to wire-saw off or amputate a foot), accompanied by the sound of a Japanese bird: "Kiri-kiri-kiri-kiri-kiri"; also the scene of a suddenly-lurching big burlap sack in the center of her living room (with a dismembered body in it)
Bambi (1942)	The traumatic and scary reality of death, introduced early to children in this film when hunter Man killed Bambi's mother (off-camera), signified by Bambi's (the Prince of the Forest) father stating: "She's not coming"
Battleship Potemkin (1925, USSR)	The scene of a baby carriage careening down steps during the Odessa Steps massacre sequence was very scary for mid-20s audiences. (It was later reprised in a number of films as homage to the classic scene, including Brazil (1985), The Untouchables (1987), and comically in Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994))	The Untouchables (1987)
The Beyond (1981) (aka E Tu Vivrai Nel Terrore - L'Aldilà, or You Will Live in Terror)	Director Lucio Fulci's graphic horror film featured a horrific scene in which zombie Joe (Giovanni De Nava) pushed Martha (Veronica Lazar) headfirst into the blunt end of a nail, causing her eyeball to entirely pop out of its socket; two years earlier, Fulci's film Zombie (1979) featured a similarly gruesome eye-gouging death sequence, making Fulci "the King of Ocular Mayhem"
The Birds (1963)	There were numerous scary scenes of crazed winged creatures attacking the inhabitants of a N. California coastal town, the silent amassing of birds on a jungle-jim at a school playground before a full-scale assault, at a farm house where a farmer's eyes were pecked out, in a claustrophobic attic against socialite Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) - leaving her bloody and traumatized, and in the town itself where a gas station burned; also the haunting ending scene in which the human beings carefully drove away from a home infested with observant birds
The Black Cat (1934)	In the end scene, Hjalmar Poelzig (Boris Karloff) was hung by his arms, stretched upward, and then skinned alive (shown in dark shadows) with a scalpel by Dr. Vitus Werdegast (Bela Lugosi) after the doctor sadistically ranted and raved with a mad, delirious gleam in his eyes: "Did you ever see an animal skinned, Hjalmar? Ha, ha, ha. That's what I'm going to do to you now - flay/tear the skin from your body...slowly...bit by bit!...How does it feel to hang on your own embalming rack, Hjalmar?"
Black Sunday (1960) (aka The Mask of the Demon)	In the prologue of this Italian gothic horror film by Mario Bava, 17th century condemned witch Princess Asa Vajda (Barbara Steele) was first branded by her Grand Inquisition executioners with an S (The Mark of Satan) on her bare back, and then condemned: "Cover her face with the mask of Satan. Nail it down! May the cleansing flames reduce her foul body to ashes so that the winds will obliterate all trace of her existence"; she responded to her accusers with a curse on her executioners and their progeny: "It is I who repudiate you and in the name of Satan, I place a curse upon you. Go ahead. Tie me down to the stake, but you will never escape my hunger nor that of Satan. (Thunder sounded) The unchained elements of the powers of darkness are lying in ambush...My revenge will strike down you and your cursed house and in the blood of your sons, and the sons of their sons, I will continue to live immortal. They will restore to me the life that you now rob from me. (The iron 'mask of steel' - lined with sharp spikes on the inside - was placed on her face) I shall return to torment and destroy throughout the night..."; the executioner then hammered the mask down onto her face with a large wooden mallet, causing screams, blood-splattering and gushing blood through the eyeholes
Blade Runner (1982)	The scene of android replicant Roy Batty's (Rutger Hauer) crushing of his creator Tyrell's (Joe Turkel) skull and gouging out of his eyes
The Blair Witch Project (1999)	Two scenes in this coarsely-made, low-budget fake documentary: Heather's (Heather Donahue) close-up, desperate, teary-eyed, video-taped confessional goodbye to her family and friends in the Maryland backwoods - lit by her flashlight shining from the side ("I just want to apologize...I'm scared to close my eyes. I'm scared to open them...We're going to die out here. I'm so scared..."), and the closing scene with the chase in the darkened woods by Heather and Michael (Michael Williams) for their missing friend Josh (Josh Leonard) and then through the seemingly-abandoned house - past kiddie-handprints on the wall (the Blair Witch myth told about children killed many years earlier) - (amidst Heather's screams and jerky hand-held camera shots) and into the cellar where Josh was seen standing motionless facing a wall in a corner (was he drugged, semi-conscious, or propped up dead, in order to distract the next victim?); the film's final ambiguous POV shot was accompanied by the sounds of "thwack", "thump", and "crash" as Heather's camcorder hit the ground (after she was attacked and killed?); the camera was broken, but was still running -- before the end credits appeared