Scariest Movie Moments and Scenes

	Greatest Scariest Movie Moments and Scenes Part 3

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
Blood Simple (1984)	During the pursuit scene, disaffected wife Abby (Frances McDormand) slammed a window down on loathsome private detective Visser's (M. Emmet Walsh) wrist, crushing it on the sill in the next room, and then pinned his hand to the sill with a knife; while Visser's hand was writhing in pain, he had to crash through the wall and blindly grope for the knife handle to remove it; also the 15-minute cadaver disposal sequence in which bartender Ray (John Getz) had difficulty getting rid of the dead body of a Texas roadhouse owner and Abby's husband Marty (Dan Hedaya), but finally buried the man alive in a field
Blue Velvet (1986)	While Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) hid in a closet and watched in horror, psychotic, blackmailing, perverse kidnapper Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) arrived to terrorize nightclub singer Dorothy Valens (Isabella Rossellini) by brutalizing and sado-masochistically raping her ("Come to mama"), as he inhaled ether and she bit on her blue velvet robe
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)	In Francis Ford Coppola's eroticized, visually-opulent and lavish R-rated film, the scene of young real estate agent Jonathan Harker (Keanu Reeves) meeting with dark and brooding Dracula's (Gary Oldman) three surreal and alluring Brides of Dracula (Monica Bellucci, Michaela Bercu, and Florina Kendrick) who emerged from under his bed and proceeded to seduce him - and feed upon him (by biting down on his crotch with fanged teeth), interrupted by the sudden appearance of Dracula himself ("How dare you touch him! He belongs to me") who gave his brides a young baby to feast upon as Harker screamed in horror
The Brood (1979)	The repellent and repulsive scene in which psychotherapist Dr. Hal Raglan's (Oliver Reed) patient named Nola Carveth (Samantha Eggar) autogenetically gave birth to homicidal strange, mutated children to physically express her internal rage - during the birth, she ripped off her own external uterus and then licked her own monstrous bloody fetus clean; equally scary was another scene of the 'brood' attacking Nola's daughter Candice (Cindy Hinds)
Cabin Fever (2002)	This film told about five college graduates who rented a cabin in the woods and became infected by a contagious, flesh-eating disease/virus; in the film's most infamous scene, Marcy (Cerina Vincent) - unaware that the skin on her back was diseased, bubbly and blistered with oozing sores, attempted to shave her soap-lathered, infected legs in the bathtub, causing bloody wounds, skin to come off, and reddish bathwater; later in the film, Marcy was torn to pieces (off-screen) by a mad dog in the woods - shot from the dog's POV
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1921, Ger.)	For its time, this German expressionistic, surrealistic fantasy/horror film was truly scary; it told about a ghost-like, mad hypnotist-therapist in a carnival named Dr. Caligari (Werner Kraus) who called pale-skinned, lanky, black leotard-wearing Cesare (Conrad Veidt), his performing somnambulist (and haunted murderer), from a state of sleep; the shadowy, disturbing, distorted, and dream-nightmarish quality of the macabre and stylistic 'Caligari,' with twisted alleyways, lopsided doors, cramped rooms, overhanging buildings, and skewed cityscapes, was brought to Hollywood in the 1920s, and later influenced the classic period of horror films in the 1930s - introducing many standard horror film conventions; the film appeared to be a delusional nightmare in psychotic mental patient Francis' (Friedrich Feher) dream
Candyman (1992)	The scene of married graduate student Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen), who was researching urban legends (regarding a tortured and murdered slave from 200 years earlier), playfully chanting the name "Candyman" in front of a mirror - and then later being confronted by the Candyman (Tony Todd) (with a hooked right hand and wearing a fur-trimmed coat) in a concrete parking garage - as he continually entreated her from a distance: "Helen. Helen"; she asked the silhouetted figure as he approached closer: "Do I know you?" with his response: "No, no, but you doubted me...You were not content with the stories, so I was obliged to come. Be my victim. Be my victim! I am the writing on the wall, the whisper in the classroom. Without these things, I am nothing. So now I must shed innocent blood. Come with me"; also, after she was incarcerated for murder, she dared to again repeat the name 'Candyman' five times in front of a mirror for doubtful psychiatrist Dr. Burke (Stanley DeSantis) to prove her innocence ("I can prove it...I can call him") - thereby unleashing the incarnated spirit of the bloody, haunting and hook-wielding 'Candyman' maniac with a deep voice, who stabbed the unbelieving doctor at his desk from behind; by film's end, the 'Candyman' again found her in his company and seduced her: "You came to me...Surrender to me now and you shall be unharmed"; as the room spun around, he picked her up in his arms and told her: "We have a bargain...Do you hear the pain or what is beyond?..The pain, I can assure you, will be exquisite. As for our deaths, there is nothing to fear. Our names will be written on a thousand walls, our crimes told and retold by our faithful believers. We shall die together in front of their very eyes, and give them something to be haunted by. Come with me and be immortal" - he then revealed buzzing bees swarming on his chest and pouring from his mouth before he kissed her
Cannibal Ferox (1981) (aka Make Them Die Slowly)	This Italian exploitation film with unbelievable scenes of graphic violence in the Amazon followed closely on the heels of Cannibal Holocaust (1980), that was also banned and controversial for its extreme violence; Mike Logan (Giovanni Lombardo Radice, or John Morghen) was castrated (and his genitals eaten) while strung up on a tree, and female victim Pat (Zora Kerova) was impaled by iron hooks through both breasts and suspended by ropes attached to the hooks to die in the Amazon jungle sun
Cannibal Holocaust (1980)	The hotly-debated cult classic film from Ruggero Deodato contained violent, grisly and disturbing images (actually faux-documentary footage except for the numerous animal killings), decades before The Blair Witch Project; it told the story of a film crew, led by Alan Yates (Gabriel York), that purportedly disappeared while making a documentary (a feature entitled "The Green Inferno" about the last surviving tribes that still practiced cannibalism) in the wilds of South America; masterful cinematic tricks and special effects created an unnerving view of the fate of the team - found in undeveloped film cans by a search and rescue team; the film's most notorious scene included the impalement of a young woman on a pole
Cape Fear (1962)	The scenes of psychopathic vengeful rapist Max Cady (Robert Mitchum) terrorizing the family of defense lawyer Sam Bowden (Gregory Peck) ("I got something planned for your wife and kid that they ain't never gonna forget"), especially the scene on the houseboat (on Cape Fear river) when he threatened to rape Sam's wife Peggy (Polly Bergen) - he rubbed the inside of a raw egg that he had just angrily squeezed in his fist over her chest as he told her: "I was gonna go for Nancy, but uh, I can always make it with Nancy, you know, next week, next month...You propositioned me - You instead of Nancy, and I'll agree never to see you again, alright? listen, of course, unless you want it" -- and then shortly after, he also stalked and menaced daughter Nancy (Lori Martin)
Cape Fear (1991)	In this remake, the scene of vengeful psychotic Max Cady (Robert De Niro) threatening a lawyer (Nick Nolte) and his wife (Jessica Lange) and family, including the tense and very disturbing, repellent yet fascinating scene when he posed as a drama teacher on the set of a play in the school's auditorium and then proceeded to verbally and physically seduce and kiss the rebellious, naive, sexually-curious and troubled fifteen-year old daughter Danielle (Juliette Lewis) - with her dual responses of fear and excitement
Carnival of Souls (1962)	The many disturbing, creepy visions of ghostly figures of the recent dead (including director Herk Harvey) that haunted sole car crash survivor (?) Mary Henry (Candace Hilligoss), such as weird visions of a ghoulish man who stared at her through the windshield, and the surreal dance of the ghouls in an abandoned circus tent
Carrie (1976)	The recurring nightmare - shock second ending in which dead Carrie White's (Sissy Spacek) bloody arm burst out of the ground above her grave toward mourning classmate Sue Snell (Amy Irving); or the opening locker room scene in which Carrie was taunted by schoolmates for having her first period, and the scene of a humiliated Carrie's psycho-kinetic, murderous revenge against prom-goers (shown in split-screen) after being doused and crowned with a bucket of pig's blood, and the scene of Carrie's murder of her ultra-religious, psychotic mother Margaret (Piper Laurie) - crucified by flying cutlery and kitchenware