Scariest Movie Moments and Scenes

	Greatest Scariest Movie Moments and Scenes Part 4

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
Casino Royale (2006)	In the infamous sexual torture and interrogation scene, villain Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) strapped 007 agent James Bond (Daniel Craig) naked to an open-bottomed cane chair and swung a heavy, knotted rope to strike Bond's testicles, in order to extract a password to a bank account to retrieve millions of funds after he had lost a high-stakes poker game; Bond defiantly taunted Le Chiffre while in excruciating pain: "I've got a little itch, down there. Would you mind?...No! No! No! No! No! To the right. To the right! To the right!...Aargh! Yeah! Ahh! Ahh! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes...! Now the whole world's gonna know that you died scratching my balls!"
Cat People (1942)	This Val Lewton-produced horror film featured two frightening, feline-panther stalkings that produced fright without showing anything: kitten-faced Irena Dubrovna (Simone Simon) jealously stalked rival female Alice Moore (Jane Randolph) on a Central Park path at night - Alice quickened her pace and hugged a lamppost - as the sound of the hissing, squealing air-brakes of a bus that pulled abruptly into the right side of the screen accentuated the horror - it created a jolting sensation and caused audiences to 'jump'; there was a second similar scene in a YWCA indoor swimming pool accompanied by growls and shadows of an unseen black panther
The Cell (2000)	The surrealistically beautiful image of a segmented horse - after being suddenly sliced into still pulsating pieces by panes of glass; and the inventive, disturbing visuals to represent the mind of the sadomasochistic serial killer Carl Stargher (Vincent D'Onofrio)
The Changeling (1980)	The deeply-disturbing imagery, supernatural phenomena, and sounds that composer/musician John Russell (George C. Scott) experienced in a haunted house, exacerbated by his own personal tragedy (losing his wife and daughter in an auto accident): a ball bouncing down the stairs, the apparition of a child in a bathtub, and a glass ball suddenly flying off a table and smashing during a seance; also the effective seance scene in which the tormented spirit conveyed a message
Un Chien Andalou (1929, Fr.)	The shocking and disturbing opening sequence when a man sharpened a straight razor, then moved the sharp-edged blade close to a woman's (Simone Mareuil) wide-opened eye, (an image of a cloud passing over the moon was interspersed), and then sliced it in half -- (it was actually a cow's eye that was being cut)
Children of the Corn (1984)	In this Stephen King tale, children with glowing eyes in the isolated and deserted farmland town of Gatlin, Nebraska had slaughtered all of the adult townspeople in the name of a God dubbed "He Who Walks Behind the Rows" -- the film opened with the famous coffee shop massacre of the Gatlin adults after Sunday church, and the scene of a boy stumbling out onto the highway clutching his sliced throat when he was hit by a car in the middle of the road; sadistic Malachai (Courtney Gains), the enforcer for the cult of murderous children, abducted victim Vicky (Linda Hamilton) and while holding her captive in the middle of the street, called out tauntingly to her boyfriend Burt (Peter Horton): "Outlander! Outlander! We have your woman!", and then she was tied to a giant corn-dressed cross or crucifix
Child's Play (1988)	The subtle moments in which the blue-eyed, cherub-faced toy doll Chucky, imbued by the evil soul of serial killer Charles Lee Ray (Brad Dourif), appeared to be talking -- without batteries, and committed his first murder
Chinatown (1974)	The tense nose-cutting scene in which nosy LA private detective J.J. "Jake" Gittes (Jack Nicholson) was threatened to stay off the case by a maniacal, intimidating, knife-wielding hoodlum (director Roman Polanski in a cameo role): "You're a very nosy fellow, kitty-cat, huh? You know what happens to nosy fellows? Huh, no? Want to guess? Huh, no? OK. They lose their noses. (Jake's nose gushed blood after a sharp flick of the knife.) Next time you lose the whole thing. (I) cut if off and feed it to my goldfish. Understand? Understand!?"; also the tragic ending in Chinatown itself when Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway) was shot through the head from behind in her fleeing convertible; Jake, the first to get to the car, opened the driver's door and she flopped to the side - her face was horribly blown apart through her flawed eye - she had literally been destroyed by her domineering water-tycoon father Noah Cross (John Huston), who lamented: "Lord, Oh Lord," and clumsily shielded and covered the eyes of an hysterical daughter/grand-daughter Katherine - telling her: "Don't look, don't look" - to prevent her from comprehending the enormous tragedy
Christine (1983)	The scene in which the evil-possessed red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury became obsessively-jealous of nerd owner Arnie Cunningham's (Keith Gordon) new girlfriend Leigh Cabot (Alexandra Paul) - and at a drive-in theatre on a rainy night, the malevolent car made Leigh choke on her popcorn, the dome light became a brilliant white light, the radio blasted an old but menacing 50s tune, and the car's doors locked her inside -- she nearly died and then delivered an ultimatum to her car-fixated boyfriend; in other scary scenes, the evil, flaming Christine chased one of Arnie's enemies (Buddy Reperton, played by William Ostrander) down a highway and left him a flaming corpse on the road, and then similarly stalked Moochie Welch (Malcolm Danare) down in a narrow alleyway and pinned him against a wall
Cliffhanger (1993)	The opening scene of a climber falling to her death without being rescued by Gabe Walker (Sylvester Stallone)