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Greatest Scariest Movie Moments and Scenes Part 5 |
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Greatest Scariest Movie
Moments and Scenes
(alphabetical) - Part 5
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| The abhorrent scene of young punker Alex de Large (Malcolm McDowell) raping the red pajama-wearing writer's wife Mrs. Alexander (Adrienne Corri) - while performing a song/dance to the tune of "Singin' in the Rain"; the elderly husband Frank Alexander (Patrick Magee) was forced to helplessly watch the ugly disrobing and choreographed rape of his own wife when Alex first attacked her breasts - he snipped off two circles of jumpsuit cloth around them to expose them and then in the mode of 'Jack the Ripper', he slit her entire suit off from her pant leg upward; after unzipping and pulling his own pants down prior to her rape, he mocked the husband: "Viddy well, little brother. Viddy well"; also, the scenes of Alex being given a new, experimental, brain-washing reprogramming treatment called "aversion therapy," the Ludovico Treatment Technique -- he was strait-jacketed and transported to a screening room where he was tied down in a seat and made a captive audience, and forced to watch films (of sex and violence) with his eyelids clamped open with pitiless clamps, while an assistant lubricated his bulging pupils at various intervals; his tortured face and head were wrapped in straps, and connected with electrodes and wires |   
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The Collector, aka The Butterfly Collector (1965) |
The mentally-disturbed, obsessed character of young London bank clerk and kidnapper Freddie Clegg (Terence Stamp), and the chilling finale when Clegg went back on his word to liberate from the basement his latest captive addition to his collection - art student Miranda Grey (Samantha Eggar) (she died offscreen in a bathtub) | 
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Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954) |
In this Jack Arnold's horror classic (originally shot in 3-D), a prehistoric, web-footed, humanoid Gill-Man (Ben Chapman) was discovered swimming in a Brazilian river in the Amazon by an anthropological expedition; in scary and superbly-photographed underwater sequences, the creature expressed 'Beauty-and-the-Beast' love interest in dark-haired bathing beauty Kay Lawrence (Julia Adams) - he watched her from below as she swam above him in a white one-piece suit - and then kidnapped her from the boat by grabbing her and diving into the water |   
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Creepshow (1982) |
In the fourth of five spooky stories written by Stephen King for this George Romero film, The Crate, a lethal, voracious werewolf-like creature, in a large box from an expedition to the Arctic 134 years ago, mauled the janitor who opened up the crate with a university professor; in the last of five stories titled They're Creeping Up on You, ugly and gigantic cockroaches emerged and swarmed during a blackout in the germproof, sparkling-white apartment of roach-phobic, obsessively-clean, miserly millionaire named Professor Upson Pratt (E. G. Marshall) and eventually killed him |
   
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Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) |
The tense, disquieting scene when Judah (Martin Landau) went to the apartment of ex-mistress Dolores Paley (Anjelica Huston), killed (off-screen) by a hitman that he hired, to retrieve evidence - and found her staring lifelessly up at him | 
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Cujo (1983) |
In this horror-thriller adapted from a Stephen King novel, a monstrous, rampaging, rabid (from a rabid bat bite), ferocious and snarling St. Bernard dog that attacked mother Donna Trenton (Dee Wallace Stone) and her petrified son Tad (Danny Pintauro) in a locked, sweltering Ford Pinto at a deserted farm-garage - with the shock scene of the mean-tempered dog suddenly first appearing at her broken-down, canary-yellow Pinto's passenger door, as the mother struggled to roll up the window; also the climactic struggle in which Donna impaled the psycho dog on the sharpened broken end of a baseball bat -- and the surprise resurrection of the mad animal (in a slow-motion sequence) ending with a final attack in the house |  
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D.A.R.Y.L. (1985) |
The disquieting, disturbing scene in which Daryl (Barrett Oliver), a 10 year old amnesiac orphan boy, was examined by military scientists on why he was "malfunctioning" - or betraying his true nature as a human with emotions, when he conveyed the computer-printed words: "I'M FRIGHTENED"; the scientists forced Daryl to acknowledge that he was android D.A.R.Y.L. (an anagram for Data Analyzing Robotic Youth Lifeform) | 
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Dawn of the Dead (1978) |
The early scene in which a SWAT team in a ghetto tenement building in Philadelphia violently forced the resistant residents to leave their apartments and give up their dead loved ones - one resident's zombie head was explosively shot off, and the flesh of the shoulder of another woman was ravenously bitten by a marauding zombie relative; also the scene at a private airfield office when two zombie children (Donna and Mike Savini) unexpectedly burst through a door and attacked black Philly PD SWAT team member Peter Washington (Ken Foree); the scene outside the Pittsburgh-area mall when a careless Roger (Scott Reiniger) was bitten by zombies in the arm and leg as he helped ferry semi-trailer trucks from a loading dock to the mall to block the entrances; and finally, the chilling zombie attack upon TV news helicopter pilot Stephen (David Emge) in a mall elevator In the 'reimagined' remake by Zack Snyder, the undead zombies in the local mega Crossroads Shopping Mall were much swifter moving; in an early scary scene, one of the last surviving humans in a Wisconsin town, a nurse named Ana Clark (Sarah Polley), survived an attack and bloody neck bite by a neighbor girl inside their house that left her husband Louis a zombie - while she narrowly escaped through the bathroom window; one of the film's most horrifying scenes was the one in which infected undead mother Luda (Inna Korobkina), who was bitten by one of the zombies, gave birth while tied to a bed in the mall's children's store - her bare belly displayed unnatural movements and then a zombie baby was born - and soon to be shot; there were also multiple zombie deaths, including a stake through the chin and exiting the top of the head, a stake through the eye of a screaming zombie female, and an exploding canister of propane gas shot out of the hands of another zombie |
      Dawn of the Dead (1978)      Dawn of the Dead (2004) |
Dead Alive (1992) (aka Braindead) |
This over-the-top bloody and gory Peter Jackson horror-comedy zombie film - indisputably the goriest film ever made - included an outrageous custard-eating scene in which rotting body parts from zombified Mum Vera Cosgrove (Elizabeth Moody) squirted pus into a bowl of porridge-pudding -- when her ear fell off, she ate it with the mush; also in the housewarming dinner party scene, the guests were attacked by zombies (one zombie punched his fist through the back of a woman's head); and in the infamous and climactic zombie massacre scene, shy mama's boy Lionel Cosgrove (Timothy Balme) used a rotary-blade lawnmower (strapped to his chest) in a room full of zombies to send buckets of blood, intestines, and body parts flying everywhere |
    
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The Dead Zone (1983) |
The gruesome suicide scene in which black raincoat-clad serial killer (the Deputy Sheriff) sought by psychic Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken), committed suicide by falling on an open pair of scissors attached to the bathtub - mouth-first (off-screen) -- in the film, only the twitching after-effects were shown | 
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Deep Blue Sea (1999) |
The unlikely, extremely startling killing of Russell Franklin (Samuel Jackson) by a shark (a combination of computer-generated images and animatronics) during a rousing speech for survival |  
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| At shot-gun-point in the woods, in a nightmarish and frightening sequence, a sexually-perverted rustic viciously targeted and humiliated Bobby (Ned Beatty) - a chubby-faced, defenseless intruder into his territory; he forced the fat salesman to first strip down to his underwear; after a degrading roll around in the dirt and up a steep, leaf-strewn hillside while fondling and groping his prey, the mountain man/rapist made Bobby squeal like a female sow before sodomizing him; also the shocking final image of a hand emerging from the water |  
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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 
- Entries in Entertainment
Weekly's "20 Scariest Movies of All Time" (October,
2004 issue) 