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Greatest Scariest Movie Moments and Scenes Part 6 |
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Greatest Scariest Movie
Moments and Scenes
(alphabetical) - Part 6
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7 | Part 8 | Part
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The Devil's Backbone (2001, Sp.) (aka El Espinazo del Diablo) |
This Gothic ghost murder-mystery (from director Guillermo del Toro), set during the ongoing Spanish Civil War in 1938, contained imagery of a seldom-seen dead boy ("the one who sighs") named Santi (Junio Valverde) - a pale-faced orphan who (in flashback) was brutally beaten and drowned in an orphanage; he was a sad ghostly figure who haunted the place - he appeared with milky eyes, left wet footprints and had watery blood flowing from a gash in his head; he also warned of an upcoming catastrophe ("many of you will die") and was associated with a scary, deep water tank or pool in the orphanage's damp basement; the film boasted a haunting soundtrack (with gurgling, a ghoul's cries and sighs, and the screech of mechanical gears); in one scary sequence, orphaned Carlos (Fernando Tielve) descended into the basement where the ghoulish Santi was hiding (and tapped him on the shoulder from behind); in another shocking scene, while the camera looked through a keyhole lock in a door as Carlos hid in a closet, the ghostly boy's large eye suddenly appeared in the field of view |    
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The Devils (1971, UK) |
In this sadomasochistic story adapted from Aldous Huxley's "The Devils of Loudon", there were numerous scenes of orgiastic and crazed, nude, head-shaved nuns, including the exorcism of the wicked, sexually-repressed, and deformed (hunch-backed) Sister Jeanne des Anges (Vanessa Redgrave); also the frenzied scene of the climactic torture / burning at the stake of the promiscuous rebel priest Father Grandier (Oliver Reed) as the crazed, self-righteous priests shouted out: "Confess. Beg forgiveness" to which Grandier responded: "I am about to meet the God who is my witness. And I have spoken the truth"; as his pyre was lit, the hysterical priest cried: "May your body be consumed by eternal fire" - as his body was licked by flames without the benefit of being strangled first |    
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The Devil's Rejects (2005) |
This brutal, repellent, uncompromising and sick film by writer/director Rob Zombie told about a lunatic tribe of hillbilly serial killers (the Fireflys, with names borrowed from Groucho Marx) on the backroads of Alabama; it was filled with degraded scenes of murder and dismemberment; in an early scene, stringy, blonde-haired fugitive leader Otis P. Driftwood (Bill Moseley) cuddled with a decomposing female corpse (Jessica Helmer); one of the most awful and unpleasant sequences was the one in which Otis, his crazy sister Baby (Sheri Moon Zombie, the director's wife) and their demented father with clown makeup, Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig) terrorized, tortured and tormented members of a close-knit traveling country music band called "Banjo & Sullivan" at a motel - victim Wendy Banjo (Kate Norby) was dragged naked from a shower, bandleader Roy Sullivan's wife Gloria (Priscilla Barnes, from TV's Three's Company) was sexually humiliated with a large pistol and killed, and later Adam Banjo (Lew Temple) was lethally tortured out in the desert; the sole surviving Wendy was discovered by a motel maid wearing an organic mask made from Adam's face - when Wendy hysterically ran for help into the middle of the road and tried to wave down a car, a big truck ran over her, and her body was left a bloody mess |
    
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Les Diaboliques (1955, Fr.) |
The startling scene of long-suffering, enslaved and invalid 'widow' Christina Delasalle's (Vera Clouzot) death from a heart attack when watching her tyrant husband Michel Delasalle (Paul Meurisse) rise zombie-like from being submerged in the bath where she thought he was dead from drowning - and his removal of fake white covers from each eyeball |   
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Dial M For Murder (1954) |
The attempted strangulation scene (also filmed in 3-D) of wealthy Margot Wendice (Grace Kelly) reaching backwards and searching for a weapon (a pair of scissors) to defend herself and kill hired assassin Captain Lesgate (Anthony Dawson) by stabbing him in the back |    
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) |
This classic horror story told about a fatally curious doctor named Dr. Henry Jekyll (Fredric March) who adventured into the unknown by self-testing a serum formula that released the uninhibited, subconscious evil in his soul, and caused him to develop a monstrous split personality as Mr. Hyde; the scariest scene was Jekyll's first transformation scene when he drank a potion in his laboratory and amazingly changed into the frightening Mr. Hyde - a bullying, jagged-toothed, sexually libidinous, bedeviled creature - with his grotesque exclamation in front of a mirror: "Free - free at last" as the camera spun around; the film was also horrifying for Hyde’s sordid, sexually-decadent and sadistic sexual encounters with Cockney slut "Champagne Ivy" Pearson (Miriam Hopkins) |
  
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Don't Look Now (1973) |
After the scary drowning death of his red raincoat-wearing daughter Christine (Sharon Williams) in an early scene, the final moment that architectural restoration expert John Baxter (Donald Sutherland) saw what he thought was a small girl in a bright red hooded coat in a dark alleyway - who turned out to be his nemesis - a murderous, wizened-faced dwarf in the city of Venice who sliced his throat with a long sharp knife |   
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| The tuxedo-garbed entrance of Transylvanian Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi) on a long staircase below a gigantic web (which he passed through as he exited), when he raised his eyes, and uttered with a lilting Hungarian accent after hearing the sound of wolves: "Listen to them. Children of the night. What mu-u-u-sic they make"; also the scene of the discovery of crazed lunatic Renfield (Dwight Frye) on the ship Vesta that bore the casket of Dracula to England - Renfield emerged in the hatchway from the hold of the death ship, stared up giggling and totally insane - obviously infected with Dracula's madness for the remainder of this classic film (the first sound horror film) |     
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Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) |
The Carpathian crypt ritualistic resurrection scene in which Count Dracula's (Christopher Lee) creepy manservant, Klove (Philip Latham) suspended murdered vacationing English tourist Alan Kent (Charles Tingwell) (after stabbing him in the back) by his feet over Dracula's tomb-sarcophagus - he then slit the man's throat to let his gushing blood awaken Dracula's ashes from the dead |  
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Duel (1971) |
The relentless highway road pursuit of traveling salesman David Mann (Dennis Weaver) in his red 1970 Plymouth Valiant by a killer diesel truck (a 1955 Peterbilt 281 towing a tanker trailer) driven by a hidden, faceless psychopathic driver (wearing cowboy boots) (stuntman and character actor Carey Loftin) |  
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Dumbo (1941) |
The alcohol-induced 'Pink Elephants on Parade' sequence; also the scene of the capture and confinement of Dumbo's mother Mrs. Jumbo when she was thought to be a rogue wild elephant - for "attacking" a bratty kid who was tormenting little Dumbo by pulling his large ears |  
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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) 