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Greatest Scariest Movie Moments and Scenes Part 8 |
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Greatest Scariest Movie
Moments and Scenes
(alphabetical) - Part 8
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part
3 | Part 4 | Part
5 | Part 6 | Part
7 | Part 8 | Part
9 | Part 10
Part 11 | Part
12 | Part 13 | Part
14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20
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The Fly (1958) |
The scary scene of the emergence of scientist Andre Delambre (David Hedison) from a teleportation device with a fly's head, and his wife Helene's (Patricia Owens) screaming reaction (as seen through the kaleidoscopic POV of her transformed husband's hundreds of eyes); also the scene of the entrapped fly in a spider's web with Andre's human head and arms, as he screamed: "Help me! Help meeeeeee!" |   
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The Fly (1986) |
Hapless scientist Seth Brundle's (Jeff Goldblum) girlfriend/science reporter Veronica Quaife's (Geena Davis) nightmare of aborting a squirming maggot; also the scenes of the unsuccessful transport of a baboon, turning it inside out, the arm wrestling match when Seth broke his competitor's arm (with the bone protruding); and the concluding scene of Seth's painful attack on Stathis Borans (John Getz) by using acidic vomit, first to cover his fist and causing it to disintegrate into a bloody stump, and then regurgitating the whitish acid onto his ankle and peeling off his foot; also in the final sequence, he had a horrifying discussion with Veronica, pleading with her: "Help me. Help me to be human" by asking her to engage in a fusion sequence to come together with him: "You, me, and the baby...It will be the ultimate family, a family of three joined together in one body. More human than I am alone" - as she resisted his attempt to drag and throw her into the transporter, his fleshy skin fell off and he was transformed into an actual human fly; after a failed transport, disfigured and anguished Brundlefly wordlessly begged Veronica to kill his monstrous self with a shotgun - she dropped to her knees after the deed was accomplished |       
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The scene of the first appearance of the Frankenstein Monster (Boris Karloff) - when the hulking Monster entered a doorway backwards, then slowly turned around, and provided a shadowy profile in the first chilling close-up look of his blankly expressionless, tabula rasa face - a jagged surgical scar around the jaw appeared; there was also a prominent spike that gleamed into view on the side of the figure's neck; a series of camera jump cuts provided increasingly tighter close-ups of the hideous visage of the cadaverous creature; also the horrific scene of the Monster befriending and playing with an innocent little girl named Maria (Marilyn Harris) by a lakeside -- as they enjoyed throwing flower petals one-by-one onto the surface of a lake; when his flowers were gone, he then ignorantly tossed Maria in and caused her to drown; also the scene of his attack upon Frankenstein's bride Elizabeth (Mae Clarke) who was wearing her beautiful wedding gown with a long train for their wedding day |
    
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Freaks (1932) |
In retaliation for sexy, gold-digging trapeze artist Cleopatra's (Olga Baclanova) marriage to circus midget Hans (Harry Earles) for his money and teaming up with strong man Hercules (Henry Victor), a group of freaks sought revenge during a rainstorm as they crawled through the mud (some with knives in their mouths), and then disfigured her and turned her into a half-woman, half-chicken-hen for the sideshow, and also emasculated Hercules (off-screen) |  
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Frenzy (1972) |
The scene of the killer Robert Rusk (Barry Foster) frantically searching through a stack of burlap potato sacks in the back of a moving truck to find his missing, incriminating initialed stickpin (clenched in a death grip by the nude corpse) torn from his lapel while his victim struggled, and his breaking of the corpse's clutching fingers to retrieve it | 
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Friday the 13th (1980) |
The famous death scenes in this classic slasher horror film, including the one of Jack Burrell (Kevin Bacon) - grabbed and stabbed by a sharp pointed arrow in the throat from UNDER the bed, after making love to fellow camp counselor Marcie Cunningham (Jeannine Taylor); she was then stalked and given a false scare in the shower room ("Must be my imagination") but then the shadow of an axe rose behind her, and she was sliced in her face by an unknown killer; also the other grisly and bloody scenes of teenaged death, and the finale death scene of vindictive mother Mrs. Voorhees (Betsy Palmer) when decapitated by sole-surviving camp counselor Alice Hardy (Adrienne King) wielding a machete; and the concluding shocking, surprise (dream?), boo-moment when the long-lost, re-animated, half-decomposed, rotten corpse of Jason Voorhees (Ari Lehman) suddenly burst out of the water at the re-opened Camp Crystal Lake and attacked Alice in a canoe, and dragged her underwater. Throughout the film, Jason's death was avenged by his crazed, homicidal and schizophrenic mother -- camp kitchen-worker mother who was retaliating for her young son's accidental and tragic death from drowning in the lake over two decades earlier in 1957 |
    
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From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) |
The sudden transformation of exotic, maroon bikini-clad dancer Santanico Pandemonium (Salma Hayek) in a Mexican nightclub (called the "Titty Twister") when she morphed into a vampirish creature, jumped on the back of deranged murderer, robber and psychopathic rapist Richie Gecko (Quentin Tarantino), and used her fangs to bite into his neck; he fell to the ground dead, but was then resurrected as a zombie that had to be killed permanently by his brother Seth (George Clooney) with a wooden table-leg stake thrust into his heart |  
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Full Metal Jacket (1987) |
The bloody suicidal death of tormented, overweight misfit and psychopathic Marine Private 'Pyle' (Vincent D'Onofrio) during boot camp training, by shooting himself in the mouth - thereby blowing his head off in the bathroom (just after murdering Gunnery Sargent Hartman (R. Lee Ermey)) | 
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Gangs of New York (2002) |
Bill "The Butcher" Cutting's (Daniel Day-Lewis) chilling, tense knife-throwing "command performance" with his former lover Jenny Everdeane (Cameron Diaz) - "the butcher's original apprentice", knowing she had betrayed him - he violently hurled knives at her with pinpoint precision, first pinning her garment at both sides of her neck to the wall behind her; he then speared the locket he'd given her as a child as his way of severing his relationship permanently with her (as Bill mockingly chided: "Whoopsie-daisy! Now it's good and broke!"), and his final throw (after asking her: "You got the sand to give them a Grand Finale?"), which deliberately grazed her neck and drew blood |  
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| The genuinely scary transformation of shushing, gray-haired, ghostly New York Public Library worker (Alice Drummond) into a screaming spectral hag when Ghostbuster-to-be Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) yelled: "Ready? Get her!" | 
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The tense/comical scene in the Bamboo Lounge of the transformation of loud-mouthed, volatile gangster Tommy (Joe Pesci), when he took offense at a laughing, wise-guy Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), and how he quickly changed from a likeable jokester to an aggressive psychotic, when he menacingly asked: "What do you mean, I'm funny? Funny how? How'm I funny?" |
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Great Expectations (1946, UK) |
The nearly-silent opening and nightmarish scene with young Pip (Anthony Wager) encountering bulbous-nosed convict Abel Magwitch (Finley Currie) in a shadowy church graveyard - introduced with a brilliant whip-pan camera movement - while visiting his parents' grave; the monstrous man threatened to cut the boy's throat and then demanded "a file and vittles" |
 
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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) 