# 100 Scariest Movie Moments On Bravo TV: Your Thoughts **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 27, 2004, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534 "2004-10-27T20:19:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/1 "2004-10-27T20:19:10Z")
As part of their programming for the week leading up to Halloween, Bravo is showing a series, over four nights, called “The 100 Scariest Movie Moments.” The first 25 “moments” were on last night (Tuesday, 10/26/04). Trouble is, these “moments” seem to be whole movies, rather than just certain scenes in movies. Here they are so far: 1. 28 Days Later 2. Creepshow 3. Zombie 4. Cat People 5. The Birds 6. Jurassic Park 7. Child’s Play 8. Pacific Heights 9. Village of the Damned 10. Shallow Grave 11. Night of the Hunter 12. Alice Sweet Alice 13. Invasion of the Body Snatchers 14. Black Christmas 15. Wizard of Oz 16. Blood & Black Lace 17. Blue Velvet 18. The Others 19. Terminator 20. The Howling 21. Poltergeist 22. Dracula 23. The Brood 24. Signs 25. Evil Dead …right now I’m giving 100 to 1 odds of the Number One moment being the shower scene in _Psycho_. [Cite](http://www.bravotv.com/100_Scariest_Movie_Moments/). Rather than make this a discussion of the scariest movies of all time, which has been done to death on these boards, let’s do the scariest _scenes_ of all time. Therefore one movie may have multiple scenes on your list. My top 9 (in no particular order, save for #1). 1. In _Poltergeist_, where Robbie looks at his chair and sees the clown there, then looks away, then looks back at the chair and the clown is not there :eek: ! The camera cuts to Robbie on his bed, and the clown is behind him, with this evil, maniacal grin. It’s giving me goose bumps just writing about it. (Made #80 on the Bravo list) 2. In _Jaws_, where Captain Brody is throwing chum off the back of the boat. The camera cuts away and then back to Capt. Brody, and the shark jumps out of the water right behind him. 3. In _The Shining_, where the wife looks over Jack’s manuscript, and she sees page after page after page of the words “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” 4. In _Signs_, where Joaquin Phoenix is watching the TV in the closet and he sees the video footage of the alien walking past the birthday party in Mexico. (Made #77 on the Bravo list) 5. In _The Exorcist_ (re-release), where Reagan is at the doctor’s office. You see the look on her face all of a sudden go very grim: I interpret that as the point where Pazuza completely took posession of her. 6. In _The Ring_, where Samarra comes crawling out of the TV. 7. In _Poltergeist_, where the oldest daughter pulls up in the cab and screams “What’s happening!?!?!?!” That’s the best characterization of pure terror that I’ve ever seen in any movie. 8. In _The Ring_, where the two teenage girls are giggling and laughing. They go downstairs, and while Amber Tamblyn’s character is looking at the TV, you see a shadow dart across the reflection of the TV. 9. In _Signs_, where the boy is sitting by the coal chute and the alien’s hands reach through the grate and grab his head. What are yours? ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/2 "2004-10-27T20:32:07Z")
The ‘Jason jason jason jason’ thing in FT13th1, the old man screaming in pain in the beginning of the Blob and the music in the Omen creep me out, but as far as moments go… _Bronze_: **Dressed To Kill** - The last scene _Silver_: **Body Double** - The attempt to halt the drilling _Gold_: - **American Werewolf** - The dream within a dream ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/3 "2004-10-27T20:56:34Z")
In no particular order: Jacob’s Ladder: Most scenes where you almost see something weird and slimy, but not quite. Blair Witch: The house. That whole sequence. Flowers in the Attic: When we find out what happened to Cory The Sixth Sense: “Wanna see my dad’s gun?”, “Look what you did!”, and “I’m feeling much better now.” Altered States: The hallucination where the father dies. I had nightmares for a week! ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/4 "2004-10-28T20:23:43Z")
I was going to start this thread myself … but I’m glad someone did! For me, the scariest movie moment _ever_ is in **The Shining** when Danny sees the two little girls in the hallway, and then the flashbacks of them on the floor. Freaks me out just thinking about it! ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/5 "2004-10-28T20:58:09Z")
Well, it was a stupid, boring movie for the most part, but “the Exorcist III” (the one directed by Blatty) had one of the most genuinely frightening “shock” scenes I’d ever seen - the nurse on duty during the night-shift (If you’ve seen this, you know what I’m talking about.) The re-release of the original “Exorcist” - spider-walk scene. The original “Halloween” - when a supposedly-dead Michael Myers sits bolt upright behind Jamie Lee Curtis. “Silence of the Lambs” - Jodie Foster stumbling around in the pitch-black basement, as seen through Buffalo Bill’s night-vision goggles. “Carrie” - Amy Irving dreaming of visiting Carrie White’s grave. Original “Nightmare on Elm Street” - when ‘Nancy’ falls asleep during class. “Dawn of the Dead” remake - first ten minutes. “Carnival of Souls” - when ‘Mary’ visits her psychiatrist, and his chair swings around to reveal he’s really her undead stalker. ---
**Author:** ![shamrock227](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@shamrock227](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shamrock227)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/6 "2004-10-28T21:56:15Z")
> [@Art Vandelay](#): > > Well, it was a stupid, boring movie for the most part, but “the Exorcist III” (the one directed by Blatty) had one of the most genuinely frightening “shock” scenes I’d ever seen - the nurse on duty during the night-shift (If you’ve seen this, you know what I’m talking about.) I think that scene is the number one most disturbing scene I have ever seen in a movie. And Poltergeist - the clown. I say no more. ---
**Author:** ![Jplacer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85f322/32.png) [@Jplacer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jplacer)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2004, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/7 "2004-10-28T22:15:37Z")
That scary “God is in his holy temple” guy in Poltergeist II creeped the living hell out of me. I get the willies just thinking about it right now. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/8 "2004-10-29T00:16:00Z")
One of the only movie scenes that ever gave me the chills (and still does no matter how often I watch it!) was from _The Ring_: [spoiler] Rachel has come home after finding Samara’s corpse in the well, and falls asleep on the bed with her son…he wakes up and asks about the girl, if she’s still in the dark place, and Rachel tells him that she set her free… "Why did you do that? You weren’t supposed to help her! Don’t you understand…? _She never sleeps…!_[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/9 "2004-10-29T00:42:04Z")
The cat being discovered in the locker in Alien. Just makes you jump out of your seat, and then feel very foolish for doing so. Many others here I agree with, but the Exorcist just didn’t scare me in the slightest, though friends I was with shrieked at the spider walk, it just looked like cool gymnastics to me not scary at all. ---
**Author:** ![chukhung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@chukhung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chukhung)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/10 "2004-10-29T02:14:40Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > 1. In _The Shining_, where the wife looks over Jack’s manuscript, and she sees page after page after page of the words “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” Personally, I didn’t find that moment to be particularly scary. It was certainly creepy though. (“Uh-oh…”)[SPOILER]I have a number of friends who are authors and because of that scene, I have never, ever been tempted to peek at their manuscripts without permission. Why look for trouble, right? By the way, the [trivia page on the IMDB for _The Shining_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/trivia) says The book that Jack was writing contained the one sentence (“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”) repeated over and over. Kubrick had each page individually typed. For the Italian version of the film, Kubrick used the phrase “Il mattino ha l’ oro in bocca” (“He who wakes up early meets a golden day”). For the German version, it was “Was Du heute kannst besorgen, das verschiebe nicht auf Morgen” (“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today”) For the Spanish version, it was “No por mucho madrugar amanece más temprano” (“Although one will rise early, it won’t dawn sooner.”) Can you imagine being the production assistant on that set? “So what did you do today?” “I typed the same damned sentence in Italian over and over and over again. I hate Kubrick!”[/SPOILER] ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/11 "2004-10-29T13:00:33Z")
> [@Art Vandelay](#): > > Well, it was a stupid, boring movie for the most part, but “the Exorcist III” (the one directed by Blatty) had one of the most genuinely frightening “shock” scenes I’d ever seen - the nurse on duty during the night-shift (If you’ve seen this, you know what I’m talking about.) I haven’t seen this movie. Can you spoil it for me? ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/12 "2004-10-29T13:31:34Z")
> [@yellowval](#): > > I haven’t seen this movie. Can you spoil it for me? [The scary Exorcist III scene](http://retrocrush.com/scary/09.html). ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/13 "2004-10-29T13:55:42Z")
> [@yellowval](#): > > For me, the scariest movie moment _ever_ is in **The Shining** when Danny sees the two little girls in the hallway, and then the flashbacks of them on the floor. Freaks me out just thinking about it! Ya know… What is it about little girls in stories that’s so freaky? A ghost of an adult man? Yawn. A ghost of an adult woman? Boring. A ghost of a little boy? Snore. A ghost of a little girl? Chills down my spine. ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/14 "2004-10-29T14:07:15Z")
Thanks for the link, **Agrippina**. I’m going to spend some time on that one. I don’t know what it is about these two little girls that freaks me out so much, **tdn** , but I think it’s the use of children in general in horror films that gets us deep down. Sometimes I think it’s because children are so innocent and you don’t want to see them get hurt (like in Poltergeist). Other times I think it’s because children are _supposed_ to be innocent, and they aren’t (The Omen). ---
**Author:** ![auRa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@auRa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auRa)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/15 "2004-10-29T14:50:52Z")
> [@yellowval](#): > > I don’t know what it is about these two little girls that freaks me out so much, **tdn** , but I think it’s the use of children in general in horror films that gets us deep down. Sometimes I think it’s because children are so innocent and you don’t want to see them get hurt (like in Poltergeist). Other times I think it’s because children are _supposed_ to be innocent, and they aren’t (The Omen). I got to thinking about that, too. I’m not very good with horror movies in general. In fact, that just might count as the understatement of the year. (After my boyfriend and I watched _Ringu_ while lying on his bed, he snuck the remote control behind me and turned the TV on right as I was getting ready for bed. He then spent the next 15 minutes banging on the bathroom door and apologizing profusely while I freaked out inside. Boy did I feel stupid afterwards.) Nevertheless, _Halloween_, _Friday the 13th_ and _Alien_ aren’t the movies that freak me out. Slash and gore gets boring after a while, and the “scarymusicscarymusicscarymusicBOO!”-thing is quite a cliché by now. It’s stuff like _The Ring_, _The Exorcist_, or _Salem’s Lot_. Anything with an evil child just makes me horribly uncomfortable. I think it’s the thought of “children = innocent and good” that has been ingrained so deeply into us. Little Timmy should be riding his tricycle up and down the sidewalk, not coming after you with glowing red eyes and bits falling off him. My mom once commented on the same subject: When you have kids, you want to worry about stuff like “skinned knees” and “first day of school” and “please don’t pick your nose and loudly slurp the contents into your mouth in public”, not “my child has evil supernatural powers and wants to kill everyone”. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/16 "2004-10-29T15:19:11Z")
> [@auRa](#): > > Little Timmy should be riding his tricycle up and down the sidewalk, not coming after you with glowing red eyes and bits falling off him. Sig line! ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/17 "2004-10-29T15:29:32Z")
> [@](#): > > My mom once commented on the same subject: When you have kids, you want to worry about stuff like “skinned knees” and “first day of school” and “please don’t pick your nose and loudly slurp the contents into your mouth in public”, not “my child has evil supernatural powers and wants to kill everyone”. Exactly. The most excruciatingly scary horror moments are vignettes from the mundane world gone twisted. As Stephen King put it, “It has to be Mom eating snakes in the living room.” For me, one of the scariest moments in a horror film is the very end of **Rosemary’s Baby** , when Rosemary has been seduced by her maternal instinct into nurturing the infant Antichrist. That’s why the verious versions of **Invasion of the Body Snatchers** are so frightening; it’s not the pod scenes that are horrifying, but the scenes when we realize that a loved one has lost, for lack of a better word, his soul. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/18 "2004-10-29T15:35:45Z")
Scariest moments on Bravo TV? Whenever that guy who hosts “Inside the Actor’s Studio” is talking. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/19 "2004-10-29T17:54:27Z")
Here is the Bravo list, updated to include 75 through 32 (revealed Wednesday and Thursday). Note that the list includes whole movies, but refers only to certain scenes within those movies. 1. Candyman 2. Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory 3. Blood Simple 4. Them! 5. The Sixth Sense 6. The Stepfather 7. Re-Animator 8. The Black Cat 9. Duel 10. The Tenant 11. Marathon Man 12. Near Dark 13. Deliverance 14. The Wolf Man 15. The Devil’s Backbone 16. The Beyond 17. Fatal Attraction 18. Cujo 19. House of Wax 20. Single White Female 21. The Vanishing 22. The Changeling 23. Demons 24. The Phantom of the Opera 25. The Dead Zone 26. The Last House on the Left 27. Diabolique 28. The Thing 29. Nosferatu 30. The Sentinel 31. The Wicker Man 32. The Game 33. It’s Alive! 34. An American Werewolf in London 35. The Hills Have Eyes 36. Black Sunday 37. Dawn of the Dead 38. Peeping Tom 39. House on Haunted Hill 40. Cape Fear (the older version; not the 1990’s one) 41. Aliens 42. The Hitcher 43. The Fly 44. Pet Sematary I note that many of these movies aren’t really “horror” films in the classic sense (_Willy Wonka_???) but have some creepy scenes or a general creepiness about them? Tonight and Saturday are going to be the payoff, obviously, so I suspect that the images we’re seeing in the intro (that pinhead guy from that movie, what the hell… I can’t think of the name of it; Jack sticking his head through the door in _The Shining_, etc.) are going to be shown soon. While we’re on the subject, can someone please spoil _Burnt Offerings_ for me? I’ve seen bits & pieces of it here and there, and I remember the tag line from the trailer like it was yesterday. > [@](#): > > Behind this _locked_ door, something lives. Something _eeeevvvvilllllll_… But I’ve never seen it from beginning to end. What was behind the door? IIRC, it was An invalid old woman. Big whoop. …and what was the rest of the movie about? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/20 "2004-10-29T19:27:30Z")
> [@gobear](#): > > Exactly. The most excruciatingly scary horror moments are vignettes from the mundane world gone twisted. That, and the unknown. The scariest part of The Exorcist was the pan-in shot of the door to Regan’s room. You knew something terrible was behind that door. Thus, the door itself becomes scary. Had they hung a sign on the door that read “Warning: Very frightening pea soup inside”, that would have removed all fright factor. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534.md?page=2)