# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**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, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/21 "2004-10-29T20:44:50Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > 1. Diabolique Please tell me this refers to the [French original](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046911/) with Simone Signoret and not the [cheesey American remake](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116095/) with Sharon Stone. ---
**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2004, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/22 "2004-10-29T21:16:35Z")
I was watching this last night, and I came back into the room at one point to them being in the middle of one of the scary scenes and I don’t know what movie it was. They were in the 40s somewhere so I guess it’s one of those. The scene was a woman had just given birth in a very white hospital room and all the doctors and nurses were dead and bloodied on the floor. The mother was saying something like “what’s wrong with my baby?!” A man walked into the room looking around for the baby I guess? The commentators said something about how a thing can be scary even if it’s small. WTF movie was that? ---
**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, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/23 "2004-10-29T21:54:50Z")
The movie was “It’s Alive!” ---
**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, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/24 "2004-10-29T23:57:49Z")
> [@chukhung](#): > > Please tell me this refers to the [French original](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046911/) with Simone Signoret and not the [cheesey American remake](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116095/) with Sharon Stone. Yup, the original French movie. Although I feel it deserves the number one spot, I am always disapointed by the top spots of these lists because the number one is ALWAYS “Psycho”. There’s no surprise there. ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/25 "2004-10-30T02:30:04Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > 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. > 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? Nope… it was SUPPOSED to be an invalid old woman. Oliver Reed and family were supposed to take care of the house and the old woman up in the attic. Oliver’s wife took on the caretaker duties, and at first would just bring trays of food for the woman, never seeing anything more than a locked door. Then she starts spending the majority of her time up there, going through the old woman’s pictures and such. Meanwhile strange shit is going on in the house… Oliver goes nuts and almost kills the son… (IIRC) his mom comes to visit, goes nuts and dies. At the end of the movie, we see the wife upstairs, eating the food that was supposed to be for the old woman, implying that there never was a woman at all. I can’t quite recall what prompts Oliver and the son to try to get away from the house, but they go to get the wife, who they find upstairs with the old woman’s clothes on, sitting in her chair, all possessed. I _know_ Oliver dies at the end from the turret of the house falling on him. I think the kid dies too. The whole thing was a ploy by Burgess Meredith to re-energize the house (there’s this whole scene where the house goes from dilapidated to beautifully restored), and the wife is stuck there in the attic with the “soul” of the house possessing her. Incidentally, I saw part of that movie when I was a kid, and it scared the hell out of me… so much so that I had nightmares about the scene, and hadn’t been able to re-watch the movie until a couple of years ago. The scene where Oliver almost kills his son… he finds a pair of eyeglasses at the side of the pool and puts them on. All of a sudden he becomes evil and while horseplaying with the son, almost drowns him. The look on his face _still_ unnerves me. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/26 "2004-10-30T06:57:04Z")
nightmares for years: the first death in Jaws. WAY too fucking real. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/27 "2004-10-30T07:05:42Z")
Yeah, _Psycho_ will be in the top three. So will _The Blair Witch Project_. It’s cool that _The Tenant (Le Locataire)_ got such high billing. Very underrated creepy movie. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/28 "2004-10-30T07:31:27Z")
Sometimes I think I was born just to watch horror films. I still remember my first one. My parents took me to the drive-in when I was about 5 or 6 to see _Star Wars_. The picture after that was _Prom Night_. 😕 Anyway, they thought I was sleeping, and as horror buffs themselves, stayed to watch it. They learned I was still awake and watching when the kids at the beginning were “initiating” the girl who hadn’t a clue. Scared shitless…and hooked for life. The scenes/themes that get me are anything that have to do with things that are dead and shouldn’t be a factor. Ghosts, zombies, dreams, paranormal. This is why I started a thread to find _The Woman in Black_. I can’t wait for it to get here! Some of my favorites. Just about anything from _The Ring_. The scene with the girl crawling out of the tv forced me to move the set in the Den to the closet as my back faced it while at the computer. Definately top 5 for horror in my book. And that damn kid that starts acting wierd near the end, like he was a demon seed. Got goose-bumps just typing it. Oh, and of course the girl in the closet near the beginning. That scene in _Dragonfly_ where Kostner catches the reflection in his kitchen window. Too many from _Night of the Living Dead_ to list here. That fucking _Poltergeist_ clown. The tree scene wasn’t much better. Anyone remember the movie _Dolls_? After seeing this I literally took every doll my sister’s had and boxed them up. Hey, their room was adjacent and I was just shown they can move from room to room. It was 3 weeks before I broke down and let the poor girls have the dolls back. But I never trusted the bastards. _The Shining_ had a lot of great moments. My favorite was when Jack starts making out with the “bathtub woman” only to notice something in the mirror. (I don’t know how to do the spoiler boxes, so I’m trying to be vague) _American Gothic_ had a great part where the female lead gets sucked into the insanity of the fat daughter and finally sees the baby in the bassinette. AND DOESN"T SEE ANYTHING WRONG WITH IT!!! :eek: _Jaws_. When Dreyfuss swims under the boat. What happens right after he finds the tooth. _Jacob’s Ladder_. Anytime he sees that wierd shaking head thing. More later. I’m starting to creep myself out and want to enjoy it for a bit. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/29 "2004-10-30T08:45:01Z")
The thing that is really frightening to me is suspense. How far are you into the movie before you actually _see_ the shark in _Jaws_? The unknown coupled with that music is hell on the nerves. When I first saw the movie _Wait Until Dark_ with Audrey Hepburn, that movie terrified me. Alan Arkin made a certain unexpected move that was not a cliche back then. I thought I was not going to be able to get my breath back. Mancini’s music (used as an accent) at that particular point was also effective. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/30 "2004-10-30T14:19:43Z")
> [@Ilsa\_Lund](#): > > Yeah, _Psycho_ will be in the top three. So will _The Blair Witch Project_. It’s cool that _The Tenant (Le Locataire)_ got such high billing. Very underrated creepy movie. Nope. “The Blair Witch Project” was in the twenties, I think. My guess for the top three: “Psycho”, “The Exorcist”, “The Silence of the Lambs”. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/31 "2004-10-31T04:10:28Z")
Jaws was #1 Alien was #2 The Exorcist was #3 Psycho was only #4!!! I am outraged. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2004, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534/32 "2004-10-31T13:22:34Z")
I was quite surprised at the results too. In fact, I was totally surprised. I was so sure “Psycho” would be number one and “The Exorcist” number two. I wasn’t quite sure after that, which is why I put “Silence…”. But after they announced “The Exorcist” as number three, I guessed the other two. Basically, “What from the opening credits haven’t we seen yet?” I think since they had “Willy Wonka” in their countdown, they should have had the Large Marge scene in “Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/100-scariest-movie-moments-on-bravo-tv-your-thoughts/271534.md?page=1)