100 Scariest Movie Moments
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The 100 Scariest Movie Moments was a TV mini series first shown in late October 2004 on Bravo TV.
It counts down the 100 most shocking moments in the history of movies, with interviews from horror experts or other celebrities who experienced the films on the list. It also features film clips and movie stills.
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[edit] Stats
Wes Craven has the most films on the list with five (The Last House on the Left, The Hills Have Eyes, The Serpent and the Rainbow, A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream). The filmmakers that tie for second with three films are George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and Creepshow), David Cronenberg (The Fly, The Brood and The Dead Zone) and Steven Spielberg (Jurassic Park, Duel and Jaws, the latter of which was voted as the scariest moment). The filmmakers that tie for third with two films are John Carpenter (John Carpenter's The Thing and Halloween), David Fincher (Se7en and The Game), M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense and Signs), Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho and The Birds), Mario Bava (Black Sunday and Blood and Black Lace), Tod Browning (Freaks and Dracula), Roman Polanski (Rosemary's Baby and The Tenant), and Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Poltergeist), and Lucio Fulci (Zombie and The Beyond).
There are also seven Stephen King adaptations on the list (Carrie, Creepshow, Cujo, The Dead Zone, Misery, Pet Semetary and The Shining).
[edit] Top 10
- 10 - Wait Until Dark
Roat, the leader of the gang looking for the doll in Susy Hendrix's appartment lunges and grabs Susy's ankle as she attempts to escape.
Karen, after eating her father, attacks her mother with a gardening shovel.
- 8 - Carrie
As Sue lays flowers on the remains of Carrie White's house during a dream, Carrie's hand comes out of the remains and grabs Sue's.
Hannibal Lecter makes his dramatic escape from prison.
- 6 - The Shining
Jack Torrance's wife finds out just how long her husband has been insane as he creeps up behind her.
Leatherface kills Kirk with a sledgehammer.
- 4 - Psycho
Norman Bates kills Marion while he dresses as his mother in the infamous "Shower Scene".
- 3 - The Exorcist
No specific scene is actually mentioned.
- 2 - Alien
As Kane begins to choke, his crew members hold him down until an alien creature bursts through his chest.
- 1 - Jaws
Skinny dipping teenage girl Chrissie Watkins is jerked around and dragged underwater, and eventually killed, by an unseen killer shark during the famous opening scene.
[edit] Interviewees
- Stephen King
- Wes Craven
- Deron Miller
- Felissa Rose
- Peter Jackson
- George A. Romero
- Bruce Campbell
- Rob Reiner
- Tobe Hooper
- Robert Englund
- John Carpenter
- John Landis
- Courteney Cox
- Rob Zombie
- Tom Savini
- Gilbert Gottfried
- Eli Roth
[edit] See also
- 30 Even Scarier Movie Moments - A two-part sequel made in 2006.