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Top 100 scariest movie scenes of all time

retrocrush.com — It's easy to talk about scary movies, but we wanted to highlight the individual scary scenes that really stick out. Some films aren't scary by design, but happen to have creepy and shocking moments that deserve special recognition. Each screen capture is linked to a brief synopsis of that particular scene.

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  • adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -42/+23I didn't see Brokeback mountain on that list.....
  • sleepyness, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7http://duggmirror.com

    1 comment, and the website is almost down. -.-
  • CanceledCzech, on 10/12/2007, -7/+14Also didn't see the Paris Hilton sex tape on the list...
  • Everglow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Useless without images...
  • Cbeck527, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7The Ads load right away, but the images take forever -_-
    • LycoLoco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That makes sense though. The ads will always load faster if they're off site, because, well, they're gonna pay more money for their ads to always be up.
  • kevindoc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Definitely a lot of classic scenes there, BUT, I don't know if I agree with the order.
    • nothing7899, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This list is a joke right?

      i mean.... Dumbo, Willie Wonka, Pee Wee's Big Adventure??

      Those scenes are schocking and a little strange but i don't know if "scary" is the right word. Some of the other scenes on the list are just gross rather than actually being scary. (Indiana Jones bug eating scene).
      Sorry, but i have to bury this article as being inaccurate.
    • nothing7899, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think the list should be labeled a being the "creepiest" scenes of all time.

      (sorry- didn't have time to edit my coment in time. "Creepy" was the word i was looking for.)
  • chasealicious11, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1oooooops
  • scoobydiesel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1lots of Red X's for me...But the Number 1 loaded, I dont agree with it being 1 but the part was creepy of course
  • Titan486, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Poor layout/design of the list makes me angry
  • rideroyals, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1got alot of broken image files. Might just be me?
  • darklinkn7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+101. PSYCHO - The shower scene
    2. CARRIE - Carrie's hand pops out of the grave
    3. THE SHINING - The twins
    4. ALIEN - The chest-bursting alien
    5. POLTERGEIST - Boy gets attacked by toy clown
    6. UN CHIEN ANDALOU - Eyeball sliced with razor
    7. JAWS - Severed head falls out of boat
    8. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD - The characters learn there's not enough bullets for all the zombies
    9. THE EXORCIST III - The nurse attack
    10. THE SHINING - Room 237
    11. DELIVERANCE - Oh, you know what scene...
    12. THE EXORCIST - Head-spinning!
    13. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (original) - The opening sequence
    14. THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT - The tent-shaking
    15. INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS ('56) - "You're next! You're next!"
    16. JOHN CARPENTER'S THE THING - The blood test
    17. MISERY - The hobbling scene
    18. NOSFERATU (Murnau) - The vampire's shadows
    19. WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY - The boat ride
    20. FULL METAL JACKET - Gomer snaps
    21. INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS ('78) - The ending
    22. THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW - Buried alive with a tarantula
    23. A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET - Long-armed Freddy
    24. SUSPIRIA - Window/noose death
    25. HALLOWEEN - Michael as a ghost
    26. DRACULA ('31) - Renfield is discovered on the ship
    27. TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE - "Wanna see something really scary?"
    28. THE SHINING - "Heeeeeere's Johnny!"
    29. THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA ('25) - The phantom unmasked
    30. ALIEN - Facehugger jumps out of the egg
    31. THE EXORCIST - Erm...uhh...lewd acts involving a crucifix...
    32. EVIL DEAD 2 - Bad Ash comes out of the mirror
    33. INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM - All those damn bugs...
    34. THE RING - Samara comes out...
    35. POLTERGEIST - Corpses in the pool
    36. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS - Fava beans and chianti
    37. THE CELL - Cut-up horse
    38. 28 DAYS LATER - Deserted London
    39. JOHN CARPENTER'S THE THING - A head grows legs and runs off
    40. KING KONG ('33) - Kong shakes off men on a log
    41. RESERVOIR DOGS - "Stuck in the Middle with You"
    42. SEVEN - Sloth victim
    43. FRIDAY THE 13TH - Jason pops out of the lake
    44. REPULSION - Seeing someone else in a reflection
    45. POLTERGEIST - Peeling off a face
    46. SALEM'S LOT - Vampire boy floating outside a window
    47. ERASERHEAD - The baby
    48. THE EXORCIST - Soup's on!
    49. TRILOGY OF TERROR - The Zuni Fetish Doll
    50. AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON - Werewolf attack in the woods
    51. JAWS - The opening scene
    52. THE RING - Body in the closet
    53. THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE ('74) - The Boneroom
    54. THE CHANGELING - Wheelchair at the top of the stairs
    55. THE GODFATHER, PART II - Fredo's fate
    56 and 57. THE EXORCIST and PSYCHO ('60) - Subliminal images
    58. PSYCHO ('60) - The discovery of "Mother"
    59. JAWS - "We're gonna need a bigger boat."
    60. PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE - Large Marge
    61. THE SHINING - Two dudes in the hotel room
    62. WHEN A STRANGER CALLS - "The calls are coming from inside the house!"
    63. THE WIZARD OF OZ - Flying monkeys!
    64. POLTERGEIST - Chair-stacking
    65. MARATHON MAN - "Is it safe?"
    66. THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE ('74) - The hitchhiker
    67. PRINCE OF DARKNESS - Messages from the future
    68. FREAKS - The ending
    69. ZOMBIE - Eye poked out
    70. THE EVIL DEAD - Tree rape
    71. AKIRA - Stuffed animals come to life
    72. POLTERGEIST II: THE OTHER SIDE - The worm creature
    73. GATES OF HELL - Woman pukes her guts out
    74. SILENT SCREAM - Girl gets dragged into a hole in the wall
    75. HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL ('99) - Ghosts in the camcorder
    76. THE SHINING - Redrum
    77. EVENT HORIZON - Lady with no eyes
    78. THE EXORCIST III - Lady crawling on the celing
    79. THE CRYING GAME - Oh, you know what the scene is...
    80. INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS ('78) - Dude's head on a dog
    81. TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD - Zombies on horseback
    82. THE BIRDS - Eyeball-less man
    83. THE LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK - Shaking the port-a-potty
    84. SCANNERS - Exploding head!
    85. ALTERED STATES - Transformation scene
    86. THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER - Shelly Winters' death
    87. THE SHINING - "All work and no play..."
    88. HEAVY METAL - Zombies on a plane
    89. THEM! - Traumatized girl snaps back
    90. DUMBO - Pink elephants on parade
    91. THE HILLS HAVE EYES - Biting off a bird's head
    92. CONFESSIONS OF AN OPIUM EATER - Vincent Price trips out
    93. CREEPSHOW - "The Crate"
    94. JAWS - Quint's story
    95. THE HITCHER - Finger in the fries
    96. BLUE VELVET - Watching from the closet
    97. FRANKENSTEIN - The Monster and the little girl
    98. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD - Walking home through the woods
    99. THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD - The Tar Man is unleashed
    100. THE WICKER MAN - The Wicker Man burns
    • miken32, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Glad to see that scene from the Exorcist 3 in there. That's the first one that came to my head. An otherwise forgettable movie, that wide shot with the distant figure appearing from a room and walking into the hallway scared the crap out of me!
  • Bloodwine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Man, I can't agree with most of that list. Of course, every person will have their own tastes and fears.

    The biggest omission off the top of my head? That would be the cards scene from Evil Dead. Talk about a very creepy scene that sends chills down the spine. That is far, far scarier/creepier than the tree rape scene.
  • spidoman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1....When a stranger calls? You have got to be kidding. Least scary movie of all time.
  • humanerror, on 04/03/2008, -0/+590. DUMBO - Pink elephants on parade

    This one did it for me. Scared the crap out of me when I was a kid :)

  • marcomc2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1wow this site is old. okay though.
    can somebody please recored "100 Scariest Horror Movie Moments" on Bravo tv this month and seed it to me? please wide internet possibilities, please.
  • sabor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you like horror movies do yourself a favor an visit the site and click on the links of the scenes. The descriptions of the scenes are pretty funny and do an excellent job explaining why the scene is indeed scary. Be patient though, it can take a while to load.
  • rheaume, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Uhm no, #1 should be Fatal Attractions

    "Im not going to be ignored!!!"

    *Shudder*
  • retrocrush, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Sorry for the downtime, my 100 images on one page layout was pretty stupid in retrospect. I simplified the page with mostly text, but you can still click each one for the full write up with pictures and in some cases video. Thanks for your patience and feedback.
  • fczero, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0no asian movies (the ring,the eye,etc)? asians have wacky ways of scaring people..
    • shinynew, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1the ring was up there.
    • astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the only problem is when they are 'Americanized' (aka The Grudge), they totally loose
      the content and obtain the MTV curse (lots of hype for a movie that ends up sucking!)



  • steveoco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Katie in the closet in the Ring remake was the scariest cutaway ive ever seen. Lacking sleep and hungover and wanting to see th movie for so long, that made me almost rip the armrest off the chair at the theater.

    Perfect timing by an awesome director. If, you didn't jump, you don't have a soul.
  • paidhima, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Some really cool scenes in there. The "Indianapolis" scene from Jaws is one of the most intense moments I've ever seen in a movie.

    When a Stranger Calls was indeed a crappy movie. But that one moment when the police call, and then you see the door upstairs open, that all freaked me out.

    The two scariest scenes on there for me would have to be the Poltergeist clown and the two little girls in The Shining. The clown scene frightened me so badly (granted, I was relatively young when I snuck into the living room to watch it) that I had nightmares for days and to this day can't sleep entirely well if there are dolls of any kind in the room.
  • huongdu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+160. PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE - Large Marge

    Am glad I'm not the only one who found this scary. I was young and watching this film in the dark and it scared the ***** out of me!
    • astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE... yeah Paul Rubens would scare me....right along with
      Laurence Fishburn dressed up like a cowboy.

      Rubens did try in Buffy The Vampire Slayer (the movie) to be a scary vampire, but just
      ended up getting he ass handed to him on a silver platter.
  • fani, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3They forgot 2 -

    1. Hannibal -- Where Ray Liotta's open brain is shown and he's fed it and he eats it. I nearly vomited
    2. Sixth Sense -- where he's peeing in the bathroom and the figure goes past the mirror
  • astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1
    A few of my disturbing scenes:

    XX. Dawn of the Dead (Original) - Janitor Zombie pops out from the mannequins.

    XX. Day of the Dead - The "Feeding" scene (end), where the Major has his guts ripped
    out and eaten in front of him while still alive.

    XX. The Car - #1 - In the garage when Brolin goes for part for his dirt bike, the car
    is in the back of the garage.

    #2 - While Broilins' girlfriend is on the phone, the wind is blowing and
    the car appears way down the street as you see it approach in
    the living room window... and then WHAM!

    XX. Dr Phibes - #1 Nurse who has boiled brussel sprouts poured on her while she is
    sleeping, only to have her head picked clean by locusts.

    #2 The ballroom, where the the doctor is given The Frog mask, as the
    music of Al Jolson play, the mask tightens and crushes his head and
    spine.

    XX Dr. Phibes - A man laying on a cot, turns out to be a device by Phibes. Which
    Rises Again extracts the mans head and spine via a hole while his body is crushed
    (the "Sausage maker").

    Creepshow II - "The Lake", guy and girl making out, and blob starts eating the girls
    side of her face, while guy backs up in horror.

    Creepshow - "Fathers Day" father zombie crawling out of grave screaming "Wheres
    My CAKE!"
    • egarc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Blood and guts I can handle, but when Will Ferrell kissed Ali G in Talladega Nights, it made my spine crawl.
  • lostradamus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What about the kid catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. That guy used to freak me out! :P
  • Mike23132, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Jacob's Ladder! The scene when he freaks out on the dance floor or when when he's wheeled down to get an x-ray freak me the ***** out!!

    I liked seeing Seven on the list, but how about this scene: What's in the box?!?
  • ATHEISTinHELL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0when i saw the pic of the crate I finally found out what movie it came from i partly remembered seeing it when i was little it's called Creepshow. I remember years ago it was driving me crazy what the movie was called thanks for digging the site.
  • nakatomiplaza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Haha...No. 11...Deliverance...squel like pig scene.

    I mean isn't that a whole different kind of scarey than the shower scene in Psycho?
  • moonsorrow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The scare movies taken by the westerner just provide me with visual shock(perhaps it's because of I am not a Christian. When I saw the movie THE EXORCIST, I did not feel horrible at all.) But the Japanese scare movies provide psychal shock, that's really scared, like THE RING & JU ON( why this movie is not on the list?)
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