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Ron Keillor
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posted 10-27-2003 03:22 AM

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Shining tops screen horrors
Actor Jack Nicholson's cry of "Here's Johnny" as he axes his way through a door in pursuit of his wife is the most terrifying screen moment of all time, according to a poll.
The scene in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining topped a poll for a Channel 4 special on The 100 Scariest Moments on TV and film.

It beat classic terror scenes such as the head-spinning scene in the 1973 horror film The Exorcist and the moment a severed head tumbles from a hole in a boat in Steven Spielberg's Jaws.

A run down of the top 50 scenes was shown by Channel 4 on Sunday night.

Viewers voted for their top scene over a number of weeks after a shortlist was drawn up by a panel of experts.

Two of the scenes are from once-banned "video nasties", The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and The Evil Dead (1981) .

They were both chosen for their overall effect rather than specific moments.

The oldest film in the list is the notorious shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock's groundbreaking film Psycho, which dates back to 1960 and was in 11th spot.
The most recent entry, in 18th position, is the scene of fleeing zombies in UK hit 28 Days Later, directed by Danny Boyle.

The scene in The Shining has become one of cinema's iconic images and Nicholson is said to have ad-libbed the famous line.

The film is based on a Stephen King novel of the same name and established Nicholson as an actor for crazed roles.

Horror films remain one of the most popular film genres - a remake of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre recently topped the US box office.

The show's producer Mark Murray said: "The top 10 is full of images which have now entered pop culture history.

"Anyone who has seen Jaws will never feel the same way again about dipping their toe into the ocean.

"And the winning 'Here's Johnny' scene from The Shining has become one of the most iconic screen images of all time, spoofed by other films and countless TV shows over the years."

The 10 top scary moments are:

1. The Shining (1980) - Jack Nicholson chops through the door and shouts "Here's Johnny!"
2. The Exorcist (1973) - Possessed girl's rotating head and projectile vomit
3. Jaws (1975) - Severed head falls from boat
4. Alien (1979) - Alien bursts out of John Hurt's chest
5. The Blair Witch Project (1999) - Heather Donahue in tears in the woods
6. Ring (1998) - Sadako crawls through the television
7. Halloween (1978) - Serial killer Michael's face appears behind Jamie Lee Curtis in a house full of dead bodies
8. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) - Leatherface's general reign of terror
9. The Omen (1976) - Oscar-winning eerie music score
10. A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984) - First appearance of horror icon Freddy Krueger

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/entertainment/film/3215471.stm

Published: 2003/10/27 00:46:52 GMT

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Michael Schaffer
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posted 10-27-2003 03:52 AM

The scariest movie moment ever for me was of course the cellar scene at the end of "Silence Of The Lambs". That was also about the only film which I left shaking with nervousness for a couple of minutes.
All the moments above are essentially booscare moments.

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Bruce McGee
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posted 10-27-2003 07:18 AM

Ever seen the movie "The Uninvited" (1940)?

The film is dark anyway, but the first time that the ghost appears at the top of the stairs gives me the creeps every time I see it.

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Mike Blakesley
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posted 10-27-2003 12:41 PM

Personally I thought the moment in Jaws where Roy Scheider says "I'll give you slow-ahead...why don't you come down here and chum some of this shit?" and then the shark lunges out of the water (for the first time) was scarier than the head-drop scene. When Hooper was poking around under that boat, you just KNEW something was gonna happen, where the shark-lunge was totally unexpected.

My favorite horror movie "jump scene" is from "Carrie" (1976) where Carrie's hand pops out of the ground and grabs Amy Irving.

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Phil Hill
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posted 10-27-2003 01:19 PM

For me it's gotta be the whole movie "The Mothman Prophecies". I watched it the other night and had to turn on EVERY frickin' light in my house.

Even so, my goose-bumps had goose-bumps! YIKES!

>>> Phil

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Bobby Henderson
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posted 10-27-2003 08:47 PM

"Jaws" was indeed a very scary movie (and one of my all time favorites). But the one that always got me was the incident in the beginning where the skinny dipping girl gets attacked. I think one of the things that made it so scary was you couldn't see the shark in that darkness and were left to imagine what might have been down there. To add to the tension, the fellow who intended to skinny dip with the girl was passed out on the beach --so she had no help at all and was all alone when the attack happend.

Here's another one that freaked me out when I saw it: that scene in "Poltergeist" where the guy runs into the bathroom after taking a bite of a maggot infested chicken drumstick. He proceeds to tear his face off. Very very disturbing.

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Greg Mueller
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posted 10-27-2003 09:09 PM

There's a couple that use elements of horror and scaryness and tension, rather than visual stuff.

The 1963 version of The Haunting... You never see a ghost but oh baby is it scary. This film doesn't play much anymore around here, but when it does, you can't get near the theater

Alien....There's actually not much screen time for the creature, but talk about tension. Excellent directing

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Steve Kraus
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posted 10-27-2003 09:35 PM

It's only a brief scare but the bit with emaciated corpse of the mother at the end of Psycho and Norman Bates coming after them.

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Paul Mayer
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posted 10-28-2003 12:09 AM

My favorite after all these years: The Innocents (1961). The scene with Deborah Kerr playing hide-and-seek...

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Darryl Spicer
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posted 10-28-2003 12:20 AM

Actually the movie that scared me the most was I believe a Made for t.v. film, at least that is where I saw it, called The Bugs.

It was about the bugs that came up from the ground after an earthquake. They had the ability to start fires. A scientist tried cross breading them with some other species, I can't remember what, and all hell started to break loose. The gained knowledge and could spell words on the walls just buy linning up. It was freaky.

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Michael Schaffer
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posted 10-28-2003 12:45 AM

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To add to the tension, the fellow who intended to skinny dip with the girl was passed out on the beach --so she had no help at all and was all alone when the attack happend.

What could he have done if he hadn`t passed out?

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Darryl Spicer
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posted 10-28-2003 01:39 AM

Hey, did you know that chick in the beginning of Jaws had Dandruff..............They found her head and shoulders on the beach. [Big Grin]

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Hillary Charles
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posted 10-28-2003 07:45 AM

Head and Shoulders! LOL!

I did read that Spielberg used the same actress to spoof the "JAWS" skinny-dipping scene in "1941," with the Japanese sub.

For me, it's the original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." No horror scenes to speak of, but overall scary as hell. Incredible filmmaking. The more "normal" things are, they scarier they seem! Always must check the basement for pods. The remake was cool with Kevin McCarthy apparently still screaming, "They're here, already!" In that movie, the dog with the human face really got to me and still freaks me out.

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German Marin
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posted 10-28-2003 12:19 PM

"The Others"
When the little children were into the closet and suddenly the old woman appears!
It seems in the movie that all the dead are really alive.

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Chris Hipp
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posted 10-28-2003 04:08 PM

The mothman prophecies was pretty freaky, but I didnt get scared.

That dog from invasion of the body snatchers was chilling, but the best scene was when donald sutherland was beating in the head of one of his doubles.

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