We all know there are certain movies that we remember due to a
very frightening scene that has affected us in some way or form. Now I’m not
talking about the unoriginal BOO scares that pollute many horror flicks.
I’m
talking about when the Alien came out of the stomach, when Jaws popped out of
the water, when Michael Myers trapped Laurie Strode in the closet; these were
all parts of movies that made people jump or squirm and maybe even scream.
This was a tricky top ten to do, because everyone has their own definition of
horror. What is scary to one person, may not seem as scary to the next, but this
is the list of scary moments that has made ME scared sh*tless. (Please note
there were many more scary moments, but I couldn’t put them all down!)
WARNING HUGE FREAKING SPOILERS – READ AT YOUR OWN
RISK!
10. My Little
Eye-The Group’s Revelation
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This film may not be known to most, (due to poor marketing)
but it is one of the most disturbing films I have seen in a long time. In case
some of you don’t know the story, this Blair Witch Project meets Big
Brother film is about a group of people who agree to stay in a house for six
months in the middle of nowhere to win a million dollars on an Internet reality
show. The part in this movie that sent chills up my spine was when the group stumble upon the revelation that explains exactly what’s going on. The
film may sound like something many of us horror fans have stumbled onto in the
straight to DVD section in our local video store, but its gritty camera work
makes watching it even more of a morbid experience. NOTE: Watch this
movie on DVD with a special killer eavesdropping commentary in the background
that will most likely disturb any viewer.
9. The
Ring-Samara’s Attack
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I’m going to be honest with you, when I was watching this
movie for the first time; I had no clue as to why everyone was saying it was the
scariest thing they’ve ever seen. (I jumped in my seat because of BOO scares a
couple of times, but that was it) It wasn’t until the ending of the film when
Samara popped out of the television screen to kill Martin Henderson that I
actually yelled out. Seeing the dead girl slither out of the TV was a very
creepy and well done image, and is most likely the only truly scary moment in
this flick. (Including its lame ass sequel)
8. Psycho-The
Staircase Kill
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This film is most famously known for its notorious shower
scene, but it was the death of Martin Balsram’s character on the stairs that
frightened me. Sure, Janet Leigh’s death scene was scary and has forever made
me lock the door when I’m taking a shower, but it didn’t scare me as much as
seeing the detective slashed in the face and getting stabbed to death at the
bottom of the staircase. I don’t think it was the actual death itself that
freaked me out, it was the camera angles that the death was shot at. Seeing
“mother” jetting out of the room with a huge butcher knife from a bird eye’s
view was surprisingly disturbing, and the final image of seeing “Mother” raising
the knife(with his/her back turned to the camera) to repeatedly stab the
detective to death was truly haunting.
7. IT- The Album
Comes Alive
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I was six years old when the made for television adaptation
of Stephen King’s IT premiered, and I wasn’t able to watch it for another
four years due to the fact that the image of Pennywise’s evil clown face on the
TV Guide gave me ongoing nightmares for years. Although the movie was nowhere
as chilling as the book, it did have a few good scares. One scene that managed
to scare me was the scene when the young group is looking through a family album
and it starts to come alive. Pennywise growls, (who is in the album) then
climbs up a pole in the picture and screams to the children that he’s going to
kill them all. (Yep…I’m surprised I haven’t grown up to have a huge phobia on
clowns!)
6. The Blair Witch Project-The Finale
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I am on of those people who are blessed and cursed with a
wild and vivid imagination. When I watch a horror film, it is the violence that
takes place off-screen that scares me the most; because I’m constantly thinking
about what horrible thing(s) happened. So you can understand how freaked out I
was when this movie ends with the demise of the two remaining characters without
actually showing us how they died. I left the theatre with my knees shaking.
(Unlike the other people who had left to vomit due to the shaky camera work!)
STAY TUNED FOR PART 2 OF THIS LIST!
COMING SOON!