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The Results
Here they are. The 100 Greatest Scary Moments from film, TV, advertising and pop. Check out the full results on these pages, then test how much you know with our Scary Moments Quiz.
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Jason Vorhees got his first taste of slasher movie cult status in 1980. A young boy drowned in Crystal Lake whilst on summer camp. The camp was shut down for eleven years, but is then re-opened by a young couple. Of course there are loads of warnings from the locals that something terrible will happen if the pair of them don’t leave and pretty soon the counsellors start to get murdered one by one. So begins one of the longest running horror franchises featuring the machete wielding, hockey mask wearing killer - a look later used by Eminem to frighten hip hop loving teenagers everywhere. more »
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Who'd have thought? An absurd-sounding tale of a serial killer basing his crimes around the seven deadly sins, directed by the man behind Alien3 (David Fincher), turning out to be one of the most original thrillers of the 1990s. Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman are excellent as a pair of detectives assigned to track down a vengeful killer, and the movie's brilliantly deliberate under-lighting and muffled sound combine perfectly to plunge the audience into an almost unbearably grim world. The scenes of discovery of the bodies of the killer's victims are all pretty horrific, but Sloth is the one that everyone remembers - the almost inhuman figure of a starved man strapped to his bed, kept alive to increase his agony before death. more »
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The truth continues to be out there for agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, still investigating the more bizarre and paranormal unsolved FBI files. This cult TV series has featured many spooky moments, but a character called Eugene Tooms sends a shiver down the spine of most fans. Tooms was a 100-year-old liver-eating mutant with the ability to stretch and fit himself into very small spaces like drains and air-vents.
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A group of kids go out to a house in the woods, find a demonic text and start reading. Everyone turns into demons apart from hero Ash who is left to chainsaw and shotgun blast his former buddies to death. Except they just keep comin'... The scene in the basement is quite scary but Evil Dead is less a classic chiller, more a bone-grinding splatterfest. One of the girls getting raped by a tree didn't endear it to the censors and Evil Dead was one of the first films in the UK to earn the sobriquet of 'video nasty'. But with a gruesomely comic undercurrent to the mayhem, twenty years after the making it's hard to think of it as anything other then the cult classic it's become. more »
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Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece has passed into cinema history as the mother of all slasher movies. Janet Leigh escapes from her life as a bored clerical worker with $40,000 of her company’s money and heads for Phoenix. Caught in a rainstorm on a dark road, she seeks refuge in an old roadside motel run by the shy and retiring Anthony Perkins. There follows some of the most chilling moments ever filmed, including the now iconic scene in which Leigh takes a shower. more »
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