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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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Spaniard Alejandro Aménabar directs Nicole Kidman in this fabulously atmospheric supernatural movie with all the ingredients of vintage haunted house stories - an isolated mansion, borderline insanity and sensitive children. Aménabar's film is highly atmospheric and relies on drama, rather than special effects to send shivers down the spine. A scene that is guaranteed to scare even the most hardened horror fan comes when her children discover the graves of the servants that have been working in the house for them. more »
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39 - Doctor Who - daleks (1963)
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Despite Doctor Who creator Sydney Newman promising that Doctor Who wouldn't have any 'bug eyed monsters', four weeks into its run the British public were introduced to the Daleks. Perhaps the Daleks' scariest moment was actaully their first appearance when viewers caught a glimpse of an advancing Dalek, as yet unseen. All we saw was something like a sink plunger, and then the look of horror and screams of Dr Who's companion Barbara as the episode ends.
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Think of the bald bony fingered vampire climbing the stairs and you’re thinking of German maestro FW Murnau’s 1922 classic. It’s an unforgettable horror image, its impact obviously lessened by much comic parody down the years. It nearly didn’t see the light of day. When Bram Stoker’s wife refused permission for the film to be made, Murnau went ahead anyway, changing the name from Dracula to ‘Nosferatu’. Mrs Stoker wasn’t fooled and when she sued the court decided all copies should be destroyed. Fortunately not all were, but restoration has been a painstaking process that has taken years to complete. more »
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Surprisingly, Dick Van Dyke isn’t the most frightening thing about Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. He plays Caractacus Potts who invents a flying car and takes a couple of kids on a tour of Europe. The real villain, in director Ken Hughes’ children’s musical however, is the child-catcher. This Caligari-like grotesque guaranteed to star in the nightmares of every young viewer for years to come. The vision of him skulking around Toymaker Benny Hill's shop muttering, "There are children here somewhere. I can smell them..." has stayed with many viewers well into their 30s and 40s. more »
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Sequel to the enormously successful 1958 Hammer version of the Bram Stoker classic, with Christopher Lee turning in another star-making performance as the enigmatic blood-sucker. Director Terence Fisher captures the gothic splendour of Bram Stoker's Dracula with lavish sets and sensual imagery. The film sustains the iconic look (the black suit, cravat and cape) created for the count in the first film, and that's been synonymous with the character ever since. The scene in which the count's manservent, Clove, suspends a tourist over Dracula's tomb and then slits his throat, his gushing blood awakening Dracula from the dead, is a true horror classic. more »
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