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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.
35 - Aphex Twin's Come To Daddy video (1997)
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This surreal Aphex Twin video featured a gaggle of school-children in latex masks of Richard James' face plus a ghoulish fiend inside an old TV. In what must be the most disturbing moment in any music video, their disfigured, skeletal leader emerges from the television and rears up to almost seven feet tall. He finds a granny and screams her into oblivion – "I will eat your soul..." Award-winning but banned in the US for being to frightening, it featured make-up effects by the team behind Hellraiser and The League Of Gentlemen.
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The best ever British horror and the film Christopher Lee is most proud of working on. The uptight, virginal Sergeant Howie, played by Edward Woodward, is sent to a small British island to investigate the disappearance of a schoolgirl amid rumours of a ritual killing. He discovers a land of sexed-up pagans led by the unusual Lord Summerisle (Lee) and at every turn Howie’s investigation is thwarted by the islanders. For all its carefree paganism on the surface however, this is in fact an incredibly dark film. Never more so than when Edward Woodward is brought face to face with a huge wicker man and discovers his own fate. more »
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A massive sleeper hit from director M Night Shyamalan, in which Bruce Willis tries to help a vulnerable young boy who claims to be able to see dead people. Haley Joel Osment received an Oscar nomination for his quiet performance as the fragile tortured Cole. Not only does The Sixth Sense boast one of the great twist endings, but it is also an extremely effective chiller as well. In one terrifying scene, Hayley Joel Osment is hiding from a ghost in a small tent when a shadow begins to creep slowly across the wall. more »
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32 - Coronation Street - Richard the killer (2003)
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Over 19m viewers tuned in when Richard 'the Killer' Hillman killed Maxine in her own home, and later confessed to Gail, before kidnapping the whole family and driving them all into the canal. The on-screen trailers in the build up to this finale were even scarier, as no one quite knew who was going to be next on his hit list. Brian Capron, who played Richard Hillman, went on to sweep up at the Soap Awards off the back of this story-line.
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31 - Judderman from Metz advertising (2001)
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There aren't that many truly sinister ads gracing our TV screens, but the ad for Metz alcopop could well be the spookiest ever shown. Featuring a pointy-nosed fairy-tale figure inspired by the child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the Judderman was played by a Czech ballet dancer. Yet somehow this eastern bloc Wayne Sleep still managed to be spine-tinglingly creepy. With its nursery-rhyme music and puppet-like jerky movements, this hideous creature was meant to symbolise the 'judder' that drinking Metz gave you.
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