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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.
50 - Hammer House Of Horror (1980)
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Bleeding houses, sinister pet shop owners and gore galore - Hammer House Of Horror had it all. This iconic British horror brand, while perhaps best known for films, branched out into television with weekly self-contained stories with titles like The House That Bled to Death and The Silent Scream. With its creepy title music and a host of British acting talent, this was late-night psychological horror at its best.
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49 - AIDS - Don't Die Of Ignorance (1986)
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The AIDS tombstone advert was transmitted in 1986 by the Government to shock people into practising safer sex. Actor John Hurt provided the chilling commentary "There is now a danger that is a threat to us all. It is a deadly disease and there is no known cure. The virus can be passed during sexual intercourse with an infected person. Anyone can get it: man or woman. So far it's been confined to small groups. But it's spreading. So protect yourself and read this leaflet when it arrives. If you ignore AIDS it could be the death of you so don't die of ignorance." The hard-hitting ad was produced and directed by Sammy Harari who had previously masterminded the Heroin Screws You Up poster campaign.
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Michel Delasalle is a tyrant who bullies both his wife Christina and mistress, Nicole. (Simone Signoret). Having beaten the two women once too often Nicole persuades Christina that they should murder her husband. The two women lure Delasalle back to Nicole's lodgings, Christina drugs him and Nicole drowns him in the bath. They dump the body in the swimming pool for the body to be discovered only to find the next day it has disappeared. Then their husband's suit is returned, dry cleaned… One of the most suspenseful ever made, Les Diaboliques regularly makes critics top films of all time. Signoret's murderously cool acting made the bath scene one of horror's most chilling. more »
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A masterclass in paranoia, Don Siegel's sci-fi chiller has always been read as an attack on 50s McCarthyism in America, or conversely, on Communism. Upstanding small town citizen Kevin McCarthy slowly realises that the local population is being replaced by soulless alien replicas born out of ghastly giant vegetable pods. That the aliens steal your body whilst you are asleep only adds to the sense of terror as you realise that no one can remain awake forever. In one famous scene, McCarthy runs in frenzy across a freeway screaming, “You’re next!” to the oblivious motorists. more »
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This is one movie that will definitely never be shown on planes. A flight loaded with US high school students is about to take off when passenger Devon Sawa has a terrifying premonition that the plane will crash. Desperate to get off, he causes such a riot that four other classmates and their teacher all get kicked out with him. When the plane explodes moments later, they assume that they've cheated death. Unfortunately, death never loses and he comes after the survivors one by one, killing them in increasingly horrible ways. The film was so scary, that they decided to use shots of the audience's screaming reactions in the trailer. more »
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