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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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The Quatermass series was the X-Files of its day and set the boundaries of top-notch scary TV to come. In the days before video, pubs and clubs emptied as the nation rushed back to their collective armchair to watch mad scientist Prof Quatermass battle with Martians. Quatermass And The Pit was the third of the series, and the scariest of the lot. When a shell is found during building work in London, the authorities think it's an unexploded bomb. It's far more sinister, containing Martians who visited the earth five million years earlier. But that doesn't mean they’re dead...
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Alien tripods take over Earth controlling human adult minds – so it's naturally down to a couple of boys to start a resistance. This invading force of giant three legged machines became a sci-fi monster, feeding on the fear of 'man vs machine'.
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Twisted, funny thriller from the director of Trainspotting. Ewan McGregor, Christopher Ecclestone and Kerry Fox star as a trio of flatmates who suddenly find themselves in the money when their new flatmate mysteriously dies in his room, leaving behind a suitcase full of notes. Their new-found wealth corrupts all of them in different ways, but it is Ecclestone's gradual transformation from likeable geek into a dangerous paranoid mess that provides the most thrills, a transformation which begins when he is chosen to hack the body of their deceased flatmate into a pile of easily disposable pieces. more »
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Compelling adaptation of Stephen King's novella about an obsessive fan who holds her favourite author prisoner while he satisfies her depraved literary demands. Packed with gripping mind games and sick humour, the film stars Kathy Bates as writer Paul Sheldon's "number one fan", Annie Wilkes. Most stomach-churningly horrific moment? When Wilkes prevents Sheldon from escaping her lair by breaking both his legs with a sledgehammer. more »
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Shakespeare has never been so much fun... Vincent Price chews the scenery as the ham actor extracting a bloody revenge on the critics who ended his career. After a very public humiliation at the Critics' Circle awards, pompous Shakespearean actor Edward Lionheart hurls himself into the Thames. He hasn’t died however and Lionheart decides to kill each of the critics who scoffed at him in the same manner as in Shakespeare’s plays. One particularly gruesome scene sees him feeding a critic his own poodles. more »
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