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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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Regarded by many as the definitive adaptation of Bram Stoker's Gothic novel, Tod Browning's atmospheric Dracula bears a significance that's only partly the result of its content. It introduced cinema-goers to the extraordinary talents of Bela Lugosi, it was one of the first successful talkies and it went a long way to sustaining Universal through the lean years of the Depression. More than that, it established the look and tone of a genre as enduring as the Count himself. more »
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89 - Protect And Survive (1975)
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These terrifying nuclear war-based government Public Information Films stemmed from the time when we thought we really were going to have to bury our relatives in temporary graves next to the house. With simplistic graphics reminiscent of a child's drawing and the harrowing drone of the three-minute warning siren, the films told us all what to do if the bomb was dropped. Particularly nasty were the instructions about casualties – to be tagged and dumped in another room and then buried in shallow graves. Made in 1975, the films were never actually shown – they were only to be broadcast if the worst happened - but the accompanying leaflet was distributed.
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88 - The Day Of The Triffids (1981)
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This adaptation of John Wyndham's novel (and a 1962 film of the same name), became a much-publicised BBC 80s production. The earth is terrorised by a bunch of man-eating Triffid plants after a close encounter with a comet and its fall-out of meteor showers strikes much of the population blind. What was it like to be chased by a plant? Very scary if you look at the faces of Bill Mason (played by John Duttine) and some of the other sighted survivors as they hear and see those triffids advance.
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Cracker starred Robbie Coltrane as Fitz, the maverick wise-cracking, hard-drinking, gambling forensic psychologist. To Be A Somebody sowed the seeds for writer Jimmy McGovern's unforgettable dramatisation of the Hillsborough tragedy. Robert Carlyle played a terrifying Scouse psychopath, Albie, who snaps after the death of his father. He exacts revenge for the Hillsborough disaster in his own twisted way, killing both a shopkeeper and police officer Christopher Eccleston, in one of the most shocking scenes shown on UK television. But the scene with real nail-biting tension had Albie face to face with Cracker, who is holding the unexploded parcel bomb that Albie sent to the police. The building is cleared until it's just the two of them. Tick tock, tick tock...
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A pioneering horror classic, and still one of the most successful anthologies to date, with five episodes directed by four different directors. Horror anthologies hardly ever work since the episodic structure rarely allows for the convincing development of character and suspense. This is a rare and terrifically frightening exception. Staying at a ghostly Victorian mansion, five guests take in turns to recount their creepy visions. Most frightening is the sequence starring Michael Regrave, as a loopy ventriloquist being taken over by his dummy. more »
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