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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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A truly chilling tale of a shy studio cameraman who spends his nights filming call girls as he kills them with the spiked leg of his camera tripod. Audiences were repulsed by this premise alone, but the killer’s refinement of attaching a mirror to the front of his camera so his victims could watch themselves dying marked Peeping Tom as a thriller beyond the pale. Notwithstanding the fact that film making duo Powell and Pressburger had delivered a string of classics from A Matter of Life and Death to Black Narcissus the film was butchered by ten minutes and then eventually pulled. Michael Powell’s career never recovered. Martin Scorsese restored a print in the early 80’s and when the film was re-released the critics hailed it as a classic. more »
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A psychopathic rapist, out on parole, seeks out the defence lawyer who he says betrayed him, and targets him and his family for terrifying revenge. Martin Scorsese's blockbusting 1991 version of this film, starring Robert De Niro as the ex-con out for revenge, has already become a modern classic, but it is J Lee Thompson's 1961 original that still, even now, offers the greatest thrills and shocks. Defiantly violent, and oozing with psychological horror, the film was years ahead of its time when it was released, and, in Robert Mitchum, uncovered the most menacing psychopath ever to appear on screen. more »
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This black and white Jonathan Miller adaptation of an MR James ghost story had an eerie sense of foreboding throughout as we saw an eccentric professor (Michael Hordern) spend a holiday in Norfolk. The ultimate horror occurs when Hordern wakes up one night and the bed sheets on the spare bed in his room stiffen and move as if possessed by a spirit. The professor's not sure whether it is a ghost or whether he's gone mad. more »
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82 - Captain Scarlet (1967)
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Sometimes the scariest thing is not what you see on TV, but what you don't see. The Mysterons are the ultimate example. Kept invisible by creator Gerry Anderson because he didn't want them to appear 'wrong' if life were ever found on Mars, this alien race struck terror into children from Bolton to Bognor without ever being seen. A mere flash of light and the phrase "This is the Voice of the Mysterons" was pant-wettingly frightening to kids in the Sixties. If only they'd known that the man behind the voice would later star in Emmerdale Farm, that warm trickle of fear might have been avoided.
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Nearly 9m people tuned into the moment in January 1995 when Eddie Banks and Jimmy Corkhill discovered the gruesome remains of Trevor Jordache's body whilst digging up the Jordache's patio in search of a mysterious source of water coming into Eddie's back garden. If Ena Sharples having a go at someone in the Rovers had been the scariest soaps had got in the past, this plot took it to a completely new level. Soap would never be the same again.
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