The 100 Scariest Movie Moments
The 100 Scariest Movie Moments is an American television documentary miniseries that aired in late October 2004 on Bravo. Aired in five 60-minute segments, the miniseries counts down what producer Anthony Timpone, writer Patrick Moses, and director Kevin Kaufman have determined as the 100 most frightening and disturbing moments in the history of movies. Each segment includes interviews from horror genre experts and other celebrities who experienced the listed films, as well as film clips and movie stills from the films covered. This 2004 offering was followed up in 2006 by the two-part sequel, 30 Even Scarier Movie Moments, as well as another countdown, 13 Scarier Movie Moments.
Summary
The countdown included 100 films, mainly from the 1970s to 2000s, although films from the 1960s and earlier are also featured. While the list mainly comprises horror and thriller films, science fiction films such as The Terminator and Jurassic Park are included. Even children's films such as The Wizard of Oz and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory made their way onto the countdown.The top five films included on the list were predominantly from the 1960s and 1970s.
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ranked fifth for the scene in which Leatherface bashes Kirk's skull in with a sledgehammer.
- Psycho ranked number four for the death scene of the private investigator Arbogast.
- The Exorcist ranked third for the scene where the possessed Regan MacNeil's head spins clockwise during the exorcism.
- Alien ranked second for the chestburster sequence.
- Jaws was placed at the number one spot for the opening scene in which the unseen shark devours Chrissie Watkins during a midnight swim.
List
| Film | Rank |
| Jaws | 1 |
| Alien | 2 |
| The Exorcist | 3 |
| Psycho | 4 |
| The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | 5 |
| The Shining | 6 |
| The Silence of the Lambs | 7 |
| Carrie | 8 |
| Night of the Living Dead | 9 |
| Wait Until Dark | 10 |
| Audition | 11 |
| Misery | 12 |
| Scream | 13 |
| Halloween | 14 |
| Freaks | 15 |
| The Omen | 16 |
| A Nightmare on Elm Street | 17 |
| The Haunting | 18 |
| Hellraiser | 19 |
| The Ring | 20 |
| Jacob's Ladder | 21 |
| Don't Look Now | 22 |
| Rosemary's Baby | 23 |
| Suspiria | 24 |
| Phantasm | 25 |
| Seven | 26 |
| Frankenstein | 27 |
| When a Stranger Calls | 28 |
| The Serpent and the Rainbow | 29 |
| The Blair Witch Project | 30 |
| Friday the 13th | 31 |
| Pet Sematary | 32 |
| The Fly | 33 |
| The Hitcher | 34 |
| Aliens | 35 |
| Cape Fear | 36 |
| House on Haunted Hill | 37 |
| Peeping Tom | 38 |
| Dawn of the Dead | 39 |
| Black Sunday | 40 |
| The Hills Have Eyes | 41 |
| An American Werewolf in London | 42 |
| It's Alive | 43 |
| The Game | 44 |
| The Wicker Man | 45 |
| The Sentinel | 46 |
| Nosferatu | 47 |
| The Thing | 48 |
| Les Diaboliques | 49 |
| The Last House on the Left | 50 |
| The Dead Zone | 51 |
| The Phantom of the Opera | 52 |
| Demons | 53 |
| The Changeling | 54 |
| The Vanishing | 55 |
| Single White Female | 56 |
| 'House of Wax' | 57 |
| Cujo | 58 |
| Fatal Attraction | 59 |
| The Beyond | 60 |
| The Devil's Backbone | 61 |
| The Wolf Man | 62 |
| Deliverance | 63 |
| Near Dark | 64 |
| The Tenant | 65 |
| Marathon Man | 66 |
| Duel | 67 |
| The Black Cat | 68 |
| Re-Animator | 69 |
| The Stepfather | 70 |
| The Sixth Sense | 71 |
| Them! | 72 |
| Blood Simple | 73 |
| Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory | 74 |
| Candyman | 75 |
| The Evil Dead | 76 |
| Signs | 77 |
| The Brood | 78 |
| Dracula | 79 |
| Poltergeist | 80 |
| The Howling | 81 |
| The Terminator | 82 |
| The Others | 83 |
| Blue Velvet | 84 |
| Blood and Black Lace | 85 |
| The Wizard of Oz | 86 |
| Black Christmas | 87 |
| Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 88 |
| Alice, Sweet Alice | 89 |
| The Night of the Hunter | 90 |
| Shallow Grave | 91 |
| Village of the Damned | 92 |
| Child's Play | 93 |
| Pacific Heights | 94 |
| Jurassic Park | 95 |
| The Birds | 96 |
| Cat People | 97 |
| Zombi 2 | 98 |
| Creepshow | 99 |
| 28 Days Later'' | 100 |
Sequels
Produced by Sharp Entertainment, 30 Even Scarier Movie Moments, a two-part sequel to this title, aired on Bravo and Chiller in October 2006, with Hostel topping the list.This was followed by Sharp Entertainment's 13 Scarier Movie Moments which aired in October 2009, with The Descent ranking #1.