Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments

[slayrrr666]

Has anyone out there seen this countdown? It's a collection of horror actors, writers, directors, scholars and unfunny comedians paying homage to great horror scenes from around the globe. I'll get the complete list up soon, I have to search for it, but I figured this would make a great topic for us to dissect here. Give me till tonight (I have to find Candyman for Q's Guess the Gore as that's my top priority) but it will be here.

[Quorthon]

You know, this feels very familiar...

There was a topic similar to this some time ago--but it wasn't about Bravo's top 100 scenes. It was from website. It led to the development Bart's own top 10 horror scenes list. I'd forgotton about all that.

[slayrrr666]

Hmm, before my time on the board, but here's the Bravo List:


100. 28 Days Later (Discovery of empty London)
99. Creepshow (Cockroach segment)
98. Zombie (Pretty all over the place, but most on two scenes: zombie vs. shark, and eye splinter)
97. Cat People (1942) (Woman walking through the park hearing voices)
96. The Birds (Tippi trapped in the phone booth)
95. Jurassic Park (Attack on the jeeps)
94. Child's Play (“Talk to me, dammit, or I’ll throw you in the fire!”)
93. Pacific Heights (Discovery that the tenant is a psycho)
92. Village of the Damned (1965) (Initial realization of their powers)
91. Shallow Grave (Will they get away with it)
90. Night of the Hunter (Tormenting the children)
89. Alice Sweet Alice (Brooke Shields looking for Alice)
88. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Final revelation about girlfriend)
87. Black Christmas (Death by saran-wrap that goes undiscovered)
86. Wizard of Oz (The Wicked Witch)
85. Blood & Black Lace (Pretty much the whole movie)
84. Blue Velvet (Hopper sucking the gas)
83. The Others (Daughter lying with drape over her head)
82. Terminator (Facial surgery scene)
81. The Howling (Werewolf grabbing papers from Terry’s hand)
80. Poltergeist (“They’re here.”)
79. Dracula (Pretty much the whole movie)
78. The Brood (1979) (Licking the fetus)
77. Signs (Alien on the videotape)
76. Evil Dead (Pretty much the whole movie)
75. Candyman (Candyman torments Helen in the cave)
74. Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (Willy Wonka and the ommpa lummpas)
73. Blood Simple (M. Emmett Walsh’s performance)
72. Them! (Thing walking out with ribcage in jaws)
71. The Sixth Sense (Girl ghost in the tent)
70. The Stepfather (O’Quinn’s breakdown and then restoration)
69. Re-Animator (Head giving head)
68. The Black Cat (1932) (The skinning of Karloff)
67. Duel (The close-ups on the truck)
66. The Tenant (It’s over-all mind-fuckness)
65. Marathon Man (“Is it safe?”)
64. Near Dark (Paxton tormenting the bar owner)
63. Deliverance (“Squeal like a pig.”)
62. The Wolf Man (Chaney Jr,’s first transformation)
61. The Devil's Backbone (The ghost boy)
60. The Beyond (Gunshot to the creepy girl that blows her head off)
59. Fatal Attraction (Close jumps out of the tub and her final demise)
58. Cujo (Whenever Cujo jumps up in the window)
57. House of Wax (1953) (Breaking the wax mask of Price)
56. Single White Female (Leigh Cook comes down the stairs)
55. The Vanishing (Awaking in the coffin)
54. The Changeling (Daughter’s ball bouncing down the stairs)
53. Demons (Ripping of people’s throats throughout)
52. The Phantom of the Opera (1925) (Lon Chaney’s unmasking)
51. The Dead Zone (Suicide by scissors)
50. The Last House on the Left (Pretty much the whole movie)
49. Diabolique (Dead husband rises from the bathtub)
48. The Thing (1982) (Who’s the thing elimination montage)
47. Nosferatu (Rising of Count Orlak)
46. The Sentinel (The old man who walks out of the darkness)
45. The Wicker Man (“Dear God, no!”)
44. The Game (Clown found in same position as dead father)
43. It's Alive! (Opening birth scene)
42. An American Werewolf in London (Continuing reappearance of Griffin Dune)
41. The Hills Have Eyes (Killing the mothers and stealing the baby)
40. Black Sunday (Opening masking of the witch)
39. Dawn of the Dead (1978) (Pretty much the whole movie)
38. Peeping Tom (Tormenting the blind mother)
37. House on Haunted Hill (1958) (The old woman who pops up)
36. Cape Fear (1961) (Mitchum’s performance throughout)
35. Aliens (Ripley and Newt locked in the bedroom with the face-hugger)
34. The Hitcher (Drawn and quartered)
33. The Fly (1986) (Will Goldblum look worse this time around?)
32. Pet Sematary (Tendon slicing)
31. Friday the 13th (Most time on two scenes: Bacon’s death and Jason’s jump up)
30. Blair Witch Project (Off in the corner before she kills them)
29. Serpent and the Rainbow (“Don’t let them bury me. I’m not dead!”)
28. When a Stranger Calls (“Call’s coming from inside the house!”)
27. Frankenstein (Throwing the girl in the lake)
26. Seven (Discovery of the man who “died” one year earlier)
25. Phantasm (Dream sequence, when creatures burst from the ground)
24. Suspiria (Opening double homicide)
23. Rosemary's Baby (Rape of Rosemary)
22. Don't Look Now (Dwarf as the killer)
21. Jacob's Ladder (Elizabeth Pena’s dance in the club)
20. The Ring (2002) (Tamara walking out of the TV)
19. Hellraiser (Pretty much the whole movie)
18. The Haunting (Group huddled together, witnessing the power of the ghosts)
17. A Nightmare on Elm Street (Tina getting her brains bashed out)
16. The Omen (Nanny at the hospital)
15. Freaks (Revenge of the freaks)
14. Halloween (Michael’s sit-up at the end)
13. Scream (Drew Berrymore’s stalk/kill)
12. Misery (The broken foot)
11. Audition (Pretty much the whole movie)
10. Wait Until Dark (Alan Arkin’s leap from the dark)
9. Night of the Living Dead (Pretty much the whole movie)
8. Carrie (Pretty all over the place, but most on the final hand grab)
7. Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal’s escape)
6. Shining (Pretty all over the place, but most on the discovery of Jack’s novel)
5. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Leatherface’s first appearance/kill)
4. Psycho (Martin Balsam’s fall down the stairs)
3. Exorcist (Pretty all over the place, but most on the head-spin)
2. Alien (Chest-burster Alien)
1. Jaws (Opening attack)

Well, there's the complete list. Any agree/disagree with placing? Comments?

(Edit: Year, if applicable, with scene/reason why chosen)

[frankenjohn]

Seen it.

[slayrrr666]

frankenjohn said:

Seen it.

Any other comments? Agree with the placing? Disagree?

[frankenjohn]

I liked it.

[LivingDeadGirl]

Good list...can't comment on the placements though b/c I haven't seen a lot of the movies. It doesn't actually name the moments/scenes though...

[slayrrr666]

livingdeadgirl said:

Good list...can't comment on the placements though b/c I haven't seen a lot of the movies. It doesn't actually name the moments/scenes though...

Yeah, that's the only thing. Some, though, you can tell: Carrie (The final arm grab) Signs (the alien on the video) Sixth Sense ("I see dead people") among others, but some (The Evil Dead, Jaws, The Shining, etc.) don't have the scenes that put them on the list. If you want to see it, it's on this week on Bravo.

[Quorthon]

I was actually surprised at how high on the list Takashi Miike's Audition was. I have serious doubts that most (if any) of the commentators had actually seen the movie before the producers showed it to them.

Have you seen any of Miike's work, Slayrrr? This guy is the Lynch/Romero/Cronenberg/Carpenter of Asian cinema. He mostly does Yakuza films, but is becoming well known over here for his horror work. I consider myself incredibly lucky to have actually seen one of his films over here in the theater. That was Gozu. I think the only people in that theater that really kind of "got" the film (forget understanding it!) were my wife, my friend, and myself.

If not, definitely check these out:

--Audition (horror)
--Visitor Q (bizarre drama/horror)
--Gozu (unexplainable--involves Yakuza)
--Ichi the Killer (Yakuza horror/gore)
--The Happiness of the Katakurris (a musical-comedy-drama-thriller)
--Full Metal Yakuza (very strange take on Robocop--Yakuza footsoldier is rebuilt into robotic super-killer, complete with giant wang and the skin of a Yakuza boss's back. Extremely cheesy, and truly awful special effects--one of his earliest films.)

Generally, all of the films this guy makes are laden with extreme weirdness and rampant violence/gore/bizarre sex scenes. Visitor Q has necrophilia. Gozu has a woman filling small jars with her breast milk to sell. Happiness has a sumo wrestler die in bed--and he smothers his girlfriend to death. Ichi's opening titles appears out of semen.

[Fenril]

quorthon said:

--Audition (horror)

Since this particular movie goes to great lenghts to firmly establish the romantic drama before getting to the ultra-nasty second half of the movie, I guess it could be clasifies as romance/drama/horror... Miike's movies tend to be quite eclectic.

Have you seen his movie "One missed call", Quorton? This is one of his later works, and is more or less his own version of Ringu (except it gets a lot nastier than the Ringu movies, and has one of the weirdest conclusions you've ever seen).

I agree that he's one director to watch for, especially if you like weird movies.

As for the list... I think I had seen pretty much the same list a year ago, and that with some movies (like "Rosemary's baby") they didn't actually choose a specific scene, just the movie as a whole... kinda sloppy work, if you ask me.

I noticed that the list includes "House of wax". Are they referring to the 1953 original or to the 2004 version? (it's not really a remake as such). And what scene did they choose, the "waxing" process?

[Pulpmariachi]

Hey! I've seen this special! I'd rank The Shining higher myself, but I have no idea about most of these movies.

[Bartwald]

The list is okay - most movies that are there really deserve it. But without the particular scenes... I don't know, it's difficult to compare them overall. And if you do that then Them! or Willy Wonka would not sum up to anything oh-so-scary, would they?

Here's a Top 10 from a similar list in this month's Total Film:

1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Pam gets the meat hook for Leatherface to work his saw on Jerry
2. Halloween: the "dead" Shape gets up
3. Suspiria: the opening double homicide
4. Dawn Of The Dead (1978): Roger undergoes slow transformation
5. The Shining: blood in the corridor
6. Psycho: the shower
7. The Wicker Man: "Dear God, Nooo!"
8. Rosemary's Baby: the dream of rape
9. Don't Look Now: Sutherland's howl
10. Cannibal Holocaust: the penis-chop

[slayrrr666]

fenril said:

quorthon said:

--Audition (horror)

Since this particular movie goes to great lenghts to firmly establish the romantic drama before getting to the ultra-nasty second half of the movie, I guess it could be clasifies as romance/drama/horror... Miike's movies tend to be quite eclectic.

Have you seen his movie "One missed call", Quorton? This is one of his later works, and is more or less his own version of Ringu (except it gets a lot nastier than the Ringu movies, and has one of the weirdest conclusions you've ever seen).

I agree that he's one director to watch for, especially if you like weird movies.

As for the list... I think I had seen pretty much the same list a year ago, and that with some movies (like "Rosemary's baby") they didn't actually choose a specific scene, just the movie as a whole... kinda sloppy work, if you ask me.

I noticed that the list includes "House of wax". Are they referring to the 1953 original or to the 2004 version? (it's not really a remake as such). And what scene did they choose, the "waxing" process?

It was the original, the face shatter, when you see what Price's face really looks like.
I agree totally, most were just the movie rather than scenes. if it airs again, I'l try to match scenes with movie.
Never been much of a fan of Miike's work, honestly. Too creepy. I watch movies to be entertained, not creeped out.

[Quorthon]

That list should've been called, "Top 100 scariest movies." Some movies had multiple scary scenes--or the concept itself was what was scary.

Last House on the Left isn't really a horror film--it's closer, I think, to exploitation.

[Phoenix]

We watched some of this show this weekend - I dont really recommend it. It's has terrible b-list comedians and actors that add no insight into any movie or scene. It would be so much cooler (and much more work of course) if they had a little tidbit of trivia or interesting story about making a certain scene for each 100. Dont' waste your time.