Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie moments...

[jayctravis]

Typical compilation with interviews.

Top scariest moment was JAWS, the opening scene near the buoy.

There were some interesting picks, including your typical PSYCHO (they mentioned both killing off the female lead as well as the falling down the stairs stabbing) EXORCIST, THE SHINING (Shelly Duvall's reaction upon finding the manuscript) as well as some interesting surprises, such as from foreign horror films such as SUSPIRIA (gruesome hanging through a skylight) and AUDITION.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. I would say, from Jaws, when the dude's head pops out of the hole in the

hull of his boat (I think this was the missing fisherman named "Ben"), that was scarier...

[jayctravis]

2. My parents relate that as being the most visceral reaction

they had experienced in a movie theatre when they saw JAWS on its initial release. When that head popped out the audience went from dead silent to every single person screaming. My Dad said that it was made scarier by the fact that many people stood up reflexively in the mass hysteria and he was sure some people were running for the bathroom, probably having peed themselves.

That sounded like one of those moments that ushers gather to watch! Apparently that movie rewrote all the rules about misdirected scares that the public hadn't experienced before.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. Well it was good because Spielberg got you all absorbed in what the

diver, Hooper, was doing, fishing the shark tooth out from the hole.

When I'm completely engrossed in something like that, even if you just speak to me from next to me or behind me, I'll startle. Much less if a nasty corpse head jumped out at me, LOL.

[CanuckAmok]

12. I had a friend who still has a scar on his fore-arm because...

his date to Jaws bit right into his arm out of terror when the head came out.

[pokerfan]

8. I remember that scene

because I was watching it with my little brother in the first row of the balcony. My brother had a soft drink balanced on the edge and when that head popped out he freaked and kicked the drink over the edge. We went to the bathroom to hide out and then found new seats.

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Hooper: You were on the Indianapolis?

Martin: What happened?

Quint: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, chief. It was comin' back, from the island of Tinian Delady, just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. Thirteen footer. You know, you know that when you're in the water, chief? You tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail. Well, we didn't know. `Cause our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. Huh huh. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, chief. The sharks come cruisin'. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know it's... kinda like `ol squares in battle like a, you see on a calendar, like the battle of Waterloo. And the idea was, the shark nearest man and then he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark would go away. Sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in and rip you to pieces. Y'know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men! I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand! I don't know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin' chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player, bosom's mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up and down in the water, just like a kinda top. Up ended. Well... he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. He'd a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper, anyway he saw us and come in low. And three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened? Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.


True story of the USS Indianapolis (CA-35):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_%28CA-35%29

[Arkana]

3. My pick is that shot from Wait Until Dark

where the guy LEAPS out at Audrey Hepburn. :scared:

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

10. Classic!

[jpgray]

13. Great hit from the score on that moment.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

5. Out of interest, did 'Don't Look Now' feature?

(& a plug for Brits -- Audition is on tonight, Channel 4 at 12:05. Amazing film & when you've seen it, go look up Miike Takashi's back catalogue)

[SeattleGirl]

9. Yes it did. Can't remember exactly where it showed up.

Man, that movie freaked me out, especially the end of it!

[WCGreen]

6. Britney Spears Film Debut has got to be the scariest thing ever..

[miss_kitty]

7. I screamed in the privacy of my own home

when the hand came up from the grave and grabbed Mrs Spielberg-Amy something-at the end of 'Carrie'. Jeebus-scared me silly.:scared:

[CanuckAmok]

11. How about the "living corpse" in Se7en?

When the tactical team storms his hotel room and he's found dead... but gasps for air?

[Az]

14. Glad to see Audition made the list

Almost watched it tonight. Put it in the stack of films to watch at the party. Vampire Hunter D and Dead Alive won the vote.

[kittykatkoffeekup]

15. Watching Audition tomorrow

Parasite Eve also.

[Hardrada]

16. Alien

when the monster comes out of this guy's midsection!! Yikes!