Top Ten Scariest Movie Scenes

The Top Ten
1 Chest Burst Scene - Alien

Only uneducated people could call this scene a fake! It became classic because of realism. Yes, it's a SCI-FI movie but Ridley Scott made it look so truthful. The whole film was creepy. The Chest Burst Scene is probably its highlight

You know that during this scene they used real blood and guts from a butcher shop and the people who made the film didn't tell the actors what was going to happen, so the actors were genuinely scared. they just don't make em like they used to.

This scene hurts my stomach while watching.

My mom told me about this one day.

2 The Subliminal Face - The Exorcist

If this is not scary nothing is. It should be number 1 not 2. The chest burs is so fake. Its like cartoon

This always freaks me out every time I watch it. This entire movie was scary and f'ed up!

Who did they get to play the face?

3 The Shower Scene - Psycho

Fun Fact: the actor of the victim was scared of taking a shower, for like ever. She will take baths instead and leave the curtains open...felt the same way...from that one scene from the Friday the 13th films Spoiler) Jason latterly smashes that guys face with his palm... :-:

Creepy as heck, someone is taking a shower and then a dude comes in with a knife and then the popular scary music plays.

It's not really scary

A instant classic!

4 Jason Grabs Alice From the Boat - Friday the 13th

I thought the movie was over but it wasn't! when jason pops out of the water. so scary I was only 11 when I had watched it! crazy right?!

I read Stephen King all the time, and this scared the crap out of me!

A pure classic. So underrated...

5 Final Scene - Paranormal Activity
6 Hannibal's Escape From Jail - Silence of the Lambs

Buffalo Bill was much more creepy.

Just plain scary folks

7 The Toy Clown - Poltergeist

No more clowns, to this day I can't even look at a toy clown without out.

8 Pennywise In the Shower Drain - It

Sometimes I fear to go in the shower. Scary, scary stuff to get in your mind oh my

9 The Blood Testing Scene - The Thing
10 Dinner Scene - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

So traumatizing! It feels like you're in it! It's was traumatizing for both the audience and actors! Also that's Marlyln Burns REAL blood when Gunnar Hansen (Leatherface) cuts her ding so John Dugan (Granpa) can drink it

The Contenders
11 Ending - The Descent

Gave me a heart attack

12 Birthday Party Scene - Signs

Ohhhhh, nightmares. It's so scary because it's the last thing (for me anyways) to expect to see. I was expecting it to be seen watching the group but then it panned over and BAM(! ) it bolts from the bushes.

13 The Subway Scene - Cloverfield

This was the scene that scared me the most, their walking through the dark subway tunnels and without warning they get attacked by these little parasite creatures adding to the fact the whole movie is shot on a video camera makes the scene even more terrifying especially.

14 The Tree - Poltergiest
15 The Girl in the Closet - The Ring

Oh my god this scene was so scary. I still don't like closets and for a while I was afraid to wake up in the morning and go downstairs, afraid one of my family members would be dead with a contorted face.

16 Man In The Bear Suit - The Shining
17 Doug’s Corpse Twitching Under the Sheet - The Grudge

This scene gets to me every time I watch The Grudge. You never fully know when it's going to happen, and when it does, it scares the crap out of you.

18 Large Marge - Peewee's Big Adventure

The scariest moment of my life because I was only 7 years old. My dad goes to the bathroom. So I am left in the dark basement alone. One minute later the old hags face explodes into a gore fest. Her eyes pop out of her skull and become huge. Her jaw drops in to a bloody mess. And she makes a hellbound sound that still traumatizes me to this day.

I remember when my younger brother and I were little and we watched this movie at a hotel. My parents were in the bed with us and the scene was about to come on. As Large Marge was saying, "It looked like..." I could see my brother shaking his head no with a terrified expression on his face.

19 Room 237 - The Shining

That SLOW approach of Jack Nicholson towards the bath - we can see there's something there-but what? I still have to watch this through my fingers!

My parents make me close my eyes at nudity but the second time I watched this movie and watched this scene I was horrified.

The eye candy was good but then it turn into a laughing scary and oh god I'm skipping this scene!

20 Twin Girls - The Shining

Kubrick was brilliant here - flashing between the twins and the blood flooding the hallways

21 The Darkroom - The Grudge 2

I haven't even seen The Grudge 2 yet but I have seen this scene and it also gets me every time.

22 Carrie's Hand - Carrie

I'm rarely ever scared by anything, and I gasped when her hand popped out...

So scary and came out of left field.

23 Ending - Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978)
24 The Skinny Dip Scene - Jaws
25 Opening Scene - 28 Weeks Later
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