The 100 Scariest Movie Moments list comes from an American television documentary miniseries that aired in late October 2004 on Bravo. 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. However, information on the list only includes details of specific moments in the films for the top 5 placings.
1 Jaws – The opening scene in which the unseen shark devours Chrissie Watkins during a midnight swim.
2 Alien – the chestburster sequence.
3 The Exorcist – The scene where the possessed Regan MacNeil’s head spins clockwise during the exorcism.
4 Psycho – The death scene of the private investigator Arbogast.
5 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre – The scene in which Leatherface bashes Kirk’s skull in with a sledgehammer.
6 The Shining
7 The Silence of the Lambs
8 Carrie
9 Night of the Living Dead
10 Wait Until Dark
11 Audition
12 Misery
13 Scream
14 Halloween
15 Freaks
16 The Omen
17 A Nightmare on Elm Street
18 The Haunting
19 Hellraiser
20 The Ring
21 Jacob’s Ladder
22 Don’t Look Now
23 Rosemary’s Baby
24 Suspiria
25 Phantasm
26 Seven
27 Frankenstein
28 When a Stranger Calls
29 The Serpent and the Rainbow
30 The Blair Witch Project
31 Friday the 13th
32 Pet Sematary
33 The Fly
34 The Hitcher
35 Aliens
36 Cape Fear
37 House on Haunted Hill
38 Peeping Tom
39 Dawn of the Dead
40 Black Sunday
41 The Hills Have Eyes
42 An American Werewolf in London
43 It’s Alive
44 The Game
45 The Wicker Man
46 The Sentinel
47 Nosferatu
48 The Thing
49 Les Diaboliques
50 The Last House on the Left
51 The Dead Zone
52 The Phantom of the Opera
53 Demons
54 The Changeling
55 The Vanishing
56 Single White Female
57 House of Wax
58 Cujo
59 Fatal Attraction
60 The Beyond
61 The Devil’s Backbone
62 The Wolf Man
63 Deliverance
64 Near Dark
65 The Tenant
66 Marathon Man
67 Duel
68 The Black Cat
69 Re-Animator
70 The Stepfather
71 The Sixth Sense
72 Them!
73 Blood Simple
74 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
75 Candyman
76 The Evil Dead
77 Signs
78 The Brood
79 Dracula
80 Poltergeist
81 The Howling
82 The Terminator
83 The Others
84 Blue Velvet
85 Blood and Black Lace
86 The Wizard of Oz
87 Black Christmas
88 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
89 Alice, Sweet Alice
90 The Night of the Hunter
91 Shallow Grave
92 Village of the Damned
93 Child’s Play
94 Pacific Heights
95 Jurassic Park
96 The Birds
97 Cat People
98 Zombi 2
99 Creepshow
100 28 Days Later