The 100 Scariest Movie Moments

The 100 Scariest Movie Moments
Screenshot of the program
Genre	Documentary
Written by	Patrick Moses
Directed by	Kevin Kaufman
Starring	Wes Craven Peter Jackson Stan Winston Bruce Campbell Rob Zombie Tom Savini Leonard Maltin Rob Reiner Klimaszewski Twins The Broken Lizards
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	5
Production
Executive producers	Kevin Kaufman Ian Levy Patrick Moses
Producer	Anthony Timpone
Editor	John Topol
Running time	60 minutes
Production company	Kaufman Films
Original release
Network	Bravo
Release	October 26, 2004 (2004-10-26)

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.

In 2016, the New York Post Decider site called the series "the single best primer on horror cinema that has ever aired on TV."

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.

Film	Rank
The Descent	1
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer	2
Bug	3
Zodiac	4
Maniac	5
Ginger Snaps	6
Frailty	7
Diary of the Dead	8
Hostel Part II	9
No Country for Old Men	10
Hard Candy	11
Cloverfield	12
The Strangers	13

External links

• The 100 Scariest Movie Moments at the Internet Movie Database
• 100 Scariest Movie Moments (via Internet Archive)