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The Results
Here they are. The 100 Greatest Scary Moments from film, TV, advertising and pop. Check out the full results on these pages, then test how much you know with our Scary Moments Quiz.
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The original scary movie. Shot by the Lumière brothers, the first ever publicly shown moving images depicts a train arriving at Marseille Station. That might not sound too scary to modern-day movie audiences but those who went to the film's first screenings in 1895 were well and truly terrified, thinking that the train was going to burst through the screen and kill them. Many of them ducked under their seats! more »
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A deeply creepy and maddeningly tense 50s thriller. Robert Mitchum’s performance went a long way to defining on-screen evil as a crazed preacher, with the words 'Love' and ‘Hate’ tattooed on his hands, who is obsessively searching for $10,000 hidden by a condemned convict. Having married and then murdered the dead man’s wife, the preacher then turns his attention to her two children. In a terrifying moment, the kids flee from him into a swamp and he pursues relentlessly. more »
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Groundbreaking BBC sci-fi series, which combined the talents of the Doctor Who production team and Dr Kit Pedlar, a scientist renowned for his strong views on the ethics of scientific progress. Doomwatch is the nickname for the fictional Department of Measurement of Scientific Work, whose team (which included a young Robert Powell) are charged with identifying and confronting scientific dangers which might afflict the public. The creepiest episode? When society is under attack from a super intelligent breed of rats.
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The alleged alien autopsy footage linked to the famous Roswell incident of 1947 was first broadcast in the UK and in the US nearly 50 years later. The footage was of a small naked humanoid creature with a round bulbous stomach, six fingers, a gashed leg and large eyes on egg shaped head. Many believed the footage to be fake but as no one has actually seen an 'alien' it also left viewers with a questioning fear. Could this really be genuine?
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96 - The Prodigy's Breathe video (1997)
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The memorably freaky video for Breathe was set in a slum-like apartment. Keith Flint, with one side of his hair dyed green and the other purple, runs around the flat occasionally picking fights with the walls. Liam appears in bed, wondering what a clone of himself is doing in the same room and why an ugly reptile is under his bed. The camera pans around the flat, showing sinks throwing up strange-coloured water and insects.
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