It’s a big scary world out there, but that’s never stopped us from a little extra thrill seeking on the big screen. But while a good horror movie can be scarier than the sum of their parts, others might feature memorable chills in otherwise not-scary films. And just how these moments terrify is different every time. So with this list we want to look at individual moments, from jump scares to the terrifying nonsense of existential dread and everything in between, we’re breaking down 10 different ways cinema scares your socks off. These are CineFix’s picks for the 10 scariest movie moments of all time.
This Movie List was written by Clint Gage and edited by Justin Donaldson
The Picks:
10 – The Jump Scare – Jaws (1975) dir. Steven Spielberg
9 – The Slow Burn – The Wicker Man (1973) dir. Robin Hardy
8 – Built on Terrifying Imagery – The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989) dir. Peter Greenaway
7 – Built on the Sound – Hereditary (2018) dir. Ari Aster
6 – Scary Because of the Edit – Amer (2010) dir. Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani
5 – Playing on Very Real Phobias – The Silence of the Lambs (1990) dir. Jonathan Demme
4 – Existential Dread – The Shining (1980) dir. Stanley Kubrick
3 – SHOCK! – The Skin I Live In (2011) dir. Pedro Almodóvar & Eyes Without A Face (1960) dir. Georges Franju
2 – All-Consuming Terror – Under the Skin (2013) dir. Jonathan Glazer
1 – The Nothingness at the End – A Ghost Story (2017) dir. David Lowery
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