(Photo by IFC Midnight/Courtesy Everett Collection)Ī lot has been written about The Babadook: It’s a story about grief, and it’s a story about feminism it’s less a horror film than a domestic drama and somehow through it all its central bogeyman has emerged a wonderfully camp gay icon. As the crew enjoys a meal together, Kane suddenly begins to choke and convulse on the table, and a small, lizard-like creature bursts through his chest and scrambles away, effectively birthing a horror villain that would terrorize space crews for decades to come. But the moment that became indelibly stamped in pop culture history comes just a few scenes later, after the facehugger has detached itself and Kane is recovering from the incident. So it comes as a shock to the system when a “facehugger” hurtles out of an egg and attaches itself to John Hurt’s Kane, puncturing the atmospheric dread with a visceral jump scare. One of the things that sets Ridley Scott’s sci-fi nightmare apart from the other horror fare of its era is its relatively slow burn, playing on the claustrophobia of space and the fear of the unknown. What’s the scariest movie scene you’ve ever seen? Tell us in the comments.
These are the 29 scariest movie scenes of all time. These are the stuff of nightmares, what we see when we close our eyes at night. And work not just at producing a moment of fear, but sustaining that fear, sometimes for minutes on end, to drill deep into our psyche and staying there for decades. The one common thread between them all: They work. A few feature amazing monster makeup and effects. Others deliver unnerving calm and quiet before shattering the senses. You'll want your AV receiver turned up to 11 for this one.There’s all manner of method to the madness in our selections of the scariest movie scenes ever. The best way to saviour its sonic mastery is undoubtedly by hearing the original discrete 4.0-channel English mix, which has been remastered and restored from a 35mm print for a Synapse Blu-ray release. Director Dario Argento had a Nolan/Zimmer-like director-composer relationship with Italian prog-rock band Goblin, and their score for Suspiria has widely been recognised as their greatest triumph.Īn eardrum-piercing cacophony of frantic synths and pummelling drums at one end, and a sustained stream of wailings and repeated whisperings of the word "witch" at the other, Suspiria's soundtrack trail-blazed the use of electronic music in horror films, and puts as much of a visceral chokehold on you as the film's iconic crimson palette does. With the 2018 remake (scored by Thom Yorke) now on Amazon Prime Video, what better time than now to revisit one of Italy’s greatest contributions to the genre. View Rosemary's Baby Blu-ray on Amazon The Shining (1980) From its occult incantations to its hauntingly pleasant musicality, this score will have you sinking further and further into the comforting depths of your sofa.
The wordless, la-la-ing vocal of the leading lady that accompanies a lullaby-like instrumentation for the Main Theme is suitably unsettling, and that fairy tale-esque composition is a near-perfect accompaniment to Polanski's moodily macabre, nightmarish adaptation. The iconic psychological thriller, which, adapted from Ira Levin's novel, follows a woman (Mia Farrow) who moves to a New York apartment with her husband and, having been mysteriously impregnated, believes she's carrying Satan's spawn, is soundtracked by Krzysztof Komeda, a frequent collaborator of Polanski's who died just a year after the film's release. Like all entries in this list, this '60s classic – Roman Polanski's first Hollywood feature – sits bang smack in the middle of must-watch horror territory.
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