"Heere's Johnny!" Tops Scariest Scenes

Britain's Channel 4 is set to release its list of Top 50 scariest scenes. The network had experts pull together a long list of cinematic terror, then BBC viewers were polled over a number of weeks to decide the 50 most frightening.

Two movies on the list - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original) and The Evil Dead - were banned in Britain at the time of their release. The oldest movie in the list is Nosferatu, from 1922, which came in at #38 in the list.

The Top 10 are:

1. The Shining (1980) - Jack Nicholson chops through the door and shouts "Here's Johnny!"
2. The Exorcist (1973) - Possessed girl's rotating head and projectile vomit
3. Jaws (1975) - Severed head falls from boat
4. Alien (1979) - Alien bursts out of John Hurt's chest
5. The Blair Witch Project (1999) - Heather Donahue in tears in the woods
6. Ring (1998) - Sadako crawls through the television
7. Halloween (1978) - Serial killer Michael's face appears behind Jamie Lee Curtis in a house full of dead bodies
8. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) - Leatherface's general reign of terror
9. The Omen (1976) - Oscar-winning eerie music score
10. A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984) - First appearance of horror icon Freddy Krueger

Source: BBC