Top 5 Terrifying Movie Moments That Gave Us Goosebumps
It's been more than two decades since famed children's book author R.L. Stine debuted "Goosebumps," a best-selling series with more than 350 million copies sold in 32 different languages. This weekend, fans of the spooky-lite tales can watch their favorite monsters come to life in a live-action version that stars Jack Black as young adult lit scribe Stine.
In the spirit of setting our inner-demons free, we decided to count down the top five scariest moments in movie history. Here, we give you a few of Hollywood's most memorable scene stealers that literally left us covered in goosebumps.
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1. "The Ring"
The Big Scare: Creepy, dead girl Samara crawls out of a TV screen while Noah, played by Martin Henderson, helplessly looks on before finally coming to the realization that he will, in fact, be the next in line to die after watching a cursed video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NXk3mRoGOs
2. "Halloween"
The Big Scare: There's a reason this classic 1978 thriller left moviegoers on the edge of their seats. We catch our first glimpse of Mike Myers as a murderous six-year-old boy taking revenge on a bully in this infamous series of slasher films.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUpw5rdoCUQ
3. "Poltergeist"
The Big Scare: Is there anything spookier than a clown? Maybe, maybe not. But this chilling scene where a clown doll transforms into a cold-blooded killer could turn you off going to the circus for good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E55ni_xc4ww
4. "Misery"
The Big Scare: Kathy Bates is a bona fide movie star. But there's no denying that this bone-chilling scene, where she takes a mallet to James Caan's ailing author character's feet, is the role that inevitably made her career with a Best Actress Oscar win in 1991.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ruw9fsh3PNY
5. "American Psycho"
The Big Scare: Christian Bale's Patrick Bateman gives a lengthy critique of Huey Lewis and the News while “Hip to Be Square” plays in the background before laying into his coworker Paul Allen, played by Jared Leto, with an axe.