Shocking Movie Moments
Aussie Dave | Sep 27, 2005 | 2 comments
Premiere magazine contains the following list of the 25 Most Shocking Moments In Movie History:
1. THE CRYING GAME (IRA member FERGUS confronts his ‘girlfriend’s’ member)2. THE PUBLIC ENEMY (The dead body of JAMES CAGNEY’s gangster character TOM POWERS is dumped on his family’s doorstep)3. ALIEN (Alien baby jumps out of JOHN HURT’s stomach during a dinner scene)4. PSYCHO (VERA MILES’ character finds her sister’s skeletal corpse in the basement of the Psycho house)5. BONNIE + CLYDE (FAYE DUNAWAY and WARREN BEATTY’s Bonnie + Clyde are ambushed and killed by police in the country)6. RESERVOIR DOGS (MICHAEL MADSEN’s MR BLONDE slices off a police officer’s ear as he dances to STEELER’S WHEEL’s STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU)7. DELIVERANCE (NED BEATTY’s character is anally raped by a hillbilly)8. CARRIE (Title character’s dead hand grabs AMY IRVING from beyond the grave)9. THE EXORCIST (LINDA BLAIR’s possessed REGAN repeatedly stabs herself in the crotch with a bloody crucifix)
10. UN CHIEN ANDALOU (A woman’s eye is sliced by a razor blade in the arty SALVADOR DALI/LUIS BUNUEL movie).
I would have included Darth Vader announcing to Luke that he was his father.
What is your most shocking movie moment?
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An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.Filed Under: General
With regards to PSYCHO: I think the skeleton found in the basement of the house is not the one of Janet Leigh’s character but the one of Norman Bates’ (Anthony Perkins) mother…
My all-time shocker is to hear Gene Kelly singing “Singin’ in the Rain”, thx to A Clockwork Orange.
Shocking moment – in Pulp Fiction John Travolta and Samuel Jackson are just casually chatting in the car with the kid in the back then an extravagant hand-gesture is made and BLAM the gun goes off and the kid is killed. I went to the movie a second time, just to watch the audience’s faces as this happened – very, very impressive.
Of course, Spielberg too is a master of shock upon shock – all the Indiana Jones movies have it, but another favourite is in Jurassic Park – there’s this guy quietly sitting in the john when a T-Rex comes along and bites his head off – not a dry seat in the house that night, I can tell you.