"Can I watch the movie again now? Yes? Great....AIEEEE!!!"

Lynn Sislo links the 100 scariest movie scenes of all time. I haven't seen a whole lot of these, but the ones that I have seen are certifiably scary. But of course, I have a few suggestions of my own:

:: Pinocchio. Disney movies weren't always "warm and fuzzy"; they often had some pretty scary imagery. In the "Pleasure Island" sequence of Pinocchio, the bit where Lampwick turns into a donkey is particularly effective.

:: Castaway. There are two scenes here that freak me out. First, the whole plane-crash sequence, because there's none of the "warning" stuff -- no external shots of something going wrong with the plane, no shots of the cockpit crew saying things like "We're suddenly losing altitude!". Just Tom Hanks standing in the cargo area, and then BANG! the plane's going down and all hell breaks loose.

And since Lynn notes in her post that a particular scene involving dental work sans painkiller freaked her out, there's a similarly-themed sequence in Castaway that had me wincing something awful.

:: Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I still find the abduction of Barry Guiler unnerving, and so much of the stylistic stuff later used in The X-Files can be traced to that one scene, right down to the incoungruity of a Johnny Mathis song playing in the background.

:: Jaws. The "Top 100" list has several scenes from Jaws, but I think an overlooked scene is when the two local yokels decide to try to catch the shark with "the wife's holiday roast". The shark takes the roast, rips the pier free of its moorings, and while the yokel who's fallen into the water starts swimming back to shore, the wreckage of the pier slowly comes about....

:: Dead Again. The final scene between Freddie and Inga.

:: Pink Floyd's The Wall. Pink shaves his entire body; the marching hammers; the copulating orchids.

:: The Abyss. Jammer's freak-out. There's a POV shot as Jammer yanks on the rope, to find the torn end floating toward him, and the only sound we hear is Jammer's rapidly-becoming out of control breathing.

:: The Silence of the Lambs. "It puts the lotion in the basket". Yeeps! (Does it make me a bad person if at least once a week I have to restrain myself at The Store from coming up behind some customer who's in the lotion aisle and uttering this line?)

:: Jurassic Park. The initial approach of the T-Rex is as well-done a sequence of this type as any I can remember.

:: In the Line of Fire. When the assassin makes a mistake in talking to some unknowing banker that might bring suspicion upon him, he visits the banker at her home.