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    WallaceTurdus: Honestly? The movie Contact was the only one that really scared the shit outta me. The way it framed the question of "What if we're not alone out he... more »
    Buffalo Lake: Word with Communion I'm pretty sure I have some sort of condition after seeing that movie. more »
    FrankenPC: I may get laughed at for this one, but I thought that scene in Silent Hill where the triangle-headed-chainsaw looking-giant thing grabs that woman out... more »
    IGPNicki: Great list! Of course, i've had to change the scariest scene from The Thing to the part where the dog suddenly transforms into, well, The Thing. I adm... more »
    tiltrite: 28 days later: little zombie kid creeping up. (Wild horses sequence.) Exorcist (Directors cut): Regan's upsidedown spider walk down stairs. comple... more »
    Michelle: Angel Heart when Robert de Niro points his overly long finger nail at Mickey O'Rourke while holding a yellow eyed baby. Nightmares for weeks. more »
    tiltrite: Exorcist director's cut: Linda Blair's upsidedown spider walk down the stairs. 28 days later: little zombie kid creeping up. (Wild horses sequence.) more »
    StanwayLagninja: I first saw Jacob's Ladder when I was 13, on a little black and white TV in my room after I was supposed to be asleep. I didn't watch it all the way t... more »
    Waterhouse: I love that scene from The Thing. Hell, I just love The Thing. One of the two cases in recorded history where the remake is way better than the origin... more »
    okeribok: The Ruins. Really? You left out The Ring for that? more »
    OsDavis: Brazil, the entire last 15 minutes or so: Even if you don't include the fiendish baby masks and the bizarre upending-the-corpse scene, that bit where,... more »
    Taed: I would say that my #1 is the scene in the original 1960 or so version of _The Haunting_ (directed by Robert Wise) where the two female leads are in b... more »
    bookfoldbrewcineaste: And don't forget pretty much every freaky Rutger Hauer moment ever committed to film-- Roy Batty smashes head through tiles into room and tells Deckar... more »
    bookfoldbrewcineaste: 2001: A Space Odyssey--"I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that." Wooja Wooja Woo! more »
    russdanger: The end of "Island of Lost Souls" (1933) It's old, it's dated, the acting is corny and over the top, but the "house of pain" vivisection revenge scen... more »
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    The 50 Scariest Moments In Science Fiction

    Since it's Halloween over at the io9 offices, we couldn't help put plug our brains into our hive-mind computer and put together a list of the 50 scariest moments in science fiction movie history. These are the moments that stuck in our minds, disturbed our dreams and made us see ordinary objects as monsters waiting to strike. Here's our definitive list of the most terrifying scenes from the most horrific scifi movies. More »