Marion Crane lasts thirty minutes before her fateful shower scene -- John Hurt lasts even
longer before he suffers some grizzly chest pains in Alien.
However, some of the most horrifying scenes and events occur in the first 10 minutes of
horror films.
So today on Top 5 Scary Videos, we’re going to be counting down the Top 5 Scariest Opening
Scenes In Horror Movies.
Before we begin, be sure to stick around until the end of the video where I’ll be responding
to some of your comments.
Lets jump in.
5 Carrie Carrie is one of my favourite films of all
time -- the original that is, not the crap that was the Chloe Grace Moretz remake.
As we know, Carrie is a movie about a bullied outcast who uses her telekinetic powers for
revenge against the teens that slighted her.
The opening begins with the gym class playing volleyball, with the camera panning down to
reveal Carrie played by Sissy Spacek, standing nervously at the back.
We then cut to a slow-motion locker room scene, which is incredibly voyeuristic.
The camera once again finds Carrie in the shower, as blood begins to drop down her legs
and swirl down the drain.
Her period sends her into a panic -- as her mother never taught her about puberty and
the changes the body goes through as we grow older.
Her classmates watch on as Carrie screams in horror, yelling for help, believing that
she must be dying.
And, how do her classmates react?
They pelt her with pads and tampons, while laughing and chanting, “plug it up, plug
it up”.
Though it isn’t scary in the classic horror sense, it is terrifying because it relates
to social anxieties that we all have.
That of public mockery and loneliness.
And it is our first warning sign that Carrie is completely alone in the film, and unequipped
to navigate the cruel world that she lives in.
4 It Follows Released in 2014, It Follows is a supernatural
horror from David Robert Mitchell, that tells the story of a fatal curse that is passed
from victim to victim via sexual intercourse.
The opening shot is about two minutes and is tightly controlled -- following a girl
fleeing her house and running down her suburban street.
As an audience we have no idea what the girl is running from, or who she even is.
But what is terrifying is the sound design and the persistent movement of the camera,
that leads us to believe that an immediate threat is near, as we scour the screen searching
for anything that might be responsible for her reaction.
At this point we have no idea that the threat is the movie’s invisible, shape-shifting
monster that will follow the young girl until she is killed or she passes along her curse
to someone else through sex.
But -- as we see from the scene, the girl doesn’t last long, as she patiently waits
on the beach at twilight, before it cuts to the next morning and we are forced to gaze
upon her mangled and broken body.
3 Ghost Ship Now, the 2002 Ghost Ship is not a good film,
by any means.
It follows a salvage crew who discover the eeries remains of a grand passenger liner
thought to be lost for more than 40 years.
However, the opening scene sent chills down most of our spines, and left fans fearing
what may comes next.
Though, as we know, it was just utter disappointment.
It opens with a cruise ship, as passengers dance romantically beneath the stars, however,
tension quickly builds as the camera tracks a razor thin wire stretching around the passengers
after being set up by a mysterious person’s hand.
The cable eventually snaps, slicing through all of the passengers aboard the ship, except
for one little girl who is sparred, thanks to her height different.
What follows is an incredibly gory sequence of the halved bodies sliding apart from each
other -- which the little girl realizing she is now all alone, in the middle of the ocean,
surrounded by gruesome corpses.
It’s truly horrific.
2 28 Weeks Later 28 Weeks Later is absolutely terrifying -- and
one of the best sequels to a horror film I’ve ever seen.
The film takes place six months after the original epidemic, with the rage virus having
annihilated the population of the British Isles.
And what hits you in the opening scene of 28 Weeks Later is just how severe the outbreak
has become -- and pair that with oppressive silence, the opening is absolutely horrifying.
Robert Carlyle’s quiet home is rampaged by zombie’s as he’s forced to leave his
wife and flee his home, running with panicked breaths across vast fields as we watch on
as a hoard of zombies appear across the hills chasing him with pure rage plastered on their
face, ready to take him down.
The scene leaves viewers breathless and exhilarated -- with the assurance that death will come
for everyone.
The scene is just six minutes long but feels like an eternity, and honestly, remove the
rest of the film, this sequence could stand alone as one of the greatest zombie moments
in history.
1 Jaws Of course, nothing could top the haunting
events that unfolded for Chrissie in the first few moments of this 1975 horror.
The film opens with Chrissie and a drunk hippy head to the beach to do some skinny dipping
and perhaps get it on.
We watch on as Chrissie swims further and further away from the shore, as something
below surface grabs her lower half, thrashing her around like a fish caught on a line while
gurgling “it hurts”.
What makes this scene the number one on our list is that we don’t see what’s going
on below the surface, yet our minds tell us everything we need to know.
A shark has the poor girls in its grasps -- making it one of the most convincing expressions
terror we’ve ever experienced.
What makes this scene even more terrifying is knowing that the actress who played Chrissie
actually suffered severe injuries from this scene, with the mechanical shark suffering
some severe malfunctions -- resulting in a handful of broken bones for the young actress.
Well, there we have it!
Did you guys agree with our list?
Were there any movies that we missed?
Leave us all your thoughts and feelings in the comments down below and perhaps we can
do a part 2.
Before we go though, I just want to respond to a few comments from one of our last videos,
Top 5 Scary Dark Stories Behind Children’s Toys.
Fluffy Pink Chaos quoted me saying, “I’m about to ruin your life” she says while
smirking...THIS IS WHY I LOVE LUCY!
-- You know me, I’m always going to bring you horror and tragedy with a big smile on
my face.
Happy 2 Be Here said “She reminds me of Wednesday Addams” -- Spot on.
Sloth Servamp said “Childhood ruined.
But that’s okay.
I love this channel.
Also, Lucy.
I will totally accept her as leader when takes over the world.”
-- Thanks, I’m glad you’re enjoying the channel.
Also, when I take over?
Hasn’t that already happen?
Richard King said, “Lucy is back!”
-- Did I ever leave?
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