See what I mean? (Photos via Jon Mirsalis' Lon Chaney Home Page.)
Notably, The Shining makes a number of appearances on the list, but Retrocrush left out what I think is the key scene of the film, the one where Jack is released from being locked up in the pantry by the ghosts of the Overlook. That, for me, is when the film really trips out into horror; hitherto we've assumed the ghosts are just hallucinations on Jack's part, but this scene forces us to question that assumption and wonder just what the hell they actually are. There's a comparable scene near the end of Fritz Lang's Testament of Dr Mabuse; we assume that the ghost of Mabuse who appears to the hospital director at various points is just a hallucination, except the ghost is seen at the film's end to open a cell door for him. Subtle, yet freakish.
And I should end by noting my disappointment that The Haunting (1963 version) appears to have been overlooked completely by whoever compiled the list. That is my definition of a shit-scary movie, with its house that was "born bad", and I don't recall being as purely scared by a film in recent years as I was by that one. Its absence from the list really is a travesty... still, as I've said, the only real function these lists usually serve is to provoke disagreements and arguments, and the Retrocrush list has succeeded at that. Meantime, do check it out, as it does contain some thought-provoking choices. And have a look also at this nice article on the 70th anniversary of King Kong (containing a shot from the lost scene with the giant spider), which I may say is still a surprisingly violent film, given the period it was made in...
Article comments
1 - Danny
What, no entry for anything in The Omen? And must we really have three or so scences from The Shining and The Exorcist? I guess that makes that particulr Top #100 list quite dubious and of poor taste.