15 Scariest Stephen King Movie Moments

11. The Electric Chair - The Green Mile

It's not supernaturally creepy in the way any others on this list are, but the notorious electric chair sequence in The Green Mile that sees Eduard Delacroix killed in horrific fashion is just as viscerally affecting.

And it's terrifying precisely because of its difference to the rest of the film - sure, there are monsters here (like Sam Rockwell's child murderer and Doug Hutchison's Percy Wetmore), but the compelling thing about the characters is that they're all human. Which was the point for Stephen King's tale of the horrors of capital punishment: they may have killed, but they're capable of love, of humanity and of innocence.

Percy is very much the villain of the piece, and he cements his position when he fails to wet the sponge (out of morbid, evil fascination) and Delacroix is effectively tortured to death in one of the most disturbing movie deaths ever.