31 Scariest Movie Moments Of All Time

19. Slashing - Pet Sematary

Once more it's fiendish children on the agenda, as Stephen King's excellent creepy Pet Sematary (no that isn't a spelling mistake, it's literally just America) is given the big screen adaptation. In truth, the film isn't very good: it's now horribly dated, it's mostly made-for-TV quality with a side order of cliche that just distracts from the scary story.

Anyway, all complaints aside, Pet Sematary does get one thing right: the possession of darling little Gage Creed, the child at the centre of the story who gets flattened by a truck and is brought back to life through burial in an ancient Indian burial ground. Because nothing has ever gone wrong in those places, shut up.

He comes back wrong, to say the least, though it is confusing why he hasn't got any tire tracks on him... He's basically evil incarnate and elderly neighbour Jud (played by Herman Munster himself, Fred Gwynne) takes it upon himself to rekill him, only to find the little devil hiding and giggling, which is creepy enough. The scene then gets dialled firmly up to 11 when Gage whips out a scalpel, slashes Jud's Achilles tendon, then his mouth and then bites his throat out. It all escalates quite ridiculously.

Yet another reason to be scared of under your own bed.