31 Scariest Movie Moments Of All Time

5. The Chase - The Shining

Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is rightly considered one of the most masterful horror movies of all time: it's a triumph of atmosphere and performance and it has some serious, bone-chilling moments.

But the single most terrifying has nothing to do with supernatural happenings or blood-curdling visions, it's all about Jack Torrance's transformation into a murderous monster. He slowly unravels in the hotel, thanks to a bad case of cabin fever, until the breaking point when Wendy discovers his typewriter. "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"... never have such playful words been so chilling.

And then Jack appears, almost frothing at the mouth, and terrified his wife to a point of hysteria, threatening her with one of cinema's most memorable speeches, in a performance by Jack Nicholson that is as scary as any ghost. And who said romance was dead?