4. The Shining (1980)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCeBeS_OGso Only two things scare me: the sight of my own blood and the Grady twins from the Shining. While Danny's tricycle ride through the Overlook Hotel isn't close to the length of Russian Ark's 96 minute take, what Kubrick manages to accomplish in this one scene is a necessary part of what makes the Shining perhaps the greatest horror film ever made. This extended take gives the audience a personalized tour through the hotel to see not only its expanse, but how empty it is. The sounds of the tricycle's wheels running onto and off of the carpet below echo off of the walls. And where the journey ends up taking us, the door to room 237, is one of the most frightening and mysterious in movie history; it's so enigmatic, in fact, that a documentary about the film was named after this room. This scene also perfectly sets up our future encounter with the late Grady twins, proof that nothing is more terrifying than multiple children together in the same place.