Doctor Who: 12 Big Moments When Moffat Delivered The Chills

2. The 'Creature' On Rupert's bed - Listen

If you haven't watched this episode yet, move on. If you have, now is the time to discuss a truly terrifying moment in Doctor Who. There's been the argument over whether Doctor Who has become too scary for kids before, but frankly the Silence have nothing on this. The sequence where the Doctor and Clara encounter a young Danny (Rupert) Pink in a children's home in Gloucester is easily more scary than most horror movies out there. It is definitely a case of less is more. We never actually see the 'monster' just the shape hiding under a blanket and that makes it more terrifying because it is left to our imagination. Yet again, Moffat is able to take a simple fear - the monster under the bed - and manifest it into a chilling spectre. As we watch it creep towards Clara, Rupert and the Doctor, we were holding our breath with them - and more than likely clutching someone's hand - as we waited for that terrifying unmasking that never came. With Listen, Steven Moffat delivered the most chilling episode in Doctor Who since...