HERE’S JOHNNY, NUMBER 1!
Actor Jack Nicholson’s cry of ‘Here’s Johnny!’ as he axes his way through the bathroom door in ‘The Shining’ has been voted the scariest big screen moment by the UK’s Channel 4 viewers.
The terrifying scene from director Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 chiller beat Linda Blair’s rotating head and projectile vomit in William Friedkin’s 1973 ‘The Exorcist’ into second place.
A severed head popping out of the bottom of an abandoned boat in Steven Spielberg’s 1975 shark thriller ‘Jaws’ was third.
Viewers voted over six weeks in an online poll for Channel 4’s ‘The 100 Greatest Scary Moments’, which was broadcast over the weekend.
Fourth place went to the moment when a baby alien burst out John Hurt’s chest in Ridley Scott’s 1979 ‘Alien’, with fifth going to Heather Donahue in tears in the low-budget 1999 horror movie ‘The Blair Witch Project’.
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