What makes a movie moment truly scary? RedEye offers this scale to help put things in perspective.
(Least to most)
CHILD’S PLAY
* A cave monster screams at Frodo in the first “Lord of the Rings”
* Haley Joel Osment sees a puking little dead girl in “The Sixth Sense”
* Josh Brolin awaits ruthless killer Javier Bardem alone in a dark hotel room in “No Country for Old Men”
ENTER-TAME-MENT
* Two-Face reveals his uglier half in “The Dark Knight”
* BLAM! Leonardo DiCaprio meets his maker in “The Departed”
* Glenn Close boils a bunny in “Fatal Attraction”
SHOCK AND AWE
* Jodie Foster is stalked in the dark in “Silence of the Lambs”
* Blood comes gushing out of an elevator in “The Shining”
* Linda Blair’s head does a 360 and spews split pea soup in “The Exorcist”
UH, IS THAT A STAIN ON YOUR SEAT CUSHION?
* The male anatomy makes a cameo in “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story”
* Pierce Brosnan tries to sing in “Mamma Mia”
* Kathy Bates slips into a Jacuzzi naked in “About Schmidt”
