Scariest scene in movies is 25 years old

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By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper

The scariest scene in movies is 25 years old.

Yes, it may not be?the scariest scene to you.?I know a lot of people can make good arguments for scenes in "The Exorcist"?(head-spinning, pea-soup spitting, etc.) or "The Shining" (REDRUM, corpse in bathtub, creepy twins, you name it). ?The "Psycho" shower scene or that?moment when Alex rises out of the tub in "Fatal Attraction" (what IS it with horror movies and bathing?) are nominees, too.

But my pick goes to a scene from 1987's "Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn."

It's been a quarter of a century since I saw the movie, but as I remember it, our hero Ash is in a lonely cabin and discovers that a professor buried his wife in the root cellar after words from the "Necronomicon" possessed her. He knew he should really dismember her, but well, it's his once-beloved wife, anyone who's seen a zombie movie can understand his hesitation. Good intentions, bad idea. Ash and pals eventually discover that they need to go into the cellar to get pages from the book and read an incantation in order to set things right.

They need to GO INTO THE CELLAR. Where the possessed and now very much reincarnated and horrific professor's wife, Henrietta, is moaning and shrieking and threatening to swallow everyone's souls. She's even singing a lullaby she once sang to her daughter to try and coax her down there to be devoured. (You'll never hear "Hush, Little Baby" quite the same way again.)

I've been in a few root cellars in my life. They're without exception dark, dank, creepy and have very few exits. Assuming they have a staircase and not a ladder, said staircase is the kind with gaps between the steps, where anything lurking underneath can grab your ankle and chomp it?like it was a Buffalo wing. I don't like going down in them at the crack of dawn, on the?sunniest day in August, in Arizona, even if they're filled with balloons and kittens. Just the thought of having to either go down there and face that monstrous undead woman filled my veins with ice water.

I won't spoil the ending for you, but let's just say that Ash is a lot braver than me, and gets in a zinger of a line ("SWALLOW THIS!")?while he's at it.

If you want to see the scene for yourself, the 25th anniversary of "Dead By Dawn" hit Blu-ray today, with plenty of extras on the disc.

What movie scene scared you the most? Tell us in the comments.

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