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Psycho's spine-chilling shower scene voted most nail-biting movie moment
Last updated at 00:22am on 02.05.08The terrifying shower scene in the original Psycho movie was today voted the most nail-biting moment ever seen in a film.
Office worker Marion (Janet Leigh) lets out a spine-chilling scream as she is stabbed to death by Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) in a motel bathroom as a jet of water sprays down on her.
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Janet Leigh's terrified scream from the shower scene in Psycho was voted the most nail-biting movie moment in a new poll
Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 horror film hits a petrifying tempo as Bernard Herrmann's infamous squealing violin solo shrieks into action as blood gushes down the plug hole.
The poll carried out by 3,500 movie fans for retailer Superdrug revealed the moment Jack (Jack Nicholson) chased wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) into a bathroom wielding an axe and shouted "Here's Johnny!" in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980) came second.
Third place went to Kane (John Hurt) beginning to choke and convulse as an alien creature burst through his chest in Alien (1979).
Nine-year-old Cole (Haley Joel Osment) telling Dr Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) that "I see dead people" in The Sixth Sense (1999) took fourth place.
And in fifth place was Jaws (1975) for the scene where the camera focuses on a decomposing body in the wreck of a fishing boat.
Helen Burch, nail care buyer at Superdrug, said: "Psycho is best remembered for this shocking scene.
"The moment we see the shadowed figure of an old woman behind the shower curtain is the point we are biting our nails in anticipation of the next gruesome moment."
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Hold on now, the most nail-biting moment ever seen in a film - Psycho, The Shining, The Sixth Sense? Are these people allowed out in public without armed guards? Surely they're nervous wrecks if that what gets them on the edge of their seats?
- Dan Gling, Tyburn
