Spooky Scenes & Jump ScaresRanking the scariest, creepiest, goriest, most traumatizing, gut-wrenching, and heartwarming scenes ever to pop up in horror movies.
Vote up the brain scenes that would make a zombie's mouth water.
Whether it was used as a shortcut to prove a character was smart or as an easy way to make audiences squirm, these scenes stole our hearts when they showed their brains. In some scenes, the brains are eaten; in others, the brains (somehow) talk; and in one ‘90s cartoon, the Brain wasn't a brain at all, but it was still exposed - by not wearing pants.
So, rack your brains and vote up the exposed brain scenes that are the no-brainer best.
In the most memorable scene of 2001's Hannibal, a pretty silly sequel to The Silence of the Lambs, cannibal Hannibal Lecter cuts open Justice Department official Paul Krendler's skull and removes parts of his brain, which he then sautés and feeds to Krendler.
In the movie's final moments, while escaping on an airplane, Lecter lets the boy sitting next to him try some of the cooked brains, saying, “As your mother tells you, and my mother certainly told me, it is important, she always used to say, always to try new things.”
Ray Liotta, who played Paul Krendler, said the scene was fun to film, and that he hoped he played the part “jerky enough that you’re kind of glad about it - though I don’t think anybody deserves that demise.”
Brainiest quote:
You see, the brain itself feels no pain, Clarice, if that concerns you. For example, Paul won't miss this little piece here, which is the part of the prefrontal lobe, which they say is the seat of good manners.
In the 1974 film Young Frankenstein, Dr. Frankenstein (pronounced “Fronkenshteen”), the grandson of infamous mad scientist Victor Frankenstein, inherits an estate in Transylvania and decides to follow in his grandfather's footsteps of bringing the dead back to life.
Frankenstein sends his hunchbacked servant, Igor, to fetch the brain of a deceased scientist, but Igor instead brings back a brain labeled “Abnormal,” thinking it belonged to a woman named Abby Normal.
Frankenstein uses the brain, still believing it belonged to the scientist. Whoops.
Brainiest quote:
Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a seven-and-a-half-foot-long, 54-inch-wide gorilla?
In 2003's Kill Bill: Volume 1, assassin Beatrix Kiddo seeks revenge against the teammates who betrayed her and left her for dead. On the top of her Death List is O-Ren Ishii, who now leads a Japanese gang called the Crazy 88.
Kiddo travels to Japan, defeats the Crazy 88, then faces off against Ishii in a snow-covered garden. Using a sword from legendary swordsman Hattori Hanzo, Kiddo slices off the top of Ishii's head, revealing her brain.
Brainiest quote:
Those of you lucky enough to still have your lives, take them with you; however, leave the limbs you've lost. They belong to me now.
In 1993's The Nightmare Before Christmas, after his ragdoll prisoner, Sally, betrays him, Halloweentown's mad scientist, Dr. Finkelstein, finds romance in another one of his creations - one he claims is a “decided improvement over that treacherous Sally.”
He opens the top half of his head, revealing his exposed brain, and pulls out half, which he then gives to his new bride.
Brainiest quote:
What a joy to think of all we'll have in common. We'll have conversations worth having!
When high schooler Jesse moves into Nancy Thompson's former house on Elm Street in 1985's A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge, he begins having nightmares about child killer Freddy Krueger.
In an effort to convince Jesse to join him in his Springwood killing spree, Krueger rips off the top of his burnt head, exposing his gruesome grey matter before possessing the terrified teen.
Brainiest quote:
I need you, Jesse. We got special work to do here, you and me. You've got the body... I've got the brain.
In the 1990 film fittingly titled RoboCop 2, a project called RoboCop 2 keeps failing after the brains of dead police officers are placed into prototype droids. Dr. Juliette Faxx eventually takes over and decides to use criminals as test subjects - specifically drug cartel leader Cain, whom the original RoboCop apprehended during an extended car chase.
Faxx disconnects Cain's life support and removes his brain and spinal cord from his body, surgically inserting them into a robot that retains Cain's love of the fictional drug known as Nuke.
Brainiest quote:
I got good news for you. You're going to have a chance for immortality. As long as nothing happens to that lovely brain.
