Here at Critics Rant, we really love movies. I mean all kinds of movies; if you polled the regular writers, you’d probably find people with passionate, articulate arguments for any number of cinematic wonders, from UN CHIEN ANDALOU to I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE, and likely all stops in-between. But, this list you’re reading isn’t intended to make an argument about how great certain movies are, or their historical value, or any some such thing. No, this is a decidedly subjective list of what I term “holy sh*t” moments in film.
Put simply, a “holy sh*t” moment is named such because when you see it, you say … well, you get it. The term doesn’t mean a trick ending, although this list has one or two on it. Nor does it mean something scary jumped out at the characters and made them (and you) soil their drawers, although you might find a scare or two on the list.