1. Jaws, when Hooper dives down to the sunken boat and that dude's head pops out at him.
2. Videodrome, when James Woods' belly starts itching him ...
3. Psycho, when Vera Miles goes down into the basement and meets Mother
4. The Birds, when they discover the body with the eyes pecked out
5. Nightmare on Elm Street, when Freddie's chasing the girl toward the end of the movie and his arms elongate. I find that awful in some indefinable, childhood nightmare residue kind of way.
Honorable mention to the cockroach scene in Creepshow and the transformation scene in American Werewolf in London
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