Film: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Moment: The ark is opened
Can you believe this shit was rated PG? In the famous gory climax of Spielberg’s first Indiana Jones entry, Belloq and his cronies finally get their hands on the Ark of the Covenant, only to find nothing but a sea of yellow sand inside…until God gets all Biblical on their sorry asses and melts the stinking Nazi smiles off their faces like so much melted butter. Hearing the three men gathered around the Ark shriek like a bunch of hysterical women is surely a highlight, but the greatest moment of all is when Belloq’s head literally explodes as if it were tossed inside a giant microwave set on BURN, YOU NAZI FUCKERS! This is without a doubt one of the greatest finales in the history of action/adventure films – and one of the goriest scenes ever in a PG-rated movie.