Wah! The Dakota Fanning Bot is going to be voicing Coraline in the animated movie. As if it wouldn't be freaky enough anyway.
Doesn't matter that we took him off that boat, Shepherd, it's the place he's going to live from now on.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video
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Jars - Oct 22, 2005 7:45:35 am PDT #8112 of 10002
Theodosia - Oct 22, 2005 7:49:17 am PDT #8113 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Capote was very good. Not only was Philip Seymour Hoffman very good -- and not just as a flashy Oscar-bid role, but the supporting actors, particularly the guy who played Perry Smith, were just fabulous. Not to mention the mise en scene, which definitely portrayed the era so well.
Volans - Oct 23, 2005 1:54:46 am PDT #8114 of 10002
move out and draw fire
So I was looking through some screencaps from horror movies, and there were a couple that gave me a frisson, reminded me of the fear reaction I had watching the movie. I didn't want to spend time looking at THOSE as the image still scares me.
(FTR, they were the girl crawling out of the TV from The Ring, and the little boy from The Grudge 2. )
I don't think those are the scariest image for me though - I think that award goes to the shadow-shape coming up to the surveillance camera in Ju-On.
I put to you, therefore, a Halloweeny quiz: What's the scariest image from a movie for you?
Theodosia - Oct 23, 2005 2:51:17 am PDT #8115 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
One that will stay with me to my deathbed: Dorothy looking into the Wicked Witch's crystal ball, when Aunt Em's face turns into the Witch's.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 23, 2005 6:06:25 am PDT #8116 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
My top 20 or so scary images would be from Eraserhead, with the leads being Jack Nance spitting out that giant wormlike thing into a puddle, and that horrific mutant baby thing.
Atropa - Oct 23, 2005 2:14:04 pm PDT #8117 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
In the last few minutes of The Blair Witch Project, when you see Mike standing in the corner. Don't ask me why, but just thinking about that scene freaks me out.
§ ita § - Oct 23, 2005 2:17:44 pm PDT #8118 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Chris Nolan talks, mostly about Batman.
... this was the tricky thing to really try and nail with Batman Begins as opposed to previous incarnations?is the difference between him and a common vigilante, the Punisher or Charles Bronson in Death Wish
Gris - Oct 23, 2005 2:19:14 pm PDT #8119 of 10002
Hey. New board.
The Shining. There are about 10 scenes that screw with me, but the one that's getting me right now is the boy tricycling down the hall, and turning the corner to see the ghost twins. *shiver*
The girl coming out of the TV in The Ring is definitely a good one.
Carrie's closeup in the prom climax, after the blood falls and right before hell breaks loose.
The first glimpse of the alien in Alien.
Jars - Oct 23, 2005 2:42:30 pm PDT #8120 of 10002
Sadaka (I think that's her name) coming through the tv in Ring, definitely. I've never seen the American version though, so that could be creepier.
The movie that kept me up nights when I was a kid was When the Wind Blows. Nuclear holocaust! Cartoons! Public ignorance! Government lies! What's not to scare an eight year old kid?
Anne W. - Oct 23, 2005 3:34:25 pm PDT #8121 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
As a kid, seeing the Wicked Witch of the West melting into a puddle scared the bejeezus out of me.
Lots of the visuals in Jacob's Ladder freaked me out, but it was an audio cue and following reaction that was the most frightening. The Tim Robbins character seems to finally have broken out of an increasing spiral of hallucinations involving demons, monsters, etc., and he's lying in a hospital bed explaining to his wife how it's all over now, etc., when a mocking voice from off-screen says "Dream on." Robbins then turns to face the camera (and the viewing audience) as if turning to the source of the voice, and the look of fear, dread, and despair on his face is breathtaking. Freaked my shit big time.