"Jump a mile" moments (different from "freak my shit right out!" moments) include Harry Roat (Alan Arkin) jumping out at blind Audrey Hepburn in Wait Until Dark (I love showing that film to WUD newbies with the lights all out, and watching them leap from their seats at that point!), and Carrie's hand grabbing Amy Irving's in Carrie.
Do you know what else has blood in it? Blood.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
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Kathy A - Oct 24, 2005 9:47:20 am PDT #8164 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
§ ita § - Oct 24, 2005 9:48:09 am PDT #8165 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I can't think of creepy visual reveals, but the single creepiest factual revelation in a movie remains for me Santa Sangre's revelation that his mother's been dead the whole time.
Just horrific.
Kate P. - Oct 24, 2005 10:21:03 am PDT #8166 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
The Haunting is an adaptation of a Shirley Jackson story, right? Which one?
that last run through the house (with the bloody handprints on the walls) with the last image of Mike in the corner was completely mindblowing.
I remember that being extremely freaky, but now I have no memory of why. Anyone care to remind me?
Dana - Oct 24, 2005 10:21:53 am PDT #8167 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
The Haunting is an adaptation of a Shirley Jackson story, right? Which one?
The Haunting of Hill House. It's just as creepy in the book.
Atropa - Oct 24, 2005 10:22:34 am PDT #8168 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
The Haunting is an adaptation of a Shirley Jackson story, right? Which one?
The Haunting of Hill House, one of the scariest novels ever. EVER. Do not read it after moving into a new place.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 24, 2005 10:22:55 am PDT #8169 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
The Haunting is an adaptation of a Shirley Jackson story, right? Which one?
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE. Everyone here is talking about the 1963 adaption, and not the craptastic recent one with Lili Taylor and Catherine Z-J.
Kate P. - Oct 24, 2005 10:24:04 am PDT #8170 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Got it. I recently read We Have Always Lived in the Castle and couldn't remember if that was the right one, but clearly not.
Kathy A - Oct 24, 2005 10:25:49 am PDT #8171 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
The Haunting of Hill House, I think.
As for Blair Witch, I only saw it once so I'm probably misremembering aspects of it, but I think that the Mike-in-the-corner connection was to the serial killer of kids back in the 1940s, who said that he had "been told" (supposedly by the witch) to make one kid stand in the corner while he was killing one of their friends. Just tying that little toss-away fact into the final moment just capped the entire freaked-out feeling I had by the end of that movie.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 24, 2005 10:26:05 am PDT #8172 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I remember that being extremely freaky, but now I have no memory of why. Anyone care to remind me?
There was a story told by one of the towns people early in the movie about a child killer hermit (and not the Blair Witch, though she was supposed to have been the force behind it) who always killed two at a time, and made one stand in the corner while he killed the other.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 24, 2005 10:26:51 am PDT #8173 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Buffistas x-posting all over. Heh.