That sounds like In Dreams. Annette Benning, Robert Downey Jr., lots and lots of apples.
Inara: You don't have to die alone. Mal: Everybody dies alone.
'Out Of Gas'
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Strega - Apr 18, 2006 7:49:55 am PDT #1372 of 10001
Aims - Apr 18, 2006 7:50:56 am PDT #1373 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Thanks, Strega.
Strega - Apr 18, 2006 7:56:38 am PDT #1374 of 10001
Heh. I saw you got it while I was posting -- now you're just humoring me!
Aims - Apr 18, 2006 8:10:31 am PDT #1375 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
You're right again! Thanks!
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Hayden - Apr 18, 2006 8:35:28 am PDT #1376 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I haven't seen The Uninvited, The Tenant, and Carnival of Souls. I think Robin's right, Don't Look Now may be the most under-your-skin creeptastic of all of them, but I find The Innocents, The Haunting, and The Others all to be good goose-bump movies. The Shining is brilliant, but not so much scary as disturbingly strange.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 18, 2006 8:37:40 am PDT #1377 of 10001
"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
The director's cut of The Exorcist that was re-released a few years ago watered most of the scares down by having those CGI demon face flashes everywhere just as the slow quiet tension was ratcheting up. It was like playing a 2 hour game of "Where's Waldo" with Pazuzu.
Regan's spider crawl down the stairs remains one of the freakiest things I've ever seen, though.
beekaytee - Apr 18, 2006 11:10:46 am PDT #1378 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
I haven't seen a single movie on that list...shows ya how much I avoid the scary-for-its-own-sake flicks.
But In Dreams, A Stir of Echoes and Jacob's Ladder freaked me all the way out.
Cashmere - Apr 18, 2006 2:26:18 pm PDT #1379 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
LOVELOVELOVE The Univited. Creepy and lovely.
DavidS - Apr 18, 2006 5:31:12 pm PDT #1380 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I love In Dreams. Both creepy and dark and vengeful. Plus Neil Jordan does great with fairy tale dreaminess (in this instance gone horribly awry).
Halloween scared me more than any other horror movie. But I saw it on its first run and before its impact had been watered down by endless slasher rehashes.
Don't Look Now is just a great movie. And, like In Dreams plays on parental loss.
I love The Haunting but generally didn't find it that scary - excepting the aforementioned scene.
Jessica - Apr 18, 2006 5:47:24 pm PDT #1381 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I just saw An Inconvenient Truth (Al Gore's documentary about the environment), and I am so incredibly depressed.
It's an excellent movie -- basically just a concert film of one of his lectures, which some random biographical stuff thrown in to break up the pacing -- but...we're not going to have a planet in 50 years. And I don't think we're far enough along in our space program to do without one.
So yeah. Everyone should see this.