P-C, please tell me you watched it with the lights out! That's how I saw it the first time (my sister knew that was the best way to introduce the film to someone), and those last fifteen minutes were amazingly suspenseful to watch in the pitch dark. I leaped about five feet out of my chair at the appropriate point, and everyone I've introduced the film to has had the same reaction.
I'm so sorry, but if it makes you feel any better, my fun-time-Buffy party night involved watching a robot throw Spike through a window, so if you want to trade... no wait, I wouldn't give up that memory for anything.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
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Kathy A - Nov 03, 2010 8:05:54 pm PDT #11892 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Polter-Cow - Nov 03, 2010 8:09:16 pm PDT #11893 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
P-C, please tell me you watched it with the lights out!
Oh, the lights were totally out.
I leaped about five feet out of my chair at the appropriate point
Holy crap, I was lying down, but I jumped into the back of the couch.
Kathy A - Nov 03, 2010 8:12:34 pm PDT #11894 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Oh, the lights were totally out.
Yay!
Wait Until Dark is one of my favorite films to show to a newbie. If you try and describe it to someone who isn't an Audrey Hepburn fan or (worse yet), someone who doesn't like to watch "old films," they'll shrug it off as a lame sounding film. But that ending sequence gets them every time.
Polter-Cow - Nov 03, 2010 8:18:10 pm PDT #11895 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
According to IMDb trivia, that was one of the first movies to pull the villain-isn't-really-dead trick. But I didn't expect it!
megan walker - Nov 03, 2010 9:12:00 pm PDT #11896 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
That's the movie java and I saw at the Paramount with the (grown-up) little girl in the theater with us.
Polter-Cow - Nov 03, 2010 9:25:36 pm PDT #11897 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
How cool!
Fred Pete - Nov 04, 2010 5:58:31 am PDT #11898 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
Audrey Hepburn usually isn't my cup of tea. But Wait Until Dark is phenomenal. Maybe not High Art, but a movie that decides what it wants to do and more than succeeds.
Polter-Cow - Nov 04, 2010 6:10:19 am PDT #11899 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I thought it was a little slow for a while, and sometimes the acting was a little campy and old-school, but otherwise, it was very well done. Alan Arkin was super creepy; although I found his performance a bit exaggerated (hoooooow sliiiiiimy can I beeeeee?), it was also understated enough that he was scary.
Volans - Nov 04, 2010 10:18:33 am PDT #11900 of 30000
move out and draw fire
I tend to not liking old movies, esp. ones that so much resemble a filmed stage production, but between a pushy TiVo, recs here, and my DH's Audrey Hepburn crush, I watched it a few years ago, and yes, all sorts of praise for it.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 04, 2010 11:10:44 am PDT #11901 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Alan Arkin was super creepy; although I found his performance a bit exaggerated (hoooooow sliiiiiimy can I beeeeee?), it was also understated enough that he was scary.
Harry Roate, Jr. from Scarsdale. One of the greatest villains, evah. And such an amazing anomaly of a role for Arkin.