So it's Halloween week, and that's got me wondering what you think are the creepiest movies you've seen. Personally I'd put some De Palma on the list (Dressed to Kill and Body Double) along with lots of Lynch (Lost Highway, Mulholland Dr., Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Inland Empire). And of course there are some generally well-known creeps from the likes of Se7en, The Sixth Sense, Halloween, Jacob's Ladder, and The Ring (its overall lameness notwithstanding). What else leaps into your head when you think of cinematic creeps?
Posted by armand at October 27, 2009 08:42 PM | TrackBack | Posted to MoviesSilence of the Lambs tops my list of one of the most suspense-filled movies out there, mainly due to the night vision goggles. Would you like some chianti and fava beans with that?
Posted by: kikimonster at October 27, 2009 10:33 PM | PERMALINKTideland. The Nightmare Before Christmas, too, has always seriously weirded me out. The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby are still skincrawly, even decades later. And The Shining, of course.
Posted by: moon at November 3, 2009 11:52 AM | PERMALINKNever saw Tideland. I don't find the Nightmare Before Christmas, Rosemary's Baby or The Shining skincrawly - though perhaps I did when I first saw them (well, at least Nightmare and The Shining). And I haven't seen The Exorcist in so long I can't remember, even though I've seen it bunches of times. Now Exorcist III, that had a skincrawly moment.
Posted by: Armand at November 3, 2009 01:47 PM | PERMALINKSeriously!? You haven't seen Tideland? How could you have missed that, as well worn as your Netflix account is!?
I'm not talking to you until you watch Tideland. Seriously.
Posted by: moon at November 4, 2009 12:28 PM | PERMALINKAlso, re The Shining, I bought it early this year on Bluray, and convened a small group to watch it on the big screen. It was like seeing it for the first time in so many ways. I'd probably never seen it not in pan and scan, and the transfer is brilliant, as is the sound. Maybe skincrawly isn't quite the right word, but as an adult I found it profoundly disturbing, and riveting.
Posted by: moon at November 4, 2009 12:30 PM | PERMALINKActually of late my Netflix account is mostly used for tv shows I've missed as so many movies I've late have been meh or worse (most recently Woody Allen's Whatever Works, the American State of Play, Sunshine Cleaning, and Easy Virtue - which I gave up on after 20-30 minutes). But I've got two at home right now that I'm looking forward to in very different ways - Il Divo and GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra.
As to The Shining - yes, disturbing might be a better word. When I watch it I tend to think 3 things though. This looks so good, this sounds so good, and Shelley Duvall was so good in 3 Women.
Posted by: Armand at November 4, 2009 01:31 PM | PERMALINK