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Post by Atreides on Nov 1, 2011 9:16:16 GMT -4
Ugh... Audition that was a memorable movie. Scared me half to death when the bag just starts moving.... Oh god, that scene. I saw it once 11 years ago and still can't get that out of my head. And I'll never look at piano wire the same way again.  |
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Post by MrsCatHead on Nov 1, 2011 12:29:00 GMT -4
I love that movie! If you didn't know anything about the movie going in, you'd be really surprised when things start going to shit.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2011 14:31:37 GMT -4
Oddly enough, it's not the grisly podiatry (or her sing-songy giggling) that gets me looking away. It's what she serves for dinner.
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Post by Smilla on Nov 6, 2011 17:00:04 GMT -4
This week, I enjoyed a thorough, cleansing romp through rewatches of The Exorcist and The Blair Witch Project.
Man, The Exorcist can still get me. Really get me. I think it's because like one of my other most horrifying films, The Shining, it was directed by a serious filmmaker. So it functions just as well as an art piece and a horror flick.
One thing I noticed about it this time is that unless I missed it, no one ever says the demon's name. It's in the book, which is how I know it's (channeling Ryan Buell here) Pazuzu. I wonder if leaving it out was a conscious choice on the part of William Friedkin?
Blair Witch was everything I remembered--silly, with some genuinely scary moments and a killer ending. I will always love that we really can't tell who/what is filming Heather in that final scene.
Also, I finally got to see a genius little gem of an indie that I'd been hunting for years, The Collingswood Story. I've seen it called a 'mircro-mini' film, meaning it was made for less than $10,000. I loved it. Well put together plot that mimics Blair Witch in the sense that it's largely done through web cam footage. They managed to tell a creepy little story that way--and contrary to the opinions of Amazon.com viewers, I don't think there were any plot holes.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2011 19:18:12 GMT -4
I really enjoyed "Yellowbrickroad" until the last ten minutes, when an interesting take on a Blair-Witch-style expedition, filled with much dread and atmosphere and effective sound design -- and a couple of Holy Shit! moments -- goes fifth-rate Kubrick on the viewer. It's not scary, except for a couple of bits, just deeply creepy. Recommended but not wholeheartedly.
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Post by Smilla on Nov 8, 2011 14:59:05 GMT -4
Ack. The ending to Yellowbrickroad is terrible. One of those, "Why did I waste my life watching to get to this part?" kind of "resolutions."
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Post by bklynred on Nov 27, 2011 8:06:33 GMT -4
I've tried watching Audition for years but the DVD cover alone (this was in the Blockbuster days) scared me. I still haven't seen it. Is it worse than say, the original Saw or Cabin Fever?
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Post by kateln on Nov 27, 2011 9:51:42 GMT -4
I've tried watching Audition for years but the DVD cover alone (this was in the Blockbuster days) scared me. I still haven't seen it. Is it worse than say, the original Saw or Cabin Fever? For me, yes. I hated Saw because it didn't scare me, just grossed me out. I don't like torture porn, I--and I may be alone in this here--prefer having things left to my imagination. One of the scariest movie scenes, in my opinion, is the London Underground chase scene in An American Werewolf in London because you see it from the POV of the wolf, and the pure terror on the businessman's face as he's running for his life. Cabin Fever was to me, so over the top, in it's acting--and the ending (I'm alive!!!Thud...) that I couldn't take it at all seriously. Audition shows a lot. A whole lot. The dinner scene is just...ewww... but what it shows and how it shows it, sticks with you. In addition, a lot is still left to your imagination. The bag scene we've referenced above? In it's description sounds kind of dull--a woman sits in a room, waiting for the phone to ring--there's a bag on the floor behind her. But then you see it, and see the bag move (and break the silence) and if you're me, you jump off the couch about 5 feet.  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2011 19:10:19 GMT -4
Not to spoil -- because you won't remember this until after it happens if you dare to watch Audition -- but I didn't find it any more graphic than what we see on television (AHS, for example). What IS different is that it's done by a pretty young girl who giggles and chants sing-songs while doing it. And what she does is the stuff of the worst kind of nightmares, even though very little is shown.
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Post by kateln on Nov 27, 2011 19:22:12 GMT -4
It's been years since I watched Audition and it still creeps me out and has stuck with me. bstewart is right, the giggly/sing-song aspect of the young woman doing these things as well as how effectively the audience is mislead by her introduction (seriously, I think even with the warning "She's the badie!", you think she's this sweet little person when she first comes on screen) really is the stuff of nightmares.
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