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rockfenris2005 09:02 am UTC 10/22/13 |
| In reply to: | Psycho And Carrie And Rosemary's Baby - steven_stuart 12:47 am UTC 10/21/13 |
Re: "Carrie", I'm hoping that they've used some more of the novel. I haven't read the novel but I've read about things that are different between the novel and the original movie. I say, if you're going to remake something based on an original book, then you should use that opportunity to go back to the book and use things that weren't done the first time. Why blow that opportunity? That's pretty frustrating. > Why a remake of Carrie? I loved the original and I am glad > to see it makes this list. Sissy Spacek will always be > Carrie. To me. > > Entertainment Weekly's Top 20 horror movies ever (not > necessarily most scary - they point out): > > 1. The Shining > > 2. The Exorcist > > 3. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre > > 4. The Silence of the Lambs > > 5. Jaws > > 6. The Ring > > 7. Halloween > > 8. Psycho > > 9. Seven > > 10. Rosemary's Baby > > 11. Poltergeist > > 12. 28 Days Later > > 13. A Nightmare On Elm Street > > 14. The Thing > > 15. The Evil Dead > > 16. Carrie > > 17. Night of the Living Dead > > 18. The Omen > > 19. An American Werewolf in London > > 20. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer > > I include the write up for Psycho because I know that Ryan > and Jim rank it as the best movie ever: > > Psycho: (1960) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock > > The mother of all scary movies (and don't even think of > judging Psycho based on Gus Van Sant's remake). Many of > its most renowned features are readily apparent: those > startling cuts (more than 50 in the shower sequence > alone), Anthony Perkins' neurotic mama's boy, Bernard > Herrmann's shrieking-violins score. But Psycho's sneakiest > tricks manifest themselves more subtlely. Take Hitchcock's > decision to use a handful of different stabbers in Janet > Leigh's slice-and-dice sequence: ''He kept changing it so > the audience wouldn't be able to get a fix on Mother,'' > says Leigh, who spent seven days in that shower. ''At one > point it was Tony's stand-in, at one point it was a woman. > Never Tony.'' Bottom line: It still works. > > The write up for Carrie: > > Carrie: (1976) Directed by Brian De Palma > > De Palma's adaptation of Stephen King's first novel is set > in the lurid, oversexed world of high school, where > persecuted telekinetic Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) > transcends catty rivals and a psychotically religious > mother (Piper Laurie) to become prom queen — only to be > doused in pig's blood, go on a murderous rampage, and kill > just about everyone. ''I got tricked into doing > [Carrie],'' remembers Laurie, who, like Spacek, won an > Oscar nomination. ''It seemed so over-the-top, I thought > it was going to be a satire. When De Palma stopped me in > rehearsals, my heart just dropped. Whoops!'' Pioneering > moment: the best final scare ever. Period. > > Did Jim have something to do with De Palma? I hope he also > likes Carrie. > > At least I know for sure that he did Tanz with this > director, who also makes the top 20 list: > > Rosemary's Baby: (1968) Directed by Roman Polanski > > More conspiracy thriller than horror movie, Baby nurses a > mother lode of phobias. As Rosemary (Mia Farrow) slowly > intuits she's been raped by Satan, she wrestles a myriad > of believable demons: uncaring doctors, intrusive > neighbors (primarily Ruth Gordon, who copped an Oscar), > and a monstrously self-centered husband (John Cassavetes). > Farrow's alarming enactment of emaciated desperation got a > spur from then husband Frank Sinatra's offscreen behavior: > She was devastated when he initiated a divorce in > mid-production. Meanwhile, Charles Grodin's turn as a > chilly obstetrician made him an unpopular dinner guest. > ''When I sat, women moved,'' he recalls. ''I had to go on > Johnny Carson to show people I'm a nice guy.'' > > No mention of another Jim favourite Anti-Christ on the > list. Hmm. I don't know why. I watched it after Jim raved > about it and I found it to be both tense and scary. > | |
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