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tincrowdor 09:09 pm UTC 02/09/14 |
| In reply to: | Psycho And Carrie And Rosemary's Baby - steven_stuart 12:47 am UTC 10/21/13 |
| Am I the only person who thinks The Shining is rather overrated and is a mess as a horror movie barring the bit where Shelley Duvall looks at what Jack has been typing? We have Jack Nicholson who just before appearing in that film was in One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest and we know he just keeps playing these "crazy" characters- so no surprise he is going to be unhinged in this flick. Like A Clockwork Orange this was more of an art movie than one that scares or disturbs you. Anyone who has seen a lot of horror flicks knows the Americans rarely get it right nowadays and the most decent flicks have come from abroad - that list is just sucking up to the usual suspects and is quite old...the horror genre has shifted greatly in recent years and tbh the new millenium has produced some cracking films- the most recent film on that list is 28 Days Later - (fast zombies - LOL) I would reckon that Jim would be more interested in the European horrors which were released...Let The Right One In, High Tension, Martyrs, Frontier(s), Calvaire, Ils, Naboer, Linkorever, Eden Lake In the league of horror films go first for Asian flicks, then European and finally everywhere else - just a shame Entertainment Weekly cannot embrace the fact that the horror era for the US went some time ago...though we do have The Ring on there (ironically not even the best Asian horror...) > 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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