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I believe it was Hitchcock that said scaring people is relatively easy---all you have to do is hide behind a door and jump out shouting "Boo!"
The skill comes into play, as I see it, in scaring the bejezsus out of a viewer by not resorting to unnecessary onscreen violence, or easy tricks.
The most scary flicks are the ones that scare one psychologically. The ones which one thinks of later and feels those tiny hairs raising up, and a feeling of deep unease at being alone.
My contender for the best: "The Vanishing" (original Dutch version). It's the scariest because it's the most reasonable and believable; the monster is "normal." Any pretenders to this masterpiece's position??
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Good choice, Tin, that IS a good film, I agree. For everyone who loved it I recommend the other diabolical film with Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu - Passion of Beatrice. Man brutally raping his own daughter? He is one nasty bastard.
you mention the blond chap that's the family man/murderer in "The Vanishing?" I hope it's not becoming a genre, but for daughter raping, Tim Roth's "The War Room" can't be beaten for disgusting. I have to admit the guilty pleasure of watching actress portraying the daughter, maybe that was part of Tim's strategy? Couldn't find a reason for such an unrelentingly depressing movie.
The War Room was a doco on Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign.Dunno which was more depressing....
cheerio
they both led to unspeakable acts, didn't they?
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