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In Reply to: Scariest Movies posted by addict44 on September 9, 2005 at 12:00:42:
the 1st one
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The original did very little for me. Seemed like nothing more than a cookie cutter 50's B scifi movie to me. That makes it fun IMO but far from scary. OTOH the second version (not really a remake a much as a far more accurate version of the book) was very creepy in that it generated a sense of paranoia in a way that had never been done on film. It had this great sense of "what the f*** is going on?" That simply didn't exist in the first version. The scene when the guys were bound and their blood was being tested was amazing. The pacing, the unfolding of events and the genuine terror that the actors played was breath taking.
One of Carpenter's better flicks, had a great feel to it. I watch it every winter, gets me in the mood for the season. Also shows that Russell is a pretty good emotional and colorful actor(thought he was good in Breakdown too).
The scene where the crew spreads out across the ice to indicate the size of the spaceship frozen below has always seemed to me to one of the creepiest (or "unsettling" or "disturbing" if you prefer) moments in movies.As noted in another thread below I'd have to say that no movie has scared me as much as Invaders From Mars did after seeing it on TV at age 7 or 8. Over forty years later I still vividly recall having nightmares about that movie for days afterward.
Of more recent movies I'd concur with the others who listed Alien . I'd add Aliens , especially the scenes where the humans are waiting in the control room as the aliens approach and the chase through the air ducts. The escape from the alien nest is pretty great too.
the electric-frying scene still fascinates me, IMO, one of the alltime great shock(!) scenes. Another is Psycho bathtub stabbing. Add some of Alien scenes too. Island of Lost Souls scene were Dr. Moreau aka Charles Laughton gets a taste of crude vivisection from his manimals in The House of Pain. ~AH
Another of those 50's films that really hits the bullseye. It had a matter-of-factness in the presentation that made it so convincing. Right up there with The Thing, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. A classic.
Speaking of remakes - The remake of "Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers" had it's redeeming qualities. A good cast - Goldblum , Sutherland , Nimoy and a class act by someone for the cameo appearance by McCarthy.It missed the scary core of the original. That the change in people was subtle , very hard to define. In the remake , rabid sports fans became complacent sleepwalkers. Not a good reading !
I liked The Thing (both versions) but they didn't scare me... John W Campbell's original short story "Who Goes There?" really did creep me out though (Carpenter's version was much closer to the original story, but the spook factor of the story didn't quite make it into the film... maybe because they showed some things better left to the imagination).
I first saw this film as a small child in the late fifties, a much more innocent and unworldly-wise era for children, in my opinion. "The Thing" was a whole new dark and frightening world to me, from those stark black and white images of the polar ice caps to those corrugated metal shelters -- far from the safe little home world I lived in. I think the fear of the crew, all adults, was the most troublesome and unfamiliar thing to me, re-seeing the film through those eyes. But the Thing itself was, a nightmare worse than any I had had to that time, peering in from behind the veil of darkness, posing the primal threat. I had trouble sleeping many nights after seeing that film, keeping an eye open for the hand that would reach through the door of my bedroom, the way the Thing's did in that film.The Alien and the Exorcist are also excellent choices for scariest film. DePalma's Scarface, also, but in an entirely different way.
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