Jul 2018
Damn, that scene chills me to the bone. I'll try to elaborate
1. It starts off with that terribly depressing song, "The Midnight Special." I like plenty of CCR songs, but this definitely isn't one of them. It's depressing in a way that I find the MASH theme song depressing, except this one gives me the willies too.
2. Two recognizable faces in Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks. Something about seeing two very well-known actors not normally recognized for horror lulls me into a false sense of security.
3. They begin playing TV trivia humming theme songs to well-known, instantly recognizable television shows, which I think also lulls me into some kinda false sense of security. These are just two guys having a good time, much in the way I've seen myself act numerous times. There's this sense of realism. When the Twilight Zone theme comes up, there's this sorta sinister presence that slowly begins to emerge, like "oh, fuck. Now you did it."
4. "Wanna see something really scary?" No, I don't! Lol. First of all, no way in hell would I pull over in the middle of nowhere like that in the dead of night. I just wouldn't.
5. When Dan Aykroyd makes this exaggerated face and holds his finger up with this wicked sense of glee like "now you're gonna get it," it just freaks me out.
6. The fact that not only does he turn into a monster and now you're face to face with this hideous thing in the middle of fucking nowhere, but the idea that he turns into one so damn quickly. There's no metamorphosis or painful body horror transformations. He just turns his head and "bam!" It just freaks me the hell out.
7. The fact that, for no good reason, he's a monster and that what if, Albert Brooks' character said he DIDN'T want to see something scary...would he have been spared?
I don't know. What do you all think? Do you find this scene scary? What movie scenes, if any, have that sorta creepy impending doom type feeling that never fail to have an effect on you? The thing behind the dumpster in Mulholland Drive has a similar vibe, I think. Where things just feel "wrong."
1. It starts off with that terribly depressing song, "The Midnight Special." I like plenty of CCR songs, but this definitely isn't one of them. It's depressing in a way that I find the MASH theme song depressing, except this one gives me the willies too.
2. Two recognizable faces in Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks. Something about seeing two very well-known actors not normally recognized for horror lulls me into a false sense of security.
3. They begin playing TV trivia humming theme songs to well-known, instantly recognizable television shows, which I think also lulls me into some kinda false sense of security. These are just two guys having a good time, much in the way I've seen myself act numerous times. There's this sense of realism. When the Twilight Zone theme comes up, there's this sorta sinister presence that slowly begins to emerge, like "oh, fuck. Now you did it."
4. "Wanna see something really scary?" No, I don't! Lol. First of all, no way in hell would I pull over in the middle of nowhere like that in the dead of night. I just wouldn't.
5. When Dan Aykroyd makes this exaggerated face and holds his finger up with this wicked sense of glee like "now you're gonna get it," it just freaks me out.
6. The fact that not only does he turn into a monster and now you're face to face with this hideous thing in the middle of fucking nowhere, but the idea that he turns into one so damn quickly. There's no metamorphosis or painful body horror transformations. He just turns his head and "bam!" It just freaks me the hell out.
7. The fact that, for no good reason, he's a monster and that what if, Albert Brooks' character said he DIDN'T want to see something scary...would he have been spared?
I don't know. What do you all think? Do you find this scene scary? What movie scenes, if any, have that sorta creepy impending doom type feeling that never fail to have an effect on you? The thing behind the dumpster in Mulholland Drive has a similar vibe, I think. Where things just feel "wrong."
Some movie scenes that creepe me out would be:
1) The ending to Sleepaway Camp (1983) - sweet jesus! One of the creepiest endings to a horror film in my opinion.
2) Messiah of Evil (1973) - the theater and supermarket scenes.
3) Don't Go to Sleep (1982 TV Movie) - the ening when the ghost pops up and says, "Hi, Mommy!"
4) Guinea Pig: Flower of Flesh and Blood (1985) - the whole film, but especially the ending where the woman was killed. Charlie Sheen thought it was for real and contacted the FBI.
5) Tetsuo, the Iron Man (1989) - the whole film feels like a nightmare.
6) The Woman in Black (1989 TV Movie) - where the woman in black pays a visit to the solicitor in his bedroom. Commonly referred to as "that scene".
7) Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988) - "The doctor is in!"
...to name a few...
also these following movies I found had plenty of creepy scenes:
Hellraiser
Suspiria
Sole Survivor
The Demon Murder Case
Ghosthouse
Burnt Offerings
The Exorcist
The Poughkeepsie Tapes
Salem's Lot
The Evil Dead
Aswang
The Mothman Prophecies
Mutants
The Haunted (1991)
The Boogey Man (1980)
The Dead Pit
The Appointment
Demons 6: De Profundis (1989)
13 Gantry Row
The Void
Death of a Ghost Hunter
Insidious
Pet Sematary
The Possession of Michael D.
Session 9
The Haunting
The Taking of Deborah Logan
Ghostwatch
The Norliss Tapes
Mill of the Stone Women