Originally Posted by GAC
I tend to agree. I know lots of people hated it, but for me the Blair Witch Project really did the trick without really showing much of anything- just creating a sense of terror in me.
I tend to agree. I know lots of people hated it, but for me the Blair Witch Project really did the trick without really showing much of anything- just creating a sense of terror in me.
"I'm virtually free to do whatever I want, but I try to remember so is everybody else..." - Todd Snider
I think that is what makes M. Night Shyamalan so successful. I haven't seen his latest, and really didn't really care much for The Village; but he does create that atmosphere of suspense and fear with some of his scenes.
In Signs, when you get that quick shot of the shadowy image of the alien standing on the roof, and the one where it quickly walks by via that alley shot.
In The Village, when that teen is in the guard tower and opens up the trap door and then suddenly the red capped creature walks by.
That stuff sent shills up my spine!
"In my day you had musicians who experimented with drugs. Now it's druggies experimenting with music" - Alfred G Clark (circa 1972)
I jumped when the little girl at the begining of the newer version Dawn Of The Dead jumped on the guy and bit his neck. And then when he busted through the bathroom door after he turned was awesome!
Let's make some noise!
Noone mentioned the killer bunny in The Holy Grail. Frightening.
I've been to dinner at Jimmy Buffet's house, and I've eaten it at a homeless shelter. And there's great joy and harrowing terror to be found in both places.
-Todd Snider
Run away.... run away!!!!
We'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost effective ~ Kurt Vonnegut
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