"You're gonna need a bigger boat!"
Posted on 03/13/2015 10:54:15 AM PDT by EveningStar
... The central conceit of It Follows, the excellent new horror film from director David Robert Mitchell, sounds eerie the first time you hear it, but it only gets more frightening every time you think about it. And the movie goes out of its way to give you reasons to think about just how horrifying it would be for this to play out in real life ...
It Follows is a movie about a curse. While you're cursed, you will be stalked, mercilessly, by an entity that can take any form — including that of someone you love — and will stop at nothing to grab you and violently murder you. You can walk or run away from it easily. You can even drive away at top speed. But all that will do is buy you time. It will keep walking and keep walking. And it will catch you ...
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But then going camping in the Appalachians was different. It seemed I could always hear noises of civilization way off in the distance which was unnerving. And perhaps a subconcious thought of the movie “Deliverence”.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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Yeah!
The only thing out in the real wilderness that I worried about was a bear getting into my backpack!
One of the most successful horror movies ever- and they didn’t have to rely on in-your face violence, blood, gore and blatant sex to make Jaws a runaway success.
Jaws proved nothing is as horrible as what your own mind can conjure up.
Take for instance the opening scene.
It’s a lovely quiet moonlight night on the bay with no sounds except the gentle lapping of water and the gentle bell of a bouy.
A girl is treading water, laughing and teasing her inebriated boyfriend lying in the sand on the shore.
You hear the jaws theme...suddenly the girl is yanked below the surface. She comes up again.
A look of confusion and horror on her face.
She’s yanked down again.
She surfaces. Her water logged screams are bloodcurdling.
Once again she is pulled under, and this time does not resurface.
The moonlite bay returns to its gentle lapping, the bouy bell tolls gently.
The boyfriend sleeps on on the beach.
It’s as if nothing ever happened.
One of the scariest, most horrific movie scenes ever filmed.
Yep...Blindness was pretty scary & horrifying!
Yep...Blindness was pretty scary & horrifying!
"You're gonna need a bigger boat!"
That might be the scariest, but this is one of the plain best scenes ever:”You’re gonna need a bigger boat!”
YES, and that line will live on indefinately.
That might be the scariest, but this is one of the plain best scenes ever:”You’re gonna need a bigger boat!”
YES, and that line will live on indefinately.
The Shining is my fav, too, next to Jaws (all time fav)
I think the best of movies from Stephen King’s novels was Carrie.
(the original)
“the Tenant” by Roman Polanski. Scariest film I’ve ever seen. I do go in for creepy any more but that is a powerful one.
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