What about the exorcist?
It may be the standard of scary movies.
But if the intent of the movie is to actually “Scare” their audience then IMHO, it falls short.
It’s still a great movie, but not scary.
If you consider “The Blair Witch Project”, which was a low budget film, and how its surprising success led to the adoption of camera techniques that are annoyingly found in way to many films.
The “Shaking Camera”, the constantly shaking camera.
Another thing that I’ve noticed about both “Scary/Horror” films as well as action films is the length of each “cut”.
Something that I find extremely annoying.
Next time you watch one of these films, count the cuts between one scene to the next within the same scene. More often than not the cuts only last 1 to 3 seconds and will run for 20 or 30 minutes like this.
I hate it.
I hate that shaky camera thing on every show, damn that’s annoying. Couldn’t watch the blair movie cause I was getting sick.
As far as the exorcist, disturbing scary, cause it’s possible. I think that’s what got to people. Like the zodiac movie. It was real.
My wife til this day can’t hear the music. That’s scary.
Nobody is running out of the theatre during these stabbing shock movies.
Did you ever watch Moulin Rouge?
Talk about a (non scary) movie with lots of cuts!
The Exorcist?
It may be the standard of scary movies.
But if the intent of the movie is to actually “Scare” their audience then IMHO, it falls short.
It’s still a great movie, but not scary.
Well, I’ll have to disagree with you. Some what. The Exorcist came out in 1972 I believe when I was 12y.o. Back then Friday night in a small town, all the kids went the movies on Friday night. Our schools were integrated then(just barely) but I didn’t associate with Blacks. But on Friday nights the theater might be 50/50 black/white.
I don’t go to movies anymore. This might have been the 1st and only time that I’ve ever been to a horror movie with a large black crowd. And let me tell you. That was some funny stuff.
The suspense built and built. I mean there were some really tense moments. The crowd was getting restless, as they say. So, like I said, the suspense was building. And when Linda Blair raised up out of the bed and spun her head around, HALF of the Theater suddenly emptied. In about 15 seconds.
I guess you had to be there but it was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.
Like I said, I guess you had to be there....
I left my wife at home and saw Blair Witch project.
The teenagers around me at the end were saying how stupid it was, etc.
I turned around and said “You just haven’t spent enough nights out alone in the woods.”
I never got spooked growing up and out a lot in the north woods, rockies, etc. 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”.
I liked the Blair Witch movie. I’m not a big fan of horror flicks. But I did like the first Freddie Kruger movie - mainly the point of “Was it a dream, or really real?”