The creepiest movie ever?

CWoodOne · Post by **CWoodOne** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 6:14 pm

I think if they made a movie about the people that made "Funny Games", that would be the creepiest movie ever.

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 6:21 pm

Some creepy delights:

'Ju-on' -Japanese original version of The Grudge -I suppose if you've already seen the US version (which I have not), then this might be spoiled for you.

For creepy you can usually rely on David Cronenberg. Practically nothing creepier than your own body mutating on you. Check out Cronenberg's 1988 film 'Dead Ringers'.

Other good & creepy Cronenberg films include:
'The Brood' & 'The Fly'

Might as well take this opportunity to mention one of my favorite films of all time: the original 1962 'Carnival of Souls' eerie...

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 6:22 pm

A very creepy, cold film is 'Klute' 1971.

logic_user99 · Post by **logic_user99** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 6:49 pm

stonee wrote:http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/933928/

my freind is a conceptual artist, and is fucked in the head. but this... this left him speechless.....

Work of genius that is; thanks, Stonee!

I think someone has mother issues there...

diverdee · Post by **diverdee** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 7:33 pm

George A Romeros 'the crazies.
I can remember that one slightly freaking me as a kid - especially the old dear with the knitting needles.

Begotten - weird & creepy.

Recently watched on called 'the signal', fairly low budget, interesting premise, some genuinely funny moments, that contrast well with some creepy, disturbing bits.

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 7:38 pm

diverdee wrote:George A Romeros 'the crazies.
I can remember that one slightly freaking me as a kid - especially the old dear with the knitting needles.

I recall it being very interesting (& a bit shrill), I need to see it again.

diverdee wrote:Begotten - weird & creepy.

Yes, weird stuff. Interesting 'sounds'-track too.

diverdee wrote:Recently watched on called 'the signal', fairly low budget, interesting premise, some genuinely funny moments, that contrast well with some creepy, disturbing bits.

I'll have to check it out, along with a number of other recommendations. Thanks all!

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 8:04 pm

more creeping ghastly weirdness:

'Audition' Japan, 1999. Sneaks up on you...

'Frailty' USA, 2001. Genuinely creepy. "This comes with a darkly compulsive fascination and a conceptual wildness that is quite unlike any other film out there."

'The Seventh Victim' USA, 1943. "From the opening John Dunne quote – “I run to Death and Death meets me as fast and all my pleasures are as yesterday” – to the allusions to Dante and Biblical quotes on walls, director Mark Robson creates an ambience of sombre morbidity that quite overwhelms the film. The ending of the film is truly bleak."

evernaut · Post by **evernaut** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 8:07 pm

CWoodOne wrote: "Funny Games" is creepy in multiple levels...

It is the hands down winner of most excruciating horror - in the true sense - film I've ever seen.

It manages to be infintely more terrifying than the likes of Saw and Hostel, by getting inside your head and manipulating your fears. What a masterpiece.

I'll give a +1 for REC too....amazingly good horror flick.

diverdee · Post by **diverdee** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 8:18 pm

Mmmmmm Frailty looks interesting, I missed that one - reckon i'll have to check that out.

Anyone know the name of that old 70's horror about the group of people in a camper van who witness a satanic ritual & then spend the rest of the film being chased by the cultists.
Long time since i've seen it, but I seem to remember that one as being quite scary.

TheSilent · Post by **TheSilent** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 8:55 pm

Irreversible has the most disturbing scene I have ever seen.
Marebito would definitely fall under creepy...
Unfortunately it would really suit you best to not know much about these movies if you want to experience the effect.

Baron von Case · Post by **Baron von Case** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 9:41 pm

TheSilent wrote:Irreversible has the most disturbing scene I have ever seen.

I've been trying to see that for AGES. Fucking ethnocentric fucks don't want to supply anything not in English.

I'm still out on Cronenberg. I've always known he's a special effects whore. Loved the fly, liked Videodrome, but lost a ton of respect for him Crash. Pretentious, failed softcore porn, plotless garbage. You could tell he was desperate at this point, so he threw some scant, unappealing sex scenes in there. Bad bad bad stuff.

Pitch Black · Post by **Pitch Black** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 9:44 pm

^^ Check out Dead Ringers, no special fx as far as I recall. Just one FUCKED UP idea.

ps Baron Von Case, did you get my PM?

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 10:40 pm

Baron von Case wrote:I'm still out on Cronenberg. I've always known he's a special effects whore. Loved the fly, liked Videodrome, but lost a ton of respect for him Crash. Pretentious, failed softcore porn, plotless garbage. You could tell he was desperate at this point, so he threw some scant, unappealing sex scenes in there. Bad bad bad stuff.

I love Cronenberg. I doubt there is another director who has such a strong & unique body of work in the horror field. His early work in particular articulated a new concern in horror: body horror, which may have reached it's apex in 'The Fly'.

I liked Crash. Have you seen his films 'Dead Ringers', The Brood', 'The Dead Zone', 'Shivers', & 'Naked Lunch'? All very good.

In fact, I just saw 'Shivers' again after not having seen it in many years. Pretty audacious! Especially the very beginning of the film...

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 11:14 pm

'Let's Scare Jessica To Death' 1971. Despite it's lurid (& unfortunate) title, is a very creepy film, & a direct descendent of the Val Lewton series of horror films from the early to mid-1940's. Val was a producer who made arguably some of the only genuinely decent horror films of the 1940's.

"His success with 'Cat People' enabled Lewton to make his next films with relatively little studio interference, allowing him to avoid the sensationalist material suggested by the film titles he was given, instead focusing on ominous suggestion and themes of existential ambivalence."

Speaking of Val Lewton, the following are all rewardingly creepy affairs, & are among his very best:
'Cat People' 1942
'I Walked With A Zombie' 1943
'The Curse of The Cat People' 1944
'The Seventh Victim' 1943

As you can see, Val was also saddled with rather lurid titles imposed upon him by the studio RKO.

Both 'Cat People' & 'I Walked With A Zombie' were directed by Jacques Tourneur, who also directed 'Night of The Demon' 1957, & the classic film noir 'Out of The Past' 1947, which starred film noir icon Robert Mitchum in one of his best roles. Excellent film.

Mind you, these films are creepy, which often includes rather slow pacing, something I particularly appreciate.

His & Jacques Tourneur's work also prefigured film noir:
"The immediate influence of the small body of work Lewton and Tourneur made together was enormous. Film noir pioneers of the mid-1940’s swallowed the RKO brand of atmospheric suspense practically unchewed. And not just aesthetically. True, Cat People’s photographic vocabulary would be imitated into clichés before the decade was out. But I mean something more fundamental. The films are full of infidelities, love triangles, domestic cruelty, repression, frigidity, vanity, and more besides, all set on the razor’s edge between the supernatural and the merely neurasthenic (or, in the case of Cat People and The Leopard Man, the psychotic). Film noir wasn’t just interested in great-looking shadows, after all. It was hungry for all kinds of darkness."

paradiddle · Post by **paradiddle** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 12:08 am

An old one I liked: The legend of Hell house