Yeah man, it was a really really intense watch. I remember just being riveted to the screen. One of the most intense parts was when the kid was riding the big wheel down the hall ways, and that bathtub scene.
After the movie I had to go outside and just kind of lie on the ground and stare at the stars to get my head back in order, thinking to myself.... jesus..... wtf..... wow.....
pulsoc wrote:Weird, I thought Event Horizon was pretty typical schlock. Truly creepy goes to
Meet the Feebles
Very Bad Things
Blue Velvet
Requiem for a dream
I find "horror" is rarely creepy.
j2j wrote:very bad things, more like a dark comedy, yes no? Its got some murder and death, but its not all that bloody/scary...
Who Framed Roger Rabit? Has more violence... IMHO.
I think it really depends on your tastes and frame of reference. Personally I'm not one for slasher, blood bath type horror flicks.
pulsoc's list is pretty much the same as what mine would be, Requiem for a dream was my first pick and I couldn't think of the name of Very Bad Things, which was my second. I was surprised to see that someone else had pucked these films as well.
I'm not able to properly articulate the reasons why at the moment, but both of those films left me feeling very disturbed after watching them.
Requiem in particular was intense to see on a big screen, it was very well done and the overall experience, emotionally speaking, wasn't too far off from the one I had when I watched the shining for the first time, on mushrooms. And I was sober when I saw Requiem.
I had an art history teacher that summed it up very well I think, she said that you can tell when you've seen a good film, because as you are exiting the theater, or turning the lights back up in your television room, whatever it may be, you have this feeling of "re-entry", of reemerging into the real world.
A well done film will evoke different emotions from all of us, for different reasons. I watch a zombie film and I'm like yeah, it's scary, but what are the odds. Or a gruesome slasher with high end special effects and I end up being distracted by the effects, "ok, this films main purpose is to display some extraordinary effects, plot is secondary", meh - but that's just me.
When I watch something that really deals with the human condition, in a positive or negative, then I can be moved, enlightened, disturbed.
Requiem, especially, was that type of film for me and was definitely my first pick. Very well done, dark, disturbing, moving, sad, intense.
Very Bad Things as well, but not quite on the same level, it's the macabre justice that is served in the final scene that did it for me with that film.
