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Posted By: Magus Oct 30, 2004 - 07:17 am

This was on Bravo this week in five different parts. I only saw parts 2 and 3, but I found it very entertaining. It seems like most of the people are somehow connected to Stephen King, though. There was the Dorector of The Stand, direcotr from Misery, Stephen King himself.

The only problem with doing this kind of a thing for horror movies is that, when they show the clips, there's something missing. The entire movie builds of to certain points. There's the tension and the suspense and all sorts of other elements that are required to build up the moment and make it what it is. Without it, it just doesn't seem all that frightening.

Did anybody else see this? Does anybody know what made #1? I'm not that much of a horror buff, not even much of a horror watcher, but this interested me.

Posted By: Bmat Oct 30, 2004 - 07:29 am

I have a theory about horror movies, that it is the music and sound effects that make them so frightening. If the sound is turned off, and if the viewer doesn't know what sound is supposed to be there, is it really so scary?

All I could find was this site, to address your question, but it doesn't take it to number 1.

http://www.bravotv.com/100_Scariest_Movie_Moments/

Posted By: Magus Oct 30, 2004 - 07:32 am

Oh, that's a shame. But thanks. I was wondering what I did miss.

But, in what I saw at least, there were several silent films. I remember specifically Nasferatu and The Phantom of the Opera. But, yes, the music adds most of that tension and almost all of the suspense. Without it horror and other types of suspenseful movies just wouldn't be the same.

Posted By: Magus Oct 30, 2004 - 07:42 am

I see now. I came it at #56 with Single White Female. I was hoping they'd have the Raptor scene from Jurassic Park. I was also hoping for The Sixth Sense and Plotergeist being in there somewhere. But how did they get Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and The Wizard of Oz? I thought that those were nice feel good family movies.

Posted By: Aldan Oct 30, 2004 - 01:18 pm

One important thing to realize about "Silent Films" is that while they didn't have sound effects or voices, they DID have music, and that music was what would do as Bmat'd said.

Posted By: Magus Oct 30, 2004 - 09:29 pm

Ah, yes. O.K. I don't watch many silent films, . It was a simple enough thing to slip in my mind.

Posted By: Magus Oct 31, 2004 - 05:42 pm

I saw the last part of it today. I'll tell you all the top three, if you're interested.

3) The Exorcist (Head Turning)

2) Alien (Alien coming out of the one guy's stomach)

1) Jaws (Coming out of the water)

Posted By: legiondary Nov 01, 2004 - 06:35 am

Bmat is right on with his theory of music in movies. Many a reviewer has pointed to the soundtracks of movie as the greatest facet of their timelessness, the most exampled being Frankenstien. The counter would be Dracula, that despite Lugosi's performance, is a movie that drags a great deal of the time due to its lack of a score.

Posted By: Hyperion Nov 01, 2004 - 10:47 am

There are one or two scenes that have made me juimp, or at the least sqerm a little A scene in Alien One made me sqerm when I first watched it

Not the one you're probably thinking either

It wasn't the one were the Alien errupts out of the guys chest, but rather the scene were ripley flame throwers the android head she stuck to the floor in that room

It takes really gfood writers and directors to make people actually feel scared though..

Doesn't happen often in my experience.

Hyperion

Posted By: MerleZ Nov 01, 2004 - 01:02 pm

Yeah, that scene from Jaws was effective. Of course, I was a young teenager at the time, but I saw it in the theater with my brother, on a really big screen. When Brody turns around and that shark is right there, wow. That scared me, but good. Another part of that movie that really got me was the head popping out of that hole when Hooper was swimming around. Yikes!

Posted By: Magus Nov 01, 2004 - 01:08 pm

I saw Jaws with my sister just this last year. I saw Alien, on my own, last year also. I want to see the Exorcist, but my brother has the DVD.

I actually just saw the E! Hollywood True Story on The Exorcist yesterday. Man, those actors could have sued the company so many times. They producers just better thank God that none of them did that.