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In Reply to: Alien Revisited: Attn. Mike K posted by AudioHead on September 03, 1999 at 10:24:46:
a frequent complaint about Alfred's work is that it's too slow....which is what puts him in the Parthenon of directors.What makes Alien so scary is the same thing...it's unsettling, the dialogue is kinda muffeled and there's lots of poorly lit things going on and you can't quite hear everything well and you don't really know what the hell is going on and who's running the show. So you're irritated--on edge, a bit pissed and distracted, and leaning forward working hard on figuring it all out. You brain is overloaded with directing attention to the wrong thing---and then they spring it on you!
You want a slow, boreing movie? Try watching Vertigo about 17 times. Each time you'll find out something new about yourself. Hitchcock knows all about our hidden sexual selves, and makes you watch. The best group fright reaction I ever saw was when I worked as a projectionist for a small college. We were haveing a Hitchcock festival and I was showing Psycho to mostly freshmen who'd never seen it before. I swear, from the back of the room, I saw five hundred butts lift off thier chairs at the same time! I'll never forget that!
I know this is wierd, but my favorite scene in Alien is the opening! The slow walk through the ship to the focus on the helmet and then the sudden reflection of the computer coming to life. Wow. What a setup. The mood is absolutely ready for all that comes next. There are so many realistically frightening scenes - like the panic when they think the blood/acid is eating through the ship. And on and on - what a thriller. Aliens was fun. Same exact plot but with a western flavor! What a hoot. The first time I saw it, I was glued to my seat, but at the end, when I realized the exact parallel, I just started laughing. IMHO Alien3 was merely ok and Resurection dumb. I would have been ok to let Ripley, the girl and cat live on.
Yes, I agree about "Alien", the pop-out scene is a classic, as is the
shower scene in "Psycho" (didn't go see the remake, how could anyone possibly improve on the Perkin's performance?); another classic scary
scene is the one in the original "The Haunting" where Claire Bloom(?) was
in the bed and the House came alive in the hallway and the big door starting breathing in and out and you know the rest...I think that was
about a 5 to 8 minute scene and it was chilling! I know there is a
remake out, I want to see it for the special effects, but I also know
that original scene will never be adequately replicated. Another scene
that scared the living daylights outta me was when Vincent Price raised
up off a table and a sheet slid off his face(he has a horrible mask on and
it was a fullscreen closeup shot) to scare a deaf and dumb woman in "The
Tingler" - really caught me offguard when I was 12 years old! - AH
yes I agree! this is the first and best scary movie I can remember. Even now it gives me chills to think of it. I wonder if that's what made Alien so frightening to us?--because it reminds us of ..."the Tingler!" excellent.Oh...and how about..."the Hand" or was it "the beast with Five Fingers?" The one about the pianist who has the hands of a murders grafted on so he can continue his career? All I can remember is that thing running across the floor...AAAAGGGGGGHHHHH!
Funny, I really don't like horror or scary or shocking movies, but those were so good.
One of my brothers has "The Tingler" and "House On The Haunted Hill" both
starring Vincent Price; they are still enjoyable, though not as scary as
when I viewed them as a child.
I believe Alan Dean Foster was inspired to write "Alien" after watching
the similar 1958 sci-fi horror, "It! The Terror From Beyond Space".
Watched "Beast With Five Fingers" as a child; can't remember if Peter
Lorre was in that flick or not.
Currently I'm struggling to recall the title of the movie made in the late
70's or early 80's about river-polluted mutated giant bears with pig-faces
running amok and killing folks. - AH
Let me know if you think of the title--it's sounds hillarious! Some of those horror movies can be very funny. Do you remember the scene in "night of the living dead" when they're in the mall and the musack is playing while the ghouls are roaming about? I burst out laughing at that! It looks just like our King of Prussia mall any day of the weak, except our living people are more ghoulish!Love the scene in "beast with five fingers" when Lorrie finally gets the hand in the fire and he's poking it with a dazed look of total fatigue, and almost post-coital hypnotic trance--and the hand starts moving out...!
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGG!
Looked it up in my movie guide, it's "The Beast With Five Fingers"; it
played the piano.
I think you're referring to the "Dawn of the Living Dead"? saw the mall
scene, hilarious, great special effects too.
The orginal "Night of the Living Dead", was in B&W, and of course, is a
cult classic; it was remade by Romero in the 1990's but I prefer the
original, if you've seen both, you'll know that the endings are very
different due to new political climate.
I want to see the uncut version of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", have seen
the cut version, (the uncut features the naked girl getting the old chainsaw vertically up the middle!). Have you seen "Motel Hell"? Rory
Calhoun has a great time in it, he uses a chainsaw too! - AH
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