Tomasz Wasilewski’s Glupcy, Chris Messina to Star in HBO Max Pilot ‘Verbatim’. © Lions Gate Films But we think of you every time we dip our toes in a dark body of water and decide that maybe dry land is the better bet. [Noel Murray], It’s hard to remember a time when Zack Snyder was an exciting new name in genre filmmaking. The book that Miranda asks Andy to retrieve for her twin daughters is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Sexually repressed nuns let their habits fly. [Katie Rife], Poor Chrissie. Detective Bowden (Chris Messina) is called to the scene to aid in the investigation. The actor vanishing silently into a darkened room ends up being far more chilling than any jump scare, and the whole sequence sets up a film that marks McCarthy as one of the more promising young horror directors working today. Following the film's premiere, a string of other films focusing on Satan worshippers and black magic were produced, including The Brotherhood of Satan, Mark of the Devil, Black Noon, and The Blood on Satan's Claw. [Sean O’Neal], The opening scene of It Follows—even just its opening shot—immediately earned David Robert Mitchell’s sophomore feature a place in the annals of formalist horror. The communication radio in the elevator is broken but the guards, Lustig and Ramirez, observe the individuals via CCTV as events unfold. Whistling “Camptown Races,” he strolls off to become “Jerry Blake,” seeking a new, unwitting family to disappoint him. The film begins with a simple black-and-white title sequence, before cutting to the world’s most stylishly lit airport, where we first meet American student Suzy (Jessica Harper). But its opening onslaught of terror stands alone, promising a better movie (and career) than the one that followed. In this case, it’s the VHS tape possessed by an evil spirit, providing a bevy of allegories and ideas for discussion. To watch the first two and a half minutes of THE DEVIL… The horror then goes from micro to macro as our traumatized heroine steps out into blinding daylight to discover that her entire neighborhood—and by extension, the entire planet—has gone straight to hell. A pot of boiling water creates an almost unnoticeable transition from day to night; the camera follows two conversations (one by phone, one by computer) through the cramped quarters, efficiently establishing geography; and then a great use of “There’s someone behind you” leads into… nothing. On paper, the opening of The Conjuring is pure boilerplate (a creepy doll that seems to move when people aren’t around) bracketed with excess information (paranormal investigators listen to the story of the creepy doll and explain what they think is behind it). Faust is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two.Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language stages. Those are some of my favorite movies, folks, but I admit their openings pale in comparison to "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead". Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Pretty good movie all around. This scene contains only a single supernatural moment, when Carrie’s stress pops an overhead lightbulb. A group of people are trapped in an elevator and the Devil is mysteriously amongst them. [A.A. Dowd], If you showed somebody unfamiliar with The Stepfather its opening scene, absent any context, they’d be likely to assume that it’s the movie’s finale. Movies. Snyder’s career-launching remake of Dawn Of The Dead begins on an idyll of suburban calm that’s nightmarishly shattered when a zombified little girl invades the home of an unsuspecting ER nurse (Sarah Polley). 8 of 8 people found this review helpful. Serving as a prologue to the film’s main plot, the scene rewinds to 1927 and the murder of a suspected warlock in the basement of the Seven Doors Hotel, so named because it contains one of the seven portals to hell. When director Brian De Palma cuts to slow-motion locker-room voyeurism, the camera eventually finds Carrie again, her shower reverie broken as a close-up reveals, to her horror, blood making its way down her legs. A group of old college friends reunite for a trip to a Swedish forest, but encounter a menacing presence there stalking them. Functioning essentially as a stand-alone short film, the 13-minute sequence informs the viewer that all the rules of horror movies—rules that Craven himself had helped establish—no longer applied. Attempts at imitating the first-person with a camera are often awkward, but Halloween’s unbroken handheld shot is amazingly fluid. [Jesse Hassenger], Gruesome by the standards of its time, Black Sunday was the movie that put Italian horror on the map: a lurid Gothic tale of cobweb-filled crypts, fog-shrouded cemeteries, and devil-worshipping Moldavian vampire-sorcerers. The rest of Ghost Ship would be hard-pressed to live up to that, even with a script that wasn’t tedious, predictable claptrap. Instead, it’s the sound design and the deliberate, persistent movement of the camera that creates the sense of an immediate threat. When someone jumps from a skyscraper onto a truck, Bowden is sent to investigate. The scene culminates in a bloody, brutal hanging death, a clear signal that this particular fairy tale is way more Brothers Grimm than Disney. George Romero’s first zombie movie eventually serves up a small army of hungry corpses, but it kicks off with a single, slightly lurching guy (Bill Hinzman) in a suit, looking like just another mourner at the cemetery where Barbra (Judith O’Dea) and her brother, Johnny (Russell Streiner), have arrived to place a wreath on their father’s grave. ANDY runs in. [Alex McLevy], The nerve-jangling first 20 minutes of When A Stranger Calls began life as a 1977 short called “The Sitter,” by writer-director Fred Walton and co-writer-producer Steve Feke, who’d go on to make the feature-length version. But that just makes it all the more unnerving to watch Henry methodically alter his appearance: trimming his shaggy hair, shaving his beard, and even disguising the color of his eyes via contact lenses. She takes refuge in a friend’s similarly stylish apartment, where she’s besieged by an unknown supernatural assailant as Goblin’s music whips itself into a pagan frenzy in the background. Held captive and faced with their imminent executions, fifty strangers are forced to choose the one person among them who deserves to live. [Katie Rife], The late Wes Craven was a master of reinvention, and the opening of 1996’s Scream heralded yet another new chapter in his career. [A.A. Dowd]. Then the doc wakes up on a helicopter heading to an abandoned Florida city, on a search for human survivors of the zombie apocalypse. Faust is considered by many to be Goethe's magnum opus and the greatest work of German literature.. And, much like Robert Carlyle’s panicked breaths on his escape boat, the sequence leaves viewers breathless and exhilarated, and with the bleak assurance that death is coming for everyone. We don’t yet know how the creature works, and that lack of knowledge is the scene’s trump card. In a way, it is—or, rather, it’s the finale of an otherwise unseen prequel that would introduce Henry Morrison (Terry O’Quinn), a man whose expectations regarding the ideal family unit are both unrealistically high and horrifically unforgiving. The scene in which Rosemary is raped by Satan was ranked No. Devil (2010) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. A man in a prisoner’s jumpsuit awakens, confused, inside a massive, cube-shaped room with four hatches. The films range in release date from 1960 to next year, when a festival favorite of ours will finally hit theaters. Snyder’s coup de gras: a stylishly disturbing credits sequence that sets an end-of-the-world montage to the apocalyptic folk of Johnny Cash’s “When The Man Comes Around.” On a whole, Snyder’s Dawn is no patch on George Romero’s. But then the eye blinks and changes color, letting you know immediately something’s amiss. Director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo pulls off the unlikely feat of crafting a worthy sequel to Danny Boyle’s hit zombie reinvention flick, but the reintroduction to this world steals the show. Black Sunday doesn’t just show the repulsive, but treats it as though it were self-evidently beautiful: blood spurting from a spike, flesh glistening under a brand, a gargoyle mask being fitted over a young woman’s face. From this first scene, It Follows teaches its audience to fear the frame. [Ignatiy Vishnevetsky], As much as Carrie is a movie about an outcast who uses her telekinetic powers for revenge, it’s also a movie about teenage girls. [A.A. Dowd], The Pact opens on an unblinking eye, like an inverted homage to the rapidly blinking eye that kicks off Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom. Ned, the bullied outsider, and Conor, a new boy and star athlete, are forced to room together at their cloistered boarding school. But for those few fleeting minutes, it’s a classic. It's a How-To that should be taught in screenwriting courses all over the country but probably will never even get a passing mention. The late David R. Ellis masterfully ratchets up suspense, cutting from one driver to another on a crowded, slippery stretch of highway, before orchestrating a spectacular panorama of vehicular mayhem. Duel is a 1971 American action thriller film written by Richard Matheson, which is based on his own 1971 short story.The film marks the feature-length directorial debut of Steven Spielberg and was distributed by Universal Pictures.. Dennis Weaver portrays David Mann, a business commuter from California driving a Plymouth Valiant while on his way to meet a client. Every one of these opening set pieces is a gory delight, but the best of the bunch is probably the multi-car pileup of the first sequel. This chilling prologue sequence, set on Halloween in 1963, is almost its own short film, with an ending twist that is perhaps more disturbing than the bloody murder that precedes it. A science teacher, his wife, and a young girl struggle to survive a plague that causes those infected to commit suicide. One turns to another. Horror buffs will have to wait until next year, when A24 finally releases the film, to feel it burrow under their skin—a process that begins in the opening minutes, with a deeply unnerving dream sequence. Johnny, teasing Barbra about how scared she’d been as a kid, pretends that this dapper dude is stalking her, but finds out soon enough that he’s speaking the truth (though he doesn’t get much time to appreciate the cruel irony). I can’t wear cropped pants. That’s not a great advertising strategy, and neither is the sight of watching the mob beat its victim—whether he’s innocent is up for debate—with iron chains, nail him to a stone wall, and throw quicklime on him so he starts dissolving before our eyes into a fizzy goop. But in its first minutes, the film is nothing but a master class in suspense, staged by Verbinski as a series of back-and-forth shots between empty but menacing rooms and Amber Tamblyn’s increasingly terrified face. Was not expecting who the "devil" was. Director-cinematographer Mario Bava’s style is exclusively visual (the acting here is nothing to write home about), hearkening back to expressionist silent film and 1930s Universal horror; his lush, textured black-and-white images relish and even fetishize the torture and torchlight. A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come. Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed. 2.20 Towards the ending of the next shot of the dragging-scene the unrated version is again a bit longer. Was this review helpful to you? Devil Instead, the opening traffics in different, more relatable anxieties: social misery, loneliness, cruel mockery, and an empathetic fear for Carrie herself, who seems so unequipped to navigate this nasty world. Tensions run high among those trapped, so Lustig calls the police and Detective Bowden assumes the case. [Alex McLevy], George Romero originally planned to out-do his 1968 cult hit Night Of The Living Dead and its critically acclaimed 1978 sequel Dawn Of The Dead with a grander-scaled third chapter. He chooses one, seemingly at random, and, in the blink of an eye, tiny lines appear across his face. The trash-strewn streets gradually fill with the shambling undead, revealing the full horrifying scope of the plague and making Bowman’s nightmares come to life. Countless stylized Italian horror and giallo movies followed in Black Sunday’s creaking footsteps, but the first time is still one of the best. Before the audience even sit down to munch on their popcorn they are aware that the film will be a horror mainly due to the title ‘Devil’. CLACKER #1 You look awesome today. No one pays much mind. The scenes themselves range in length, from about a minute to a good 15 or 20, with the only criteria being that they must constitute the first scene or passage, excepting a credits sequence. The long opening follows an increasingly nervous babysitter as she keeps getting phone calls from someone who asks, softly and ominously, “Have you checked the children?” From Carol Kane’s escalating anxiety as a woman alone, to the blood-chilling kicker from the police—“The calls are coming from inside the house!”—When A Stranger Calls begins with a sequence that’s a suspense classic in and of itself, touching on our common fear of being stalked where we live. It lasts just long enough to establish a mood of haunted paranoia, as though these are the only people left on Earth—and then all hell breaks loose. [A.A. Dowd], John Landis is a comedy director as much as he is a horror director, but no matter what genre he’s working in, he’s always a baby boomer. From the moment the mother disappears from in front of the car, the audience is given the daughter’s perspective, close-ups of her face continually intercut with her point of view, frantically scanning the surroundings, without a chance to worry about anything beyond the immediate. Only when he’s all but unrecognizable does he casually walk downstairs and past the mutilated remains of several bodies—identified as his own wife and children by pictures on the wall, so that we know he’s not some random home invader. This is the full shootout scene from the 'The Devil's Rejects' (2005), directed by Rob Zombie. Kevin P. Sullivan 10/21/2014 In a world that can be cruel, random and unjust, bed is one of the few objective goods. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? [Katie Rife], More than a year after it premiered in Toronto under the title February, director Oz Perkins’ supremely creepy directorial debut still hasn’t crept into theaters. When the tape breaks, the restless duo start playing a series of car games, from the reckless (driving with the headlights off) to the shamelessly nostalgic (a ’50s and ’60s TV-heavy game of “Name That Tune”). Use the HTML below. What wrongdoing did each of the trapped people commit. Pretty creepy. The films range in quality as well, because even a terrible horror movie can start exceptionally strong. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. 2.14 Again, the woman is dragged a few inches further. It went by fast though. There’s no doubt that something awful has happened, no big reveal in store. But a tight budget primarily limited Day Of The Dead to one sparsely decorated underground bunker. Mise-en-scene in the opening scene of 'The Devil's Backbone' The location seems to be very isolated and desserted with only sand and dead crops surrounding this old orphanage. All of these elements come together beautifully in Landis’ prologue to the 1983 anthology film Twilight Zone: The Movie, which opens with comedians Albert Brooks and Dan Aykroyd cruising down a dark, winding highway toward some unknown destination, jamming to Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Midnight Special” on the car radio. ELIAS-CLARKE ELEVATOR -- DAY 7 ANDY is a shrub in a CLACKER forest. He joins forces with an unconventional priest, schooled in the rites of exorcism, to combat the possessions that are terrorizing their city. Meanwhile, five strangers are trapped in an elevator in the building where the jumper committed suicide. [Alex McLevy], Gore Verbinksi’s American remake of the J-horror phenomenon is a textbook case of how to do great horror: It takes an old trope (two teenagers telling the story of a mythical boogeyman, only to have it become horrifyingly real) and updates it with a modern conceit. One of the prop books used in the movie, sold in an online auction for $586, and proceeds went to Dress for Success, a non-profit organization that assists more than 45,000 disadvantaged women each year as they transition into the workforce. From the stars of "The Good Place" to a pair of "Pretty Little Liars," check out our gallery of celebrity besties. View production, box office, & company info. With Chris Messina, Caroline Dhavernas, Bokeem Woodbine, Logan Marshall-Green. New York police officer Ralph Sarchie investigates a series of crimes. A deaf and mute writer who retreated into the woods to live a solitary life must fight for her life in silence when a masked killer appears at her window. 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