Hot answers tagged horror
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I have worked with children on horror films/thrillers and, having found no official guidelines from SAG other than payment policies such as Coogan's Law, I have usually employed a number of tactics.
Firstly, I'll go over the scene and storyboard very carefully with the child's parents/guardians (although this isn't always constructive as many parents will ...
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A fun example from "The Shining":
Because Danny Lloyd was so young and since it was his first acting
job, Stanley Kubrick was highly protective of the child. During the
shooting of the movie, Lloyd was under the impression that the film he
was making was a drama, not a horror movie. He only realized the truth
seven years later, when, aged 13, he ...
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I've always seen it as just a very generic suburban name. There's a complete difference in tone and setting between (for example) A Nightmare on 5th Ave, A Nightmare in the Bronx, and a nightmare in peaceful suburbia.
To my knowledge there's nothing deeper to it, and my guess is that it just helps set the tone.
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That is one of four stories in Twilight Zone: The Movie from 1983.
As IMDB plot summary describes:
"a young woman on the road gives a ride to a mysterious 10-year-old boy to his house and ends up trapped with other people in an alternate reality created by the boy's imagination."
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Elm Street is one of the most common street names in the United States. If you exclude numbers (because numbers in a title are strongly connoted to having several in a series, whether it's streets or movies), the most common names are Park, Main, Oak, Pine, Maple, Cedar, Elm. So “Elm Street” has a “generic street” feel to it.
In fiction, Elm and Pine have ...
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The editing, filming techniques, and set attitude can seriously change the perception of what is actually going on. In various horror movie "behind the scenes" (last I can think of is Sam Raimi commentary on Evil Dead), it seems like casts for horror flicks are very upbeat and everybody is having fun. With many horror films it's only once the scenes are ...
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It sounds like the third segment of Tales from the Darkside: The Movie -
A despondent artist named Preston (played by James Remar) witnesses a
gruesome murder by a gargoyle-like monster. The monster gets Preston
to swear to never speak of what he saw in exchange for a promise to
spare his life. After making the promise, Preston meets a beautiful
...
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TV Tropes provides a good starting point on the subject:
An entity often seen in Japanese horror movies is a ghost, usually that of a young woman, with long, stringy black hair that covers her face, clad in a white burial kimono or shroud. Her face itself is often quite ghastly to look upon.
This is actually a type of ghost known as an onryo, the ...
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The wiki page says that maybe a 1968 student film project made by students of Craven's at Clarkson University inspired the movies. The student film parodied contemporary horror movies, and was filmed along Elm Street in Potsdam, New York.
I'm not sure if it's true or not, maybe it was just for the tone, like Stephan Muller said.
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Yes and no.
Raimi and co wanted to make a film, but felt that going for a comedy wasn't a great idea - and after doing their research at the local drive-in, knew that horror was the way to go.
They made a short horror promo, Within the Woods, and the positive reaction they got from this propelled the development and shooting of Evil Dead.
Even though they ...
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The movie you are looking for is called Triangle (2009) starring Melissa George
Those are not the bodies of herself but of Sally played by Rachael Carpani.
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It's worth noting that mirrors (and any other reflective material for that matter) are a well-used narrative tool for presenting the duality of characters on screen, whether they are protagonists or antagonists (or, more likely, somewhere in between).
As DForck42 has already pointed out, there are many urban legends and stories connected to mirrors as well ...
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Ghost stories and mirrors have shared some common ground. Take the Bloody Mary urban legend (turn the lights off and say "Bloody Mary" three times and her ghost will come rip your eyes out).
Some mirror urban legends
I can't find a good list, but there are a few ghost stories and urban legends tied to mirrors.
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Sounds like Prince of Darkness (1987) by John Carpenter.
Wikipedia's description matches the details you remember, including the creepy ending:
At the end of the film, Marsh has the recurring dream again, except
now an apparently possessed Danforth is the figure emerging from the
building. Marsh appears to awaken, rolling over to find a gruesomely
...
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From Sawpedia:
Zep formed a sort of bond with John [Kramer] while he was being treated, but was considered to have "issues of his own" by him. Zep talked about the doctors behind their backs, saying that they were all having affairs and calling Dr. Lawrence Gordon a cold-hearted bastard.
John seemed to see a lot of his own actions in Zep's goals, ...
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Peter Jackson has stated in an interview that he absolutely was influenced by people like George Romero and Sam Raimi:
DAVID STRATTON: Were you influenced by people like George Romero and Sam Raimi?
PETER JACKSON: Yep, yep, completely, completely. I mean, 'Braindead' is nothing more than a zombie fan just going crazy wanting to make a zombie movie, ...
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I amended the question slightly to reflect the fact that Evil Dead was made 11 years before Brain Dead ('Dead Alive' in the US)
One might argue that Sam Raimi's 1981 classic, The Evil Dead, is indeed a pioneer in its own right as it paved the way for a multitude of amateur filmmakers to pick up their camcorders and create their own, ultra-gory, ...
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I'm almost certain it comes down to parent permission and what they are comfortable allowing the child to see when working with the directors. Some are naturally more lenient than others while I'm sure some are only allowed on set to film their scenes and they never get to see what they filmed after post-production because of it being too graphic.
(The ...
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From Session 9 to The Ninth Gate, and even pre-DVD with Dante's nine circles of Hell, it's a formidable number. Read more about number 9 and all its usage in culture and mythology here.
Both movies, Session 9 and Psych:9, take place in abandoned (well in Psych: 9′s case, soon to be abandoned) hospitals and both have that number 9 in the title that ...
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I think you are talking about Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. But this just has a couple moving into a house. Not exactly a group of friends
But the fireplace and the big headed creatures remind me of this
Here is the trailer in which the trolls turn up in the end.
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Sounds like the excellent Brain Damage.
Here's an image from the bathroom scene:
and here's the "creepy snake" from his ear (it's not a snake): NSFW - Gore
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This sounds a bit like Naked Lunch.
From one of the user reviews:
It's a ride, a drug-induced nightmare full of horribly funny visions (the sort of visions that artists used centuries ago to represent hell). Anuses talk. Aliens sip alcohol in bars. People get impaled. Typewriters turn into bugs. Liquids ooze.
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Johnny Ramone's wikipedia page states:
In 2006, the remake of the horror film The Wicker Man was dedicated to
Johnny Ramone's memory, as he was a close friend of the film's
producer and star, Nicolas Cage
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Here's the original 1961 episode of Twilight Zone, also on IMDB.
I recall the actor who played the boy went on to star as Will Robinson in Lost In Space. IMDB confirms, actor Bill Mumy. I recall the boy had a line while foisting his evil on some helpless guy "You're a bad man! You're a very bad man!" as the guy dies a slow painful death or something.
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The movie you are looking for is probably Infested. I have seen it and I remembered the song("Da Da Da" by Trio). It does not say anything about zombies in the description, but I think that this is the one. I will edit my answer later to provide a trailer or some video.
EDIT Here is also the trailer(thanks to VoT):
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It should be Madhouse (2004 film). It matches you description. In the movie main protagonist is an psychiatric intern comes to Madhouse where mysterious murders take place and have a unexpected twisted ending as psychiatric intern turned out to be a split-personality-disorder with a killer second personality. Movie also have some cell for most dangerous ...
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From the Paranormal Activity Wiki:
The Demon is the main antagonist of the Paranormal Activity film series, the demon haunts the families of two sisters, Katie and Krisiti. The Demon is then revealed to be Toby.
ScreenRant has a summary of the entire Paranormal Activity movie trilogy in chronological order, with the connections between the films ...
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This is probably Ride the Bullet The description on wiki and IMDB don't really go into the same detail but having seen the movie I can say that it's very similar to what you have described. In particular the ghost driving him, the amusement park and the boys mother in the hospital.
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As the other answers pointed out, there are a lot of urban legends related to mirrors and reflections. And also, whenever we look in a mirror, we see ourselves, but everything is inverted (Horizontally). So horror movies may employ this observation to show that we (or someone) is seeing a laterally inverted personality or character (for example, it may ...
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After digging a little but i got this link which says:-
Ultimately, Tommy killed Roy in self-defense and exposed his true
identity; nonetheless, this event seemed to push him over the edge,
leading him to attack Pam while donning a hockey mask fortunately,
however, Pam managed to return Tommy to his senses and help him
recover before things went ...
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