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Re: Non Horror Movies That Scared You
Certainly George Sluizer's original Dutch/French "The Vanishing" , based on the Dutchman Tim Krabbé's excellent novel, is by far the most unsettling movie I've ever seen, and I've seen it at least six times. Close to being a perfect film.
But very, very disturbing.
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Originally posted by Jake SchusterCertainly George Sluizer's original Dutch/French "The Vanishing" , based on the Dutchman Tim Krabbé's excellent novel, is by far the most unsettling movie I've ever seen, and I've seen it at least six times. Close to being a perfect film.
But very, very disturbing.
In reply to the original topic:
At least two or three scenes of Saving Private Ryan even made ME uncomfortable, and that almost never happens. Not just one scene...two or three.
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Originally posted by Jake SchusterRight, because this thread is about non-horror films, right? And "The Vanishing" is a psychological thriller.
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I would think horror has to have as an element either an outside element (monster, vampire, zombie, whatever) introduced, or at least the transformation of what is normal into what isn't normal through some extra-normal force.
Both "Diabolique" and "The Vanishing" are about people dealing with people--diabolically, yes--but they're still people in the grips of their own private passions screwing with other people's minds. Hence, psychological thrillers.
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Originally posted by Jake SchusterI would think horror has to have as an element either an outside element (monster, vampire, zombie, whatever) introduced, or at least the transformation of what is normal into what isn't normal through some extra-normal force.
Both "Diabolique" and "The Vanishing" are about people dealing with people--diabolically, yes--but they're still people in the grips of their own private passions screwing with other people's minds. Hence, psychological thrillers.
The villians in the Texas Chain Saw Massacre are people with major psychological problems, and I don't think anybody would consider that film to be anything other than horror.
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Originally posted by BiohazardThat's a good explanation, but how does mental instability factor into that theory? The main antagonist in The Vanishing is not a monster or zombie, but a human. It's his mind that makes him different from other humans, like Norman Bates from Psycho. How far into the realm of psychotic does the mind have to go before making the jump from psychological thriller to horror?
The villians in the Texas Chain Saw Massacre are people with major psychological problems, and I don't think anybody would consider that film to be anything other than horror.
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Originally posted by J off courseI remember as a kid being totally spooked by that scene in
To Kill a Mockingbird when the little girl is walking in some
woods at night encumbered by the Halloween costume she
is wearing.
That scene still spooks the hell out of me.
Robert Duvall standing behind the door creeped me out, too.
I remember going to watch GHOSTBUSTERS when I was a kid, and seeing some popcorn fly when the Librarian Ghost lunged toward the camera. That got some people pretty good.
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