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Post by Prime etc. on Mar 31, 2023 18:42:35 GMT
We all know that in a horror movie you have suspenseful scenes and action moments -but what about the little stuff that happens with a performance which really stands out in a movie.
Quint's speech in Jaws is well-known.
Loomis talking about Michael Myers in Halloween (which may have been inspired by the Jaws speech).
I am thinking of very brief little creepy moments in a movie from a performance.
One that I thought of was in the Thing 1982 where the norwegian is screaming as the dog is licking Bennings. That guy was a crew member but he did a great job making that scene creepy--the way he was shouting what sounded like "that thing! A terror is the thing!"
Another one is Jaws 2--where the girl says "shshshshshsshshaaaarrrk!"
The Beast Must Die 1974 has one of these creepy moments too--when Calvin Lockhart says to Anton Diffring: "He's coming for YOU Pavel."
This sort of acting highlight was common in the old horror movies because they were so dialogue heavy but when technology took over, it wasn't so noticeable.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Apr 10, 2023 13:27:02 GMT
Have been quite sometime since my last visit, but I sure remember at least one or two short scenes from the Michael Caine horror/adventure film The Island (1980), and where some little girl suddenly turns around with this absolute creepy or haunting grin to her face. I quite enjoyed the film, even though I would prefer it to be a more dark and atmospheric movie, but it somehow ended up with more of a ridiculous and over the top action film, with lots of random laughs, all over the place. Think it even features a bunch of karate or ninja party goers on a huge yacht, fighting it out with the Pirate cult, before Caine mows most of them down with a huge machine gun, like it was taken from one of the Death Wish sequels starring Charles Bronson.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2023 13:40:26 GMT
I thought Catherine Keener in 'Get Out' (2017), was really creepy in the hypnotism scene... Well acted.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2023 16:37:19 GMT
Kind of creepy...
Keanu Reeves scenes in The Gift (2000).
His scenes are a creepily realistic portrayal of a violent abusive spouse.
Stopped me in my tracks. He really can act... And it's a great supernatural horror filum.
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 10, 2023 16:42:59 GMT
Have been quite sometime since my last visit, but I sure remember at least one or two short scenes from the Michael Caine horror/adventure film The Island (1980), and where some little girl suddenly turns around with this absolute creepy or haunting grin to her face. Yeah especially since her parents had been killed--she was kidnapped.
It sure was cathartic when Caine unleashes the machine gun on those scallywags.
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Post by James on Apr 10, 2023 16:48:22 GMT
Pretty much any scene in The Silence of the Lambs with Anthony Hopkins; take your pick.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Apr 10, 2023 19:38:19 GMT
The blind newspaper vendor in Maniac Cop 2, when he described coming in contact with Cordell's dead flesh as reminding him of how he was surrounded by the dead bodies of his fellow war buddies.
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Post by mgmarshall on Apr 10, 2023 21:18:25 GMT
Bramwell Fletcher's maddened "He went for a little walk!" in The Mummy sends a chill down my spine.
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 10, 2023 21:33:02 GMT
Speaking of Hannibal Lecter, in Manhunter--it isn't even dialogue but one particularly disturbing acting moment was when Joan Allen attempts to defend herself by lashing out at Ton Noonan. It is pathetic and horrible--that she is trying to defend herself even though she is totally at his mercy.
That movie had a kind of 1930s Universal vibe in some ways--Noonan is sort of a Frankenstein monster--a lot of pathos with the horror---a couple of good moments--not so much creepy as revealing of personality---one is when he is in the office and gets startled when someone enters the room---and another very clever bit of performance is when he is lying next to her and he grabs at his own grinning face as if he can't believe that something good has finally happened to him. That's like silent movie acting. Also, one rather haunting line by William Petersen where he nonchalantly profiles the killer's childhood--saying something like "this kid was tortured as an infant."
I prefer Brian Cox's Lecter performance--it is an underplayed kind of creepy killer-especially when he is talking to the operator on the phone.
But it is jarring to see Chris Elliot in that.
Brad Dourif has a great creepy performance moment in the Exorcist 3 where he talks about the priest being trapped in Hell. Entirely from his forceful mania and conviction-it works as a horror moment without any spfx.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Apr 10, 2023 21:54:57 GMT
Speaking of Hannibal Lecter, in Manhunter--it isn't even dialogue but one particularly disturbing acting moment was when Joan Allen attempts to defend herself by lashing out at Ton Noonan. It is pathetic and horrible--that she is trying to defend herself even though she is totally at his mercy. That movie had a kind of 1930s Universal vibe in some ways--Noonan is sort of a Frankenstein monster--a lot of pathos with the horror---a couple of good moments--not so much creepy as revealing of personality---one is when he is in the office and gets startled when someone enters the room---and another very clever bit of performance is when he is lying next to her and he grabs at his own grinning face as if he can't believe that something good has finally happened to him. That's like silent movie acting. Also, one rather haunting line by William Petersen where he nonchalantly profiles the killer's childhood--saying something like "this kid was tortured as an infant."I prefer Brian Cox's Lecter performance--it is an underplayed kind of creepy killer-especially when he is talking to the operator on the phone. But it is jarring to see Chris Elliot in that. Brad Dourif has a great creepy performance moment in the Exorcist 3 where he talks about the priest being trapped in Hell. Entirely from his forceful mania and conviction-it works as a horror moment without any spfx. Manhunter has some truly great and bone chilling scenes, and does so incredible well, without showing too much, all the time. Where as I felt the later Red Dragon (2002) far too often relied upon more "vulgar" scenery, in order to play heavy on the shocking gore and blood factor, rather than the atmosphere and slow suspense. Anyway, one of my favorite of the haunting lines from Will Graham, is right after he has entered the bedrooms of the former family, whom were visited by Francis Dolarhyde and he kind of zooms in the whole enviroment, like a camera lens, taking in all the gruesome stuff which has happened along with the details, while talking calmly into his tape recorder. But the one line that always hits hard, is when he says: "Even with his throat cut, Leeds tried to fight. Because the intruder was moving to the children's room."
Sadly this video does not include the last part of this great scene, as while Graham washes his face in the bathroom, the phone rings and the answering machine sets off and you can hear the voice of Ms. Leeds talking, and this is also later re-used to great effect shortly before the film moves over to the killer and his work routines.
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Post by telegonus on Apr 11, 2023 7:04:42 GMT
Pretty much any scene in The Silence of the Lambs with Anthony Hopkins; take your pick. Yes, but any scene with Ted Levine in that one is special. Hannibal is cerebral, charismatic and, needless to say, highly intelligent. Buffalo Bill's terror is visceral; just the sound of his voice is spooky; Ted's body language is off the charts unnerving. The one complements the other. One thing that makes BB even scarier is that he doesn't bond with Clarice,--no time for it, no right moment so near to the end of the film. Hannibal's like a surrogate father for Clarice, and, spookiness aside, he never really feels like a threat to her. BB is a threat to every living, breathing human being he comes into contact with.
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Post by James on Apr 11, 2023 11:57:04 GMT
Pretty much any scene in The Silence of the Lambs with Anthony Hopkins; take your pick. Yes, but any scene with Ted Levine in that one is special. Hannibal is cerebral, charismatic and, needless to say, highly intelligent. Buffalo Bill'sĀ terror is visceral; just the sound of his voice is spooky; Ted's body language is off the charts unnerving. The one complements the other. One thing that makes BB even scarier is that he doesn't bond with Clarice,--no time for it, no right moment so near to the end of the film. Hannibal's like a surrogate father for Clarice, and, spookiness aside, he never really feels like a threat to her. BB is a threat to every living, breathing human being he comes into contact with. Indeed, Levine is also great and quite scary and is more of an active threat in the film. I do prefer Hopkins' more subtle approach though, but they are both amazing performances in their own right.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Apr 11, 2023 14:03:19 GMT
The shift from jovial and pleasant to anger from Anthony Perkins when Norman is eating with Marion in Psycho. Such a great scene.
I'd have to say Julien Beck was pretty creepy in Poltergeist II.
I think the creepiest performance ever isn't even from a horror film, and it's Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Men. After a certain point, him just entering a scene made me tense up just from his presence.
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Post by Catman on Apr 11, 2023 15:44:03 GMT
The young woman who turns into a zombie and attacks the train attendant in Train to Busan was wonderfully creepy.
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Post by ntatler76 on May 2, 2023 13:24:38 GMT
The rotting woman in Room 237. The film, not the mini series
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Post by Prime etc. on May 2, 2023 18:27:36 GMT
Another one is Samantha Eggar in The Brood when Art Hingle says I want to be part of what you are going through and she says "do you? Do you?" She looked creepy as she said that.
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Post by Prime etc. on May 2, 2023 22:37:57 GMT
Another is from THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE - the scene where Roddy McDowall is describing what happened to the previous team. And Gayle Hunnicutt's freak out scene where she is saying "You... me... that girl... Lionel... all together... naked... drunk... clutching... sweating... biting..."
She was scary in that sequence. Considering this came out a few months before the Exorcist but it is a possession kind of idea without any spfx help.
I love that movie though.
"You weren't even five feet tall!"
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Post by novastar6 on May 3, 2023 1:41:12 GMT
Does this count?
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Post by forca84 on May 3, 2023 3:34:15 GMT
"Wolf Creek"... Pretty much the whole movie. Even during the carefree times of our Trio on the Road you know it's not going to end well. The beautiful scenery just adds to the sinister atmosphere in a sort of surreal avant garde way. The moment Liz is pawing through Mick's trophies and keepsakes she finds old home movies of a Family on vacation... She also finds Ben's video camera and makes the creepy realization they'd been Stalked for hours on end.
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Post by Prime etc. on May 27, 2023 18:37:12 GMT
Another one. Halloween 3 when Cochran is speaking about the history:
You don't really know much about Halloween. You thought no further than the strange custom of having your children wear masks and go out begging for candy. It was the start of the year in our old Celtic lands, and we'd be waiting in our houses of wattles and clay. The barriers would be down, you see, between the real and the unreal, and the dead might be looking in to sit by our fires of turf. Halloween... the festival of Samhain! The last great one took place three thousand years ago, when the hills ran red with the blood of animals and children. It was part of our world... our craft. To us, it was a way of controlling our environment. It's not so different now... it's time again. In the end, we don't decide these things, you know; the planets do. They're in alignment, and it's time again. The world's going to change tonight, Doctor, I'm glad you'll be able to watch it. And... Happy Halloween.
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