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Straight Flush
Some of my faves...
Creepshow (1982)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984 original)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
The Shining (1980)
The last two still give me scares to this day. When we first meet Leatherface (Kirk's death) and he slams that metal door shut and the music "womp" hits... man, still gives me the willies!
And my wife made me watch Psycho for the very first time last night. The very first big budget "slasher" film. And while the scares don't really seem to hold up, I can certainly appreciate it for what it was at the time (the idea of encroaching on the safety of a nude woman in a shower), and what it signifies in the realm of cinema as whole... Lots of firsts in that shower scene/and genius cuts and blurred out bits to satisfy censors of the day and imply what was happening without actually showing what was happening. And I love the frozen frame on the eye-rotation cut since the tech didn't exist at the time to rotate the camera in-shot.
Been reading about it all morning. So much going on in that scene. Hitchcock was truly a master of the craft.
Creepshow (1982)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984 original)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
The Shining (1980)
The last two still give me scares to this day. When we first meet Leatherface (Kirk's death) and he slams that metal door shut and the music "womp" hits... man, still gives me the willies!
And my wife made me watch Psycho for the very first time last night. The very first big budget "slasher" film. And while the scares don't really seem to hold up, I can certainly appreciate it for what it was at the time (the idea of encroaching on the safety of a nude woman in a shower), and what it signifies in the realm of cinema as whole... Lots of firsts in that shower scene/and genius cuts and blurred out bits to satisfy censors of the day and imply what was happening without actually showing what was happening. And I love the frozen frame on the eye-rotation cut since the tech didn't exist at the time to rotate the camera in-shot.
Been reading about it all morning. So much going on in that scene. Hitchcock was truly a master of the craft.