Beltmann Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 But I think thats the brilliance of it; you find yourself becoming complacent with all the violence. Reminds me of Haneke's Funny Games--Austrian version or American version, take your pick--which is a horror story about the danger of becoming complacent when watching violent entertainment. I wouldn't call it a creepy movie, exactly, but it sure is disturbing and affecting. Other creepy stuff, in no particular order:Michael Powell's Peeping TomBenjamin Christensen's HaxanFruit Chan's DumplingsPascal Laugier's MartyrsJoe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood HillsAndrew Jarecki's Capturing the FriedmansKirby Dick's Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, SupermasochistStan Brakhage's Window Water Baby Moving and The Dante QuartetAlejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's segment in 11'09''01 - September 11Takashi Miike's GozuHenri-Georges Clouzot's DiaboliqueLukas Moodysson's Lilja 4-everHans-Christian Schmid's RequiemRolf de Heer's Alexandra's ProjectJan Svankmajer's LunacyPier Paolo Pasolini's The Canterbury TalesCatherine Breillat's Anatomy of Hell That's off the top of my head. Some are creepy for their atmospherics, some are creepy for their provocation, and some are creepy for their philosophical ideas. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 So many of these movies (at least the ones I've seen) I admire because of the reactions they pull out of me. It's like comedies in some way - I admire a film when it makes me laugh, and I admire a film when makes my skin crawl (Eric - Anatomy of Hell made me think of this). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mpolak21 Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 This one might be slightly out of left field, but the creepiest movie I think I've ever seen or at least the one that probably made the most uncomfortable is Neal LaBute's In The Company of Men. Hitchcock, Lynch, and Herbie Goes Bananas are all great choices, but none of them seem as a real to me as Company. Even the concept that someone could be as big of a bastard as the Eckhart character in that film shook me up. Anytime I start to beat myself up over feeling like I've screwed up a friendship or done something horrible socially, I pop that one in and twenty minutes later feel better about myself though generally more scared for humanity. --Mike Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Moss Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 This one might be slightly out of left field, but the creepiest movie I think I've ever seen or at least the one that probably made the most uncomfortable is Neal LaBute's In The Company of Men. Hitchcock, Lynch, and Herbie Goes Bananas are all great choices, but none of them seem as a real to me as Company. Even the concept that someone could be as big of a bastard as the Eckhart character in that film shook me up. Anytime I start to beat myself up over feeling like I've screwed up a friendship or done something horrible socially, I pop that one in and twenty minutes later feel better about myself though generally more scared for humanity. --Mike Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. Not sure it was creepy so much as just made me feel like I needed a shower. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wild Frank Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Lots of references to David Lynch but no-one seems to have mentioned 'Inland Empire'. That is one creepy movie. Its not scary but the atmosphere in that movie made me feel a real sense of anxiety and dread. I physcally felt unconfortable watching it. My wife had to leave the room and she wasn't even watching it!! Just the soundtrack and noises made her move. I've seem it a couple of times and I've still not really got a clue as to what is going on. It is a facinating film all the same. Mulholland Drive is also pretty unsettling. Sometimes being confused by a movie like recent Lynch efforts is way more scary that just watching a traditional horror flick. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GtrPlyr Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Some good ones mentioned already. I'll add: The Tenant (Roman Polanski) Chuck & Buck (Miguel Arteta)Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)Suspiria (Dario Argento)Spoorloos / The Vanishing (George Sluizer)The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)Three Women (Robert Altman)The Hitcher (Robert Harmon)Audition (Takashi Miike)Caché (Michael Haneke)Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir)When a Stranger Calls (Fred Walton)Carrie (Brian De Palma) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gogo Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Andrew Jarecki's Capturing the FriedmansYes. Yikes. Also: Breaking the Waves. And I was also freaked out in my childhood by Crowhaven Farm. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JerseyMike Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Meet The Feebles - One of Peter Jackson's early films. I haven't ben the same since I watched that movie. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bjorn_skurj Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Breaking the Waves was a dark, bizarre, scary, beautiful and ultimately very moving cinematic experience for me. I am shivering right now thinking of the end. Wow. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beltmann Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Breaking the Waves was a dark, bizarre, scary, beautiful and ultimately very moving cinematic experience for me. I am shivering right now thinking of the end. Wow.Yeah, that's a great movie. Pretty much everything by von Trier is creepy (Medea especially qualifies), and it looks like the upcoming Antichrist is no exception. (I'm always eager for new von Trier, even though I'm just as likely to find him maddening as exciting.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 I pretty much completely lost my shit after seeing Breaking The Waves I loved it so much.Dancer In The Dark, now that was creepy. People screaming out in horror in the theater, and sobbing. Easily the most raw, visceral reactions I've ever witnessed at the movies. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gogo Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 Yeah, "creepy" might not really be the best description of Breaking the Waves. But, yeah: oh my god. Same with Dancer in the Dark. Walking out of that movie, the guy I was with said "I just want to call my mom and cry". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beltmann Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 Same with Dancer in the Dark. Walking out of that movie, the guy I was with said "I just want to call my mom and cry".I actually went to Dancer In the Dark with one of my former high school teachers--the same one who introduced me to Ingmar Bergman while I was still in school--who is now my colleague and close friend. While walking out of the movie, we were both struck silent, and neither one of us said anything until we were six or seven blocks from the theater. Finally, this exchange took place: Him: So what did you think?Me, after long pause: I think I loved it.Him, after no pause: I hated it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
caliber66 Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 No - the story's about two couples on a double date picnic - they discover an old crusty book (necronomicon), and they end up summoning some claymation monsters, and the park ranger gets all satyr on their asses. I think whatshisnuts from WKRP in Cincinnati is in it.Didn't see Howard Hessman or Venus Flytrap on there, but there was this: Assistant camera Ed Begley and Jr. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GtrPlyr Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 I didn't find Breaking the Waves or Dancer in the Dark creepy, but damn those are some emotionally devastating films. I remember my girlfriend and I saw Requiem for a Dream then went to see a late showing of Dancer in the Dark. My head was swirling for hours after that doubleheader. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beltmann Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 I remember my girlfriend and I saw Requiem for a Dream then went to see a late showing of Dancer in the Dark.Good grief! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mpolak21 Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 Some good ones mentioned already. I'll add:Three Women (Robert Altman) Yeah, this one was particularly creepy, great though. Has Straw Dogs been mentioned yet? I don't know if creepy is the right word to describe it, fascist masterpiece perhaps? But it certainly packed a punch. --Mike Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Synthesizer Patel Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 anyone else ever seen Bad Boy Bubby? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 Brother John (1971)To Kill A Clown (1972)Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Winston Legthigh Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 Didn't see Howard Hessman or Venus Flytrap on there, but there was this:It was Herb Tarlek. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
calvino Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 The Exorcism of Emily Rose was pretty interesting. It freaked my wife wife, at least. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0404032/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 Let It Be Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dude Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 Let It Be the Magical Mystery Tour television show / film is a bit creepy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GtrPlyr Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 anyone else ever seen Bad Boy Bubby?No, but after watching the trailer I've added it to my rental queue. The lead actor sort of looks like a cross between Nick Cave and Clint Howard. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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