RobOfTheDead
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Post by RobOfTheDead on Mar 29, 2007 16:38:39 GMT -5
My friend and I are working on a script for a horror movie where no one actually dies. I know there have been horror films where no one in the main cast dies but this will be a movie where each person in the cast goes through a lot emotionally, physically and mentally but actually make through the movie alive but maybe not all in one piece mentally and physcially. It will be more psychological and focus more on atmosphere and tension rather than gore.
Does anyone have any suggestions for our movie? (Characters, Setting, Music, etc.) Could anyone recommend any good Psychological Horror films without any death or as little violence as possible? Thanks. We just started brainstorming ideas.
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Post by StarOpal on Mar 29, 2007 17:44:12 GMT -5
Could anyone recommend any good Psychological Horror films without any death or as little violence as possible? Thanks. We just started brainstorming ideas. Let me start out with: I'm no horror expert. When it comes to the psychological with no deaths (at least during the time the movie covers) or violence I would suggest Gaslight. And while somebody does dies, Diabolique(I think the old one is creepier) is a good psych movie. I don't recall anyone dying in The Entity, but there's some violence. And then you have movies where it turns out one or more of the characters has been dead all along, but weren't actually killed by someone or something else.* Which would be kinda spoilery if I put the titles up.* Does anybody die in The Tenant (I didn't get to see the whole thing)? Aside from the previous tenant I mean. Either way Tooth In Wall = Creepy. *I just realized how "dur" these sentences came out. Something obviously killed them, but it wasn't a murderer or monster or something like that. And if you're interested in them anyway I'll post the titles, but if you're not I didn't just want to go ahead make this into a spoiler thread. There. That should explain things better. |
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Post by starwenn on Mar 29, 2007 20:18:53 GMT -5
I'm no horror expert, either, but I can recommend the one horror movie I ever saw in a theater - "The Others" with Nicole Kidman as the mother of children who cannot be exposed to sunlight living in a creepy old house. This film terrified me so much I shook for an hour afterwards, and though blood-and-spatter-fest fans will probably find it reletively tame and cheesy, it is bloodless. (There are deaths, but they happened off-screen, though I can't reveal more without spoilers.)
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Post by TheLuckyOne on Mar 29, 2007 22:33:18 GMT -5
The Exorcist is widely recognized as the scariest movie ever made; only rarely will something like The Shining unseat it on the occasional list. There ARE deaths in Exorcist, two that I remember, but one is tangential to the plot (I don't think you even see it, it's just the mother of one of the main characters), and one only occurs in the very end, and probably could have been left out if you really wanted to. Other than that, it's ALL about mood and psychological terror, the horror of seeing pure evil manifest itself in a little girl. Take that film as your inspiration and go.
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Post by TheOogieBoogieMan on Mar 29, 2007 23:23:14 GMT -5
I'd add Requiem for a Dream to what's been mentioned. It's not a "horror" film, in the technical sense, but it scared me far more than most horror films I've seen (just try watching the end without curling up on the floor and whimpering). Plus, no one dies, the way I remember it.
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Post by sarahbot on Mar 30, 2007 12:44:15 GMT -5
Starwenn beat me to the punch with The Others. That movie TERRIFIED me.
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RobOfTheDead
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Post by RobOfTheDead on Mar 30, 2007 14:28:01 GMT -5
Thanks for the suggestions. I watched a little of The Others before but I'll watch it again. I'll check out Gaslight, Diabolique, The Entity and The Tenant. Please keep any suggestions coming.
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Post by RobOfTheDead on Mar 30, 2007 14:30:41 GMT -5
Could anyone recommend any good Psychological Horror films without any death or as little violence as possible? Thanks. We just started brainstorming ideas. *I just realized how "dur" these sentences came out. Something obviously killed them, but it wasn't a murderer or monster or something like that. And if you're interested in them anyway I'll post the titles, but if you're not I didn't just want to go ahead make this into a spoiler thread. There. That should explain things better. You can just post those titles with a spoiler warning on them. Anything to help with our script. Could anyone post any good quotes we can use at the start of our film making comment on society or human nature, too? Thanks. |
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Post by blinkfan on Mar 30, 2007 16:28:09 GMT -5
Shallow Grave is one I would reccomend
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Post by StarOpal on Mar 30, 2007 17:58:24 GMT -5
Starwenn beat me to the punch with The Others. That movie TERRIFIED me. True story: During the scene where the old maid and Nicole Kidman are talking, the maid says something like, "Sometimes the world of the living gets mixed up in the world of the dead." I said to the friends I was watching it with, "You've got your dead on my living! You've got your living on my dead!" And all the electricity in my house went out. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean it!" The electricity came back on. Later I asked my neighbor if her power had gone out, thinking maybe it wasn't just me, and she said no. Scary! Quotes: "Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood" - Hamlet, Shakespeare "Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold" - Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge "The eyes are not here There are no eyes here" - The Hollow Men, T. S. Elliot SPOILERS! Let's see, movies where it turns out they've been dead all along!The Others Carnival of Souls Jacob's Ladder Soul Survivors The Sixth Sense (I personally found Stir of Echoes scarier, but just to complete the list...) |
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Post by StarOpal on Mar 30, 2007 18:01:49 GMT -5
The Exorcist is widely recognized as the scariest movie ever made; only rarely will something like The Shining unseat it on the occasional list. There ARE deaths in Exorcist, two that I remember, but one is tangential to the plot (I don't think you even see it, it's just the mother of one of the main characters), and one only occurs in the very end, and probably could have been left out if you really wanted to. Other than that, it's ALL about mood and psychological terror, the horror of seeing pure evil manifest itself in a little girl. Take that film as your inspiration and go. -D I thought both priests ended up dying... Or am I remembering wrong? |
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Post by DarthShady on Mar 30, 2007 19:02:02 GMT -5
First, may I commend StarOpal for quoting Coleridge and Eliot, who are two of my favorite poets ever!
Second, the whole already-dead thing is pretty scary, but might be very cliche. For a creepy-in-a-pysche-way, I can't help but think that what you're going for is a Twilight Zone-y thing. Unfortunately, I can't think of anything right now that could actually last more than a half-hour. But maybe if you rent the DVDs or something, that might give you a few ideas. I really can't think of anything right now. Maybe if you started with a funeral or something, like have someone who would've been close to the main characters have already died or something, then show how the death affects them....I dunno....
The best example of a movie like that is maybe The Exorcism of Emily Rose. If I remember correctly, Emily was the only one who died. But it scared the be-jeebus out of me!
Good opening lines....Well, maybe to go along with StarOpal's poetic suggestions, there's always my favorite Emily Dickinson poem:
"It's such a little thing to weep --
So short a thing to sigh --
And yet -- by Trades -- the size of these
We men and women die!" - 189
I can't really think of any other lines that wouldn't be completely corny.
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Post by RobOfTheDead on Mar 31, 2007 10:34:01 GMT -5
The Exorcist is widely recognized as the scariest movie ever made; only rarely will something like The Shining unseat it on the occasional list. There ARE deaths in Exorcist, two that I remember, but one is tangential to the plot (I don't think you even see it, it's just the mother of one of the main characters), and one only occurs in the very end, and probably could have been left out if you really wanted to. Other than that, it's ALL about mood and psychological terror, the horror of seeing pure evil manifest itself in a little girl. Take that film as your inspiration and go. -D I thought both priests ended up dying... Or am I remembering wrong? Spoiler Yes, both priests did dieSpoiler Thanks for all the quotes and suggestions. Please keep them coming. I'm leaning more towards the Emily Dickinson and Coleridge quotes. I like the DarthShady's idea of starting with a funeral or something traumatic happening that affects all the characters. We need some sort of catylyst that sets off the whole story. |
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Post by Head Mutant on Mar 31, 2007 18:52:30 GMT -5
Trying to recall — did anyone in Poltergeist die?
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Post by StarOpal on Mar 31, 2007 19:23:38 GMT -5
I'm not sure if the investigator with the glasses died, or if he was just spooked so bad he left the investigation....
No, I don't think anyone died in the first one.
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