Even more running time elapses before John Hurt gets some very nasty chest pains in Alien. Was not expecting who the "devil" was. Watch horror movies try and fail to ruin bed. Following the film's premiere, a string of other films focusing on Satan worshippers and black magic were produced, including The Brotherhood of Satan, Mark of the Devil, Black Noon, and The Blood on Satan's Claw. One of the best directed scenes ever! The interview setup offers no safety, because the first shot establishes that the doll is still sitting right there with them. He joins forces with an unconventional priest, schooled in the rites of exorcism, to combat the possessions that are terrorizing their city. It begins with Dr. Sarah Bowman (Lori Cardille) imagining herself staring at a pretty picture in an otherwise featureless room, before a dozen writhing zombie arms burst through the wall. Two siblings become increasingly frightened by their grandparents' disturbing behavior while visiting them on vacation. But then the eye blinks and changes color, letting you know immediately something’s amiss. The violent, sexual, and religious content of director Ken Russell’s 1971 film The Devils has long made it one of the most controversial horror movies of them all. The book that Miranda asks Andy to retrieve for her twin daughters is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. 1,76 sec. This leads to a discussion of Twilight Zone twist endings, which, of course, leads to a twist ending of its own. Devil (2010) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. She takes refuge in a friend’s similarly stylish apartment, where she’s besieged by an unknown supernatural assailant as Goblin’s music whips itself into a pagan frenzy in the background. The horror then goes from micro to macro as our traumatized heroine steps out into blinding daylight to discover that her entire neighborhood—and by extension, the entire planet—has gone straight to hell. A series of events tests the beliefs of a small isolated countryside village. The film begins with a simple black-and-white title sequence, before cutting to the world’s most stylishly lit airport, where we first meet American student Suzy (Jessica Harper). George Romero’s first zombie movie eventually serves up a small army of hungry corpses, but it kicks off with a single, slightly lurching guy (Bill Hinzman) in a suit, looking like just another mourner at the cemetery where Barbra (Judith O’Dea) and her brother, Johnny (Russell Streiner), have arrived to place a wreath on their father’s grave. The long opening follows an increasingly nervous babysitter as she keeps getting phone calls from someone who asks, softly and ominously, “Have you checked the children?” From Carol Kane’s escalating anxiety as a woman alone, to the blood-chilling kicker from the police—“The calls are coming from inside the house!”—When A Stranger Calls begins with a sequence that’s a suspense classic in and of itself, touching on our common fear of being stalked where we live. Them, a film in which probably 90 percent of the dialogue happens in the first 10 minutes, uses its opening sequence to demonstrate the power of staying in the moment with a character, rather than wandering ahead. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. When the tape breaks, the restless duo start playing a series of car games, from the reckless (driving with the headlights off) to the shamelessly nostalgic (a ’50s and ’60s TV-heavy game of “Name That Tune”). Time is running out for the occupants of the elevator, as Bowden realizes he has to get them out quickly. But for a few harrowing minutes, the man behind Batman V Superman really did look like a master of horror in the making. A young widower returns to his hometown to search for answers to his wife's murder, which may be linked to the ghost of a deceased ventriloquist. The actor vanishing silently into a darkened room ends up being far more chilling than any jump scare, and the whole sequence sets up a film that marks McCarthy as one of the more promising young horror directors working today. Day Of The Dead may not have been the gore-soaked Gone With The Wind that its creator intended, but for a few minutes at least, Romero staged his own ghoul-infested version of the Battle Of Atlanta. Every one of these opening set pieces is a gory delight, but the best of the bunch is probably the multi-car pileup of the first sequel. When it comes to the spooky stuff, sometimes it’s good to get right down to hair-raising business. [Katie Rife], The late Wes Craven was a master of reinvention, and the opening of 1996’s Scream heralded yet another new chapter in his career. Much like the opening scene itself. Director Joseph Ruben, working from a screenplay by Donald E. Westlake, doesn’t try to be cute, showing Henry with bloodstained hands and arms the very first time we see him, standing in front of his bathroom mirror. In Philadelphia, Detective Bowden is still grieving for his wife and son, killed in a hit-and-run five years ago. The film begins with a person committing suicide by jumping from a building narrated by Ramirez (Jacob Vargas) who mentions that his mother tells him stories of the Devil roaming the earth, and it always begins with a suicide. I look like a whale. And her death, when it inevitably did arrive, was brutal. Sexually repressed nuns let their habits fly. 8 of 8 people found this review helpful. It’s repulsive, excessive, and oddly titillating, just like the rest the film. [Alex McLevy], James Wan came on the horror scene with the overwrought twistiness of Saw, but his Conjuring movies have a genre classicism that borders on stateliness by comparison. That’s not a great advertising strategy, and neither is the sight of watching the mob beat its victim—whether he’s innocent is up for debate—with iron chains, nail him to a stone wall, and throw quicklime on him so he starts dissolving before our eyes into a fizzy goop. Devil It’s two demolition derbies for the price of one! View production, box office, & company info. From the moment the mother disappears from in front of the car, the audience is given the daughter’s perspective, close-ups of her face continually intercut with her point of view, frantically scanning the surroundings, without a chance to worry about anything beyond the immediate. But a tight budget primarily limited Day Of The Dead to one sparsely decorated underground bunker. Without being able to contact the individuals, he tries to work out who they are, but he can only account for four of them. (2010). A man in a prisoner’s jumpsuit awakens, confused, inside a massive, cube-shaped room with four hatches. (Because beginning with a bang is a fairly modern tradition, we couldn’t find anything particularly applicable from cinema’s first half-century—though we wracked our brains, honest!) Steel your nerves and secure your popcorn, because these are The A.V Club’s 25 scariest opening scenes in horror-movie history: Even in his giallo movies, suspense was never really Lucio Fulci’s thing. That disconnected moment leads into a classic “alone in the house” scenario, and director Nicholas McCarthy is practically Spielbergian in his narrative cleverness. It went by fast though. Devil (also known as The Night Chronicles 1: Devil) is a 2010 American supernatural horror film directed by John Erick Dowdle.The screenplay by Brian Nelson was from a story by M. Night Shyamalan.The film stars Chris Messina, Logan Marshall-Green, Geoffrey Arend, Bojana Novakovic, Jenny O'Hara, and Bokeem Woodbine. Written by [Ignatiy Vishnevetsky], The opening of Dario Argento’s Suspiria perfectly sets the tone for the film, establishing a vividly stylized nightmare world that’s equal parts beautiful and terrifying. Their longer take on the story is sluggish in its final hour (until the excruciatingly tense finale, that is), but act one has been honed into a devastatingly effective weapon. The success lies in the timing of the reveals, as well as the unexpected incorporation of the mom, given that parents are usually the ones to show up and scream after the fact. [Alex McLevy], George Romero originally planned to out-do his 1968 cult hit Night Of The Living Dead and its critically acclaimed 1978 sequel Dawn Of The Dead with a grander-scaled third chapter. The film, which only gave away a very small amount of information in the global trailer, ‘Devil’ was produced and created from the mind of M. Night Shymalan and was predicated to be amazing. A father and son, both coroners, are pulled into a complex mystery while attempting to identify the body of a young woman, who was apparently harboring dark secrets. When the cable finally snaps, slicing through all aboard—save for one little girl, spared by her height—there’s a pregnant, blackly comic pause as everyone slowly realizes what’s happened. One of the prop books used in the movie, sold in an online auction for $586, and proceeds went to Dress for Success, a non-profit organization that assists more than 45,000 disadvantaged women each year as they transition into the workforce. It’s followed by a gory sequence of their newly halved bodies slip-sliding apart, and finally, genuine psychological terror, as the little girl realizes she’s now all alone, in the middle of the ocean, atop a floating corpse-pile. Not only does Night Of The Living Dead’s initial murder and subsequent frantic chase launch an enduring nightmare-fuel franchise, it confirms even the most fleeting and ludicrous thought about the intentions of random strangers in deserted locations. The communication radio in the elevator is broken but the guards, Lustig and Ramirez, observe the individuals via CCTV as events unfold. Whistling “Camptown Races,” he strolls off to become “Jerry Blake,” seeking a new, unwitting family to disappoint him. The biggest star in the film, then in the midst of a career renaissance, was not going to survive through the opening credits. And, much like Robert Carlyle’s panicked breaths on his escape boat, the sequence leaves viewers breathless and exhilarated, and with the bleak assurance that death is coming for everyone. The opening scene of It Follows—even just its opening shot—immediately earned David Robert Mitchell’s sophomore feature a place in the annals of formalist horror. How very meta. Devil was released on September 17, 2010. Johnny, teasing Barbra about how scared she’d been as a kid, pretends that this dapper dude is stalking her, but finds out soon enough that he’s speaking the truth (though he doesn’t get much time to appreciate the cruel irony). Meanwhile, five strangers are trapped in an elevator in the building where the jumper committed suicide. [Mike D’Angelo], The opening moments of Steve Beck’s supernatural sort-of-thriller Ghost Ship are a microcosm of everything great about horror movies. At least a half-hour passes in Psycho before Marion Crane takes that fateful shower. But its opening onslaught of terror stands alone, promising a better movie (and career) than the one that followed. Answering a ringing telephone on the far end of a long hallway, prep-school student Kat (Kiernan Shipka) receives bad news (the voice on the line is an unholy croak), before having visions of an ominous snowbank, a demolished car, and a man in a long, black overcoat. Carpenter’s stylized staging of the sequence treats the gaze of the young Michael Myers as elemental; slipping from artful expressionism into lurid voyeurism, the whole unshakeable sequence suggests the perspective of a killer whose psyche could be the dark side of film itself. [Katie Rife], More than a year after it premiered in Toronto under the title February, director Oz Perkins’ supremely creepy directorial debut still hasn’t crept into theaters. Then the doc wakes up on a helicopter heading to an abandoned Florida city, on a search for human survivors of the zombie apocalypse. Shooting the scene over the course of five days, Craven reportedly kept Barrymore, a devoted vegetarian, upset throughout filming by telling her stories of animal cruelty, a sadistic little touch that fits nicely with his ethos. A deaf and mute writer who retreated into the woods to live a solitary life must fight for her life in silence when a masked killer appears at her window. © Lions Gate Films Like the Final Destination franchise on a whole, this disaster movie in miniature plays on a collective fear of senseless demise, building a diabolical Rube Goldberg device from of our anxiety about freak accidents. 2.20 Towards the ending of the next shot of the dragging-scene the unrated version is again a bit longer. A social worker fights to save a girl from her abusive parents, only to discover that the situation is more dangerous than she ever expected. We don’t yet know how the creature works, and that lack of knowledge is the scene’s trump card. A science teacher, his wife, and a young girl struggle to survive a plague that causes those infected to commit suicide. The rest of Ghost Ship would be hard-pressed to live up to that, even with a script that wasn’t tedious, predictable claptrap. A group of old college friends reunite for a trip to a Swedish forest, but encounter a menacing presence there stalking them. Testing each, he finds they all lead to other cube-shaped rooms, all bathed in different colors. But Wan plays hauntings like a conductor plays an orchestra. Snyder’s career-launching remake of Dawn Of The Dead begins on an idyll of suburban calm that’s nightmarishly shattered when a zombified little girl invades the home of an unsuspecting ER nurse (Sarah Polley). Great horror can trick its audience into not being able to look away. [Alex McLevy], “They’re coming to get you, Barbra!” For nearly 50 years now, that line has cast a pall over joking threats of potential mayhem, evoking a disturbing possibility: Maybe, just maybe, they really are coming to get you. When someone jumps from a skyscraper onto a truck, Bowden is sent to investigate. The scenes themselves range in length, from about a minute to a good 15 or 20, with the only criteria being that they must constitute the first scene or passage, excepting a credits sequence. That fact is a Greek tragedy. [Jesse Hassenger], Gruesome by the standards of its time, Black Sunday was the movie that put Italian horror on the map: a lurid Gothic tale of cobweb-filled crypts, fog-shrouded cemeteries, and devil-worshipping Moldavian vampire-sorcerers. I enjoyed the cinematography. Ned, the bullied outsider, and Conor, a new boy and star athlete, are forced to room together at their cloistered boarding school. CLACKER #1 You look awesome today. In this case, it’s the VHS tape possessed by an evil spirit, providing a bevy of allegories and ideas for discussion. And the camera pulls back at the end to reveal the monster floating, above the door, in a great and chilling tease for the movie to come… if only it lived up to that prompt. [Katie Rife], The first thing that hits you in the opening moments of 28 Weeks Later is the oppressive silence. The orphanage seems to be hidden away from civilisation as there is nothing surrounding it e.g no shops, houses or many people. But we think of you every time we dip our toes in a dark body of water and decide that maybe dry land is the better bet. Menu. Kevin P. Sullivan 10/21/2014 In a world that can be cruel, random and unjust, bed is one of the few objective goods. The scene in which Rosemary is raped by Satan was ranked No. Especially the opening scenes and the scenes inside the elevator shaft. There’s no doubt that something awful has happened, no big reveal in store. The best representation of what the director had in mind can be seen in the movie’s pulse-pounding first five minutes. A group of people are trapped in an elevator and the Devil is mysteriously amongst them. But it’s clear from the very first scene of this seminal blockbuster that Spielberg was already a master of suggestion: He shows us nothing but the mighty beast’s ominous point of view, but we see everything in our minds—the bloody work being made of Chrissie’s lower half, as she’s thrashed around like a fish on a line, gurgling “It hurts” to no one who can hear her. Her delayed first period sends her into a panic, to which her classmates respond by pelting her with tampons, laughing and chanting “plug it up!” as she pleads for help. But its opening scene is an inspired bit of horror filmmaking, as director Jonathan Liebesman pivots from a hokey opening-credits explanation of the film’s central mythos to a terrific bedtime haunting. Bonus points for doubling the carnage, as these movies always do, by chasing the vision of impending catastrophe with the actual one that follows. When director Brian De Palma cuts to slow-motion locker-room voyeurism, the camera eventually finds Carrie again, her shower reverie broken as a close-up reveals, to her horror, blood making its way down her legs. The scene culminates in a bloody, brutal hanging death, a clear signal that this particular fairy tale is way more Brothers Grimm than Disney. Drew Barrymore’s Casey was not going to make it, no matter how hard she fought back. ELIAS-CLARKE ELEVATOR -- DAY 7 ANDY is a shrub in a CLACKER forest. When Suzy pulls up to her new home, a German ballet school, in the pouring rain, we switch focus to a frantic young woman fleeing the school on foot. [A.A. Dowd], John Landis is a comedy director as much as he is a horror director, but no matter what genre he’s working in, he’s always a baby boomer. To watch the first two and a half minutes of THE DEVIL… To mark the occasion, we have an EXCLUSIVE clip to share today that offers a look at the film's opening scene. Attempts at imitating the first-person with a camera are often awkward, but Halloween’s unbroken handheld shot is amazingly fluid. Instead, the opening traffics in different, more relatable anxieties: social misery, loneliness, cruel mockery, and an empathetic fear for Carrie herself, who seems so unequipped to navigate this nasty world. Movies. What wrongdoing did each of the trapped people commit. He chooses one, seemingly at random, and, in the blink of an eye, tiny lines appear across his face. Snyder’s coup de gras: a stylishly disturbing credits sequence that sets an end-of-the-world montage to the apocalyptic folk of Johnny Cash’s “When The Man Comes Around.” On a whole, Snyder’s Dawn is no patch on George Romero’s. 23 on Bravo's The 100 Scariest Movie Moments. Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed. In the indelible opening stretch, a young man (C. Thomas Howell) picks up an enigmatic hitchhiker (Rutger Hauer) on a rainy night in the middle of nowhere. Detective Bowden (Chris Messina) is called to the scene to aid in the investigation. It lasts just long enough to establish a mood of haunted paranoia, as though these are the only people left on Earth—and then all hell breaks loose. As the blood begins to trickle, his body separates into cubes of its own, slowly crumbling to the floor like a diced potato. When someone jumps from a skyscraper onto a truck, Bowden is sent to investigate. From the stars of "The Good Place" to a pair of "Pretty Little Liars," check out our gallery of celebrity besties. [A.A. Dowd], The Pact opens on an unblinking eye, like an inverted homage to the rapidly blinking eye that kicks off Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom. The Italian director was more into gross-out gore, and there’s plenty of that in the opening scene of The Beyond. The communication radio in the elevator is broken but the guards, Lustig and Ramirez, observe the individuals via CCTV as events unfold. All she wanted was a relaxing skinny dip on a nice summer night, and maybe to get laid by the drunk hippy she makes eyes with across the beach bonfire. IFC Midnight shared this opening sequence from Loved Ones director Sean Byrne’s heavy metal horror film, The Devil’s Candy, which is now in … [Ignatiy Vishnevetsky], All five Final Destination movies begin the same way: Some hunk or babe experiences a premonition of mass doom (a plane crash, a malfunctioning roller coaster, a bloodbath at the race track), which they and a few others are then able to narrowly sidestep, incurring the score-settling wrath of death itself. ANDY runs in. Those are some of my favorite movies, folks, but I admit their openings pale in comparison to "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead". The scene where Damian visits his attic and starts ranting at the statue of Jesus on the cross, is like an angry adolescent having a … New York police officer Ralph Sarchie investigates a series of crimes. Directed by John Erick Dowdle. As cruise ship passengers dance romantically beneath the stars, tension builds as the camera tracks a razor-thin wire, slowly stretching taut around them after being set in motion by a mystery person’s hand. 5,56 sec. With Halloween right around the corner, and Horrors Weeks in full swing, The A.V. It's a How-To that should be taught in screenwriting courses all over the country but probably will never even get a passing mention. Like the other characters (who will have to do a much better job of navigating), the audience may not understand the why of what’s going on—but already has everything it needs to know. One turns to another. CLACKER #2 Oh, please. [A.A. Dowd], If you showed somebody unfamiliar with The Stepfather its opening scene, absent any context, they’d be likely to assume that it’s the movie’s finale. Functioning essentially as a stand-alone short film, the 13-minute sequence informs the viewer that all the rules of horror movies—rules that Craven himself had helped establish—no longer applied. [A.A. Dowd]. All of these elements come together beautifully in Landis’ prologue to the 1983 anthology film Twilight Zone: The Movie, which opens with comedians Albert Brooks and Dan Aykroyd cruising down a dark, winding highway toward some unknown destination, jamming to Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Midnight Special” on the car radio. Faust is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two.Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language stages. But in its first minutes, the film is nothing but a master class in suspense, staged by Verbinski as a series of back-and-forth shots between empty but menacing rooms and Amber Tamblyn’s increasingly terrified face. But there’s still something exciting about a scary movie that’s scary from the very start—one that opens with a big shock, sets a perfect tone immediately, or begins ratcheting up the suspense from the first frames. No one pays much mind. Serving as a prologue to the film’s main plot, the scene rewinds to 1927 and the murder of a suspected warlock in the basement of the Seven Doors Hotel, so named because it contains one of the seven portals to hell. The late David R. Ellis masterfully ratchets up suspense, cutting from one driver to another on a crowded, slippery stretch of highway, before orchestrating a spectacular panorama of vehicular mayhem. “The Devil’s Brigade” (1968) The classic World War II film starring William Holden, Cliff Robertson, and a slew of recognizable actors tells the true story of a special fighting unit of Canadian Army and U.S. Army soldiers whose initial hate for each other turns to respect and camaraderie that helps them succeed in an impossible mission. A man accepts an invitation to a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife, an unsettling affair that reopens old wounds and creates new tensions. [Sean O’Neal], The opening scene of It Follows—even just its opening shot—immediately earned David Robert Mitchell’s sophomore feature a place in the annals of formalist horror. The source of dread isn’t the movie’s invisible, shape-shifting monster—a protean metaphor if there ever was one—but the most basic properties of movie style. Mise-en-scene in the opening scene of 'The Devil's Backbone' The location seems to be very isolated and desserted with only sand and dead crops surrounding this old orphanage. It’s one of the most convincing expressions of terror ever put on film (the actress, Susan Backlinie, deserves a spot in the scream-queen hall of fame for her three minutes of screen time), and that monstrous fear ripples through all of Jaws, staying on our minds even (or perhaps especially) when the shark is “safely” out of sight. They are the CLACKERS of Elias-Clarke. 2.14 Again, the woman is dragged a few inches further. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. Club is counting down the scariest, creepiest, and most nerve-shredding opening scenes in horror-movie history. Plenty of great horror movies, in other words, take their time getting to the good stuff. 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