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Topic: Scariest Super8 Feature ever
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted June 11, 2009 09:36 AM
Sometimes, I really think horror is best when it is creepy and strange, instead bowels hanging out of still quivering bodies.
Another candidate I would offer, (which I own, and am thinking of selling), is "VAMPYR", from 1933. It was released on Super 8 and standard 8mm as "Castle of Fear", the name changed when it came to America, as often happens.
It is the surreal in that film that makes it so intimidating.
The backwards footage of the grave digger, diggin backwards ...
The person enclosed in an environment, and being buried alive by the grain, (I think it was grain), pouring down upon him ...
People without shadows ... or shadows leaving they're human hosts ...
I find these kind of images reel spine tinglers. Whats left to shock when everything is displayed for all to see?
In truth, however, true horror is something I can actually see happening in fact. Godzilla stomping on a city? Boring.
In one of my sci-fi scripts, (Working title ... Plague), The detective, who has been trying to figure out why everybody is dying, when a vaccine for the last disease has been issued to all, (the common cold), stops his car, as he hears an eerie sound.
He gets out of the car, to be surrounded (as we will be, in surround sound), the screaming of babies on all sides. This will be accompanied with shots of not the babies; but the outsides of the abandoned houses, from different sharp angles.
You see, all that are above two years old, strangely die, leaving none to take care of the babies. Our own hero is in the process of dying as well.
The crying comes to a crescendo, with quicker and quicker (and all the way to extreme close-up) of windows.
He is surrounded by the wailing. He can't stand it! He gets back in his car and rolls up the windows, it doesn't help. He blares his stereo and drives off.
I can guarantee you, the women in the audience will be in tears!
That's horror!
... with one, only one really graphic graphic image in the film, a dog, running away from a pack of dogs, carrying in his mouth the ripped off limb of a baby, perhaps the child of the family that he was owned by, still dripping blood.
... or another horror script that I am working on. Terrorists take hostage a school's whole line-up of buses hostage, and to prove thier point, they immediately blow up one of the buses full of children, all the while praising they're God that they can be honored with these deaths, and all the rewards they'll have for slaughtering the innocent in they're afterlife. They aren't threatening, this is a reality. Its then a chase to somehow approach these buses and rescue the children.
For any parent, that would be an intensely scary film. Why?
It hits home and it could be a very real ... reality.
That, my friends, is horror.
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"All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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