Requiem for a Dream comes to mind. I do wish I hadn't spoiled this film for myself the way I did. He said that films are no longer able to scare people and that what filmakers have to do now has more to do with tension and suspense than flat out scares.
Films are "intense" and "suspensful" not "scary" nowadays. I thought once the tension in Prometheus was brought on that it was held until the end of the film. However, I think Ridley could and should have done a better job of building the tension.
I would have liked to have seen him take his time as far as tension is concerned. He has shown in the past that he's a master at this and I just didn't see it in this film. I've stated many times that if Ridley wasn't going to direct the sequel that I would like to see Winding Refn direct it.
IMO, he's the best in the biz currently at building and holding tension. The key word being "building. Tension and suspense is the key imo. Not "scares. The c-section being the most popular obviously. AdamWebber Ovomorph Member 0 XP Aug PM By far, the scariest moment in the movie that still haunts me in the night is near the end when Noomi Rapace is left stranded on that desolate planet.
Everyone else has been killed and she has no place to go. No one will ever know her outcome. Her gut has been stapled. She has no food or water.
The air that remains in her suit will shortly run out and she will die in a few short minutes when she removes her helmet. She just told the captain of the Prometheus to kill himself and destroy the ship. She is crying apologies to her deceased crewmates. Her only saving grace is when David calls her on the radio. I lie awake at night afraid to open my eyes sometimes.
Those dark eyes on the suit masks staring back at you. Absolutely nothing for me. No scares, or chills. Although my sister my forth viewing jumped out of her seat when the wiggly worm thingy jumps out of Holloways eyeball. Maybe if I hadn't seen every trailer times my viewing experience would have been different. Trust me, I'm going into a media blackout if and when there is ever a sequal For me none of the movie was scary but to be fair i dont scare easy and i never found Alien scary either It may be because I am desensitized and knew too much about the movie.
I think it is primarily because the movie wasn't scary. I did see the movie in Japan at an advanced screening recently I got an official Wayland scientist badge with neck strap. People were jumping as the Fifield zombie rampaged, and someone jumped when the cuddles tentacle slapped the door. I'm gonna build an airport. More topics from this board Keep me logged in on this device. Forgot your username or password? User Info: gainingtheoffense gainingtheoffense 9 years ago 1 Not that there's anything particularly wrong with jump scares, if done right.
But that's the basic formula with modern horror films is that they rely on cheap scare tactics to get a rise out of the audience. This film looks so damn atmospheric and intense that its latest trailer got me hooked, but I hope Ridley Scott is smart enough to build suspense the right way and leave the creepiness lingering in your mind instead of throwing the scares in your face.
He's a smart filmmaker and he's going back to his original roots in the Science Fiction genre and Prometheus comes out on my 23rd birthday!
Super psyched! The shocks are broadly the same, and it's not really as creepy as the first film. Prometheus doesn't have the discerning use of blood and gore that Alien has for effect. It has more, but for me, to less effect. It's too much, too often, to convince. It has one or two hand-bangs-on-the-window-you're-looking-out kind of jumps like Black Swan, but as a comparison, I would say it is nowhere near as successful as Black Swan in moments of creepy crawly body horror. Like you, I don't have a lot of stomach for horror movies, but I found Prometheus eminently watcheable, if a bit tense and squicky at times.
If Alien was tolerable, you shouldn't have a problem with Prometheus. The scenes that might be cringe-worthy were more tense than scary. If you saw Alien and liked it enough to be interested in Prometheus you should be alright. Umm, spoilers much Brandon Blatcher? Regardless, Prometheus is about a terrifying situation, but it handles it in a very stomach-able way. The only scene that would give me pause is quite short, and is the best scene in the movie IMO.
I am not a horror fan, but I saw Alien many years ago and was potentially interested in Prometheus. Friends familiar with my squicks and squeamishness told me I needed not to see it. I have not seen Black Swan. Mod note: Please attempt to avoid graphically spoilering the movie here. My wife refuses to go to any vampire, zombie, slasher flicks with me. She won't watch them at home even.
We did see The Grey in theatres and it freaked her out. We saw Prometheus with no issues. I even asked her afterwards and she shrugged it off as not even horror. They never tread into the teen horror trope of jump scares where it's just the cat, or someone inexplicably jumping out from the bushes.
And some of them are genuinely creepy. Like when Sam Neill is in the service ducts with the pulsing lights with his dead wife, or when Sean Pertwee discovers the time bomb and just kind of sobs before it goes off. But outside of that, there's plenty of squick in the chaos dimension imagery, the scene where Sam Neill relives his wife's suicide is horrific, there's the tension of the kid from that Bon Jovi filmclip in the airlock, the creepy little kid and plenty of building tension as you discover exactly what's going on with the ship.
Outside of the general criticisms, I think it stands up pretty well in terms of its sci-fi side - though that may just be because it recaptures Alien very well in that respect - the characters with the exception of Kathleen Quinlan behave pretty much exactly as you'd expect them too under the circumstances and thematically, it's simple, but it's tight.
It's not a perfect movie, but as a sci-fi horror movie, it's very effective. Even just as straight horror, I can't think of many movies in the last 20 years or so that hold up its standard. They're either vacuous teen slasher movies, gore porn or just plain shit.
One Wolf : I thought Event Horizon was fantastic. I've seen it several times, and I don't recall the dialog being especially cheesy, or if it was, it was handled aptly enough by the cast that I didn't notice. For example, I enjoy the scene near the start of the film where the crew is being introduced - TJ says "patrolman", and everyone laughs.
It makes no sense, but it reminds me of the kind of inside jokes I developed with my long-term friends. An almost imperceptible, meaningless detail, but I noticed it the first time I saw the movie. And I love details. For me, atmosphere is the most essential element in the "horror" flicks that I enjoy.
Most jump-scare movies don't work for me, and some scenes in EH didn't either.
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