I recently saw this & am now convinced that I have seen the most frightening scene ever filmed -- when Christof is buried alive. Knowing that he was conscious & helpless as the needle was stuck in his eye. And when the tear rolled down in his cheek in the coffin...WOW!!! I swear this is the most disturbing thing I have ever seen.
shareYou will need to extend your experience of scary movies...
There are plenty of more frightening scenes in the horror film genre - and also outside of the genre - and even more disturbing stuff occurs in real life.
Having seen a TON of movies -- and not just horror films -- I can honestly say that the scene in S&tR is, to me, the most frightening thing I have ever in a film. This is probably due in part to my greatest fear: being buried alive. I can think of nothing more horrifying than being alive inside a box buried in the ground, completely aware of what is happening and totally helpless. Even more disturbing to me is the fact that Christof was alive yet incapable of even letting out the tiniest indication that he is still, in fact, alive. Maybe there are far more terrifying scenes in movies, but I have yet to see one that disturbed me as much as this one did.
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I'm not even going to look. But it's a sad state of affairs when someone becomes so coldly desensitized to this sort of thing that it ceases to disturb them.
sharedesensitization is a term used for people who do not have enough information and enough inner speculation to understand that an overload of violent images can cause them harm. in other words people who are desensitized to things such as violence, deviant sex, abuse, do not take these things as anything but viceral, it is simply an act or picture or thought that happens all the time and so seeing or hearing of it twists your view of reality so that it reenforces the idea that it is so common that it can beeither:acceptable, or, that hu,an life is worthless. this is a problem that is prevalent in t.v culture, people sit on ther asses and watch television because they dont want to think, they simply want to SEE somthing without substance.
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It's only a movie. Nothing in a movie will ever disturb me because it is fake.
We made a land where crap is king, and the good don't last too long.
So why was Christophe being buried alive any more disturbing to you than when Dr. Alan was being buried?
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This is one under-rated film.....the endings a bit Hollywood but when Zakes Mokae gives something to Dr Alan in his coffin...'to keep him company'...it is one of the best horror movie scenes ever. Must admit when i go to see a movie i tend not to bring 'real-life' with me.....sure there are bad things in this world but not watching a horror film is going to stop that.....someone posting threads of Ogrish on this site has a major problem.
shareThe bit when he is having a dream of himself being buried is way more intense than the first scene. Its super dooper when he turns around and the room looks weird and he turns forward and the cross on the door is see-through and he watched that guy pour dirt on him then it all gets thin and the back wall sucks in behind him and the dirt is falling sideways then the camera rotates to make it look as though he is lying down.
Its fantastically shot and its an intense magical scene.
I haven't seen a lot of scary movies, and I haven't seen the rest of Serpent & Rainbow, but I've seen the first five minutes and I agree that that scene is scary! I thought, "That's enough for me!" and changed the channel.
I also agree that the scariest things happen in real life. I hope none of you ever call a friend and worry that he/she may not answer because he/she might not be alive (and if you already have, I hope it doesn't happen again).
Actually I was more rattled by the scene where Bill Pullman's character is having the nightmare about waking up buried alive and screaming, 'HELP ME! HELP ME!' while blood started to rise from below and engulf him. And then, later, when he actually is buried alive and a big hairy spider is thrown in to crawl around on his face while he lies immobile and helpless for 12 hours.
However, I have seen much more disturbing things than this, like the part in the Japanese film 'Audition' where the girl has this mutilated, hobbled, nude man who she keeps in a sack in her apartment, and she vomits in a bowl and feeds it to him.
Yeah, being buried alive would make my, 'Top 10 worst ways to shuffle off mortal coil'... Although at least here you can deal with the imagery by saying (as in Last House on the Left), 'It's only a movie'. For me personally, the most upsetting scene I have ever watched (twice) is Kittykins meeting his feline maker in, 'Men Behind the Sun'. This hit me hard because:
1) I've got a cat and he's ace and if anyone tried to eat him then I'd eat their kids.
2) Clearly a real cat being eaten alive by real rats. Made worse cos I suspect they covered tiddles in some sort of syrup to encourage the rats to tuck in.
As always, the bigger picture far exceeds the silver screen. For a cats life to be no more than a special effect reflects a difference in life-perspective that scares me more than any artifical idea of horror; no matter how well executed.
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I watched S&tR last night, and for me the scene where Dr Alan himself is buried alive is the one truly chilling part. You've got that great big spider in there with him, and the way he wakes up, rasping and screaming, with the screen completely black, really makes an impact.
They should have ended the film right there and then, with this scene playing right after his girlfriend gets her head hacked off. A brilliant ending was right there for them.
If you haven't seen it yet, go rent "The Vanishing (Spoorloos)", the original Dutch version, certainly not the American remake. I don't wanna go into any details but just trust me.
sharejkauf3 on Mon Aug 29 2005: <If you haven't seen it yet, go rent "The Vanishing (Spoorloos)"...>
Yes, I'll second that!
Also, see Fulci's CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD.
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Well, I can't remember what movie it was, but you apparently haven't seen the Vaseline covered soldering iron scene...
However, for this movie, the guy having his balls nailed to the chair was pretty brutal.
Also, for some reason, when they guy blew the goofer dust in that guy's face on the street creeped me out too.
Sorry if somebody's already answered by now, seeing as it's been years. But that movie is The Exterminator.
shareThat's the most frightening thing I can imagine as well, and it is something that, when I imagine such a scenario, makes me feel like I might have a panic attack and I honestly get chills.
I would only hope that if a person is ever in that situation, that maybe the mind/body goes into such a state of panic that they pass out until they can die or be rescued. Obviously in most cases eventually you would suffocate but imagine some way of torturing somebody where you enable oxygen to reach them. Freaks me out!!!
The point is... this was real life. Anyone who has ever been under anesthesia can respect the horror of what it is like to be conscious but not able to move or do anything about it. Being buried alive and not being able to shout for help woul be even worse.
shareBTW in real life the poison can last for up to 8 days.
sharei'd have to say i didn't think this movie was scary in the least. the plot had more holes then swiss cheese. I couldn't belive I actually watched the whole thing. And as far as Zombies are concerned these "zombies" were pathetic. If you want zombies that actually get some explaination sit down and watch the george romero films together. You get plot, gore, and characters you actually give a damn about.
shareI LOVED this movie.
Paul Winfield is and forever will be Lucien to me.
As far as scary, I saw some wicked scary *beep* from underground films I'd never heard of in a countdown of the scariest movie moments of all time. One was from a Japanese film where this girl tortures a guy that she keeps in a bag. She cuts off body parts from the guy with a grin on her face. She uses this wire saw to cut through the bone as she removes the last leg from what is basically just a torso of a man. He can't plead for mercy because she had already cut out his tongue.
When I compare the two scenes, Christof's eyeball getting stabbed is not so dang scary..... but the film as a whole is incedible. It's an interesting story and it's original and it is believable when compared with so many other horror film plots that rely on mad scientists, irradiated monsters, aliens, or psychopaths who somehow wont die.
Serpent and the Rainbow has a degree of believability that makes it scarrier and more fun than ANYTHING George Romero ever DREAMED of, much less put on film.
Sorry to diss your man George Romero, but it's all just campy as hell. Really. Shawn of the Dead was better! (because it was so dang funny, and the story was just as good and the budget was better so the zombies and make-up and fx were cooler.)
To compare Serpent and the Rainbow to zombie movies is pretty low, however. Serpent and the Rainbow is not a zombie film and yet the "zombies" it featured had some sense and some kind of purpose in the greater story.
Super scary? no. Predictable? Sure, but Only because it's been around so long and we've all seen stuff like it SINCE then. Well acted, directed, and well-written? You bet your imortal soul it was!!! Stupid tag line? Yep.
This one never got the boxoffice love it deserved, but it was and remains among my favorite all time films from the horror genre.
--Sev
Dang it!
I apparently missed the earlier post in this thread.
AUDITION is the title of the film I was describing in my last post.
and someone already brought up the same film in this thread and I did not see that. I must have just skipped over that one. Sorry. And thank you for jogging my memory even though you did it before I even posted mine.
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--Sev
You're welcome. I try to turn people on to that film as much as possible.
Oh, and I actually only watched 15 minutes of "night of the living dead" before I just about died of boredom myself. The only character I cared about at all was Ben- the female characters were especially flimsy and pitiful, which George Romero himself admitted. I know the plot in 'Serpent' had holes, but I was just so caught up I didn't notice or care that much, which says a lot because I'm very picky about that kind of thing.
Sev, you are my hero. Thanks SO much for putting my thoughts down. You're right about it all. :)
Bill Pullman rocks!
Scully1342, these are not traditional "braaaains" zombies.
These are real zombies in the actual sense that they are braindead people, but not undead.
I'm glad I read these posts though, I was going to sit down and watch this with my mom and sister.
It would've been hard to explain the penis nail scene.
It has been a long time since I watched this movie, but one scene is stuck in my head whenever I think about this movie....no it is not the nailing to the seat (although that was pretty bad), nor was it the spider in the coffin, although that was creepy....for me I always remember when I think it was Paul Winfield starts screaming as Bill Pullman is talking to him and he rips his own head off of his neck, and he is holding his own severed head above his shoulders as it is screaming....fake looking, but f'd up beyond a lot of things that I have ever seen....
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It WAS very frightening and shocking. This was a really good movie though, me and my sister just watched it for the first time the other day.
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I was more frightened by "The Vanishing". It's best I leave it at that...
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For me, the most frightening scene in the movie was when the lead guy was sleeping out in the jungle, with all those other people, & the corpse in the wedding dress appears to him, opens its mouth & snake jumps out & bites him.
He then wakes up(turns out he was having a nightmare), but, the following night, he & the others find that same corpse buried in a cemetery somewhere.
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