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The less you see, the better.
Last night, my mum and I finished up watching the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and I had noticed something about it: It does the tactic of "the less you see, the scarier/creepier it is". I admire that kind of tactic still being used these days, espicaly in a world with Hostel and Saw. So, allow me to go over films that to the tactic. Waring though: The following post contains spoilers from films, so you've been warned.
Saw (2004).
The original used this when Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) was cutting his foot off. You could sort of see it, but it's hard not cover your eyes when this scene when down. If only the rest of the Saw series could replicate that feeling......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw6v2TggS70&feature=related
Hard Candy (2006).
Ellen Page played a Pedophile's worst nightmare! Haley (page) does all kinds of crazy shit to this guy named Jeff(Patrick Wilson), but the real kicker is what she does to his nuts. What's interesting about this part is that you can sort of see it, but not really. It's pretty fucking horrific, if you ask me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMXed9Nvjfo&feature=related
Audition (1999).
The INCERDABLIY evil tortue scene at the end of the film is enough to make even the most hardcore horror fan cringe. I had a god damn pillow over face through the entire part. Asami Yamazaki (Eihi Shiina) is pretty good with wires.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83ziN2DqdQA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9GlqG_831Q&feature=related
Ringu (1998).
I'll say it again: The Ring is overrated, boring, nonsensical, good looking garbage. Ringu, on the other hand, is not. An other thing I liked about Ringu is that when Sadako comes out of the TV to kill Ryuji Takayama, you really don't get a look at her face. Only that creep ass eye.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQm3BV6s0r8&feature=related
Silence of The Lambs (1991).
When Mr. Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) is about to have dinner, he traps the guards. First eating one fellow's face off, then beating the other sensely with baton. I see a strange amount of elegance in this part; I don't know why.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIC5-Yzm1O8&feature=related
There Will Be Blood (2007).
A couple words: Bowling pin and milkshake.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzdkqhtXuUM
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003).
As mentioned before (see beginning of article), this film does that tactic, and in one scene that had really caught me off guard: When Kemper (Eric Balfour) is attacked by Leatherface.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TkcLPRMX8Q&feature=related
Ouch!
Oldboy (2003).
It's interesting how this film deals with it's graphic violence. Especially when Oh- Dae Su cuts off his tongue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRdjdSnKNsg
Hope ya enjoy the list.
Saw (2004).
The original used this when Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) was cutting his foot off. You could sort of see it, but it's hard not cover your eyes when this scene when down. If only the rest of the Saw series could replicate that feeling......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw6v2TggS70&feature=related
Hard Candy (2006).
Ellen Page played a Pedophile's worst nightmare! Haley (page) does all kinds of crazy shit to this guy named Jeff(Patrick Wilson), but the real kicker is what she does to his nuts. What's interesting about this part is that you can sort of see it, but not really. It's pretty fucking horrific, if you ask me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMXed9Nvjfo&feature=related
Audition (1999).
The INCERDABLIY evil tortue scene at the end of the film is enough to make even the most hardcore horror fan cringe. I had a god damn pillow over face through the entire part. Asami Yamazaki (Eihi Shiina) is pretty good with wires.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83ziN2DqdQA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9GlqG_831Q&feature=related
Ringu (1998).
I'll say it again: The Ring is overrated, boring, nonsensical, good looking garbage. Ringu, on the other hand, is not. An other thing I liked about Ringu is that when Sadako comes out of the TV to kill Ryuji Takayama, you really don't get a look at her face. Only that creep ass eye.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQm3BV6s0r8&feature=related
Silence of The Lambs (1991).
When Mr. Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) is about to have dinner, he traps the guards. First eating one fellow's face off, then beating the other sensely with baton. I see a strange amount of elegance in this part; I don't know why.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIC5-Yzm1O8&feature=related
There Will Be Blood (2007).
A couple words: Bowling pin and milkshake.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzdkqhtXuUM
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003).
As mentioned before (see beginning of article), this film does that tactic, and in one scene that had really caught me off guard: When Kemper (Eric Balfour) is attacked by Leatherface.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TkcLPRMX8Q&feature=related
Ouch!
Oldboy (2003).
It's interesting how this film deals with it's graphic violence. Especially when Oh- Dae Su cuts off his tongue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRdjdSnKNsg
Hope ya enjoy the list.
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Comment by Jessica on November 17, 2008 at 4:46pm -
*spoilers*
I gotta say, I don't agree with most of your choices. In the case of Saw, I'm pretty sure the reasons they show less were mainly budgetary. The director was even told (by the producers, I think) to add more graphically gory scenes like the one where Amanda sifts through the guy's intestines to find the key to unlock her head thingie. And they do show flashbacks of the people in the traps so not much is really implied. I distinctly remember seeing Cary Elwes saw into his foot and blood coming out and only THEN does it pan away to his face. The same thing is done a lot more subtly in Evil Dead 2 when Bruce Campbell saws his hand off (you don't see any of it). Also, Hard Candy and TWBB aren't really horror flicks. There's a specific reason why they don't show you EXACTLY what she does to his nuts, and it isn't because it's too graphic. I'm not sure what point you are trying to make exactly. Is it that horror movies are more frightening when the violence is implied/off screen or that you enjoy movies with scenes that make you close your eyes? The best example of the former would be Seven, which only shows you the aftermath the violent events or has someone describe it and then lets you imagine the rest. The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre shows you much less than the remake. You see the remains of the hitchhiker in the remake for a long time. There's even a tracking shot that goes into her head and out the window! You see someone get sodomized and another getting shot in the head later on in Pulp Fiction so that doesn't have much to do with the list...No Country for Old Men is another topic altogether. Are we so used to seeing violence that any movie that doesn't have blood spattering in every scene is considered subtle?
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Comment by The Phoenix on November 17, 2008 at 9:39am -
This is a good list even though i have only seen silence of the lambs, texas chainsaw, and saw, i know what your talking about with Ringu. I saw that part in one of the trailers, man that is creepy as hell. I think you could have also included the infamous scene in Pulp Fiction with John Travolta stabbing Uma Thurman with the needle.....
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Comment by AJ on November 16, 2008 at 8:43pm -
haha but in NCOM they didn't show....well the end. haha
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Comment by Nightwish on November 16, 2008 at 6:59pm -
I also like how in No Country For Old Men they don't show Javier Bardem killing Josh Brolin's wife. They never really say that he killed her, but you no he did. Plus I wouldn't want to see what that shotgun would've done to her.
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Comment by C.H. Gorog on November 16, 2008 at 3:34pm -
Great list!
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Comment by AJ on November 16, 2008 at 11:55am
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i love every single one of these movies.
especially the foreign ones.
it's sad how us americans can often neglect great foreign films.
especially with all these fuckin "remakes"
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