Most Stylish Shots in Horror

[Mattster]

What would you say are the top ten or so most stylish shots/scenes out of all the horror films you've seen?

In no particular order mine are:

01. "Resident Evil" - laser room
02. "Suspiria" - lightbulb shot in Suzy's room
03. "A Nightmare on Elm Street" - the fiery footprints appearing
04. "Child's Play" - Catherine Hicks running down the stairs after the elevator
05. "Session 9" - the nictophobe being chased by the failing lights
06. "Carrie" - prom massacre
07. "Opera" - peephole murder
08. "Phenomena" - the opening murder
09. "Candyman" - Helen being committed
10. "They" - final scene
11. "Halloween" - closet attack
12. "The Ring" - ferry scene
13. "Friday the 13th" - Jason attacking Alice

[KillSwitch]

no particular order.

1 - Demons 2 - when that birthday girl turns into a demon and she turns around. That is an awesome shot!
2 - Prince of Darkness - The finger reaching to mirror at the end... just looks so symmetrical.
3 - Opera - The panning up and around when we first see the Opera house from below.
4 - Evil Dead - That camera going over Bruce Campbells head from behind.
5 - Nonhosonno - the end with the baddy and the bullet and face and stuff. :)
6 - Halloween - When Laurie is sitting at the doorway and Micheal sits up behind her. Supoib!!

Thats about all I can think of right now.

Nick

[Andrew]

The TENEBRE wall crawl comes to mind.

[KillSwitch]

Oh ya, that shot in Tenebre also with Detective Germanni when he bends down to pick up the napkin thing... awesomeness!!

Nick

[life_o_petey]

tenebre was the first thing that popped into my head too.

also the Texas Chainsaw Massacre ending, with leatherface swinging the chainsaw. And the 360 degree camera turn in Evil Dead 2...and the laughing room scene. the comic bookish ending to Uzumaki.

[Mark Relford]

New York Ripper- The inside the slashed throat shot. Very impressive!

[Andrew]

Forgot the shot through the cheeks in THE STENDHAL SYNDROME. That rocked.

[X-human]

Blow Out - The several 360's around the sound room when Travolta is playing all his tapes.
Pyscho - Overhead shot in shower.
The Shinny - Jack leaning on the pantry door yelling at Wendy.
The Thing - Dog walking down the hall looking into each room.

[Andrew]

Ah also from THE SHINING - the long hall dolly shot when the guy is showing Jack and his family around the lobby and what not. I love that. Danny on his trike is awesome too, you just keep going around corners seeing more and more carpets and doorways and then BAM!

[Mattster]

I'm going to add the elevator/blood/Wendy scene in The Shining. To me that makes the movie worth watching.

[Atmims]

Almost all of the deaths in Evil Dead Trap instantly come to mind.

[aoiookami]

heres my list
-The Ring (remake)
-Resident evil
-Event Horizon
-Audition
-The Eye
-Bram Stokers Dracula

[rhett]

One that hasn't been mentioned is the final shot in Herzog's NOSFERATU, THE VAMPYRE. Amazingly effective shot that one is.

[Andrew]

I prefer the opening of AGGUIRE. The end of COBRA VERDE is top notch as well. And NOSFERATU running through the town. What can I say? Herzog rocks.

[rhett]

The last shot in AGUIRRE is my favorite from that film. Herzog's films are just beautiful to look at, period!

[DefJeff]

how about in Tenebrae when the killer breaks the lightbulb with the straight razor? i think that might be my top one.

very good call on that Opera peep hole scene Matt, that ones amazing

oh oh oh, how about the elevator scene in Dressed to Kill, where you see the killer in the mirror!

[Agent Z]

"Resident Evil" - laser room

The illogical nature of this set-up ruined the whole scene for me though.....why would the security system mess around with just a laser at a time....when, obviously, the entire laser grid was more than sufficient?

[bwana the clown]

Whoah! I think Tenebre has the monopoly on stylish shots! The first thing I thought of when I saw the thread title was the chick looking at her killer through her slashed shirt!

[Rainbowthief]

In no order (and some of these aren't strict horror):

1. Suspiria -- Jessica Harper sneaking around the corridors of the dance academy flipping out near the end. The colors are just nuts in that scene and the Goblin theme adds so much to it.

2. Inferno -- Irene Miracle diving underwater to retrieve her keys. It's such a bizarre idea and so beautifully filmed.

3. Dellamorte, Dellamore -- This movie is so stylish that several scenes stand out (Anna Falchi kissing Ruppert Everett through the veil, the ending when Everett says "I suspected as much; the rest of the world doesn't exist", etc) but if I have to pick one right now, I'd say the hospital massacre scene. Soavi pulled that off with such bravura that I couldn't wait to see the movie again and it wasn't even over.

4. Crash -- The ending when Deborah Unger is upset that she wasn't seriously injured in the crash and James Spader consoles her saying "Maybe the next one, darling. Maybe the next one." That movie had Peter Suchitzky's best cinematography work and Howard Shore's score fit the movie perfectly.

5. Audition -- The scene where Asami drugs Aoyama and the film flashes back to an alternate version of their dinner conversation, the abusive man in the wheelchair, etc. Nothing is ever said about the look of the movie, but the use of colors is excellent. It's very lush and quite different aesthetically from Takashi Miike's other films.

6. Tetsuo 2: Body Hammer -- When Tetsuo's brother narrates over the flashbacks of Tetsuo's father training them when they were children ("He hasn't changed, hostages mean nothing to him") and and Tetsuo killing their parents. The dreamlike tone of the scene was do different from the rest of the movie, which was so cyberpunk.

7. A Clockwork Orange -- The first scene in the Korova Milk Bar. The weird synth music, all white interior and Alex and the droogs drinking milk combined to perfectly recreate the strange world of Anthony Burgess' novel.

8. The Beyond -- The final scene where Catriona MacColl and David Warbeck are wandering through the fog and then they look up and are blind. So damn creepy!

9. Eraserhead -- The Lady from the Radiator sings "In Heaven, Everything is Fine".

10. The Holy Mountain -- The parade of the flayed lambs. This is part of a sequence about 15 minutes long that includes some of the most mezmerising imagery I've ever seen on film (the old man handing his glass eye to the child prostitute, the birds flying from the dead boy's chest wound, etc).

[mcchrist]

10. The Holy Mountain -- The parade of the flayed lambs. This is part of a sequence about 15 minutes long that includes some of the most mezmerising imagery I've ever seen on film (the old man handing his glass eye to the child prostitute, the birds flying from the dead boy's chest wound, etc).

Holy Mountain is chock full of em, like when he is used as a template for the crucifix and wakes up in a warehouse full of crucified christs... Or (I can't remember which one it was, Mars I think) when he walks in carrying a 20-foot machine gun over his shoulder, people vomiting up grapes, tubes near the eyes spraying out tears, OMG that movie just fucks me up the ass every time!

[Hellbilly]

Originally posted by DefJeff
oh oh oh, how about the elevator scene in Dressed to Kill, where you see the killer in the mirror!
Good call Jeff!