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Thread #52259 Message #800127
Posted By: Coyote Breath
10-Oct-02 - 01:54 AM
Thread Name: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
Subject: RE: BS: Terror At Thirty Thousand Feet (horror)
Oh yeah! Twin Peaks was fantastic! I liked the movie Fire Walk with Me too! That scene at the intersection when the psychological tensions between father and daughter explodes! Scared me!
I had taped Twin Peaks to steal some footage for a company Christmas party video(really!) and was using "professional" editing decks. I was rewinding slowly through the opening scenes and was stunned to find that the theme (which is laid down behind the opening shots of the falls and the wind blowing trees) plays exactly the same forward OR backward!
The ORIGINAL film of The Haunting was and still is scary. Everything is understated and NO horror film of THAT nature should be in anything but black and white. Night of the Living Dead is a terrific example. Color doesn't work. The 1922 version of Nosferatu is very good. Carl Theodore Dryer's "Vampyre" is a scary, fevered, drug driven nightmare.
But my all time favorite is "The Zaragosa Manuscript". Jerry Garcia and Francis Ford Coppola secured the rights to the film back about four or five years before Garcia's death. They restored the director's cut and rumours were it was going to be re-released but so far it has only been shown in one or two places and I believe it now resides at the Pacifi Film Archive in Berkeley, California.