Top 50 Horror Moments In Film - 50 + 49.
Mulholland Drive is an interesting movie. It lures the viewer in with the notion of a great lesbian scene with Naomi Watts - if I did a top ten sex scene's list, that would be number one - and mindfucks them so they don't even know what the hell they just watched was about. Yet, early on it has some truly stellar scene's which work well as short films in a way.
The first of these "short films" within the main film is the telling of a dream story. Two characters sit in the diner. One retells a dream, which reveals why they are at the diner. His dream was nasty, and he wants to put his mind to rest. His friend is a little skeptical. The dream - there's a man who lives behind the diner that has the worst face ever to be scene. He's causing a lot of trouble apparently, and the man who had the dream wants to put it all to rest by seeing that there is no man. It's obvious what is going to happen. The scene unfolds quite nicely with the tension building.
And then the man comes out from behind the wall.
With this list, you'll notice quite a few children's films in it. Not only are children's films filled with moments of terror, the logic behind the placement of this terror is unfathomable. Why the hell would you scare a kid using a film?
Anyhow, the rather enjoyable and quite perfect film Who Framed Roger Rabbit features a few moments of terror - later in the film when the taxi runs into The Dip and his wheels are burnt is a good example. Early on in the film, at the scene of a death of a man, we witness the carnage that is Doom - Christopher Lloyd. An innocent cartoon shoe schmoo's up to Doom, to show the great detective Valiant - Bob Hoskins - how to kill a toon. He whips open the lid of The Dip, grabs the shoe, and plunges him to his inky death. Note: Check out the terror captured in the shoe's face.
