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MrBook_ — 15 years ago(November 01, 2010 10:37 PM)
It was a very low-key moment, but when she was driving across country and lost all reception on her radio. She kept trying to change the channel, but nothing would work - we just kept hearing that disturbing, atonal organ music instead of the happy, peppy music she'd been listening to before. I know that would REALLY bother me if it happened to me - that feeling of being all alone, and ordinary things are behaving strangely and you don't know why, but it just hints at all sorts of scary things approaching.
Yeah! Reading your description of it, I realize how much it's like a dream, one of those dreams where everything is strange and wrong and you can't figure out why. For me it often sets up the realization that I'm having a dream, and, more often than not, an inability to wake up even once I figure it out. That adds a whole different level of unnerving to this movie that I hadn't even realized before now, at least not consciously. The "silent" scenes have that vibe too.
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Eumenides_0 — 16 years ago(April 21, 2009 03:09 PM)
- When she arrives home from her date with Linden; he tries to hug her, but instead she sees the Man hugging her in the mirror.
- The second time she goes to the doctor, the chair turns and it's the Man.
- When she gets on the bus and all the creepy people stare at her.
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besmellah — 16 years ago(July 28, 2009 10:36 PM)
There are so many creepy parts in this film that it's still pretty difficult for me to watch it at the house alone at night. I'll agree with the most common replies: the man in the window, the foot/handprints that just stop in the sand. Those were definitely creepy parts.
There's one part when it's a stormy night and Mary gets out of bed to look out the window. The zoom-shots onto the pavilion, and especially the zoom-shot from the pavilion out toward the sky and terrain in distance, were just downright chilling to me. Beautifully done.
Another small part that's creepy is during the scene when Mary's watching all the souls dancing together in the pavilion. It's just after the couple (of Mary and the man) dances toward Mary and the organ-music stops abruptly: that very last shot of them, which leads to Mary screaming and the souls chasing her, is just freaky beyond all hell. Just the way that single shot was filmed and timed is awesome -
jokeco68 — 16 years ago(January 17, 2010 11:13 AM)
I agree. For me it was the shots of the Saltair pavillion as well, I read in the trivia section that the real pavillion outside of Salt Lake City was seen by the director and inspired him to make this movie. I can believe that, for some reason the place just struck me as really eerie and creepy. Fantastic movie, sometimes I think being in B&W adds to the creepiness just like Blair Witch Project.
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besmellah — 12 years ago(October 31, 2013 03:07 AM)
A few years ago I passed through Salt Lake City with some friends on a trip to Oregon, and I was finally able to see Saltair in person. I knew it wouldn't be like it was in its glory days but, holy hell, the place looks horrible. Seriously it's like a Home Depot with onion domes now.
But the whole experience was eerie in its own way: the lake stretched out desolately, very few visitors and very little life, there was this incredible stench of decomposition and a few bird carcasses on the shore, and the weirdest thing was the literal clouds of thousands of tiny flies, so many that you could hear the collective hum as they moved across the sand. -
jt-hix2112 — 16 years ago(December 15, 2009 12:01 PM)
Movies don't usually scare me, but this one came close. I was watching it in the daytime, but I would have been more creeped out if I were alone in the dark.
The creepiest part for me is when they show all the ghosts dancing and the film has been sped up. The the Man walks up to the camera and his face fills the screen.
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MeekerBeeker14 — 16 years ago(February 16, 2010 01:46 AM)
There were two quick parts that made me jump:
- When she looks down the stairwell and The Man is just staring up at her with that creepy smile.
- When zombie Mary and The Man dance toward herthe way that last, single frame was filmed, how they looked like these puppetsthat was just too eerie.
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MrBook_ — 15 years ago(November 01, 2010 10:22 PM)
Definitely the freakout while she was playing the church organ. The cutaway near the end of it when her hands were moving in little circles on the keyboard of the organ gah! It's creeping me out just thinking about it. Just seeing someone in such an out of control state, doing something in the external world while so wrapped up in those awful visions It really gets under my skin.
Also the very first vision, in the car window, as many others have mentioned. Something about the impossible kid-logic of something that can't be there but is there anyway really pushes the old creep button. And the Man coming up behind her and kissing her neck, that was unnerving as hell especially when she turns around and goofball from across the hall is still ten feet away; he was never even near her! That's the sort of little touch that really pushes this film over the edge.
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BIOSphereopts — 15 years ago(December 13, 2010 08:43 PM)
As I was reading everyone else's comments, I kept thinking"yeah yeahthat one too" But for me, when I first saw the movie, it was the "Ball" in the pavilion. The part where it sped up.
Also, just those lonely long shots of the abandoned pavilion. It really gives your imagination something to run with.
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Echo_in_big_sky — 14 years ago(October 25, 2011 02:50 PM)
I think when she climbs out of the water after several hours is pretty creepy. It's also creepy to think that she interacted with all those people while
she herself was already dead.
The organ music was creepy and everything about the quality of the film, low budget in nature, lent itself well in actually working for the picture.
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