the fast moving head effect
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Gus-69 — 10 years ago(October 26, 2015 09:41 PM)
LOL there is no such thing in The Exorcist.
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italbarenow — 10 years ago(December 24, 2015 05:09 PM)
NO- it certainly is NOT in the Exorcist, and yes it certainly WAS first used in Jacobs Ladder. Furthermore, film aficionados who follow these things have written much about how that effect was first created.I actually think there is a story about how it was an accident at first or an experiment regarding FPS..Frames per second.
Yes, I cringed when I saw it because it's been not only overused, I feel that scene is one of the major weaknesses of the movie. This is not a film about the supernatural in any way. Then eating the roach. .cutting open the stomach clearly was a dream/nightmare so I accepted that.
I'm running out of crazy twisted psych horror films. please send help! -
Don_Cheech — 10 years ago(March 30, 2016 09:38 PM)
But then there's people like me, who actually think that was one of the best scenes of the film. Her walking in the forest by herself- just wandering. It was creepy. It was dream like. And it worked. Also, from a technical standpoint- i felt that scene in particular benefitted from the 35mm film quality. I really don't think it would have looked the same shot with a digital camera. The colors practically bled onto the screen. By the way, I saw it before I knew what was really going on - so it had a great mysteriousness to it.
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Giraffe_Monster — 10 years ago(August 12, 2015 03:11 AM)
Eh, I know what you mean, but I think we can cut this movie some slack, after all they only used it in one single scene (
which happened to be a dream/hallucination)
that only served to show how insecure and afraid the boys were, because of
their mom's appearance (or rather, the fact that she was now a complete Jane Doe to them, notice that the blur only starts when we're about to see her face, but because the boys don't know who she is/what she looks like anymore, we get something blurry)
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Wasn't meant to be scary in the least, although the lead up to it and everything, I really like that scene, music, and the way it was shot.
Could they have done something else? Yes, I'm sure, but this definitely worked.
Fine, fine, I'll leave! But first I'm going to bother these peanuts! Hmm? Yes? Hmm? HMM? -
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Sabre-El — 10 years ago(August 15, 2015 07:47 PM)
I didn't realize it was a dream sequence and for me it was the only scene which kept certain suspicions of mine on the mother. Otherwise I kept thinking that the mother seemed totally normal
Clark: Jonathan Kent; isn't it a little past your bedtime? -
Giraffe_Monster — 10 years ago(August 15, 2015 07:52 PM)
Right after said "head twitching"
the scene cuts to both boys waking up, startled
But, even this scene - as with the whole movie - can be interpreted in more than one way, I guess, which makes it all the more interesting.
Fine, fine, I'll leave! But first I'm going to bother these peanuts! Hmm? Yes? Hmm? HMM? -
Sabre-El — 10 years ago(August 16, 2015 04:55 AM)
Actually I was not watching this part of the movie properly, as I had to study for exams and had just thought to take a glimpse of it
(although I did watch the rest of it properly).
Thanks for telling me that by the way
Clark: Jonathan Kent; isn't it a little past your bedtime? -
markstrube — 10 years ago(October 24, 2015 03:05 PM)
- Jacob's Ladder
- House on Haunted Hill
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This is not the same effect as seen in those two films. It looks digitally manipulated here, which doesn't create the same type of motion. JL and HOHH both used film manipulation techniques (shooting at a low framerate and then speeding up) resulting in a different feel to the effect.
If you can name other movies where this effect was used in that fashion to the same end result as those two movies, I could agree. However, I just haven't seen it overused.