The Shining (1980)
Subliminal scenes with make-up or costumes in more than just kinky situations, when you know something feels terribly wrong. Scenes that unfathomably play with your "inner cinema".
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Poll: The Most Breath Taking Suspense Horror Elements
Since horror movies became cult, several kinds of techniques, clever scripts and psychological tricks were used to bone-chill the audience and give them the goosebumps. From these mentioned techniques and tricks, which is the the most effective to shake you up?
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Make Your Choice
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Patrick Wilson and Joseph Bishara in Insidious (2010)
Normality, interrupted by an unexpected appearence or occurrence. -
Nick Castle in Halloween (1978)
Nerve-racking music or noises, appearing together with the subliminal optical allusion of the threat. -
Jack Nicholson in The Shining (1980)
Insane Faces of rage. -
Toni Collette in Hereditary (2018)
Grimaces of fear. -
Tobin Bell in Saw (2004)
The threat of unknown game masters. -
Bonnie Aarons and Vera Farmiga in The Conjuring 2 (2016)
Lurking beings in the shadows. -
Rob Bottin in The Fog (1980)
Dark, murky and creepy atmospheres. -
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Weird combinations of hybrids like the bum's head on the body of his dog. -
Christine (1983)
Technical objects that seem to have their own life. -
"American Werewolf In London, An" David Naughton 1981 Universal
Shape-changing scenes of theriantrophic beings. -
Anthony Perkins in Psycho (1960)
Insane smiles. -
Neve Campbell, Skeet Ulrich, and Matthew Lillard in Scream (1996)
The hide and seek play between two or more deranged characters and their victims. -
Harvey Stephens in The Omen (1976)
The strange behavior of kids. -
The Shining (1980)
Symbolic blood floods or fountains, showed in slow motion. -
Cary Elwes and Tobin Bell in Saw (2004)
Nightmarish unpredicted bone freezing plot twists. -
Heather Donahue in The Blair Witch Project (1999)
The fear of the woods. -
Bruce Campbell in Evil Dead II (1987)
Downspirals of doom that sympathetic characters suffer from. -
Nicole de Boer and Maurice Dean Wint in Cube (1997)
The horror of the protagonist(s) to see their comrade-in-arms die, knowing to be the next another time. -
Virginia Madsen in Candyman (1992)
Rotten places, buildings, districts. -
Michael Rooker and Tom Towles in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
The banality of evil beings. -
John Cusack in 1408 (2007)
The unreal feeling of environment that changes from bad to worse and at least worst. -
Ted Clark and Julian Richings in Wrong Turn (2003)
Ugly inbreed masking -
Florence Paterson in It (1990)
Situations that slowly turn bizarre until they feel unbearable. -
John Cleese and Monty Python in Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
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