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Does this movie have the trippy beginning?

posted 17 years ago by meisje_met_de_parel
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Is this the Poe-based film with the psychedelic designs in the opening scenes? I remember watching some Poe-based films in school and I can't remember which starts with that scene. Thanks.

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[–] louise_watts80 9 years ago

I know this post is really old but yes, you're right! It had what looked like the marble water painting with everything swirling into itself

[–] ElectricWarlock 9 years ago

I love all the colors that look like paint flowing together. Truly an iconic opening sequence.

[–] profh-1 8 years ago

Watching this again tonight, the opening "psychedelic" sequence seems to me that it could have inspired the opening sequence of the TV series "ULTRA MAN".

[–] greenbudgie (2355) 3 years ago

I think 'The Masque of the Red Death' is the film you may be thinking of. That's another in the Poe and Roger Corman and Vincent Price series of horrors in the early 1960s.

[–] duckofprey (1535) 3 years ago

No, this particular PATP is the one with the beginning he describes.

Opening sequence is Here:
https://youtu.be/r9NSoe_yRcA

[–] greenbudgie (2355) 3 years ago

Thanks. I've just checked my DVD as well for this film. Of course the 'Pendulum' intro is more trippy than the 'Masque' intro now I think about it. Makes me think I must have been on a trip when I suggested otherwise.

[–] duckofprey (1535) 3 years ago

Not trippy, but INCREDIBLE on a 4K TV, ever see the end credits to the recent Natalie Portman film “Annihilation”? Check this out:

https://youtu.be/wbpqrmwgCEI

[–] greenbudgie (2355) 3 years ago

Thanks again. That is stunning. I haven't experienced 4K TV. So I can't see the full HD effect.