What was the most creepiest part of the movie for you?
For me it was the end when Mary was chased out on to the lake bed by the Souls and to see Mary's foot print in the sand suddenly stop and that shot of her hand print.
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I agree the ending is VERY creepy. But I also am creeped out big time by the scenes where the souls come up out of the water and grin slowly at the camera. They look so much like they are grinning.....at US!
*shudder*
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"Didn't he discover America?"
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Easily the eeriest film score ever! Totally creepy!
shareWhen the ghosts are running after her on the beach.
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Agreed - wicked soundtrack. Something very eerie about organs.
Scariest part - first time you see the ghostly/zombie face in the window of her car. Seen some pretty nasty films in my time but this really stuck with me...
I really think all parts with the mans face, that grin is just horrible.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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.
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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.
- 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.
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
When the sound cuts out and she is running around. That really freaked me out during my youth. The terror and frustration. Oh god it drove me mad.
And the man himself. Oh boy.
Yes, that use of sound was amazing. It's like she phases out of reality, for a while.
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
My aunt freaked when the ghouls chased her onto the beach.
shareThere 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...
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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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.
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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When she sitting in her car at the garage. The car is on a lift, she is all alone, and then someone or something starts to lower the car from the lift.
shareThere were two quick parts that made me jump:
1) When she looks down the stairwell and The Man is just staring up at her with that creepy smile.
2) When zombie Mary and The Man dance toward her...the way that last, single frame was filmed, how they looked like these puppets...that was just too eerie.