the fast moving head effect

I agree, though I haven't seen this movie yet either.

I think the vibrating head effect started with Jacob's Ladder. When I saw it for the first time in that movie, I thought it was cool and different. Never seen it before then, but, yeah, it's been done to death since then and won't go away.

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).

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?

I hate that effect about as much as the overusage of white eyed evil grinny people. It's not f.cking scary at all why do they use it so much UGH

"Ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?"

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?

I like that effect and find it scary. Can someone recommend some more horror movies with this effect? I've only seen it in Jacob's Ladder so far.

1. Jacob's Ladder
2. House on Haunted Hill
3. ??

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.

On the other hand, people's heads not doing that is used way more often.

I still enjoy the effect.

I just saw it as adding suspicion to the mother so as to take attention away from Elias possibly seeing his dead bro.