Watching Carrie for my Prom Night Got Me Thinking...

[Potzer! 37]

My desert island, all time, top five, best opening sequences in horror movies, in chronological order, are as follows...

Some Spoilers maybe...

Jaws-Under Water Credits, Drunk Kids And The First Victim
Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I4PtFJlXpg)

Carrie-Slow-Motion Shower Scene Followed By First Period and Tampon Attack
Sexy Shower With Different Audio (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aML7L4tOLGs)
no sexy, but correct audio for Tampon attack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-tr_f9-WEY&mode=related&search=)

Halloween (Original)-Burning Jack-O-Lantern With Killer Score Up Until Mikey Kills His Big Sister
(couldn't find this clip strangly...if anyone else does, please post)

The Thing (Remake)-The Spaceships Crashes And The Europeans Chase/Shoot At/Try To Blow Up A Dog...And With Good Reason
(no clip was to be found here either)

Hellraiser II: Hellbound-The Birth of Pin Head
(No luck here either...only clips I could find are from later in the flick)

Anyway...what do you think of my list and what's yours?

[Le_Big_Mac]

Nice list. Here's mine, although I haven't seen all that many horror movies:

Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Eraserhead
The Shining
Jaws
Halloween



All-Time Favorite Openings:

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Wild Bunch
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction

[X-Nightcrawler]

Opening scenes?

Battle Royale, The Lion King.

[Potzer! 37]

Horror Movie Limitations Aside...The Lion King has one of the best openings ever,,,I place it up there with the stain glass intro in Beauty and the Beast...fuck I wanna see battle royal...

[X-Nightcrawler]

Originally posted by Potzer! 37
Horror Movie Limitations Aside...The Lion King has one of the best openings ever,,,I place it up there with the stain glass intro in Beauty and the Beast...fuck I wanna see battle royal... I love Beauty and the Beast but I never found that opening scene to be very good. I mean, nowhere near Lion King obviously but even that aside.

The king of opening scenes:

Mission: Impossible III

Fucking amazing.

[Lady Stardust]

I'll just say The Lion King that opening gives me chills.

[JackassFan]

Originally posted by Potzer! 37
fuck I wanna see battle royal...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6VXoXWJkNcU

It's the whole thing. Find the other parts in the related videos section The sequel's there as well.

Although I really recommend you watch it properly (on DVD or whatever) at one point.

[X-Nightcrawler]

Originally posted by JackassFan
Although I really recommend you watch it properly (on DVD or whatever) at one point. Like right now.

Originally posted by vampirefan1
I'll just say The Lion King that opening gives me chills.
Damn right. The ending gives me twice as much chills (the 'climbing' scene) but both do.
Every single time I watch it.

Which is very often. And you get extra points for your Walter Sullivan avatar.

[Potzer! 37]

Holy Shit!!! Thanks for the link...if I had the bucks to order BR online I would, but I don't and I can never find it at the stores I visit...I hate living in South Texas...forign film section in most stores is just kung fu stuff...not even any Kuruasawa (sp?) filcks...

Lion King probably in my top 3 disney flicks...gotta give it up for Beauty And The Beast though...some of the best voice acting I've ever heard, brilliant songs, and great writing...and as far as ending scenes go watching the beast turn human at the end gives me goose bumbs every time....

Other good openings:
Annie Hall
Almost Famous (I love the credits in this flick)
Fight Club
Godfather Pt. 2
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Brazil


thinking about it again, I've gotta give extra props to the Lion King...even bacl at the teaser tralier stage I thought that flick was special...mostly I remember it for the laughs, but it's really touching....the final fight between scar and simba is akin to Vader and Luke for me....and yeah, when simba roars and it rains...pretty phenominal....

[Potzer! 37]

Just watched the opening of BR...the smiling girl is pretty terrifying...I thought Takishi Mikke (sp) directed this though...what's Mikke's (sp?) other famous flick besides Audition?

[X-Nightcrawler]

Originally posted by Potzer! 37
Just watched the opening of BR...the smiling girl is pretty terrifying...I thought Takishi Mikke (sp) directed this though...what's Mikke's (sp?) other famous flick besides Audition? Ichi The Killer among others.

But "Battle Royale" is Kinki Fukasaku's. A better director in my opinion. And omfg "The Lion King" is the fucking shiznit.

[JackassFan]

Originally posted by Potzer! 37
Holy Shit!!! Thanks for the link..
It's fine.
:)

[Hannibal21]

The double murder sequence at the beginning of Suspiria would be my choice for the best opening in a horror movie. The stabbing of the still beating heart is especially awesome.

[zeppelin]

Jaws clearly has the best opening scene of any horror movie. Good call on Halloween too.

So after those, my top 5 would be:

3. Scream
4. Rosemary's Baby (just the music is so creepy)
5. Candyman (maybe...I just couldn't think of another really good opening for a horror movie)

Actually, May has one that immediately grabs you too.

For some reason, I can't remember what the opening scene of Peeping Tom even was, but I seem to remember being struck by it. I haven't watched it in like 3 years though. Anyone care to refresh my memory here?

The opening to When a Stranger Calls deserves mention, I suppose, but I honestly thought the whole urgent police call thing was a bit corny ("We traced the call!"). Scream was essentially an homage to it, but the voice on the other end of the phone being the bearer of the bad news is much more effective.