Whats your favorite opening scene?

[orangestar]

What is your favorite opening scene to a horror movie?
(sorry if this thread has been done, I searched and didnt find any)

Mine would be:
Nightmare on Elm Street 2 - The Schoolbus thing scared me for some reason

Final Destination 2- Car Crash scene is one of the best most graphic car crashes in movie history

I cant think of any more, but when I do I'll post em

[darchangel]

my list:

halloween

a clown at midnight

TCM (the original)

NOES

there are more, but my brain hurts right now.


~darchangel~

[TheJadedGamer]

Nightmare on Elm Street

Jeepers Creepers 2

Halloween

House on Haunted Hill (Remake)

28 Days Later

[Tagia_Romero]

Both "Blade" films
"John Carpenter's Vampires"
"Poltergeist"
"The Matrix"
"X2"
"Mad Max"
"28 Days Later..."
"The Thing" (special props to Enicco Morricone's score. Very forboding)
"Opera" (loved the POV shots from the diva)
"Bram Stoker's Dracula"
"The Terminator"
"T2"
"T3"
"Kill Bill"

[Rothstein]

More recent one must be from "28 days later".

[Jas]

My favorite opening scene is from Flatliners.

I mean c'mon it's just so cool.

Opera music, all these gothic shots, and then that coll line: "Today's a good day to die"





And then there is Final Destination 2

[*Escapade*]

URBAN LEGEND
HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION
GHOST SHIP
FINAL DESTINATION 2
HE KNOWS YOU'RE ALONE
SCREAM
NEW NIGHTMARE
THE RING
DARKNESS FALLS

*It's a shame that most of those movies had great openings, but the rest of the movies sucked...

[TheElephants]

Suspiria
Scream
Final Destination 1 and 2(too bad the rest of 2 sucked)
Halloween
T2

[Psyco Chick18]

House Of 1000 Corpses.

"Goddamn mutherfucker got blood all over my best clown suit."

[Saruman]

- House of 1000 Corpses
- TCM (original)
- Blade II
- Blade
- A Nightmare on Elm Street

[pyscho dude]

I'd have to say Day of the dead. The opening dream sequence which has dozens of zombie arms bust through a cement wall and grab Sarah was just classic!

[Queen_Akasha]

*Blade
*Blade II
*Halloween
*Halloween Resurrection
*Jason X
*Halloween II
*Resident Evil
*X2:X-Men United
*The Lost Boys

[FilmBuff84]

SCREAM (Drew Barrymore's cameo is now a classic)
FINAL DESTINATION 2 (Most chilling car wreck)
GHOST SHIP (Probably the best bit of the movie)

[Psychopath2616]

When a stranger calls......and When a Stranger calls back....both of their opening kicked ass and were actually very creepy.....then the rest of the movie kinda of blew......
and Scream.......Halloween comes to mind too.......and Ginger Snaps...the dog and the death pics....

[Ripper1888]

Scream- The horror trivia game,the phone voice was cool and they killed Drew Barrymore.

Final Destination 2- The car crash scene wow.

Halloween- Love the point of view JC used then the shot of a young Michael coverd in blood holding the knife,great stuff.

Ginger Snaps- The dead dog and its owner screaming bloody murder and the pictures of death.

JAWS- The skinny dipping girl being attacked by a shark.

A Nightmare On Elm Street- An eerie atmosphere and introduced us to Freddy.

[mugwart74]

Suspiria

[Boba Joe]

28 Days Later

It didn't "scare the hell out of me" like I had been warned, but it was still an uber freaky opening scene.

[Jason13thh]

The Hitcher : purely and simply atmospheric, it sweats of it.
Scream
The Burning
Halloween
Battle Royale
Stage Fright
Lords Of Illusions
Jaws

[ParileseMonster]

Twilight Zone The Movie has a great opening!!!

[jagged halo]

The Thing.

The music alone is enough to make it my fav.

Other cool openers:

Halloween
Blade
A Nightmare On Elm Street
The Fog
Jaws

There are others but I cannot think of them at the moment!.

[Luke-Abbott]

Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Ghost Ship

Ginger Snaps: The pictures of death was pretty disturbing and so was its score over the top of it. It set us up for things to come.

[DaRkToOtH]

scream
1000 corpses


but i think the number one has gotta be nightmare on elmstreet! what a chilling beginning!!!

[Mr.HyDe807]

I would say:
Scream: starts off a little normal, then slowly goes straight to hell with the phone calls.

Jeepers Creepers 2: Just seeing the Creeper hanging on the scarecrow bar thing was awesome.

Jaws: Pure classic, i wasnt really freaked out but it was still a powerhouse beginning to a classic movie.

[flan]

Willard (Remake): The elevator scene when the door opens and rats spill out and he is just standin there all pissed off

TCM Remake: When the old guy goes bring it and the other guy goes bring what and Leatherface just comes up with a chainsaw

TCM: The guy goes in the house and Leatherface just comes up and beats the shit out of him with the hammar

[ANTBond007]

Originally posted by flan
Willard (Remake): The elevator scene when the door opens and rats spill out and he is just standin there all pissed off

TCM Remake: When the old guy goes bring it and the other guy goes bring what and Leatherface just comes up with a chainsaw

TCM: The guy goes in the house and Leatherface just comes up and beats the shit out of him with the hammar

Opening scenes.

[psycho path]

Ghosthouse: Oh yeah! The deaths in the begining are pretty gruesome(Father gets an axe to the head, and a mother getting a knife slowly pushed into her throat against a door, thus pinning her to it!), plus, that nursery rhyme just gets to you, so damn eerie! The inflating lightbulb wasn't bad either...

House by the cemetery: A great death scene, not to mention it has great atmosphere! After a girl gets a large knife down into her skull and through her mouth, we see her get dragged away into the dark, then the opening credits start with a beautiful shot of a painting of the house in the movie, accompanied by the films great music score.

Mutant/Night Shadows: A cop investigates a house, goes into the basement, and is picked up by a large mutated man, and we see his shadow only while he snarls and the cop screams. Pretty good start to a decent zombie movie.

The Ring: What starts off with a Scream like opening quickly turns into a slow moving, very creepy begining to a great horror film/remake.

Ghost Ship: Great gore is all I'll say for Ghost Ships opening!

[flan]

Shit sorry
i thought ya meant like when the monster or somethin like that is first shown

sorry my bad

[Draven2277]

Alien
Halloween
Jaws
The Ring
Jacob's Ladder
TCM
Poltergeist
The Thing
The Fog
Dark City
Jeepers Creepers

[MovieManDan]

When a stranger calls (Parts 1 and 2)
Scream
Scary Movie (1, 2, and 3)
Freddy vs Jason

[Unicron]

Scream
Final Destination 2
The Relic

[EvilDeadGirl]

Ginger Snaps
Final Destination 2
House By The Cemetary
Donnie Darko
MAY
Kill Bill
Night of the Living Dead
A Nightmare on Elm Street

[freddy666]

Hands down,A Nightmare on Elm Street.

[skweemkween]

Blade
The Convent
Ginger Snaps
Prom Night
Reign of fire
Trick of Treat
Unbreakable
The Fog

[adamjohnson]

Originally posted by skweemkween

Unbreakable




YAYYYYYYYY

(although its definetely NOT horror)

[Countess]

Final Destination 2
Ghost Ship
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
28 Days Later
Ginger Snaps
The Convent
Halloween
A Nightmare On Elm Street
When A Stranger Calls
May
The Ring
Blade
Dead Alive
Scream
House By The Cemetery
The Beyond

[spacemonkey]

I love Donnie Darkos opening sequence with him lying on the middle of the road and then he just laughs..and then that cool song.

Also cool is Ghostbusters when they go and see that library ghost that screams at them.

Dawn of the Dead- the first 10 minutes are pure chaos. Still havent seen an opening sequence with more chaos and anarchy in the air. A real feeling of dread.

28 days later - this one is just eerie. Aside from the scenes where they free the monkey from the lab wich are preatty intense, the scenes with Jim walking around a desolated london are an incredible way to open a film.

Vampire Circus - The first 15 minutes of this film feel like you just walked into the last climatic scenes of some other movie. Count Mitterhouse shows no mercy upon the poor villagers who intend to kill him. We get a bunch of deaths, a little girl being killed, full frontal female nudity, and a vampire being staked in the heart in just the first few minutes of the film. What a grabber!

Nightmare on Elmstreet I - With the girl floating up in the air as Freddy kills her as her blood falls all over the room! That scene was a great way to open a movie.

[Whiggles]

Suspiria - It can't be beat in my opinion. From the moment Suzy steps out of the sliding doors and is engulfed by the rain and the pounding music, you know this is something special. The drive to the Dance Academy is mesmerizing with all its colors and rain, and that pan through the trees with the lights of the car flitting between them is incredibly eery.

Mute Witness - I love the fake B-movie that plays before the opening credits.

The Stendhal Syndrome - No dialogue at all in the opening scene. Masterful.

The Hitcher - Just love the photography, the rain, the scary hitcher... I'm counting everything until the infamous "FUCK YOU BUDDY!" line as the opening scene.

[skweemkween]

Originally posted by adamjohnson
YAYYYYYYYY

(although its definetely NOT horror)

Wow. Now I have seen the light.Can you also do my taxes?

[HeavyK]

Suspiria for sure.

[Freddy Krueger6]

Ive got to say Suspiria aswell...but umm some other woudl be Final Destination 2...28 days later..ANOES

[ERIN_LoJ]

My God this list could be monstrous



A noes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Friday the 13th 2, 4, 5, 6, 7
Jaws
Jaws 4 (yes hated the movie but excellent opening if I remember right)
Poltergeist
Flatliners, agree with whoever said that
Flowers in the attic
Aliens, Alien3
Candyman
Jacobs ladder

The list could just keep on and on

[Evil Ed]

An American Werewolf in London