This is not a good film, or even
an especially scary film, but the characters are not entirely clichéd and the plot twist is somewhat clever.
Not exact matches
It was a pretty
scary thing to launch,
especially since we speak in the
films.
I also don't find it inordinately
scary, but it is well created,
especially in its use of sound to create tension, which is more than one could say about most jump - scare dominated horror
films released in theaters today.
Skeletal, eyes bulging and unstoppable, when the Mummy is not looking like Arnold Vosloo and more of a rotting creature from the depths of Egypt, he is a
scary figure to lead the
film with,
especially as the first half of his plot sees him promise to kill four of the lead characters and brutally follow up on that promise.
It's a
scary moment when you realize just how dangerous the world really is,
especially if your day - to - day life involves battling against giant monsters, like the teens in Digimon Tri's second
film.
Though the genre's invention (named after the yellow / giallo covers of Italian penny dreadfuls) is credited to compatriot Mario Bava (see,
especially, his astonishing Blood and Black Lace), Argento's
scary polish and cunning for
film language bridged the cultural, mainstream / arthouse gap with agility and audacity.
Watching this movie one can not help but marvel at what had passed as
scary back in 1951 -
especially considering the gruesome remake the
film would get in 1982 (simply as The Thing) at the hands of cult director John Carpenter!