Not exact matches
There's a
scene in Bryan Bertino's film «The Strangers» that handily encapsulates the film's nervy brand
of terror, one so good and simple that it served as the film's poster image when the 2008 feature first hit theaters: it's Liv Tyler, standing alone in her kitchen, looking
out into what seems to be — what should be — an empty house.
When the
scene unspools in the film, it's a jolt
of pure
terror, with the masked man sliding into frame, then slowly moving
out of it.
Edgar Wright's ability to go from laugh -
out - loud
scenes to absolutely horrific and heart - breaking
scenes of terror and violence left me utterly floored.
Add in a great cast (I particularly liked Samantha Morton, who played the psychic Agatha... her
scenes were very interesting, and she did a good job conveying her
terror at facing the world
of the present) and you've got something I was pretty happy shelling
out a few bucks for.
They're songs whose apropos lyrics sing
out the intense combination
of terror and attraction that marks for one
of the era's coolest choreographed
scenes that gets down with a vampire's rhythmic allure.