This lightweight PG - 13 film offers a textbook example of the horror genre, complete
with creaking doors, spooky attics, dark basements, lights that flicker and things that go bump in the night.
My wife Lesleyann makes a cameo
with a creaking door at one point in the first eight episodes, and she deserves a production credit for putting up with the many hours I was lost to this project, the many months I talked about how I wanted to do it before I did it, and the many days where she volunteered to banish herself to her parent's house (thank you Joe and Maris) so she could avoid making additional appearances with the inevitable sounds one makes when you walk around the house.
Not exact matches
In this case, that
door is opening very slowly
with a menacing
creak.
See: The sign on the ancient elevator in my hotel in Auckland that reads, PLEASE CLOSE BOTH
DOORS AND TREAT ME GENTLY I AM OVER 70, makes me, for a span of two days, develop a caring emotional relationship
with a
creaking, erratic old Otis elevator.
On this day, this very hour, starting
with the magnets holding my gym's yoga schedule to the
creaking door of my filthy refrigerator, it begins.
The town's upper - class citizens find their tongues flapping after having seen Stella, the serial mistress, in Robert's company, and it isn't long before news of the affair winds its way to Meg, who discovers that the
door to a potential romance
with the dashing Lord Darlington (Stephen Campbell Moore) has been
creaked open just a little bit.
«Exhibition» takes this a step further through Jovan Ajder's amazing sound design that morphs the home from a shelter from the sirens outside, to an oversize cavern
with all it's metallic
creaking and huge sliding
doors that dwarf D when she is on her own.
The meat and potatoes are the film's many scenes of the various hauntings inflicted on the characters, which establish an eerie sense of dread
with many a
creaking door, creepy clapping and shattering glass coming from unpredictable corners.
The wooden
door with a dust - streaked porthole in the middle
creaked, and then swung back violently behind you.
Arriving at the venue, the
door creaked open to reveal a room jammed
with emaciated figures, their pale, gaunt faces turning slowly to greet us.
Sound effects include walking, running and crouching on different surfaces, jumping, climbing ladders, swimming, interacting
with objects such as opening
doors and crates and collecting items, firing weaponry at enemy soldiers, performing stealthy melee attacks on enemies, explosions and ambience such as machinery,
creaking and the inner workings and maintenance of the U-Boat or weather conditions such as swirling winds when outdoors.
A cupboard
door in the hallway keeps opening and closing
with an ominous
creak.
Several newly - commissioned works are being shown, some of which engage directly
with the architecture of the building, as in Jorge Pardo's
creaking doors which fit over the Museum's windows and Rirkrit Tirananija's Untitled, 2006, where he creates a neon light that spells out the first four lines of a Nirvana song by Kurt Cobain.