Absolutely nothing actually occurs within the starting short while of Tobe Hooper’s infamous low-budget 1974 horror flick, yet seldom has a movie evoked therefore much dread therefore quickly. There’s that (rather long) text scroll, installation of the movie’s “maybe-based-on-a-true-story” credentials, after which those camera flashes, shocking us to life with grisly pictures of decomposing eyes along with other bits and bobs. Finally, Hooper pans away to expose a ghastly, barely-human sculpture sat upon a grave marker. Fun reality: The Narrator is the one and only John Larroquette, that has stated he had been taken care of their efforts with a marijuana joint.
15. 28 Weeks Later On. (2007) 71%
We’re quickly introduced towards the occupants, a family that is sweet-seeming a Walking Dead-style crew of likable survivors. After which all hell breaks loose. It is not only that director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo tosses every thing in the scene — “name” actors bite it, Scream-style, and young ones have been in no real method off limits — which makes it such a gut punch. Read More …