What is the name of the muscle car in the horror movie High Tension?
I saw the horror flick High Tension and I am trying to figure out the type of yellow muscle car the Gas Station attendant had that the lady stole to chase after the killer. Or if it's even a muscle car at all since the movie is from France.
Action movies with spectacular car chases.such movies often lead to incredible accidents?
The original "Gone in 60 Seconds" by H.B Halicki was a testament to that with a 40 minute chase scene and 500 crashes, as were some of his other movies. "Bullitt" was another old one and "The Seven Ups" http://www.gonein60seconds.com/
Why do horror movies have to be so gory?
Because it takes too much to derive actual scares from an entire audience. If 50 people watched a horror movie, 31 may be scared by ghosts while the other 19 find it hokey, 8 of those 19 might have nightmares about unstoppable serial killers while the rest find Jason and Freddy absurd, 5 of those 8 might be afraid of clowns. Then there's the chance none of them are scared by ANYTHING. Most of an audience knows what they're seeing isn't their worst fear coming to fruition, and that's if the movie's lucky enough for an audience member to have a worst fear, period. No, tapping into fears through psychology is extremely hard, so horror movie makers do the next best thing: Unsettle. The only way to unsettle is to disturb. The only way to disturb is to present something unique. The only way to present something unique is to show something others have yet to show. Saw's elaborate traps allow for sequel upon sequel of gruesome ways to dismember people with timers and gadgets, Hostel knows that being dissected alive is fresh and awful, Hostel 2 wonders WTF Hostel was thinking by forgetting a perfectly awful disembowelment. As for the hoard of slasher films: Have you ever seen Jason Vorhees shoot anybody with a .22 caliber pistol? He has already frozen a woman's face in space liquid and broke it on a table, but you won't see a shooting unless it's him using the bullet to decapitate someone with. That's unsettling, disturbing and blood-curdling. Oddly enough, laughter is invoked before fear. Laughter and gore is a fun time for many. In fact, that's what most of them signed up for when wasting money on the ticket. Give them what they expected and they'll recommend it. The ones that didn't hoot and holler the whole movie will describe it to friends as "Disturbing" or F'ed Up. Trust me, not one horror fan out there will take that advice at face value---they'll see it as a challenge to display their courageous watching abilities. Either way, you've sold tickets, given viewers what they expected and the only ones you sent home unhappy will unwittingly challenge the manhood of several college students. All without touching a single, solitary nerve. However, go for actual scares and misfire on some 15-year-old who wanted a prolific body count? They'll call it boring. This is no different than action movies that substitute the tension of Speed and Bourne Trilogy for the explosions and car chases that Michael Bay loves.
Why do some people enjoy horror and torture movies?
Shock. We as a society like to see things that shock us. It's why we used to watch executions on the square. It's why crowds gathered for hangings. It's why we slow down on the freeway to view that car accident. It's why we watch those shocking videos on Youtube. We loved to be shocked. And what drives this is curiosity. We are a very curious race. We ask strange questions to ourselves in the dark of night. "I wonder what it's like to rob a bank?""I wonder what it's like to kill someone?" "I wonder what it's like to see someone tortured?" "I wonder what it is like to be a serial killer?"These are dark questions that our curiosity within can't help but ask. It's about our minds trying to make sense of it all. Trying to figure out how such things can happen, why they happen, how they happen, and how we would feel if it happened to us.Thankfully, most of us have the moral compass to reject such notions and to reject taking such curiosity to dangerous and immoral levels. With Saw, and other horror movies, we allow the filmmakers to present answers to such questions for us. And we experience them in a moral manner without guilt because we know that in the end, it's all smoke and mirrors. An illusion. No one is really getting hurt. And back in olden times, when public executions were a town, and sometimes family, event to witness, those citizens had detachment of guilt and shame because it was an authoritative action that they had no control over. Our curiosity leads us to the thrill of being shocked. That's why the Saw films are so successful. That's why the horror genre is so impenetrable and has been since films like Nosferatu. Beyond the ever present gore of the Saw franchise films, the added brilliance of them is not necessarily the end result of the physical and psychological torture, but the tension that is built in those moments before the character's eventual fate. It's a thrill. A shocking thrill that gets our adrenaline going.
How do you separate horror from science fiction?
Sci Fi is often associated with outer space and aliens and all that. Horror tends to stay on the ground, but I can see what you're saying. Frankenstein could totally be considered a Sci Fi flick, due to a mad scientist creating a monster, but the focus is really on the monster itself, so there's the horror aspect. Some films do have blurred lines when it comes to horror and Sci Fi and really, many films to come out in the last 40 years have used both genres. Aliens is another good example. Where would you place that? It's in space with a giant alien, yet has gore, jump scares, etc. When I think of straight Sci Fi, it's more less things like Star Trek, Star Wars, that kind of thing. Straight horror for me is Friday the 13th, Child's Play, etc. But some films do blur the lines for the final product, sure.
I find car chases in movies to be excruciatingly boring. Why do so many people enjoy them?
Most car chase movies that have come out in the last 20 years or so feature more CGI than actual stunt driving (Fast & Furious, anybody? Transporter?). In the 60s and 70s, they actually needed to film real (albeit, in most cases, modified) cars on actual public streets. If you pay attention, the CGI is pretty obvious (like autotune in a lot of modern popular music) and detracts from the excitement of the chase. Do we even need to mention all the laws of physics that are being ignored in the name of entertainment?Watch some older movies like Bullit (1968), The French Connection (1971), the original Gone in 60 Seconds (1974) and, perhaps, Ronin (1998) if you want to get back to having fun with car chases.
How long do you think you'd last in a horror movie? Do you think you'd be the first to go, die halfway in the movie, be one of the remaining few, or the sole survivor? What methods would you employ to survive?
When I'm watching a horror movie I often scoff at the idiotic girl who just has to go to the place with strange noises and ask, "Hello, anyone there? Who's there?" If you think there's an intruder, why, just why would you think it's a good idea to confront the intruder (possibly armed)? When you're getting chased in the house, why would you run upstairs? Do you plan on escaping by jumping from the roof? Yes it's easy for me to sit calmly on my chair look at the plot in an objective manner and thinking of all the ways I would have been better. At the end if the day if I face such a situation, I'll depend on my movie knowledge. I'll borrow some tested ideas from movies. I'll be the first one to die. I'm weak with little physical strength. I'll be gasping for breath after a short run when the said villain would casually walk behind me and end my misery. I'm not used to handling such situations face on. As heroic as I may be on my chair I have never faced the stark terror of a horror movie in real life.First thing that would come to my mind is to check if I'm dreaming. Then I'll be scared out of my mind. Then I'll give up any hope of surviving and just go with the flow. I'll never separate from the group. Yes I'm a coward. But splitting up never helps. I think the one benefit I have is that I don't scream when I'm scared. Not even a squeak. So I could use that to my advantage. I can try to be as quiet as I can and walk like a ninja (not really but I can be quiet.) I'll text someone to call the police ASAP. Put my phone on silent, obviously. Hide and wait for help if I'm alone. Yup I'll be the first one to die.
What is a thought about scary movies or horror films?
A true horror movie can never really have a happy ending.There aren't any heroes in horror movies, just those that are less a victim than others.Real horror in movies mean you aren't really comfortable with them. They have to make you squirm.The girl being chased will always trip over something, even if that something doesn't really exist.The movie Alien was a horror movie. The movie Aliens was not (it was an action/sci fi).A horror movie trend will always end with self parody and comedy (Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Return Of The Living Dead series, Warm Bodies, Dark Shadows, Twilight series).True horror movies are all about atmosphere and what you can't see (The Haunting, The Blair Witch Project).Thriller/Shockers are all about the jumps and the gore (Saw series, Hostel series).Horror movies (or rather, thriller/shockers) love to get rid of the big name stars in big ways. Think Samuel L. Jackson in Deep Blue Sea, Chris Hemsworth in Cabin In The Woods, or Paris Hilton in House of Wax.