Simply what are you favorite psychotic moments in movies?
After watching Ellen Page castrating someone in Hard Candy and Rebecca Gayheart losing it at the end of Urban Legend ...... I though it would be interesting to find out what are people favorite psychotic moments on film .... and remember be careful not to say to much of the story
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I thought the inevitable murder scene in "Heavenly Creatures" (I don't think this is a spoiler seeing as the entire film is built around it) was damn trippy.
Genevieve Lemon's downright psycho performance in "Sweetie" should be one for the history books.
Kathleen Turner in "Serial Mom" -
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Glenn Close in the film "Fatal Attraction." Her scene where she awfully talks, cuts herself and try to stab Anne Archer, that was so frightened. After that I always makes sure the door closed all over the house before I retired.
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Kathleen Turner running down the sidewalk waving that butcher knife is something I'll never forget.
It's a mediocre movie, but Laurie Metcalf's unhinged performance at the end of "Scream 2" was genuinely scary.
It's not a loud or screechy moment, but the very end of "Man Bites Dog" (1992 b&w mockumentary following a serial killer) when the film crew gives in to the dark side, so to speak, left me sleepless for days.
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Anthony Perkins defining Psycho. Bette Davis's campy What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Anthony Hopkins' cold-blooded Hannibal. Kathy Bate's insane Annie Wilkes. Jack Nicholson's possessed Jack Torrance in The Shining. Charles Boyer's obsessive maniac in Gaslight. Robert Mitchum's psychotic murderer Henry Powell in Night of The Hunter. Humphrey Bogarts OCD moments in Caine Mutiny, and his gold-crazed lapse in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Catherine Deneuve's decent into madness in Repulsion. Heath Ledger as The Joker; completely twisted. Joanne Woodward, The Three Faces of Eve. Vivien Leigh, in another world in A Streetcar Named Desire. *Klaus Kinsky's tyrannical Aguirre in Werner Herzog's Aguirre, The Wrath of God. Carrie Snodgress's decent in Diary of a Mad Housewife.
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That one part of Repulsion where Catherine Deneuve sees the man in the mirror nearly made me go loo in my knickers!
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Sissy Spacek's reaction after getting the pig blood dumped on her in "Carrie" is pretty frightening, as is Piper Laurie's entire performance in that film.
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Originally posted by Troy: Sissy Spacek's reaction after getting the pig blood dumped on her in "Carrie" is pretty frightening, as is Piper Laurie's entire performance in that film.
LOL..once again u beat me to it. I was just gonna post about "Carrie" and Sissy and Piper
Other notable mentions would be:
Danielle Harris' final scene in Halloween 4..when Jaime stabs her stepmother. Loomis,the dad,the sheriff, and Rachel run to the stairs and look up to see Jaime holding a bloody knife poised to stab again.
Linda Blair in every "possessed" scene in The Exorcist.
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Beatrice Dalles' performance as a crazed woman stalking a very pregnant victim on Christmas Eve in the French horror flick "Inside" is one of the most disturbing psycho-killer performances in recent years.
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Haute Tension ("High Tension") proves that the French can do thrillers as psychotically (and inanely) as les Américains...
Add, "Frontiere(s)," "Ils (Them)", "Martyrs," and "Calvaire" and of course "Inside" to that. France has really put out some of the best horror films of this decade.
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Originally posted by Pucifer: Haute Tension ("High Tension") proves that the French can do thrillers as psychotically (and inanely) as les Américains...
Gawd, I hated Haute Tension; although, it had great production values and good cinematography, which was unexpected. I watched it to see Maiwenn Le Besco, the diva from Fifth Element. It's too bad she didnt do any singing in this one. I'll add Mieko Harada, who's cooly sociopathic, calmly determined Lady Kaeda demonstrates with her kimono sleeve, what she does to people who stand in her way; and in the same film, Tatsuya Nakadai as Lord Heditora Ichimonji, who, didnt quite grasp the imminent nature of his situation. Both, brilliant, imo. (RAN)
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