Part deux of some movies I would not recommend to individuals with a heart condition! Alors, here we go:
- Deliverance (1972): Starring a young Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds, this movie is about four friends who go on rafting trip in the deep South. They enounter a lot of eerie 'hill billy' characters and soon find themselves struggling to survive this nightmare of a trip. I found this pretty scary because it felt realistic. The scenarios were not completely overblown or improbable. The actors, the setting, the dialogue, the tension, it all felt so authentic. Great movie.
- Cutting Moments (1997): This is a very low budget/ indie movie that might seem off-putting and dry at first but if you hang in there, you better be prepared for some very disturbing and gut wrenching imagery. It is a pretty short film and you can probably find it online. Please do not watch it if you cannot handle graphic violence/ imagery.
- The Road (2009): One of those post-apocalyptic end-of-days movies; basically a zombie flick without the zombies; the world is falling apart and lawlessness is rampant. Everyone is struggling to survive in a Hobbesian world where it is war of all against all. Viggo Mortensen plays a father who is trying to keep himself and his son alive in this foresaken new world. I cannot remember exactly what caused the breakdown of society, I think it was something about lack of vegetation which impacted the food cycle significantly by causing deaths of animals and then humans by starvation, etc. Fans of The Wire (one of the greatest tv shows ever) will recognize Michael K. Williams in this. Not a bad movie but not amazing either. Worth a mention here though.
- Deadgirl (2008):
I hesitate a bit with adding this movie to the list because it is not a
great movie by any means. It has many flaws but I liked that the plot
was demented and they ran with it. I listed this movie in the Zombie
Flicks post earlier if you want more of a synopsis.
- Shadow Of A Doubt (1943): What the heck kind of list is this without a Hitchcock movie? Like Rope (1948) and Rear Window (1954), and pretty much any Alfred Hitchcock movie, there is a lot of tension that builds up in the course of this film. It starts out innocently enough but then things get dark very quickly and suddenly the lead character is faced with imminent danger. Great movie.
- The Birds (1963): I will refrain from listing all of Alfred Hitchcock's movies here but this one really needed to be on this list. If you have ornithophobia and experience an irrational fear of birds, this movie will rationalize your fear! It is basically a movie about birds attacking humans. Reminds me of an episode of a nature show where a massive hornet attacks a bee hive but then all these little bees start to mobilize and engulf the hornet en masse and take it down. What a great display of the power of defense mechanisms in nature.
- Shallow Grave (1994): I already reviewed this in the Bank Robbery Flicks post but it has definitely earned a spot on this list too.
- Badlands (1973): Like Deliverance (1972), this movie is disturbing because it seems realistic (probably because it is based on a true story). Two young teenagers fall in love and in their rebellion against the world, they push the envelope just a little too far a la Bonnie and Clyde. Really great movie. Sissy Spacek and Martin Sheen were amazing in this. It is not necessarily scary but the socio-political commentary can be a bit uneasy to swallow.
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