Love Dark City and Lost Highway, also going to add Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Sunset Boulevard, Laura, and Brick. Also maybe Decision to Leaave. Adding your other suggestions to my list :)
Also how are we forgetting the greatest noir film of all: Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Why does this remind me of people saying The Gate is a great horror intro for kids when that movie scared the shit out of me more than Freddy or The Terminator (the 2nd was more terrifying tbh, the milk carton scene 😬)
40s noir is much more tame than Roger Rabbit 😂
Not saying you said it was a good intro to noir, specifically for kids, but since I watched it as a kid and it’s part cartoon…anyway, I should go to bed 😂
Honestly, the villain/dip scene are so much freakier than any other noir movie lol.
But yeah I totally get it - sometimes things seem like they'd be easier/for kids but there's some messed up media for kids out there. Stuff that holds back on certain types of adult content (like blood and gore) occasionally make up for it by getting way creepier psychologically and even visually.
The shoe quivering and screaming once he was being dipped will forever be seared into my brain 😢
I think films underestimated children’s imagination because that is what made me terrified. Those little gremlin things seem funny as an adult but to kids…we didn’t want those gremlin things nibbling at and attacking us.
I hung out with a new friend recently and we happened upon a Spirit Halloween on its last day and bonded over our love of horror.
Something reminded me of The Gates and she immediately goes “THE EYE IN THE HAND!!” That movie was freaky. I recently rewatched it and yes, a lot of it was cheesy, but i couldn’t help but watch it like I was still a kid and my fears were justified.
lol the most horrifying part of The Gate was Stephen Dorff stabbing himself in the palm. You're right, though, it was scary as fuck and early exposure to it is probably why I don't think movies are scary at all anymore. There was a sequel?
Also that Punky Brewster Halloween episode where they get stuck in the cave.
I like 90s noir like The Last Seduction, Romeo Is Bleeding, Devil in a Blue Dress, Dark City and Lost Highway.
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Also how are we forgetting the greatest noir film of all: Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
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Why does this remind me of people saying The Gate is a great horror intro for kids when that movie scared the shit out of me more than Freddy or The Terminator (the 2nd was more terrifying tbh, the milk carton scene 😬)
40s noir is much more tame than Roger Rabbit 😂
Not saying you said it was a good intro to noir, specifically for kids, but since I watched it as a kid and it’s part cartoon…anyway, I should go to bed 😂
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But yeah I totally get it - sometimes things seem like they'd be easier/for kids but there's some messed up media for kids out there. Stuff that holds back on certain types of adult content (like blood and gore) occasionally make up for it by getting way creepier psychologically and even visually.
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I think films underestimated children’s imagination because that is what made me terrified. Those little gremlin things seem funny as an adult but to kids…we didn’t want those gremlin things nibbling at and attacking us.
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Something reminded me of The Gates and she immediately goes “THE EYE IN THE HAND!!” That movie was freaky. I recently rewatched it and yes, a lot of it was cheesy, but i couldn’t help but watch it like I was still a kid and my fears were justified.
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I'm glad we all agree on that scene.
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lol the most horrifying part of The Gate was Stephen Dorff stabbing himself in the palm. You're right, though, it was scary as fuck and early exposure to it is probably why I don't think movies are scary at all anymore. There was a sequel?
Also that Punky Brewster Halloween episode where they get stuck in the cave.
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