Best Opening Sequence

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by suziginajackson

Have to agree with this

Very disturbing and un-nerving. Set the tone for the following 2 hours perfectly

The closing credits are just as disturbing

Originally Posted by Wes

That will be Coil's great remix of a forgettable Nine Inch Nails tune...

Is that the same Coil who were involved in the BFI DVD release of 'Salo'...or is the alcohol kicking in?

[Wes]

Originally Posted by suziginajackson

Is that the same Coil who were involved in the BFI DVD release of 'Salo'...or is the alcohol kicking in?

No, you're 100% correct, well spotted !

I think the Se7en credits are much better than the Fight Club credits which I've seen imitated in lots of movies since...

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Coil also did some fantastic songs for Hellraiser, that were sadly never used in the film.

Box Theme:

[Wes]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

Coil also did some fantastic songs for Hellraiser, that were sadly never used in the film.

Very true... but I do like Christopher Young's score I must say...

Coil had this to say about it:

We were in right at the very beginning of the project, like Clive Barker was writing a screenplay and he came to our house and took away a load of piercing magazines and things. Which is where they got all the Pinhead stuff from...

[Vampix]

Simple but very effective:
Halloween (1978)

[Vampix]

Halloween III:Season of the Witch

[Phurious]

Originally Posted by Wes

Yeah, a great ominous opening - if I remember rightly Noé says on the commentary track that he was influneced by the credits style of Tarkovsky's film Stalker. By the way, doesn't Thomas Bangalter's music sound like Hamburger Lady ?

I haven't listened/read the commentary for ages, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if that was true.

Hamburger Lady's actually used in Enter The Void! I'd like to think that Bangalter was a TG fan. That whole club Rectum sequence would probably have impressed even P-Orridge

[Phurious]

Originally Posted by Wes

Very true... but I do like Christopher Young's score I must say...

Coil had this to say about it:

We were in right at the very beginning of the project, like Clive Barker was writing a screenplay and he came to our house and took away a load of piercing magazines and things. Which is where they got all the Pinhead stuff from...

S'funny I was telling someone today how much I'd love to see that film with Coil's soundtrack, but I totally agree Young does a sterling job on it.

[Wes]

I really love the opening of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - that eerie sequence with the shots of the corpse glistening in the light of the flash bulb (and that unforgettable whiney sound), followed by the dissolve to the corpse hung on the gravestone like a puppet, and the voice of the news reporter swallowed up the Hooper & Bell's proto-Industrial score... Even now after seeing the film 20 times, I still get excited by the way the film rolls out.

I'm paraphrasing here but I think Andrzej Zulawski once said that if aliens came to Earth and asked him what is Cinema, he would show them The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I like that...

It's still my favourite Horror film of all time...

[sjconstable]

Originally Posted by Wes

I'm paraphrasing here but I think Andrzej Zulawski once said that if aliens came to Earth and asked him what is Cinema, he would show them The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Haha really? He's a nutter, I love how he just calls most films rubbish in his audio commentaries Shame his last one was rubbish!