# Unexpectedly creepy movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 4, 2006, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932 "2006-02-04T01:18:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/21 "2006-02-04T21:51:09Z")
> [@Linty Fresh](#): > > **Dave** kind of freaked me out, too. OK, the president is incapacitated, and a look-a-like is brought in to fill the gap, and instead of nodding and accepting orders, he just starts making policy without any political experience whatsoever. Cute, right? > > No, actually that’s pretty screwed up. > > OK, I liked it a little. It **was** pretty cute. As far as I’m concerned , the entire movie was a setup for the Oliver Store cameo. ---
**Author:** ![priapus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@priapus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/priapus)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/22 "2006-02-04T22:01:33Z")
I’ve mentioned it before.Parents with Randy Quaid looked like the odd comedy,but it was a serious movie about (I don’t know how to do the spoiler box) ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/23 "2006-02-04T22:18:08Z")
> [@priapus](#): > > I’ve mentioned it before.Parents with Randy Quaid looked like the odd comedy,but it was a serious movie about (I don’t know how to do the spoiler box) Use square brackets instead of parentheses, and they go like this: {SPOILER} This is a spoiler.{/SPOILER} Click “Reply” on this post to see the real thing This is also a spoiler. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/24 "2006-02-04T22:27:14Z")
> [@priapus](#): > > I’ve mentioned it before.Parents with Randy Quaid looked like the odd comedy,but it was a serious movie about (I don’t know how to do the spoiler box) Actually, it WAS a comedy. A very, very dark comedy about cannibalism and sex. ---
**Author:** ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/25 "2006-02-04T22:33:46Z")
The movie Jeepers Creepers. I’m not a fan of horror movies but the ending to this one was especially brutal. Its about a brother and sister crossing the US and being harassed by a beast that only seems to appear every 17 years or so. Spoilers! the monster chooses the brother, skins him and then takes his eyes out. It’s awful stuff ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/26 "2006-02-05T06:08:22Z")
> [@Rich Mann](#): > > The ads for _ **Falling Down** _ made it look like some sort of comedy. I didn’t see the ads, but was duped into the premise that the poor guy was a regular Joe just pushed too far. Till the very end, when he turns out to be just a regular old psycho, and deserved shooting. :rolleyes: Lame. And creepy. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Analogue\_Skywalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Analogue\_Skywalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Analogue_Skywalker)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/27 "2006-02-05T06:48:27Z")
> [@Rich Mann](#): > > The ads for _ **Falling Down** _ made it look like some sort of comedy. I kept waiting for it to be funny. By the time I had become certain that it wasn’t a comedy, or even a black comedy, I didn’t have time to adjust my perspective before things got really serious on the screen. I was kinda pissed because I had been misled resulting in confusion. > . I whole heartedly agree. _ **Falling Down** _ is one of the few movies that actually make me sick to watch and leave me with the heebie jeebies for a day or two after watching. ---
**Author:** ![Analogue\_Skywalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Analogue\_Skywalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Analogue_Skywalker)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/28 "2006-02-05T06:51:24Z")
> [@Lochdale](#): > > The movie Jeepers Creepers. > > I’m not a fan of horror movies but the ending to this one was especially brutal. Its about a brother and sister crossing the US and being harassed by a beast that only seems to appear every 17 years or so. > > Spoilers! > > the monster chooses the brother, skins him and then takes his eyes out. It’s awful stuff The only thing that creepys me out about that movie is the final scene. the phonograph playing:golly jeepers, where did get those peepers. peep show , creepy show. where did you get those eyes? ---
**Author:** ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/29 "2006-02-05T07:07:47Z")
> [@Analogue Skywalker](#): > > The only thing that creepys me out about that movie is the final scene. > > the phonograph playing:golly jeepers, where did get those peepers. peep show , creepy show. where did you get those eyes? And perhaps… the flayed skin of the brother sans eyes! ---
**Author:** ![Analogue\_Skywalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Analogue\_Skywalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Analogue_Skywalker)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/30 "2006-02-05T07:50:02Z")
> [@Lochdale](#): > > And perhaps… > > the flayed skin of the brother sans eyes! that goes with outsaying. ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/31 "2006-02-05T10:17:37Z")
_Guarding Tess_ really made a left turn. It starts out as a nice, light comedy, sort of like _Driving Miss Daisy_ , and then she gets kidnapped and all of the sudden it’s like an episode of 24. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/32 "2006-02-05T10:18:17Z")
**The Frighteners** : a good movie, although too uneven in tone, and Michael J. Fox was miscast, but it went from a lightweight comedy ghost-movie beginning to some genuinely frightening stuff at the end. ---
**Author:** ![DrMemory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DrMemory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrMemory)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/33 "2006-02-05T12:28:23Z")
The Latest version of **Charlie and the Chocolate Factory** did it for me. I grew up with Gene Wilder’s version, and that, allthough Not a great film, was that. Johnny Depp just creeped me out ( and not in the good way). I really like Johnny Depp. Dig Tim Burton all-to-Hell( pardon the pun). But this movie just left me needing to scrub my brain with Lysol to get that WTF-taste out of my mouth. ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/34 "2006-02-05T14:29:26Z")
> [@Rubystreak](#): > > I just saw Oldboy, directed by Chan-wook Park. I thought I was in for a little of the ol’ ultraviolence, but this movie was just sick. sick, sick. I made the mistake of watching it with this guy on our second date. :eek: Ah well. Oh, I agree on this. My friend had warned me before I saw it, and as the movie progressed I felt that “Aha, these violent fighting scenes must be what he was talking about. Good call, I can handle this.” Then came the ending! ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/35 "2006-02-05T16:20:11Z")
I caught Miike’s Iichi the Killer halfway through one night and I really enjoyed it. A little harsh violence, but it was done in a cartoon style, so nothing too terible. Then, I watched it again from the beginning, and for no discernable reason I was disturbed. To begin with, there is an opening shot of what is claimed to be Miike’s sperm dripping on a plant. Why? That isn’t really necesary, is it? Then, we dive right into Iichi killing people. However, it’s creepy in that Iichi isn’t emotionaly or psychologically an adult, he is only an adult physically. It’s also creepy in how much gore there is, and how it smells of a snuff film, yet I enjoyed it the first time. I’m pretty sure Miike wanted to make a disturbing film, but I was disturbed in ways not even he got anticipate. ---
**Author:** ![foxymoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d26b3c/32.png) [@foxymoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foxymoron)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/36 "2006-02-05T16:21:21Z")
[Audition](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235198/) and [Unfaithful](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250797/) are the first two that come to my mind. They both really threw me with unexpected (and drastic) genre changes part-way through. **Falling Down** surprised me some, too. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/37 "2006-02-05T17:20:05Z")
> [@foxymoron](#): > > [Audition](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235198/) and [Unfaithful](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250797/) are the first two that come to my mind. They both really threw me with unexpected (and drastic) genre changes part-way through. Yeah, when I saw Audition I knew ABSOLUTLELY NOTHING ABOUT IT. It was my first Miike, too, so I had ZERO expectations. :eek: So I was the perfect audience: I thought I was watching a romantic comedy. Now of course I like lending it to people who are equally ignorant. What? ---
**Author:** ![ZeroGyro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47774/32.png) [@ZeroGyro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZeroGyro)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/38 "2006-02-05T18:24:26Z")
**Kiss Me Deadly** is a classic film noir and a flat-out weird movie. For me, it starts to get creepy as the detective played by Ralph Meeker starts to deal with “the great whatsit,” a glowing briefcase that serves as the film’s MacGuffin. There’s a great scene where a character slowly says a couple words which give Meeker an idea of what he’s dealing with. A lot of film noir can get pretty creepy. **Murder, My Sweet** comes to mind (the Dick Powell one). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/39 "2006-02-05T20:01:25Z")
The 1981 Steve Martin musical _Pennies from Heaven._ Depressing even for a Depression story. And none of the earlier character development about the black street musician set us up to expect he would be capable of raping and murdering the blind girl. That came out of left field. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932/40 "2006-02-05T20:48:36Z")
_Pulp Fiction_, not just the Gimp scene. There was a creepy feeling over the whole film, as if all the characters other than perhaps “post miracle” Jules are infernal and not just underworld as in Mafia. You’d not be the least surprised to learn that Marcellus, the Cab driver (Esmerelda Via Lobos) and Zed have all shared Diet Coke and Fig Newtons while watching a _Golden Girls_ marathon with Satan and that it’s Ringo’s lifetime goal to do so (but Satan has his standards). It’s easily on my Top 10 list, but it’s very creepy and wasn’t the dark comedy I was expecting. _Slingblade_ throughout, but especially the scenes when Dwight Yoakam is “hurtin’” (that was a great performance- he added nuance and depth to a character who would have been easy to play as one dimensional and I’m surprised he didn’t get major award nominations) and the scene when Carl goes to see his father (Robert Duvall). The latter scene was eery not just because the revelations about Carl’s childhood (which are scarier for not having been fleshed out than if they were [i.e. _what_ did his parents tell him was in the Bible that wasn’t?\*) but the nastiness and clutter of the house (which I associate with my grandmother’s place, and that woman was 100 pounds of walking creepiness. _Prophecy_- I was expecting an almost camp by-the-numbers horror flick, especially when I learned Christopher Walken was a star, but it was far freakier. _Oliver_- Ron Moody’s Fagin, even though much softer than the one in the book, scared the hell out of me. Great performance, but you get the opinion that he truly loves the orphans but would snap their neck without a second’s remorse if it’d keep them out of jail, plus there was definitely some lecherous chemistry twixt him and Nancy. The weird nominee: [Annie](http://imdb.com/title/tt0207972/)= the pointless remake by Disney. Several things were creepy about this, one being Miss Hannigan as played by Kathy Bates. In the original movie Carol Burnett portrayed the character as drunk and just a little bit crazy, but she was hysterically funny, while Bates, who actually starts with a politically correct bit about how she’s never hit or beat the orphans, just strikes me (probably unintentionally) as somebody who could easily white slave a 10 year old orphan to a cult of Molock worshipers for a gift certificate to IHOP. Then there’s Daddy Warbucks (Victor Garber), who in this version goes from “Orphans are boys, get her out of here” to “I can’t live without her” with whiplash speed, which was creepy in an “Annie… have you ever been in a Turkish prison?” sort of way. Were it not for Alan Cumming there’d be no redeeming facet to this turkey. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unexpectedly-creepy-movies/342932.md?page=3)