Halloween Night. Dark Dude, wide awake, plotting an evil massacre. Photos of renowned Mouthshut writers, the innocent victims. Innocent until Photoshoped. Photoshop, the dude’s devilry workshop.
The gory fireworks
Afrank Sujata, Blair Witch in a black coverall! Such a sweet and cute witch. There will be a line of folks volunteering to be burnt at stake. Not a successful pot-boiler this witch. This Broom wont fly!
Zuludancing Aditya, African tribal warrior dancing with a photosynthetic g-string. Too gory! Bobby Dahling’s wet dreams!
Juggernaut with Red horns. A chubby Devil.
lallupanju with a rainbow-hued Red Indian headgear. A Tabby Devil.
GirlNextStore Apu Nani with blood-dripping mouth(Thanks for the doodle sai). A Scary sight next store.
AnujBhatnagar22 Moses motorist with a’Burning Bush’ helmet. Chemosynthetic pyrotechnics.
IamSujaij Lovely’IamNowMedusa’ with two dozen mating cobras his velvety hair!
Walkin’, I-don’t-post-any-pictures dude. Foot long iron nails. No laws just long ghoulish arms!
And the Hoaxer goes to.
SVJayalaxmi with long ivory fangs, Dude’s bit*h Dhananjay takes a dump. Successful art, messy carpet! Lovely dark brown she-dog, chocolaty floor.
And the UnHoly List screams.
’Off-topic’ sourpuss comments, the real scary deal! Dude leaps on to the scary list.
Cujo - a new name for terror
No bloodthirsty Tiger-sharks or slithering anacondas here. Just a next door dog! A mother son duo takes a broken car for repair to a remote garage. Terror confronts them as a rabid St. Bernard who has claimed two lives and looking for more. Man’s best friend turns into worst nightmare.
Fear Factor: Even simple innocuous things in life could be turned into terrorising nightmares. For example an adorable and harmless pet dog.
Dude Notes: Mother and son pair acted naturally scared. Good camera work. Great performance by the dog!
Night Flier - Never believe what you publish.Never publish what you believe
Tabloid reporter with a career in jeopardy chooses to investigate murders committed by a dude flying cessna into remote airports. A vampire or a mass murderer? Slow moving film and lot of gore. Scary heart-stopping climax.
Fear Factor: What if True Evil does exist? Should we really go looking for it or enjoy the bliss of ignorance? What if the tabloid stories are true? What if one fine day the supernatural stares at you right in the eye?
Dude Notes: Miguel Ferrer good as a narcissistic reporter. The mirror scene in the bathroom gave sleepless nights. Subtle horror with a 10, 000 volts ending.
Fallen - Don’t trust a soul.
Demon who can switch bodies with a mere touch hell bent on mindless massacre. A cop trying to put an end to a supernatural foe. Demon unable to possess the cop. Cop unable to stop the demon. Hunter turns the hunted and hunter again. Who has the last laugh?
Fear Factor: Of being taken over by something nasty. Losing oneself, turning into a zombie and murdering loved ones. Our loved ones getting possessed by demons and trying to kill us. What will you do if the ultimate evil were to breathe down your neck? Nothing more scary than the faceless evil.
Dude Notes: Great movie. Denzel Washington great as the homicide detective on the demon hunt. Smashing ending!
Cape Fear(1991) - There is nothing in the dark that isn’t there in the light. Except fear.
A lawyer falls foul of a convicted ex-client. Client thinks lawyer reason for imprisonment. Lawyer happy in a mansion with beautiful wife and young teenage daughter. Client woos the daughter and initiates her into Satanic cultism. Client’s proposal to lawyer to end misunderstanding - I will not kill your wife and daughter. I will rape them in front of you. Then I will kill them. Does he rape them? Does he kill them? A stormy climax.
Fear Factor: Nothing’s more scary than what you did(or didn’t) returning back to haunt your family. No worser nightmare than you being helpless when your family is being tormented, devastated and destroyed before your very eyes. Demons beware! We are humans.
Dude Notes: Pure psychological fear. Martin Scorsese scares without resorting to masks and funny costumes. De Niro chills your blood as the baddy Max Cady.
The Shining - REDRUM is in the air
A haunted hotel. A drunkard failing writer. An abused wife and son. Son has psychic’shining’ power to see the dead. Dad too! Are they really seeing the dead or mere hallucination? What does REDRUM mean? Why does it keep appearing on the walls? Who is the boy’s fictious virtual friend?
Fear Factor: Are there really ghosts in the hotel? Or is the protagonist losing his mind? Is it seclusion from the outer-world for six snow-buried months? Or just the Alcoholic addiction?
What turns a man into a monster? Demons? Inner demons? or Both!
Dude Notes: Here’s Johnny. No, not me! Jack Nicholson with an axe. Real scary performance. One of his best. Stanley Kubrick has done a brilliant direction with tonnes of snow, tanks of fog and gallons of blood.
Alien - In space no one can hear you scream.
It’s Panic Room in Space. Seven space-crew of a mining spaceship discover the greatest threat mankind as ever faced. A new species perfectly evolved to finish humanity. Protagonist Ripley and other crew members strive to save their lives in the cloistered confines of a lonely lost ship, as the creature evolves from a face-hugger to a chest-burster and finally to the carnivorous behemoth with acid blood.
Fear Factor: To be cornered by a supernatural boogeyman and nowhere to run. Fear of a monster growing within you and emerging out bursting your chest. Fear of being eaten alive, becoming dietary nutrition to a ghastly extraterrestrial.
Dude Notes: Best original creature effects. Good direction. Great performance by Sigourney Weaver as Ripley.
SE7EN - Seven deadly sins. Seven ways to die.
A psychopathic serial-killer on a holy mission to purge the world of it’s sin. Seven biblical sins. Seven days. Seven victims. Can two cops. one retiring, the other a neophyte. find the needle of a killer in the haystack that’s NYC? Or wait for the killer to find them?
Fear Factor: Anonymity in a megacity. Your next door neighbor could be the Una Bomber or even Osama Bin Laden! And yet you are blissfully unaware. Till some fanatic turns you brutally into an instrument of propoganda and fame.
Dude Notes: Morgan Freeman as cool experienced cop, a perfect foil to Brad Pitt’s foul-mouthing character full of raw energy. Killer Kevin Spacey makes a brief appearance close to the ending. Shocking climax! Some scenes are really gut-wrenching like the fully emaciated man! A really dark creativity by director David Fincher.
There are many more. But these are dude’s personal favorites. And finally. BOOOO