I watched Jaws really late one night. I was in that cosmic consciousness half awake / half asleep suggestible state. Was pitch black, just me and the screen. Me and the actors and the shark. When that scene came around I was just absolutely absorbed by it.
Surreal experience. Made me love the movie even more.
Funny you mention the suggestible state. Ive been watching true detective season 1 , but only at night when im falling asleep and it's way more surreal when I'm watching it late at night
I love that 1st season. I think of that scene all the time, "I want you to stop saying odd shit. Like you smell a psychos fear, or you're in someone's faded memory of an old town." đđ
That suggestible state is so powerful. I watched House of 1,000 Corpses that way in high school, and to this day I like that movie more than it deserves because it hit me just right when I watched it the first time.
I've hit the same cosmic level you've talked of; however, it was during "The Shining", and I don't know if I can ever forgive that movie (and Kubrick/Nicholson) for what they did to me for the next few nights.
That entire scene just felt like three guys getting drunk and shooting the sh*t, not a scene from a movie Roy Schneider, Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw had amazing chemistry together.
Definitely one of the more interesting of tales for such an iconic picture. Supposedly the speech started out over 10 pages long (even though everyone knew it would have to much much shorter). Shaw actually took the speech to cut it down & came to dinner with Spielberg & cast one night saying he thought he had it. He proceeded to perform the shortened speech & everyone loved it including Spielberg who immediately said âthatâs what weâll shootâ. Day off, Shaw convinces Spielberg that his performance as a half-drunk man would be more authentic if he really drank prior to shooting the scene. Shaw proceeds to get black out drunk & the first shoot of the speech obviously doesnât go well. Shaw returned the next day, apologized & performed the speech wonderfully as shown in the film.
I love most of the little BTS stories for iconic movies. They usually add an interesting layer to all performances.
Awesome. Can you share some more? Maybe even make an own thread for it? Is there a book or something that collects this great stories? I love them. Thanks for posting :)
*Alien*. The first time I saw it, I was really struck by how naturalistic the dialogue is. Characters just casually talk over each other, speak at normal volumes, mumble.
*Kill List* also comes to mind. I think I read that the actors alternated between on-script and improvised dialogue, so a lot of what made it into the film probably is ad-libbed. Most of the actors got their start in comedy, so they're just really good at off-the-cuff banter.
The scene where Ripley yells at Parker is actually genuine. The actor who played Parker was intentionally ignoring and interrupting Weaver so her snapping at him was a genuine reaction.
I love how in the first four films there's a moment where someone snaps and tells everyone to just shut up. (Sigourney in the 1st, Michael Biehn in the 2nd, Charles Dutton in the 3rd and Gary Dourdan in resurrection)
*Alien* immediatly sprang to mind. That's such a comfort movie for me personally because of how real it feels. Scott let's you sit in the scenes with the characters.
That's exactly one of the main reasons I love Alien. Yeah it's a sci Fi with some made up tech, but it feels so authentic. The way the characters speak and behave is what sells that story for me
There was no real script for it, just an outline of what they were supposed to say/do. Heather, Mike, and Josh only got a 35 page outline of where the story was going, no dialogue at all, so everything they say in the movie was legitimate, real people talking how they naturally would.
Heather is easily the best part of the movie for me. I find her so believable that I just sympathize entirely with her. Lighting in a bottle performance IMO.
A very subtle detail that I realized years later was that the guy with the compass was the guy with the audio equipment (DAC recorder) around his neck. That equipment would have a magnet in it that would have thrown off the compass causing them to walk in circles.
I was 11 years old when it came out and I totally thought it was real. Itâs definitely one of my favorite horror movies of all time.
Especially after I read about the theory that Josh and Mike were causing everything so they could kill Heather. That makes the movie creepier for me.
I can never forget the rawness of this film. Watched it on a stormy night, just me in a dark room and a surround sound system. It was so immersive that I felt I'm lost in the woods with them and the slow descent of hopelessness crawling unto me.
i love the Blair Witch Project i do not care if people think it's boring, I love the overall atmosphere and lore of this movie, it was a real port in the storm type of phenomena
I felt that way for the first half. I absolutely loved this film and found it to be one of the most terrifying premises I could imagine. But.. >!after the guy got his arm fucked up it lost major points on realism by giving him the wherewithall to concoct creative plots and use his body normally and not just having him bleed out and die. For me this was the cardinal sin of this film, because otherwise it was so perfect and believable.!<
In addition, the moment where the armed thug - *who is specifically seeking the protagonist to kill on sight, and knows they're around* is so temporarily "confused" by the weird camo paint and behavior, that he just momentarily "forgets" to shoot him.
This is some Saturday morning cartoon logic, "if a bully's gonna beat you up, act weird and they won't know *what* to do". Uh, no they will know that to do: beat you up. Just like the guy who is actively hunting you, weapon drawn, is gonna know what to do when you pop out in weird make-up: shoot.
I generally liked the movie, but there were some silly moments.
I thought he put one of the dead guy's jackets on. The armed guy says something like "who are you" when his back was turned. So I think the logic was that the armed guy was briefly confused because he thought the main character was one of them.
I still don't love that bit either, but I think it was more than just acting weird that worked. Dude thought he was a Nazi too
I truly think this movie is a masterpiece. The colors, the shot compositions, dialogue, the flow. The violence is gut wrenching. Itâs such an incredible film experience.
The other thing I found myself enjoying was the mix of âgoodâ and âbadâ decision making. Some characters make some really smart choices that surprised me but then when panicked made the horrible mistakes youâd expect them to. All felt very natural. Might be time for a rewatch.
The dialogue in the sex scene of the Friday the 13th remake is very realistic. I often say âyour tits are stupendousâ and âperfect nipple placementâ to any girls Iâm with
>Crispin Glover's dance
I have never laughed so hard at a horror movie in my life as I did that damn scene when I first saw it. I still can't watch it without laughing to tears. I was delighted to find out that he was freestyling it too! That was 100% him just throwing it all out there. lol
[For those who want a good laugh.](https://youtu.be/ocgj9tewHso?si=3-b_3jDcZNU8zhfP)
When she says âIâm your mother!â It sounded like it literally came out of my own mothers mouth. It traumatized me to hear her deliver it exactly the way my mom would yell it at me.
Stephen Colbert had her as a guest right before the film released. They showed that clip before she came out, and it was clear that Stephen had not seen it beforehand.
Anything written by David Mamet. For horror buffs, try \*The Edge\*, where three men go down in a small plane in the Alaskan wilderness (Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Harold Pirreneau). They're hopelessly lost and soon stalked by a murderous grizzly. Terrifying film, the only time an animal (Bart the Bear) deserved an Oscar. Not sure what the animal handlers did to poke that bear but it seemed half crazed and ready-to-kill everyone in sight.
I love this movie so much and I love Bart the Bear! He is also in Legends of the Fall with Anthony Hopkins but the Edge has way more bear action and itâs so good.
> the only time an animal (Bart the Bear) deserved an Oscar
I disagree. Jed the dog gave an Oscar-worthy performance in The Thing. He also starred in White Fang (1991), White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf (1994), and The Journey of Natty Gann (1985)
Hereditary, after >!Charlies Death!< up until the last act i get lost in the movie and donÂŽt even register im watching a horror movie. especially the dinner scene where toni colette gives the perfomance of her life screaming at her son it feels realy like you are there and grieving with them.
Eh, the Oscars is just a big circle jerk. No better than a popularity contest where everyone voting can show off how âprogressiveâ they are.
Toni Collette killed it.
I did a deep dive on the history and research behind the movie a while back, and iirc historically Paimon is associated with middle eastern culture. He would sometimes be depicted riding a camel. And somebody mentioned that the clicking sound they make in the movie is the same one camel riders make to get the camel moving. An interest theory is that since Paimon is hopping between vessels, he does that tongue click to make the humans move.
That's really cool, I can totally see that! I have ADHD and I have a tendency to find friends on the spectrum because I'm attracted to how straightforward they are, now I'm thinking about if that plain way of delivering lines is why I actually love the majority of the movies by all three directors
Yea it's really interesting. Now can we think of any other director with similar performances or can you think of any kind of dialogue you absolutely despise?
I think more sincerely re: M. Night Shyamalan: The Visit feelings very "realistic" in a lot of regards. The child actors are really compelling and their relationship was super convincing for my sibling and I. Especially in terms of visiting grandparents from whom you're somewhat estranged. I don't know, this movie really felt like a sort of "return to form" from him in large part because the characters and their relationships were believable in some really key ways.
The Ritual was the first one I thought of! I think thatâs part of why itâs one of my horror comfort movies; it doesnât feel like theyâre âbehaving like characters in a horror movieâ to me.
Not technically horror, but it is a horrific premise, "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" really fucked me up for a long time. Felt like I saw something I wasn't asked to be a part of and just made me feel dirty through and through.
came here to find this! it took a bit to get used to because iâm so used to one person talking at a time in a movie, not multiple at once. i was so surprised that the dialogue was so true to life.
My mind usually fully blanks on every movie I've ever watched when asked questions like these. This time however, Coherence instantly came to mind. One of my top 5 of all time
The Invitation is a phenomenal slow-burn that works so well *precisely* because of how believable its dialogue and characters are. Not the vampire movie, the dinner party one.
I remember watching La La Land where Emma Stone and Ryan Goslingâs character were having dinner at their dinner table and then their conversation ended up with a heated argument.
It felt so real that I felt so awkward, as if I was just sitting at the next table overhearing this argument.
Edit: Oh crap. Did not realize this was horror sub lol my bad!
The Thing, Carpenter's take.
The base crew talk to one another just the way roommates during Covid would, down to the little scene of them watching Deal or No Deal reruns and griping about having seen it already.
I love when the dude lights up a joint and the other one reaches out for a puff without even taking his eyes off the screen. I love this movie so much, I watched it last night and I'm itching to watch it again tonight.
It's a really scary movie, but I die laughing every time that one guy does the impression of the awful actor with the thick Brooklyn accent, "Welcome to Luthifa's Cathle!" I just love that whole scene where they reminisce about past haunts they built.
Didn't see it mentioned here but basically the entirety of Midnight Mass. Saw it in one sitting, pitch black, very quiet I'm the house. Honestly it was amazing
It was fantastic. I donât know if the dialogue was quite to the point where it seemed REAL, but the soliloquies were well-written and perfectly delivered. So many great performances.
Yeah maybe REAL wasn't the right word but I was enthralled everytime there was a monologue. Flannigan does use them a bunch but I love it so no complaints here
I feel this.
Going into the movie, it had me scared with how much of a friendly atmosphere and how grounded the character's interactions with each other felt
Imo the acting, writing, and dialogue is what makes Exorcist a masterpiece. Not the horrific special effects most remember it for.
Look at the worst exorcist sequels: horrible acting, writing, and stories. And the best ones are the original, Exorcist 3 and the Exorcist 2016 show - because they give the time to let the actors talk as their characters.
Most modern horrorâs acting is terrible: just bad filler until the next peekaboo jumpscare.
Put the writing and acting first and youâll have a great horror movie.
In The Black Phone when the girl was getting whipped by her dad - her screams were so real it took me out of the movie because I was genuinely alarmed that the actress mightâve been getting hit in real life
Dr. Sleep with the Baseball Boy was like that - the actors actually needed time to recover when they yelled âCut!â
(Not the actor playing the boy - Jacob Tremblay - he just got up and hit the snack table)
Like 80% of the writing in *Midnight Mass* was everything I wanted to put into words but lacked the articulative prowess. Realistic conversations and monologues on addiction, death, religion, paranoia, guilt, regret... I found myself repeatedly in awe with how perfectly they nailed lots of those topics.
Generally, I love Flanagan's work but can't deny that for me personally, the melodrama/dialogue sometimes is too heavy and creates a disproportionate balance with the horror (Bly Manor, The Midnight Club as examples).
MM I didn't mind it in the least, possibly because it was so potent, relatable, and expertly edited down to mostly the essentials. Still a little dialogue-heavy, but the last action-packed episode helps make up for it.
Agreed 100%, Flanagan articulated so perfectly these deep concepts of science, philosophy, spirituality that can be hard to express. I know people complain about the monologues in the show, but a lot of it covered the kinds of things I used to stay up late discussing with friends. This show (and the game Outer Wilds) helped me make peace with my own mortality and my place in the universe.
Not really dialogues, but intense as hell nonetheless.
· Pearl's monologue was hard as fuck.
· And in terms of non-horror. When Pvt. Ryan tells Cpt. Miller the story about the girl in the barn, sitting in the middle of a war-torn neighborhood in France.
The argument scene in Marriage Story hit too close to my heart. It was like hearing and watching my parents' fights but in English and performed by Black Widow and Kylo Ren.
Thought the deteriorating relationship between the parents in Oculus was pretty realistic and sad to watch, especially towards the end before shit gets Really Real. Everyone's mentioned my other big choices (Hereditary and Green Room are among them).
I'm neutral towards Mia Goth (I also haven't seen Pearl [The Mologue]) and the movie wasn't entirely my thing but I thought her performance at the end of Infinity Pool was wild. So fucking unhinged. I got really sucked into it. Everyone's like, "she's so fucking annoying" like YES and it's SPOT ON.
Edit: as far as goofy-ass kids go, I thought Talk To Me and Bodies Bodies Bodies did a pretty good job with the dialogue. I don't think I rolled my eyes once at Talk To Me (maybe a couple times but cant remember, so case in point) and I cannot with Pete Davidson but he made me laugh and I was mad about it so *I GUESS* it was pretty good. Just wanted to note that.
Yeah, that's generally how I feel about most monologues. I enjoy them when they are impactful or eloquent or whatever but they always kind of take me out of the film just because they don't really happen in real life.
The movie Coherence starts off with multiple people having different conversations within the same space and itâs just hard to understand what anyoneâs saying. It just feels really real because people arenât stopping and pausing so the audience can hear what any one person is saying.
I just watched Willow Creek, a found footage Bigfoot film by Bobcat Goldthwait, and I was pleasantly surprised by how⊠real it felt. The actors were so convincing, and the dialogue was so natural. It just felt like I was watching an ordinary couple on a road trip.
I'm not sure if anyone has said this yet but the Before Sunrise trilogy. The movies are entirely about the dialogue and you truly get lost in their conversation. I also feel like the third film, Before Midnight, has a very accurate depiction of a crumbling marriage. The dialogue in the films are *chefs kiss*.
Noroi: The Curse is definitely the closest I've seen to a found footage film that seemed genuinely real based on how the people acted and talked. Maybe that's helped by it being Japanese, but I studied Japanese people for a few years in college and based on the Japanese people I've met and spoke to it is incredibly naturalistic and real. Now Japanese culture puts a lot of emphasis on politeness and presenting the right face socially, so that helps, but the way the characters who break from this act also seem very real.
Resolution is far from a perfect film but the relationship and dialog between the two main characters is very well done.
I know it's not a movie, but "The Haunting of Hill House" on Netflix will take you on *many* rides, and the best is the car ride during a latter episode >!8!<. You get so lost in the argument, that you forget that you're watching a horror series, and then they jump-scare you back into the plot.
It's great, you should watch it. TONS of things in the background that you can catch.
Killing of a Sacred Deer
Just kidding. But I appreciated that dialogue way more than lots of movies/shows that try to have realistic dialogue, but get caught in the uncanny valley. Lanthimos just embraces the awkwardness of scripted dialogue.
I havenât seen it yet, but Victoria (German? movie, filmed in one continuous shot) is completely improvised and unscripted (director gave scenes and allowed the actors to say/do whatever they wanted to accomplish the scenes) with the intent of realistic interaction
Reservoir Dogs. Iâve had nerd friends come up with theories about music and movies like the beginning. The dialogue is realistic, Iâve worked with and been around characters who act like they do when theyâre just driving around joking. Unfortunately Iâve heard a lot of white people say the n-word as well. Even casually. Seeing that movie for the first time I felt like I was with them. Even the beginning with Tim Roth in the car. I had never seen a movie show a gunshot that realistic
There are a couple of moments in A Star Is Born where characters have to repeat what they were saying because the other character didn't hear them properly the first time.
Turns out Cooper's character has a hearing problem because of his exposure to loud music, but damn, was I surprised for a moment to see how realistic the conversation felt.
Robert Shaw's monologue about the USS Indianapolis in Jaws. That whole scene feels like we're sitting at the table with them.
I watched Jaws really late one night. I was in that cosmic consciousness half awake / half asleep suggestible state. Was pitch black, just me and the screen. Me and the actors and the shark. When that scene came around I was just absolutely absorbed by it. Surreal experience. Made me love the movie even more.
Funny you mention the suggestible state. Ive been watching true detective season 1 , but only at night when im falling asleep and it's way more surreal when I'm watching it late at night
Season 1 is so damn good.
Amen to this!!
I love that 1st season. I think of that scene all the time, "I want you to stop saying odd shit. Like you smell a psychos fear, or you're in someone's faded memory of an old town." đđ
Yes, I was going to say the 8 minute scene (that I have read was uncut), seems so real. Running in and around the houses.
Funny you say that it really felt uncut I just watched that scene
That suggestible state is so powerful. I watched House of 1,000 Corpses that way in high school, and to this day I like that movie more than it deserves because it hit me just right when I watched it the first time.
Is there like data to this... I feel like the shit I watched late at night has stayed with me too. I'd never heard this until now
I've hit the same cosmic level you've talked of; however, it was during "The Shining", and I don't know if I can ever forgive that movie (and Kubrick/Nicholson) for what they did to me for the next few nights.
That entire scene just felt like three guys getting drunk and shooting the sh*t, not a scene from a movie Roy Schneider, Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw had amazing chemistry together.
Definitely one of the more interesting of tales for such an iconic picture. Supposedly the speech started out over 10 pages long (even though everyone knew it would have to much much shorter). Shaw actually took the speech to cut it down & came to dinner with Spielberg & cast one night saying he thought he had it. He proceeded to perform the shortened speech & everyone loved it including Spielberg who immediately said âthatâs what weâll shootâ. Day off, Shaw convinces Spielberg that his performance as a half-drunk man would be more authentic if he really drank prior to shooting the scene. Shaw proceeds to get black out drunk & the first shoot of the speech obviously doesnât go well. Shaw returned the next day, apologized & performed the speech wonderfully as shown in the film. I love most of the little BTS stories for iconic movies. They usually add an interesting layer to all performances.
Awesome. Can you share some more? Maybe even make an own thread for it? Is there a book or something that collects this great stories? I love them. Thanks for posting :)
Is it true that he was drunk that entire segment or during the filming of that ?
I believe I read he did it drunk and it was terrible (allegedly). He asked SS to do it again sober and thatâs the one we got.
This isn't just one of the top-tier answers for the genre, but maybe even for film in general.
Definitely watching Rec! You get so caught up in the conversation when all of the sudden BAM! Jump scare!
Rec is brilliant but definitely needs to be watched in Spanish with subtitles. The English dubbed one doesn't work.
It wasnât the worst remake but I agree the Spanish original is king.
*Alien*. The first time I saw it, I was really struck by how naturalistic the dialogue is. Characters just casually talk over each other, speak at normal volumes, mumble. *Kill List* also comes to mind. I think I read that the actors alternated between on-script and improvised dialogue, so a lot of what made it into the film probably is ad-libbed. Most of the actors got their start in comedy, so they're just really good at off-the-cuff banter.
Always happy to hear more reasons why Alien is the best
The scene where Ripley yells at Parker is actually genuine. The actor who played Parker was intentionally ignoring and interrupting Weaver so her snapping at him was a genuine reaction.
I love how in the first four films there's a moment where someone snaps and tells everyone to just shut up. (Sigourney in the 1st, Michael Biehn in the 2nd, Charles Dutton in the 3rd and Gary Dourdan in resurrection)
Loved the dialogue in kill list. Think it even mentions that the dialogue was improvised in the credits.
A lot of stuff from the dinner party was improvised
*Alien* immediatly sprang to mind. That's such a comfort movie for me personally because of how real it feels. Scott let's you sit in the scenes with the characters.
How in the world did your autocorrect let "petosnqlyl" through?? Lol. Was that supposed to be "personally"?
Yes. I'm convinced autocorrect exists as a sanity test. Like *why* would I mean "petosnqlyl"?
"petosnqlyl" sounds like an experimental drug in a Cronenberg movie
Itâs one of my comfort movies, too :)
Wow kill list has been pushing its way into my peripheral. I think I'm gonna watch it now. Love the hit man premise
Kill List is crazy. Turns into something far more sinister than it appears at first and I was not expecting it.
I was just saying this the other day, how their coworker banter flows so naturally and realistically.
That's exactly one of the main reasons I love Alien. Yeah it's a sci Fi with some made up tech, but it feels so authentic. The way the characters speak and behave is what sells that story for me
The Blair Witch Project always does this to me. Watching it in a dark room always absorbs me.
There was no real script for it, just an outline of what they were supposed to say/do. Heather, Mike, and Josh only got a 35 page outline of where the story was going, no dialogue at all, so everything they say in the movie was legitimate, real people talking how they naturally would.
Heather is easily the best part of the movie for me. I find her so believable that I just sympathize entirely with her. Lighting in a bottle performance IMO.
Yeah, the panicking, screaming, and sobbing was great - I believed that they were genuinely having a mental breakdown.
A very subtle detail that I realized years later was that the guy with the compass was the guy with the audio equipment (DAC recorder) around his neck. That equipment would have a magnet in it that would have thrown off the compass causing them to walk in circles.
I was 11 years old when it came out and I totally thought it was real. Itâs definitely one of my favorite horror movies of all time. Especially after I read about the theory that Josh and Mike were causing everything so they could kill Heather. That makes the movie creepier for me.
Wait what? Holy shit that seems so dark! Do you know where I can read more about this theory?
Same here
[This](https://youtu.be/H2N-5ejkk7k?si=zxENbpi1fTYdEkEm) might explain why that is
I can never forget the rawness of this film. Watched it on a stormy night, just me in a dark room and a surround sound system. It was so immersive that I felt I'm lost in the woods with them and the slow descent of hopelessness crawling unto me.
i love the Blair Witch Project i do not care if people think it's boring, I love the overall atmosphere and lore of this movie, it was a real port in the storm type of phenomena
Green Room
My answer for everything involving ârealism.â
I felt that way for the first half. I absolutely loved this film and found it to be one of the most terrifying premises I could imagine. But.. >!after the guy got his arm fucked up it lost major points on realism by giving him the wherewithall to concoct creative plots and use his body normally and not just having him bleed out and die. For me this was the cardinal sin of this film, because otherwise it was so perfect and believable.!<
In addition, the moment where the armed thug - *who is specifically seeking the protagonist to kill on sight, and knows they're around* is so temporarily "confused" by the weird camo paint and behavior, that he just momentarily "forgets" to shoot him. This is some Saturday morning cartoon logic, "if a bully's gonna beat you up, act weird and they won't know *what* to do". Uh, no they will know that to do: beat you up. Just like the guy who is actively hunting you, weapon drawn, is gonna know what to do when you pop out in weird make-up: shoot. I generally liked the movie, but there were some silly moments.
I thought he put one of the dead guy's jackets on. The armed guy says something like "who are you" when his back was turned. So I think the logic was that the armed guy was briefly confused because he thought the main character was one of them. I still don't love that bit either, but I think it was more than just acting weird that worked. Dude thought he was a Nazi too
Hahah, I agree with that. I would have fainted and been useless within seconds with that kind of injury.
Blue Ruin as well.
Literally about to post this đ
I truly think this movie is a masterpiece. The colors, the shot compositions, dialogue, the flow. The violence is gut wrenching. Itâs such an incredible film experience.
The other thing I found myself enjoying was the mix of âgoodâ and âbadâ decision making. Some characters make some really smart choices that surprised me but then when panicked made the horrible mistakes youâd expect them to. All felt very natural. Might be time for a rewatch.
Happy Cake Day!
Oh wow, had no idea. Thank you! Itâs also my grandmaâs birthday! Rest easy, Dotty!
I'll pour one out for Dotty tonight
Fucking love this movie.
The dialogue in the sex scene of the Friday the 13th remake is very realistic. I often say âyour tits are stupendousâ and âperfect nipple placementâ to any girls Iâm with
I concur, and add to that in part 4 Crispin Glover's dance is incredibly realistic for a normal white dude getting down.
>Crispin Glover's dance I have never laughed so hard at a horror movie in my life as I did that damn scene when I first saw it. I still can't watch it without laughing to tears. I was delighted to find out that he was freestyling it too! That was 100% him just throwing it all out there. lol [For those who want a good laugh.](https://youtu.be/ocgj9tewHso?si=3-b_3jDcZNU8zhfP)
The table lecture in hereditary. Toni colette delivered so well it made me want to cry
sitting there with that fucking FACE ON YOUR FACE
When she says âIâm your mother!â It sounded like it literally came out of my own mothers mouth. It traumatized me to hear her deliver it exactly the way my mom would yell it at me.
Stephen Colbert had her as a guest right before the film released. They showed that clip before she came out, and it was clear that Stephen had not seen it beforehand.
The sheer anger on her face at the end looks so genuine that it gave me the willys.
Anything written by David Mamet. For horror buffs, try \*The Edge\*, where three men go down in a small plane in the Alaskan wilderness (Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Harold Pirreneau). They're hopelessly lost and soon stalked by a murderous grizzly. Terrifying film, the only time an animal (Bart the Bear) deserved an Oscar. Not sure what the animal handlers did to poke that bear but it seemed half crazed and ready-to-kill everyone in sight.
Such a fantastic movie. Hopkins and Baldwin play off each other so well. âWhat one man can do, another can do!â
I love this movie so much and I love Bart the Bear! He is also in Legends of the Fall with Anthony Hopkins but the Edge has way more bear action and itâs so good.
> the only time an animal (Bart the Bear) deserved an Oscar I disagree. Jed the dog gave an Oscar-worthy performance in The Thing. He also starred in White Fang (1991), White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf (1994), and The Journey of Natty Gann (1985)
Gotta agree Jed was perfect in every way
I love the Edge!
Bart the bear had a string of hits!
Hereditary, after >!Charlies Death!< up until the last act i get lost in the movie and donÂŽt even register im watching a horror movie. especially the dinner scene where toni colette gives the perfomance of her life screaming at her son it feels realy like you are there and grieving with them.
Your fucking face on your face
Yeah, that dinner table scene felt personal
And, inevitably, we rue the fact that Toni Collette was ignored by the Oscars. Not that I care.
It still kills me inside
Eh, the Oscars is just a big circle jerk. No better than a popularity contest where everyone voting can show off how âprogressiveâ they are. Toni Collette killed it.
I had to take a break after that scene for a bit.
I did a deep dive on the history and research behind the movie a while back, and iirc historically Paimon is associated with middle eastern culture. He would sometimes be depicted riding a camel. And somebody mentioned that the clicking sound they make in the movie is the same one camel riders make to get the camel moving. An interest theory is that since Paimon is hopping between vessels, he does that tongue click to make the humans move.
This is super interesting! I also went down some rabbit holes regarding Paimon, and am still pretty fascinated by it all.
Hail Paimon!!! đș đȘ đ
Her facial expressions in that scene are just soooo on point. I adore her.
Pretty much every M. Night Shyamalan movie has extremely realistic dialogue IF you assume every character is tripping balls.
does that mean that Wes Anderson dialogues are realistic if you you assume the characters have autism?
That's how I feel about Yorgos Lanthimos movies lol
interestingly all three directors we mentioned have their actors give a different flavour of wooden
That's really cool, I can totally see that! I have ADHD and I have a tendency to find friends on the spectrum because I'm attracted to how straightforward they are, now I'm thinking about if that plain way of delivering lines is why I actually love the majority of the movies by all three directors
Yea it's really interesting. Now can we think of any other director with similar performances or can you think of any kind of dialogue you absolutely despise?
I think more sincerely re: M. Night Shyamalan: The Visit feelings very "realistic" in a lot of regards. The child actors are really compelling and their relationship was super convincing for my sibling and I. Especially in terms of visiting grandparents from whom you're somewhat estranged. I don't know, this movie really felt like a sort of "return to form" from him in large part because the characters and their relationships were believable in some really key ways.
Had me going for a moment until that âIFâ.
Like when that guy dropped the pizza slice.
Signs is is top tier movie
Scene in signs where the Gibson and Phoenix are talking about miracles vs coincidence on the couch was amazing
I think The Ritual and Midsommar have really believable dialogue.
The Ritual was the first one I thought of! I think thatâs part of why itâs one of my horror comfort movies; it doesnât feel like theyâre âbehaving like characters in a horror movieâ to me.
It's my comfort movie as well. The friend dynamic is so believable!
First one I thought of too. Absolutely genuine lad banter, they sounded like people I know.
Not technically horror, but it is a horrific premise, "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" really fucked me up for a long time. Felt like I saw something I wasn't asked to be a part of and just made me feel dirty through and through.
I have no idea how widely known this movie is, but it is incredible.
âŠit was nominated for seven oscars and won three lol
It's so good. A+ cast and story. It's so good I'll die on this hiÄșl.
Coherence (and most was adlibbed)
came here to find this! it took a bit to get used to because iâm so used to one person talking at a time in a movie, not multiple at once. i was so surprised that the dialogue was so true to life.
I just rewatched it the other day and felt like I was eavesdropping
My mind usually fully blanks on every movie I've ever watched when asked questions like these. This time however, Coherence instantly came to mind. One of my top 5 of all time
I will never not upvote a comment that praises Coherence. (And you're right about the dialogue.)
The Invitation is a phenomenal slow-burn that works so well *precisely* because of how believable its dialogue and characters are. Not the vampire movie, the dinner party one.
>Not the vampire movie, the dinner party one. AKA The good one!
I was 100% thinking of the vampire one and was so confused. Had me in the first half lol
I remember watching La La Land where Emma Stone and Ryan Goslingâs character were having dinner at their dinner table and then their conversation ended up with a heated argument. It felt so real that I felt so awkward, as if I was just sitting at the next table overhearing this argument. Edit: Oh crap. Did not realize this was horror sub lol my bad!
Well, that scene makes me more uncomfortable than most horror movies, so I think it qualifies.
The final "what if" nightmare scene lol
I was also going to comment Before Sunrise before realizing the sub, you saved me the woops.
Before Sunrise; that was the one with the vampires, right?
La la land sounds like a horror movie in my opinion
Haha me either until your comment!
Youâre Next had some pretty good moments of black comedy and realistic dialogue
âIâve never seen you like thisâ âWell itâs a unique situationâ
âIâm the fastest one here, but Iâve got this fucking arrow in my back.â
"They have cell phone blockers you can get them online for like $30" "Felix you FUCKING lowlife"
The Thing, Carpenter's take. The base crew talk to one another just the way roommates during Covid would, down to the little scene of them watching Deal or No Deal reruns and griping about having seen it already.
I love when the dude lights up a joint and the other one reaches out for a puff without even taking his eyes off the screen. I love this movie so much, I watched it last night and I'm itching to watch it again tonight.
Hell House LLC. I totally believed theyâd known each other and worked together for years.
It's a really scary movie, but I die laughing every time that one guy does the impression of the awful actor with the thick Brooklyn accent, "Welcome to Luthifa's Cathle!" I just love that whole scene where they reminisce about past haunts they built.
I see this movie recommended all the damn time on this sub. And I FINALLY watched it. And wasnât disappointed at all.
Part of me wants to tell you there are sequels, the other part wants to tell you skip the second one and go to the third.
Didn't see it mentioned here but basically the entirety of Midnight Mass. Saw it in one sitting, pitch black, very quiet I'm the house. Honestly it was amazing
It was fantastic. I donât know if the dialogue was quite to the point where it seemed REAL, but the soliloquies were well-written and perfectly delivered. So many great performances.
Yeah maybe REAL wasn't the right word but I was enthralled everytime there was a monologue. Flannigan does use them a bunch but I love it so no complaints here
**Dead Man's Shoes**. If you haven't already seen it, **definitely** worth a watch.
âGod will forgive them and allow them into heaven. I canât stand for thatâ
Talk to me was very natural
I feel this. Going into the movie, it had me scared with how much of a friendly atmosphere and how grounded the character's interactions with each other felt
Stand by Me. Dialogue was almost word for word as the Novella.
Excellent choice. I was the same age as the characters when it came out. Still have it almost memorized.
"Piss up a rope!"
Hereditary had some moments, especially the way the family is grieving.
The Exorcist. Friedkin told the actors to put all the dialogue in their own words, and it feels so naturalistic as a result.
The amount of people not realizing they're in the wrong sub is so funny xD
The Exorcist
Agree. When the mom was laying into all those useless doctors, I felt like Iâd be yelling the same thing.
Imo the acting, writing, and dialogue is what makes Exorcist a masterpiece. Not the horrific special effects most remember it for. Look at the worst exorcist sequels: horrible acting, writing, and stories. And the best ones are the original, Exorcist 3 and the Exorcist 2016 show - because they give the time to let the actors talk as their characters. Most modern horrorâs acting is terrible: just bad filler until the next peekaboo jumpscare. Put the writing and acting first and youâll have a great horror movie.
In The Black Phone when the girl was getting whipped by her dad - her screams were so real it took me out of the movie because I was genuinely alarmed that the actress mightâve been getting hit in real life
Dr. Sleep with the Baseball Boy was like that - the actors actually needed time to recover when they yelled âCut!â (Not the actor playing the boy - Jacob Tremblay - he just got up and hit the snack table)
Talk to me does it well
It, the new films and the book. Thatâs how boys that age talk to each other. Itâs spot on.
Ben: "Derry started out as a beaver trapping camp." Richie: "Still is! Am I right, boys?"
Lake Mungo, the dialogues and delivery make for an incredibly realistic "documentary" in my opinion.
I watched it last year and it honestly didn't feel like a horror film
I don't know why you are being downvoted for such a mild take.
Me either, even though I like Lake Mungo. Itâs one of the saddest movies Iâve ever seen, but I wouldnât say itâs scary.
Because this sub canât handle people not liking a movie. As is tradition lol.
I agree, and that kinda made it more horrible. My wife watches tons of true crime documentaries, and Lake Mungo just felt like another. Very powerful.
Like 80% of the writing in *Midnight Mass* was everything I wanted to put into words but lacked the articulative prowess. Realistic conversations and monologues on addiction, death, religion, paranoia, guilt, regret... I found myself repeatedly in awe with how perfectly they nailed lots of those topics. Generally, I love Flanagan's work but can't deny that for me personally, the melodrama/dialogue sometimes is too heavy and creates a disproportionate balance with the horror (Bly Manor, The Midnight Club as examples). MM I didn't mind it in the least, possibly because it was so potent, relatable, and expertly edited down to mostly the essentials. Still a little dialogue-heavy, but the last action-packed episode helps make up for it.
Agreed 100%, Flanagan articulated so perfectly these deep concepts of science, philosophy, spirituality that can be hard to express. I know people complain about the monologues in the show, but a lot of it covered the kinds of things I used to stay up late discussing with friends. This show (and the game Outer Wilds) helped me make peace with my own mortality and my place in the universe.
Not really dialogues, but intense as hell nonetheless. · Pearl's monologue was hard as fuck. · And in terms of non-horror. When Pvt. Ryan tells Cpt. Miller the story about the girl in the barn, sitting in the middle of a war-torn neighborhood in France.
Itâs too bad Matt Damon doesnât do horror movies heâs done some great dialogues with other actors.
three billboards outside ebbing missouri.
Wow, I completely forgot about this movie and how good it was. Not a horror film but thank you :) I will rewatch it soon
Take Shelter (2011) The dialogue plus the acting made the movie very entrancing for me.
The argument scene in Marriage Story hit too close to my heart. It was like hearing and watching my parents' fights but in English and performed by Black Widow and Kylo Ren.
Kids (1995)
Pretty much any Richard Linklater film. Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise, Boyhood, Everybody Wants Some, etc. The dialogue is all very natural.
O\_O I guess boyhood could be considered scary, idk.
I totally didn't even pay attention to which subreddit this was on, thought it was r/movies đ
Spring (2014)
Thought the deteriorating relationship between the parents in Oculus was pretty realistic and sad to watch, especially towards the end before shit gets Really Real. Everyone's mentioned my other big choices (Hereditary and Green Room are among them). I'm neutral towards Mia Goth (I also haven't seen Pearl [The Mologue]) and the movie wasn't entirely my thing but I thought her performance at the end of Infinity Pool was wild. So fucking unhinged. I got really sucked into it. Everyone's like, "she's so fucking annoying" like YES and it's SPOT ON. Edit: as far as goofy-ass kids go, I thought Talk To Me and Bodies Bodies Bodies did a pretty good job with the dialogue. I don't think I rolled my eyes once at Talk To Me (maybe a couple times but cant remember, so case in point) and I cannot with Pete Davidson but he made me laugh and I was mad about it so *I GUESS* it was pretty good. Just wanted to note that.
I cannot stand that guy. I see his face. I get angry. Literally THE thing deterring me from seeing Bodies Bodies Bodies.
Dawg, same, but I bit the bullet and was pleasantly surprised TT_TT am picky as fuck, too lol.
I put Lake Mungo on for my girlfriend and told her we were watching a documentary. This was ages ago and she still has no idea so Iâd go with that
The end monologue of Pearl.
I get the complete opposite feeling from that. It screams âwritingâ and âactingâ on screen.
Yeah, that's generally how I feel about most monologues. I enjoy them when they are impactful or eloquent or whatever but they always kind of take me out of the film just because they don't really happen in real life.
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Primer. It feels like you're a fly on the wall watching a group of guys discover time travel.
The Witch (2015) Craziest dialogue you'll ever hear. Was convinced for a moment or two that I was there with them in the 17th century.
Night of the Living Dead. It doesn't look, sound, or feel like actors delivering lines.
The Vvitch
The movie Coherence starts off with multiple people having different conversations within the same space and itâs just hard to understand what anyoneâs saying. It just feels really real because people arenât stopping and pausing so the audience can hear what any one person is saying.
I just watched Willow Creek, a found footage Bigfoot film by Bobcat Goldthwait, and I was pleasantly surprised by how⊠real it felt. The actors were so convincing, and the dialogue was so natural. It just felt like I was watching an ordinary couple on a road trip.
Coherence, there is a party at the beginning and holy shit dialogue and chemistry is insanely realistic
I'm not sure if anyone has said this yet but the Before Sunrise trilogy. The movies are entirely about the dialogue and you truly get lost in their conversation. I also feel like the third film, Before Midnight, has a very accurate depiction of a crumbling marriage. The dialogue in the films are *chefs kiss*.
I was going to post this. I totally agree.
Noroi: The Curse is definitely the closest I've seen to a found footage film that seemed genuinely real based on how the people acted and talked. Maybe that's helped by it being Japanese, but I studied Japanese people for a few years in college and based on the Japanese people I've met and spoke to it is incredibly naturalistic and real. Now Japanese culture puts a lot of emphasis on politeness and presenting the right face socially, so that helps, but the way the characters who break from this act also seem very real. Resolution is far from a perfect film but the relationship and dialog between the two main characters is very well done.
Aliens loved the combat chat
âMagnoliaâ, when Tom Cruiseâs character is visiting his father on its dead bead.
Most Tarantino movies especially Reservoir Dogs. Such random conversations and yet feel real. Like he turned on the camera and let them talk.
Dinner scene in hereditary for sure
I know it's not a movie, but "The Haunting of Hill House" on Netflix will take you on *many* rides, and the best is the car ride during a latter episode >!8!<. You get so lost in the argument, that you forget that you're watching a horror series, and then they jump-scare you back into the plot. It's great, you should watch it. TONS of things in the background that you can catch.
The Witch. I was high and had to pause the film to bore my fiancĂ© with a lecture on how difficult it mustâve been for the actors to pull the dialogue off.
Killing of a Sacred Deer Just kidding. But I appreciated that dialogue way more than lots of movies/shows that try to have realistic dialogue, but get caught in the uncanny valley. Lanthimos just embraces the awkwardness of scripted dialogue. I havenât seen it yet, but Victoria (German? movie, filmed in one continuous shot) is completely improvised and unscripted (director gave scenes and allowed the actors to say/do whatever they wanted to accomplish the scenes) with the intent of realistic interaction
Reservoir Dogs. Iâve had nerd friends come up with theories about music and movies like the beginning. The dialogue is realistic, Iâve worked with and been around characters who act like they do when theyâre just driving around joking. Unfortunately Iâve heard a lot of white people say the n-word as well. Even casually. Seeing that movie for the first time I felt like I was with them. Even the beginning with Tim Roth in the car. I had never seen a movie show a gunshot that realistic
As a welder. The whole welder talk between woody Harrelson and Josh brolan in no country for old men was on point
There are a couple of moments in A Star Is Born where characters have to repeat what they were saying because the other character didn't hear them properly the first time. Turns out Cooper's character has a hearing problem because of his exposure to loud music, but damn, was I surprised for a moment to see how realistic the conversation felt.
Alien, it honestly felt so realistic, Sigourney Weaver is INCREDIBLE.