Eighteen Film Buffs Talk About The Scariest Movies They’ve Ever Seen
Even film critics watch these movies with the lights on.
Mulholland Drive
Brad Mariano, 4:3
At risk of undermining any film credibility I have, my first experience with David Lynch’s Hollywood Mulholland Drive had to be broken up into multiple parts.
It was my first experience with anything remotely resembling arthouse cinema, embarked upon home alone and late at night. Anyone who’s seen it will have the infamous Winkies scene strongly imprinted on their brain, and by the time we first meet the Cowboy, I had to stop the film, to be resumed in the safety of daylight.
Effective horror comes through atmosphere and tone rather than content, and Lynch’s dreamlike but ominous and threatening world combined with Angelo Badalamenti’s rich, haunting score makes the film the scariest in a long time… well, at least until Inland Empire.