![]() It’s unnerving, it’s terrifying, and it hits Peele’s audience hard.Ĭube is a cult classic and uses its opening scene as an important part exposition by showing and not telling the audience the intricacies of the Cube and the game that the rest of the film is predicated on. All the while the music of “Run Rabbit Run” plays in the background. Walking through a neighborhood, a man looks behind him, commenting on his fear to his girlfriend on the phone, right before he’s kidnapped by a mysterious man dressed as a knight. While the idea of being stalked in a neighborhood and kidnapped is common in the genre, by blending the elements of race into the situation in a time where Black men walking through a community are in danger from the authorities, homeowners, and regular creeps alike, the terror is kicked up to 110% right from the start of the film. Get Out hits hard and a lot of the power of the film comes from writer-director Jordan Peele’s ability to merge real-life fears with horror movie tropes. Instead, Don abandons his family and leads the zombies on a chase that results in amazing over the shoulder camera shots, a kill with a boat motor, and a gut-wrenching opening to a solid horror film. When we watch horror movies, especially when a family is involved, the father is often the one to sacrifice himself to save them all. Six months after the original epidemic, the rage virus has all but annihilated the population of the British Isles and the film opens on Don, his family, and s-tier zombie speed (yes, they’re not technically dead but this isn’t the time for THE debate). 28 Weeks LaterĢ8 Weeks Later is a rollercoaster and it’s all thanks to the audience not being able to really trust our main character, Don. Come on, we all love this horror movie opening. Peoples’ daily lives are disrupted when the facility they work in begins a murderous shut-down protocol when a vial of the T-virus is broken and escapes into the facility’s air vents. But most of all, the rest of the film holds up to the complete terror that builds in the cold open. While it deviated from the source material by creating a new main character and focus, the film got many of the games iconic mechanics right. I will not admit that Resident Evil is a bad movie. ![]() The best kill? A razor wire that cuts down an entire dance-floor. Dancing on the deck, an unaccompanied minor is surrounded by horror as a group of the salvage crew kills every one of the passengers. It is also one that is much more interesting than the rest of the film. While the movie itself is a hodgepodge of supernatural motivations, the opening sequence is brutal and one of the best I’ve seen. ![]() But once onboard the eerie, cavernous ship, the crew find that the decaying vessel is anything but deserted. In a remote region of the Bering Sea, a boat salvage crew discovers the eerie remains of a grand passenger liner thought to be lost for more than 40 years. Ghost Ship is definitely a bad movie but in those good, campy sort of ways. While the movies might not be anything worth writing home about, binge-watching the first five to 10 minutes of these 13 films are highly recommended. So, I’ve put some of the best horror movie opening altogether, in one place. Some openings set the stage for the rest of the film while others make you wish the whole film was the opening scene. Horror movies are great, and sometimes a horror movie opening can serve as the best part of the film.
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