10 CGI Horror Movie Shots You Never Noticed

10. The Island’s Introduction - Shutter Island

With more twists and turns than a dancing boa constrictor caught in a clothes mangle, Shutter Island is a tense horror-thriller from Martin Scorsese about an FBI agent who gets more than he bargained for when he arrives at a mental institute in search of a missing patient. 

The institute is on an island, in case that wasn’t painfully obvious from the title. 

The titular location is introduced in a great shot where U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his part Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) arrive there via boat. You’d have thought that this was just a regular shot of the location where the movie was filmed, which was Peddocks Island near Boston, Massachusetts, but there was some post-production trickery at play here.

In order to make the island look more eerie, extra fog was added in post, giving birth to that great moment where the boat finally pierces through the mist and reveals the menacing rock in all its looming glory.

It’s a relatively minor addition, but one that does a lot of work in setting the scene for all of the dark revelations that are to come.