7. The Nurses - Silent Hill (2006)
Of all the genres, horror is the one that's best done naturalistically. Think of all its most famous faces. Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees. Each of them has an undeniably human element to them, despite their ties to the supernatural. At some point in time, they were all human just like the rest of us, and it's their all-too-human compulsion for revenge that drives them. So, it appears that, when it comes to horror, the further rooted your movie is in reality, the more likely it is to succeed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVtDhd26420 Case in point:
Silent Hill. Ask those who have seen it to name what they would label the scariest scenes in the film and the one pictured above is likely to show up on a number of lists. Few realize, though, just how easily arrived at this particular creepy effect was. Creating their seemingly inhuman walk was as simple as playing what they'd filmed in reverse. That's all it took to take a bunch of women done up in make-up and make effective monsters out of them. The filmmakers could have just as easily resorted to CGI creatures, as in
I Am Legend, but they kept it simple and benefited as a result.