10 More Moments That Literally Stopped Horror Movies
4. The "Opening" Credits - Climax
Gaspar Noé, ever the master of audacious opening titles sequences, pulls off an especially outrageous one in his mesmerising psychological horror film Climax.
Rather then sandblast audiences with a face-melting credit roll at the start of the film as per his 2009 movie Enter the Void, Climax waits until almost exactly half-way through its 96-minute runtime to finally get it done.
The story revolves around a group of dancers whose party takes a turn for the worse when their communal sangria bowl is spiked with LSD, and as the drugs begin taking euphoric effect on the dancers, Noé decides to pause the movie for a minutes to roll the credits.
The gorgeous stylised credits, set to Thomas Bangalter's hypnotic "What To Do," so perfectly capture the movie's overall lunatic vibe, at once inviting you to dance while being acutely aware that nothing good is awaiting the film's characters.
Needless to say, if you're gonna stop a movie mid-flow to throw the credits up, you'd better be confident that they're worth interrupting the narrative for. And in this case, they absolutely were.