Re: Mulholland Drive
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It really is amazing filmmaking that he can make something like an ugly bum popping out from behind a wall and not doing anything into something so terrifying.
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It has a lot to do with every other movie you've ever seen. We've learned that, especially in a scary scene, the bad guy is never where he's supposed to be. He'll pop out from somewhere, but never where they told he was. How many movies have the cliched scene where the victim slowly peaks around the corner, doesn't see anything, breathes a sigh of relief, and then gets suprised from behind? It's practically mandatory.
So in this scene, when they hit you over the head with the idea that "there's a monster right behind that corner", your brain just shuts that down as a possibility. You have no idea what to expect, but you know there won't be a monster behind the corner. And then there is.
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