If I'm picking a movie to try and survive it, then I gotta take something pretty simple. The Ring - Don't watch the tape; The Grudge - Stay out of the house; Cabin Fever - "Fancy going on holiday to a cabin?" "Nah, maybe next time"; Pet Sematary - Don't bury your kid. All pretty straightforward stuff, but to be frank, if I'm waking up "trapped" in a horror movie, I wanna have an experience. Let's face it, if I go into it with the intention of coming out alive, why go into it in the first place?
So, if I'm taking a horror movie to get trapped in, I think I'd want something pretty supernatural and "out there". The type of movie that, if you were a character in it, would make you rethink your entire perspective on reality, faith/religion/science, right and wrong and so forth. Silent Hill springs prominently to mind as one I wouldn't mind being immersed in. Confronted by all the demons of a subconscious, but if we take it strictly on the film, it's less about subconscious demons and more about including all the coolest elements of the games into a logical plot; so assuming we take this strictly on what the movie showed, I just about say no to it, begrudgingly. In that case, I think I'm going to take The Shining, provided I get to the role of Jack. I feel slightly masochistic in choosing that one, because in the end I would go insane, try and kill my own family, and die at the end; but as far as having a totally otherworldly experience is concerned, I could most definitely get that from The Shining.
Close runner-ups, aside from the aforementioned Silent Hill, include:
Wickerman (original) - for the sheer amount of effort all the other characters put into making it a terrifying experience.
Friday the 13th - for good ol' fashion "keep running and try not to have sex" slasher goodness.
Dawn of the Dead - Zombie apocalypse, 'nuff said.
House on a Haunted Hill - The remake, because I've always wanted to stay a night in a haunted house.
