Most suspenseful movies these days try too hard to be "Scary and frightening" with all the blood, gore, and predictable jump scares. This, however, is frightening to me because of the suspenseful build-up. The music fully reflects on an unknown presence. The unknown, to me, is the most terrifying essence to all of us.
@SolarBlade52 The music scares me just by itself. It's the most scared I've ever been of anything I can recall. It makes my eyes water when I just think of it, it's really freaky.
This was the filming of the ultimate product promotion - Apple sent a giant iPod to the moon in 2001 (the year of the release of the first gen iPod). Steve Jobs (the last of a chain starting[?] with Arthur C Clarke, then Stanley Kubrick) knew of the elite's plot to flood the media with toxic music and tried to warn people, which is why the ad never aired.
@jakxcombat The monoliths are meant to advance evolution. The first monolith advanced primitives to the stage where they can get to the moon, where the aliens left the second monolith, as a beacon to let it's masters that humans had evolved to the state where one could be sent as an emissary of humankind. If you read the original book, it all makes sense. (god bless Arthur C. Clarke!)
in the short story THE SENTINEL the alien(kubrick doesnt show because he didnt think he could pull it off) kills some game for the dieing out proto humans. to teach them to hunt he puts up the monolith. it has a bulls eye on it. they throw rocks at it. when they hit the bulls eye, they get an orgasim. 3 million years later when the humans pass through the stargate. (a rectangular hole in an asteroid), the same alien greets them.
@kikichanifyful Oh, I liked that part! Don't forget the men's voices - aaaAAaaaaAAAAaAAAAAAAAaaAAAaaaAaaaaaaa (I read somewhere that this is meant to sound like a wind-storm).
funny thing is: this movie kinda envisioned how kubrick would consider "contact" would happen. I don't think it's gonna be face to face communication, far earlier mankind will probably find an articial object or artifact that does not belong to this species, maybe on the moon, probably somewhere else. Imagine holding an object in your hands, manufactured by another civilized species, I think thats gonna be happening. If it already hasn't.
And even after al those millions of years of evolution, they are still apes cringing in fear of an object more advanced than they could possibly comprehend.
I agree with you. It is just eerie to watch. Stanley had a way of making something creepy without doing anything somehow. He also captured very well how alone you would feel in space.
@reaperflynn3 Well I agree. But I think the music really communicates the awe we need to feel in this scene. When the astronaut touches the monolith for the first time, a lessor director would have sparks of energy shooting out, or some other visual to show us that the contact is meaningful. Kubric was certain capable of rendering such effects as we see later in the film. But he allows sound to do a lot of work for him.
The scene did have a certain creepiness to it. The mysterious, smooth, black slab. Just sitting there. And then that music, it puts me in mind of a swarm of bees.
One of the most legitimately terrifying scenes out there, the music adds to an overwhelming sense of tension and the unknown. Other scenes in this movie that always get me are the part where the monolith is floating around in space and when hal takes control of the pod
THE MONKEY SCENE HAS 'RACIST UNDERTONES!!!' .... DAMN SHAME! You know what? All my life, I could never understand why non-blacks hate blacks so much... YET WANT TO, AND TRY TO BE JUST LIKE THAT WHICH THEY HATE 'So fucking much!' ya'll white ppl never cease to amaze me ... smFh
What you said isn't scary at all. People see plenty of gruesome things in their life. It's all around us. These days people see more mangled corpses than a WW2 vet. It's so common it's not even scary, just another person covered in blood.
This is different. Why is that thing here? Why is that creepy ass wailing soundtrack occurring? Is it a warning? An alien greeting? Nobody knows and the fact nobody does is what's scary.
I think it's about human evolutionary jumps. When a giant iPod appears, apes discover how to use tools/technology (they use bones as the first tools). Cut to the Space Age and our astronauts pushing out into deep space needing high tech computers and space ships to survive. Our tools (HAL 9000 computer) are more suited to this environment than we are. How can humans evolve into Space People without the need for tools and technology?
The fear of the unknown is scariest of all. let the viewers imagination do the work, thats much more creepy than anything a visual effects department can come up with.
@tyber32 Easy: It's not about anything. There - done.
Or to be more precise - whatever meaning it has is there on the surface. The monolith is 'just' an alien artifact as claimed. It somehow inspired our ancestors to become human. Etc. No 'hidden meaning'.
To understand how such a bizarre film ever got made, it helps a little to look at the year: 1968, the height of the space race. The realism and attention to detail is absolutely incredible - no other sci-fi movie went to such lengths.
@AlephNeil The monolith is the cinematic screen, Heywood Floyd "Defy Hollywood" staged the whole event to mislead the masses and to hide the truth from them, a virus is mentioned in their dialogues that killed all the people in the "Clavius" base, remember Clavius means key in Latin, this scene is the key to be enlightened and understand the monkeys in the first scene are us the watchers of the film, whose intelligence lies in the lower layers of perception.
@umoeder0 Like Ulysses's comrades who closed their ears not to listen to the song of the Sirens, they are doing the same thing, the song of the monolith is a deceptive one and forces them to deceive the masses. The monolith is the projection of the beliefs of the elite on us and Heywood Floyd with his team are the tools to stage "false-flag" events.
What scares one in this is that just. Imagine yourself in their place. You just discovered evidence of alien life. What the hell would this thing be? It's so mysterious. There's no evidence on how it works. It looks like some sort of anomaly of /reality/, and we should all think about how scary something that goes against the laws of reality would be.
Hehe, sounded like someone was just turning up thier choir with each step closer. I do agree than the unknown can be terrifying and that music perfectly made you consider the thought any thing bad could happen..
You think this is one of the creepiest scenes in film?... seriously?... I take it the snap, crackle and pop of your rice krispies creeps you out too eh?... how the hell can you find a black rock creepy?... that's just... dumb... the face peeling scene from the poltergeist is creepier then this... and that scene isn't even that creepy... hell.. Barney is even creepier then this...
@Riddlemind its my opinion fuckhead. Fancy not writing pish on my video about Barney or snap, crackle and pop and at least respect opinions rather than putting them down? seriously.
@seanwilson556 This was a good choice for your series, not all creepy scenes involve blood and gore. I remember the first time I watched this movie and there was a lot of stuff that could wig you out. A lot of people never understood this movie, and I guess there are a lot of interpretations about it but it still had some cool creepy scenes. I like!
@seanwilson556 i honestly did not understand why this was so creepy. i respect your opinion and all but am i missing something, is there like a hidden message im not getting. i'll give you a creepy seen the exorcist walking on her back down the stairs. NOW THATS FUCKIN CREEPY SON!!!! but this.... maybe if their heads exploded inside their space suits lol
@alexkamrock He did not say it was "horrific." He said it was creepy. Two different emotions, two different things.
For what it's worth, this scene isn't NEARLY as effective when viewed out of context (i.e. a short clip on Youtube). Watch the movie from beginning to end and you'll get the idea.
@seanwilson556 Don't pay any attention to "Riddlemind." He just found out what that little dangly bit between his legs is for, and he's feeling all manly now.
P.S. The face-peeling scene from Poltergeist was lame, cheesy and fake looking. To anyone who had passed puberty, that is.
@Riddlemind Who pissed in your cheerios? This is a very frightening scene for some. So you're not frightened by it? Fair enough, that's your opinion, but who the fuck gave you the right to go off at people for having a different opinion to you? Stop acting like a little petulant child. People can have whatever opinion they want, and that's their choice, not yours. Stop being such an arrogant cock.
@Mrgettygirl That was like a refuge the "creators" built him - so that he could live out and survive his last years in what narrow version of life humans perceive reality as being...
best movie ever. Kubrick was an absolute genius. There are more symbols and secrets in this movie than like anything. EVERYTHING has a distinct purpose
reminds me a little of Lovecraft's tale "The doom that came to Sarnath"/ "Dagon" (can't recall which one of the titles belongs to the one I have in mind)
I don't know how I got the patience to sit through this movie, I didn't know what the gorilla stuff was all about (now i do), the middle of the movie was quite well done though, and then this one I still don't get, the whole thing in the end with the flashy colors and the motel, I really don't get. What is it saying ???
@adrianlindsaylohan If you recall, at the beginning of the film after the apes find the monolith, they suddenly discover how to use bones as clubs. The monolith pushed them forward to the next step in evolution. They overpowered the other group of apes and took their little oasis of water.
Millions of years later, man finds another monolith on the moon, this one however is inert, (doesnt make them evolve ect) Gotta type this in two comments it's too long, see the next comment for the rest :P
The monolith on the moon was put there by the same intelligence that sent the first one to Earth 4 million years before as sort of an "alarm bell" to let the ancient ones know that humanity reached the point where it traveled into space, or at least to its planet's moon.
You see, it did not let out that signal until the moment the sun hit it, which was why it was buried in the first place. The aliens knew that if man found the gravitational field they would dig up the monolith.
@darthroden Oh cool, I knew that the monolith was placed there by the same intelligence and that it acted as an alarm ect. But didn't know about the sun (explains the camera angles) and it being buried.
@adrianlindsaylohan second comment: So yeah, the monolith on the moon releases strong radio signals which I believe point towards Jupiter (dont quote me on that one). So a crew is sent to Jupiter and dave, the only surviving member after HAL's little show, finds a third monolith, which does indeed take him forward. It seems to transport him a long way untill he ends up in that old fashioned french bedroom, where his life flashes before his eyes (see third comment for the rest)
@adrianlindsaylohan Third comment: The monolith appears before him and he evolves into the starchild. The final scene is Dave as the starchild beside earth... I think it implies rebirth and a fresh start but I'm a little sketchy on that. I think it's implied that a far superior alien race left the monoliths behind to track mans progress and help them evolve, and I read somewhere that that bedroom was just a place for him to feel comfortable, the first thing his mind would create.
Stanley Kubrick is crazy, most of his movies should be on here, that scene in Clockwork Orange where he's forced to stare at the screen is pretty creepy, then again Malcolm McDowell is just creepy through that entire movie. Agree?
@TheEditor80 Imagine being on the moon, in what is essentially a vacuum. You and your fellow astronauts come upon the dig site, pausing a moment to soak in the horrific contrast between the moon and the monolith. Pause at 0:37 and try to imagine being there, while your wife and family are back on Earth.
It takes some work with the imagination but the psychological horror of this scene isn't something to take lightly. Astronauts are true heros.... not some rich idiots who play with balls.
amazing how clear the quality of the film has remained from 1968 to now compared to other movies made at that time.. it almost seems DIGITAL quality... ahead of their time!!!!
For sure #1 in his list of the Top 10 creepiest movie scenes has to be something out of the film Eraserhead, although he hasn't posted it up yet or never will. No other movie is creepier than Eraserhead.
@SuperLuigiBros ... You were close! It is a scene from another David Lynch film INLAND EMPIRE. but it constantly got deleted cause of copyright reasons, number three is Mulholland Drive! Eraserhead should be up there! I might re-do all this when I get the time
Its also amazing that the sun can move from nearly the horizon (as seen by the 3/4 earth in the background to near vertical orientation and a cresent earth (normally 7 days), in less than 3 minutes of film time. Cool.
Also a bit of an editing/continuity glitch. You see (on your clip) at 3:22 the photographer reach for his helmet with his left hand when the monolith broadcasts its signal. Cut to the group of astronauts at 3:23 that reach for their helmets reacting to the signal as well, and THEN the photographer (left hand still on his camera) reacts a few frames later and moves out of the way for the studio cameraman.
Nah they didn't die. That was just a signal being sent to it's sister monolith in Jupiter orbit. They all held their helmets because it was a piercing, annoying noise.
Ah nice! One of my favorite all time scenes. Amazing how far ahead of his time Kubrick was with this film. His spaceship and moon shots looked more realistic than anything that came out for the next 20 years.
@juresaiyan Then let me assure you that everything we think we know is untrue and in the coming months and years everything, all stability and peace will disintegrate in the purifying, agonizingly beautiful flames of change.
@horny0donkey0 no offense, but the people who say its boring haven't a clue of its meaning, or even the ability to form some meaning to it. The movie provokes intense degree's of thought and idea's which your average joe can't fathom. The irony is that the films about evolution. Just as the ape cannot understand human thought, but has a new idea to use the bone, similarly we need to move to the next degree of evolution by evolving our ideas, ie intelligence thinking about intelligence
@horny0donkey0 no I didn't mean you weren't intelligent, I just said that people who find it boring dont try and think about it, its highly cryptic, if you take it at face value, yeah it will be boring
@TheLusseyran Totally... It takes an inquisitive viewer, not one used to getting the easy laughs out of Family Guy, to get this picture. It takes work. Not typical American cinema. There is thinking involved :)
i havent seen this movie yet (i want to very bad though), what is the monolith? like i understand that its a cinematic screen but upright, but what is it really?
Perhaps by now you know what the monolith is, but if I were you, I would try to avoid finding out until you see the movie so that you go in knowing as little as possible and find out as the movie chugs along. i just think it would be more fun for you.
It's like a prehistoric episode when they're all neanderthals.The same scene with the same music happens,it was exactly like the beginning when the ape picks up the bone and starts fighting with it.Only in the cartoon Spongebob looks at a stick and connects that if you put food on a stick and put it in fire,you have cooked food.It never made sense until now
@RoyMoonMan The directing and the actors already say these lines dramatically. It takes genius to do something as easy as saying those lines without actually saying them.
Thumbs up if you actually saw this in a theater...in 1968.
777fuzzypeach 1 week ago
Most suspenseful movies these days try too hard to be "Scary and frightening" with all the blood, gore, and predictable jump scares. This, however, is frightening to me because of the suspenseful build-up. The music fully reflects on an unknown presence. The unknown, to me, is the most terrifying essence to all of us.
SolarBlade52 1 month ago 2
@SolarBlade52 The music scares me just by itself. It's the most scared I've ever been of anything I can recall. It makes my eyes water when I just think of it, it's really freaky.
lcjj7 2 weeks ago
This was the filming of the ultimate product promotion - Apple sent a giant iPod to the moon in 2001 (the year of the release of the first gen iPod). Steve Jobs (the last of a chain starting[?] with Arthur C Clarke, then Stanley Kubrick) knew of the elite's plot to flood the media with toxic music and tried to warn people, which is why the ad never aired.
Cheer up, it's a movie scene.
curtisgtr 1 month ago
@curtisgtr "In 2001 professor Heywood Floyd (defy Hollywood) stages up a false flag alien discovery"
Cheer up pal, it's only a movie theater on the moon.
mcamoran 1 month ago
Anyone not seriously scared by this scene is strange
signorellil 1 month ago 2
Can someone explain this scene in particular for me, is it mankind's second stage of evolution?
I understand bits of this film, but I wish they could all come together!
jakxcombat 2 months ago
@jakxcombat The monoliths are meant to advance evolution. The first monolith advanced primitives to the stage where they can get to the moon, where the aliens left the second monolith, as a beacon to let it's masters that humans had evolved to the state where one could be sent as an emissary of humankind. If you read the original book, it all makes sense. (god bless Arthur C. Clarke!)
MrMoorkey 1 month ago 3
in the short story THE SENTINEL the alien(kubrick doesnt show because he didnt think he could pull it off) kills some game for the dieing out proto humans. to teach them to hunt he puts up the monolith. it has a bulls eye on it. they throw rocks at it. when they hit the bulls eye, they get an orgasim. 3 million years later when the humans pass through the stargate. (a rectangular hole in an asteroid), the same alien greets them.
solomonkane23 2 months ago
sigh...
*looks up Riddlemind's comment...*
technicallyabsurd 2 months ago
"eeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeEEEEEEEEEEeEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEE"
kikichanifyful 3 months ago 23
@kikichanifyful Oh, I liked that part! Don't forget the men's voices - aaaAAaaaaAAAAaAAAAAAAAaaAAAaaaAaaaaaaa (I read somewhere that this is meant to sound like a wind-storm).
MrMoorkey 1 month ago
What is the song?
chocolatedonut31 3 months ago
@chocolatedonut31 i had the album when i was a kid. i think this one and others were monastic.
solomonkane23 2 months ago
@chocolatedonut31 i looked it up Ligeti’s Requiem is heard three times, all of them during appearances of the monolith
solomonkane23 2 months ago
@solomonkane23 Thanks man, you're really helpful. Have a great day :D
chocolatedonut31 2 months ago
Pause at 0:00 and just look at the scenery it's so damn creepy. I love this film!
metalfreak4677 3 months ago
funny thing is: this movie kinda envisioned how kubrick would consider "contact" would happen. I don't think it's gonna be face to face communication, far earlier mankind will probably find an articial object or artifact that does not belong to this species, maybe on the moon, probably somewhere else. Imagine holding an object in your hands, manufactured by another civilized species, I think thats gonna be happening. If it already hasn't.
Gonko100 3 months ago
@Gonko100 The monolith is man made, nothing to do with aliens at all! Kubrick misleads to believe so.
mcamoran 3 months ago
I believe this represents when a Class III civilization meets a Class 0 civilization.
skspara 4 months ago
EEEEE. Microwave's done!
bbob765 4 months ago
And even after al those millions of years of evolution, they are still apes cringing in fear of an object more advanced than they could possibly comprehend.
revolutionarybum0711 4 months ago
i love this music.
xFishNinjax 4 months ago
@nxvznx Big fan of Michio but haven't followed him in awhile. What are you referring to?
ray0426jh 4 months ago
Why did you remove 'Diane's breakdown'?
Probesford 4 months ago
The genius of this top 10 is that it included only one horror film
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I agree with you. It is just eerie to watch. Stanley had a way of making something creepy without doing anything somehow. He also captured very well how alone you would feel in space.
reaperflynn3 5 months ago 3
@reaperflynn3 Well I agree. But I think the music really communicates the awe we need to feel in this scene. When the astronaut touches the monolith for the first time, a lessor director would have sparks of energy shooting out, or some other visual to show us that the contact is meaningful. Kubric was certain capable of rendering such effects as we see later in the film. But he allows sound to do a lot of work for him.
nobodady1 5 months ago
This is not classical music - it's Gyorgy Ligeti who died in 2006.
headly66 5 months ago
I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
fungusuarus 5 months ago
The scene did have a certain creepiness to it. The mysterious, smooth, black slab. Just sitting there. And then that music, it puts me in mind of a swarm of bees.
lordxeras 5 months ago
One of the most legitimately terrifying scenes out there, the music adds to an overwhelming sense of tension and the unknown. Other scenes in this movie that always get me are the part where the monolith is floating around in space and when hal takes control of the pod
blackbloodwurm 5 months ago 2
That was not creepy. I don't get it.
DeBo1220 5 months ago
We are all monkeys, deal with it. I wish some motherfuckers hadn't found the monolith! Such a waste!
mattyslate 5 months ago
THE MONKEY SCENE HAS 'RACIST UNDERTONES!!!' .... DAMN SHAME! You know what? All my life, I could never understand why non-blacks hate blacks so much... YET WANT TO, AND TRY TO BE JUST LIKE THAT WHICH THEY HATE 'So fucking much!' ya'll white ppl never cease to amaze me ... smFh
icemeltsinspring 5 months ago
@riddlemind
What you said isn't scary at all. People see plenty of gruesome things in their life. It's all around us. These days people see more mangled corpses than a WW2 vet. It's so common it's not even scary, just another person covered in blood.
This is different. Why is that thing here? Why is that creepy ass wailing soundtrack occurring? Is it a warning? An alien greeting? Nobody knows and the fact nobody does is what's scary.
Fredfredbug4 5 months ago 3
did this remind anyone else of spongebob?
aepps2 5 months ago
tyber32 asks what 2001 is about.
I think it's about human evolutionary jumps. When a giant iPod appears, apes discover how to use tools/technology (they use bones as the first tools). Cut to the Space Age and our astronauts pushing out into deep space needing high tech computers and space ships to survive. Our tools (HAL 9000 computer) are more suited to this environment than we are. How can humans evolve into Space People without the need for tools and technology?
monkscellar 5 months ago
What do you call "Classical music" ??? I think that the score is Ligeti's work, though not absolutely sure.
delgesu1000 5 months ago
The fear of the unknown is scariest of all. let the viewers imagination do the work, thats much more creepy than anything a visual effects department can come up with.
Intraverseneptune 5 months ago
Amazing. When he touches it: Contact.
maxpeck14 5 months ago
I don't get this at all.
SOMEBODY ESPLAIN THE ENTIRE MOVIE TO ME IN SUMMARY OKAI?
tyber32 5 months ago
@tyber32 impossible...
spocksleftear 5 months ago
@spocksleftear 15 yrold here
didn't watch movies as a child because most of them were generally shit(you know what I mean). only notable ones were LOTR and Star Wars.
tyber32 5 months ago
@tyber32 Easy: It's not about anything. There - done.
Or to be more precise - whatever meaning it has is there on the surface. The monolith is 'just' an alien artifact as claimed. It somehow inspired our ancestors to become human. Etc. No 'hidden meaning'.
To understand how such a bizarre film ever got made, it helps a little to look at the year: 1968, the height of the space race. The realism and attention to detail is absolutely incredible - no other sci-fi movie went to such lengths.
AlephNeil 3 months ago
@AlephNeil The monolith is the cinematic screen, Heywood Floyd "Defy Hollywood" staged the whole event to mislead the masses and to hide the truth from them, a virus is mentioned in their dialogues that killed all the people in the "Clavius" base, remember Clavius means key in Latin, this scene is the key to be enlightened and understand the monkeys in the first scene are us the watchers of the film, whose intelligence lies in the lower layers of perception.
mcamoran 3 months ago
i think the music is annoying lol
getalife67 5 months ago
mix outer space with the unknown and add Kubrick....Im outta here
ForThePriceofACoke 5 months ago 2
Put it on mute. Not scary at all!
emilylolcoates 6 months ago
The part where HAL is begging Dave to stop unplugging him is much creepier. But dude, 2001. best movie ever.
quinnly23 6 months ago
@quinnly23 The movie as a whole is creepy!
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mcamoran 3 months ago
Thers a WICH!
Perrinski1 6 months ago
2:20 Noooo don't touch that thing!!
umoeder0 6 months ago
@umoeder0 Like Ulysses's comrades who closed their ears not to listen to the song of the Sirens, they are doing the same thing, the song of the monolith is a deceptive one and forces them to deceive the masses. The monolith is the projection of the beliefs of the elite on us and Heywood Floyd with his team are the tools to stage "false-flag" events.
mcamoran 3 months ago
What scares one in this is that just. Imagine yourself in their place. You just discovered evidence of alien life. What the hell would this thing be? It's so mysterious. There's no evidence on how it works. It looks like some sort of anomaly of /reality/, and we should all think about how scary something that goes against the laws of reality would be.
BlockisticStudios 6 months ago
Hehe, sounded like someone was just turning up thier choir with each step closer. I do agree than the unknown can be terrifying and that music perfectly made you consider the thought any thing bad could happen..
Esty2326 6 months ago
eh i think the music is the creepiest
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You think this is one of the creepiest scenes in film?... seriously?... I take it the snap, crackle and pop of your rice krispies creeps you out too eh?... how the hell can you find a black rock creepy?... that's just... dumb... the face peeling scene from the poltergeist is creepier then this... and that scene isn't even that creepy... hell.. Barney is even creepier then this...
Riddlemind 6 months ago
@Riddlemind its my opinion fuckhead. Fancy not writing pish on my video about Barney or snap, crackle and pop and at least respect opinions rather than putting them down? seriously.
seanwilson556 6 months ago 31
@seanwilson556 This was a good choice for your series, not all creepy scenes involve blood and gore. I remember the first time I watched this movie and there was a lot of stuff that could wig you out. A lot of people never understood this movie, and I guess there are a lot of interpretations about it but it still had some cool creepy scenes. I like!
yourpetsrfamily 6 months ago
@seanwilson556 i honestly did not understand why this was so creepy. i respect your opinion and all but am i missing something, is there like a hidden message im not getting. i'll give you a creepy seen the exorcist walking on her back down the stairs. NOW THATS FUCKIN CREEPY SON!!!! but this.... maybe if their heads exploded inside their space suits lol
alexkamrock 6 months ago
@alexkamrock He did not say it was "horrific." He said it was creepy. Two different emotions, two different things.
For what it's worth, this scene isn't NEARLY as effective when viewed out of context (i.e. a short clip on Youtube). Watch the movie from beginning to end and you'll get the idea.
jjobie 5 months ago
@seanwilson556 Don't pay any attention to "Riddlemind." He just found out what that little dangly bit between his legs is for, and he's feeling all manly now.
P.S. The face-peeling scene from Poltergeist was lame, cheesy and fake looking. To anyone who had passed puberty, that is.
jjobie 5 months ago
@Riddlemind
Ssshh, grownups are talking about cinema, run along boy.
mothafuckajones666 5 months ago
@Riddlemind Fuck you go watch saw or something or appreciate good classic movies
IASvB 5 months ago
@Riddlemind Who pissed in your cheerios? This is a very frightening scene for some. So you're not frightened by it? Fair enough, that's your opinion, but who the fuck gave you the right to go off at people for having a different opinion to you? Stop acting like a little petulant child. People can have whatever opinion they want, and that's their choice, not yours. Stop being such an arrogant cock.
hotelmario510 3 months ago 3
the first person perspective is so very modern looking.
nathanwalker462 6 months ago
The Monolith gave and started the evolution of Humans. . . but the ending confuse me the most. . . why was he in that room?
Mrgettygirl 6 months ago
@Mrgettygirl It was the Monolith, it transported him and turned him into the Star Child
colinmcom14 6 months ago
@Mrgettygirl That was like a refuge the "creators" built him - so that he could live out and survive his last years in what narrow version of life humans perceive reality as being...
902mpm 6 months ago
whatsa matter? somebody stealing your car in the future?
bizonmaciej 6 months ago
The soundtrack of this film sounds like a circle jerk in the House of Commons.
bkennedy 6 months ago 3
best movie ever. Kubrick was an absolute genius. There are more symbols and secrets in this movie than like anything. EVERYTHING has a distinct purpose
swanski100 6 months ago
i dont get it
eleazargraycomedy 6 months ago
I didnt find this creepy... :/
foogledoo32 7 months ago
elmo says space odyssey is sponsered by the the letter EEEEEEEE
deadstrider 7 months ago 16
reminds me a little of Lovecraft's tale "The doom that came to Sarnath"/ "Dagon" (can't recall which one of the titles belongs to the one I have in mind)
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MEMBRA1N 7 months ago
You guys see Kubrick's reflection in the helmet at 1:55-1:58?
cobrien1977 7 months ago
@cobrien1977 man you re sooo cool for noticing this!
vabilas28 7 months ago
I don't know how I got the patience to sit through this movie, I didn't know what the gorilla stuff was all about (now i do), the middle of the movie was quite well done though, and then this one I still don't get, the whole thing in the end with the flashy colors and the motel, I really don't get. What is it saying ???
adrianlindsaylohan 7 months ago
@adrianlindsaylohan If you recall, at the beginning of the film after the apes find the monolith, they suddenly discover how to use bones as clubs. The monolith pushed them forward to the next step in evolution. They overpowered the other group of apes and took their little oasis of water.
Millions of years later, man finds another monolith on the moon, this one however is inert, (doesnt make them evolve ect) Gotta type this in two comments it's too long, see the next comment for the rest :P
kpotassium 7 months ago
@kpotassium
The monolith on the moon was put there by the same intelligence that sent the first one to Earth 4 million years before as sort of an "alarm bell" to let the ancient ones know that humanity reached the point where it traveled into space, or at least to its planet's moon.
You see, it did not let out that signal until the moment the sun hit it, which was why it was buried in the first place. The aliens knew that if man found the gravitational field they would dig up the monolith.
darthroden 5 months ago
@darthroden Oh cool, I knew that the monolith was placed there by the same intelligence and that it acted as an alarm ect. But didn't know about the sun (explains the camera angles) and it being buried.
Thanks for the insight :P
kpotassium 5 months ago
@adrianlindsaylohan second comment: So yeah, the monolith on the moon releases strong radio signals which I believe point towards Jupiter (dont quote me on that one). So a crew is sent to Jupiter and dave, the only surviving member after HAL's little show, finds a third monolith, which does indeed take him forward. It seems to transport him a long way untill he ends up in that old fashioned french bedroom, where his life flashes before his eyes (see third comment for the rest)
kpotassium 7 months ago
@adrianlindsaylohan Third comment: The monolith appears before him and he evolves into the starchild. The final scene is Dave as the starchild beside earth... I think it implies rebirth and a fresh start but I'm a little sketchy on that. I think it's implied that a far superior alien race left the monoliths behind to track mans progress and help them evolve, and I read somewhere that that bedroom was just a place for him to feel comfortable, the first thing his mind would create.
kpotassium 7 months ago
goddamn its like a catholic mass
SeanAmericasCanadian 7 months ago
where is #3? I saw #4 and this is #2 but no #3 or #1?
edwardinc 7 months ago
that is a good picture for a 1968 film
theslayersociety 7 months ago
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Iam wasting my time here
GUNClanHD 7 months ago
WTF! where is the fucking moment that suposed to be scary? Why am I still watching this? I mean like seriously..
NickJloverForeEver12 8 months ago
Stanley Kubrick is crazy, most of his movies should be on here, that scene in Clockwork Orange where he's forced to stare at the screen is pretty creepy, then again Malcolm McDowell is just creepy through that entire movie. Agree?
Azazel8 8 months ago
The only thing creepy about that scene was the music.
TheEditor80 8 months ago
@TheEditor80 Imagine being on the moon, in what is essentially a vacuum. You and your fellow astronauts come upon the dig site, pausing a moment to soak in the horrific contrast between the moon and the monolith. Pause at 0:37 and try to imagine being there, while your wife and family are back on Earth.
It takes some work with the imagination but the psychological horror of this scene isn't something to take lightly. Astronauts are true heros.... not some rich idiots who play with balls.
ffrgtm 7 months ago
Who could have imagined a black rectangular prism could be so creepy? Kudos Stanly Kubrick, kudos.
FinalStarmanDX 8 months ago
amazing how clear the quality of the film has remained from 1968 to now compared to other movies made at that time.. it almost seems DIGITAL quality... ahead of their time!!!!
signsoftwentytwelve 8 months ago
For sure #1 in his list of the Top 10 creepiest movie scenes has to be something out of the film Eraserhead, although he hasn't posted it up yet or never will. No other movie is creepier than Eraserhead.
SuperLuigiBros 8 months ago 6
@SuperLuigiBros ... You were close! It is a scene from another David Lynch film INLAND EMPIRE. but it constantly got deleted cause of copyright reasons, number three is Mulholland Drive! Eraserhead should be up there! I might re-do all this when I get the time
seanwilson556 8 months ago 7
@seanwilson556 Oh god no not Eraserhead...hnnng I've avoided it for so long after I first saw it o.-
craponnaruto 7 months ago
eeeeeeeeeeeeee lol that is so funny
dasdasist 8 months ago
The scariest part is when HAL releases Frank & it zooms into HAL. Very scary! Scarier than this!
minamu8 8 months ago 2
Maybe if I were there, but watching it - not scary at all...
JohnnyJohn116 8 months ago
Its also amazing that the sun can move from nearly the horizon (as seen by the 3/4 earth in the background to near vertical orientation and a cresent earth (normally 7 days), in less than 3 minutes of film time. Cool.
DoctorJK3 8 months ago
Also a bit of an editing/continuity glitch. You see (on your clip) at 3:22 the photographer reach for his helmet with his left hand when the monolith broadcasts its signal. Cut to the group of astronauts at 3:23 that reach for their helmets reacting to the signal as well, and THEN the photographer (left hand still on his camera) reacts a few frames later and moves out of the way for the studio cameraman.
DoctorJK3 8 months ago
that was wierd O.o.... anyways SPORE!
n0608039 8 months ago
if there was no music it just look like a bunch of men in space suits walking up to a big black square and feeling it, that is how powerful music is
1234watsup4321 8 months ago 2
one of the best sci-fi-films ever created but this scene is not creepy at all...
IMDestinyy 8 months ago
Lmao, how ironic is it that you can buy this track on "eMusic"
hammerx500 8 months ago 6
@hammerx500 thats the single funniest thing i have ever read
1234watsup4321 8 months ago
R.I.P. ALL HEADPHONE USERS
sonicedhoedown1 8 months ago 2
@sonicedhoedown1 :
Nah they didn't die. That was just a signal being sent to it's sister monolith in Jupiter orbit. They all held their helmets because it was a piercing, annoying noise.
Neptune997 8 months ago
0:42 halo wtf?!
mapuo1998 8 months ago
Sounds like hell.
wolftickets1969 8 months ago
BTW, the music is "Requiem" by Gyorgy Ligeti
wolftickets1969 8 months ago
the EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE sounds like from one of the episodes of spongebob
XD
254kenneth 8 months ago
Ah nice! One of my favorite all time scenes. Amazing how far ahead of his time Kubrick was with this film. His spaceship and moon shots looked more realistic than anything that came out for the next 20 years.
haro82 9 months ago
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
must be camera shy
Nanotech92 9 months ago
The unknown is the most scary thing.
juresaiyan 9 months ago 58
@juresaiyan so true. watch the blair witch project with that in mind and it is suddenly less scary
SakkaraStudios101 9 months ago
@juresaiyan too true.
seanwilson556 9 months ago 14
@juresaiyan Then let me assure you that everything we think we know is untrue and in the coming months and years everything, all stability and peace will disintegrate in the purifying, agonizingly beautiful flames of change.
Isaiah6517 8 months ago
@Isaiah6517 I sure hope.
juresaiyan 8 months ago
@juresaiyan the irony is that religion is one of the solutions to the final unknown to man: death.
ofMilwaukee 5 months ago
@ofMilwaukee religion is treated with too much ignorance. That is sad.
juresaiyan 5 months ago
@juresaiyan Religion often treats life with too much ignorance. That is also sad.
shimazu32 5 months ago
@shimazu32 that's because it's always been misinterpreted. But let's not talk about it here. It's totaly off topic.
juresaiyan 5 months ago
where is the 1st?
hikmaet 9 months ago
eeeeeeEEEEEEeeeEEEEeEeeeeeEEEE!!!!!!
tae518 9 months ago
It sounds like bees....
annoying.
lunaronenight 9 months ago
the music is fking annoying
wiseguy1989xx 9 months ago
Don't disturb the witch.
Also... SPPPPPAAAAAACCCCCEEEEEEE!
GhostLink92 9 months ago
@vvvpqsw It's Gy Ligeti's Requiem
ArchaeopteryxAlex 9 months ago
My favorite film of all time right here.
KhungFuCat222 9 months ago
dont think its creepy after all
konkod123 9 months ago
I think the monaloth is camera shy
Nanotech92 9 months ago
Anyone know the name of that creepy song that goes "EEEEEEEE?" LOL!
Neptune997 9 months ago
In 2001 there wasnt dead space :)
efremch0 9 months ago
the only creepy thing about this scene is the extent to how BORING it is.
horny0donkey0 9 months ago
@horny0donkey0 No, it's just that you don't understand the meaning of it.
FloppyDickNation 9 months ago
@FloppyDickNation ok, then why dont you make me understand the meaning of it?
horny0donkey0 9 months ago
@horny0donkey0 no offense, but the people who say its boring haven't a clue of its meaning, or even the ability to form some meaning to it. The movie provokes intense degree's of thought and idea's which your average joe can't fathom. The irony is that the films about evolution. Just as the ape cannot understand human thought, but has a new idea to use the bone, similarly we need to move to the next degree of evolution by evolving our ideas, ie intelligence thinking about intelligence
TheLusseyran 6 months ago 2
@TheLusseyran yeah i guess im not intellegent enough to find this scary
horny0donkey0 6 months ago
@horny0donkey0 no I didn't mean you weren't intelligent, I just said that people who find it boring dont try and think about it, its highly cryptic, if you take it at face value, yeah it will be boring
TheLusseyran 6 months ago
@TheLusseyran Totally... It takes an inquisitive viewer, not one used to getting the easy laughs out of Family Guy, to get this picture. It takes work. Not typical American cinema. There is thinking involved :)
902mpm 6 months ago
i havent seen this movie yet (i want to very bad though), what is the monolith? like i understand that its a cinematic screen but upright, but what is it really?
OperationLongDive 9 months ago
@OperationLongDive
Perhaps by now you know what the monolith is, but if I were you, I would try to avoid finding out until you see the movie so that you go in knowing as little as possible and find out as the movie chugs along. i just think it would be more fun for you.
rserocki 9 months ago
am i the only one who didnt think this movie was even remotely creepy
Retlaw1995 9 months ago
huh?
DroppinKnowledge69 9 months ago
its such a good song, tho i have to say my favorite part of it was when they went EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
XJLKX 10 months ago
That scene in Spongebob makes sense now!
Baird9214 10 months ago
@Baird9214 which one?
OperationLongDive 9 months ago
@OperationLongDive
It's like a prehistoric episode when they're all neanderthals.The same scene with the same music happens,it was exactly like the beginning when the ape picks up the bone and starts fighting with it.Only in the cartoon Spongebob looks at a stick and connects that if you put food on a stick and put it in fire,you have cooked food.It never made sense until now
Baird9214 9 months ago
creepy how?
mokeydudester 10 months ago
Uuhh ooh.. Looks like captain price just FLASHBANG THROUGH THE DOOR'ed u.. Bitches now u fucked
TheThirdKind1 10 months ago
sounds like a sheep baa'ing excessivly
evebeanful 10 months ago
yawner.
almightywitey 10 months ago
Mung: Chowder you can't keep doing that forever!
Chowder: EEEEEEEEEEH yes I can EEEEEEEEEEEH
Hyacinthesis 10 months ago
why was that supposed to be scary? o.O
r3v1xx 10 months ago
Hahahahahahaha EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
lovekenzietaylor 10 months ago 62
@lovekenzietaylor:
The name of that creepy, ghostly song is "Requiem for Soprano"
Neptune997 8 months ago
still gives me goosebumps
closedmouth 10 months ago
the musics creepy. the scene is not.
OmegaPiggy77 11 months ago 5
oh, forgot - his music was used in "The Shining" as well
q6drum 11 months ago
Could this be the original Kaaba?
johndeweb 11 months ago
is be the original Kaaba?
johndeweb 11 months ago
summarization
cue creepy music, examine scary rectangle,
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Doctaphil64 11 months ago 4
@Doctaphil64 haha that made me laugh
lovekenzietaylor 10 months ago
wow.. really? 3 and a half minutes of listening to a chorus yell e while watching some astronauts take a group photo..
A useful quote would be something like,
"What is that thing?"
"Its... Its a... Its an alien?"
Sadly i haven't come across a single movie with a quote along those lines
RoyMoonMan 11 months ago
@RoyMoonMan The directing and the actors already say these lines dramatically. It takes genius to do something as easy as saying those lines without actually saying them.
tootsie400 11 months ago