>Comfortably middle class guys get thrown into a crazy fucked up nightmare, in which they're completely unpreparedPost more examples of this, it's my favourite genre.
>>217999411Rituals (1977) is your best bet.Except it's the Canadian wilderness & instead of hillbilly rapists it's crazy war vets who've reverted to Grimm's Fairy Tales-type backwoods man-trolls.And a kino ending as well.Southern Comfort (1981) is within the same genre, of course.
>>217999411Eyes Wide Shut
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>>217999411The Fugitive is sort of like that. He's not middle class and was a rich doctor, but gets falsely accused of murder and has to figure out who did it without any detective skills at all and is really just some regular guy. Absolute kino.
judgement night incidentally i met billy redden the banjo boy from deliverance a couple years ago. pure hill folk.
This premise is the core of some of the most intense "home invasion" and "survival thrillers." Here are perfect examples of ordinary people thrust into nightmares they aren't prepared for:The Essential ClassicsFunny Games (1997 or 2007): Perhaps the definitive example. A middle-class family arriving at their summer home is held hostage by two polite young men who force them into sadistic "games."Deliverance (1972): Four city friends decide to canoe down a river before it’s dammed, only to face a brutal confrontation with violent locals.Straw Dogs (1971): A quiet mathematician moves to an isolated village with his wife and is pushed to his limit by local men who underestimate him. Modern MasterpiecesBlue Ruin (2013): A reclusive, unskilled man attempts to carry out a revenge plot that goes sideways immediately because he has no idea what he's doing.Green Room (2015): A traveling punk band witnesses a murder at a neo-Nazi skinhead bar and must fight for their lives despite being completely outmatched.Calibre (2018): Two friends on a hunting trip in the Highlands make a terrible mistake and are trapped in a spiral of guilt and pursuit by an unforgiving local community.Eden Lake (2008): A couple on a camping trip at a remote lake is hunted by a gang of sadistic teenagers.No Escape (2015): An American family moving to Southeast Asia is suddenly caught in a violent coup where foreigners are being executed. Survival Against Nature & CircumstanceThe Grey (2011): Oil refinery workers survive a plane crash in Alaska and must face extreme cold and wolves without proper gear.Open Water (2003): A couple on vacation is accidentally left behind in the middle of the ocean during a scuba diving trip.Into the Wild (2007): Based on a true story, a privileged young man abandons society to live in Alaska, only to realize too late how unprepared he was for nature's brutality.
Blue Velvet
>>217999411sounds like the premise for 99% of horror movies.
>>218000863>The GreyAbsolutely terrible endingShould of had a post credits scene where he is standing over the corpses of the wolvesYou expect me to believe an Irishman with broken liquor bottles isn't capable of anything?
>>217999411Death Sentence(2007).
>>217999411Got two for you starting with Rituals. Very good slasher movie set in the Alaskan wilderness And second is an Australian film called "The Long Weekend" which is...ok, not great but good enough to get an American remake in 2009. Rituals is much better though
>>218000726I want more kinos like this. Average person caught up in a crime conspiracy or wtinesses something they shouldn't have. Any other recs anon?
>>217999411Duel 1971
>>218000863This is a valuable poster
>>218001785The Parallax View(1974).
>>218001821>>218001785Capricorn One is way better. Or "The Boys from Brazil". Parallax View was super disappointing after watching those two first
>>218001785Here's one
>>218001821>>218001866>>218001924I love you guys thank you!
>>218002933Np, acting in Foul Play is kino
>>218000797Is he mentally sound? Can he really play the banjo? How did you even meet him?
>>218001711There was one. Look it up.
>>218003453yeah, he’s all there. he does conventions occasionally. takes pictures holding a banjo. doesn’t play a lick.
>>218003453
>>217999411This movie is extemely liminal
>>218001785>Average person caught up in a crime conspiracy39 StepsThe Lady VanishesS/FXMikey and Nicky>witnesses something they shouldn't haveHalf of the Giallo from Dario Argento are like that. I think "Bird With The Crystal Plumage" is probably the best one.
>>218001785Blow UpBlow OutMarathon ManBlue ThunderWitnessThe FirmThe ClientThe Pelican BriefThe NetEndangered SpeciesHanger 18They LiveThe Arrival(last 3 are a bit outside what you asked for but in the same vein)
>>217999411Lost in America
>>217999411If I saw this image without any text, I would assume it was a redneck parody of Fantastic Voyage.
Deliverance is top tier kino but it has the worst day for night shots ever
>>218000863lmfao this anon lists the pseudo intellectual pick funny games loved by all nerd loser wannabe filmies… and yet… no mention of “the bear” starring “bart the bear”. an ultimate list this is not.
>>218003706Cool. I have an autograph of the actress from Coco and the mexican paranormal activities. The Latino Gerald who gets starfished by starro the conqueror and the general in quantum of solace are also my key items a la final fantasy.
>>218000726This movie is ridiculous, a trauma surgeon is insanely wealthy.
>>218000863Oh, Lord, people like you should not exist.
>>218001811nigga it's AI
>>218001808second
>>218001808this movie is very boring
>>218001785The Spanish Prisoner
>>218001785Polanski's Ghost Writer fits this pretty well.
>>218000863Kindly thank you saaar. Loving chatgpt
>>217999411yuppie nightmare movies like Into the Night, Risky Business, After Hours, Blue Velvet, and Something Wild. these all came out within the same three years iirc alsoMiracle Mile Nick of TimeBreakdown The Vanishing (1988, do not watch the remake)The Hitcher (again, NOT the remake)Both versions of Cape Fear Straw Dogs (original)
It's called Wake in Fright in america.
>>218005735This movie really rattled me. SPOILERS:He tried to kill himself in the end to get away from it all but it didn't work. He just had to go back to life and deal with all his bullshit.
>>217999411Hey people ITT, I have a question for you:What is the difference between a good vs bad movie using this premise of "average person caught up in something wild"?What makes it feel "real" and what takes you out of it?
>>218003453No, he's mentally unstable, he raped me repeatedly up the ass.I liked it because he is a movie star.
>>218000863Straw Dogs and Blue Ruin are the two on this list I would say are absolutely essential viewing for anyone who actually likes movies. The original Funny Games is pretty far up there too, the rest I’ve seen and enjoyed but they don’t hold a candle to any of those three.
>>218001924KINO.Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn made boss movies.
>>218005294This is the kind of retard who watches movies at 1.5x speed
>>218006287Deliverance and Funny Games aren’t that comparable imo. Similarly, look at Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Halloween. Deliverance and TCM are about civilized folk entering a savage environment that they’re not equipped to deal with. Straw Dogs and Halloween are about an outside evil coming into a supposedly safe, civilized space.
>>218006141Legitimately a crazy film, the 70s was nuts.
>>218001711>>218005021>>218006287you're sincerely replying to an AI post you dumb fucks
>>218006376I didn’t say they were all that comparable, I agree that they’re completely different and pretty much aren’t even the same genre. I was only commenting on the quality of movies on that shit AI list and saying those three are the ones actually worth watching. Also how has nobody said Wake in Fright yet? That movie has had a massive resurgence lately I’ve noticed but it’s great and of a similar nature
>>218006465Uh duh doy doy?
>>218006299All I know is kino
>>218006482I don’t know, I think Deliverance is well worth watching. It’s hugely influential and a good thriller.
>no mention of pic relatednaturally
>>218006482>>218005735
>>217999411That book and movie are literally the author's thinly veiled fetish
>>218006702Listen man, I’m drunk okay, let me go get my breathalyzer and I’ll get back to you OKAY
>>218006618What is this?>>218006681What is this?Love hearing about movies I don't know.
>>218006702>>218006775Alright I’m only .156 so I might just be retarded, my bad.
>>218000863>>218004496>>218006239>>218006376>Deliverance>Blue Ruin>Green Room>OG Halloween>Blow Up>The Pelican Brief>The Net>They Live>The Arrivalgood>The Grey>Blow Out>Marathon Man>Witness>The Firmbarely remember it>Straw Dogscringe in a really dated way>Into the Wildgay>OG TCMvery boring>Wake In Frighthard to watch meaningless self-destruction like that, trying too hard to be like camus's the stranger. very cringe
>>218006781it's oliver stone's debut, shot in quebec. about a family that gets terrorized by a domme and her two servants, a mute black guy and a dwarf. a dachshund gets lynched halfway through.
>>218006909I don’t find it particularly scary, but the original TCM is hardly what I’d call boring. The movie is barely 80 minutes long.
>>218006909Blow Out is probably the best movie suggested so far.
>>218006781Return to Witch Mountain, pre-kino. Everything I post is kino
>>218000863>Calibre (2018): Two friends on a hunting trip in the Highlands make a terrible mistake and are trapped in a spiral of guilt and pursuit by an unforgiving local community.some good recos here. calibre is excellent.
>>217999411Not "guys" but Eden Lake fits.
>>217999411watch Calvaire (2004)
Shouts out to Hard Target.
>>217999411How about the complete opposite!
>>218001785>or wtinesses something they shouldn't haveWitness, with Harrison Ford
>>218005735The main character is a snob who thinks he's above the locals onky to fall for the same traps they didIt makes it hard to root for him, because all of it could have been avoided with some self discipline
>>218009371*only
>>217999411hell yeah, gimme another 70's ba-ba-ba-BANGER like deliverancekeep in mind i have watched most of the obvious ones
>>217999411The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
>>217999411there u go
>>218005735Actually it was called Outback in America. Wake in Frigh is its original Australian title.
After Straw Dogs there were a lot of imitations.>A warped man (Don Stroud) and his buddies terrorize a woman (Brenda Vaccaro) and her doctor boyfriend (Chuck Shamata) at a lake house.
>>218001785
>A married man (Terence Morgan) and his young mistress (Suzy Kendall) suffer sadistic torture when thugs invade their penthouse.
>On the day they move into a new house, a Madrid couple and their daughter become the targets of a brutal home invasion by a trio of masked criminals.
>A female fashion model Anni Stark (played by Tiina Björkman) takes leave from the fashion business and goes to Finland's Lappland (a wilderness region in Northern Finland, better known as the home of Santa Claus) for a vacation. Little does she know that there's a totally lunatic bunch of local hillbillies living in a nearby farmhouse. The plot thickens as one of the residents begins to harass Anni, who is left alone in the wilderness with only her dog to protect her. Too bad for her that her dog turns out to have divided loyalties..
>A French couple move to a Galician town in search of a closer relationship with nature. However, a conflict with their neighbours, the Anta brothers, causes tensions to grow until the situation reaches a point of no return.
>After Susannah Kelton (Carol Lynley) inherits a mill in her small New England hometown, she travels there with her husband, Mike (Gig Young). When they arrive, they are treated coldly by the villagers and are warned against entering the mill by Susannah's gloomy Aunt Agatha (Flora Robson) and shady cousin, Ethan (Oliver Reed).
Groundhog Dayostensibly a comedy but I disagree
>>217999411Three days of the Condor with Robert Redford
>>218009371Not really, the main character isn’t necessarily a snob for initially looking down on a bunch of literally retarded alcoholic Aussie hicks fucking around in the outback doing degenerate shit, especially considering what ends up happening. in the end though, if anything he falls down the well of bad decisions and darkness harder than any of them could possibly have and isn’t that the whole point? The idea that the focus of a movie has to specifically be a character that you can “root for” is pretty fucking faggy
>>218006305No I just don't watch boring movies because I have good taste.
The Beasts or As Bestas.Great Spanish thriller based on real events, but they changed the nationalities of the characters as far as I remember.About a French couple who move into the Spanish outskirts to start farming crops and what not, and they start to not feel very welcome by everyone of the locals.
>>218012871Tbf, only 1 of the MCs is a "normal" guy, the other 3 are criminals.
>>217999411Can't believe no one has posted the most kino in the genre yet....you make me sad anonsNaked Prey 1966. Don't look anything up about it, just watch it.
>>217999411It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a comedy version.>A bunch of everyday strangers witness a runaway robber die in a car crash>The robber spends his last moments telling them where to find his buried loot>The strangers quickly turn on each other and go on a madcap race for the treasure>Hijinks ensue, including many car crashes, plane crashes, near-drowning, fireworks explosions, you name it>The police detective tracking the whole thing also joins in after his snapping over his crumbling family life and his corrupt bosses cutting his retirement fundshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2SpROYbYig
>>218005216It's based on a real guy who was an osteopath.
>>218013470While not following the thread's theme, this is comedy kino of the highest order. I wish they went with the original title, Only In America! It suits the film more.
>>218013379This anon did: >>218010596
>>218012092>nationalities of the characters as far as I rememberyes, originally dutch, french in the kino
>>217999727This movie sucks
>>217999411He initiates the crazy fucked up nightmare, but I think it still counts.
>>218001811You're retarded.
>>218001533I've never seen any other Lynch movie, but this one did somewhat blow me away, and what OP is asking for is the core of that movie. Thanks OP and anon for reminding me of that movie I guess I'll spend the year watching more of his movies
>>218003706I recently found out that the guy with the guitar in this scene is the same actor who played Dick Jones I recently watched Robocop and noticed how good of an actor he is
>>218013379the torture deaths in the first 20 min of this film are so fucking fucked upworse than any horror movie
>>218001785Enemy of the State starring Will Smith.
