Flicks in Pieces is a weekly feature devoted not to entire movies, but to the individual parts of them that we love and loathe.
Movies can stay with us, but brief moments from them can stay with us even longer. Luis Bunuel's infamousshort filmUn chien andalou featured a straight razor slashing an eyeball open, among its other delights. Sometimes you wish your own memory had a rewind-and-erase feature to get those particular pictures out of your head.
What snippets ofvisual filmmaking-- the terrifying, disgusting and shocking, sure, but maybe also the dazzling or heartbreaking -- have been hardest to shake, invading your thoughts for days, weeks or years afterward?
Although it took me three attempts to watch David Lynch's Inland Empire, when I actually finished it, it proved to be one of the scariest movies I'd ever seen. There is no other director can do dread like Lynch, and IE is 3 hours of grainy dread. By the time he threw the weird, superimposed Laura Dern face at me, I was so chilled that I had to walk away.
It's silly out of context, but here's a pic of it: http://api.ning.com/files/-jTS6W3nJqm58uuppaYSG0nyNTVVOTjcc1HUbl4TWuI_/InlandEmpireScream2.jpg