What Film?
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- StiffLips
A few years ago I was watching late TV and this weird horror film came on. I can only remember a couple of bits but it still sticks with me.
The bits I can remember are, a boy being dropped at what seems to be like a catholic boarding school or summer school. The setting is somewhere like the hills in Austria. He's being dropped off by his Dad I think. Then later, near the end of the film, all the other kids have become demons/zombies with black eyes and are chasing the boy. He's trapped in a cupboard and they're all breaking through the door.
I know this is a pretty bad description. But I'm hoping that someone might now what the hell film this was - or did I just fall asleep on the couch and dream the whole thing?
- Amicus0
it's just a childhood memory. nothing to worry about.
- ********0
you.
were that boy.
- miesvan0
Let's not forget the somewhat creepy vampires from 30 Days of Night.
Somewhat creepy? More like downright nightmare fuel.
During the first exploration of Carl Stargher's mind in The Cell, he manifests as a pale king with gaping black voids in place of eyes.
In The Covenant, the four members of the eponymous covenant as well as the villain, a descendant of a covenant member, all get these at some point in the film. Subverted for the four members, who are all the "good guys." Played straight for the villain.
Pinhead and the rest of the cenobites from Hellraiser movies always have either black, shark-like eyes or more subdued Black Eyes with white sclera, depending on the director and makeup artist.
Possibly one of the earliest examples in film was in The Mummy's Hand (1940), in which the mummy's eyes are completely black - an effect achieved by laboriously painting over the film in post-production.
In Krull, when the Seer is killed and replaced with a doppelganger, his duplicate has pure black eyes (not as much of a giveaway as you might think, since he usually kept his eyes closed).
Another creature from the same film, this one a female shapeshifter, is a subversion of sorts as she finds herself unwilling to go through with her mission of killing the main character and gets quite a sympathetic speech before the Big Bad eliminates her for her betrayal.
In Push, whenever the evil pusher uses his powers, his pupils stretch so his eyes turn entirely black. The good pusher, by comparison, will only stretch her pupils so the irises are barely visible.
Though technically literature at one time, the script of Stephen King's Storm of the Century — sold in book form, before it was made into the film it was designed to be (and likely afterward, depending on the director) — had a Big Bad whose eyes, upon possessing others, turned swirly black.
In X: The Man with X-Ray Eyes, as the main character continues using the x-ray eyedrops, his eyes begin changing colour: at first, they're only silver irises on black, but by the end of the film, they're entirely black.
The Dark Queen in Mirror Mask sports pitch-black eyes, as does her daughter. When Helena is used as a replacement for the Princess and given an appropriate makeover, her eyes turn black as well.
Although it seems to take a while after the onset of zombification, the titular Zombie Strippers eventually develop pure-black eyes. Their flesh also begins to rot and their fingers turn black and sharpen into claws. Because the virus in the film affects men and women differently, this only seems to happen to female zombies.
You know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye.
In the 2009 Sherlock Holmes film, the temporary version is used when Lord Blackwood is talking to Holmes in his cell. He's standing just out of the light, so that the areas around his eyes are completely shadowed and all that is visible is the evil glint.
- StiffLips0
Disturbing...
Thanks miesvan