- depressing acoustic guitar title/ending song (bonus points if sung by a member of the cast)
- religious iconography (bonus points for Tibetan Buddhist or Eastern Orthodox)
- "confusing"
- woman bathing in bathtub filled with blood (bonus points if she stands up)
- a scene where a character has his/her fortune read
- driving scenes involving '60s/early '70s muscle cars, motorcycles or conversion vans
- "arty"
- exploding heads
- pipe organ solos (bonus points if one of the characters actually plays the pipe organ)
- some huge piece of minimalist or pop sculpture
- "gratuitous"
- catacombs (bonus points if only reachable by trap doors)
- bell towers (bonus points if someone gets killed and falls down the shaft)
- fuzzed-out guitar (the more the better)
- "delirious"
- women in nightgowns running in slow motion
- infrared photography
- "hypnagogic"
- the audio sped up or slowed down
- the film cranked at half speed
- "outlandish"
- a disclaimer at the beginning of the film
- using multiple locations to suggest one elaborate confusing location
- "unwatchable"
- a truly great composer (likely contenders: Jerry Goldsmith, Les Baxter, Bruno Nicolai, Ennio Morricone -- unlikely contenders: Marvin Gaye, Terry Riley, Angus Maclise)
- a less than great composer who understands the genius of lots of recurring themes, synth bloop, faux-Indian instruments and breathy choral bits
- a scene in a library (bonus points for a scene flipping through an ancient tome with lots of creepy woodcuts)
- a scene where someone shoots up and then the camera gets all soft focus and slow motion
- "illogical"
- a seance with lots of speaking in tongues (points deducted if the members goof off unless they are killed during the seance)
- Soledad Miranda (infinite bonus points if she gets naked, or wears some super-mod outfit with thigh-high boots, or hell, who am I kidding, she could be in an Arby's outfit reading the want ads and it's infinite bonus points)
(more on the way)
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