List-O-Rama: The 15 Best and Ass-Kickingest Opening CREDITS Ever (Part 1/3)
May 5, 2008I was actually thinking of working on the Best and Ass-Kickingest Opening SCENES In Movie History, but I decided to go with the more interesting and gravely under-appreciated art form that is the Opening Credits first.
There are multiple ways in which a filmmaker can present his main titles. Some choose to go barebones and show the credits with a little music, while others subtly flash them during the film’s opening scene.
Some deliver an intricate, high-tech, stand-alone sequence which incorporate an array of text and graphics, while others just go for the jugular and present everything in one go: an elaborate intro which shows the credits with some music and visual effects, all while the opening scene takes place. As expected, the movie that tops this list would technically fall under that last category, but you’ll have to stick around until Part Three to find out what that is.
#15: Halloween (1978)
Okay so it’s a pumpkin. Two minutes of nothing but pumpkin. I’m sure that it’s not so hot with you watching it in the comforts of your room right now, probably in daylight.
But imagine yourself hearing that haunting score by John Carpenter for the first time, in a dark theater filled with strangers in the late 70s, with no cellphone or laptop to access Twitter and tell your friends that you are "SCURRED NAO" and that you want to go "HOME NAO" and prove to the world that you are a giant "IDIOT NAO."
Just imagine that kind of horror, kids.
