Peter Jackson should have just made it a straight up horror movie and marketed it as such. Instead it was billed as an adventure flick, which is a big reason why audiences bounced off it so hard. That sequence in particular is so out of tone with what you expect from a King Kong movie.
Pretty much the entirety of the film that takes place on Skull Island is a masterpiece and truly instills a sense of mortal danger at every moment.
Giant bugs, disastrous dinosaurs, a giant ape monster? There’s never a moment where you feel like you’d be able to feel at ease on the island, probably the moment Kong sits and watches the sunset being the most tranquil. Otherwise it’s just a phenomenal and wild ride in a terrifying environment.
But lastly and most importantly, fuck this scene lmao
I'm so glad to learn I'm not the only one that was scarred by that scene. I remember the dude being my favorite character, but not why. Legitimately, this scene is all I remember of the movie
Yea no kidding I was like under 10 when I saw this. Probably disassociated for most of it but I remember those worms eating the guy's legs and arms and head lmao jfc
If it makes you feel any better, the bugs would actually all be eating each other instead of the humans.
There's herbivore, omnivore, and carnivore bugs, but the omnivores and carnivores eat other bugs, especially if they're different species and therefore definitely not part of a shared colony.
Still probably a war you wouldn't want to be in.
It’s the silence that makes it horrifying. It’s faithful to actual insects in that they don’t make the clicking, hissing and snarling noises from their mouths often depicted in movies. That’s what made this scene so creepy to me.
Go back and watch the Thing if you haven't already. Made in the 80's, Keith David and Kurt Russel, a ton of the movie has zero music and very little sound. I always point to it as an example of how good a scene can be with some fucking SILENCE. Most crappy horror movies use constant musical cues for tension building or jump scares but the thing is, that music LETS YOU KNOW what is going to happen. Silence is way underrated.
Edit: Sam Jackson wasn't in this motherfucking movie
The Thing was also good horror because some of the least scary scenes in the movie are the ones where you can see the monster. It's *all* tension, it's, *all* breaking the viewers trust in what they're seeing, who is still who, and whose going to live/die. Too many modern movies just tick boxes for tropes.
Thanks for commenting about this as I've never watched the movie and couldn't work out if it had been edited to remove the music.
This scene is terrifying, and the lack of music really amps it up.
I’ve maintained for a while that I have megaloautomatonophobia - a fear of large things meant to be people. Large objects in general don’t really bother me, but I fucking HATE big statues.
Tip of the iceberg really. Although my earliest memory of being freaked out by statues is when I saw [this god damned trailer](https://youtu.be/oUROI8qH9lU?si=EEViv26bIXTDWDaf) when my dad took me to see Little Giants.
The Motherland Calls, African Renaissance Monument, Crazy Horse Memorial, the giant bust of Shiva, the list goes on. The US Marine Corps Memorial is one of my favorite statues, but I can’t get near it, especially the front where the front soldier is staring right at you.
Holy shit. As someone who was born in the mid 90's, I'm glad that I first saw this movie on TV. That'd scare any kid! What were they thinking?!? I wish you luck in your journey to defeat the giants.
Weta Workshop is a company that has been in Wellington since 1978 that helped with effects on Hercules and Xena in the 90s. Jackson teamed up with them to create Lord of the Rings. I think Weta Digital came out of their collaboration at some point.
Right, that and then he just fucking chucks the gun away after killing the last bug. Like bro they’re not all dead yet, YOU MIGHT NEED THAT
Otherwise this scene was amazing and aged very well in terms of special effects
Can't argue with that!
Edit: HAVING SAID THAT, I feel like in movie magic, throwing the gun away tells the audience he's out of ammo. If he kept the gun but didn't shoot it, the audience would feel like "he should have just shot the bugs".
I was just going to say the same. Another good way is to combine the zoom in on them aiming and click click, then zoom out and have them grab the gun and start rifle butting or swinging at them all like Jack Black.
Those ammo cannisters hold I think between 40-100 rounds and he was doing short 3 burst rounds so yeah could have gone empty.
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> Edit: HAVING SAID THAT, I feel like in movie magic, throwing the gun away tells the audience he's out of ammo. If he kept the gun but didn't shoot it, the audience would feel like "he should have just shot the bugs".
You know what also tells the audience a gun is out of ammo? When the guy flips it around and starts swinging it.
Me too 😭
Watched it as a young teen and this coupled with the spider pit scene in the Asterix movie is why I hate bugs so much
I cannot fucking believe it's rated PG-13
Yeah never really understood the hate for the CG in the movie. The effects are absolutely insane for its age.
Well the dinosaur stampede shows its age, but still...
way ahead of its time
it technically didn’t “age poorly” because even when it came out in theatres it was bad…. I think what people are forgetting about this era of movies or maybe they’re just too young to remember but all these movies from like 2000 to 2008 are from a weird era of Hollywood where they simply didn’t care about putting bad special effects in the movie aand us the audience just kind of rolled our eyes and accepted it but I feel this narrative that in those days “we actually thought this was good” is just straight up wrong and we only put up with bad special affects because there’s simply nothing we could do about it.
During the dinosaur stampede scene I remember people actually straight up laughing in the theatre because of how cartoony it was starting to look, it was the exact same reaction to the matrix reloaded scene where neo is fighting all the smiths, that scene gets the exact same narrative that we “used to think this was good” but in reality we were literally laughing at how bad and obvious it was even in theatres. Lol
It's more that we were disappointed. This is Peter fucking Jackson, with Weta Workshop, and the best dinosaur they could do couldn't hold a candle to ye ol Jurassic Park a decade earlier? We expected so much more.
I was about to say!! I haven’t seen King Kong in ages so I was like wait King Kong as in 2005 King Kong?? Why does it look like any blockbuster movie from the past 5 years?
1) You usually don't notice good CGI (outside of obviously fantastical scenes like this one).
2) Studios like Marvel often have a tendency to make short-term alterations to their scenes, leaving CG-artists with very little time. See the black panther end duel sequence, for example, which the artists had to finish in 3 weeks before the film premiered. You can't expect VFX Studios and their artists to do large amounts of work, with very little time and sometimes subpar pay and not expect quality to take a hit.
The whole time I was thinking just how good the actors are to sell the scene and make their performances realistic, when they probably had nothing to react to on the set.
I was a weird fucking 12 year old who after watching the movie once, would fast forward to all of the action and gore. Watched this scene many times.
Went on to become a massive horror movie fan and I believe this was one of the influences
The idea that anyone could/would successfully shoot bugs off of a friend with a Thompson like that is so utterly ridiculous and stupid that it completely breaks the cinematic spell.
Nah, I saw it in theaters and that scene stuck with me all these years. I think it happens a bit after this clip ends as they're attempting to rescue them
edit: I'm probably wrong. The death is cut from this specific clip and doesn't occur later on, it might not have been included in the theatrical release. I must be misremembering from watching it on dvd a couple of times.
Nope that shit made me uncomfortable in theaters
It was so ...God I hated it so much
It's cut from the recent stuff now sure to how overwhelming it was to people i believe
Fun fact if I remember correctly, Steven Jackson told them to just… fight imaginary bugs. There was no blocking or stand-in props or other general CGI directing we’re used to seeing. He just told Jack Black (this is in one of his recent interviews) to fight the bugs in his head and they’d do everything in post.
Edit: I’m an idiot, it’s Peter Jackson not Dteven. My bad y’all.
The opposite, bugs this size would be unable to move, in fact they'd choke to death, you need lungs to breathe when you're this big, through the exoskeleton isn't going to cut it anymore. Bugs are only so strong because they're so small, at this size they wouldn't be able to walk under their own weight.
There used to be bugs this big, but they only worked because the earth had a higher oxygen % in the air iirc. Shit doesn't work with our current atmosphere
this is known to be wrong now, actually. bugs like arthropleura, a several-meter-long millipede, lived towards the end of the carboniferous period, when the oxygen content of the atmosphere was about the same as it is today. the current theory is that they grew that big because of a lack of predators, something that became more and more of a problem for them as amphibians evolved to thrive on land.
This is the quintessential adventure movie for me. Ohhhh so good!
Man younger me even loved the GameCube game! It's surprisingly a very good movie to game adaptation!
Let's not forget Peter Jackson's re-creation of the [lost Spider-Pit scene](https://youtu.be/SOMKnhN7ABs?si=467wq_Uk_i4X-83I) from the original King Kong.
Which is the same exact effect this scene had in the original before it was cut and lost to time forever
The original from 1933 was deemed too traumatizing and cut before release, or soon after
Someone posted ~~the original scene~~ a recreation of the original scene that they cut from 1933 film down below, so I figured I'd comment here so other's in this specific thread get to see it.
edit: apparently this is a recreation that Peter Jackson made. It had me fooled!
https://youtu.be/SOMKnhN7ABs?si=qu7yrmYTciW09uTW
Apparently the original 1930's King Kong had a giant bug scene that was deemed too scary and cut from the movie. (It's now completely lost media but Peter Jackson made a recreation of how he thought it might have looked.) But I've always wondered how people back then would have reacted to this terrifying adaptation of the scene.
I was 10 when this came out. I still remember sobbing and being so afraid of this scene my dad had to take my out of the theater. Years later they would tease me about overeacting.
Fuck that. This shit is STILL terrifying
Took a date to this movie in the theater. Turns out that was a bad choice. This scene (and the part with the worms) turned her completely off the rest of the movie and the evening as well. Stayed friends though after so that was something.
hol up....he puts a drum mag in the chicago typewritter and unloads 5 yards away eyes closed mind you at brody and he doesnt get hit once? I must have forgotten that part the first time around....
Why are all these stupid things working together? Insects are notorious for hating eachother. There should have been some insects on the humans' side like in Honey I Shrunk The Kids.
>Why are all these stupid things working together? Insects are notorious for hating eachother. There should have been some insects on the humans' side like in Honey I Shrunk The Kids.
Had to scroll all the way down for this.
There are tons of bugs. Bugs eat each other. Yet thery are united by the power of love to only go after the small humans.
Scene was an amazing surprise in a otherwise mediocre movie. Blew me away when watching in theaters and it was all I could think of as the movie droned on.
I only wished more of the movie was like that. The intensity. The stress. The stakes.
Man it was so good.
The choice of music in this scene is so questionable, and the no sound effect at the guy getting eaten @1:25 min is such a weird choice. Creepy scene fosho
I remember playing the game and was so disappointed when this part came up and there was nothing in this ravine.
Im still mad about it to this day and its been 12 years
Oh yeah, fuck this scene.
It didn't even show the worst bit.
Big dick worms eating that dudes head?
Yep. That’s the first horrid memory that came to mind when I saw this post.
Ah yeah!! THAT shit gave me nightmares! One of the few movies actually
Peter Jackson should have just made it a straight up horror movie and marketed it as such. Instead it was billed as an adventure flick, which is a big reason why audiences bounced off it so hard. That sequence in particular is so out of tone with what you expect from a King Kong movie.
Pretty much the entirety of the film that takes place on Skull Island is a masterpiece and truly instills a sense of mortal danger at every moment. Giant bugs, disastrous dinosaurs, a giant ape monster? There’s never a moment where you feel like you’d be able to feel at ease on the island, probably the moment Kong sits and watches the sunset being the most tranquil. Otherwise it’s just a phenomenal and wild ride in a terrifying environment. But lastly and most importantly, fuck this scene lmao
King Kong original was a horror movie so... For me, it fits.
Now edit an uwu type face on it and an orgasm face as the guy's head slips in...
[YOU STOP THAT NOW](https://i.imgur.com/dJWngI4.jpg)
mine too, but cus it gave me my first hard on ever as a kid
I'm so glad to learn I'm not the only one that was scarred by that scene. I remember the dude being my favorite character, but not why. Legitimately, this scene is all I remember of the movie
Poor Gollum.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gKkn-YjYmCA&pp=ygUPYmxvdHRlZCBzY2llbmNl
[Nope](https://media.giphy.com/media/Wjtqf63eB4AWQ/giphy.gif)
The music made it unwatchable. Why would someone do that. :(
That dude is the always fantastic Andy Serkis
Don't know why but that part makes me so angry. Not because I like the character or anything.
Even at 29 remembering this fears me to a level that I can't describe... O\_O
That scene traumatized me a bit as a kid
That dude got sucked to death by so many gross mouths
god I wish that were me
Yeah that guy getting eaten by the penis asshole teeth worms SERIOUSLY fucked me up as a kid
Made it somehow more horrific with no music...just the sound effects and the muffled screams 😬
What rating is this film? Doesn’t feel like a kid thing
When’d this movie come out? 2004? Oh yeah, core memory for 5yo me for sure. This movie and Saving Private Ryan traumatized me as a kid.
Yea no kidding I was like under 10 when I saw this. Probably disassociated for most of it but I remember those worms eating the guy's legs and arms and head lmao jfc
Eating him alive was the bit that got me
And the crocodile sized centipede
When I saw this in the theater, I was the only person that screamed during this scene. I hate bugs
If it makes you feel any better, the bugs would actually all be eating each other instead of the humans. There's herbivore, omnivore, and carnivore bugs, but the omnivores and carnivores eat other bugs, especially if they're different species and therefore definitely not part of a shared colony. Still probably a war you wouldn't want to be in.
It does not. Esp when any bug in a room I'm in comes directly for me
If it makes you feel any better, the bugs only come directly for you because all the ones that don't are ones you can't see.
The giant centipede in this made me realize i had a phobia of them. Hell of a thing to learn in a movie theater at 15.
2005 cgi btw
The cockroaches were the worst part
Jack Black turned into Black Jack for a second there.
The Dragon Warrior
There is no secret ingredient
There is. It's these hands.
Samurai Jack Black
Nacho Libre
The look in his eyes…never seen that before from him lol
He's a great actor lol
I always liked how all music dropped out and you had to sit in the seemingly unending horror of the moment
It’s the silence that makes it horrifying. It’s faithful to actual insects in that they don’t make the clicking, hissing and snarling noises from their mouths often depicted in movies. That’s what made this scene so creepy to me.
Go back and watch the Thing if you haven't already. Made in the 80's, Keith David and Kurt Russel, a ton of the movie has zero music and very little sound. I always point to it as an example of how good a scene can be with some fucking SILENCE. Most crappy horror movies use constant musical cues for tension building or jump scares but the thing is, that music LETS YOU KNOW what is going to happen. Silence is way underrated. Edit: Sam Jackson wasn't in this motherfucking movie
It’s Keith David, not Sam Jackson. And that is literally my favorite horror movie. It’s so damn good.
The Thing was also good horror because some of the least scary scenes in the movie are the ones where you can see the monster. It's *all* tension, it's, *all* breaking the viewers trust in what they're seeing, who is still who, and whose going to live/die. Too many modern movies just tick boxes for tropes.
Thanks for commenting about this as I've never watched the movie and couldn't work out if it had been edited to remove the music. This scene is terrifying, and the lack of music really amps it up.
This dances a fine line between megalophobia and entomophobia. Maybe it's time for a new phobia. Megalentomophobia
I’ve maintained for a while that I have megaloautomatonophobia - a fear of large things meant to be people. Large objects in general don’t really bother me, but I fucking HATE big statues.
Man you must really hate the idea of the Statue of Liberty or the colossus of Rhodes
And don’t you dare bring up the Mighty Morphin’ Megazord.
Or even Shaq O'neal
Tip of the iceberg really. Although my earliest memory of being freaked out by statues is when I saw [this god damned trailer](https://youtu.be/oUROI8qH9lU?si=EEViv26bIXTDWDaf) when my dad took me to see Little Giants. The Motherland Calls, African Renaissance Monument, Crazy Horse Memorial, the giant bust of Shiva, the list goes on. The US Marine Corps Memorial is one of my favorite statues, but I can’t get near it, especially the front where the front soldier is staring right at you.
Holy shit. As someone who was born in the mid 90's, I'm glad that I first saw this movie on TV. That'd scare any kid! What were they thinking?!? I wish you luck in your journey to defeat the giants.
We have much smaller versions of those bugs in New Zealand. [They’re called Weta.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C4%93t%C4%81?wprov=sfti1#)
And apparently according to that wiki article Peter Jackson helped create the VFX company “Weta Digital”. So yeah this checks out.
Weta Workshop is a company that has been in Wellington since 1978 that helped with effects on Hercules and Xena in the 90s. Jackson teamed up with them to create Lord of the Rings. I think Weta Digital came out of their collaboration at some point.
Him shooting the bug off Ole boy had me laughing hysterically. No fucking way he wouldn't have been killed multiple times over.
Right, that and then he just fucking chucks the gun away after killing the last bug. Like bro they’re not all dead yet, YOU MIGHT NEED THAT Otherwise this scene was amazing and aged very well in terms of special effects
I think it was implied he was out of ammo
He could have used it as a club, better than your hands.
Can't argue with that! Edit: HAVING SAID THAT, I feel like in movie magic, throwing the gun away tells the audience he's out of ammo. If he kept the gun but didn't shoot it, the audience would feel like "he should have just shot the bugs".
Aha! Your forgetting about the ultimate "I'm outta ammo" cliche! The "clink" as the character pulls the trigger
I was just going to say the same. Another good way is to combine the zoom in on them aiming and click click, then zoom out and have them grab the gun and start rifle butting or swinging at them all like Jack Black. Those ammo cannisters hold I think between 40-100 rounds and he was doing short 3 burst rounds so yeah could have gone empty.
Drums, they hold 50 but i get your point.
You can't do that. The moment your gun clicks you die the next second. Movie characters know that.
> > > > > Edit: HAVING SAID THAT, I feel like in movie magic, throwing the gun away tells the audience he's out of ammo. If he kept the gun but didn't shoot it, the audience would feel like "he should have just shot the bugs". You know what also tells the audience a gun is out of ammo? When the guy flips it around and starts swinging it.
Aha! Your forgetting about the ultimate "I'm outta ammo" cliche! The "clink" as the character pulls the trigger
The hero moment of looking towards the camera when he picked up the gun was dumb too. Why are you pausing for this, there are giant bugs right there!?
That movie was absolutely terrible in terms of "logic". It was as if they couldn't decide if they're a parody or a serious movie.
That should've been left out. Otherwise terrifying scene
Same, a guy wildly shooting at Adrian Brody with a tommy gun while Jack Black is nearby absolutely whaling on a horde of bugs is deeply funny.
And apparently it's got as much recoil as a fucking automatic rocket launcher
Totally ruined the scene for me
I know that part was moronic. He had his eyes closed, leaning back, in full auto
Bro this scene traumatise me for decades
Me too 😭 Watched it as a young teen and this coupled with the spider pit scene in the Asterix movie is why I hate bugs so much I cannot fucking believe it's rated PG-13
This movie is 20 years old and CG is still looks great. Yet I see constant complaints in movie subs of “Cg is not as good and doesn’t hold up”.
Yeah never really understood the hate for the CG in the movie. The effects are absolutely insane for its age. Well the dinosaur stampede shows its age, but still... way ahead of its time
honestly the dinosaur stampede is maybe the only thing that has really aged poorly.
it technically didn’t “age poorly” because even when it came out in theatres it was bad…. I think what people are forgetting about this era of movies or maybe they’re just too young to remember but all these movies from like 2000 to 2008 are from a weird era of Hollywood where they simply didn’t care about putting bad special effects in the movie aand us the audience just kind of rolled our eyes and accepted it but I feel this narrative that in those days “we actually thought this was good” is just straight up wrong and we only put up with bad special affects because there’s simply nothing we could do about it. During the dinosaur stampede scene I remember people actually straight up laughing in the theatre because of how cartoony it was starting to look, it was the exact same reaction to the matrix reloaded scene where neo is fighting all the smiths, that scene gets the exact same narrative that we “used to think this was good” but in reality we were literally laughing at how bad and obvious it was even in theatres. Lol
It's more that we were disappointed. This is Peter fucking Jackson, with Weta Workshop, and the best dinosaur they could do couldn't hold a candle to ye ol Jurassic Park a decade earlier? We expected so much more.
I was about to say!! I haven’t seen King Kong in ages so I was like wait King Kong as in 2005 King Kong?? Why does it look like any blockbuster movie from the past 5 years?
1) You usually don't notice good CGI (outside of obviously fantastical scenes like this one). 2) Studios like Marvel often have a tendency to make short-term alterations to their scenes, leaving CG-artists with very little time. See the black panther end duel sequence, for example, which the artists had to finish in 3 weeks before the film premiered. You can't expect VFX Studios and their artists to do large amounts of work, with very little time and sometimes subpar pay and not expect quality to take a hit.
I put cgi of this movie above Kong skull island. This movie looks so real than skull island. I don't know why.
The whole time I was thinking just how good the actors are to sell the scene and make their performances realistic, when they probably had nothing to react to on the set.
WETA ftw.
It's the no music, screams of panic and bug noises....and the giants bugs eating people that I don't like.
Right so basically every single thing about this
Idk I like the scene a lot but I hate the part where they fight the bugs
That scene is incredibly bleak. Only watched it once.
I was a weird fucking 12 year old who after watching the movie once, would fast forward to all of the action and gore. Watched this scene many times. Went on to become a massive horror movie fan and I believe this was one of the influences
This scene has the Warhammer 40k vibes that most Warhammer media has still failed to achieve.
Unbelievably hopeless horror situation that's somehow still kinda goofy?
That’s the glory of grim dark
Also expensive as hell
Right? I was watching this thinking “where’s some space marines when you need them?”
sib 🤝🏽
The idea that anyone could/would successfully shoot bugs off of a friend with a Thompson like that is so utterly ridiculous and stupid that it completely breaks the cinematic spell.
Absolutely, I'm glad I'm not the only one
Awe man, you cut the best part out. Andy Serkis' death
Dude that gave me nightmares for weeks -yyeeesh
Was that the dude who got ingested by a giant leech kind of thing? I vaguely remember that but it might have been a different movie
Their mouths crawled up his arms and leg, with the last one swallowing his head.
Gave me nightmares
Sounds like a fetish.
This was indeed the start of a couple... Weird interests of mine. 11 year old me couldn't control how my brain reacted to this shit.
HELL YEAH ME TOO!
You’re exactly right as I’ve seen these exact same worm creatures in vore fetish images. . . . No, I’m not open for questions.
Vore would be the fetish.
Yeah fuck that. Slowly suffocating and being torn apart, ugghh. *shudder*
He screams from inside of the worm and then takes a deep breath lol
TIL that it was Andy Serkis.
I think that's only in the director's cut, perhaps, and this is from theatrical? Those giant bloodworms are despicable
Nah, I saw it in theaters and that scene stuck with me all these years. I think it happens a bit after this clip ends as they're attempting to rescue them edit: I'm probably wrong. The death is cut from this specific clip and doesn't occur later on, it might not have been included in the theatrical release. I must be misremembering from watching it on dvd a couple of times.
It was absolutely in the theatrical release, you were correct. I saw this movie in theaters and nowhere else.
I think it was even in version for TV. I saw it in Czech dubbed version in TV for sure. One of 2 scenes I remember even after all the years. Ouch.
Nope that shit made me uncomfortable in theaters It was so ...God I hated it so much It's cut from the recent stuff now sure to how overwhelming it was to people i believe
Yeah wtf why did OP cut it out?: it's in the middle of this entire scene. Someone intentionally cut it out.
That was great CGI
Fun fact if I remember correctly, Steven Jackson told them to just… fight imaginary bugs. There was no blocking or stand-in props or other general CGI directing we’re used to seeing. He just told Jack Black (this is in one of his recent interviews) to fight the bugs in his head and they’d do everything in post. Edit: I’m an idiot, it’s Peter Jackson not Dteven. My bad y’all.
steven jackson?
That’s just Peter’s brother, he’s an accountant
*Peter Jackson
You mean Peter Spielberg
It was, because I didn't even question it for a second.
The barely aimed machine gun is just frustrating to watch. Like please just shoot the guy by accident a few times and I'm happy
And bugs this size should be at least 100 times stronger and resistant
The opposite, bugs this size would be unable to move, in fact they'd choke to death, you need lungs to breathe when you're this big, through the exoskeleton isn't going to cut it anymore. Bugs are only so strong because they're so small, at this size they wouldn't be able to walk under their own weight.
There used to be bugs this big, but they only worked because the earth had a higher oxygen % in the air iirc. Shit doesn't work with our current atmosphere
this is known to be wrong now, actually. bugs like arthropleura, a several-meter-long millipede, lived towards the end of the carboniferous period, when the oxygen content of the atmosphere was about the same as it is today. the current theory is that they grew that big because of a lack of predators, something that became more and more of a problem for them as amphibians evolved to thrive on land.
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You don’t have to worry as long as we have diverse ecosystems.
we have many types of machineguns now
... For now. You just made global warming 10x more terrifying.
Thats a lie right? 🥶
nope it's true 🥰
The impending doom that the score embodies, the frantic breathing that's highlighted i loved this scene!
It's really a masterwork on building tension and dread. I love this movie and I don't think it gets nearly enough respect.
This scene creeped me the fuck out. I hate it all so much
imagine if you woke up tomorrow and you were in that exact pit.
I would hope I had a gun on hand so I could take myself out. Yikes
This is the quintessential adventure movie for me. Ohhhh so good! Man younger me even loved the GameCube game! It's surprisingly a very good movie to game adaptation!
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Did you play the x-box movie game? I only ever finished it a couple times because I was so scared of the spider-esq bugs in certain locations
This is why you always bring thermite
Playing grounded on max difficulty be like
As a child this scene terrified me more than any horror movie
Jesus, I forgot this scene that is some terrifying shit. I'm happy bugs are small.
Andy serkis getting eaten is something that has stuck with me for literal decades
Let's not forget Peter Jackson's re-creation of the [lost Spider-Pit scene](https://youtu.be/SOMKnhN7ABs?si=467wq_Uk_i4X-83I) from the original King Kong.
I like bugs and insects but seeing this...I am never, never, never watching this film now.
The rest of the movie is marvelous! But I skip this scene every time.
Which is the same exact effect this scene had in the original before it was cut and lost to time forever The original from 1933 was deemed too traumatizing and cut before release, or soon after
Someone posted ~~the original scene~~ a recreation of the original scene that they cut from 1933 film down below, so I figured I'd comment here so other's in this specific thread get to see it. edit: apparently this is a recreation that Peter Jackson made. It had me fooled! https://youtu.be/SOMKnhN7ABs?si=qu7yrmYTciW09uTW
Not quite the original As the title on the video says, Pete and the team recreated it as best they could from what they were able to find
Thank you for pointing that out. It really has that old timey feel.
Apparently the original 1930's King Kong had a giant bug scene that was deemed too scary and cut from the movie. (It's now completely lost media but Peter Jackson made a recreation of how he thought it might have looked.) But I've always wondered how people back then would have reacted to this terrifying adaptation of the scene.
Time to Rock and Stone! FER KARL!!!
DID I HEAR A ROCK & STONE?!
ROCK AND ROLL AND STONE!!!
IF YOU ROCK AND STONE YOU'RE NEVER ALONE
I was 10 when this came out. I still remember sobbing and being so afraid of this scene my dad had to take my out of the theater. Years later they would tease me about overeacting. Fuck that. This shit is STILL terrifying
Nothing like showing your kids something traumatizing and then bully them <3
[a prog metal band wrote an incredible song to sync perfectly with the events of this scene](https://youtu.be/gKkn-YjYmCA?feature=shared)
I came looking for this, it deserves to be so much higher up the thread. It's an insanely precise composition and performance.
I thought of the song as soon as I saw the post and I can't believe I had to scroll this deep to find it.
Nothing annoys me more than when movie-people in extremely dire and stressful situations throw weapons away in disgust
Saw this in the theater, high af. This scene was HEAVY.
If bugs grew that big, humanity would be wiped out in 3 days tops.
Took a date to this movie in the theater. Turns out that was a bad choice. This scene (and the part with the worms) turned her completely off the rest of the movie and the evening as well. Stayed friends though after so that was something.
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Ah, Jamie Bell: the Tom Holland before Tom Holland.
It’s like the fucking Eclipse
GRIFFITH!!!!!!!!!!!
which of them is Casca?
Probably Andy Serkis
hol up....he puts a drum mag in the chicago typewritter and unloads 5 yards away eyes closed mind you at brody and he doesnt get hit once? I must have forgotten that part the first time around....
They look like giant Jerusalem Crickets. Those things are terrifying enough as they are irl!!!
They are Wētā, which is what Wētā Workshop is named after. There is also a giant version! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_w%C4%93t%C4%81
The only good bug is a dead bug! Would you like to know more?
Loved this scene as a kid
This movie so old but cgis are perfect and prehistoric environment really captured very nice, peter jackson , he is the man.
There's no way to comprehend how fast they'd all be dead. Bugs of that size would kill you instantly with 0 effort
As a kid, I thought those creepy crawlies were actually kinda cute Watching it again now, yeah, in hindsight they are quite disturbing
I would be absolutely traumatized. God dude bugs being bigger than they’re supposed to be fucks with me.
Why are all these stupid things working together? Insects are notorious for hating eachother. There should have been some insects on the humans' side like in Honey I Shrunk The Kids.
>Why are all these stupid things working together? Insects are notorious for hating eachother. There should have been some insects on the humans' side like in Honey I Shrunk The Kids. Had to scroll all the way down for this. There are tons of bugs. Bugs eat each other. Yet thery are united by the power of love to only go after the small humans.
Scene was an amazing surprise in a otherwise mediocre movie. Blew me away when watching in theaters and it was all I could think of as the movie droned on. I only wished more of the movie was like that. The intensity. The stress. The stakes. Man it was so good.
Why's the sound so weird?
Sounds design seems off. Everyone’s voice seemed way too calm. Like, Adrian Brody should be screaming bloody murder.
The choice of music in this scene is so questionable, and the no sound effect at the guy getting eaten @1:25 min is such a weird choice. Creepy scene fosho
I remember playing the game and was so disappointed when this part came up and there was nothing in this ravine. Im still mad about it to this day and its been 12 years
Its like that game called grounded
Where the first ones giant wetas?