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Originally Posted by tore
It is supposedly the world's spookiest movie, yet I haven't seen it! It's something I'd like to remedy one of these days.  |
From the description, it sounds like they used this as the basis for House on Haunted Hill about 10 years ago. Sounds much better, though. Originals usually are. And I could be off base.
I'll also send in a PM I suppose, but I nominate
Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985)
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Gilliam sometimes refers to this film as the second in his "Trilogy of Imagination" movies, starting with Time Bandits (1981) and ending with The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989).[1] All are about the "craziness of our awkwardly ordered society and the desire to escape it through whatever means possible."[1] All three movies focus on these struggles and attempts to escape them through imagination—Time Bandits, through the eyes of a child, Brazil, through the eyes of a man in his thirties, and Munchausen, through the eyes of an elderly man.
Gilliam has stated that Brazil was inspired by George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four—which he has admitted never having read[6]—but is written from today's perspective rather than looking to the future as Orwell did. In Gilliam's words, his film was "the Nineteen Eighty-Four for 1984."
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Dystopian satire, they say. Terry Gilliam amazes at times... from subtleties snuck in, to whole stage designs.