Remember when Shakespeare in Love beat Saving Private Ryan for Best Picture at the Oscars? That was pretty fucking crazy, wasn’t it?
I bring this up because, inspired by the completion of Ken Burns’ The War, I just watched the Omaha Beach sequence of Saving Private Ryan and marveled once again at how frightening it is.
What other movies have intensely scary openings? The two that jump to mind are the Dawn of the Dead remake and 28 Weeks Later, but obviously there are others that I’m missing.