The hotel scene from the first book is something I was suprised never made it into the movie. That was literally the scariest part of the book to me as a kid.
@@cinematicpassages8884 It was a book originally, and leans way more into the horror aspect of the story. Not to mention the second book, Lost World, would have made a way better movie if they adapted it one to one. It probably would have been 3 hours long, but it would have been amazing.
A really cool element is when Dr. Hammond tells Alan and Ellie that they have a T-Rex. They get extremely excited and have to take in the fact that one of their childhood favorite dino's has come to life but in reality that fact will soon come to haunt them.
I'd argue it has more elements of horror than the movie at times. Less people survive by the end in that version and there's more talked about these creatures that is used for horror later.
I tell people to read the book but skip the first 182 pages unless you want to learn how to clone your own dinosaur because holy Hell it walks you through every single step. As long as you have seen the movie you're good, this is where the T-Rex attack happens and things take off.
@Grayson Owens i agree...now steve is like NAH, I'LL BE FINE (in critical drinker's voice)...and proceeds to send a whole scene to the cgi department. 🙄. So dissapointing.
@Grayson Owens yeah...at least Martin Scorsese tries a little bit harder to get closer to his glory days but steven is so bland right now...west side story? REALLY?
they first tried really hard to do it in claymation but settled on CGI, so it was on the bleeding edge of CGI, which is amazing how it still holds up today.
In the case of Robert Muldoon’s death, I love how in the beginning Alan grant tells the little kid how raptors hunt, you see the first staring you down and expect to get charged in the forward direction, but since you were so focused you never knew there was a second raptor that attacked your side. Which is exactly what happened to Muldoon, and knowing this in the beginning, the audience can watch in anticipation since the guy that claims to know everything about raptors is surprised by their hunting behaviors
I never thought of it as a horror movie. I would watch it as little kid over and over and was never afraid. Definitely more of an adventure film than horror.
Funny, this movie came out 1 year before I was born and I've been watching it since, at least 20 times a year. I quote: "Jurassic Park was the only movie to shut you up as a baby. It was 2 hours of peace and quiet." - My mother.
The T-Rex attack was one of those sequences that left an impression on me growing up. This and the raptors in the kitchen have yet to be topped in the franchise.
Ikr. Nothing beats the first film. Funny thing is, JWFK started out great with that... old JP horror scene feel, but then turned into pretty much the worst. Hopefully not just so far; hopefully the supposed "grand finale" will be better. Not that, it wasn't a bad movie... It was just poor for Jurassic franchise strandard. Though that degradation kinda started with Jurassic World I'd say. Perhaps even earlier, but World came up with radically different ideas than ever before, and particularly, more CGI than there should have been. And I love the friendly raptors but I equally hate them. Sure they tried to get the emotions out of kids but... it did turn into too much of a kids show. Not to mention how these random genetic "indonesian lizard mixtures" (I mean Indo- things) are capable of breaking a few minor physical laws and are basically turning a dinosaur movie into a godzilla movie... I mean... nothing in the franchise behaves and functions like actual animals anymore?! Gets hit on the leg by a bazooka, falls on its side hitting its head n shit, then it just gets up like nothing happened? Come on... Okay, weapons never worked properly in the franchise, but there wasn't this godzilla-level immortality bs presented before. Creatures should be skilled hunters perhaps, but not immortal. If anything, just uninclude weapons. Have the viewer be terrified, but not say "this is bullsh*t, that thing should be long dead". I mean that's just my opinion but JWFK at least, WAS received badly by some of the folks.
@@hunormagyar1843 I wanted to like Fallen Kingdom but it quickly did devolved into the same issues I had with JW. There are parts in TLW that almost pull off the horror of the original. Most of the characters just aren't that compelling.
It was the dilophosaurus scene, where it attacks Nedry, for me. I was 5 and I remember it vividly. I was shaking and covering my eyes and my dad took out to the lobby and bought me icecream. After s few minutes, I had calmed down and we went back into the theater
@@GumaroRVillamil Aye, a lot of the scary moments for me as a kid were due to the audio. A frilly lil dino looks pretty scary, but add in screechy rattlesnake sounds and you have one of the most terrifying creatures put to film. Recorded "The Making Of Jurassic Park" on the same VHS as the movie since they aired that beforehand the first time they popped the film on TV over here and the amount of work they put into making the sounds the dinosaurs make was both impressive and amazing.
@everyone who replied "duh" : yes it is a *scary* movie, but it clearly hasn't got the vibes of a 90's *horror* film. It combines the techniques of horror with the tropes and general screenplay of an action movie
One of my favorite (paraphrased quotes) from Steven Spielberg is "I believe all movies, especially for children, need a touch of horror. Kids lives are scary. Movies can help them come to terms with that." All of his early, adventure movies have at least one scene that is powerfully coded horror. It's pretty awesome
The title of this video actually surprised me, I always assumed JP was a horror movie. If it isn't, then a lot of horror movies wouldn't actually be horror.
Yeah, I don’t know why people write jaws off as horror but refuse to accept Jurassic Park has horror, is it cause they think only sharks can be scary and dinosaurs are for “little kids” 🤔
@@panos617 He's a pretty good director. I think the issue with Last Jedi was mainly that both johnson and abrams had very different ideas for the directions they wanted to take the story.
I've always thought this...the blend of horror in this movie is akin to Jaws except in Jurassic park the villain isn't just the dinosaurs ... it's also human greed,ego,pride... it's all of these things that ultimately doom most of those who die in this movie...
@@legendary5733 Yes, more faithful novel(s) adaptation in the form of a TV Mini-Series with 2 seasons 10 episodes each, would be just perfect. Here is some of my fan casting: John Krasinski/Alan Grant; Oscar Isaac/Ian Malcolm; ...and I don't know, maybe, Denzel Washington as John Hammond?!?
Yeah we really need a movie about every kid's favorite creature, that those same kids aren't allowed to watch. And the film was plenty faithful. Unlike The Lost World they didn't just gut the story and start over from scratch, they carried over the most important scenes and cut out redundant ones. Every movie is going to toss some material from the book, and in this case, time, money and technology dictated that certain dinosaur episodes get tossed.
@@toddbonny3708 I read Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park long after I watched the first 3 movies and I just fell in love with it instantly. Dont get me wrong, I admire what Spielberg and the whole crew did on that franchise, I really am. It's just when I read the novel(s. I especially love the first one) I never see Spielberg's version in it. It's not just that they cut some pieces of it and simplified it for a mainstream public, no, it's adaptation, I get it, but it's different in tone (books are more serious and grounded), almost all of the characters feel like a different people for me (visually and psychologically), they fates are disparate too. Some people say that differences are minor and not substantial, but not for me, for me they are pretty crucial. Besides, kids already have they JP/JW movies, and no one will take that from them (no one, myself including, ask for a remake but retelling in a slightly different media in the next 5 or 10 years might actually work, I think). P.S. My English is not that great, I know, but I hope I made my point clear.
I’ve always thought this about the first jurassic park it has a very dark and eerie feel in the background I always felt it was Steven Spielberg attempting to try out the horror genre
That is because Michael Crichton wrote JP as a horror, though it wasn't meant to be originally. No one was publishing the book because it was from a perspective of a child
A lot of commenters riffing on Nerdstalgic for assuming people didn't know this was a horror movie. I never thought of it as horror until I saw some comment somewhere else saying it was. The problem is its not packaged as a horror movie. I just thought of it as an action movie with scary moments, like how Indiana Jones is action with some scary moments (although obviously Jurrasic Park leans more heavily into the scary). I think to fans of either Jurassic Park or the horror genre, this is obviously a horror. But to the casual viewer it isnt. Great and insightful video as always!
I watched this movie about a year ago with some of my grandkids who were 12-14 and it scared the piss out of them. I say this because every time it got scary, one of them had to go pee. The movie was paused until they got back.
I don't know who on this planet needs to know that this is horror. I watched this in the cinema when I was 7, and I spent a whole week without crossing the hallway alone at home fearing there would be raptors on the other end.
I used to watch this as little kid and never thought of it as a horror film. I was always thought of it as action/adventure. It was my favorite movie. Never scared me.
NEVER thought of this film as a horror and I STILL DONT. action adventure kids movies back in the day were scary as fuck. but made with a totally different attitude than horror movies like aliens or evil dead etc.
To add: JP uses line orientation as a visual motif. Vertical lines are good and horizontal lines are bad. Horizontal lines: electric fence, trees Ellie jumps over, kitchen counters. It’s why I love the raptor in the pipes/cables shot. It dollies into Ellie after she gets the power back on, a GOOD moment. But it’s a trick and the raptor jumps out.
JP was the first movie I was able to break down the visual motifs in so it holds a special place in my cinephile heart. I could probably spend an hour talking about the colors, lines, shapes, and tones of the opening sequence alone.
JP is why I was terrified of dinosaurs as a kid. Logically, I knew they were extinct, but the JP movies provided that plausible (to kid-me) "what if" scenario. You never know what scientists have cooking up lol!
Don't worry there are no dinosaurs running around although almost every state has ticks and black widow spiders and Asian hornets and Africanized killer bees could be coming to your neighborhood. Also Mexican grey wolves have been added to the southwest forcing coyotes to seek new homes in cities.
Its fascinating really, the difference of what we perceive as "Terror" and "Horror". In its most simplistic definition, we can find out why they differ. Terror is the fear of the abstract, of the unknown. Horror, is the fear of what we understand, of what we know is dangerous to us or those around us. Seeing a swarm of rats eat a person, thats damn horrifying. Hearing something, someone scratching the inside of your closet door, or that shadow that seems to peer inside your room's window...... that terrifying. The difference, in the moment is subtle, but clear from an objective point of view. We can understand a swarm of rats eating something alive. We can understand that the man lost most of his leg in a car accident, leaving a bloody stump. We can understand that the plane crashed and the passengers died. But its what we dont understand, the unknown, that hits different. It makes sense in a way that horror and terror provoke separate emotions, different feelings, seeing as through evolution, knowing what was dangerous was paramount to survival. But not knowing, not being able to understand something, dangerous or not, good or bad, provoked extreme discomfort because of one single trait that all humans ( for the most part) posses. The one thing that makes us *WANT* to know, to understand. Curiosity.
..."Survival Thriller" isn't literally a subgenre of horror? What's a Survival Thriller that ISN'T horror? Heck, isn't "Thriller" just literally "Action Horror"?
Dude, I was thirteen wen saw Jurassic Park (in 1993) at the theaters! Alone, no siblings, friends, only others unknown spectators. In the beginning, It's all wonderful and mesmerizing! But after the power runs out, I grabbed the armchair with force, there was no hands for soda or popcorn, my arms were needed to hold the tension, just like all the others spectators. A mother with two girls with my age where beside me, and the only thing I remember was their crying after the T-Rex scene! The relief in the ending, the sensation of "by god, what's happened?". Until today, is my favorite movie, by hearth!
What? Of course the first one is a horror movie. There are like 10 jump scares from creatures trying to kill you. People get eaten. People die while we pan out from their screams and silhouette's being attacked. Damn dude. Up next: "Boss baby: Not a documentary?!"
it's a fun bright colorful fantasy with some intensely scary scenes, I mean yeah you know what movies scared me also as a kid? The Little Mermaid and The Sword in the Stone, next you will tell me they are also horror movies?
with they years ive started to appreciate the dialogue a lot more.. dinners lunchs, discussions... they have become my favorite parts of the movie. Writings is soo good
Only gripes I have with this movie is that they downgraded the Lawyer from a total badass who brawled with a raptor and survived to tell the story, to a scaredy wimp.
John Hammond was also changed for the worse in my opinion. I get why they changed him in the movie, but the character in the book was more interesting.
Did you ever notice that from the opening sequence of getting the raptor into its paddock to the sequence where Newman steals the embryos from the freezer, the movie is 53 consecutive minutes of exposition? Shows how good a director Spielberg is - almost an hour of exposition and you don't get bored.
I love it when people make the connection with Newman, lol. IIRC there's a scene on Seinfeld where Newman has a dinosaur poster on the wall in his apartment, and I always wondered if that was an intentional reference. Wayne Knight was everywhere in the '90s.
8:43. Those sound effects still drive my imagination to this day. That barking "call for help", and the braying trumpet that follows it are my favorite movie creature calls, bar none. Idc what science says, Deinonichus sounded like that as far as I'm concerned lmao
I recently re-watched this movie with my girlfriend after like 4-5 years without watching. During this watch, I never considered it as a horror movie until this last rewatch. The heavier co side ration on the horror elements on this movie and how it is well interconnected with the plot and the theme portrayed made me appreciate the movie way more!
It may come as a surprise but this is easily my favorite movie of all time. I've missed plans because I happened to catch it on TV and couldn't look away
I already knew this since I was a kid, it’s a PG-13 horror movie that worked. The genre doesn’t necessarily need gore but is effective in some cases. This and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark are good examples of family horror films, I hope we get a sequel to the latter.
Not obvious to me cause it's definitely more action/adventure. Horror? The intent of a horror movie is to frighten. This movie is not frightening or scary in the least. It's action/adventure.
Read the comments many people refuse to accept this movie as horror. Personally I do consider it horror, and to counter the point of the comment above I was scared by this movie and it's sequel, the rest not so much. I saw the second one on theaters and got so frightened that thew the pop corn and soda to the air and it fell all over the back seat row, biggest scare I ever had in movie theater.
I literally watched that movie for the first time just a few days ago and also thought "Man, didn't know this is basically a horror movie!" What a funny coincidence
It is a horror movie, masked behind an adventure movie. It appeals the marvel of the viewer by showing us animal we wanted to see since we were kids, and the shows us how dangerous those wild animals can be. And it does it like a champ. Nevertheless, this soundtrack is one of the only few that brings tears to my eyes every time I listen to it. It's just so nostalgic and well crafted. God, everything about it is so good: story, Cgi, soundtrack, acting... One of the best movies ever made. Period.
I hope that in a few decades they do another adaptation, preferably in miniseries form, that stick to the even darker horror elements of Crichton's novel.
This movie was probably the inspiration for dino crisis in the first place. Really wish they would remake that franchise, similarly to how the new Resident Evil's have been treated.
Dennis Nedry’s death scene was also horror. Even before the Dilophosaurus starts acting aggressive, there is a feeling of dread, as it is first established that Dennis is stranded without a working car and without his glasses. Then just when it seems like Dennis is about to escape, the Dilophosaurus blinds him with its venom then devours him inside the car as he desperately tries to save himself but to no avail
Excellent video, absolutely agree with every word you said. Whenever I need to educate someone on the influence of horror films and the importance of building tension, I compare the last 20 minutes of Friday the 13th with the first apartment scene from Pulp Fiction.
@@jl.7739 that’s fair, he should have known but I guess they needed ‘Dr Grant’ to be the true raptor expert. On the other hand, did Muldoon ever see the raptors hunt as a pack? They were fed by machine and a single raptor dragged a man into his enclosure, so perhaps Muldoon never saw them on their natural element.
Literally jumped back and almost dropped my phone at the clip of the raptor jumping up to the vent. You Literally explained what was going to happen before it happened and the clip didn't have any sound but it still managed to spook me more than most modern horror movies. Guess that really proves your point in the video lol.
It's this kind of understanding of another genre that I think elevated this movie in the same way that an understanding of comedy elevated Get Out and Us from the typical horror thriller to a GREAT one
"Thriller" is inherently "Horror," it's literally a subgenre. Calling something a Thriller with Horror elements is redundant. The Slasher movies are categorized as Thrillers rather than Horrors, aren't they?
thriller is a totally separate genre man, it's like saying drama movies are action movies. thrillers are thrillers, horror is horror, action, drama, comedy etc. Many thrillers are movies about people having intense relationships with maybe a murder or some scenes of suspense. just do a google search or something, as the other guy suggested which you ignored.
@@DruNature Saying Thriller:Horror as Drama:Action is ABSOLUTELY false. I don't care if you agree that thriller is a subgenre of horror or not, your analogy is WAY off.
Part of me wonders if people didn't originally consider JP a horror movie because a lot of audiences were starting to become desensitized to some of the dark edginess that was around in a lot of other movies/shows back then (some of which people dismissing as "just for kids" and were unfortunately not taken seriously, including anything that involved dinosaurs). I was a year-old baby when JP would have been released, and it was released after many people grew up seeing edgy '80s cartoons and movies/shows, along with mature shows like Batman: The Animated Series and Disney's Gargoyles that was advertised as for kids. JP being considered a horror movie now shows how much retrospect helps.
@@TheMovieJourney I was about 6-7 I think when I first watched it. I think that most kids won’t get too scared IF they like dinosaurs. If not, maybe. But as a Dino loving kid, I was just so mesmerized at seeing what a real life dinosaur would look like. It’s a staple of my childhood. If your kids love dinos, then let them try it.
@@ericmay560 yeah I think I watched it when I was around 8-9. But given some of the things my kids have gotten scared of in other movies, I think this will be too much for them right now 😂
This is IMO one of the best Steven Spielberg movies of all time and it's still mighty impressive, even when compared to the newer JW releases... I return to it once every few years then work my way through the sequels. And absolutely love it... 😎👍🏼
I remember being a small child in theaters with my parents and they saw my slide into my seat scared but kept me watching the rest of the movie because I didn't scream. I became a man that day...
It will always be my fav film. It's, in my opinion, the first proper film I ever watched because I loved dinosaurs. I always love going back and watching it.
I just want to say that Jurassic Park is the only movie to ever give me a nightmare. And it did so years after I first saw it. When I was in high school.
Just be glad they never filmed Ray Arnold's death since there was also a leg prop that was also made but got cut due to a hurricane destroying the film set on where Samuel Jackson's death scene was to be filmed.
My 8 year older brother showed this movie to me when I was a small kid. For years I had a dream that a T-rex was walking around our house looking in trying to find me. This is a horror, an amazing horror.
I love the explanation in this and I feel like this type of horror tension building is heading towards to dominion is a prime example of real understanding that the filmmakers have in creating this amazing arc of story that created for all of us. Beautiful ❤️😃
Born in 93 so I didn't see it until 98 just after the lost world released to Vhs but I remember being terrified by the the spitting dinosaur, the opening when the guy gets dragged into the raptor container and the Raptors opening the door to get the kids. I know that definitely stuck with me because I would always check the locks on the door so I'd say it's not a direct horror movie but has enough horror elements to be considered horror
I've often thought the same about robot movies like Terminator - robots are essentially undead creatures - the two are interchangeable, IMO. Especially from something like the last scene in first Terminator: - the flesh is literally ripped off the body and it's only left the endoskeleton (essentially an undead skeleton) - the skeleton seems to move on its own without any life or outside influence - that steady, unrelenting shuffling gait as it chases Sarah Connor - both robots and zombies/skeletons are both stripped of any human emotion or empathy, with one strict goal in mind which overrides all other goals (Terminator: Kill Sarah vs Zombies: Get brains) I love how you can break genre expectations in this way.....so cool. :)
