Okay so, Masters of Horror is an anthology tv show. Each episode is done by a classic horror director. I want to watch all of these. There's a Takashi Miike one at the end of season 1.
Incident On and Off a Mountain Road was done by the guy who did Bubba Ho-Tep. Which explains why its not very good.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Trick 'R Treat (2008)
A movie made by a comic book movie writer (Michael Dougherty of X-Men credit) has very heavy comic book influences. Shocking, I know. Intertwining plot threads and just goofy halloween fun. It is literally the closest thing we are going to get to a new Goosebumps movie, even more so than the first 20 minutes of Cirque du Freak. So goofy. Also, there is a werewolf transformation that alone is worth watching the entire 82 minutes of the film's length. I wish more goofy horror movies had the integrity that Trick 'r Treat has. I would be way less embarrassed about talking about horror films, thats for sure.
Drag Me To Hell (2009)
Sincerely the funniest and scariest movie i've seen since i started this blog. I literally screamed and laughed out loud in parts. i don't do that during films. Drag Me To Hell is Sam Raimi at his absolute finest, an Evil Dead 2 caliber work.
The Thing (1982)
John Carpenter was a genius and this is definitely opus-esque. Deals with suspension and tension in an amazing way and really makes you feel like you yourself are trapped and vulnerable. Apparently, it was critically panned at release for being too reliant on gore but honestly thats completely ridiculous. Maybe its just the intervening 30 years of horror tinting my view, but the films ability to show the level of gore that it does and still have it create emotion besides 'grossssssssss' is admirable.
Funny Games (1997/2007)
Does this count? I guess if Eraserhead and Antichrist do, it does. And those are the most apt comparisons. This film, and its 10-year-later english-language shot-for-shot remake, are startling, impressive, violent, and poignant. And good. Really, really good. If you want to watch an amazing film that dissembles your expectations and then insults you for expecting things, watch this. Violent by not being violent. Profane by not being profane. Disgusting by not being disgusting. This movie is the antithesis of Hostel while still making the same general point. Really, really, REALLY, really good
Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
Okay, full disclosure: I am a sucker for campy horror movies (huge surprise), musicals, the mall goth aesthetic (which is a subset of campy horror i guess), and Anthony Stewart Head. This movie was like engineered to appeal to me. It, however, is not really a good movie. Like, if you hate this movie, i completely understand. I'd probably actually encourage you to keep hating it. But I loved it. I had some of the songs stuck in my head afterwards. I think they could have capitalized on the setting and fringe characters a lot more, seeing as those things were like a billion times more interesting than the actual plot. The music was clearly "rock opera" and not "musical" and i think that harmed its execution re: seemed forced a lot of the time. It is kind of the epitome of "fat goth girl who really likes Rocky Horror and Dresden Dolls and wears pink/black gloves all the time." Again, though, in spite, or because, of that, I loved it. Anthony Head was miscast.
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