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Old 10-10-2015   #1
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About that last movie: It's in German, so you will need to click the CC button to get the English subtitles.
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More documentaries I watched these last few days: Dark Star: H.R. Giger's World (2014) by Belinda Sallin and Mondovino (2004) and Natural Resistance (2014) by Jonathan Nossiter.
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Not a recommendation but...

CRIMSON PEAK

You may have heard Del Toro talking about how he does more commercial films to fund his personal projects (apparently the 3 Spanish language ones) and how he absolutely despises making compromises on films he's directing. Pan's Labyrinth was nearly a decade ago, so I thought this might be one of his passion projects. After seeing it I'd be shocked if it was because it feels very compromised.

The plot could have been serviceable but there's so many clichés layed on and things that stand out as quite silly (the father insisting his daughter have her heart broken, the spoon scraping really loudly against the plates in an attempt to increase tension).

Normally Del Toro's films use cgi far better than most but here you'd think they had a large quota to meet because it's used so many times unnecessarily. I constantly have this complaint but here I'm really surprised by the sheer amount of bad judgements. Most of the ghost appearances are far more cgi than they are actors/makeup/wax/plastic creations and it ends up looking too videogamey.
I'm less sure about the dog because I was struggling to guess when it was real but it often seemed like it was moving too fast and seemed fake when it barked and yawned. They must have wanted the scenes timed precisely with the dog's actions but it wasn't worth it looking that unnatural (again, I'm not totally sure but it often looked false to me).

Various serious injuries didn't do remotely realistic damage.

It also seemed like it was partially tailored to Tom Hiddleston fans.

What I actually liked was predictable: the set designs, the costumes, scenery, great colors and Mia Wasikowska looking great. The English mansion looked particularly good and the details about the winds was one of the few nice evocative things in the story. Not so different from what I take from gothic Hammer and Corman films.

I hope Del Toro makes plenty of self-indulgent films soon and leaves At The Mountains Of Madness well alone(the script looks bad, the budget will probably ensure crappy elements and Lovecraft is doing just fine), Frankenstein too.

At the cinema there was a bunch of bad trailers with varying amounts of horror and the overall effect was very bleak.
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15 'Alternative' Horror Films for October:

1. Blood Rain, South Korea, 2005
Hyeol-eui-noo (2005) - IMDb

2. Freeze Me, Japan, 2000
Freeze Me (2000) - IMDb

3. Dead Birds, USA, 2004
Dead Birds (2004) - IMDb

4. Rampo Noir, Japan, 2005
Ranpo jigoku (2005) - IMDb

5. Red Shoes, South Korea, 2005
The Red Shoes (2005) - IMDb

6. The Inugamis, Japan, 1976
Inugami-ke no ichizoku (1976) - IMDb

7. Deja vu, Yugoslavia, 1987
Vec vidjeno (1987) - IMDb

8. Variola Vera, Yugoslavia, 1982
Variola vera (1982) - IMDb

9. Ljudozder Vegeterijanac, Croatia, 2012
Ljudozder vegetarijanac (2012) - IMDb

10. The Life and Death of a Porno Gang, 2009, Serbia
Zivot i smrt porno bande (2009) - IMDb

11. The Killers, Indonesia, 2014
Killers (2014) - IMDb

12. Sweet Whip, Japan, 2013
Amai muchi (2013) - IMDb

13. De vierde man, Netherlands, 1983
The 4th Man (1983) - IMDb

14. Miss Violence, Greece, 2013
Miss Violence (2013) - IMDb

15. O Barão, Portugal, 2011
O Barão (2011) - IMDb
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Thank you for this list, Coa. Some interesting choices - most of them previously unknown to me - from the two areas of film that have come to interest me most: Independent movies and those from Asia.

The only one from your list that I'd seen is The Red Shoes, South Korea, 2005. Not one of my favourites, but an effective horror. And I've recently watched and enjoyed Dead Birds, USA, 2004, which is an attractively old-fashioned horror period piece set against the American Civil War.

I'll probably be getting Blood Rain, South Korea, 2005. But not The Life and Death of a Porno Gang, 2009, Serbia. This came out a year before the infamous A Serbian Film (2010). I admit I don't have the stomach for these films; but just possibly I might be able to watch Rampo Noir, Japan, 2005 (I certainly think I need to collect some more of Edogawa Rampo's stories.)

Equally disturbing (more, as it's based on fact) is The Girl Next Door (2007) (2007). This account of the horrific abuse of a young girl by her foster-mother, who encouraged her sons to torture the girl was remade the same year as An American Crime (2007), the remake said to be more accurate. Both these films are currently on YouTube, and I've watched the first (I don't think I'll ever watch it again). The second version is blocked in this country.

On a lighter note, I wonder if Lucky McKee's May (2002) has been mentioned here? Probably (the title is too short for this site's search-engine). "When you can't find any friends, make your own." Angela Bettis is marvelous in this slow-burning horror thriller about a young woman traumatized during childhood and trying to connect to others around her. Much better than McKee's more recent The Woods (2006).

Biggest surprise for me came from indie-horror Spring (2014) which has definitely found a place in my film library. It has been mentioned here before: Spring at TLO. I loved this film, and it really is one you can watch again.
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Amazon.com: The Boy: David Morse, Rainn Wilson, Jared Breeze, Bill Sage: Amazon Digital Services , Inc.
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This is the most gut depressing, disturbing, hold-your-head-underwater- movie I've seen in years. One impartially watches the budding of a sociopathic killer. It is sickeningly effective
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"Oh what a day, what a lovely day!"

“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.”
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This past Halloween I watched the movie They Live. I found it entertaining.

From Wikipedia: "They Live is a 1988 American satirical science fiction action horror film written and directed by John Carpenter. The film stars Roddy Piper, Keith David and Meg Foster. It follows a nameless drifter (called "John Nada" in the credits), who discovers the ruling class are in fact aliens concealing their appearance and manipulating people to spend money, breed, and accept the status quo with subliminal messages in mass media."
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Cool Air (1999), another cool Lovecraft adaptation.


The director, Bryan Moore, is filming The Shadow Over Innsmouth as we speak.

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Your fall should be like the fall of mountains. But I was before mountains. I was in the beginning, and shall be forever. The first and the last. The world come full circle. I am not the wheel. I am the hand that turns the wheel. I am Time, the Destroyer. I was the wind and the stars before this. Before planets. Before heaven and hell. And when all is done, I will be wind again, to blow this world as dust back into endless space. To me the coming and going of Man is as nothing.
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