Favorite Giallo

This is hard, I really all of Argento's Giallos. Tenebre is my Favorite Argento Giallo but I think Sergio Martino is great as well. I love Torso and Your Vice is a Locked Room

I am going to say Your Vice, Edwige is smoking hot and the Black Cat references are great.

#edwigefenechgiallo

Your favourite lairs

Every bad ass has a place they call home. Here are some of my favourites;

Nosferatu — That grand gothic castle on the rocky cliff with minimalist taste in decor in the vast curved concrete walled rooms and stairwells that perfectly distort his shadow. Not exactly what I'd call homely.

Alien Queen — you're walking through the vast corridors of a stark man made facility with monochrome hard angles and it gradually morphs into a more organic moulded structure that deceivingly looks part of the original architecture. This "secreted resin" is a sign that you must turn your ass around and get the hell outta there. Instead you keep moving and come across an illuminated mist hovering over hundreds of eggs. What the hell is laying these things? Oh...

Freddy Krueger — the boiler room that a lot of victims seem to find their way into during a nightmare no matter where they start out. It seems to be endless and has many dead ends to trap you in.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre — chicken feathers (eek!), bones (both animal and human), hooks and a cooler to keep your victims docile until your ready for them.

The Human Centipede — this is quite a beautiful house if not for the goings on inside. It's very minimalist, has everything in it's right place and is set in a nice remote area. Dimly lit but cold and clinical like it's owner.

The Silence of the Lambs — the best lair of them all. An innocuous, working class house in small town America with the labyrinth of hell lying underneath. The well, the sewing room, the moths (oh God I hate moths!) and the work in progress in case you were unsure of what his motives were. You think it can't get any more fucking terrifying and then he turns the lights out.


What are some of your favourites?

Review: The Addiction (1995)

Myths do not die, they just get transformed. Today I talk about The Addiction. And so ends this most interesting film, vampirism is transplanted to a harsh modern urban setting as a metaphor for addiction, religion and redemption. The vampire legend, that is so rich in metaphor and symbolism, has never been treated with such intellectual depth and bitting social criticism. The modern vampire subgenre in my opinion works best in real harsh urban environments, with limited action scenes, that relies more on existentialism. I feel vampire movies are dime a dozen and offer little in the way of originality and imagination so it is always refreshing to me to see a vampire flick that attempts to bring new ideas into the exhausted sub-genre. The Addiction has all this and more!

Kathleen Conklin (played by Lili Taylor), a New York University grad student, is bitten one night by a female vampire (Annabella Sciorra), from there she emerges with a new found pessimistic views of society and the world, from which she drew from her years as a philosophy student. She has this uncontrollable and insatiable craving for human blood - an addiction. Cinematographed in glorious black-and-white and the brilliant use of New York City gives it some resemblances to Taxi Driver - that wonderful grittiness, that inner turmoil, but as a vampire film. The scenes of the murders, such as the party for the grad school committee is pretty unsettling because the film appears so realistic. It doesn't rely on too much gore or special effects, which just proves that great storytelling is not reliant on special effects.

The wonderful black-and-white cinematography really added to the brooding and gritty tone, as did the excellent performance by Lili Taylor, who gives an absorbing performance as the brooding, articulate and haunting grad student turned vampire, Kathleen Conklin. Christopher Walken is excellent as usual as the wise and weary vampire-cum-mentor. Nicholas St. John is responsible for concocting one of the most orginal screenplays on vampirism in the last 30 years. Abel Ferrara is the conductor who is accountable for bringing us this unusual vampire tale where it is rare for philosophy and horror to collide but they collide to great effect. Ken Kelsch's gorgeous black and white photography is is a key element in the plot and is worth applauding. Also, there is great use of Cypress Hill's "I Wanna Get High", which is heard a few times during the film .

It might not be everybody's cup of tea. The intellectual philosophic tone and the many philosophical-musings might be considered pretentious to some but it can really grow on the viewer with time. A highly moody piece of filmmaking that is so disturbing and realistic, that it almost feels like a documentary at times. Vampirism as a metaphor for addiction. I recommend this movie to everybody I know at any opportunity I can. It is one not to be missed just for the its pure originality and its attempts to bring new ideas into the exhausted sub-genre. My favorite vampire flick. 9
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Review: The Mothman Prophecies (2002)

https://imgix.ranker.com/list_img_v2/16886/396886/original/full-cast-of-the-mothman-prophecies-actors-and-actresses-u4?w=817&h=427&fm=jpg&q=50&fit=crop I am fully aware that The Mothman Prophecies divides opinions among fans of the horror genre. That is not even taken into consideration whether people believe these events occured or not. It is just one of these films. I first seen The Mothman Prophecies ten years ago - late night on TV. I had never even heard of it before. It was just by mere luck that I stumbled upon it that night. I was just transfixed by it and the fact that it was inspired by true events made it even the more awe-inspiring. It was actually the legend of The Mothman that ignited an interest in the paranormal for me. I subsequently read all the books about the events that inspired this film.

John Klein (played by Richard Gere) is a Washington Post reporter who loses the love of his life, Mary (played by Debra Messing). Two years have passed since her death and he is still trying to come to terms with the loss of his wife. He is drawn to the sleepy town of Point Pleasant where the residents are plagued by strange sightings and events that have cursed them for the better part of a year which builds to the distressing climax. This is a slow atmospheric moody movie. The film is like a melting pot of different genres, from drama to mystery to thriller to horror. Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Will Patton and Debra Messing put in strong performances here. The whole film feels like an episode of The X-Files and why wouldn't it? This is the kind of stories that made The X-Files so popular. It stands out from the crowd in that it offers something different to the horror goer, more profound and existential.

It really is a well made film with excellent cinematography and special effects. The sound, feel and touch of the film is eerie and spellbinding. It has many 'spine-tingler' moments that will keep the most demanding horror goer on the edge-of-their-seat. It is a beast of a movie. I guess the reason it is so misunderstood is that they want a conclusion, something to tie up with a little bow and bury in the backyard but that doesn't always have to be, in fact, what you don't understand is often more terrifying.

Officer Gucci, in Silent Hill

I don't know anything about the SH video games, but I really like the first Silent Hill movie. Officer Gucci is the male police officer, played by Kim Coates. He comes across as more of a sheriff type of character than a cop. He's the guy who Sean Bean talks to, in several scenes.

Anyway, at one point in the movie, Gucci is talking to the Sean Bean character, and he says something like "go back to your warm bed, and your normal life, and let me deal with this town, and what has gone on here for the last thirty years." That was just a quick line, but it's really evocative. It makes me wonder what other events could have happened there over the years. Maybe other people had come searching for long lost friends and relatives. Maybe there were other monsters that we never see in the movie, lurking in the local forests, terrorizing local people. There could be all kinds of backstory mythology, characters we only see quickly in the movie... all kinds of things. That could make a pretty cool movie compiled of related short films... sort of like Creepshow, or V/H/S, but all the short segments would have something to do with Silent Hill. Or, hey, it could be a pretty scary anthology of short stories in print! Or Creepypastas... there are a lot of things that could be done with the SH universe. But, I just wanted to say, the Officer Gucci character was kind of cool, and it would be interesting to see more stories relating to Silent Hill from his perspective.

Swearing

Jonathan Pie ranting about swearing bans & fucking liberals

The Handmaid's Tale

Anyone watch this?

Just finished the series. I love this show.

Under his eye.

Blood Drive




SyFy fully embraces the fact that they are only capable of schlock.

the first episode was a lot of fun. not sure how sustainable it will be.

New Video: Walmart Hell

Halfway through 2017 your best and worst watch

Regardless of film's year released.

Best :

Worst :

But let's exclude 1 semi-decent gory scene.