Writer's Block: Fright Show
Aw yes, horror movies. My bread and butter. ^^ I'm hard pressed to pick a favorite. The Evil Dead is a good one, though I actually prefer Evil Dead 2 and Army Of Darkness. Those two have a lot more impressive in terms of character changes in Ash. In the first one, he's kinda whiny and wussy, I'll be honest. Then in the second one we see that change into the awesome Dead hunter we all know and love. Then the third one has the ridiculously over-the-top moments that make it so wonderful. Also like SAW. It was a very interesting premise, amazingly executed by two newcomers who clearly had a love for the genre. Not to mention the fantastic acting of Cary Elwes and Leigh Whannell. They had amazing chemistry, and managed to turn these characters who were supposed to be bastards into people we could empathize with. I never really got into the others' in the series, though. Of course I ADORE George Romero's Dead series. Especially the somewhat forgotten Land Of The Dead. It was fun to see the environment change into a apocalyptic future. Also adored the characters, which is what often draws me into a movie. Great chemistry between John Leguizamo's Cholo and Simon Baker's Riley. I was devastated when Cholo died, though. T_T It took me a while to really appreciate the Hostel series. At first I thought it was mindless, then I watched it again and really liked Jay Hernandez's Paxton. Halloween both the remake and original I enjoyed mostly for their use of music. Especially in the original, it was far less terrifying to watch in mute. Rob Zombie's remake skillfully used the music again, particularly in the scene where a young Michael Myers kills the nurse with a fork. As his mother and Dr Loomis run in, the music builds to a crescendo until you can't hear anyone else. Young Michael is held back by a guard, and when his mother nears him he screams at her, eyes wild. The image freezes, and the music cuts entirely. It truely marks the rebirth of Michael Myers, the very moment when he became a psychopath. Also, he never says another word the rest of the movie. And as for Mr Zombie, his first movie House Of 1000 Corpses and it's sequel The Devil's Rejects blew me away. The first gives us an introduction to the Firefly family and their deranged ways, giving us the sickest "family" since the Hewitt's. The second really intrigued me. It was focused entirely on the Fireflys as they flee from the cops, and by the end of it I found myself actually ROOTING for them! Even aside from the murder, torture and whatnot, we see that, in their own fucked up way, they loved each other. Again, in their own fucked up way. I was so amazed at how Rob Zombie could take antagonists and turn them into protagonists.
I could ramble on for hours about horror movies (I've been subscribing to Fangoria for about five years now) but I'll just cut it short and make a few more suggestions:
Thir13en Ghosts
The Thing
The After Dark Horrorfest series (though I haven't seen the recent six movies, and fuck Unrest that movie's crap)
Ginger Snaps
Shaun Of The Dead (while not technically horror, it's made by two zombie movie fanboys and is HILARIOUS!)
Last of all, for those of you looking for a new scary series, check out Supernatural. That show is soooo incredible. It's the first show to scare me since the early days of The X-Files, and the Winchester brothers, Dean and Sam (played by Jensen Ackles and Jared Padelecki respectively) are soooo HOT- I mean.....um.....good at what they do. ^^ It delves into every kind of horror, from ghosts to demons to things I've never even heard of, and also has a sense of humor. They even did an ep recently that was all in black and white, took place in a town that looked like a European village, and featured Dracula, the Wolf Man and the Mummy. I fangirl-squealed myself to death!
Anyway, I could easily make more suggestions, I'm already listing a bunch in my head, but I'll stop here. *sigh* Maybe one day I'll write a book or something on horror movies. Based on this ramble, you guys would read that, right?
I could ramble on for hours about horror movies (I've been subscribing to Fangoria for about five years now) but I'll just cut it short and make a few more suggestions:
Thir13en Ghosts
The Thing
The After Dark Horrorfest series (though I haven't seen the recent six movies, and fuck Unrest that movie's crap)
Ginger Snaps
Shaun Of The Dead (while not technically horror, it's made by two zombie movie fanboys and is HILARIOUS!)
Last of all, for those of you looking for a new scary series, check out Supernatural. That show is soooo incredible. It's the first show to scare me since the early days of The X-Files, and the Winchester brothers, Dean and Sam (played by Jensen Ackles and Jared Padelecki respectively) are soooo HOT- I mean.....um.....good at what they do. ^^ It delves into every kind of horror, from ghosts to demons to things I've never even heard of, and also has a sense of humor. They even did an ep recently that was all in black and white, took place in a town that looked like a European village, and featured Dracula, the Wolf Man and the Mummy. I fangirl-squealed myself to death!
Anyway, I could easily make more suggestions, I'm already listing a bunch in my head, but I'll stop here. *sigh* Maybe one day I'll write a book or something on horror movies. Based on this ramble, you guys would read that, right?