not so scary horror movies
I'm still having some difficulties writing these journal entries, because mozilla doesn't seem to be too compatible with LJ... anyways, thanks to that, i finally got around to typing longer replies to some mails...
however, on to today's topic:
i watched ring zero and cube two days ago. a friend, nicole, said that cube was so scary she only watched it once with her eyes closed most of the time. now, here i was expecting to see some serious splatter brain-snippets-flying-around-stuff, but no. should have read the booklet first: horror-psycho-thriller. so there were these different people (cop, doctor, student, office worker, criminal and mentally challenged person who in the end turns out to be a math genius), all locked in this cubic-room-structure-thingy. in every wall, there's a door that leads to another cubic room (so there are 6 possible ways to go from each room) and hey, all the small rooms add up to one big 135m x 135m x 135m cube. hence the title. so, the horror comes along whenever they get into a room with a trap (which, i admit, are quite inventive, such as a big sushi-sashimi-machine or acid or big horrible spikes that slide out of the wall when they receive an acoustic signal). the psycho-thriller kicks in whenever a member of the group cracks and accuses someone else of being responsible for that mess. (they sometimes get really brutal, i think more people die because they're killed by humans, not machines...) so - i'm thinking this movie has some potential, and the mathematic codes with permutations and all bring a certain amount of intellect into the system... and then it ends and the point of the cube is... there is no point! wtf?!!
hm. maybe it would have been more effective if I had watched it at night, the sunshine outside seems kinda contra-productive...
anyways, ring zero in japanese with german subtitles was all i had hoped for. i watched ring (1) some years ago (japanese original, mind you, not that crappy hollywood remake) and i had felt really bad about Sadako, even though she caused such a horrible deaths, because everything hinted at the fact that she really just wanted to be loved/accepted/not forgotten/whatever. so ring zero is altogether about Sadako's history, who she was, her motives and how she ended up dead and cursed. horrible and tragic and sad it is. some things are not fully explained, but here it doesn't feel that everything should be, because the mystery is not to be solved by neither characters nor audience. the real horror was the soundtrack with the most uncomfortable metallic screeching sounds i have ever heard in my life... the lighting was good, too. many shadows and only glimpses at the corpses' twisted faces and bodies (leaving many things to imagination, which can be much more thrilling than seeing peoples' body parts lying around in pool of blood and gore). many creepy images from the video in ring (1) reoccur in ring zero, e.g. her mother's face in the mirror, the sea, the old well... and the evil-posessed-Sadako-walk-across-the-tatami-floor, that is all twitchy and jerky and just looks soooooooo inhuman! but all-in-all, the movie does not leave you with a spooky felling in your stomach, rather with sympathy and sadness. the title song is perfomed by Hyde from the japanese band L'arc-en-ciel.
that's it i guess. but before i forget: another video clip from the Potter Puppet Pals - "Bothering Snape".
however, on to today's topic:
i watched ring zero and cube two days ago. a friend, nicole, said that cube was so scary she only watched it once with her eyes closed most of the time. now, here i was expecting to see some serious splatter brain-snippets-flying-around-stuff, but no. should have read the booklet first: horror-psycho-thriller. so there were these different people (cop, doctor, student, office worker, criminal and mentally challenged person who in the end turns out to be a math genius), all locked in this cubic-room-structure-thingy. in every wall, there's a door that leads to another cubic room (so there are 6 possible ways to go from each room) and hey, all the small rooms add up to one big 135m x 135m x 135m cube. hence the title. so, the horror comes along whenever they get into a room with a trap (which, i admit, are quite inventive, such as a big sushi-sashimi-machine or acid or big horrible spikes that slide out of the wall when they receive an acoustic signal). the psycho-thriller kicks in whenever a member of the group cracks and accuses someone else of being responsible for that mess. (they sometimes get really brutal, i think more people die because they're killed by humans, not machines...) so - i'm thinking this movie has some potential, and the mathematic codes with permutations and all bring a certain amount of intellect into the system... and then it ends and the point of the cube is... there is no point! wtf?!!
hm. maybe it would have been more effective if I had watched it at night, the sunshine outside seems kinda contra-productive...
anyways, ring zero in japanese with german subtitles was all i had hoped for. i watched ring (1) some years ago (japanese original, mind you, not that crappy hollywood remake) and i had felt really bad about Sadako, even though she caused such a horrible deaths, because everything hinted at the fact that she really just wanted to be loved/accepted/not forgotten/whatever. so ring zero is altogether about Sadako's history, who she was, her motives and how she ended up dead and cursed. horrible and tragic and sad it is. some things are not fully explained, but here it doesn't feel that everything should be, because the mystery is not to be solved by neither characters nor audience. the real horror was the soundtrack with the most uncomfortable metallic screeching sounds i have ever heard in my life... the lighting was good, too. many shadows and only glimpses at the corpses' twisted faces and bodies (leaving many things to imagination, which can be much more thrilling than seeing peoples' body parts lying around in pool of blood and gore). many creepy images from the video in ring (1) reoccur in ring zero, e.g. her mother's face in the mirror, the sea, the old well... and the evil-posessed-Sadako-walk-across-the-tatami-floor, that is all twitchy and jerky and just looks soooooooo inhuman! but all-in-all, the movie does not leave you with a spooky felling in your stomach, rather with sympathy and sadness. the title song is perfomed by Hyde from the japanese band L'arc-en-ciel.
that's it i guess. but before i forget: another video clip from the Potter Puppet Pals - "Bothering Snape".