we watch a lot of horror movies at our place. some classics, some good, some bad. i like "cheesy" bad horror movies. we saw a troma movie (nightmare weekend) that was so awful it was funny! fido was interesting for a zombie movie (i loved the 1950's setting and it's filmed beautifully.) we saw something called "hatchet" that got decent reviews but wasn't that great, although i didn't hate it. i saw the hills have eyes for the first time (the original) and it was pretty good, if not dated.then last night we saw the movie that made me saw ENOUGH. the last house on the left. it's classfied as a horror film, but i don't see how. there's nothing supernatural or weird about it. it's just a movie about a couple hippie girls who are raped & murdered by sadistic prison escapees. it's brutal, but not particually scary. it also tries to be funny at times, especially with the bizarre soundtrack. (nothing like a love ballad after a vicsious rape scene!) there are wacky cops who try to hitch a ride from a black lady (no teeth, of course) driving a truck full of chickens. of course.
i hated it more then i hated this movie.
ok, movie reviews over for now.
I've said it before, Solondz' Happiness was the single worst two hours I've ever spent on a movie. His point seems to always be to decontruct the resolution arc, but there is just so much despair and pointlessness in everything he does. My family could be one of the horror shows he depicts, but he never depicts the complexity of good and bad, and the fact that even monsters seek redemption and have both flawed and valid reasons to keep living.
ReplyDeleteI know he tries to be the antidote to the Underdog Wins! genre, but he goes too far.
Damage is not a death sentence. I hate his movies. I've tried to like them and they're well made. They just suck.
sds- i totally agree. and i love sad bastard movies full of despair! but his are just relentlessly so 100% full of depair, with occasional bouts of "who cares?"
ReplyDeletethey go from painful despair to sort of 'dead inside'.
i don't need happy endings or even resolutions, but there needs to be some complexity.
his movies are just disturbing for the sake of being disturbing.
boring.
try to find the movie "The House by the Cemetary" its one of those 70's horror movies...
ReplyDeleteWe just got Fido from Netflix. Probably will watch it this weekend to cure the cabin fever ala the Shining. You guy should rent 30 days of night. Great flick!
ReplyDeleteI've added 30 dates a night and The House buys the Cemetary (Lucio Fulci) movie to our Netflix.
ReplyDeletethanks for the recommendations