The plan is to watch 31 Horror films during the month of October, ideally one a day but it's going to work out to none one day and three another etc. I've only finished 2 so far and it's the 5th already. For Shame!
Oct. 2nd Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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I had heard lots about this film and had always wanted to see it but had never gotten around to it. If you're unfamiliar with what exactly it is I'll give you a quick outline. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a cult musical homage to B-Science Fiction and Horror films based on the stage of the (almost) same name. It's also pretty fuckin' sexual or even, if I dare, Transylvanian Tran-Sexual (forgive me lord). That being said it's had the longest running theatrical release of any movie (midnight or otherwise) with 35, yep 35, years in limited release. Screenings are big events with fans dressing up as characters and interacting with the film itself. To alot of people I guess you could say that RHPS is a pretty big deal and really after watching it I'd say it deserves the love.
Pictured above is Riff-Raff, played by writer Richard O'Brien, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is his baby. He plays the Riff-Raff character to a T and it really blows my mind that this dude wrote all those songs and the plot and the dialogue, I can only imagine it was a massive undertaking, dude's got heart. I had heard mixed things about the film some people love it some people hate it. Most recently I had heard from my friends that they had tried to watch it one day and they all kinda got creeped out and turned it off, causing them to deem the only people who like the movie "girls and gay dudes". Fast forward a little while and it's ~*~*MY GIRLFRIEND'S*~*~ favourite film, She had been trying to get me to watch it for a few days and I was never really in the mood for it until one lazy hungover afternoon. We chucked it on and from the opening song I was pretty sure I was going to enjoy it. And enjoy it I did.
The film follows a newly engaged puritan couple named Brad and Janet on a sexual odyssey orchestrated by mad scientist, Dr. Frankenfurt. The movie IS a musical and it has ALOT of songs but they're all pretty badass and the cast of characters is great. I guess the main plot of the film revolves around it's namesake "Rocky" a Frankenstein monster created by Frankenfurt to be his sex slave as he's grown bored with the rest of his subservients. Rocky serves as a catalyst for all the major conflicts in the film but at it's heart the movie is really about Frankenfurt and his sociopathic tendency to use everyone around him, generally carnally, with no care for their feelings and occasionally even their lives. All in all I enjoyed it alot, it's fun, fast and sexy. I recommend it whole heartedly.
Oct. 4th Martyrs
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***IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THIS MOVIE MAYBE STOP READING NOW, MY REVIEW IS RELATIVELY SPOILER FREE BUT I THINK YOU SHOULD SEE THIS MOVIE KNOWING AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE***
Martyrs is a strange beast, but a completely enthralling one. The film opens with a young girl, covered in filth, clearly beaten and abused, running and screaming away from a large dilapidated warehouse. Things only get worse from here. We're then treated to a faux documentary footage of two young girls at a children's hospital/orphanage and then documentation of the abuse inflicted on the girl from the opening shot.The grainy documentary footage goes away as the police and doctors interview the girl's closest friend, trying to ascertain what happened. Things take a decidedly dark turn when she's asked to go gather the victim.
CUT. 15 Years later. A happy, affluent white family is enjoying a nice Sunday breakfast. And things only get worse from here. Even here I've probably already said too much because the absolute best way to go into this movie is without knowing a single thing about it. I only knew it was incredibly dark, violent and had to do with two abused girls. It sat in my possession for the better part of a year before I finally decided to nut up and watch the fucking thing. ~*~*MY GIRLFRIEND*~*~ said she wanted to watch some "real horror" with lots of gore so I decided it was time. Let me say I was not only not disappointed by this film but was in fact almost completely blown away by it. It's a piece of exciting, challenging cinema that at times is Revenge Film, Supernatural Thriller, Torture Porn and even metaphysical commentary. It's almost a SAW or Hostel for the thinking man but to even mention it alongside those films would be doing it a disservice. It's part of the French New Extremism movement and that's just what it is. Extreme. It's not a movie for everyone, It's incredibly violent and not in a fun horror movie kind of way. It's unrelenting. I highly recommend this to everyone even though I know it's not everyone's cup of tea, but as far as Horror cinema goes it's good to be pushed out of your comfort zone and this is the first genre film in a long time that really pushed me out of mine. One of the best Horror movies in years, do yourself a favour, check this shit out.
Well those are my two films for today, Hopefully I'll have a few more up sometime tomorrow for your reading pleasure. Feel free to throw me a few suggestions in the comments section as what to watch next, because my list isn't even 31 films strong yet. In fact here is my list so far:
rocky horror picture showmartyrs- suspiria
- the monster squad
- john carpenter's halloween
- house of a thousand corpses
- devils rejects
- nightmare on elm st.
- wes craven's new nightmare
- drag me to hell
- the shining
- dawn of the dead remake
- dog soldiers
- demons
- night of the creeps
- shaun of the dead
- brain damage
- ravenous
- [rec2]
- an american werewolf in london
- splice
- hatchet
- david croenenberg's the fly
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