AWKWARD ZOMBIE

sorry. didnt think of that as much of a spoiler...but yeah it was.

daisies, now i cant get my question out...or can i?

Indubitably.

I just finished watching High Tension. It is a French horror film from 2003. It is the single scariest thing I have ever seen. I watch a lot of horror movies. It takes more than the average fare to make me uneasy. This film made me physical perspire. It also has one of the most pump-you-up car chases ever, set to the song New Born by Muse. The twist really screwed me up; it was executed very well. The closing scene made me jump about a foot. All in all, this film taught me that lesbians are evil and Muse is awesome. Has anyone else seen this movie?

Hey, lesbians are people, too. =]

Sounds like a movie I might have to check out. I need to see a decent scary movie. I typically hate horror movies, because they aren't that horrifying. 99% of them aren't horror movies, they're startle movies. You know that a person walking down a dark hallway in the middle of the night in a haunted house is going to get surprised by the bad guy/evil presence. It's not scary, it's just that moment when they do pop out is startling. I get the same effect when a balloon is popped unexpectedly behind me.

I've seen few decent scary movies. Rose Red freaked me out, but I was sick and it was a few years ago, so maybe it wouldn't now. IT was also freaky when I was kid, but it's laughable now. Pulse, a more recent one, was alright. Definitely different. It had it's share of freaky moments. I know there are a few good ones I'm forgetting, but you get the idea. But a lot of these newer ones? Saw? The Hills Have Eyes? Hostel? No thank you. They're just gore-fests.

Believe me, High Tension has a lot of blood. But, it isn't a splatter/torture film like the SAW series. It's all psychological. I also hate "boo!" movies. They're just stupid. High Tension is just pure fear for an hour and thirty minutes. The tension never lets up, as advertised in the title. I didn't breath during the chase scene near the end in the forest. This movie is insane.

Ok, now I have to see it. I'm totally checking out the Movies on Demand later. At like 2:00 when nobody else will be awake, and it's all dark so I can get the full effect.

EDIT: Ok, scratch that, it's not on there. Crap.

Hahaha, I saw High Tension in French a few years ago (with subtitles, ofcourse, because I am uncultured). Haute Tension.

I thought it was pretty ridiculous.

Yeah, looking back on it, the twist makes no sense, unless you assume it was told from the point of view of Marie and was mostly imagined. I still thought it was very scary, although slightly over the top. But, as far as horror films go, it's still exceptional.

Am I a bad person if I found the film Funny Games hilarious?

From IMDB:
Two seemingly well-educated young men, who call each other Paul and Peter among other names, approach a family on vacation. They are, apparently, friends of the neighbors, and, at the beginning, their true intentions are not known. But soon, the family is imprisoned and tortured in its own house violently, which the viewers are forced mostly to imagine and to share a certain complicity with the criminals. It might be some kind of game with the lives of husband, wife, son, and dog, but why are they doing it? Written by Luis Canau {luis.canau@mail.EUnet.pt}

If that is indeed the same movie..... what? I've never heard of it, but the synopsis doesn't sound too hilarious. Is it one of things that most people call horrible, but then the writers slip in bits of irony and sarcasm and weird references that 5% of the people who watch it get and they think it's funny? Or maybe Lawliet is just a bad person. Haha.

On another note, I saw Ocean's 13 last night. It was alright. It lacked the mysterious quality of the first two. I love the dialogue, especially between Brad Pitt and George Clooney (Rusty and Danny), but we knew pretty much exactly what was going to happen. Yeah, there were a few surprises, but nothing really shocking and completely unexpected like in the first two. And I think they only used Ocean's 13 to keep the series going, because they really don't stress the number for anything. In 11, there were clearly 11 guys. In 12, they had to bring in Andy Garcia, so there's 12. But there's a ton of cameos by a few different people in 13. Either that, or I didn't pay too much attention. Just a minor detail anyway.

It's set up like a thriller. Two drug-addicts talk themselves into a families home and play some "funny games" with them. These being physical and psychologically torture. Here's a scene from the beginning of the film that shows just how Michael Hanake was able to take this distressing idea and turn it into a great, dark humor. Here's the "warmer, colder" scene, taken from the shot-for-shot, English remake that Hanake is working on. It takes place immediately after the two boys tell the family they've killed their dog with a club (no spoilers):

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 9739622727

I cannot wait. Here's the trailer:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 9739622727

Another thing of note in this film is that all of the music is diegetic.

Also, I'm sure much of the humor was lost in translation in the original. An English version will be awesome.

I don't know about anybody else, but those were the same two movies for me. Looks pretty cool, if morbid. That synopsis up there was from a 1997(3 maybe? Can't remember exactly) version. I didn't even realize it wasn't an English version.



I had to look that one up. I didn't know there was a word for it. To save other ignorant souls like me the trouble, diegetic music/sounds are sounds that characters themselves can hear. Like if they turn on a CD player and we can hear it, that's diegetic. But the "soundtracks" to all these movies, the songs that play as background music for us and the characters don't actually hear, is not. That's pretty much the summary of the wikipedia definition, anyways.

That's something that can be put to use in very funny ways if you do it right. Think of the Bohemian Rhapsody scene from Wayne's World. =]

Oops, my mistake. Here's the trailer:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 0183046339

And, yeah, there's barely any on screen violence, but it's still pretty morbid and very depressing. But it breaks the fourth wall so much, and the two boys act so nonchalantly, that I can't help but laugh. It's an uneasy sort of laughter, but laughter nonetheless.

I had to. =]

Definitely looks different. Sort of reminds me of Cruel Intentions. Insanely inhuman but inherently interesting. And apparently I'm a fan of alliteration.

That trailer is beautiful. That was probably the best use of that cliched background music, which is only used for bad Christmas comedies nowadays.