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This poster was released days ago, and I forgot to post it. Frankly, it’s not that it’s not cool, I just personally dug the floating eyeball better. But, I’m a sick duck, so…anylame.
I love the folks at Lionsgate, they always have the coolest shit to promote their films. I’m going to miss Jigsaw and all his cash, they make this fangirl smile. Well, smirk is more like it, but that counts!Saw 3D opens October 22, 2010.
In talking with a couple of my fellow horror lovers I have found there are some films in our beloved genre people just plain refuse to watch. One person told me she hated Hostel because of its torture porn mentality, it was just too gory for her. Now to me that’s just crazy talk. The gorier the better, I say. But, I have to admit to hating the sequel because, it did go too far, and I think the writer was getting off on seeing how far he could torture his female victims. Just me and my feministic views perhaps, but I say re-watch Hostel 2 and keep in mind, the boys in the previous films were never stripped before they were tortured. Off my soapbox and moving on with the conversation at hand.
A second friend said they wouldn’t watch anything involving spit. Yeah, I’m side-eyeing her as well. A lot of people are on the angry side about I Spit on Your Grave being remade. I hear ya, but the original was so batshit I’m curious to see what they do with it. Now, I did have an extremely hard time sitting through Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door. I think I just have a hard time watching anyone abuse a woman in any way.
Other than that I am usually down for anything, hell I’m so excited for the sequel to The Human Centipede, but there are a few I will not watch and they all involve RATS. Anything with rats, swarms of rats, rat noises, talk of rats – all bad! I hate that fuckin’ Kia commercial, hip-hop rats, STILL giant rats. In other words, I will not watch Willard, Ben, the remake of Willard, or Food of the Gods. All of those movies can fuck off!
So peeps what won’t you watch? Or, are you so twisted you are down with anything?
Seriously, every time I see a film where a girl is beating the hell out of some dude, I get all giddy and want a crack at him too. What the hell does that say about me? Therapy, perhaps. Anyway, this little Alice in Wonderland with machine guns (the films tagline, I didn’t write that shit, but wish I had) is called Sucker Punch, not to be confused Donkey Punch which is another fucked up story.
Sucker Punch is a movie about little girl who is trying to hide from the pain caused by her evil stepfather and lobotomy. She ends up in mental institution and while there she starts to imagine alternative reality. She plans to escape from that imaginary world but to do that she needs to steal five objects before she is caught by a vile man. Story is set in 1950′s.
True Blood is white hot these days and doesn’t look like the train is pulling into the station anytime soon. Eric and Sookie are featured on the August 2nd issue of TV Guide. There is also an alternate cover with Elvis Bill. No, just no! I can’t get into Bill, I’ve tried, it’s just not working for me. Anyway also inside the issue there are rumors that someone bites the dust this season.
Click through to see the Bill cover and who read my theory on this year’s casualty. Read more ›
Mother isn’t traditionally what we would call horror, I guess if we had to classify this film, it’s more mystery thriller. Mother or Madeo comes from from South Korea and it stars Kim Hye-ja and Won Bin (as a mother and son) and directed Bong Joon-ho. Bong Joon-ho also directed The Host .
Let’s just say our main characters, a son and his mother, are really, really close. So close, there are rumors in the town that they are having an incestuous relationship. Now, it’s never really proven in the film that they did, but it surely wasn’t proven that they didn’t. There are a few questionable scenes thrown in to keep it nice and confusing in that aspect. The son, who suffers from some form of mental retardation, is caught in the wrong place at the wrong time and a young girl dies. So naturally, he is suspect number one and naturally, his mother goes batshit to prove he didn’t do it.
The mother sets out on a path to prove her son innocent, by any means necessary, including hiring her son’s friend that she hates to help her unearth hidden stories about the dead girl. She even “deals” with someone who’s story can block her son being declared innocent. And we know what word rhymes with deals, right?
Overall, it’s an oddly entertaining film that had its moments of sheer lunacy with some strange little dance numbers, but whatever shake your groove thang. This film does have its moments of slow, but the pacing does build as you go along with the co-dependent mom as she unravels a rather messed up little mystery. The Horrorfatale says see it! But, be mindful it is over two hours long and subtitled (unless you speak Korean). Madeo or Mother is currently available on DVD.
