We close our look at modern horror movies with this freak-out from Japan: The Grudge (Ju-On). We remember seeing the trailer in the JP Cinema in Causeway Bay and the entire audience made more noise after those 2 minutes than the main feature (Matrix Revolutions) and while its not the best horror movie ever made, like The Ring, it will give you chills and thrills and images in your mind you won’t forget easily.We haven’t seen the U.S. version with Sarah Michelle Geller, but this Japanese one has enough scary moments to keep you on the edge of your seats. The spider girl and the creepy little kid looking up from the edge of your bed – are freakier than any Freddy Krueger or Jason.
See the trailer here:
Today we hope you are all dressed up and ready to have a creepy and spooky evening in Hong Kong.
As we run up to Hallowe’en next Wednesday, and seeing as its our favorite time of year, we decided to post a scary movie a day to get everyone into the mood. These are movies that have come out over the past few years, since we’re sure you’ve all seen The Omen and The Shining so we’ll leave things pre-2000 off this little list.
Today’s pick is a movie from this year called Planet Terror. It was the Robert Rodriguez half of Grindhouse – a tribute to B-movie exploitation film he made in conjunction with Quentin Tarantino. Super crazy, over-the-top plot, lots of hypodermic needles, kids with guns, flesh-hungry zombies, bad acting, gross special effects and a stripper/stand-up comedian who loses her leg and has it replaced with a machine gun to help her mow down bloodthirsty zombies. There is some kind of weird gas in the air turning people into disgusting blimp-like monster zombies. This film is actually more disgusting than it is scary but we thought we’d ease you into the really scary ones, and a nice and gross cameo by Bruce Willis. We’re usually pretty desensitized by seeing bloody gore on screen but even this one had us watching through our fingers – especially the castration scenes. Ouch!
Planet Terror’s official line is “A fun zombie film that busts at the seams with gross special effects, amazing action, and deliciously over-the-top moments, as gun-legged Cherry Darling (rose McGowan) and one man wrecking crew El Wray try to save the world from a horde of flesh-eating zombies” if that doesn’t get you down to the DVD shop, nothing will.
Part 2 of our Hallowe’en Movie Countdown tomorrow, until then watch 10 minutes of Planet Terror below:
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