It’s close to midnight, and something evil is a-lurkin’ in the dark…
Well we didn’t post alot about the Hallowe’en going-on’s in Hong Kong this week unfortunately, but in lieu of that we wanted to at least acknowledge the night of the living dead and to warn you to stay away from Lan Kwai Fong tonight if you have even an inkling of wanting to go there, unless running around a steel maze and being pointed and laughed at by little kids is your thing.
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.
We loved the first part 28 Days Later, but that was more a cerebral take on the zombie genre (i.e. the ‘normal’ humans were more horrific than the monsters). This year’s 28 Weeks Later picks up from the end of the first one and keeps going exactly 28 weeks later.
If you saw the first one you know its not really zombies, but the rage virus that is infecting people and turning them into, well, zombie-like creatures. The difference here is that the infected can move at normal human speeds, so you can’t job your way around slow moving zombies, as the amazing first 10 minutes of this movie will attest to. Another good thing is the lack of familiar actors, with the exception of Robert Carlyle, the mostly unknown cast is great for horror movies because you never know who is getting killed next.
We don’t want to speak too much more about this movie to protect the thrills, but its definitely cued up for play again this week as one freaky movie that will have you jumping out of your seat every 5 minutes.
Halloween Movie Countdown Part 2: British chicks and slimy monsters.
This is a good image to wake up to in the morning, isnt it?
The Descent came out in 2005 from the U.K. and was a great take on the “monster in the cave” movie. 6 women, who apparently like to go and explore caves, run into a race of freaky mutant people that, of course, want to eat them. This movie has more creepy thrills and gore than usual and the usage of an all female cast as the heroes instead of the victims is a nice change of pace, and of course what better setting for a horror movie but inside a dark cave with no light fighting creatures who can see you but you can’t see them. But in the course of the movie, you ask the question who are the monsters: the creatures or the women themselves?
Freaky stuff for sure and good to watch with a group of girls, Sex and the City this is not!
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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