Posted September 29, 2011
I didn't think the story was scary, I mean, it could have been just torture porn in the end. It was the atmosphere for me. Some genuinely creepy moments.
hyperagathon
Bear it All
Registered: Aug 2010
From Croatia
I didn't think the story was scary, I mean, it could have been just torture porn in the end. It was the atmosphere for me. Some genuinely creepy moments.
hyperagathon
Bear it All
Registered: Aug 2010
From Croatia
Posted September 29, 2011
*MILD SPOILERS*
After a death of their son, a couple goes to the cabin in the woods to recuperate. Woman starts to grow crazier and crazier by the minute. We learn that she tortured her son and has a firm belief that all women are evil because church says so (that's her interpretation). Because of that she thinks that she has to act evil as that is a natural state of all women. She tortures and tries to kill her husband by taking a stone to his testes and a drill to his leg. The ending makes no sense. There is absolutely no reason to see this movie.
Of course, I probably should have mentioned the small controversy was caused by people strongly hating it for various reasons usually irrelevant to the quality of the movie. So far I've seen the people who hate:
Von Trier - because he's a god damn <insert you favorite>
CGI scenes - yeah, the fox speaks...so what?
The lead actress - this was is my favorite...I read a comment on IMDB that went like "How could she do that on camera, she has children? Oh teh humanitas!"
The violence - And yet, all the usian torture porn is rather well-accepted. Heh.
The fact that it's difficult to make sense of - See the quoted summary
I personally have no particular feelings towards Von Trier (so I'm not biased either way), I didn't mind the CGI scenes (but I could have done without them), the lead actress and actor were both great, the violence fit, and I think it makes sense (women are evil and crazy...I've no counterarguments :p).
Narwhal.644
Dull Boy
Registered: Jan 2009
From France
Posted September 29, 2011
"Harry, He's Here to Help" [Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien], a French movie is more "psychological" than horror, but the titular character is still very, very creepy. I liked it a lot. It is also the only movie where the "creep" is honestly and in a way efficiently trying to help the other protagonists and the greater Good. Not that anyone feels helped, though.
Jaime
La vie en rose
Registered: Apr 2009
From Germany
Posted September 30, 2011
The Vanishing, a Durch movie from 1988. I guess it's more of a Thriller than a Horror movie, but I found it very frightening and truly, truly evil. It got a rubbish US remake with Sandra Bullock. About an insidious kidnapping.
Cure, a Japanese movie from 1997 about a cop, a mysterious hypnotist and a series of brutal murders. Scary as hell.
Uzumaki (Japan 2000) might be interesting, but I'm a bit scared of watching it. Check out the attached image if you want to know why. Beware, definitely not safe for work.
I know it was actually really successful, but I'd still like to mention Open Water (USA 2003). I'll never watch it because I know it would destroy me more thoroughly than any J-Horror or American Splatter movie ever could.
Cure, a Japanese movie from 1997 about a cop, a mysterious hypnotist and a series of brutal murders. Scary as hell.
Uzumaki (Japan 2000) might be interesting, but I'm a bit scared of watching it. Check out the attached image if you want to know why. Beware, definitely not safe for work.
I know it was actually really successful, but I'd still like to mention Open Water (USA 2003). I'll never watch it because I know it would destroy me more thoroughly than any J-Horror or American Splatter movie ever could.