Kill, Baby... Kill! is another gothic chiller from Italian director Mario Bava, the second of his I've reviewed this month. A doctor is called to a village in the country where superstition still rules every day life. He is there to perform an autopsy on a dead woman who has died under mysterious circumstances. The villagers protest to this and see it as a mutilation of her corpse. The doctor is equally aghast at the superstitious practices of the villagers as they try to ward of the ghost of the baroness's daughter. The movie has a great feel to it with rich sets and awesome cinematography with some pretty inventive scenes, but I don't want to spoil them for you. Assuming you like Italian Horror or Vincent Price style gothic theater than this is a great popcorn flick for a dark and stormy night.
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Friday, October 18, 2013
Review: Kill, Baby... Kill!
Kill, Baby... Kill (1966)
Kill, Baby... Kill! is another gothic chiller from Italian director Mario Bava, the second of his I've reviewed this month. A doctor is called to a village in the country where superstition still rules every day life. He is there to perform an autopsy on a dead woman who has died under mysterious circumstances. The villagers protest to this and see it as a mutilation of her corpse. The doctor is equally aghast at the superstitious practices of the villagers as they try to ward of the ghost of the baroness's daughter. The movie has a great feel to it with rich sets and awesome cinematography with some pretty inventive scenes, but I don't want to spoil them for you. Assuming you like Italian Horror or Vincent Price style gothic theater than this is a great popcorn flick for a dark and stormy night.
Kill, Baby... Kill! is another gothic chiller from Italian director Mario Bava, the second of his I've reviewed this month. A doctor is called to a village in the country where superstition still rules every day life. He is there to perform an autopsy on a dead woman who has died under mysterious circumstances. The villagers protest to this and see it as a mutilation of her corpse. The doctor is equally aghast at the superstitious practices of the villagers as they try to ward of the ghost of the baroness's daughter. The movie has a great feel to it with rich sets and awesome cinematography with some pretty inventive scenes, but I don't want to spoil them for you. Assuming you like Italian Horror or Vincent Price style gothic theater than this is a great popcorn flick for a dark and stormy night.
Review: The Innkeepers
The Innkeepers
Are you in the mood for a spooky ghost story? The Inkeepers focuses on the two clerks who work at a hotel that's going under, who pass the time trying to prove the presence of the paranormal. This is a slow-burn movie, taking its time to build up the tension, with a few jump scares sprinkled through until the climax. Over the last weekend of the hotel's operation the duo take turns working and investigating with cameras and voice recorders looking for ghosts. They also start learning about the last guests staying at the hotel and their mysterious backgrounds. I really liked Sara Paxton's performance as the very believably awkward and vulnerable Claire. She has a relatabley mundane life of a young 20-something college drop-out along with her male counterpart both are trying to find meaning or substance in their lives by trying to find the ghosts at the hotel, and then things get bad for them. I definitely recommend it for people who like creepy atmosphere and subtlety mixed with a couple jump-scares. This is my first time watching a feature from director Ti West, I heard good things about him from this and The House of the Devil but I didn't really care for his segment in V/H/S. I enjoyed this so I'm going to have to see House of the Devil.
Review: Ju-on: The Grudge
Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)
Probably surprising that until now I haven't gotten around to seeing the original "The Grudge" movie. Somehow I manage to overlook Japanese horror (as opposed to Kaiju flicks which I adore) but that's a mistake I will be correcting from now on. Ju-on is pretty creepy, and kind of sad. The presentation was a little chronologically disjointed which was a little confusing at first, but really probably the best way they could keep the suspense with a fairly straight-forward ghost story. I feel like there is underlying theme to the movie about the lasting effect of tragedies on the community, which I imagine would probably be a lot stronger of a theme in an eastern culture. As the haunting effect touches more people through the movie it evokes a sense of communal loss and hysteria as it claims more victims. I got a sense from the movie that "your neighbor's problems wont stay their's". I dunno, I liked it.
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