HORROR!!!

I have aways disliked horror movies.  Horrors, thrillers, gore movies…  they always seemed stupid.  Yeah, Stupid!!  That is the best argument I had come up with.

I remember the first time, the very first time.  Going back home with a friend, we were both like… 9? 10? 11? I don’t know, young!  Going home and closing the curtains and putting Nightmare on Elm Street in the video.  We didn’t get very far into the movie, once the girl shot up to the ceiling spurting blood from her abdomen all over the walls…..we stopped the movie, mutual accord, opened the curtains and went skateboarding.

For some reason I’m on my first horror movie streak at the moment.

I don’t think it is related to my marriage… hummmm…

So:

Saw IV

This one sparked the curiosity.  Thanks to my friend Jorge (who keeps an excellent movie blog) I watched this one and wasn’t totally repulsed.  Having studied a good bit of anatomy and being very interested in the body, the opening scene caught my interest.  Then Jorge explained the premise and it sounded interesting enough to continue watching, and while it wasn’t an amazing movie it was certainly interesting.

Saw V

I think I might have missed out on some of the atmosphere by watching a low quality version online.  But I’m not sure, because the plot didn’t capture me nearly as much as the previous one.  The detail of the tibia splintering… hummmmm, yummy…..

Let the Right One In

This is a good one.  Happens to be non-american (surprise) and it really felt innovative, simple, complex, vague enough to allow imagination to do its thing (which it does better than CGI).  I highly recommend this one.

Session 9

We’ll see, I’m about to watch it… we’ll see we’ll see we’ll see.

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