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Kristy (2014)
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What i find fascinating is that horror fans here are so critical about things they can predict, clichés, etc.
Horror are movies are always full of clichés.
Every haunted house movie, even "the conjuring" or " Insidious" full of clichés. This is how horror works, folks.
You really want surprises? Well, the basic set up here, thanksgiving, a girl alone on a campus - the strangers calling her Kristy, just a couple of examples - all of that was never done before. But If you really want to be that critical and yearning for something completely fresh, no movie ever can satisfy you. cause in some way, shape, form or another - it's all been done.
I thought the set up in this film was great. And if it reminds you of the strangers, so what? The strangers reminded me of three other films that remind other people of ten more. THAT is the horror genre.
Wholetrain (2006)
Great movie - some facts about the director
What a funny comment by Gattler. He claims he knows Munich quite well yet hasn't seen any Graffiti there? Wow. Where did he hang out? With catholic church youth groups? Sad, sad, sad. Sheer cluelessness. The Hip Hop scene in Munich developed rapidly in the mid eighties. Maybe the near US Army Bases, for which Run DMC performed as early as 1985, were part of the reason. Fact is, back then not only amazing Hip Hop clubs like "Area", "Eastside" or "California" spread the word and had you shake your booty to hard beats ( while most of the rest of Germany listened to U2), but more important: the famous Fleamarket at the Dachauerstreet in Munich quickly became one of the hotspots of the best writers not only in Germany, but in Europe. On its walls one could find astounding pieces from artists like Mode 2 and other legends from Europe's other graffiti capitals like Amsterdam and Paris. In those times at least 1 out of 5 trains in Munich were bombed with graffiti pieces. Wholecars, wholetrains or just throw- ups...you name it. The scene was alive like no other in Germany. Back then we used to make fun of Berlin. The only Graffiti they had over there were the political scribblings on the wall. Hip Hop? Hamburg and Cologne were alive too, but back then....Munich ruled. This was the time director- writer Florian Gaag grew up in Munich and became one of the leading spray can artists of the town. And that is the reason his movie " wholetrain" is the most authentic, passionate, relentless and wonderful film about this still overlooked subculture out there. The movie doesn't explain much, it doesn't apologize, it doesn't portray the writers as nice, harmless guys and it doesn't pretend to give any social reasons. It just rolls and shows you how it is. If you have real love for Hip Hop, this movie is for you.
Zodiac (2007)
Fincher's best
No matter what Fight Club fanatics or Seven addicts will tell you.. Zodiac is Fincher's best work by far. It's his most refined, modest, mature, subtle and serious movie, a psychological masterpiece that doesn't go for cheap thrills but manages to recreate the realities of all involved human beings behind this bizarre case in most authentic ways... Amazing in its perfectly pitched tone, style and atmosphere, truthful to the tiniest detail, daring in its thought-provoking psychology and refusal to give simple answers....Zodiac is a truly bold, truly intense and truly intelligent movie....a piece of art...that's also enormously entertaining and will scare you more and more..the longer you think about it.