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Fever (2004)
Great movie
This movie is must see, http://movies.aol.com/short_film_festival?defaultItem=1638092 The plot is very vague but thats what makes this film so good. Throughout the film you try to understand whats going on, and even if at the end you have gone nowhere, its fun to watch again and every time you watch it, more things you realize about it. I liked it's art, this film is gorgeous. It is a silent movie but even one word would ruin the atmosphere. The background music really helped the atmosphere and really made it stylized. The murder sequences are very original. The screen becomes very contrast and quickly here and there you see shots of a knife, then scream, then body. The colors are beautiful and very eerie.
Psycho (1960)
Psycho, horror movies, and metaphors in psycho
Pitch perfect. Every single frame of this film was shot by a genius, and a Genius Hitchcock was. psycho still remains as one of the greatest horror movies of all times. Is it more then just a "Hooror Movie." I mean this term has been used very commonly but has been perspective very falsely. When people hear the word "Horror Movie" they think of butcher knifes into teenage beauties and screaming but no real meaning. In my opinion this is not true. Throughout history, horror movies have had many metaphoric and subtle yet deep meanings. Even the goriest as the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) is not just a movie about a guy in a mask chopping up teenagers.
Now, about Psycho, this movie is very interesting. Starting with a plot about a young woman, Marion, who steals forty thousand dollars (More like 400 thousand now according to inflation) to have enough money with Sam, her lover, and live with him. When she gets passed the salesman and policeman she creates other people's conversation in her head as she heads off in the Bates Motel.
As the viewer is interested in Marions life a brand new character is introduced, Norman Bates. If you notice Norman is very persistent that she calls him Norman instead of Mr. Bates. Twice he corrects her. This, i feel, is him trying to separate from his mother. He feels so controlled by his mother he doesn't want to be Mr. Bates, which contains his mother's last name in it, he wants to be Norman, himself. Now, as they talk about being stuck in a trap, both of the characters have been trapped into a situation. Norman with his mother, Marion with her money.
Both characters have many similarities, split personalities, etc. And I think that is the main reason Norman felt such an attraction to her. Not because of her beauty and charm, but him and her connection. As she leaves he looks through a hole to watch her dress. (Notice what painting he removes from the wall, one depicting a rape) Here he watches her, like one of his stuffed birds, while she undress.
I notice both their names have a lot to do with their reasoning in the plot. Norman "Bates" as he is awaiting to be caught, and Marion "Crane" a bird she is to catch Norman.
Anyways, now Marion gets nude and takes a shower. Earlier she suggested returning the money so now the audience is nice and happy. As she is taking a shower, we notice a slight blur in the background. This blur turns into a maniac silhouette mother stabbing the young and innocent nude, blonde bombshell with her 12 inch long butcher knife.
What makes the shower scene so intense is not the loud, intense music but the shots, from down watching the knife coming at you, to the mouth of Marion screaming in terror while a the violin is screeching.
I have a lot to say, theme-wise about this film but then this will be too long, if you want to know give me a private message and I will send you all my reasoning for many lines.
Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht (1979)
Beautiful
Herzog deserves hats off, any academy award for best director. A film so beautiful should be more well known. The atmosphere is stuck with you from the beginning with the chants and the screams. The characters fit the film perfectly, besides the librarian guy. The colors were great, the shots were planned out great. The simplicity of a shadow was made so mesmerizing. I felt chills all around my body after watching this film. It had a touch with all those shadows and the shot with the vampires hand going down. Not only the best vampire movie EVER but a fantastic film, period. All I can say is Herzog did a wonderful job with this one.
Baxter (1989)
An atmospheric film
Wow, this is one of those films where after you watch it you can't get your mind off it. The atmosphere is so great, and the plot is so dark. The idea is so twisted, but really only to our eyes. It may seem twisted but actually, it is an interesting thought we should except. No, dogs aren't killers but do we really know what's going on in our dogs head. Is he really just wagging his tail and running around not thinking about anything else. Don't think I am crazy, I don't think dog's have such advance ideas, or maybe they do. What I am saying is their thoughts are probably much more advance they we may think. It's something we should think about.
Edge of Sanity (1989)
Defintly not worth seeing
I am one of those guys that likes horror movies less gory so that's one reason this wasn't my thing, and also, how repetitive can you get. A movie has to evolve and I love the story of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and if I would make it I wold start out with Mr. Hyde to being pretty bad, to cruel, to evil, to murderous. But this film jumped to being murderous and and din't evolve for like 80 minutes. Just kept on killing naked prostitutes, becoming Dr. Jekyll, then became Jake the ripper Hyde and murdered another naked prostitute. For a person to say this film was good or scary would have to have a shallow, immature taste in films and just wants to see it not for the art or brilliance but for the breasts and blood.
Freaks (1932)
Another level of Hollywood films
I mostly don't give tens but I had too. This shorter film was originally longer but scenes were cut out from the terror it brought to audiences. I guess you know the basic plot if you've seen it, if you haven't don't read this, it will spoil the ending.
Basiclly, there is a sideshow where there are different freakish characters such as pinheads, men and women with legs or feet or both, and so on. Then, one of the midget discovers the trapeze artist, Cleopatra which he falls in love with. As a joke, Cleopatra "Says" she feels the same. As she discovers he has a hidden wealth she then starts to get more serious about this joke and actually marries him. At the wedding the freaks chant "One of us... One of us... We accept her we accept her... gooble goble... gooble goble... one of us..." which provokes her to mocking the freaks. She poisons the drink of the midget for his money and then the freaks take revenge by turning her into a freak (A duck like creature).
Now, originally, the film said to be lost reveals her leg to brake by a tree and the shadows of the freaks turning her to one. And you see her partner in crime Hercules is a deformed midget singing Oprah (Which was taken out) but still remains her as a duckish creature.
Some say this film doesn't fall in horror but there is no doubt it does. The film has an eerie texture unseen in films today or back then. The idea of life, the under plot so to say "Theme" is revealed more and is in the film more. Earlier I read great commons of people who said that the freaks are the normal ones in the films and the normal ones are the freaks. Maybe some some normal people are good (Like Venus and her husband) but overall that statement is true. He or she mentions that in a few shots it seems Cleopatra (The bad women) looks deformed like she has no legs, which I shall see because if thats true then this puts this film on an even higher level. The reason this film is so fantastic as I said before is that the theme shows itself in such an obvious way but its not so, so to speak, in your face. And the revenge is SO scary its unbelievable. This film I hope never leave climax until the day humans don't exist.
The Kid (1921)
So delightful
What a delightful, fun, family film, if you want to enjoy a film watch "The Kid." Chaplin made it humorous but not silly or stupid. He brought a scent of happiness and fun to a film. Which was silent and used very few subtitles, which many silent films do (they mostly put a lot but this had few.) But it was better silent, this film wouldn't have been as good with words personally. This is my first Chaplin film and this film made me just wanna see more. Its really about Charlie Chaplin and how he finds a boy, and how he raises him and their adventures and people want to take him away, you probably get the picture. I really suggest to try it, its pure delight and fun.
The Birds (1963)
The scariest film ever, for many reasons
I've seen The Exorcist, The Shining Etc. Yes I admit they have all scared me but nothing, and I mean nothing scared me quit like this movie. The birds is one of kind terror , using less blood then most horror film and no music, and so subtle it just lets your heart beat, maybe a bit too much attacks but still, the film which in the book the art of Alfred Hitchcock says it is a film is a film on abandonment because when ever someone mentions something about being abandoned the birds attack. This film is a one of a kind terror hats off for Hitchcock. Write to me if you disagree, but I hope you won't. This film should be an inspiration to many horror films I hope, then Films these days will be much scarier then they are now.