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Horror fest
Nov. 1st, 2007 04:42 amI spent Halloween night watching some new films of the horror genre, called 'Beneath', 'Wind Chill' and '30 Days Of Night', because I have badly pulled a muscle in my left shoulder and can't do anything else BUT loaf around in front of a screen, being brought tea and snacks. (I can't open the fridge door. No really.)
The first two were surprisingly enjoyable, and not at all awful: I was most surprised by the third, tho, as its about vampires.
I never find those remotely scary--probably because they are usually beautiful and glamourous men, and I don't see how its possible to be alarmed, never mind repelled, by such...OK they bite, but, like Big Deal.
The vampires in THIS film are in no way attractive, however. They're a bunch of ugly dawgs in fact, and they look like they never wash, far less visit a tailor for the usual obligatory vampy threads.
Plus they share much in common with the pack-hunting creatures in 28 Days/Weeks Later, not least the ability to move horribly fast.
The Alaskan small town setting is really excellent, throwing a whole new slant on the premise of night-loving, neck-biting sociopaths.
Best of all, irritating middle-American smart-assedness (as in the truly dire Blood and Chocolate etc etc) is frozen right OUT of the dialogue and characterisation, which manages to operate on a humbler, more credible level.
I and my couch-potato-posse (Al, Jerry and Paco) thoroughly recommend.
The first two were surprisingly enjoyable, and not at all awful: I was most surprised by the third, tho, as its about vampires.
I never find those remotely scary--probably because they are usually beautiful and glamourous men, and I don't see how its possible to be alarmed, never mind repelled, by such...OK they bite, but, like Big Deal.
The vampires in THIS film are in no way attractive, however. They're a bunch of ugly dawgs in fact, and they look like they never wash, far less visit a tailor for the usual obligatory vampy threads.
Plus they share much in common with the pack-hunting creatures in 28 Days/Weeks Later, not least the ability to move horribly fast.
The Alaskan small town setting is really excellent, throwing a whole new slant on the premise of night-loving, neck-biting sociopaths.
Best of all, irritating middle-American smart-assedness (as in the truly dire Blood and Chocolate etc etc) is frozen right OUT of the dialogue and characterisation, which manages to operate on a humbler, more credible level.
I and my couch-potato-posse (Al, Jerry and Paco) thoroughly recommend.
