Inside: French Horror

kfoll · Post by **kfoll** » Wed June 4th, 2008, 9:41 am

Anyone seen this?
www.imdb.com/title/tt0856288/

What'd you think?

jswift · Post by **jswift** » Wed June 4th, 2008, 10:21 am

Eh, it looks pretty generic to me. Italian horror has really gone downhill since the late 80s.

I hear the new Argento movie is a piece of crap, as well. Sigh...at least there's plenty of great stuff coming out of Japan and Spain.

Sean · Post by **Sean** » Wed June 4th, 2008, 12:31 pm

inside is good, fucking brutal.
new argento is good.(mother of tears)

Post by **Metalfreak** » Wed June 4th, 2008, 3:49 pm

from the review I read this movie sounds like it should be awesome!

kfoll · Post by **kfoll** » Wed June 4th, 2008, 4:26 pm

jswift wrote:Eh, it looks pretty generic to me. Italian horror has really gone downhill since the late 80s.

Ermmm... it's French.

Sean Newton wrote:inside is good, fucking brutal.
new argento is good.(mother of tears)

Damn, if you've seen MOT, do you have the DVD? I heard that people were ordering it from Europe since they've been dragging their feet in releasing it here. I've been holding out for the release because I wanted to see it on big screen. But I'm starting to wonder ... Anyone have any clue when it will be out?

Anyway, Inside... words fail me, it was about the most disturbing horror film I've seen yet. It was fucking creepy from the beginning and only got worse (as in brutal) from there.

jswift · Post by **jswift** » Thu June 5th, 2008, 6:20 am

I guess I'm just getting old, apparently. I used to love the gore-drenched, low-budget stuff, but now, I just need a little bit more out of my shock cinema. There has to be some social subtext for me to enjoy it.

I saw a movie awhile back called "Teeth", and to me, it was just a laborious, paint-by-numbers exercise in futility. OK, it's violent, I get it. So was Rambo, and it sucked.

Has anybody seen a German film called Suicide? It's more brutal and unique than just about any horror film I've seen this decade. It's well worth trekking down if you haven't seen it.

JMincemoyer · Post by **JMincemoyer** » Thu June 5th, 2008, 2:11 pm

"Inside" is the cover feature for the newest issue of Rue Morgue if you have not seen it. They highlight another film called, "Martyrs," which is supposed to be quite brutal among others.

Not "horror," but I have read that "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" (2007) has some rather realistic abortion footage that is reported to make both "pro-life proponents and pro-choice proponents" pause.

Bloody-Disgusting.com hails "Frontiers," one of the "8 Films To Die For." I started it, but did not finish it. Pretty brutal. A French twist on TCM with Nazis!

I am curious about why/how "Rambo" sucked? If rogue military soldiers toying, brutalizing, enslaving and killing civilians in foreign countries such as Burma is not enough "social context" than what is? If you have seen the previous films you already know the Rambo character so character development is/would be pointless. Maybe the film was too violent?

jswift · Post by **jswift** » Thu June 5th, 2008, 2:25 pm

Granted, nobody waltzes into a Rambo movie expecting top-tier writing, but to me it was just bland and hopelessly trite. It's the "same old, same old" formula, and no matter how many babies you throw into a furnace, it's still drivel.

Is it too much to ask to have a little bit of creativity in my degenerate cinema? "The Orphanage", "Poultrygeist" and even to some extent the afore mentioned "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" all break the mold of predictability. The key to a great, brutal movie lies more within the element of "great" than "brutal". That's why the Rob Zombie \ Eli Roth \ Saw nonsense is garbage and films along the line of "Men Behind The Sun", "The Happiness of The Kuturakkis" and "Oldboy" are legitimately great films that are exponentially more "brutal" than any gore-centric horror films.

Post by **Metalfreak** » Thu June 5th, 2008, 2:54 pm

@ Jswift - you didn't like The Devil's Rejects?

jswift · Post by **jswift** » Thu June 5th, 2008, 3:34 pm

There wasn't a single creative moment in "The Devil's Rejects" - - it was simply a regurgitation of 70s exploitation movies ala "I Spit On Your Grave", "The Toolbox Murders" and "The Incredible Torture Show".

Wow, people being tortured? Forcing the audience to relate to the murderers? Violence interspersed with out-of-place humor? What a novel concept...that Wes Craven and Sean Cunningham utilized all the way back in 1971.

If Herschel Gordon Lewis were alive today, he'd probably kick Rob's ass for screwing up the 'white trash splatter' genre.

Post by **Metalfreak** » Fri June 6th, 2008, 10:21 am

jswift wrote:If Herschel Gordon Lewis were alive today, he'd probably kick Rob's ass for screwing up the 'white trash splatter' genre.

The thing with me is that I can watch just about anything and I mean anything! I'm talking comedy, fantasy, action, drama, horror, westerns, wrestling, teen drama crap, and anything else you can name and it doesn't matter to me if it's new, old, original or a remake. I'm just easily entertained when it comes to movies and TV. Yeah there are movies I don't like, just not many. My boyfriend is like you, real picky when it comes to movies (at least that's what I gather). He can't stand some of the shit I watch! He assumed that I only liked horror at first; I had to explain that I like everything sorta like how many people can listen to any type of music. It just doesn't bother me if the idea has been rehashed or anything. If it's entertaining, I'm game!

kfoll · Post by **kfoll** » Fri June 6th, 2008, 2:17 pm

Metalfreak wrote:
jswift wrote:If Herschel Gordon Lewis were alive today, he'd probably kick Rob's ass for screwing up the 'white trash splatter' genre.

The thing with me is that I can watch just about anything and I mean anything! I'm talking comedy, fantasy, action, drama, horror, westerns, wrestling, teen drama crap, and anything else you can name and it doesn't matter to me if it's new, old, original or a remake. I'm just easily entertained when it comes to movies and TV. Yeah there are movies I don't like, just not many. My boyfriend is like you, real picky when it comes to movies (at least that's what I gather). He can't stand some of the shit I watch! He assumed that I only liked horror at first; I had to explain that I like everything sorta like how many people can listen to any type of music. It just doesn't bother me if the idea has been rehashed or anything. If it's entertaining, I'm game!

Right on, Amanda. Entertainment is what it's all about.

I don't think a movie has to be classified as a "Film" (i.e., candidate for Sundance) to be a good movie. At the end of the day if it's well done within its own genre and doesn't conform to stereotypical formulas, and if it is entertaining, it's a good film.

Inside is not a low-budget, gore-obsessed film. Sure, it's got gore aplenty. It doesn't try to make any point other than that of a girl who is being stalked for her unborn child. But it's a well-written film with a very compelling storya nd awesome cinematography that makes every scene creepy as hell.

On that note, does anyone here get into Japanese horror? I've been watching a lot of those lately, most notably a couple of films by Takashi Miike, Ju-On: The Grudge, and the second one. I really admire how he uses non-chronological storytelling with multiple characters whose experiences are interwoven. Another good one is Shutter, but I can't remember the director of that. I heard the American version sucked.

jswift · Post by **jswift** » Fri June 6th, 2008, 2:49 pm

There are so many great J-Horror movies, it is ridiculous.

What Miike movies have you seen? Everybody's seen "Audition" and "Ichi The Killer", but "The Happiness of the Kuturakkis" is perhaps his best movie. It's way freakier than just about any American movie released in the last decade.

Here's my truncated list of must-sees:

Battle Royal (avoid the sequel at all costs)

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (ditto for that sequel)

Versus (best zombie movie of the 21st century)

Infection (one of the view classics of the genre to not get the horrid Americanization treatment)

You really can't go wrong with any of those.

kfoll · Post by **kfoll** » Fri June 6th, 2008, 4:26 pm

jswift wrote:There are so many great J-Horror movies, it is ridiculous.

What Miike movies have you seen? Everybody's seen "Audition" and "Ichi The Killer", but "The Happiness of the Kuturakkis" is perhaps his best movie. It's way freakier than just about any American movie released in the last decade.

Here's my truncated list of must-sees:

Battle Royal (avoid the sequel at all costs)

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (ditto for that sequel)

Versus (best zombie movie of the 21st century)

Infection (one of the view classics of the genre to not get the horrid Americanization treatment)

You really can't go wrong with any of those.

I've only seen Ju-On: the Grudge, and Ju-On part 2.

Oh, another great one is in Masters of Horror series, called Imprint. OMG that has the BEST fucking torture scene EVER! Plus it's got about the most intriguing style I've seen yet in terms of art direction, costumes, cinematography... that whole MOH series is awesome.

I'ma put those you listed down on my to-do list. Thanks!

Sean · Post by **Sean** » Sat June 7th, 2008, 12:34 am

kfoll wrote:
jswift wrote:There are so many great J-Horror movies, it is ridiculous.

What Miike movies have you seen? Everybody's seen "Audition" and "Ichi The Killer", but "The Happiness of the Kuturakkis" is perhaps his best movie. It's way freakier than just about any American movie released in the last decade.

Here's my truncated list of must-sees:

Battle Royal (avoid the sequel at all costs)

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (ditto for that sequel)

Versus (best zombie movie of the 21st century)

Infection (one of the view classics of the genre to not get the horrid Americanization treatment)

You really can't go wrong with any of those.
I've only seen Ju-On: the Grudge, and Ju-On part 2.

Oh, another great one is in Masters of Horror series, called Imprint. OMG that has the BEST fucking torture scene EVER! Plus it's got about the most intriguing style I've seen yet in terms of art direction, costumes, cinematography... that whole MOH series is awesome.

I'ma put those you listed down on my to-do list. Thanks!

i don't think i've seen every Miike film, but I can count at least 18 of his i have seen. All of them are good to great. Imprint did have a delicious torture scene. the Dead or Alive has some good torture scenes too, I love tempura human.

I found Mother of Tears on PirateBay

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