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Been watching lots of horror movies:
1) best of the bunch is "Baskin", just a terribly disturbing descent into madness, reminiscent of Zombie's "House of 1,000 Corpses"
2) "The Theatre Bizarre"- The good thing about anthology films is their array of ideas and narrative swerve. The great thing about anthology films is they're short, which means if it sucks at least it won't last long. This one has the usual hits and misses, grotesque in parts and moving in others.
3) "Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell"- just a carousel of fantasy/horror film tropes. Massively enteratining in that late 60's Japanese craziness kinda-way. And it carries an anti-Vietnam message!
4) "Darling"- Nice little black and white psycho drama about a lonely girl in a large New York mansion.
5) "Nightmare Detective"- The dream logic narrative allows all kinds of surrealism and absurdity. It's just too bad the non-dream portions of this film are just as jumbled and confusing. And it's full of that early 2000's digital video herky-jerkiness that J-horror films made all the rage.
6) "Livid"- From the filmmakers of "Inside", which I regard as one of the best horror films of the last 25 years, "Livid" doesn't quite reach that violent masterpiece status, but its a spellbinding exercise whose scattershot ellipses to black and perfectly attuned atmosphere feel like someone breathlessly whispering a gothic fairy tale into your ear.
7) "Witching and Bitching"- Not a fan of Alex de Iglesia and his pop-confections, and this hybrid thriller-horror doesn't do much to convert me. Cool looking witches though.
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