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Race You to the Bottom Amber Benson! And this was almost, almost a good movie. An indie flick about a straight gal and a bisexual guy who both have boyfriends but are secretly having an affair with each other. It's quite watchable and has some good moments but in the end really needed a better script. Nice to see Amber in a starring role, and she's quite good as a character alot bitchier and more assertive than Tara. Battle Royale Cult Japanese movie set in a near future where every year a randomly selected class of school kids is deposited on an island, given randomly selected weapons, and told they must kill each other until just one survivor is left. Played straight and ultra-violent, it's very effective, unapologetic pulp, in spite of some decidedly variable acting. The teenagers behave like recognizable teenagers, which adds to its lurid effect. If it's the kind of thing you go for, it doesn't disappoint. Then Mary-Jane went to England for a couple weeks, and I saw a couple horror flicks solo: Eden Lake I picked this after reading a favorable write-up in Empire magazine, and I should know better. It's part of the sub-genre of which Deliverance is the gold standard, i.e., normal people find themselves hunted like animals in some remote location. In this case, a young couple are vacationing in a wooded area by a lake, get on the wrong side of a group of teenagers, things go from bad to worse, and so on. There's an art to this sort of movie. Arguably my favorite horror movie, the original The Hills Have Eyes, is a variation of this sub-genre. The trick is to walk the line between suspense and sadism. Eden Lake, while not quite torture porn, errs way on the side of sadism. I do not recommend this. My Little Eye A rare animal, a horror flick that Mary-Jane had seen and I had not, which she recommended. Five people, as part of an internet reality show webcast thing, agree to spend six months alone in a house in the middle of nowhere, with no amenities and no contact with the outside world. A million dollars to each if they last the full six months, and nada if even one person leaves early. Things are not as they seem. In spite of blatantly stock characters, this works as a tense, suspenseful little movie, with a genuinely chilling ending. Post a comment in response: |
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