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Willravel · 10-22-2009, 03:17 PM

I'll try to avoid the more common titles:

The Mothman Prophesies: a peculiar and often overlooked flick based on the urban legend/cryptozoological phenomena reported in Point Pleasant West Virginia back in the 1960s. While the narrative wanders a bit, the central core of the film is something a bit different than your run of the mill horror/thriller. I won't give too much away, but there are a few scenes in this movie that really unsettled me.

Exorcist: The Beginning: the late-arriving prequel to The Exorcist, staring Stellan Skarsgård. Everyone I know hates this movie, but I feel it's the best ever capturing of the feeling of paranoia in the desert, something less common in thrillers than I'd like. The demonic feeling isn't as strong as the original, but the performance from Skarsgård as the younger Father Merrin is somehow very relatable. And the scenes underground are sublime (until Sarah shows up).

The Objective: this was ultra-indi, and I'm not surprised when most people I tell about it have no idea what I'm talking about. The basic plot is a CIA agent and a Special Forces team in Afghanistan are on a mission to locate an important Muslim cleric for the war effort. The search leads the team deep into the haunting mountains of Western Afghanistan where their run of the mill mission is uncovered as something substantially more terrifying. I believe this is the first thriller about vimanas.

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon: was anyone else seriously disappointed with the Scream films? By how obvious everything was, by how shallow the study of horror films was presented? Behind the Mask is the movie for you. This movie takes place in a reality where Freddy Kruger, Jason Voorhees, and Michael Myers are all real, non-supernatural serial-killers, and where there's a tiny subculture of serial-killers that exist. The movie is presented as a documentary on a soon-to-be-slasher, a sociopath preparing to become a new slasher legend. The presentation of slasher lore is much, much better than any other slasher/urban legend type film, and the performance of the lead, Nathan Baesel, is spot-on.

I'll post a few more later.

10-22-2009, 03:17 PM	#8 (permalink)
Willravel ... a sort of licensed troubleshooter.	I'll try to avoid the more common titles: The Mothman Prophesies: a peculiar and often overlooked flick based on the urban legend/cryptozoological phenomena reported in Point Pleasant West Virginia back in the 1960s. While the narrative wanders a bit, the central core of the film is something a bit different than your run of the mill horror/thriller. I won't give too much away, but there are a few scenes in this movie that really unsettled me. Exorcist: The Beginning: the late-arriving prequel to The Exorcist, staring Stellan Skarsgård. Everyone I know hates this movie, but I feel it's the best ever capturing of the feeling of paranoia in the desert, something less common in thrillers than I'd like. The demonic feeling isn't as strong as the original, but the performance from Skarsgård as the younger Father Merrin is somehow very relatable. And the scenes underground are sublime (until Sarah shows up). The Objective: this was ultra-indi, and I'm not surprised when most people I tell about it have no idea what I'm talking about. The basic plot is a CIA agent and a Special Forces team in Afghanistan are on a mission to locate an important Muslim cleric for the war effort. The search leads the team deep into the haunting mountains of Western Afghanistan where their run of the mill mission is uncovered as something substantially more terrifying. I believe this is the first thriller about vimanas. Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon: was anyone else seriously disappointed with the Scream films? By how obvious everything was, by how shallow the study of horror films was presented? Behind the Mask is the movie for you. This movie takes place in a reality where Freddy Kruger, Jason Voorhees, and Michael Myers are all real, non-supernatural serial-killers, and where there's a tiny subculture of serial-killers that exist. The movie is presented as a documentary on a soon-to-be-slasher, a sociopath preparing to become a new slasher legend. The presentation of slasher lore is much, much better than any other slasher/urban legend type film, and the performance of the lead, Nathan Baesel, is spot-on. I'll post a few more later.