I love horror movies. Can't get enough. I wouldn't even really say they scare me for the most part, but that's not even the reason I watch them. I watch because I'm obsessed with the different devices and methods that a filmmaker will use to get scares. A perfect example is the climax in Halloween, when Laurie Strode, played by that tranny Jamie Lee Curtis, kneels at the frame of the door which opens into the room where she's just killed her masked assailant, Michael Myers. Before she can catch her breath, he sits straight back up. If you try and tell me that isn't one of the scariest scenes in movie history, you're a dope.
Again though, it's not actually frightening, it's more of a "cool" scary. I have a smile on my face the whole time. I like scenes that make me yell "Fuck, that ruled." Unfortunately the american horror movie has become an endless string of bad remakes, in which they take movies from Japan and Korea and strip them of all beauty and artistic sense, the very things that make them scary, and replace it with cheap thrills, jump scenes, and happy endings.
I went to see "The Strangers" the other night, and all I can say is fuuuck, that ruled. The movie was exactly how it should have been. It's been getting terrible reviews, and the people I went with hated it, but I will not be swayed. If you saw "Funny Games", you'd probably recognize The Strangers as a less lyrical, worse acted version of that, and I mean that in the best way possible. I'm not gonna give it away, but the ending is perfect.
All the music in the movie is played through the turntable in the house, one of those aforementioned cool devices I hold so dear. The soundtrack has a couple great songs: Richard Bruckner's "Ariel Ramirez", the Woody Guthrie written, Billy Bragg and Wilco performed "At My Window Sad and Lonely", and "The Sprout and the Bean", from the Joanna Newsom album "The Milk-Eyed Mender".
Joanna Newsom - "The Milk-Eyed Mender" (2004)
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