Coming to ya live and direct once again from the Seven-Six-One-Oh-Seven Zombie Zane here with another installment of DEAD END HORROR. This week Sasha and I are talking foreign horror films. She’s got a great article on Dario Argento so make sure you give it a read. As for me, I’m gonna give you my top ten foreign horror movies of all time and review the film ‘THE BABY’S ROOM.’ Sound good? I thought so to.
So enough foreplay, let’s get to my list shall we...
ZOMBIE ZANE’S TOP TEN FOREIGN HORROR MOVIES
10. CRONOS (1993) A Mexican made vampire film written and directed by Guillermo del Toro. I really liked this film, wasn’t really what I expected, but I’m a huge fan of vampire shit so it makes the list.
9. TOKYO GORE POLICE (2008) This Asian horror movie comes in at nine. This bastard is fast paced, full of gore, and just down right bad to the fuckin bone. I could’ve ranked this film higher, and almost did but there are still some good movies on my list so it gets number nine.
8. VAMPYR (1932) Yeah, 1932. Don’t hate. Yes, it’s old, yes it’s dated, but this Scandinavian horror film is considered to be one of the cinema’s greatest horror movies. I don’t know about that, but it’s pretty fuckin trippy. Fo sho a mind bending kinda film.
7. JU-ON (2002) Coming in at the seven is another film from the Asian persuasion. By the way, did you know that ‘Ju-on’ is the Asian version of the American film, ‘The Grudge.?’ And I gotta tell ya, the American version doesn’t have shit on this one. If you liked ‘The Grudge’ or even if you didn’t, watch this bad boy. Trust me, this is 10x better than the made in the USA one.
6. DEAD SNOW (2009) Nazi zombies! Need I say more? This little gem comes out of Norway and lands in the six spot. I really, REALLY liked this one. It has some of the best gore scenes I’ve seen in a long time. There’s this one part where...Wait. Sorry. I don’t wanna spoil it for ya. Just hop on Netflix and give this a shot. Too fuckin’ cool for school y’all. It gets a what the what!
Okay, we’re half done here. Enjoying the list thus far? Me too. But I am growing weary of all this typing. This was more work than I thought. EGAD!!
5. SALO (1975) Also known as ‘120 Days of Sodom.’ I can’t stress enough how fucked this movie is. And when I say fucked, I mean fucked in a good way. This film too has a Nazi theme to it. These Nazi’s aren’t zombies though. If you’re into torture films, this is the film for you. Again, WATCH WITH EXTREME CAUTION!!!!
4. THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE: FIRST SEQUENCE (2009) This film gives a whole new meaning to the term "ass to mouth." This bad boy comes outta the Netherlands and it is quite disturbing. Hence the ass to mouth reference. It takes a lot to eek me out. It really does. But there were a few parts in this motherfucker that just blew my mind. Not a movie for the faint of heart.
3. NOSFERATU (1929) Landing in the trey is the German classic directed by F.W. Murnau. Yes, it’s silent, but this is by far the BEST Dracula adaptation ever. Fuck all the remakes, sometimes old-school rules. And in this case it does. I own this film and have literally seen it like fifty times. This film is where it all began so if you haven’t seen it, hop over to Netflix after you read this and give it a watch.
2. OLDBOY (2003) Out of Korea this revenge movie lands in the two spot. This is by far one of the best if not the best revenge movies of all time. I mean when the dude cuts out his own tongue, HOLY SHIT!! I was into this movie from start to finish and damn near made it my numero uno. All I can really say about this film is...WATCH IT!! It’ll really trip your shit.
1. LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (2008) Okay, here it is. The best foreign horror movie of all time. This is better, WAY better than the shitty ass, piece of total fuck American remake. This film is beautiful from start to finish. The acting, the cinematography, the music, the feel, I mean this is how you do a horror film. As I said, I dig the shit outta vampire films and this is probably my favorite film in that genre. Yeah, it’s subtitled, so ya gotta read but it is TOTALLY worth it.
Well, there it is. The top ten best foreign horror films of all time. You may agree, you may disagree, but I’m sure you’ll find all these movies worth a watch. So until next time, take care, stay a-scared, and I am out.
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Friday, May 13, 2011
DON'T YOU KNOW I'M LOCO!!!! by: Zombie Zane
AWWWWWWWW SHIIIIIIIT!! Zombie Zane here coming to ya live and direct from the Seven-Six-One-Oh-Seven. Hope all is well in your corner(s) of the world. And before I forget, I wanna wish everyone a very happy and safe Friday 13th. Make sure and watch something scary today, yes.
Anyway, speaking of something scary, this week my partner in crime (the talented Sasha Slaughter) and I decided to view the movie, "THE BABY’S ROOM." Ever seen it? No? Then kick back for a second and let me enlighten you.
"THE BABY’S ROOM" is a 2006 Spanish horror film directed by Alex de la Iglesia. It’s available on Netflix and runs just about 80mins. It’s also one of the "6 Films to Keep You Awake." Now I haven’t seen any of the other five, but if those films are like this one, then you can bet your ass that I won’t.
So this film starts out with a young couple and a baby moving into this huge house. And like all theses kinda movies, everything seems ok at first. But when the couple hear voices coming out of the baby monitor, that’s when the shit hits the fan. As the plot unfolds, the couple come to realize that their new home is a portal to a parallel world full of murder!! Sounds exciting huh? Not so much.
This film was more like a ‘thinking man’s’ horror movie. Now when I watch a horror movie, I don’t wanna think. I just wanna see gore, nudity, and scary shit. This movie delivered none of the above. I mean there were some eerie scenes, but nothing to write home about. To me, this film was a cross between ‘The Ring’ and ‘The Grudge.’ And I gotta tell ya, those type of movies are played out. At least for me anyway. Needless to say, I was really disappointed in this movie. Live and learn I guess. So, let me break it down a lil
further...
BODY COUNT - 0 - I’m putting a zero here even though there was a killing but it was within the parallel world so you’ll have to watch and draw your own conclusion.
SEVERINGS - 0 - Gracias por nada!!
SEX SCENES - 0 - Another nada
NUDITY NUMBER - 0.5 out of 5 - Nothing here but a bit of tit.
GORE SCORE - 0 out of 5 - No blood, no guts a big fat BOO!
MY SCORE - 1.75 out of 5 - Not even a 2. Honestly a waste of 80mins.
Well, there you go. My take on the film, "THE BABY’S ROOM." Until next time, take care, stay a-scared and I am out.
Anyway, speaking of something scary, this week my partner in crime (the talented Sasha Slaughter) and I decided to view the movie, "THE BABY’S ROOM." Ever seen it? No? Then kick back for a second and let me enlighten you.
"THE BABY’S ROOM" is a 2006 Spanish horror film directed by Alex de la Iglesia. It’s available on Netflix and runs just about 80mins. It’s also one of the "6 Films to Keep You Awake." Now I haven’t seen any of the other five, but if those films are like this one, then you can bet your ass that I won’t.
So this film starts out with a young couple and a baby moving into this huge house. And like all theses kinda movies, everything seems ok at first. But when the couple hear voices coming out of the baby monitor, that’s when the shit hits the fan. As the plot unfolds, the couple come to realize that their new home is a portal to a parallel world full of murder!! Sounds exciting huh? Not so much.
This film was more like a ‘thinking man’s’ horror movie. Now when I watch a horror movie, I don’t wanna think. I just wanna see gore, nudity, and scary shit. This movie delivered none of the above. I mean there were some eerie scenes, but nothing to write home about. To me, this film was a cross between ‘The Ring’ and ‘The Grudge.’ And I gotta tell ya, those type of movies are played out. At least for me anyway. Needless to say, I was really disappointed in this movie. Live and learn I guess. So, let me break it down a lil
further...
BODY COUNT - 0 - I’m putting a zero here even though there was a killing but it was within the parallel world so you’ll have to watch and draw your own conclusion.
SEVERINGS - 0 - Gracias por nada!!
SEX SCENES - 0 - Another nada
NUDITY NUMBER - 0.5 out of 5 - Nothing here but a bit of tit.
GORE SCORE - 0 out of 5 - No blood, no guts a big fat BOO!
MY SCORE - 1.75 out of 5 - Not even a 2. Honestly a waste of 80mins.
Well, there you go. My take on the film, "THE BABY’S ROOM." Until next time, take care, stay a-scared and I am out.
Losing my movie review virginity...Ouch! by Sasha Slaughter
So this week, Zombie Zane and I are trying something new. We both watched "The baby's room" and we're both going to do a movie review on it. I've never done a movie review, and Zombie Zane, yeah, he's done a few. So here it goes.
The movie is foreign, Mexican I think. It starts with two little boys playing in and abandoned house. One of the boys finds what appears to be a radio and takes it upstairs where he finds a puddle on the floor. He leans down to look into the puddle, and he gets pulled into it by someone or something (not really sure of the significance of the puddle or the radio) Some time later a married couple (Sonia and Juan) and their baby move into the same house and start renovating it. They are given baby monitors by relatives and while they are in bed they begin to hear strange noises and voices coming from the monitors. Juan decides to buy newer monitors and shortly after, he begins seeing things, such as a man in a suit sitting beside his sons crib.
Juan freaks out one night after seeing the man in the suit again and his wife gets scared and takes their baby and leaves. And then comes the creepy white haired lady, who was one of the children in the beginnging of the movie. She carries around the radio that the little boy was playing with while he was in the house. Again, not too sure of the significance of her either. I don't get it! Anyway, the lady tells him to leave the house, that it would be for his own good. Later that night he turns on the baby monitor and catches a glimpse of what looks like someone naked (only a brief butt shot though) crawling on the floor, slightly bloody. He freaks out and goes to talk to Domingo, who works at the same paper that he does.
Juan asks him about the possibility of cameras being able to capture things that the eye can't see. Domingo then goes on and on about a cat in a box and a particle and parallel worlds...again, I didn't get it really. I think that by using the baby monitor with the camera he maybe opened some parallel world and he doesn't know how to stop it...I think. He buys more monitors and sets them up in every room to try and capture the man in the suit. He follows the man into the bathroom where he sees his wife in the bathtub, and what appears to be himself, standing over her with a screwdriver as he stabs her in neck with it.
His wife comes back home and he tries to explain it to her and she gets scared when he starts to act weird and wants to leave the house immediately. After a brief scuffle, Sonia stabs Juan in the hand to keep him from taking the baby and Juan knocks her out. Sonia wakes up and the police tell her that her baby is fine. Juan is standing by the ambulance with the baby when Sonia notices that there isn't a cut on his hand where she stabbed him with a knife. She then starts to panic and yells that that isn't Juan. The end!! Ughh!
I'm giving the movie an overall score of 1.5. You kind of had to think about what was going on while you were watching it, which was kind of distracting. It didn't start to get even kind of good until almost the end. There wasn't much nudity (1 brief boob and butt shot, but nakedness isn't everything now is it?) not really much blood (just when the wife got stabbed in the neck, and some blood smeared on the bathroom wall) there was one murder (in the parallel world, if it counts) and really not much gore. Gore, blood, and murder is what makes a horror movie great! But overall, I was pretty disappointed in this movie. It kind of gets a major BOOO!!! So thats that. Don't forget to check out Zanes top foreign horror films. Til next time!
The movie is foreign, Mexican I think. It starts with two little boys playing in and abandoned house. One of the boys finds what appears to be a radio and takes it upstairs where he finds a puddle on the floor. He leans down to look into the puddle, and he gets pulled into it by someone or something (not really sure of the significance of the puddle or the radio) Some time later a married couple (Sonia and Juan) and their baby move into the same house and start renovating it. They are given baby monitors by relatives and while they are in bed they begin to hear strange noises and voices coming from the monitors. Juan decides to buy newer monitors and shortly after, he begins seeing things, such as a man in a suit sitting beside his sons crib.
Juan freaks out one night after seeing the man in the suit again and his wife gets scared and takes their baby and leaves. And then comes the creepy white haired lady, who was one of the children in the beginnging of the movie. She carries around the radio that the little boy was playing with while he was in the house. Again, not too sure of the significance of her either. I don't get it! Anyway, the lady tells him to leave the house, that it would be for his own good. Later that night he turns on the baby monitor and catches a glimpse of what looks like someone naked (only a brief butt shot though) crawling on the floor, slightly bloody. He freaks out and goes to talk to Domingo, who works at the same paper that he does.
Juan asks him about the possibility of cameras being able to capture things that the eye can't see. Domingo then goes on and on about a cat in a box and a particle and parallel worlds...again, I didn't get it really. I think that by using the baby monitor with the camera he maybe opened some parallel world and he doesn't know how to stop it...I think. He buys more monitors and sets them up in every room to try and capture the man in the suit. He follows the man into the bathroom where he sees his wife in the bathtub, and what appears to be himself, standing over her with a screwdriver as he stabs her in neck with it.
His wife comes back home and he tries to explain it to her and she gets scared when he starts to act weird and wants to leave the house immediately. After a brief scuffle, Sonia stabs Juan in the hand to keep him from taking the baby and Juan knocks her out. Sonia wakes up and the police tell her that her baby is fine. Juan is standing by the ambulance with the baby when Sonia notices that there isn't a cut on his hand where she stabbed him with a knife. She then starts to panic and yells that that isn't Juan. The end!! Ughh!
I'm giving the movie an overall score of 1.5. You kind of had to think about what was going on while you were watching it, which was kind of distracting. It didn't start to get even kind of good until almost the end. There wasn't much nudity (1 brief boob and butt shot, but nakedness isn't everything now is it?) not really much blood (just when the wife got stabbed in the neck, and some blood smeared on the bathroom wall) there was one murder (in the parallel world, if it counts) and really not much gore. Gore, blood, and murder is what makes a horror movie great! But overall, I was pretty disappointed in this movie. It kind of gets a major BOOO!!! So thats that. Don't forget to check out Zanes top foreign horror films. Til next time!
Dario Argento bio by Sasha Slaughter
This week on Dead End it's all about Foreign Horror. I'm not nearly as familiar with foreign horror as my partner in crime Zombie Zane is, so bear with me huh?? Since our topic is foreign horror, I'll be giving a brief bio of Dario Argento, an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter. Argento is best known for his work in the horror genre, and also in the subgenre known as giallo. He's had a major influence on horror and slasher films.
Dario Argento was born in Rome on September 7, 1940. He was the son of Salvatore Argento, a film producer/executive and Brazilian born Elda Luxardo, a photographer. He started his career as a movie critic, writing for various magazines while still in highschool. After finishing highschool, Argento elected to skip college and take a job as a columnist at the newspaper Paese Sera. While working for the newspaper, he became a screenwriter. His most noted work was for Sergio Leone; he and Bernardo Bertolucci worked together on a story for the spaghetti western classic Once Upon A Time In the West. The film was released in 1969 and soon after Argento began working on his directorial debut The Bird with the Crystal Plummage. It was released in 1970 and was a huge success in Italy.
In his early directing career, Argento focused mostly on the giallo genre (mostly known as "thriller" in Italy. The word "giallo" means yellow in Italian, mainly referring to generic mystery works.) He directed two more successful thrillers, The Cat o'Nine Tails (1971) and Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1972.) Along with The Bird with the Crystal Plummage, these three inital films were a part of Argento's "animal trilogy". After some time, he turned his attention away from giallo films and produced two Italian dramas and a period comedy (Five Days in Milan, 1973). He returned to giallo in 1975 with Deep Red, often hailed as the best giallo ever made. The film made Argento internationally famous and inspired a number of other directors to work in the genre.
His next movie was Suspiria (1977), a violent supernatural thriller. Argento planned for Suspiria to be the first intallment of a trilogy about "The Three Mothers", three ancient witches residing in three different modern cities. The second part of the trilogy was Inferno (1980) and then The Mother of Tears (2007) concluded the trilogy.
In between working on the trilogy, Dario collaborated with George A. Romero on Dawn of the Dead that earned him a producer credit on the zombie classic. After Inferno Argento returned to the conventional giallo with Tenebrae (1982). He then combined giallo with supernatural fantasy when he made the film Phenomena, which later became known as Creepers (1985). And then his next film, Opera (1987) was set in Parma's Regio Theatre during production of Verdi's Macbeth.
His next movie was The Stendhal Syndrome (1996) and it starred Argento's daughter Asia, who happened to suffer from Stendhal Syndrome. It was about a policewoman (played by Argento's daughter) who was trapped by a serial killer in an abandoned warehouse. It was the first Italian film to use computer-generated imagery (CGI). The opening of The Stendhal Syndrome was shot in Florence, at the famed Uffizi Gallery, and Argento was the only director ever to recieve permission to shoot there.
His follow up was in 2004 with The Card Player, a giallo about a killer whose murders happen during internet poker matches with the Rome police. Many felt that the movie was too mainstream and that Argento didn't stick to his usual way of directing.
In 2005 was Argento's Do You Like Hitchcock, which was broadcast on TV. Later that year, he directed a segment of Masters of Horror, and a Showtime television series called "Jenifer". Shortly after, Argento directed an adaptation of the F. Paul Wilson short story "Pelts" for season 2 of Masters of Horror.
On June 26, 2009 Argento's latest movie "Giallo" premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival, but it failed in Italian cinemas. Because of the films failure, he decided to try again. He is involved in a horror memorabilia store located in Rome, named Profondo Rosso, after his classic film Deep Red. The store is managed by his long friend Luigi Cozzi. He also contributed in the development of the survival horror video game Dead Space. And later this year, Argento will produce the American remake of his cult classic Suspiria and he is also planning on filming Dracula 3D in Budapest.
There you have it, a short, or maybe kinda long, bio of Dario Argento. Don't forget to read up on Zombie Zanes articles and our foreign horror movie reviews, coming soon!! And as always, be sure to check back next week!!
Dario Argento was born in Rome on September 7, 1940. He was the son of Salvatore Argento, a film producer/executive and Brazilian born Elda Luxardo, a photographer. He started his career as a movie critic, writing for various magazines while still in highschool. After finishing highschool, Argento elected to skip college and take a job as a columnist at the newspaper Paese Sera. While working for the newspaper, he became a screenwriter. His most noted work was for Sergio Leone; he and Bernardo Bertolucci worked together on a story for the spaghetti western classic Once Upon A Time In the West. The film was released in 1969 and soon after Argento began working on his directorial debut The Bird with the Crystal Plummage. It was released in 1970 and was a huge success in Italy.
In his early directing career, Argento focused mostly on the giallo genre (mostly known as "thriller" in Italy. The word "giallo" means yellow in Italian, mainly referring to generic mystery works.) He directed two more successful thrillers, The Cat o'Nine Tails (1971) and Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1972.) Along with The Bird with the Crystal Plummage, these three inital films were a part of Argento's "animal trilogy". After some time, he turned his attention away from giallo films and produced two Italian dramas and a period comedy (Five Days in Milan, 1973). He returned to giallo in 1975 with Deep Red, often hailed as the best giallo ever made. The film made Argento internationally famous and inspired a number of other directors to work in the genre.
His next movie was Suspiria (1977), a violent supernatural thriller. Argento planned for Suspiria to be the first intallment of a trilogy about "The Three Mothers", three ancient witches residing in three different modern cities. The second part of the trilogy was Inferno (1980) and then The Mother of Tears (2007) concluded the trilogy.
In between working on the trilogy, Dario collaborated with George A. Romero on Dawn of the Dead that earned him a producer credit on the zombie classic. After Inferno Argento returned to the conventional giallo with Tenebrae (1982). He then combined giallo with supernatural fantasy when he made the film Phenomena, which later became known as Creepers (1985). And then his next film, Opera (1987) was set in Parma's Regio Theatre during production of Verdi's Macbeth.
His next movie was The Stendhal Syndrome (1996) and it starred Argento's daughter Asia, who happened to suffer from Stendhal Syndrome. It was about a policewoman (played by Argento's daughter) who was trapped by a serial killer in an abandoned warehouse. It was the first Italian film to use computer-generated imagery (CGI). The opening of The Stendhal Syndrome was shot in Florence, at the famed Uffizi Gallery, and Argento was the only director ever to recieve permission to shoot there.
His follow up was in 2004 with The Card Player, a giallo about a killer whose murders happen during internet poker matches with the Rome police. Many felt that the movie was too mainstream and that Argento didn't stick to his usual way of directing.
In 2005 was Argento's Do You Like Hitchcock, which was broadcast on TV. Later that year, he directed a segment of Masters of Horror, and a Showtime television series called "Jenifer". Shortly after, Argento directed an adaptation of the F. Paul Wilson short story "Pelts" for season 2 of Masters of Horror.
On June 26, 2009 Argento's latest movie "Giallo" premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival, but it failed in Italian cinemas. Because of the films failure, he decided to try again. He is involved in a horror memorabilia store located in Rome, named Profondo Rosso, after his classic film Deep Red. The store is managed by his long friend Luigi Cozzi. He also contributed in the development of the survival horror video game Dead Space. And later this year, Argento will produce the American remake of his cult classic Suspiria and he is also planning on filming Dracula 3D in Budapest.
There you have it, a short, or maybe kinda long, bio of Dario Argento. Don't forget to read up on Zombie Zanes articles and our foreign horror movie reviews, coming soon!! And as always, be sure to check back next week!!
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