I was going to buy Martyrs on Amazon just now and the cheapest I can find is 39.00 USD. It's not on Netflix DVDs either. I saw it a couple years ago and can't remember how...
#5
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Released in 1974, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a macabre and frightening tale inspired by the serial killer and canibal Ed Gein. "Inspired by true events", we follow Sally and her "invalid" brother Franklin and a group of her friends as the investigate rumors of graves which have been robbed and twisted by an unnamed individual.
God damn. This movie is beyond depraved and twisted. It's a classic and a film I watch every year, and certain scenes never cease to creep me out. Leatherface is a horror movie icon, and the way that Gunnar Hansen portrays the deviant killer is legendary.
This is a film that experiments a ton with noise. Chainsaws, hammers, metal doors, cutting, slicing, dicing...there actually isn't a ton of on screen blood in the movie, but the sounds of the screams and the chainsaw make up for it and creates something much more uncomfortable in your mind.
Watch this.
5/5
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6. Ghoulies
This movie was... something. Kyle MacLachlan inherits his warlock dad's mansion, then promptly proceeds to follow in his satanic footsteps. He summons a bunch of discount Gremlins and a couple Nelwyns. Chaos predictably ensues. Young, dumb, and horny people die, then don't die, then Deus Ex Machina. The end.
1/4 stars.
Amazing.
Yeah, it's funny- amazing concepts and horror coupled with crippling character decisions.
This early film from Cronenberg is one of the best, and most disturbing, twists on the zombie film I've ever seen. Set in a utopian, self-sustaining island high rise facility for the rich, it soon becomes infested by a parasite that turns everyone into sexual maniacs, assaulting anyone they can in order to propagate its life cycle. The film opens in a pretty shocking way, and doesn't let up from there. There's some black humor mixed in, but for the most part I was incredibly creeped out for most of the film, especially in the third act when things go full tilt. Not only does it bring the claustrophobic terror of a zombie film (leveraging its setting wonderfully) filled with plenty of requisite grotesque Cronenbergian body horror, but it's also an intellectually driven Freudian nightmare. Even though it's one of his early films it is remarkably well realized, and I highly recommend it to Cronenberg fans who haven't seen it yet.
That's understating it!
Word!
I don't think "fun for the viewer" was really a goal for Lars von Trier in this film haha. The lack of music and sparse dialogue helped make the film extremely unsettling to me, especially combined with the ethereal and haunting visuals:
It's not really that we had to be afraid of the woods themselves, but the mental depreciation of the wife that is is set up at the beginning of the movie. But as it continues, obviously the tension spreads to other aspects as well. "Antichrist"is a misleading title in that it doesn't have to do with the antichrist at all, but I think it's fitting on an allegorical level because the film is about inversions, and the evil that lurks within them; nature vs civilization and man vs woman being two obvious ones. There's also a theme of exploring the evils of misogyny in the film, so if Christ is supposed to be the savior of man, then Antichrist can be read as the destroyer of women in this context. It's a pretty complex movie though, and there are a ton of different readings you could have of it. Even though it's illusive, I think it's a profoundly disturbing movie even factoring out the graphic violence.
That final shot though! Uggg
