Yeah, I'll concede that. There's not much character development or central.... theme to the madness, but I prefer how japanese horror plays on the perception of reality and illicits fear in me from presenting supernaturally unnatural situations. Lots of American horror attempts to produce these reactions by showing increasingly realistic and gruesome situations, and showing how fearsome humanity is when one loses their grasp on their morals. I prefer the asian approach of dropping the realism and using the supernatural to describe these horrors.

 

i just saw this post for some blind reason anyways... im gonna see it also.... i just wanna see that guys toe get cut off:noes:

 

Oh yeah... fixed that h:


BUT, nah, as far as I can tell, the main character is obsessed with recording the world around him. He finds a guy who sees something so horrible that he gouges out his own eyes with a knife, so he seeks out to find what caused this. Eventually, he finds that girl, and takes her back to the surface. Crazy shit starts to happen, something about her being his daughter and a flesh eating demon or something... who knows.... haven't seen it yet :-P

 

I will give it that. It does have a style all it's own, I mean one of my favorite slashers was Ichi the Killer, but the follow up to it was highly unimpressive.

The you have the US versions such as Ring which was not the least bit scary, but then Ringu really did nothing for me either. aside from the effective use of disorienting camera angles to cause the psychological reaction of discomfort rather effectivley, once that has lost it's effect and the viewer is used to seeing that then there is nothing else there to hold the viewer.

I still watch them and I find some merit in a few of them but as a whole I don't think the Japanese are very effective in the market. Now if you want to see some really screwed up shit find some German horror flicks, most of them are fairly light in story but it is well defined still, and the camera work is more film noir, but the gore factor is straight up shock cinema. It is hard to watch sometimes (depends on the movie of course) but tends to hold together pretty well until about the last bit of the movies when it falls apart (general rule).

 

German horror is creepy. Danish horror, which I saw briefly, is sad and pathetic though :happysad:



A fun japanese horror movie I always enjoyed was Parasite Eve. Apparently "Last Call" was pretty damn good too...

 

I seem to remember seeing Parasite Eve, but never seen Last Call except on the shelves.

I did get a laugh out of that one flick about the apartment, I think it was directed by Fukasaku who did Battle Ryale but not sure.

 

So i just saw Hostel.

Pretty bloody. Don't go in there with high expectations for an intriguing storyline and character development 'n shit like that.
It was entertaining and was worth the ticket. I'm still a little weirded out.

The girls were very hot.

 

I hope you're right about being worth it, I'm taking my girl to see it today. I hate wasting my money on shitty movies...like, "Into the Blue"...I didn't wanna see it, but my buddy's girl was 17 at the time and couldn't get into a rated R movie, so that was the next "best" movie to see. It sucked balls...JA made the movie interesting (for me, anyways).

 

everytime I see a trailer for a fucked up gore movie (hostel) im like fuck this Im never gonna watch that, but then I end up watchin it anyways like a week later.

 

Into the Blue was fucking awsome h:

see Hostel at night with a huge crowd. it makes it fun