The Horror! The Horror! – Week Six.

Back from the ether, welcome to the new column, ladies and gentlemen. I hope you’ve all had an extremely busy week/weekend, watching many movies, enjoying yourself, etc, etc. Also well done to all those lucky souls who went to The Eye screening last night, from the looks of it, everyone had a good time!

Right, onto the news – let me start this week with a bit of an odd one – nothing to with the genre, however very important to me, this week sees the release of Feng Xiagoang’s The Assembly. A war movie about one man’s quest to honor his fallen comrades, The Assembly is an excellent film albeit being plagued by the genre’s trapping. The central performance by Zuang Hyang is absolutely astounding and if you get a chance this weekend, I highly recommend that you see this film!

Now onto the news – I don’t know about you but when I found out that Ted Nicolau had a new film out (albeit being shot in 2006) soon, I could not stop myself from getting excited. After all Mr. Nicolau is the man behind such films as TerrorVision and …..well look at his IMDB filmgorahpy to see what I’m talking about – surely this is bound to be as awful fun as the others! Take a look at the Making Of video here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=BSNEV9_SLqw

Next up is South Korean serial-killer thriller Rainbow Eyes. The film is about two inspectors have been an inseparable duo ever since their police academy days. One day, the two inspectors take on the case of a young rich sports center owner, violently stabbed to death. The only clue to the case is a piece of body hair with AB blood type found at the scene. The two inspectors identify a swimming instructor as a major suspect to the case, but he later gets brutally murdered in the same way. It is later revealed that the two victims and a third party were once in the same army and committed a disgraceful act together. The police see the murders as a serial murder case in revenge for the victim at the time. From the trailer it looks like it might be good bloody fun and the reviews that have been coming in recently have generally been positive. Take a look for yourself at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po8uNkJk9xI

Continuing the South Korean theme , we have Seven Days: a genre defying thriller. Part knidnap drama, part legalese thriller, part mystery, the film Seven tells the story of Lee Ji-yeon (played by Kim Yun-jin), a brilliant lawyer with a perfect winning record whose life takes a dramatic turn when her eight-year-old daughter is kidnapped. In lieu of ransom, the abductor gives Lee seven days to win an impossible murder case, or she will never see her daughter again. This one also has a trailer that just makes it so damn awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbuPyiEbFVM

Onto Japan, where the live action remake of the popular Manga (then Anime) When They Cry is finally being released. The plot concerns the new guy in town, having just moved into the small rural village of Hinamizawa, but when Keiichi joins an after-school club and befriends four cute girls, life doesn't seem too bad. That is, until he learns about demonic cults and a failed Dam construction project, plus the grisly murders and disappearances that have occurred every year after the town festival. As shocking past events are unveiled through different viewpoints, Keiichi learns that things and even people aren't what they appear to be. How many of his club "friends" are involved and what are their plans for him? I advise looking at the trailer because it is extremely cool: http://www.higurashi-movie.com/ (Warning: The site is in Japanese so you might have to random click a bit before you get to the trailer! But it’s definitely worth it!)

And let me sign off with a final piece of interesting news: a new horror film from Twisted Pictures by the name of Chain Letter. The plot concerns a group of six friends from Carlson High School who receive a mysterious chain letter that moves from their email accounts and text messaging to a creepy little icon that begins haunting their My Space pages. As the friends battle the curse or a perpetrator targeting them - friendships are tested once the ominous message begins killing them in the more gruesome ways imaginable, turning one friend against another, with "rules" that seem impossible to escape: The chain letter must be passed to the person you know best and have seen over the past 24 hours. That person must open the letter. Break the chain and a horrible death awaits you. Beat it and you just might live. Do you pass it on? Does friendship mean anything? And although the teaser looks mighty cheesy, I have to say the idea intrigues me: I don’t think I saw a good letter originating horror flick since Le Corbeau (I’m not counting last years Pars Vite Reviens Tard (trailer/teaser here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=SnRC_rc7xEo) since the messages were not strictly letters.) Watch the teaser here: http://deontaylorenterprises.com/projects/movie/chain_letter

Until next time, enjoy!

Yours Sincerely

Evrim ‘The Duke’ Ersoy

P.s.: I love my ps’s. I really do. Wanna se Liam Neeson be totally badass? Wanna hear a line that you’ll keep quoting over the coming weekend. Then watch the trailer for Taken here and then come and thank me. No seriously, come and thank me.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7sGGRS_UaPY

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