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August 23, 2006
A forgotten the other day but something we like the people to know, especially the ones that think this wouldn’t go as far as it has Bastards of Horror has now surpassed 6000 hits in six months! Thank you to the people who support us and to the few that don’t fuck you! Also keep returning as we have lots to post about the upcoming Genghis Con 2 convention, Cinema Wasteland, and some future plans at conventions plus among other things…
Posted by Tim on
August 23, 2006
Hey to all my lovely fans at Bastards of Horror!
I will be at Monster Mania this weekend with Troma. Hope to see some of you there! For more info on the event, the link is http://www.monstermania.net
Also, my website has some more updates and new features! Check out my official website at http://www.dropdeadbeauty.com And if you want to meet me, I will be at Genghis Con with Bastards of Horror as their model! More info coming up!
Tiffany Apan
Posted by Tim on
August 23, 2006
Cinematical Seven: 7 Best Horror Movies of the Past 7 Years
Posted by Jeffrey M. Anderson
From AOHELL’s webpage
I’m a film critic and I love horror movies. According to the studios, I do not exist. This year they have decided that horror movies (among other types) don’t need reviews, and they have opened some dozen of them without press screenings, the latest batch being Pulse, Snakes on a Plane and The Wicker Man. Now, it may be that these movies are terrible. Or perhaps they just require a certain sensibility to understand them. In any case, they deserve a shot, and to show the studios that we critics are capable of getting horror movies, I worked on a list of the seven best from the past seven years. Surprisingly, my master list came out to more than 30 titles, which I painfully pared down to this final seven (I even had to leave out Saw and Ravenous!). Significantly, each of these films was made available to the press prior to their openings.
1. Pulse (2001, Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
This, the scariest movie I’ve seen in years, gave me the creeping tingles. Like Lynch or Bunuel, Kurosawa has the power to tap right into our most nightmarish fears, but does it subtly, normally, like something lurking just outside the periphery of our everyday existence. Released in the U.S. in 2005.
2. Land of the Dead (2005, George A. Romero)
Romero adds another chapter to his legendary, brilliantly masterful zombie series, evoking all manner of classical imagery to build a harrowing portrait of the way we live today. And that’s really scary.
3. Audition (2001, Takashi Miike)
Three words: watch the bag.
4. The Blair Witch Project (1999, Eduardo Sanchez, Daniel Myrick)
Pushing through the hype, the money, the buildup and the backlash, one can find at the rocky center a really good, quite imaginative and gripping film done with an eye on the unseen and the unknown.
5. The Descent (2006, Neil Marshall)
The second-scariest movie I’ve seen in years features incredible use of total darkness as well as a surprising look at the darkness of the soul.
6. Session 9 (2001, Brad Anderson)
This underrated, barely noticed film is perhaps the most intelligent haunted house (or rather haunted hospital) movie I’ve ever seen.
7. The Devil’s Backbone (2001, Guillermo Del Toro)
This creepy flick, improbably set in an adobe school smack in the middle of the bright Spanish desert, may be Del Toro’s finest hour.
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