Dudes Of Horror: Three Movies Down

Saturday, November 18, 2006

Three Movies Down

After 21 hours on 2 hours sleep, we have taken in the first three offerings from the 8 Films to Die For horror film fest... and the Horror Dudes have plenty to report.

Turnout was good, as most seats in the Tinseltown Cinemark were full of happy horror fans. A poll I made of the audience indicated that about two dozen audience members would be seeing all 8 films during the weekend. And then I promptly shut the hell up, being somewhat less than possessive of my normal mental faculties. *ahem*

First up for us at 6:00 was "Dark Ride", which was essentially a live action version of a Scooby Doo episode, only with a decaptitation/fellatio scene. Yes. I just wrote "decapitation fellatio scene" and unfortunately it was really the only highlight of the film (I'm including the directly preceeding gratuitous boob shot, of course.)

Remeber the ugly redhead kid you wanted to punch in the face with a hot clothes iron? The kid from those wonderful films "The Sandlot" and "The Big Green"? He stars. Enough said there, I think. Walter has a review rolling around in his beer-addled brain that hopefully he'll shake free and share later today.

Next up was the much anticipated "Reincarnation" from Takashi Shmizu. A fellow audient noted that he had seen the earlier showing and that he didn't really dig it... complaining mostly that it was subtitled. The Horror Dudes found it quite creepy and entertaining, despite the relatively slow pace compared to the rest of the offerings. Maude saw this film on the East coast and sent us a text confirming our assessment: the doll was creepy. Worth seeing, especially if you're a fan of Asian Horror.

One theater cappucino later, we were treated to "Unrest" which was really quite nice and refreshing. Taking a page from the film "Anatomy", there was a lot to do with human corpses and some genuinely fun, gross out scenes that received audible "whoas" from the audience at several points. The only regrettable point about the film, in my estimation, is that there WASN'T a gratuitous boob shot. All dudes agreed: Corri English was raging hot.

Some pictures before I pass out watching "The Big Lebowski"...

Wandering around our hotel... a little too far.