[kj] OT: Scary/horror films vs. "disturbing" movies

[Brendan]

Someone mentioned the film BAD BOY BUBBY (I think) to me recently, not
scary as much as disturbing. Weird Aussie flick. I started watching it in
an internet cafe and turned it off cos I didn't want to disturb others.
It's all up on Youtube in bits.

Oh and the same mate mentioned OLD BOY, so I'll have to give that a watch...



> I think HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER was one of the first that

> bridged the divide between scary versus horror in a more mainstream-y

> way than previously. For example, remember the movie _SEVEN_, lauded at

> the time, with its Nine Inch Nails, etc. soundtrack, as being one of the

> finest in that kind of SILENCE OF THE LAMBS genre?

>

> You have that type of film, whose prototype might be Hitchcock's PSYCHO

> or even Fritz Lang's "M."

>

> Has anyone seen the very good Australian horro movie WOLF CREEK? I

> thought it was a fine, new addition to the horror genre, complete with

> an anti-charismatic villain a la Leatherface or Freddy Krueger, but it

> seemed "fresh" somehow. Some folks complained the first half of WOLF

> CREEK was slow and/or boring. But, to me, it was a deliberate,

> suspense-building build-up, for the last, truly scary third of the film.

>

> And then there are just fucking disturbing, unnerving, unsettling

> movies, which I heistate to call horror films: Pier Paolo Pasolini's

> SALO: THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM from 1974, stull banned in many countries,

> after which the director was murdered. Criterion just re-released a box

> set of this, which I promptly purchased. This and movies like Jean-Luc

> Godard's WEEKEND (which, like WOLF CREEK, has a slow buildup to a really

> disturbing last fourth or so of the movie), or SWEET MOVIE, or some

> Japanese movies like OLD BOY, AUDITION, ICHI THE KILLER -- or IN MY

> SKIN.... these blur the lines between horror and sheer, unsettling

> mindfuck.

>

> Sorry, Leigh, for overlooking your mention of the excellent original 70s

> BLACK CHRISTMAS, a true horror classic.

>

> -Oliver

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