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

[bongo]

BAD BOY BUBBY is a classic!



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i can often be heard in the car, yelling at pedestrians as far as 200m
away, "get off the fuckin road ya fuckin greasy bastard!!!"  ....of
course i make sure the windows are all up and no-one outside can
actually hear me, but it cheers me up no end!



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On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Brendan <bq at soundgardener.co.nz> wrote:

> 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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