The Crazies

Inhabitants of a small Pennsylvania town are beset by death and insanity after a plane crash lets loose a secret biological weapon into the water supply.

Deadgirl [2008]

Two high school boys discover an imprisoned woman in an abandoned mental asylum who cannot die.

for 2010 we wait for: HIDDEN (Skjult)

Hidden is the story of Kai Koss who upon the death of his cruel mother unwillingly returns to the small town he ran away from 19 years ago. He is left in charge of the family home and the dark secrets that come with it. Kai soon finds himself tangled up in a series of murderous events that are beyond anyones control and his troubles begin to overwhelm him. He has spent the past two decades trying to forget a tortured past only to find that there are some things that you just cant run from.

Seventh Moon [2008]

Director: Eduardo Sanchez [Blair Witch Project]

Melissa and Yul, two Americans honeymooning in China, enjoy the exotic "Hungry Ghost" festival that honors these spirits. But as night falls, they find themselves abandoned in a remote village and soon they realize the legend is all too real.

Plunged into an ancient custom they cannot comprehend, the couple must find a way to survive the night of the Seventh Moon

Zombieland [2009]

Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) doesn't have fears. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they're about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other.

2010 IS NEAR: Daybreakers [2009]

In the year 2019, a plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind.

Release date: 8 January 2010 (USA)

The Dead Outside [2009]

A neurological pandemic has consumed the population. Drug-resistance has mutated the virus into a ravaging psychological plague, rendering the 'the dying' desperate, paranoid and violent. Two survivors come together on an isolated farmhouse in desperate circumstances- April, a young mysterious girl with a dark past has survived alone for months, and Daniel, a man desperate and bereaved, clings desperately onto hope in the outside world. When a mysterious stranger turns up, they are confronted with a new enemy even deadlier than the one beyond the perimeter.

Doghouse [2009]

A group of men head to a remote village to help one of their friends get over his divorce; when they get there, though, they discover that all the women have been infected with a virus that makes them man-hating cannibals.

Diary of the dead [2007]

director: George A. Romero [Night Of The Living Dead, Dawn Of The Dead]

Amusement [2009]

Three women are stalked by a killer with a grudge that extends back to the girls' childhoods.

Dark floors [2008]

While in the hospital for a tomography of the brain of his autistic daughter Sarah, Ben becomes upset when there is a power failure. He decides to leave the hospital with Sarah, while the nurse Emily tries to convince him to leave Sarah for further treatment. They get the elevator with three other passengers, and suddenly the elevator stops; when the door opens, people has vanished from the hospital.

Splinter [2008]

Trapped in an isolated gas station by a voracious Splinter parasite that transforms its still living victims into deadly hosts, a young couple and an escaped convict must find a way to work together to survive this primal terror.

Dogura Magura (1988) - dir. Toshio Matsumoto

"A man is confined to a mental institution after trying to murder his fiancee. Two doctors relate his problem to an Asian philosophy that states that mental defects are transmitted from generation to generation. He learns that one of his distant ancestors murdered his wife as a way of demonstrating a point to his lord about the importance of love over the emptiness of lust and to drive home the point further, created a series of illustrations of the dead woman decaying which in turn trigger the memories of his distant descendent. But is the whole thing merely a game concocted by the two doctors, who may even have driven themselves mad?" (imdb)




Based on a classic Japanese underground novel by Kyusaku Yumeno.

Interview with Toshio Matsumoto

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Japanese band Dir en grey make a reference to Dogra Magra in their song Vinushka, from their 2008 album Uroboros.



Dir en grey - Vinushka

I exchange thoughts with the clouds
I hold my breath
Ahh, it's just hard shell you can't see
Is that where the bottom is? The shadow burns me
Ahh, I just want to keep forgetting
Slip your desires into the ants' nest
Come now, all you have to do now is be reborn again

Let tomorrow sleep and peacefulness will turn to you
Free yourself and go with your razor sharp emotions
Even the twisted flow is the proof that you're alive
I invite the tearfully-indulging sorrow

The inculated Dogra Magra
The pain of the mark and the one and only personality
And those colorful eyes all decorated I don't want them anymore
Is hypocrisy going to come and take it all away?
The lonely red stage at night
I dedicate the following to the aspiring leading actor
That's where the truth is

The small corner of my un-cheatable heart says "I still want to be here"
Who can't we forgive?
I let them hear my cold voice
And I swear

I will live with my work I scream with this body of flesh that separates heaven and hell
I carve the sins What will be the proof of my existence if it disappears with the wind?

"I've stared at the strong shining moon long enough to be bored
Can't even turn myself into a werewolf
But just enough to become crazy by the darkness
I want to suck the neck
The emptiness of the remains
I won't let you sleep
At the age where you just want attention... tonight, I might go crazy for you"

Everyone wants to reach out their hand and grab happiness
But they just end up becoming the monster that lies deep in darkness
The end has already come to life
It will take form at zero and will crawl back into the uterus and rot
Every time this happens, your faces crumble

No one wants to talk about the truth that hurts the ear
The suppressed minds

Compensate the sins and let life be gone

The emptiness of the antithesis
Becomes the choking and crying land
Bury the bones in the common land immersed in thesis
Be burdened by depression
The gritty tsunami takes me away and I smile with bitter tears
Couldn't understand the value of things
The hanging of the necks at the 13 stairs
Seeing people becoming friendly while clapping hands
That mixes in with sissy thoughts and hurts others
Seeing you like this, it's just too sad

Splash of blood
Squashing basic instincts
Talk about death

I will live with my work I scream with this body of flesh that separates heaven and hell
I carve the sins What will be the proof of my existence if it disappears with the wind?

No one wants to talk about the truth that hurts the ear
The suppressed minds

Compensate the sins, and let life be gone

Is it a sin for me to live because I am evil?

REC 55%: Nightmare detective [Akumu Tantei - 2006]

Director: Shinya Tsukamoto [Welcome to the Quiet Room, A Snake of June, Ichi the Killer, Blind Beast vs. Dwarf, Tetsuo, the Iron Man]

Japanese detective Keiko Kirishima discovers that two suicide cases were in fact murders after the evidence reveals that both victims were attacked in their dreams. This supernatural thriller follows Keiko as she tries to enlist the help of the NIGHTMARE DETECTIVE, her only hope against a paranormal serial killer.

[rottentomatoes.com]

REC85%: Let the right one in [2008]

Director: Tomas Alfredson

REC 100%: A Tale of Two Sisters [Hongryeon Janghwa - 2003]

...si ca tot am deschis capitolul pentru regizorul corean Jee-woon Kim:



Two sisters who, after spending time in a mental institution, return to the home of their father and cruel stepmother. Once there, in addition to dealing with their stepmother's obsessive and unbalanced ways, an interfering ghost also affects their recovery.

The quiet familiy [1998]

Regizor:JEE-WOON KIM, autorul scurt metrajului Memories din trilogia Three Extremes, al celebrului horror deja considerat clasic de noi si un must-see, A tale of two sisters, a, din nou, mult cunoscutului A Bittersweet Life, si mai nou, mai mult decat proaspatului The Good, the Bad and the Weird.

A family decides to buy a lodge in a remote hiking area. Their first customer commits suicide and the distraught family buries his body to avoid the bad publicity. But their luck gets worse, the bodies start piling up, and the family becomes frantic to rectify the situation.




NOTE: remake la The quiet family:

The Happiness of the Katakuris [2001] al lui Takashi Miike ;):

Kabe-otoko ["The wall man' - 2006]

Primul gand pe care l-am avut gand am vazut trailer-ul a fost Kairo (Pulse) al lui Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Acum ramane de vazut intr-adevar CAT de aproape de adevar este acest lucru ;).

Epitaph [Gidam; 2007]

Dead daughters [Myortvye docheri; 2007]

Pe imdb a primit doar 4,5 stele, insa pentru o mica amprenta de diversitate il promovam si aici. Dupa ce vom reusi sa-l si vedem (si sper ca nu ne va face de rusine), vom comenta aici :).