Monster Mayhem

Cabin in the Woods is one of my favorite movies. It’s cheesy, it’s gory, it’s funny, and it’s everything. The best part is when Marty finds the elevator box in the woods and they start to be in an area where all the monsters are. That is so awesome. My dream is to be a horror visual effects animator so seeing that excites me so much.

           

The other best part is when Marty and Dana let all the monsters out and they start creating a blood bath in the hallway. All the monsters escape and start wreaking havoc on the whole place. Which was hilarious because karma was coming back at all the workers for laughing and gambling people’s lives. Just how everything is filmed out and set up through the scene is just perfect. The chaos and the gore.

Monster Island was such a genius book. If they haven’t made a movie from it then they need to. I can totally see this storyline being an amazing movie. I would love to see how Gary would be portrayed, the zombie that can control his mind, hunger and his fellow zombie friends.

I appreciate the zombies in this book because they are intense flesh eating monsters not a heart-warming story of love at first zombie, like Warm Bodies. Good movie but stupid. But anyways the zombies in this book are told so well and it even has a twist of a master zombie, Gary. That would be everyone’s worst nightmare if a zombie apocalypse broke out.

It sucks for Dekalb because his daughter is held hostage because of Mama Halima. He is pretty much forced into the zombie world.  It kind of reminded me of the beginning of the Walking Dead when Rick was in a coma and wakes up into an apocalyptic world. Rick has no idea what’s going on and finds himself in hell. So he is forced into this world after being pretty much dead for years and goes searching in hopes of finding his family, which he does.

Zombies are one thing that isn’t really scary because it’s so overdone these days with EVERYTHING but they are terrifying at the same time. I believe it is one day possible that this could happen because of all the toxic and nuclear waste that goes on. Like the nuclear waste that’s in the water because of Japan. That stuff scares the shit out of me. Did you just ever sit outside at night time, look down an empty street and think what if all the sudden a zombie came hauling ass down the street? What would I do?

Which Witch means Which?

Aunt Maria was an interesting read but kind of agitating at the same time. A family that loses their husband/father goes to visit his Aunt Maria over Easter. The children, Mig and Chris, absolutely don’t want to go and hate visiting her but their mother forces them to go. Mig and Chris should stop being miserable and appreciate the fact that they have some part of their father left. If they actually enjoyed seeing her she probably wouldn’t have turned one of them into a wolf.

            Aunt Maria is extremely annoying. She’s a lazy probably fat old lady that wants to do nothing for herself, ever. Making her relatives feel bad that she would actually have to do something for herself. There mom feels obligated to follow her orders instead of just calling her out on it. I guess it’s a good thing they are following her orders so she doesn’t do something to them out of spite.

            Me personally, I’m not a huge fan of witches either. I like witches that are more like the witches in The Craft that I had mentioned in my previous post. I believe witches to be people who are spiritual and connected to the earth more than others not ones that have wands, pointy hats and cast life threatening spells. 

            The term of what I believe to be witches fascinates me so much. Being one with your mind and connecting to the environment and elements around you can be something so powerful to have. It lets you control more of your life and your surroundings. It is like a form of meditation. Once you know more and become one with yourself you can have anything you want. That doesn’t necessarily mean “witch” but if witches were real that’s what I think they would be described as. A witch is someone who has the power to control his or her own life.

            This book was a fun read as a little adventure but I would have loved it more if it had some crazy things in it. It was a little typical with her changing Chris into a Wolf. That is such a typical witch thing to do. There needs to be a book of witches doing gory, gruesome and crazy things to really exaggerate the meaning of “witch.”

Witch Craft

Suspiria was quite an interesting movie. There was a shitload of bad acting and very dramatic moments within this movie. It was a little hard to watch and follow along with what was going on. I did enjoy the horrible effects of this movie. The part when the heart was ripped open and there was about a minute long pause of the heart just being stabbed. It was quite humorous.

The one movie I did really enjoy about witches was The Craft. That movie is one of my favorites! There are three high school students that are into witchcraft and need a fourth witch to complete their square. A new girl transfers into their high school and they see that she has “magical powers” and try to recruit her into their group. As they are hanging out, each one of them has their own problem they are trying to deal with.

 Sarah was being played by a guy and put a love spell on him. Nancy was tired of being trailer trash, used a spell, her moms boyfriend wound up having a heart attack because of her and they became rich. Bonnie was burned in a fire and had nasty burn scars on her back. So she cast a spell that would make her better and when she went to get her surgery that wasn’t proven to work, completely rid her of her scars. The beautiful, blonde popular girl in school was bullying Rochelle about her hair on her head being pubic hair. So Rochelle casted a spell that the popular girls hair would fall out and it did, strand by strand. Towards the end of the movie, all the girls started receiving the bad end of karma coming back at them. Using black magic will ricochet back at you.

I love the term witch because I believe that can be anything. I believe it to be someone who is really connected to themselves and spiritually that they are able to do anything. They see things that others don’t, giving them powers to do more. I also believe a witch to be someone who uses more of his or her mind. A mind is a powerful thing and can conquer anything. 

The Audition from Hell

Audition has to be one of the best foreign films I have seen. The sound of when Asami was sawing the foot off of Shigeharu with piano strings was the most disgusting and gut wrenching noise ever, but I loved it! I could feel the pain of Shigeharu just through the sound effects. I was eating when I was watching that part and I was almost on the verge of gagging. I don’t get freaked out by horror movies because I watch so many but this one definitely made me feel sick.

The story line was different. I liked that is was very psychological. My interpretation of this movie was that it was showing his insecurities and his feelings. His wife passed away. She was the one for him, the one woman who fit his puzzle piece and the one he could always count on being by his side. Asami was the figment of his imagination. Asami symbolized the pain and hurt that took his wife away. When he craved to see Asami, it was showing the desire of wanting to see his wife again. That pain of wanting someone so bad it hurts. When Asami would kill others it symbolized how the pain affected other parts of his life. When she attacked him it was showing how the pain was torturing him.

When it showed the man in the wheel chair burning her and torturing her it was symbolizing how this man tried defeating the pain. It tends to keep coming back but he keeps pushing it away. My interpretation is probably so wrong but that’s how I read the message.

This movie is very powerful with its message and could mean so many different things. I never liked foreign films but because of this class I am really starting to love them. The different messages that different cultures express through different ways is truly amazing. I always heard of Japanese Horror being extremely creepy, scary and out of this world but I never really got the chance to check any of it out so I am glad I got the chance!

J Horror Tales

The reading I chose for J Horror was Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. I enjoyed these readings a lot especially the one chapter, Oshidori. Each chapter was like a different lesson in life. Oshidori was my favorite because a man sees a pair of oshidori together and he decides to shoot and kill the male one. Later that night the man had a dream of a woman coming to him telling him he took her partner from her. After he awoke he went down to the lake where he shot the duck and he seen the female swimming alone. The duck swam up to him and ripped itself inside out. I took that as a lesson. Every action you do or make has some sort of a reaction to something else. Not even just that, but he has taken an animal’s life partner, that’s cruel as hell! 

Another one I really like was the first story, The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hoichi. The blind man recited the biwa for the priest whenever he wanted. One night someone strange came and tricked him into reciting over a grave to raise an evil spirit. The priest had caught him and told him the spirit was going to rip him to pieces unless he was covered in blessings. He had to remain still and quiet so the evil spirit wouldn’t see him. The writings made him invisible but the spirits tore his ears off because the priest forgot to write on his ears. Another lesson learned, don’t trust anybody! Whether, it was the strange man tricking him into raising the evil spirits of the dead or the priest being forgetful.

 I really enjoyed these stories because they were life lessons but described in a disturbing way. Making people think different ways about things. J Horror is definitely one of my new favorite things.