‘The French Connection’ - A masterpiece with Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey and Roy Scheider in it. I really love this kind of films and how dirty New York looked in the 70’s

‘Isolation’ - A little and nice b-horror movie

‘La Cabina (aka ‘The Telephone Box’, 1972)’ - A Spanish cult classic (it won an Emmy). It’s a TV horror movie/short feature with minimal dialogue (you don’t need to know Spanish: everybody can understand what’s going on) about a man who gets trapped inside a telephone box and nobody is able to free him. He is helpless. And then…
Many people watched this short when they were kids and they’re shocked and terrified to death (view all the positive comments here). And what’s better, it STILL terrifies. The situation is weird (sometimes even darkly funny), the horror is subtle and the story is open to a lot of interpretations which feel up-to date even nowadays (Kafka-esque horror story, a harsh criticism about the selfish society and their lack of solidarity, the Spanish dictatorship or the lack of communication…). If you haven’t seen it yet, give it a chance: it’ll surprise you.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

Pirruko - 30 June 2009 05:11 PM

‘The French Connection’ - A masterpiece with Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey and Roy Scheider in it. I really love this kind of films and how dirty New York looked in the 70’s

‘Isolation’ - A little and nice b-horror movie

‘La Cabina (aka ‘The Telephone Box’, 1972)’ - A Spanish cult classic (it won an Emmy). It’s a TV horror movie/short feature with minimal dialogue (you don’t need to know Spanish: everybody can understand what’s going on) about a man who gets trapped inside a telephone box and nobody is able to free him. He is helpless. And then…
Many people watched this short when they were kids and they’re shocked and terrified to death (view all the positive comments here). And what’s better, it STILL terrifies. The situation is weird (sometimes even darkly funny), the horror is subtle and the story is open to a lot of interpretations which feel up-to date even nowadays (Kafka-esque horror story, a harsh criticism about the selfish society and their lack of solidarity, the Spanish dictatorship or the lack of communication…). If you haven’t seen it yet, give it a chance: it’ll surprise you.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

Just saw La Cabina…it’s really agonizing. Why they do that?
In the 4th part at the min 3,15 do they sing “lorem ipusm”?
Did you see Rec? It is spanish too, isn’t it?

isa997 - 03 July 2009 07:56 PM

Just saw La Cabina…it’s really agonizing. Why they do that?
In the 4th part at the min 3,15 do they sing “lorme ipusm”?
Did you see Rec? It is spanish too, isn’t it?

Yeah, it’s really unnerving. It’s better not to know the reasons behind it… almost always it’s more terrifying in a horror movie (as in ‘Cube’, for example). I don’t know anything about the music in Part 4 but there are some comments about it in Youtube, below the video.

And yes, I’ve seen ‘[REC]’: it’s not a perfect horror movie but I think it’s a good effort to make something different here. ‘[REC] 2’ is almost finished, by the way (teaser). There is a good bunch of new young directors doing good horror movies in Spain right now. Besides well-known movies as ‘The Others’ or ‘The Orphanage’, if you like these kind of movies you could try ‘Los Cronocrimenes’ (‘Timecrimes’), ‘El Rey De La Montaña’ (‘King Of The Hill’) or ‘Los Sin Nombre’ (‘The Nameless’, based in a novel by Ramsey Campbell).

Or you can try another EXCELLENT Spanish short movie… if you dare XD A man volunteers to take part in an experiment that attempts to analyse human behaviour under extreme conditions of terror. His mission is to remain seated inside a dark room for a length of time of 15 minutes. If he manages to hold on, he will receive in return a generous sum of money (12.000 €). Is it possible to terrify an individual who knows beforehand that everything is a farce? Or maybe not everything is fake, after all…

‘El Tren De La Bruja’ (‘The Witch Train’)

Last I’ve seen:

‘An American Werewolf In London’ - Fucking classic
‘Six Feet Under’ - Season 3
‘The Sopranos’ - Season 1

Public Enemies

Not a particularly good film but Mr Depp is in it so who cares

Canis lupus - 11 July 2009 08:59 AM

Public Enemies

Not a particularly good film but Mr Depp is in it so who cares

Haha like your thinking

the amount of bands ive watched through, simply due to a bit of eye candy haha

The Last Kiss and Confessions of a Shopaholic - both rubbish chick flicks.

The other Boleyn girl and The Duchess

All costumey goodness. Although Keira Knightly isnt a good actress. all she bloody well does it pout.

The Orphanage (nothing new but nice in this kind of film)
The last supper
Twilight (!)

I’m going to see ‘El Tren De La Bruja’

‘Dorothy Mills’
‘Iron Man’
‘French Connection II’

IMHO, just the last one worth the trouble.

The Red Shoes - hadn’t seen this for aaaages.

The War Of The Worlds (1953) - damn those machines for not killing off that silly bint…she screamed loud enough, how could they not get her?

bloody LOVE the red shoes….

Hmm… just watched La Cabina and I don’t share the same opinions… I didn’t find it terrifying at all and I can sometimes be claustrophobic!! Lol. I was just waiting for something to happen.. and it didn’t really.

Oh, and I watched Ice Age this morning. Quite humourous.

Niagara

River Of No Return - Mitchum v the lion is possibly the most ridiculous thing i’ve even seen. And i’m sorry but women do not throw shoes away so easily!

Ice Age 2 - better than the first in my opinion