Death and Cremation

Yaaaarrrrrr out thereeee...
I watched this one yesterday, so I am just writing a few random thoughts:
General plot: An old guy (Brad Dourif), full of horrible, satanic pimples and a face that can turn milk to yogurt instantly, is the happy owner of a crematorium. And he likes society quite a lot. For no apparent reason he brutally kills and cremates young, not-so-extremely-clever girls from the local high school.
Looks like your first math teacher, doesn't he?

Yep, scene change. Boring, miserable EMO-boy in the local high school. Gets beaten quite a lot, hates everybody, smokes "pot" (yeah right, now you almost convinced me that smoking "things" lets you have these "puffy" cheeks...). Insignificant emo-boy argues with widow mum, boy looks for job, boy meets the old guy with the crematorium, old guy sympathizes the miserablemo-boy, so a partnership starts.
A few more stupid students are killed, plus a very efficient cop (they could probably cremate his balls and not getting upset), and some other insignificant corpses, and finally old guy and young emo-boy getting away in their car to new adventures.

Almost good points:
- Evil triumphs in the end (you see, dead cop, killers flee to Jamaican vacations).
- Brad Dourif is a respectably disgusting evil dude and a great actor (check here).
- Killing scenes are raw and efficient without pools of blood and internal organs flying everywhere.

Not so good points:
- The movie flow is not exactly "exciting". Characters are rather flat, plot sometimes goes in the form "I do not like you, I hate you, I kill you (brutally), next please". This style while it is absolutely normal for z-grade splatter films, it does not fit so well in this dark but wannabe serious horror movie.
Anyway, watch it, I think it worths your time, or send me a bunch of cheese-smelling flowers.

Rate: 6 (mostly because Dourif is an interesting villain)

See you soon with another pointless movie review...

Men behind the sun

U r so fuckin' SICK!

My story: I found this movie looking into "My best horror ..." useless lists. I watched the atrocious thing. I felt quite appalled, disgusted and nauseated. Comparing this 80's movie with the latest sick creations such as Saw, Hostel etc. could lead to the false conclusion that this movie is not soooo sick, but ...
Maybe it's this unexplained feeling that all these might have actually happened, or these multitude of gruesome and unjustifiable situations so many years before the Saw generation...

Movie's story: Evil Japanese test biological weapons on poor Chinese prisoners. (Wow! this actually sums up as a scenario summary).
Yeap, just this. Of course, add tortured, brain-washed children, polar temperatures, thousands of rats, twisted military officers and a few other details and you have a soup to puke (definitely - Worse even than my specialty of chocolate covered anchovies).

This gentleman seems a bit satisfied? Yep, why not, he has just drunk a glass of his own urine :)

Hey, this is NOT the friendly butcher in your neighborhood, even though he looks far more harmless...

Highlights??? (wtf am I writing?):
1) Certainly and first of all the happy, carefree and mute kid who's playing just outside the "sick" camp. Just a hint of happiness, so you can imagine how it ends:
Butchered and in many many pieces.

2)


... to be continued.


But just to not forget it, once more,
if you "enjoy" this movie,
get a psychiatrist NOW.
Or just lock yourself in a very small cupboard.