What classics did you see last week ? (27 Oct - 02 Nov 2019)
Nov 4, 2019 3:56:03 GMT
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Post by morrisondylanfan on Nov 4, 2019 3:56:03 GMT
Cat's Eye (1985)
More Twilight Zone-ish than straight-up horror anthology from Stephen King. The stories keep your interest but none are going to floor you. I liked watching James Woods being driven to the edge (or was that Robert Hayes?) but the Drew Barrymore goblin story was the most fun for me.
Being a cat person, I was stressed about the cat's welfare for most of the running time, especially when I saw the smoke coming from that animal shelter on "Termination Day!"
Veronica (2017)
A teenage girl has to look after her younger siblings constantly because their widowed mother has to work. She takes time out to use a ouija board to contact her dead father, only she contacts someone or something else instead.
It's the usual ouija board story, but it's the manner in which it's told that impressed me. This movie succeeds in creating the necessary creepy vibe quite well. It also creates a sense of realism and the young actors are all very good. You really feel for what they're going through.
The least scary thing about it should be the subtitles, don't let them scare you off from seeing this fine film.
I'm pleased to read that you enjoyed Veronica (2017) so much. After the huge drop in quality with the dire Rec 3, I was happy to see Paco Plaza hit the Horror notes successfully again.
From March 2018:
"It's not who you want to talk to,it's who you talk to." 8
Returning to feature films for the first time since Rec 3 in 2012,co-writer/(with Fernando Navarro) director Paco Plaza & cinematographer Pablo Rosso expand on the recurring, more subtle motifs featured in the first two Rec's,with Plaza and Rosso showing an impeccable eye for confined apartment buildings, with tracking shots following the demon spreading across the family apartment. Peculiarly not featuring an exorcism in a "demon" movie, Plaza elegantly uses startling images of a blind nun and discarded crosses to brew an atmosphere that any faith to defeat the evil,is hopeless.
Whilst the use of a CGI demon for jump-scares sits ill at ease with the classical mood of the picture, Plaza gets the demon to embody Veronica's fears with excellent,in-camera trick-shots that reflect the horror that has been unleashed.
Taken from the only crime in Spain where "paranormal activity" has been officially registered as a contributing factor in the case by the police report, the screenplay by Plaza and Navarro builds up the horror by cutting into Veronica's family, with a great, gradual examination of Veronica's need to take care of her siblings whilst mum makes ends meets at work,leading to the outbreak of the demon to strike at them in a ruptured state. Conjuring the challenge of playing the lead in her debut, Sandra Escacena gives an utterly marvellous performance as Veronica, thanks to Escacena giving a dramatic depth to the horror by pulling open the raw insecure and fearful nerves of Veronica.