For my last Halloween horror movie fix I give you three new choices.
High Lane is a French horror movie about a group of young adults who go mountain climbing and there is a psycho killer waiting for them. The views were beautiful- it was filmed in Croatia and if heights and the possibility of falling scare you then this will be a very scary movie. I found it more gross then scary. I didn’t jump at anything, but did look away at some of the blood.
My big issue is the people did something horrendously stupid to get into the situation, and then they kept doing stupid stuff, which means I spent a lot of time yelling at the TV. While there wasn’t out right male bashing I don’t think the writer or director holds testosterone filled males in high regard.
The killer is great- huge, scary, vicious, mentally disturbed, and his movements are very animalistic almost like a gorilla. He’s almost worth watching the movie for.
One woman does go crazy and kick butt at one point, but remember my friends when you are beating up a psycho killer you don’t stop until they’re dead, because they will come after you.
It’s not a horrible movie, but I won’t watch it a second time.
For all of my amazing followers I sacrificed 3 hours of my life- 3 hours I can’t get back so I could review a truly horrible movie. Bandh Darwaza is a Bollywood horror movie from the late 70’s or early 80’s. There is singing and dancing as all Bollywood movies, which wasn’t good. The monster was a vampire who wasn’t scary and the ‘heroes’ in the movie were amazingly stupid and not likable. If you love really bad bad bad horror movies and maybe drinking during them then please go for it. Other wise just say no to Bandh Darwaza.
Finally a really good movie. Re-cycle, a Chinese movie, definitely has scary elements in it. I held my breath. I jumped. I almost made my husband sit next to me on the couch. This movie will be especially scary for writers!
Ting-Yin is a writer who gets sucked into a world of abandoned things including half formed characters. The plot is gripping, the visual effects are striking (except for the falling), the acting is great, and I was emotionally drawn into the movie. Re-cycle isn’t a classic horror movie, but much more of a psychological horror/ suspense movie. I liked it a lot and I highly recommend it. And when you’re done, be careful that your abandoned characters don’t come for you while your sleeping.
Have a wonderful a spooky Halloween.
Ooh, that Recycle film looks intriguing! I don’t enjoy gore, but I love suspense. Thanks for your reviews!
You’re welcome Julie- I hope you get a chance to watch it.
Re-cycle looks interesting. I think I’ll check it out. Thanks for the warning about the other two.
Of course I don;t want you wasting your time on bad movies 🙂 i hope you get a chance it watch it- there is a pretty interesting Chinese spiritual beliefs woven in.
Hmmm. I think the last one looks ok. I will also be posting a Halloween movie blog later today. You might like it. 🙂
YAY more movies! I will check it- after I help at at my daughters school carnival. There goes my productive day lol.
Thanks again, Alica. I love scary movies and the last one sounds the best of them all.
Patti
It is a really neat movie- starts out scary then gets all weird and creepy with some Chinese spiriutal/mystical stuff then kinda scary again. Hope you get a chance to watch it, Patti!
I much prefer suspense over gore, so I think I’ll skip the whole let’s-be-stupid-when-there’s-a-psych-slasher-around movies. LOL Give me a good creature feature any day! And a musical horror movie? Even if it is Bollywood, that just seems so wrong somehow…
I think you’d like re-cycle. For a good creature fic try The Host (Korean) and Troll Hunter it’s fabulous not really a horror fic but so well done.
Re-cycle sounds great! What a cool idea – if not disturbing. Half-formed characters, yikes! I have too many of those for this to be comfortable. lol did you ever see the Carol Burnett episode where Harvey Korman us the writer, Carol and Tim Conway are the characters, and every time he changes his mind on a scene, they stop the movement and crumble to the floor like the paper he took from the typewriter and tosses into the trash. Too funny – though my description didn’t do it justice. This sounds like a horror version of that. Fun (creepy) stuff!
Pardon the typos. Apple “auto-correct” at work. :-/
I didn’t see that episode- I’ll have to look it up on youtube That was the best show. Don’t worry about the mistakes I make them all the time. I hope you enjoy the movie if you get a chance to watch it.