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Schrei - denn ich werde dich töten! (1999)
Very good!!
I've been a horror/thriller/mystery fan my whole life, and I enjoyed this movie very much. On the DVD the director mentioned that he thinks of the film as a "teen giallo", rather than just another slasher film, which I thought was a good way to put it. Anyway, I did not have high expectations, but after watching the film, I realized I had enjoyed it. It satisfied the following criteria for me: 1) The body count was high, 2) the murders are mostly on camera and bloody, but not overly gory or over-the-top gimmicky murders; the weapon of choice is a nasty looking pair of scissors 3) sympathetic characters die, along with the unlikable ones 4) I couldn't guess who the killer was for sure -- the movie plays with suspicions very well, and is tricky, but doesn't cheat 5) the story was complex enough to keep my interst through-out 6) All the actresses were (to me anyway!) very attractive --but real, not typical slasher-film bimbos. This is a German-made film and some people won't like that it is dubbed. Me, I always liked dubbed films! You couldn't be a fan of a lot of foreign horror and NOT like dubbed films! So, I enjoyed it enough to track down a copy of the DVD to own.
Dagon (2001)
A wonderful gift to horror fans!
I just watched DAGON yesterday and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. I'd heard through the horror "grapevine" (magazines, websites) that this film was going to be something more than the usual direct-to-video stuff, that it might be an antidote to all the by-the-numbers post-SCREAM films. But I wasn't prepared for how really good it was. I like horror films AND I see a lot of movies - maybe ten a week - and this one really caught me off-guard. It constantly engages the viewer - you might THINK you know what's going to happen next, but you are constantly surprised. I expected it to be a low-budget film - maybe it was - but the cast is excellent, the locations are amazing and the make-up is truly creepy. The computer effects --well, they are computer effects, you'll either suspend disbelief or not . But they are no worse then the effects in, say, RESIDENT EVIL. I was so caught up in the story that -- if the effects were lacking a little -- it didn't bother me at all. I also am a Lovecraft fan and I was prepared to feel superior and see how the film got the story all wrong. Guess what - forget the story that inspired it, put Lovecraft out of your mind and just enjoy the journey this film has to offer. The horror film is NOT DEAD! Long live DAGON!