I love Halloween. Getting drunk, eating a shitton of candy, and watching scary movies is pretty much how I like to spend every Saturday, plus I don't have to cook or buy anybody anything. In the spirit of the season, these are my all-time favorite films:
A blind woman has a corneal transplant, and suddenly she can see dead people! I guess there's a Hollywood remake starring Jessica Alba, but I haven't seen it. I learned from the Grudge that Asian horror movies just don't translate well into American culture.
Based on the Korean folktale "Janghwa Hongreyon-jon", two sisters are tormented by their evil stepmother. Or are they? Again, there's a Hollywood remake that probably isn't worth watching.
I like Guillermo del Toro's films a lot, and his spanish-language work is pretty much his best. This film dealt a lot with the Spanish civil war and the rise of fascism in Spain.
An adolescent vampire romance in a similar vein as Twilight, except watchable.
This is by far the scariest movie I have ever seen. Usually scary movies don't really scare me because I know that things like vampires and ghosts don't exist in real life. But the way the film was shot, sort of documentary-style, made it appear as though the events in the film were actually happening. I thought the Hollywood remake Quarantine was actually pretty good, but the original is still the best.
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I love Del Toro's movies too, especially that one. Some people walked out of the theater when I saw it - I guess it was too gory - but I found it fascinating. The other night TCM showed "Psycho." No matter how many times I see it, it still scares the **** out of me.
Let the Right One in was an amazing movie.
One thing though, the remake of "Tale of Two Sisters" was pretty decent too. It was called "The Uninvited"
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