Movie Update

Been digging on some movies lately. Thought I'd fill you in.

You want to be blown away? Go to YouTube - dial up "Intermission" with Colin Farrell - watch a clip of the first five minutes.

It will knock you down. Comes out of nowhere. Exactly what I am looking for in a movie. Socially unacceptable, violent, shocking and in complete contrast to the mood that is set immediately preceding the shocker.

Delicious.

Watched a movie titled "Wristcutters - A Love Story." The movie opens with a guy committing suicide.

The scene is interesting. First he cleans his apartment. It is a typical guy apartment. A goddamn mess.

A lot of time and attention is paid to him cleaning the place.

Then he kills himself and is transported to a world where everybody is dead and everybody has committed suicide.

The concept is fascinating and most of the movie is good but it has a goddamn happy ending, love related. That really pissed me off.

Then I began the 2014 journey through HorrorLand in honor of Halloween. Picked a foreign film for starters. Mientras Duermes (Sleep Tight). This one was creepy. Really tasty.

Most of the horror is psychological, which is what makes the movie rock. There is only one bloody, gory scene. I prefer mind horror to all out bloodletting unless I am in a nasty mood. Then I want blood, torture, death, taunting and suffering.

My go to movie in that genre is "The Devil's Rejects" by Rob Zombie. I own it. That brings me peace.

Mientres Duermes is about a concierge in an apartment building who is one miserable dude. He believes he was born without the capacity to feel happiness. So he makes it his mission in life to make everyone around him miserable.

As concierge he has keys to every apartment. He makes everyone around him believe that he is a good hearted, trustworthy guy, but he is anything but.

The height of creepiness is the way he stalks a beautiful woman who lives in the building. He sneaks into her apartment before she gets home from work every night and hides under her bed. He patiently waits for her to go to bed and fall asleep. Then he creeps out from under and gently places a cloth soaked in chloroform over her face, which renders her unconscious.

He then proceeds to rape her.

Another situation revolves around an elderly woman who lives alone with her two dogs. The dogs are the loves of her life.

One night she asks the concierge to feed her dogs while she is out. She explains that one of the dogs has dietary problems and cannot eat regular food. She tells him to use the special medicated food.

The concierge feeds the dogs and, as an afterthought, drops a piece of pie into the bowl of the delicate dog. The dog doesn't die but has a few bad days that greatly upset the old lady.

Another scene involves the same elderly woman. The scene involves only words and it is one of the most devastating scenes I have experienced.

She is talking to the concierge about her dogs and the happiness they bring her. At first he seems empathetic and understanding. But in an empathetic tone of voice, which makes it even more horrifying, he tells her that it is a shame that the dogs are the only loves she has in her life. That it is too bad she never married, that it must bother her to not have kids.

Tells her the dogs will probably die before she does, leaving her all alone in the world. He tells her that everybody in the building pretends to like her to her face but they laugh at her behind her back.

Tells her that she is getting older and soon she will be sick and unable to take care of herself. Tells her that soon she will be dead.

You watch the woman's face slowly change from a happy smile in the beginning of the scene, to a numb, shocked, hurt look in the end. She slowly backs into the elevator and does not even acknowledge the greeting of the young couple getting off the elevator.

That scene is wicked, it is evil, it is cruel, it is horror.

There's a lot more to the movie but I don't have time to get to it know. Suffice it to say it is one of the better horror flicks I have seen recently.

In the queue on the DVR: "Misery", some other horror movie I picked out of the blue, and........................... "Zombie Strippers."

I am also going to dive back into American Horror Story on FX between now and Halloween. I watched it when it first appeared on the scene and loved it. Then I got away from it.

You know, another reason that work sucks is that it takes up so much of your time. There is so much good stuff out there that I just don't have time to dig. I really loved "Boardwalk Empire" on HBO. Dug it for a couple of seasons. Got away from it and now it is coming to a close. "Suits" is another one.

I hope the hell I get fired soon so I can catch up on all good TV.