Dienstag, 23. Februar 2010

Teeeeeeeeeth!!!!

Thomas Lerooy - title unknown

To quote Lady Gaga: "Show me your teeth!" Wait a second you are a rock... Ahh!

The Bad Seed (1956)


Little 8 years old Rhoda Penmark (Patty McCormack) has bitched and killed her way into my heart! "The Bad Seed" is about our gal Rhoda (working pigtails, a pinafore skirt and shiny patent leather shoes in one outfit!) who has no sense of right or wrong but knows how to bewitch everyone around her to get what she wants. And if not... let's say she finds a way to convince you! Her mother (Nancy Kelly) starts suspecting that something is wrong with her little angel. Boy is she in for a treat!

I will kill you while wearing my fabulous sunglasses!

The movie is based on a Broadway play by James Maxwell Anderson, which again is based on a novel written by William March. The reduced sets and the few characters are directly adapted from the Broadway play. I think this works surprisingly good as it puts the focus more on the great interplay between Rhoda and her mother. I have to admit that most of the time I'm annoyed by child actors because.... well they can't act! Not so our dear Patty, she does a great job playing the child from hell and it seems like she has a lot of fun doing so! Leroy (Henry Jones) the lazy janitor is another great character and the only one mistrusting our little Miss Sunshine right from the start. Watching him and Rhoda having their occasional bitch fights is hilarious!
Leroy: You ask me and I say you don't even feel sorry for what happened to that little boy.
Rhoda
: Why should I feel sorry? It was Claude Daigle who got drowned, not me!
The Bad Seed" is a cult classic you must watch! At times campy... Well actually most of the time, the movie manages to stay absorbing even through some of the longer talk sequences (this is no X-Men movie kiddies... no music video cuts whatsoever!).
There has been a remake produced for television in 1985 and I remember seeing it a long time ago. It wasn't bad either, but you just can't beat Patty McCormacks performance. Another thing I liked about the original one is the fact that we never really see Rhoda comitting her crimes, which in my opinion just strengthens the tension. The remake however shows the murder and therefore kind of loses some of the appeal the story had. As far as I know there is another remake planned directed by Eli Roth ("Hostel"). Rhoda gone torture porn? I don't know...

Don't mess with me Eli Roth!!!!

Attention: Spoiler! Spoiler! Spoiler! Spoiler! Spoiler! Spoiler! Spoiler! Spoiler! Spoiler! Spoiler!

Produced during the height of the Hays Code the original film demanded a "moral" ending. Unlike the one in the book Rhoda was not allowed to get away with her evil doings. The director Mervyn LeRoy found a "glamouros" way to get rid of the evil brat by letting god fry her with lightning... How toasting an 8 year old girl seems more "moral" is beyond me. Whatever! Rhoda will always have a special place in me heart! And you should love her too... Otherwise she will give you "a basket full of hugs"! Ouch!

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Barbra Streisand - Smile

I love Barbra Streisand like every other normal homo... but this performance is just creepy!

Samstag, 20. Februar 2010

Smiling (Demon) Angel

Angel figure at the cathedrale of Reims, France

I'm afraid of this one.... Like really afraid! I think he wants to eat me! This knowingly demonic smile..... Wah!!!!

Photo via: http://www.betinas-fotos.de/

Donnerstag, 18. Februar 2010

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Mommy dearest!


Thanks to SissyDude for sharing this picture with us! I'm in awe!

Scenes I love



"Hausu" (1977) by Nobuhiko Obayashi

I haven't seen this movie so far... BUT I WANT TO! This looks like a drugged up version of "Suspria" which itself seems to have come out of a Poe-esque opium dream.

Artworks you don't wanna see before you go to sleep

Hernan Bas
"The Burden (I shall leave no memoirs)", 2006

Altough I would not wanna look at it before I go to sleep, I definitely think it would look good in my living room... if I had one...

The Lovely Bones... not so lovely actually


Yesterday I watched Peter Jackson latest movie "The Lovely Bones". What can I say? I love Peter Jackson! I mean you must love a man that made a movie like "Brain Dead" and then created "Lord of the Rings".... I find that really fascinating! However, I have to admit I did not really like "Lovely Bones"! I think it's not a bad movie but it didn't really capture my whole attention... Actually I was wondering how I would look like with all over glitter make-up and that is not really a compliment for a movie that deals with such a heavy issue like child murder and abuse.

Saoirse Ronan as Susie Salmon

The film is about Susi Salmon, a 14 year old girl that gets murdered by the next door neighbour and is trapped in a world between heaven and earth. She tries to communicate with her family and wants to lead them to her murderer.
One thing that totally threw me out of the movie was Peter Jackson's use of a music tune that sounded awfully like a 90's Enya song... It's just too much! Not that I have a grudge against Enya but if you don't want your movie to become a shampoo spot you should postpone your Enya-esque song for the end credits! En top of that the animated heaven just looked like... well an animated heaven! It reminded my a lot of the empty fantasy worlds shown in "Doctor Parnassus", which one of my friends described as a reminiscense to that "not so good" Madonna video for "Love Profusion".

Susan Surandon as the fabulous granny

Well one thing I loved about the movie was Susan Surandon's character of Susie's grandmother! How could one not love a non-stop drinking, chain smoking granny that looks like an extroverted and failed movie diva? Although she kind of feels a little random, she really gives the movie a little something something! Saoirse Ronan, the girl that plays Susie was also a good choice I think, she really is a sweetheart and you like her the first time you see her (meaning I want to adopt her and manage her income!).
After all I feel a little bit disappointed... Maybe I was hoping for something like "Heavenly Creatures", which I really loved (although I will never forgive my sister for showing it to me when I was nine!!!!)... But "The Lovely Bones" just isn't a satisfying viewing experience. Oh by the way I just saw that the music I refered to is not really by Enya but by The Mortal Coil and is called "Song to the Siren". Nevertheless it still does the film no good!
So we have a nice cast, partly bad music, bad animated effects (you see I'm not really into CGI as long as it isn't really really good!) and I also think the pacing of the movie is a little bit off... Maybe Peter Jackson should have edited a little more but it seems like after "Lord of the Rings" he has the jester's license to do whatever he wants (don't hide "King Kong" I can still see you). By the way if you wanna see a good movie that deals with a theme like child abuse you should check out Gregg Araki's "Mysterious Skin"!

Mittwoch, 17. Februar 2010

Eerie sound of the week...


The XX - Crystalised
Well maybe not that eerie... But still such a great song

House of the Devil

"House of the Devil" is one creepy movie you have to watch! I was so surprised seeing it! The movie was directed by Ti West who achieves to create an almost unbearable tension that I've missed in a lot of recent horror movies! Ti West doesn't shy away from taking his time to introduce the characters and actually building up tension instead of just throwing bodyparts at the audience (I'm looking at you Micheal Bay)! The slow pacing works great for the movie and really sets it apart from other releases.


The lead character Samantha is played by Jocelin Donahue who tries to earn money to finance herself a new apartment. As Samantha has to suffer under a very messy nymphomaniac roommate who looks like an unwashed scruffy dog (no, it's not the "new pop sensation" Kesha, although it would fit) the audience can understand her urgent attempt in doing any job to get the hell out of there! But I don't want to give to much away, let's wrap it up by saying that she gets a "babbysitter" job that turns out to be far more consuming than she thought...

Jocelin Donahue as Samantha

Jocelin Donahue does a great job, although she plays mostly by herself (not in the dirty way kiddies!). The fact that she looks like the young Jessica Harper from "Suspria" makes me love her even more!

Jessica Harper in "Suspiria"

So we have likeable characters (yes it is possible for a horror movie to have those, I'm looking at you again Micheal Bay), a great setting, great soundtrack and a lot of references to 70's horror movies from "When a Strange calls" to "Halloween".
I say: Let's go and see it!
And that's how Lady in Lavender sees it!

Lady in Lavender...

... is named after one of the most famous transsexual characters in horror movie history. Played by Kathy Lester, Lady in Lavender is the female alter ego of the villain in Don Coscarelli's beautiful trashy late 70's flick "Phantasm".


As we learn the villain, the "Tall Man" transforms into a 70's looking porn queen to seduce young man to create dwarfs that work for him on his home planet... Sounds like trash? Maybe! But after all the movie manages to create a very thrilling atmosphere. Well, anyway this blog is dedicated to movies I love not necessarily all horror but all in my point of view good movies! En plus it's about homos, ladies and stuff that makes life so great for movie geeks and freaks!
Oh and apparently Kathy Lester is now into Burlesque! Who said Scream Queens would always be trapped in crappy carriers???
Check out the link for the tranny version of Dita van Teese:
http://www.lekatmusic.com/fr_index.cfm