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Eliza Wren Payne Bending Light
Eliza Wren Payne Bending Light
30 aug 08
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How many eons has it been since you wrote a couple of lines???? I'll read them after my nap
Hideo Nakata Ringu
Hideo Nakata Ringu
28 aug 08
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Perfectly elected, we practically disagree on all the points you've listed! Especially about the video (damn, the mirror scene is remarkable). Anyway, it’s precisely its Western nature that made it less unsettling for me; I mean, the discussion about the Japanese revenants really creeps me out much more (but that's where my studies come into play). Anyway, what I can say in defense of Japanese horror themes (even though I'm anything but a genre enthusiast or a Nipponophile) is that they are more subtly disturbing than Western horror tropes, which are often not very psychological and too overtly violent. The point is: I find it scarier to imagine than to actually see evil. And often the idea of seeing/not seeing is fundamental to Japanese horror (and, generally speaking, Asian culture).
Hideo Nakata Ringu
Hideo Nakata Ringu
28 aug 08
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Honestly, I don't understand how you can like the American version. Sure, it might be better shot, but it dreams of capturing the disturbing atmosphere of this one. And above all, it has the usual bullshit twists from a slasher movie meant to make you jump out of your seat. Ringu is monstrously aseptic, zero blood, deliberately sparse and almost shabby in its cinematography. That's why it struck me. And then, damn, the Japanese footage on the VHS is so much more unsettling, not to mention the climactic scene of Sadako emerging from the television. In the American version, it almost made me laugh; in this one, it genuinely disturbs (and still disturbs) me every time I see it again. Just the way she moves and the fact that the camera never cuts away until she comes out of the TV. I remember that after leaving the cinema, I realized that without that ending, the film was a bit of a letdown.
Witchcraft The Alchemist
Witchcraft The Alchemist
28 aug 08
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If I manage to sleep, I'll write a couple of lines about Black Hollies, Spectrum, Alexander Tucker, and something a bit older. But from what I gather, none of the above means anything to you.
On Trial New Day Rising
On Trial New Day Rising
28 aug 08
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Incredible, I don't know why I didn't comment on it back then, but I remember it! Nice little record, I had been searching for it for years and finally found it from a krukko on eBay and snatched it for €9.50. Very happy, especially since I'm not sure if Delerium exists anymore.
Hideo Nakata Ringu
Hideo Nakata Ringu
28 aug 08
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You’re right, I thought I had seen it in '98 in France, but it was 2000. And the 0 must have come out in early 2000 (I stayed until April).
Hideo Nakata Ringu
Hideo Nakata Ringu
28 aug 08
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So to start: this is perhaps the only horror you've reviewed with a 5/5 rating. Then, Kaidan Eiga are the GHOST FILMS (eiga=film). Ringu seems to be from '96, but I could be mistaken here (in '99, Ringu 0 had just been released in Japan; I was there and I remember the ads everywhere). Shintoism is basically an evolved animism, and it’s not just about the dead, but the essence, the spirit of the things around us (to generalize, nature), an example of a film that heavily draws from Shinto is Princess Mononoke. The relationship with restless spirits (meaning those who died a violent death and are destined to remain unsettled and become revenants) is, if I remember correctly, more Buddhist. The idea that the sea is a symbol of evil for Japanese culture is something you made up, considering it’s been their source of sustenance until the opening to the West in the late 1800s. At most, it deserves respect. Maybe for Nakata it is, but not in common thought. Also, to be picky, there are some grammatical and contextual errors ("Nakata's ambition seems to go beyond: he tries to INSTALL in the viewer the fear of the unknown" – and what is fear, a .exe file???). My advice: write simpler, or better, write according to your abilities, without rambling for over 2000 characters without saying much significant.
Witchcraft The Alchemist
Witchcraft The Alchemist
27 aug 08
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or collective dementia???
L'Ira del Baccano Si Non Sedes Is - Live MMVII
L'Ira del Baccano Si Non Sedes Is - Live MMVII
27 aug 08
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My speech is outside of supernaturalcat and a few others, of course. Ah, where have the Acajou gone!!!
Witchcraft The Alchemist
Witchcraft The Alchemist
27 aug 08
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Interesting these optic sti cazzi people. At home, I'll try to give them a listen. The Freeks haven't been treated very well even on Perkele, which says a lot (considering that usually every new psych release is a masterpiece or thereabouts!). But what's this Psycho like as a store?? Is it in Milan?
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