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     Patrick Walker (Patrick_walker) Username: Patrick_walker Registered: 01-2010 Posted From: 62.3.229.59 |
It's 5am and I just finished watching Sleep Tight (2011), directed by Jaume Balagueró who also directed Rec. It's one of the most nightmarish, brilliantly nasty little films I have seen in years. I implore you all to see this! | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 90.210.232.33 |
It's great, isn't it? I saw it at Grimm Up North last year. Loved it. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.29.1 |
I saw it in the cinema at the time and hailed it as the most shocking Hitchcockian suspense thriller of the modern era. A truly uncompromising and nasty masterpiece of psychological horror. You can read my rapturously disturbed thoughts on it elsewhere on here. Now try to imagine how much I'm looking forward to seeing Balagueró's 'The Nameless' (1999)! | ||
| Patrick Walker (Patrick_walker) Username: Patrick_walker Registered: 01-2010 Posted From: 86.170.25.107 |
Oh, is that who has directed The Nameless?!?! Sorry, I'm a bit on the slow side, guys. Okay, well now I'm genuinely excited. I hadn't heard of Sleep Tight till a week or two ago. Now I'm figuring I may have missed one or two other particularly excellent horror / thrillers that have come and passed me by. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.29.1 |
The best horror films of this decade, so far, that I have seen, are: 'The Kill List' (2011) by Ben Wheatley. 'Martha Marcy May Marlene' (2011) by Sean Durkin. 'The Skin I Live In' (2011) by Pedro Almodóvar. 'Sleep Tight' (2011) by Jaume Balagueró. 'Berberian Sound Studio' (2012) by Peter Strickland. 'Byzantium' (2012) by Neil Jordan. 'The Pact' (2012) by Nicholas McCarthy. 'Prometheus' (2012) by Ridley Scott. 'Stoker' (2013) by Park Chan-Wook. And if you want a bit of quality fun: 'Insidious' (2010) by James Wan. 'Julia's Eyes' (2010) by Guillem Morales. 'The Last Exorcism' (2010) by Daniel Stamm. 'Apollo 18' (2011) by Gonzalo López-Gallego. 'The Cabin In The Woods' (2012) by Drew Goddard. 'Dark Shadows' (2012) by Tim Burton. | ||
| Patrick Walker (Patrick_walker) Username: Patrick_walker Registered: 01-2010 Posted From: 86.170.25.107 |
'Byzantium' (2012) by Neil Jordan. 'The Pact' (2012) by Nicholas McCarthy are the two I'm not familiar with. I'll check them out straight away. Thanks! | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.29.1 |
'Byzantium' is a truly original and gripping vampire movie that I'd rank as easily Jordan's most successful horror film to date. A modern classic! 'The Pact' is a haunted house story with a difference. A film that gets better and more disturbing the more one thinks about it after. |