Showing posts with label 2003. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2003. Show all posts

22/02/2013

11:14 (2003)

A car crash at 11:14 pm and the events leading up to it are chronicled from five different perspectives...

This film is 10 years old and I have to admit I'd heard nothing about it, I thought it would be just some serious, probably a bit melodramatic, drama, how wrong was I!!

At time's quite manic, one of the characters loses his penis in an accident, his mate then gets it back by stealing it from an ice box in an Ambulance, Patrick Swayze spends quality time with his lovable Golden Retriever trying to dispose of his dead daughters boyfriend whom he thinks she killed!

A manic, funny, wildly inventive black comedy drama, similar in vein to Doug Liman's classic "Go" from 1999, brilliant.

*****

14/11/2003

Switchblade Romance (2003)

..and there was I thinking this years The Descent was gory! Strap yourselves in for this French( yes I said French!) high octane, stalk and slash flick which never skimps on the blood, by the end of the film what's remaining of the cast resemble those mad Spaniards who partake in that annual tomato throwing event!
The plot is your average horror flick, young women stalked by homicidal maniac, but the film is classily shot, creepy, scary and as pointed out lovely and gory with throats and limbs slashed and a tasty decapitate. (always a plus point in any movie!)
The film has a pretty smart twist at the end which I thought worked, though the popcorn crowd seem to treat it with disdain as it involves some thought.
The good news too is that director, Alexandre Aja, is to direct the forthcoming remake of the 70's classic The Hills Have Eyes, the odds on solid scary horror movie look very promising.
*****