Underrated Scares

Here are a few horror movies that in my opinion deserve more attention and are just as good as the ones who are famous:

Bad Ronald

The concept of this movie is just great, you just want to watch it all happen in Bad Ronald. Ronald, a distant nerd in life, accidently kills a girl after she taunted him, stating him to be weird. Because of the sudden moment, Ronald panics and decides to bury her using a showel.

This would be the first mistake inside the Wilby family. Once Ronald gets home, his mother confronts him with worries, and learns of the horrible event which just happened today. Now, the mother panics even more, and goes down through some possibilities which might happen to Ronald, and concludes that the only way to save her son from facing the law is to hide him.

For some reason, the mother thinks of the insane idea to hide Ronald inside their house, in their old bathroom on the main floor, which has now been modified so that it has become a living room for Ronald, complete with a hidden entrance.

She leaves out an option such as a hotel, or some woods where Ronald can camp through the night, and decides to go with this idea, why? Now that I think about it, the mother and Ronald both were afraid of letting Ronald get arrested and put in jail for a life time, so the mother figured that the best way to BOTH hide and to communicate the easiest and most effective way(for 1974 anyway)was to hide her son inside their own house.

And all of this happens just because Ronald accidently killed a girl and made a huge mistake afterwards to bury her. Once the idea has been set, Ronald starts living inside the hidden room, pretty much not having sunlight passing inside of it.

The mother and Ronald keep a close communication with each other whenever the cops or other people visit, and so far, everything works out(In particular because of the forged note the cops found), despite it being a crazy idea. Until the mother has to undergo a surgery and does not survive it.

After hearing the news from the now new family moving inside the old Wilby house, Ronald grieves with pain, yet at the same time, starts entering this psychotic behaviour, by observing the new family, or should I say peeping tomming as well, which just moved in, by use of small holes he has drilled using his toolkit.

All the while still hiding inside the hidden room, safe from the cops and people suspecting him. All the time, Ronald always liked fantasizing, and when he started living inside the hidden room, he started creating his imaginary world known as "Atranta". 

Maybe through a combination of panic, grief, loneliness, remorse and other negative emations, he started showing the viewers this behaviour. Anyway, once the new family has finally moved in, Ronald has become used to the moments when the whole family is absent from the house.

During those moments, he always checks the refrigerator to see if there is anything tasty. On a particular day, Mrs.Schumacher, a neighbour woman, suddenly catches Ronald at the refrigerator, and both are shocked to see each other.

Ronald then walks towards her in a creepy way, and she then suddenly gets a heart attack, because of the fact that she thought that Ronald no longer lived inside this house and that he was probably far, far away. Never could she calculate to find Ronald of all the places back inside here! "They will probably blame me for this too", Ronald said to himself after suggesting that she is dead.

Basically, he makes the same fucking mistake here like he did in the past, by hiding her body as well! Still, you could have some kind of sympathy for Ronald, despite him being psychotic and making bad mistakes, hence Bad Ronald.

It's actually pretty interesting, because the family starts thinking that their place is haunted by a ghost, while it really is Ronald making the noises and moving objects. Then, Ronald gets a so called golden opportunity to meet one of the daughters in the family he has been keeping his eye on, confirming that the parents other than their daughters are gone until atleast tommorow, and confronts her, which shocks her.

Ronald then started identifying her as the princess and himself as the prince in his fantasy. A chase scene happens, which ends at Mrs.Schumacher's house, where he locks her successfully inside the basement.

He makes a run back to his hidden room and forges another misleading note because he knows that another daughter would arrive soon. It appears to work, leaving the other daughter worried but the cops themselves not, because they have no traces to investigate. The next evening, even though Ronald heard that the cops will not bother him for now, he decides to kidnap one of the daughters's boyfriend.

Another foolish mistake, but maybe it is because Ronald did not like him, because he happens to be the brother of the girl he accidently killed in the past. The cops then decide to start observing the house from outside, and advises the two remaining daughters to close every door and window, so that nobody can come in, and so that they are safe from inside.

Ronald then beats the boyfriend up because of making a hard noise, and the daughters then discover because of their paranoia that their house has a suspicious small hole. Then THE scene happens, and Ronald makes a run for it, because soon everyone will know the truth.

And then Ronald gets captured, and the credits roll. In overall, a truly one of a kind movie you have never seen before, and it fascinated me. And yes, it was also creepy. On a side note, I think that this is one of the few movies I would love to see a remake from, because it definitely is a chilling thriller movie, and could possibly become an ever better movie with both horror and thriller in a remake.

Possession

By far the most confusing film I have seen yet, but NOT because of the movie itself. Instead, Possession's audio synchronization got worse throughout the movie. Once I fixed that first problem with Yet Another Avi Info, the audio got worse once again later on in the movie.

Since I could NEVER find english or dutch subtitles for this movie, and the english accents inside the movie were being too hard to understand(For me atleast) at some points, I gave up with frustration, and gave myself in for this unique movie.

I decided to see this movie in the first place because it got "recommended" to me when I was looking on the IMDB forums for an entirely different horror movie I remembered, which also had an intense woman character and an alien octopus being.

I am content that I saw Possession, but I still wish to know what horror movie I saw as a child in the past. Possession is said by viewers to be split up into 3 parts, first is the marriage gone wrong part, then the suspense/horror part, then the action/confusing scenes one after another part.

The last couple scenes either have symbolism behind them, or Andrzej Zulawski was on drugs when he made this movie. But let's pretend for the more interesting case to be fact, which is symbolism. Anna at one point feels nothing positive anymore, is very intensely showing insane behaviour at other points, and kills intruders who happen to stumble upon her secret octopus lover.

It seemed to me that she loved both Marc and the octopus, because she did not kill Marc when the unusual sex scene occured. Also, according to another viewer, the octopus seems to be an embodiment of some kind, something like misery or pain, which Anna gave birth too in the underground subway scene, where she went completely mad, which was a pretty interesting scene by the way.

I think that the viewer is on to something with this theory, and therefore I support it. If you did not understand so by now, Possession is not a movie where everything gets explained. Lucky for me that I have seen past confusing movies already, such as Tetsuo and The Holy Mountain, although Possession is an entirely different movie from the other confusing ones.

It also shares some resemblences to the dissapointment which I call The Brood, atleast that's what I think. The camera work was well done as well by the way, and about the ending....well, it either is a brilliant ending, or it made no absolute sense.

The octopus having become an exact copy of Mark, and later on, Bob, the son of the couple, telling Helen, the lookalike of Anna(I told you that it's not an easy movie to understand)not to open the door for this new Mark, but when she almost does, Bob suicided himself into the bathtub which was random but an effective scene, and the very last scene shows Helen listening to loud noises and then looking straight at the camera(Which Anna also does quite a few times).

Jesus, what is this movie about? I am kind of repeating a few sentences through some of my movie reviews, because I sadly have to tell you once again that this movie grasped my attention as well. In overall, expect to see a deep buried confusing movie if you plan to watch it. Oh, and why is there Godfather music playing during this movie?

Psycho II

The timeline is perfect, after sitting for 22 years, Norma Bates is released. This has to be an exciting sequel right!? Unless he turns out to be healed from his homicidal tendencies...After returning to his old home, Norman settles in with a new job but at the same time recollects his property Bates Motel.

After being friendly towards Mary a new colleague, the current owner of Bates Motel is being an asshole towards them but nevertheless they recover from it. Meanwhile, Norman is getting bad memories when he looks at knives or when he recalls his mother in several ways.

After a voyeur scene, the ex-owner is being drunk plus annoying and he bluntly states that he is moving out, finally. Before being able to do so, he gets killed by an unknown assailant. The next day, Norman’s psychiatrist checks up on him while Mary finds out about the peeping tom hole.

Psycho II is unpredictable and mysterious when it comes to it’s direction, and I have no clue who the killer is. They wouldn’t use Norman himself after the scenes playing out like that, right? Interesting how Mary’s mother is precisely the persistent one who wants Bates back in jail.

The bloody toilet and bath is a nice touch, also interesting how Norman seems to think he killed the boy in the basement despite not knowing for sure. Luckily Mary sees that he is trying to be a better person.

The soundtrack sounds from the 60’s instead of the 80’s, but it’s fine. Anyway, Psycho II is very good. It has a lot of good stuff going on, and I am pleasantly surprised. It's unrealistic at times, but nevertheless watchable.