Favorite Horror Scenes

I cannot believe I managed to write 31 blogs in this month alone, this was not something I planned beforehand, but it was happening spontaneously instead. It sure was a fun ride for me to think about horror related posts!

Let's share my 31 personal and favorite horror scenes, in no order. And anything goes with this list, from the most suspenseful to the most shocking to the most unexpected, to the most famous, to the most obscure.

Before seeing them, the best thing to do first would be by seeing the movies all the way through. I am just giving you my personal highlights from each one of them. Indeed, some scenes are more effective when you are given the buildup, background or more.

And don't fast forward through, because otherwise some of them get ruined!

1.The Woman In Black(1989) Bed Scene
2.An American Werewolf in London(1981) Deceptive Nightmare
3.[REC](2007) Attic Scene (Starts at the 8th minute)
4.Eraserhead(1977) Henry's Nightmare
5.Psycho(1960) The Truth About Mother
6.The Legend of Hell House(1973) Paranormal Activity
7.Trilogy of Terror(1975) The African Killer Doll
8.Day of the Dead(1985) Choke On 'Em
9.The Thing(1982) Chest Defibrillation
10.Re-Animator(1985) Dr.Hill's Head Issue
11.Saw II(2005) The Twist(s)
12.The Conjuring(2013) Hide and Clap
13.Deep Red(1975) The Hidden Killer's Face
14.Black Christmas(1974) Eye Scene
15.The Shining(1980) Room 237
16.Sinister(2012) Attic Scene
17.The Texas Chainsaw Massacre(1974) Ending
18.Martyrs(2008) Helping a Victim
19.Hellbound: Hellraiser 2(1988) The Doctor Is In
20.The Untold Story(1993) Family Murder
21.The Fly(1986) Ending
22.The Evil Dead(1981) Cheryl Williams
23.A Nightmare on Elm Street(1984) Bloodiest Nightmare
24.Friday the 13th part II(1981) Surprise, Surprise!
25.The Exorcist(1973) Spider Walk
26.Insidious(2010) The Smiling Family
27.It(1990) Kiss Me Fat Boy
28.Braindead(1993) Lawn Mower
29.Suspiria(1977) Heart Stabbed
30.Evil Dead II(1987) Laughing Scene
31.Halloween II(1981) Hot Tub

I will admit that some favorite scenes are missing because they weren't available on YouTube or elsewhere online. Perhaps you will see the rest in the next year. :) Happy Halloween guys, it was a fun ride for me, definitely.

The Cabin In The Woods

You think you know the story.

A group of people enter a cabin in the woods, but things don't seem to be what they appear to be. Actually, things are going out of hand, as they die off one by one. Just when you thought that this would be the umpteenth same scary story, the movie threw at me the first social commentary I can remember.

Pretty much a commentary onto the majority of the horror genre itself, The Cabin in the Woods with its generic title, early plot and characters overthrows all of that by literally unleashing major horror monsters upon the human characters during the second half, and by delivering a message about what we, as the general horror audience, want.

The general audience is depicted as the Gods of the universe of The Cabin In The Woods. Sigourney Weaver's character explains more about this(or us basically) and the movie's general motive regarding it's plot.

Sci-fi, fantasy and horror elements galore upon us, and it asks us not to go down into the same formula throughout the horror decades, at least the recent ones. The Cabin in the Woods is not only a pretty good horror comedy, it is also celebrating the genre, leaving us with a wishful commentary to see. That of continuing to be creative and original.

And for this "breaking the fourth wall" kind of theme playing, The Cabin In The Woods stands out for being mandatory towards only the most dedicated fans. perhaps it might even inspire a new wave of independent filmmakers out there.

Rating: 7.5

Silent Hill

My first Silent Hill was Shattered Memories, and I kind of feel dissapointed in doing so, because I usually go back to the past and experience the first carnation of anything. But because SM was so accessible to me, this was not the case this time. 

Anyhow, Konami's other proud horror franchise generally delves into psychological and religious themes, where as the main characters usually dissolve into nightmaristic worlds of mist, darkness and hellish locations.

And since Shattered Memories was more of a disappointment than a truly memorable game (Opinions of course vary), I had this giant urge to finally start with the franchise and enter the world of Silent Hill with the original. Glad that I started with this.

It shows it's age, but the fog, especially the foggy atmosphere makes it a great experience which by the way was a clever way of keeping the graphics in the distance obscure, lowering the loading times and keeping the frame rate stable. 

This is of course an assumption, but frankly I don't see why else other than the horror aspect that fog was included. I will let others find out the story for you. The gameplay is very familiar to a big Resident Evil fan like me, however Silent Hill has a nifty auto aim gun pose that shortens the time to kill those demons and manifestations.

It's almost identical otherwise, but it seems that in overall Silent Hill is a more difficult game, despite that it was generous with the health drinks and first aids. I am enthusiastic about telling you the most tense part I had while playing the game.

Yes, the cat in the locker was a good start but sooo obvious for a horror veteran like me, and its Otherworld alter ego was even better, plus random sudden shocking noises are also awesome to experience if implemented at the right time.

Not to mention the fuck up moments where you aren't playing the game, but the game is playing with you, including a warp sequence between the rest rooms of the school or when you hear the flapping sound of a bird in a room but you can clearly see no bird being present in the birdcage.

Even the metallic music playing at some parts was effectively scary in some way, but the top of the iceberg easily goes to when I first entered and explored the hospital. After a quick cutscene with a certain Dr.Faustman, you are left to explore the rest of the hospital.

Before I even encountered the nurses and doctors, Silent Hill completely had me around its finger when I was opening doors with high tension. And that music in the background, which is almost not music, but a creepy sound changing from its sound slowly that accompanied me while exploring the hospital was what made it an unforgettable period the next time I think back on Silent Hill.

It's another hard experience to explain, let me finish summarizing it by saying that you would NOT feel safe at an abandoned hospital after those freak events you already witnessed. Something was just not right about that hospital, heh. 

Rating: 8.2

Silent Hill games really set you up for the mood, I’ll give you that. I’m glad to have finally played and beaten this incredible PS2 game, once should be enough for now. Part 2 is more of a stand alone title from the rest of the franchise, it’s entirely about James’s life instead of some demonic cult bent on shaping the world.

The first time playing these atmospheric games, there is definitely a feeling of unease playing in your mind. Especially when you are searching for the destination in a foggy or dark town, or when you try to open the umpteenth door only to acknowledge that it’s a locked or a broken down door once again, or when the tension music is quietly yet effectively playing, in summary, Silent Hill is an expert in trying to creep you out.

And I can easily see why Silent Hill 2 is such an amazing game. It’s a messed up journey full of symbolism, weird occurrences, scary environments and a beautiful but sad complex plot await. Gameplay wise, Resident Evil comes to mind what with the weapons and the vast amounts of ammo. The enemies although scarce in variety are original and the most effective are the mannequins and of course Pyramid Head.

There are so many theories floating around on forums as to what it all means that it keeps getting interesting to talk about this classic horror game. And as for how scary Silent Hill 2 truly is…the sense of unease is definitely present. 

Sadly (but perhaps also thankfully in a way haha!) I missed the infamous Toluca Prison scream in the women’s restroom. I recently heard it on YouTube and I definitely would had peed my pants if I never knew of this scream from beforehand.

However I think that the original slightly wins more because of its sudden but well placed loud and scary SFX sounds and the Otherworld “looked better”. But make no mistake, Silent Hill 2 is easily the best SH game I have played so far, and it most likely will remain my favorite.

Rating: 8.6

From what I have seen, it definitely is the most disturbing of the three main Silent Hill games. Make no mistake, all three of them made me at unease to play through them, and that’s while using a walkthrough(!), and all three have memorable horror scenes neatly scattered through the areas here and there.

But Silent Hill 3 took a step further, adding in more bizarre scenes of indescribable horror, borrowing heavily from the movies Jacob’s Ladder and I think even Session 9, more monsters which means more tense and without a doubt the best Otherworld yet, better known as simply Hell.

The story is connected with the original, but like any Silent Hill game, the dialogue scenes are vague, mysterious and never too clear. Believe me, logic and reason are far and far away from the resort town known as Silent Hill. 

Fortunately there are plenty of experts out there on this twisted franchise. I’m really glad to have beaten them all so far, a must play for horror fans. A minor disappointing note is that Silent Hill 3 is the most linear of the three, meaning that there wasn’t as much exploration and freedom as in the other parts. 

Rating: 8.5

It has its moments, but part 4 has to be the weakest in the series yet. But since I know of other titles later on having an even worse reputation, I think I will stop here and see what Downpour can bring to us.

The Room suffers from repetition by the use of recycling previous world levels, by only adding in extra puzzles, new enemies and new progressions. The inventory system is inferior towards the previous one for limiting items with 10 objects only.

And by the way, the handgun and revolver in this game not only are less spectacular than the melee weapons, but their ammo block much needed item slots for health or key items, meaning that for each ammo box you find, it will occupy one slot, it won’t add up on itself, the same goes for health items. 

And although I usually can do fine with main characters, Henry here is noted for being more dull than Heather, James or Harry. The Room’s good things are the “locked in” concept of being stuck into your room, having still a decent eerie atmosphere (although the trilogy was scarier)and the gameplay plays fine, even Eileen wasn’t annoying to have as a partner.

And the story of course gets interesting, but only near the end, pretty much like any other Silent Hill. The twin baby monster, the SH4 nurses and most of all the very unusual hospital room where a giant Eileen head with focused dizzly eyes onto Henry are the creepiest things in the game for me.

Rating: 7.6

So this is my first game of the series, a remake from the original game, however I have heard that the differences vary a lot between the two. The best factor to this is the lonely atmosphere, the immersion is impressive to experience.

The profiling is an interesting touch to a horror game. Choices that affect the gameplay and the story is another cool addition. But while it's a very good cinematic game,the lack of effective horror and even gameplay lowered my expectations.

Rating: 7.5

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.

Castlevania

What was once one of the most beloved franchises born on the NES is now seeing troubling times, as is the case with other well known franchises out there as well. Castlevania is the ultimate inviting party towards gothic atmosphere, mythological creatures, distinguished gameplay and pure terror.

This is a huge franchise, so let me only talk about the ones I have beaten and experienced so far. my first Castlevania was Super Castlevania IV, but I didn't get far with it as a kid. Years later, I did manage to beat it. The controls and gothic setting are mindblowingly good here.

The first title I did manage to beat was Circle of the Moon on the Gameboy Advance, which continued the famous formula starting with Symphony of the Night, which is basically action RPG with a large playground, or as they are called by fans, Metroidvania and Castleroid.

Aria of Sorrow was next. This felt like a really new way of presenting the franchise, as it was happening in the future, the characters were reincarnations and some of the monters in it remain pretty weird.

The Soul Capturing system was interesting as you were able to use abilities from the enemies themselves, adding more gameplay. There is also a little twist involved in the story, and the level design was very good.

I went back to Harmony of Dissonance because I was hungry for more, and I was pleasantly surprised of the huge castle layout and that despite having like 8-bit music playing, some of the songs were really good. It was a lot of fun to just dash around the huge castle, looking for secrets or the next path that just opened.

Dawn of Sorrow turned out to be my favorite Castlevania because of the excellent bosses, the graphical animations, the tight mechanics, an improved Soul Capturing system, celebrating music and good extra unlockables.

Symphony of the Night on the contrary turned out to be the most dissapointing for me after playing all those others already. I disliked the very easy challenge, most of the castle or the inverted castle felt unnecessary to explore and I wasn't really a fan of the overall soundtrack.

It is by no means a bad game, but it was easy for me to disregard it as the best of the franchise. Portrait of Ruin introduced a dual partner system but re-used a ton of enemy designs, previous bosses and had poor level design, but it still offered enough new content to satisfy me.

Order of Ecclesia is another very solid experience that once again changed the formula here and there, such as the Glyph feature and splitting the level design into smaller maps(and one huge castle later on).

The latest Castlevania games I managed to play and beat is the NES trilogy. The first one was short, difficult and classical, Simon's Quest is a oddity like many NES sequels back in the day and Dracula's Curse is rightfully the best of the three.

As you can see, I still have a lot of Castlevania's to play out there, such as Rondo of Blood. Recent titles like Lords of Shadow don't seem to be successful enough nor interesting. Sure it's a new direction, but Castlevania is starting to go underground.

I really hope to see a classical 2D action platformer or a phenomenal 3D attempt from this franchise in the future. Or at the very least see it continueing to survive, as Castlevania deserves to stay after making many memorable entries already.

Disturbing Exploitations

If you are an avid reader, then you knew already that A Serbian Film is the most extreme movie I have seen yet. There are several others with infamous underground cult status of which I would like to talk about now. Because let me tell you; I have seen some serious disturbing, shocking and fucked up ones. These are some of the toughest movies to watch out there.

Usually, storylines, acting and other normal cinematic terms do not apply with exploitation movies. Controversial topics, specific target audiences, gross out or any kind of disturbing issues DO apply here:

Men Behind the Sun

The "hunt" for the most shocking movies ever continues. It is kind of a different hunt from horror movies such as The Exorcist and Eraserhead though, which are my favorite horror movies so far. For me, there is a clear difference in the genre inbetween movies such as Salo & Men Behind the Sun and these two I just mentioned.

Now that that speech of my current thoughts is out of the way, let me start with the latest review. Men Behind the Sun is about the Japanese during World War 2 doing terrible human experiments on their neighbour country people.

The grim atmosphere and it's low quality of dialogue as well as the plotline were annoying, but the story was atleast more interesting to follow than other exploitations. Plus, it can be argued, or just be pure opinion, that the disturbing scenes in Men Behind the Sun are some of the worst out there.

Atleast in my case, the scenes were more varied, more gruesome and I will most likely remember these better for their shocking nature. The infamous cat scene was no trouble for me to observe, instead, I felt more sad by the boy who died before the cat.

The Japanese had some sick sense into making bacterial weapons, but I can't blame them in the same way, because viruses are very deadly to mankind. What would you do in times of war? Right, innovate and experiment.

Their guinea pigs just so happened to be humans, and that my friends is the summary of this movie, which is a Japanese concentration camp(Squadron 731) full of "marut's"(Translated into specimen I guess) which get experimented and exploited on by the Japanese force of Squadron 731. In overall, another movie which is not for everyone.

The Untold Story

Heh, this is one sick movie, and it is supposed to be based on real events as well. The Untold Story is a mix of the funny cops investigating the brutal case while trying to impress their chief Lee, who almost always has hookers around his shoulders, and of course the brutal murders done by the criminal himself, Wong Chi Hang.

Taking place mostly at the local Police Department and the crime scene itself, the Eight Immortals Restaurant. Oh, this movie is not really about the plot itself though. It is more about the criminal and his crimes.

Although the movie did not talk about why Wong would really murder so many people, be a cannibal himself, and make human pork meat out of his victims(Other than some money business for some of his victims), it still was interesting to see this murderer work in the shadows, trying to hide from the cops because of him being a wanted criminal already, before he start murdering a whole family inside the restaurant, including it's owner, and use their meat as food(most likely).

Anthony Wong playing the killer felt realistic and interesting for me. Wong Chi Hang was one insane motherfucker, who always did not want to get messed up by anyone. And if they did, he would give them brutal punishment, and show them who's boss.

And when the cops are quite sure that Wong really killed a whole family, Wong literally gets fucked up and beaten up by everyone he encounters. Many beat him up, including the angry brother of the previous owner of the restaurant, and although it was cruel and evil to look at, it did left a rightful feeling for me though, watching the cops and fellow prisoners beat him up so many times.

After all, he did murder a whole family full of children. Although Wong is pretty beaten and fucked up many times, he still tells everyone that no one will get him. And after a failed suicide attempt(which was pretty intense to look at, since it looked painful), he finally suicides by stealing a sharp object out of the hospital.

And that marks the end of the Untold Story really. The movie did not bore me, as the killer and the murder scenes were interesting to watch. In overall, this is the most famous of the Category III movies, which is a genre only for either the most violent or the most erotic titles out there.

Cannibal Holocaust

Continueing on with one of the most controversial and shocking movies ever, Cannibal Holocaust. The raw footage of this movie was delightful, and yes, this movie was pretty intense.

Now that I think of it, comparisons are hard to make with shocking movies such as this one and Salo plus Men behind the Sun, even though pretty much all of them are effective in their own different ways.

Cannibal Holocaust is about a documentary which gets found by a professor. The 4 americans inside the documentary are curious indeed, as they perform in many cruel acts when walking inside the green inferno, looking for cannibals.

Yes, this is also the most infamous animal killing movie. And the most infamous of all, the turtle scene, was fascinating to see. What I mean by that is that I haven't seen such a brutal animal killing as that before yet.

I don't have any problems that they got killed during this movie though, it might sound wrong, but then again, for others it might sound right. As the professor reviews the footage with collegaues back in New York, one particular act is stuck in my head: why did they burn the village together with many cannibals?

As "clean" as it may look like compared to the many gory scenes in the movie, this moment is possibly the guiltiest act for me. Apparently they did this in order to stage a scene for their documentary, to get more profit or something.

What a manipulation, which is also shown in the next controversial scene, where the males rape one of the cannibal women and later claim that the natives in the end impaled her because of an obscure sexual rite.

Their obsession with the documentary itself gets even worse when they decide NOT to rescue their fellow partners while they get fucked up and killed by the cannibals. And then the movie ends, all americans are dead in the footage.

Back in New York a man says a strong sentence, that is, all of the footage must be burned. In overall, still to this day, a very effective shock movie, presented with a raw quality to it. Oh, and that happy music was so inappropiate for me.

Aftermath

The continuation of looking for the most shocking movies in existence, this time Flok takes a quick look at Aftermath, a short movie about the daily life inside the morgue, excluding the aftermath part then, or isn't it? DUM DUM DUM DUM.

This very bloody picture has zero dialogue, little music which felt more at home in churches, necrophillia and some dog eating a human's heart, which is not cannibalistic. Anyway, Aftermath's presentation is good, but it isn't more shocking for me than for example Men Behind the Sun's evil autopsy. In any case I was content with this and before I knew it the movie was over. We're talking about a short movie yes but it was still 30+ minutes which went by quickly.

Salo or the 120 days of Sodom

Unusual made movie. Definitely near the top of one of the movies which is not for everyone. Salo is infamous for it's extreme scenes throughout the movie. The story shows an experimental area ruled by fascists somewhere in Italy, who enjoy every moment of toying with their "specimen", be it boy or girl.

There's lots of naked bodies and lust moments, which I previously saw in Caligula as well, but perhaps these are more disturbing. We follow the fascists, the storytellers, the guards and the "specimen", who all participate into these experiments.

Personally I had no problem sitting through the whole movie while I was normally eating up my dinner plus dessert, but it is advised by many not to. The film is extremely controversial, and the climax features quick shocking scenes for the viewers.

It seems during this climax that every fascist finds it very intriguing to observe these torture and rape scenes...In conclusion, Salo is a film that should only be experienced by those who want to have seen this movie and be glad that they saw it.

The ending after that was pointless though in my opinion. I cannot say that I was dissapointed with Salo's content, because the promises reviewers have said about this movie are pretty much true, but I can number atleast 1 more movie on the top of my head which was both a better movie plus a more disturbing one, which is The Untold Story.

In any case, as I said before, if you are on the hunt for the most disturbing/horrifying/freaky/gorefest/disgusting movies ever filmed, Salo would be a good start, or a good end to some, heheh.

Ebola Syndrome

Anthony Wong is at it again, he is pretty much my favorite Hong Kong villain right now. The opening scene begins nasty. An early quote is quite funny, "I am killing them, isn't that ok?" with Wong's expression.

The tongue scene looked really fake, too bad. After the opening credits we get to see frogs being sliced up from close. Kai is working in South Africa now while he is still wanted for the murders of 3 people.

The English portions have finally been improved, but it's still poor. Argh, seems that this is the first time I witness the very disturbing nature of employees jacking off and ejaculating inside food. Yuck if I think about it.

Ebola Syndrome on a whole is a very dirty movie, really. Further on we see that Kai and a collegaue need pig meat so they go to a local tribe which is busy with a dirty ritual of recklessly decapitating chicken.

Some people there also seem to be dead, possibly because of Ebola. Kai himself hates bullies. He feels that he gets bullied again by his current boss, so then he leaves him alone with a wrecked car. What happens next is very nasty, he sees his chance to rape his first black female, but it turns out that she is heavily infected and his dick is somehow stuck inside.

He then gets splashed with a disease and proceeds to smash her head to bits. More stress moments happen, and Kai is then sick of his boss's wife(Like before) as they are sick of his non discipline behavior and stinky smell.

He attempts to rape her(Oh Anthony so traditional of you), but his boss comes just in time to stop the mess. But things get even worse, and in the end the boss's head falls off when Kai is busy stomping the door on him and then dragging him out.

And before that he was walking around confused with a stabbed eye. Kai returns to the wife by humiliating her and eventually eating a piece(!) of her cheek and then drops the round edge of a table on her neck, proceeding by spitting out the meat.

My god, this director was definitely enjoying it all. "I killed everyone and still I am working and cleaning up." Wong pulls an Untold Story as he is seen yet again making human meat feasible and then selling it.

Oh, the humor is also still here, especially when Wong is talking crappy English, sounding like a bad tarzan from the jungle. Wong kills A LOT of people indirectly by sneezing, close contact etc.(Slow motion with high tension music scenes confirms this), but also directly because of his "African buns". 

Victims of the Ebola Virus get fucked up by seizures, heavy internal and external bleedings and basically just dying. So many scenes where people get seizures...Yeah, Ebola Syndrome definitely beats The Untold Story in my opinion.

The later might have a whole family killing and nasty self cutting scenes, but the former is the ultimate CAT III movie for me. Disgusting, disturbing, gory, sexual abusive, homicidal, creepy soundtrack and extreme violence. Bon appetit. Great for horror/extreme/CAT III fans.

Luigi's Mansion 2: Dark Moon

A most welcome addition has been added towards Luigi's career. The cowardly likable fellow has been given his best adventure yet, as Luigi's Mansion 2: Dark Moon is a huge improvement over a creative title that happened to have an interesting backstory back in 2001.

The mechanics and the length have been vastly improved, however, I do miss the special portrait ghosts from the GameCube version. This is the only nitpicking I could find, other than that there are no checkpoints between the missions, and sometimes these can last up to 30 minutes.

As Luigi, it will be your task to search for the pieces of the Dark Moon in order to restore the habiting ghost's senses which have been twisted by King Boo and his fellow Boo's. There are 5 different mansions to be found this time.

Exploration is a vital keypoint into experiencing this, and this time, a lot of secrets have been added so that if you look well enough, rewards and satisfaction can be found. Special valuable gems are selectively chosen to be harder to find than mere hidden coin or bill staches.

The mansions themselves are split into missions, where Professor Elvin Gadd will once again guide Luigi through the next objective, using the Dual Screen. This time, the second screen on the 3DS will naturally offer a helpful map feature alongside some statistics and a list of objectives.

It wouldn't be complete without the actual ghost hunting however! You are equipped with the Poltergust 5000, a powerful vacuum cleaner specialized into flashing and capturing ghosts or other objects.

Blowing or sucking are part of the overall gameplay, as creative puzzles and new elements continue to pop up throughout the long adventure. The mood is spooky yet funny and adorable. The level design is compelling because everything clicks regarding progressing.

The Thrill Tower, or the multiplayer is surprisingly exceptional and one of the best online sessions I've had in recent memory. There are plenty of modes including clearing ghosts quickly and finding the puppy dogs quickly.

There is enough added to the multiplayer in order to consider it, which also includes 3 difficulties, an endless mode, upgrades, bonuses and from what I have seen fluent online gameplay, although the occassional connection error and/or players leaving are always present.

Luigi's Mansion 2: Dark Moon is without a doubt the green plumber's best game yet, and one of the must haves for the 3DS in this Year of Luigi, as it is a unique and addictive ghost hunting game with plenty of content and challenges awaiting you.

Rating: 8.5