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donnie darko (2003)

donnie darko has to be one of the best films released this year, it is a debut film from the 28 year old director, Richard Kelly. With the excellent Jake Gyllenhaal as the young misfit. This film is a bit hard to understand. after watching it more than once you pretty much understand the whole story of it. A young misfit, Jake Gyllenhaal, has a mental condition and starts to see a horrific rabbit named Frank. He tells Donnie that there is only 28 days until the world ends, and Donnie's visions become more powerful and disturbing until he realises that the quest to save the world will claim his life.
An excellent film by an amazing new director. Richard Kelly's next work in progress is a film called 'Knowing' hopefully it can live up to the standards of Donnie Darko. brilliant 10/10

THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (2003)

Had the Texas Chainsaw Massacre- 2003 vintage - been percieved as competing only against House Of 1000 Corpses or Cabin Fever, it may have stood out as an above average horror flick. However, as the first wave of pointless horror re-makes (with Dawn Of The Dead due to cinemas soon), it's doomed to go up against Tobe Hooper's ferocious 1974 original and and in that league, simply can't cut it. Leatherface has an even larger family of wierd relations, even though it is just him doing the killings.
The look, created by Hooper's cinematographer Daniel Pearl, and expert art direction is particularly nasty... but somehow that buzzing saw dosen't sound as scary as it used to... watch it if you like to see Jessica Biel run around in the rain with a white T-shirt on, hmmmmm.... 4/10 I prefer the original.

Rob Zombie's debut film, House Of 1000 corpses' has to go down as a legendary film masterpiece, it shows us the everyday lives of a family of red-necks, when they are visited by young teenagers, who's car broke down, the story escalates into the 4 teenagers being killed in, not the most tasteful ways.
At the roadside, instead of finding a normal gas station, in Rob Zombie's movie, we find 'Captain Spauldings Museum Of Monsters And Madmen' with the infamous 'Murder Ride.' Captain Spaulding is an excellent character with a ghoulish appetite for destruction. Rob Zombie was interviewed for the BBC films website, and inhis words he said, 'I'm pleased with 'House Of 1000 Corpses' I will be making a sequel, I won't call it 'House Of 2000 Corpses' because that's just lame.' Lets hope he does make a sequel... fucking awesome, 9/10

HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER

This film illustrates the life and mind of a serial killer, we find ourselves in the life of Henry Lee-Lucas, one of America's worst serial killers.
Many films on serial killers have been made, most of them in only 80 minutes, this film lasts almost 90 minutes and it is sheer brutality from start to finish. We first see Henry with his long-time friend Ottis, they live in a mediocre flat, until Ottis' sister comes to visit. After the film has proceeded for a while and Henry and Ottis are on a killing spree, Henry comes back to the flat to find Ottis screwing his own sister, Henry, outraged, starts beating Ottis, Ottis retaliates and it seems as if Henry is at his mercy when, Ottis' sister grabs a comb, and violently rams it in Ottis' eye, (now the squirting of blood from the eyesocket, the stunt could have been done with a water pistol) Henry proceeds to dismember the corpse and place it in a lovely turquoise case. Lovely, this is but a taste of the terror that awaits you. BUY IT. 10/10

Rob Zombie

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