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Movie Rec: The Orphanage
Saturday, January 5th, 2008 02:08 pmI am so glad AMC has $5 shows before noon on weekends--it's meant that D. and I have gotten to see a lot of first run movies, some of which at the cost that they actually warrant. (Ooo, snap! The sarcasm, it stings!) Anyway, we saw "The Orphanage" this morning, which is a wonderfully creepy and atmospheric Spanish horror film and well worth the $5, and perhaps more.
( Some minor spoilers follow, so the cut. )
In summary, if all horror movies were this way, I would see a lot more of them. I also appreciate seeing a movie that doesn't rush into its story and instead lets the audience experience the story at the same pace the characters do. Go and see it if you enjoyed "The Sixth Sense" or "The Others."
Because of this movie, Henry James's The Turn of the Screw has elbowed its way up my reading list, after Peter Treymane's Master of Souls, which is the book for the Wednesday meeting of the Mysterious Galaxy Book Club. I'm enjoying Master of Souls very much because of its setting, characters, and historical background. I know the two works will be fairly different, of course, in almost every way. The Turn of the Screw seems to be the book that all haunted house movies owe a great to, and I cannot believe I haven't read it before. I enjoyed The Bostonians quite a bit, although it suffered from being a Book For Class. (Reading with a deadline always makes me antsy.) Hopefully, an entry on that should come this week, too, since I have a lot of free time now before the paralegal program starts.
Trailer Park: The preview for Hellboy 2 looks very, very good, with a whole ton of new monsters and a new bad guy who looks like he's walked straight out of a bishounen anime.
( Some minor spoilers follow, so the cut. )
In summary, if all horror movies were this way, I would see a lot more of them. I also appreciate seeing a movie that doesn't rush into its story and instead lets the audience experience the story at the same pace the characters do. Go and see it if you enjoyed "The Sixth Sense" or "The Others."
Because of this movie, Henry James's The Turn of the Screw has elbowed its way up my reading list, after Peter Treymane's Master of Souls, which is the book for the Wednesday meeting of the Mysterious Galaxy Book Club. I'm enjoying Master of Souls very much because of its setting, characters, and historical background. I know the two works will be fairly different, of course, in almost every way. The Turn of the Screw seems to be the book that all haunted house movies owe a great to, and I cannot believe I haven't read it before. I enjoyed The Bostonians quite a bit, although it suffered from being a Book For Class. (Reading with a deadline always makes me antsy.) Hopefully, an entry on that should come this week, too, since I have a lot of free time now before the paralegal program starts.
Trailer Park: The preview for Hellboy 2 looks very, very good, with a whole ton of new monsters and a new bad guy who looks like he's walked straight out of a bishounen anime.
