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Watching a Spanish flick called To Let that's part of the "6 Movies to Keep you Awake" series. So far, spooky O.o;

I'm exactly the opposite! 3nodding I am a total horror movie fiend, in all shapes an sizes. The foreign horror films are the best by far... ending with Korean films at the top of the "******** HOLD ME THIS IS SCARY!!!" Movie Pyramid. I don't know whaat it is, but Koreans are the most sadistic, twisted creative minds on the market.

Never, ever watch a movie called I Saw The Devil. It will literally happen. gonk

And To Let was pretty scary. It was about this psychotic Landlady whose apartments had been evicted because the City said it was not structurally sound, so she stalks couples with or expecting kids, furnishes an apartment with their used or discarded belongings, and leaves an advertisement in their mailbox for the complex. The end result is not pretty :/ Moral of the story is don't take single lease ads from your mailbox!

It was creepy! AND totally random!!! That would blow beyond compare if you were viewing a new place to live and then got beaten over the head with a toaster until you're bleeding profusely, then tying you to the shower surrounded by old things you've thrown away? No thanks. Check please!

And yeah... I Saw The Devil is a great caricature of human psychology, but it's plain old fashioned ******** up. Man and women freshly engaged, she travels out of town and her car dies. Creepy guy comes up to the car, she locks the doors, he comes back with a tire iron to break the window and beat her face in. Takes her somewhere, ties her up, tortures her and cut her up. She was pregnant. They find her head floating in the river two weeks later, and her husband is part of the crime scene because HE IS A SECRET AGENT, and what commences is the most gorey, unsettling, disturbing and horrific film I've ever seen. 100% genuinely soul breaking (kind of like the first 10 minutes of Up!)

The craziest thing is that it's actually a good movie, as far as the portrayal of the characters goes and how real it all feels.

Apparently that's not even the tip of the iceberg as far as foreign horror flicks go though >_> There's "Serbian Film"

Nah... Final Destination is one of those movies where the premise is interesting, but ultimately it was a pretty campy and unscary flick. Don't get me wrong, alot of American Horror films ARE scary, but compared to foreign horror films they are mild. Foreign films go further, they're not made to be movies about "jump sequences" or scary monsters or your typical poltergeist. If you wanna get what I mean, you could wikipedia a movie called "A Tale of Two Sisters" which is another Korean Horror flick.

As far as Serbian Film goes... don't look it up at all. From what I understand of it, it's basically a snuff film. If you don't know what that is, don't look it up either >_> I've never looked it up and have no intention of seeing it. It disregards the Horror genre as an art form, disregards the obligations a director has to the well being of their audience, and uses it solely as a median to completely violate a person's mind. No bueno.

Rather, foreign films are much more creative, inventive and artistic in the way they portray horror, in addition to being genuinely scarier since they tend to address topics or cultural references that Western audiences are unfamiliar with.

A snuff film is a home video filmed pornographic movie in which one or more people are also tortured and murdered on camera.

Serbian Film is basically that, but worse, and on such a scale that it appears that real people are really being raped and murdered on camera. Not in any sense is the depiction portrayed as fake. It really looks that way, and the level of debasement before that is really something I don't want to discuss. Necrophilia and ***** are both present throughout the movie. As far as how I know about this movie, through word of mouth.

I, of all people, am a huge advocate of the belief that "Art" cannot truly be defined, and can be emulated and personified in the strangest things. However, I also believe that a line gets drawn at the point of real human or animal suffering purposefully exacted to create that "Art." An example would be a Spanish artist that chained a stray dog to the corner of his gallery. He never fed it or gave it water, nor cleaned up after it. His patrons watched an animal starve, succumb to disease, and then die right there in front of them, and they all had the ability to set it free if they wanted to.

Something like that is... sickening to me. Much as Serbian Film is. I don't view it as art, but a violation of both the sacred trust an audience member or patron of the arts gives to the artist or director, and a line of morality that shouldn't be crossed in the pursuance of art.

Surgery?? Hope all goes well!

I just listened to that song 3nodding pretty damn cute. It has this redneck's seal of approval.

Regarding Serbian Film, yes. It was acting... but I've heard that the entire cast and crew of the movie was ordered before a Court of Law to do a "Head Count," to insure that no one was actually murdered. That's how graphic and disturbing this movie is. Even telling yourself "it's only a movie" isn't enough to convince your brain that what you are watching is fake. The things they show in the movie aren't "imagined." Even trying to imagine the brutality of it all as realistically as you could within your mind wouldn't prepare a person for how real it actually looks. A buddy of mine, a guy who is almost always entirely unaffected by horror movies (the kind of dude that cracks jokes throughout), watched this and he had to run away from the TV to vomit. Movies shouldn't do that.

As for whether or not stuff like that is even allowed... well, the glory of the arts is that most things are permitted but clearly Serbian Film walks the line.

Hahaha! Don't sweat the Red Solo Cup song Kage. It's really funny and cute. If it had anything to do with Horror I would have said something besides "pretty damn cute" wink