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11. FINAL
DESTINATION (1999)
New Line Cinema
Director and co-writer James Wong created a legend with this movie. Poorly advertised and marketed as a teenie bopper horror movie, audiences thought this was going to be another tired "Hollywood hip" slasher flick and largely
avoided it.
Now it is being rediscovered on video, which is great.
Like CARRIE, fans know of that certain scene that will make you leap
out of your seat and shout. It was the only movie I've ever seen that
did that to me as an adult. I was not alone, the entire audience shouted
or screamed.
A true classic in every sense of the word. FINAL
DESTINATION rounds out my list of the Top Ten Scariest
Movies of all time. |
12. [REC] (2007)
Castelao Producciones, Filmax, Televisión Española (TVE), Canal+ España, Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA), Instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO, ICF Institut Català de Finances, Generalitat de Catalunya - Institut Català de les Indústries Culturals (ICIC)
Holy freaking crap!
If you ever want to see a movie that lulls you into a comfort zone, only to violently tear you right back out of it and keep you teetering and jumping on the edge of your seat until the very end, you want to see [REC].
If there was ever a movie that had more people sitting in front of me, covering their eyes or averting their gaze, I don't remember it.
You think I'm exaggerating? You've never heard of it?
For the longest time, [REC] was unavailable in the U.S., due to Screen Gems and Vertigo entertainment buying up the rights and releasing the U.S. remake a year later. During that year of Horror fans inexorably waiting, video copies got into the market (via fan conventions) and even a few Arthouse theaters quietly put out the word that they were having "invitation-only" or "password-only" screenings.
The U.S. remake, QUARANTINE, basically a scene by scene reconstruction but in English, was very good and mildly profitable. Although putting a mega-popular TV actress like Jennifer Carpenter (THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE, DEXTER), from a top cable show in the lead, as well as on the poster, had to severely limit the credible suspension of belief that "Found footage" movies require.
By the time the foreign language [REC] was released to home video in
late 2009 (nearly 6 months after the home video release of QUARANTINE), anyone who had wanted to see it, had seen it, or saw the remake - effectively killing that year's market value of [REC]. The only thing that could have saved the value of [REC] on home video by that late time, was a decent selection of Special DVD Features. So of course it was released with none. This gross oversight could have been corrected on the eventual Blu-Ray release, but it wasn't.
Still, movies don't make this list unless they can endure all manner of incompetent marketing, sales, what have you. One way or another, great movies tend to fidn a wide audience that only keeps growing. And [REC] endures despite it all (including one lesser sequel as of this writing, that involves, believe it or not, a hamster for the monster) So if you haven't seen [REC], see it! But avoid the badly dubbed amazon upload version. E-Gad!
It's like someone wants to destroy this movie! |
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This review copyright 2013 E.C.McMullen Jr.
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Read Susan Kay's remarkably powerful book PHANTOM.
It's a must for all who love the original Gaston Leroux novel.
10 years later and I still can't get it out of my mind!
"Such
a little thing, a kiss . . . "
"
I've lived half a century without knowing what it is to be kissed
. . . "
"My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination
and reaches ever outward to embrace infinity. There is no knowledge
beyond my comprehension, no art or skill upon this entire planet
that lies beyond the mastery of my hand. And yet . . .
For as long as I live, no woman will ever look on me in love."
Excerpts from
Susan Kay's
PHANTOM. |
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