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Silent Terror Youtube Review

May 15, 2013 by Eric S. Leave a Comment

Silent Terror Shorts ReviewA couple of years back Justin Lin, famed director of the latest Fast and Furious Movies launched, with a couple of friends, a Youtube Channel calles YOMYOMF (You Offend Me You Offend My Family). This channel offers a large array of videos including but not limited to Shorts, Shows, Trailers….

For Halloween 2012, they released a serie of 4 shorts directed by famous Horror Movie Directors:

– Grave Torture is and indonesian short directed by Joko Anwar (the forbidden door) based on a very creepy local belief that when a person dies he/she will wake up inside the grave, to receive punishment for bad deeds they did during their life.

The movie introduces us to a little boy during his father funeral. He sneaks into the casket and fall asleep only to be buried with his father, who, by the way, was a serial killer. You can imagine the rest.

Grave torture had great production values, was well shot but in terms of scares and creep factor, it was lacking. Still a good entry for a web based series.

– Double from director Woo Ming-Jing is the kind of movie that makes you think. Some kind of  twisted tale about the fear of getting old.

– Bad Butt from Noburu Iguchi (the machine girl, dead sushi) the story of a girl who has a monster in her butt (don’t ask) will please only fans of Iguchi tasteless cinema. I do like fu..ed japanese movies but this is way too much for me. I have to draw the line somewhere. It’s a definitive letdown in terms of production values and acting when compared to the other shorts.

– Vesuvius from Philippines Director Erik Matti is a take on the virgin Mary legend where a guy is being manipulated by a demon in disguise. While, once again, well made, this short left me cold. I could not really get into the movie and with a short movie you need to get the attention of your viewers instantly which never happened to me when watching Vesuvius.

In conclusion, out of those 4 shorts, one was really good (Double), another one was ok (Grave Torture), the last one was average and the third one (Bad Butt) was just plain bad (or great if you’re really into this kind of cinema).

I have to commend Jason Lin for giving those directors the opportunity to showcase their talent for Free and would definitively sugegst you go and check them out now.

My Rating (global): 6/10

This is the link to the YOMYOMF youtube channel.

Filed Under: Asian Horror Movies Tagged With: Creepy, Demon, Foreign, Pinoy, Short, Tagalog

The Road Review

April 24, 2013 by Eric S. 2 Comments

The_Road_reviewYear: 2011

Director: Yam Laranas

Summary (from IMDb): A twelve year old cold case is reopened when three teens are missing in an abandoned road. In the course of the investigation, deeper and gruesome stories of abduction and murders are discovered. After more than two decades, the secrets of the haunted road may finally be revealed.

My Quick Review: I had read a fairly high numbers of positive reviews for “The Road” and it even has a metascore of  71/100 (at the time of this review). On top of that it is a Horror Movie from the Philippines, and I had never watched one from this country before. I thought it would therefore be a nice change from my current diet of Thai Horror Movies. Well, I was wrong! I do not know how “The Road” got so many positive reviews when I was myself pushing fast forward many times during the course of the movie.

The Road is divided into 3 parts, taking place in 3 different times (1o years apart each) and linked by recurrent characters and a similar location, an abandoned road. My biggest complain here is the pace, the first act takes too much time before bringing in the ghost scares (3 teenage friends take a car to drive on this abandoned dirt road and are soon facing a ghost car) while the second story (2 girls get kidnapped by a deranged young man) is even more boring and too tame to really make any kind of impact.

Finally the third story, maybe the most ambitious one drama-wise, shows us a family with a castrating mom, a useless father and a psychologically abused boy. The acting is better in this part and the story, more interesting, but un-original as are the other stories.

I can not recommend this movie to anyone and if you guys have better recommendations for a good Filipino Horror Movie, I’m all ears.

My Rating: 4/10

Filed Under: Filipino Horror Movies Tagged With: Creepy, Foreign, Ghost, Pinoy, Supernatural, Tagalog

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