Netflix Watch Instantly Pick of the Week - 10/29/12

Audition

Finishing out the horror movie centric month of October is Audition, one of the most twisted and deranged movies out there. It starts as something of a weird romantic comedy, as a widower is convinced by a friend to put on an audition for a fake movie in an effort to see a lot of single women in one shot and choose the right one to court. Of course they pick what they think is a lovely young girl, but she turns out to be something much, much more. You pretty much will never forget the last twenty minutes of this insane movie, from legendary director Takeshi Miike, master of the sublime and the horrific.

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Netflix Watch Instantly Pick of the Week - 10/22/12

The Keep

From my original review on Examiner:

"That is until 1983's The Keep was made readily available on that wonderful bottomless treasure chest known as Netflix. Mann's second feature film between the bad ass Thief and the amazing Manhunter, The Keep was a critical and commercial failure upon release, and apparently Paramount was so embarrassed by it that they never even bothered releasing it on DVD. But now, 27 years later, this oddity of a film is out there for all to watch at the click of a button. And if you are a fan of Michael Mann films, you have to see what his version of a horror film looks like."

This is a strange one, not exactly great, but definitely interesting enough to check out. Plus the score by Tangerine Dream is suh-weet.

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Netflix Watch Instantly Pick of the Week - 10/15/12

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

Made in 1986 but not released until 1989 because the producers didn't believe in what they had and initially felt it was not marketable, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is the kind of horror movie that many people try to make but few manage to pull off, and that's the kind of horror that is scary and intense because it feels so real and plausible - a movie that reflects the real horrors of our world can be one of the most unpleasant and unsettling things to watch, and based on a real life serial killer, the low budget, down and dirty and ultra realistic Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer will leave you feeling like you need to take a shower afterwards, because surely just watching this movie is enough to make you feel dirty, like you watched something you shouldn't have. For these reasons this is one of the most horrifying movies ever made.

Enjoy!

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Netflix Watch Instantly Pick of the Week - 10/08/12

The Night of the Hunter

From Examiner Essentials installment number twenty-six:

"Like so many of the greatest films ever made, The Night of the Hunter pretty much bombed upon release. Critics did not like it, audiences stayed home in droves, and the awful reception prompted Laughton to make a vow to never direct a movie again. And this is one of the biggest travesties in cinema history - if this crazy movie was Laughton's first as a director, imagine what kind of intense films he could have made with some practice. It's not like German expressionism was huge in the 1950's. Hell, pretty much nothing German was in vogue in 1955. but Laughton took a thirty year old cinematic style and applied it to the films of his day, and the result is a weird and fairly unsettling movie.

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Netflix Watch Instantly Pick of the Week - 10/1/12

Bubba Ho-Tep

From 2003, Bubba Ho-Tep is a crazy movie about old age Elvis (Bruce Campbell) and an elderly black man who thinks he's JFK (Ossie Davis) battling an ancient mummy that is feasting on the souls of the residents of an old folks home in Texas, and if that sounds ridiculous to you, it's because it is ridiculous and it is also awesome. Campbell is an amazing old Elvis, and the whole movie is taken pretty seriously, which sells the silliness and ridiculousness all the more. October means Halloween means scary movies, so this is scary movie number one for this month, I think you'll enjoy it quite a bit.

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