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Written by kurtodrome
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Monday, 01 February 2010 |
Few things match like “young girls” and “horror”, just ask the
Japanese. Even in the Western world, horror films starring children
have been quite effective. Quien puede matar a un niño?, Children of the Corn, The Omen, The Other to name but a few. One movie that also wants to be on that list is Orphan,
in which we meet Esther, a young girl who spends her life in an
orphanage after her family was killed. She’s quite good at drawing and
playing the piano, you know. Esther is lucky: the Colemans, a happy
couple with two children, want to have a third child and have decided
to introduce an adopted child into the family. Esther is lucky, the
family is less so. Because Esther isn’t just a normal cute girl… Esther
is [ooh ahh, spoiler alert narrowly avoided by SPAT, the Spoiler Prevention Action Team.]
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OMG!! Delirium Vault still wants you!! |
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Written by Nekoneko
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Friday, 29 January 2010 |
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(2010 is upon us and it seemed only right to revise this posting and give the interested ones among you a "second chance" to join the team... C'mon, you know you wanna do it!!)
Yep.... you've read it right! If you've ever had a burning desire to see an article of your own up here at Delirium Vault spreading your very own personal opinions on movies, music, and all things, well..... "Delirious".... you are certainly in luck today!!
Seems our lil' site could use some "new blood" so to speak, helping to make us a vibrant active community of crazy fanatics..... So, perhaps, if you've ever wanted to join Delirum Vault as full time "site contributors" your time might just finally have come! Kurt, Dee, and the rest of the whole gang and I are stretched to the limit finding time to keep things lively..... (Aren't "Real World" things like Jobs, Family and the like, just sooooo darn tedious at times?)
An ability to write and write well is a definite plus.... but not an absolute necessity. Anyone with a genuine passion for crazy offbeat films, music, pop culture or anything of that sort is most definitely welcome to take a whack at this. There's no catch.... contribute as much or as little as you like, all we ask is that you try your hardest to make your articles fit our rather eclectic style.....
Now.... there are no "secret decoder rings", or high falutin' titles that go with this, but your Favorite Catgirl Princess thinks there just has to be a special few among you ready to heed the call to partake in the wonders and bask in the warm glow of Internet Celebrity that could follow......
So...... what are you waiting for? There have to be people in far flung parts of the world from Burkino Faso all the way to Mongolia just aching to know what you thought of such gems as "Alligator People", "SS Girls Hellcamp" or "I Spit on Your Grave... Again!!" C'mon.... Satisfy their needs!!!
Join us now!! Become one of the few... the proud... the "Delirious"!! Ya know ya wanna!!
All interested people, please click HERE to leave us a message I'll be breathlessly awaiting your messages!!
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Written by kurtodrome
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010 |
The United States have their hard-boiled detectives and film noir
types, but what have the Europeans set against that? Cranky old men in
the UK and Scandinavia. Frost, Wallander, Morse... that sort of thing.
Lately, the Scandinavians have been busy to 'invent' a crime subgenre
that benefits from the European diversity. (In case you didn't know: it
generally means that directors need an investment from a couple of
countries, countries that in turn ask the director to have a bit of
their glorious country inserted into the movie. Thus the European
thriller was often an artificial and convoluted creature.)
In 2004 the
Danish made a crime series (The Eagle) that detailed the maffias
and corruption in several countries and for once the result didn't seem
contrived. The series starred von Trier regular Jens Albinus, had music from Jacob Groth and several episodes were directed by Niels Arden Oplev. The latter two helped create the first film of the Millennium trilogy: Men who hate women (a.k.a. Män som hatar kvinnor a.k.a. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo).
The signs were good and thanks to the international popularity of the
books, there was no need for artifical funding by several European
countries. Everyone was happy to honour Stieg Larsson and keep the books as Swedish as possible, so as not to upset the millions of fans.
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"Yulenka: Deadly Lessons" (2009) - Russian Thriller/ Horror |
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Written by Nekoneko
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Tuesday, 26 January 2010 |
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Ever wonder what a movie like "The Bad Seed" crossed with "The Belles of St Trinians" and seasoned with more than a heaping helping of "Psycho" just might be like if it were done with an all Russian cast? Well wonder no more.... From the land of Borsht and Vodka comes "Yulenka: Deadly Lessons". Neko's been aware of this one for some time now, but it's taken me a while to hunt down some decent English subtitles.... until now.
The simple synopsis goes: "Professor Andriy Belov moves to a small town from the capital, and from his university to a woman’s high school, so that his wife can get the treatment and air she needs. After a short time a the school, he begins to notice strange things happening to his students.
The students in the fifth class don't play with dolls, they delight in making a toy of human lives.
One day he finds a note reading ‘Save Us,’ and he begins to take action. As he investigates, his life degenerates into a nightmare, and his only hope is a lone little girl, Yulenka..... or does something evil hide behind her innocent eyes?"
This is another of those odd little films for which your Favorite Catgirl ends up spending her odd hours searching high and low for subtitles when the original DVD lacks them. Sometimes I find them right away... other times it take a while... sometime it takes an excruciatingly looonnggg time. These ones required me to delve into some fairly odd places in the former Soviet Union, but my perseverance has finally paid off, and so now.... with some fairly accurate fan-translated subtitles in hand and a copy of the Region 5 DVD.... "Yulenka" is finally mine!!
Was it worth all my silly efforts (not to mention a fair amount of Bablefish translation of Cyrillic Russian)? Guess you'll have to "Read On" to find out!!
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"Sexy Killer, Morirás Por Ella" (2008) - Spanish Horror/ Comedy |
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Written by Nekoneko
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Friday, 15 January 2010 |
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"Sexy Killer"..... This one actually got mentioned to me some while ago as a quirky zombie comedy film I should definitely check out, but my inquisitive, insatiable quest for a decent source of weird Spanish films has so far failed to reward me with a reliable source directly out of Spain.... Luckily for me the Region 2 UK release for this one has remedied that lil' problem.
The synopsis for it reads: "At an exclusive university dead bodies are turning up with alarming frequency, all believed to be victims of the notorious Campus Killer. The police are stumped as to who the killer might be and, of course, nobody suspects innocent looking med student Barbara. A superficial fashion queen whose childhood dream was to grow up to become the living embodiment of her favorite doll, Cindy Superstar, all Barbara needs now is to find herself a real-life equivalent of Cindy’s plastic partner, Glenn. But behind the mask of her perfectly applied make-up is a deadly cross between Paris Hilton and American Psycho’s Patrick Bateman, a female serial killer for whom ruthlessly slaughtering people isn’t so much a question of why as one of why not?
Barbara’s grisly trail of murder fortuitously leads her into the arms of Tomas, a fellow student assigned to the campus morgue who is experimenting with a machine designed to translate thoughts and brainwaves into images. What he later discovers, though, is that with a little tinkering (and the addition of a healthy dose of Ecstasy to his subjects) the machine is able to reanimate the dead. Not surprisingly, this proves to be bad news for Barbara as Tomas begins reviving the Campus Killer’s victims in the hope that at least one of them will be able to identify their murderer. Of course, what he hadn’t bargained for was their insatiable hunger for both revenge and for human flesh. Soon, Tomas finds himself the innocent bystander in a bloody and explosive serial killer versus zombies showdown."
Hmmm... now this one certainly sounds downright goofy. (And you know how Neko sooo likes goofy!!) So forgoing my usual popcorn and wine coolers, we opt for a movie night of spicy nachos and sangria, hoping the movie fairies will bless Carolyn and I with a delightfully grisly laugh fest to remember!! Think you might just like it too? Then You better "Read On" and find out more!
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