tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post5254998911236488837..comments2024-03-28T10:33:39.051-07:00Comments on Horror Movie A Day: Ils (aka Them) (2006)BChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06480847497966171794noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-86911022725011972642009-05-10T17:05:00.000-07:002009-05-10T17:05:00.000-07:00Hum...I think it's the same house from "Last House...Hum...I think it's the same house from "Last House In the Woods," plastic sheeting + all.<br />Searched for this, not at my beloved local video store, just got a Netflix subscription + hey! there is is. OOh, loved the ending with her trapped in the grate + the image of the kid twirling to New Year's noisemaker skipping along.<br />1 hr. 16 min, well done tight movie.Shona~ LALA dex presshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07997153789350766344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-18674359694221334472008-10-29T09:31:00.000-07:002008-10-29T09:31:00.000-07:00I'm not sure how I could dislike the French anymor...I'm not sure how I could dislike the French anymore than I already do, but this film had that effect on me. Where was the substance?Slightly Scaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12759500878322170294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-55514694627166463112008-07-31T15:58:00.000-07:002008-07-31T15:58:00.000-07:00Here is what is funny to me... I watched The Stra...Here is what is funny to me... I watched The Strangers and enjoyed it thouroughly. It's not a bad movie with famous enough people that wasn't completely predictable and lame. I waited VERY patiently for the little underground rental place around my area (Invisible Cinema) <BR/>to get this in for me. My patience paid off ten fold. I don't see how someone could think this movie is crap... If anything The Strangers was crap in comparison. Sure I enjoyed the eerie effect of the masked tormentors, but I found that Them pulled off keeping everything creepier. It's hard to be scared when you see the badies eyeballing the victims.<BR/> I also thought that the leaving of the house didn't cut much tension only because the house was so fucking huge to begin with. I never felt like they were really trapped. Not like Inside anyways.<BR/> Truth be told, I am sad I have run through your whole french section so quickly. Find more damnit! Feed me!!Sleepyweaselhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14201661448451022563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-76986659640450516582008-06-29T18:56:00.000-07:002008-06-29T18:56:00.000-07:00Although the storm drenched break-down that kicks ...Although the storm drenched break-down that kicks off the movie is fantastic, the rest is pretty tired. To be honest, I have yet to watch any recent european/japanese horror cinema that has lived up to its hype. J-Horror in particular: Flat characters, absence of character development, redundant "girl in dirty white sundress with long black hair obscuring face whose vengeful spirit possesses a piece of modern day technology" as sinister antagonist. The 2 dimensional characters (which feels a bit of a stretch to even call them such) then spend the next 60 minutes trying to unlock the secret of the ghosts vengeful past and thus alleviate their curse and save their lives (although for what reason they would believe this is never apparent)...only to reveal that the ghosts vengeance is misplaced and unreasoning AND that their is no way to appease the spirit and escape their demise. People who consider themselves film afficionados lament the weak American cinema and its spewing forth of endless sequels that offer nothing and knock-offs that offer less, and snobbishly declare their need for more cerebral and better executed foreign cinema...and yet as far as I can tell those outlets are really no better. These foreign import/re-makes are the worse thing that have come to american cinema of late, and though some will claim that they don't hold the essence of the original movie, watch Ringu and then The Ring, and they are shot for shot, scene for scene, the same bad movie. Which brings me back to Ils. Since the American J-Horror remake well seems to have mercifully dried up, moviemakers are turning to european markets to indulge our new snobbishness. Ils covers old territory: isolated household terrorized by outside force. Where is the genius in this? I don't want to spoil for anyone, but the fact that the antagonists are-who-they-are does not raise the horror factor of this movie. Additionally, their identity is blatantly obvious very early into the film thus making the film's Shocking Revelation more of an Anti-climactic Waste of Time. And really, who didn't KNOW that the "Them" that was helping the protagonists at the end wasn't really just backing them into a corner to be killed?<BR/><BR/>This movie is not clever, nor ground-breaking, nor inspired. None of its shocks shock. And the twist at the end is seen coming from the instant the "Them", for no fathomable reason, decides to help the couple. Well I guess when I put it that way, its seems completely obvious why it simply HAD to be remade for American audiences as The Strangers. So instead of watching our own familair crappy cinema we can now happily watch other countries crappy cinema, prententiously happy in how crap-worldly we are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-59692302684191056572008-06-01T09:22:00.000-07:002008-06-01T09:22:00.000-07:00i liked it!!! spooky ending!!i liked it!!! spooky ending!!Kolleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738326294612142773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-89565807617539515362008-05-21T15:45:00.000-07:002008-05-21T15:45:00.000-07:00Well, I'm European and I have lots of neighbors. B...Well, I'm European and I have lots of neighbors. But I live in a suburb. We have rural areas as well and there are people who live secluded. They're the ones that want to get killed. ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-23280493601843527912008-05-20T16:20:00.000-07:002008-05-20T16:20:00.000-07:00For stores Blockbuster has the exclusive rights fo...For stores Blockbuster has the exclusive rights for rental (why it doesn't apply to Netflix, I have no idea). So Hollywood Video, Movie Gallery, etc. cannot rent the film, at least not for a while (I think the exclusive window is for like 6 months or something, but I may be wrong). But yeah, Netflix has it either way.BChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06480847497966171794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-20538912491683738832008-05-20T16:13:00.000-07:002008-05-20T16:13:00.000-07:00I rented the unrated cut of Inside from Netflix. N...I rented the unrated cut of Inside from Netflix. Not sure what you mean about the movie being exclusive to Blockbuster.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-16394889932297093772008-05-20T07:38:00.000-07:002008-05-20T07:38:00.000-07:00I couldn't agree with you more about the effect of...I couldn't agree with you more about the effect of them leaving the house has on the film. However, the twist at the end makes it almost worth it. However, for 50 minutes this is a brilliant little scarefest; I actually got some chills which doesn't happen often anymore, and then a so-so final act. Overall, pretty good.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09548468568645800735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-31485221542012512622008-05-19T21:52:00.000-07:002008-05-19T21:52:00.000-07:00This movie, after all the build up and raves I rea...This movie, after all the build up and raves I read about it, bored me to effing tears. It barely held my attention and, I think, the only reason I even watched the entire thing was because it was pretty short and I had nothing else to do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com