Unrest

One of the horror movies I saw on Saturday cos it said it used real bodies. Ooohhhh!!!! What is on offer is not bad. A genuine sense of dread runs throughout. Quite gory as well, with med students cutting up corpses. Although the disturbed spirits theme is running a bit thin, it does offer some novel twists. Quite good acting from an unknown cast as well.

Sleepaway Camp

Got this cos of the good reviews on several horror sites I visit. Not bad overall. It doesn't even remotely try to startle or shock, just presenting the kills in the brightest of daylight or high-powered lighting, making them blatant and to the point. The ending, which freaked out a lot of people, doesn't really do much to me. And anybody who've seen Psycho or Dressed to Kill would feel the same.

The Long Goodbye

Still on my Raymond Chandler fetish. Elliot Gould makes a good Philip Marlowe and there's a sense of noir throughout, even if it is set in the 70s. I miss the voice-over, though, as is the norm for these kind of detective movies. Otherwise, Robert Altman does a good job of transforming the novel into a gritty hard-boiled 'tec movie of the 70s. Nice twist to the novel at the end also.

Le Silence de la Mer (The Silence of the Sea)

Jean Pierre Melville's directorial debut. He ripped off this Resistance novel without asking for the author's permission. Pretty okay, nothing much to it really, Nazi officer is entranced by German and France merging then receives an epiphany. Its understatedness says a lot really and a pretty good performance from Nicole Stephane throughout, who doesn't say much and relies on her face and hands.