I feel like I've gone from 0 to 60 these past two weeks. Work has finally found a way to occupy much of my time, and I am back to editing my manuscript as well as working on my portrait drawing skills. I did manage to watch a good amount of horror movies the past two weeks, but have given little energy to write about them. So I'm going to give four of them a go in one sitting. I'll try to keep them all in bite size chunks, and not fill you up with the first and leave you with crumbs for the last. Terrible analogy. I'm tired. Let's do this.
Much like the facility the young woman is imprisoned in, the first 30 minutes of the film lulls you from a feeling of claustrophobia into a dreamlike trance with its lush visuals and cold, synth score. But just as you begin to feel safe and secure in the visual prison Cosmatos has created for you, the director breaks with the visual tone. The effect is unsettling, recreating the feeling of dread you started the film with, and then it hits you with a image so nightmarish I literately gasped out loud at the sight of it. And in the last 30 minutes Cosmatos managed to evoke the same reactions in me again. Full disclosure, this is the second time I've seen Rainbow, the first time was before I plopped myself into a theater seat to watch his second move, the masterpiece Mandy. But I wanted to revisit it, wondering if it would still have the same impact on me. Well, although I didn't gasp out loud twice again (too much to ask now that the element of surprise was gone) it still had an impact on me. I have to say I loved it even more the second time. I also have to say I hope some people will watch this after reading this so they can either share in my awe or tell me to get my head out of my ass. Love it or hate it, its just that kind of movie. Beyond the Black Rainbow Report CardGeneral Horror Fans: C Jump Scare Fans: F Creepy Vibe Fans: A Gore Hounds: B Monster Mash: F Yours Truly: A+
This is a movie I believe I will give another chance somewhere down along the road, and I am open to the distinct possibility that I will like it more the second time. I believe there is more to the this movie than hinted at by its surface, but I didn't feel the same curiosity I did when watching an equal opaque vampire movie, the 2008 Swedish film Let the Right One In. Perhaps it was because the central characters in Let the Right One In have clear motivations, while the aimless souls of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night struggle to redefine their lost lives but do so in such a languid manner I started to drift away from the film when it wanted me to drift with it instead. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Report CardGeneral Horror Fans: C Jump Scare Fans: C Creepy Vibe Fans: B Gore Hounds: C Monster Mash: B Yours Truly: B-
Chopping Mall Report CardGeneral Horror Fans: B Jump Scare Fans: D Creepy Vibe Fans: F Gore Hounds: A Monster Mash: B Yours Truly: A-
V/H/S/2 Report CardGeneral Horror Fans: A
Jump Scare Fans: B+ Creepy Vibe Fans: B- Gore Hounds: A+ Monster Mash: A- Yours Truly: B+
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