Very intense. I've watched it twice already and each time I interpret it in a whole different way. Isabelle Huppert is amazingly constricted and repressed down to her very toes... incredible performance.

That last scene I watched over and over. The expression on her face gives me chills.

The signal

I didn't have any expectations, all I knew was a few people here had dug it recently. It was really good, mixing pycho and brutal horror elements with a bit of comedy at times. One of the best new horrors I have seen for a while.

8/10

Oh my goodness, absolutely.
It's like an explosion.

Role Models

Got a bunch of laughs out of this one. I've done similar work so I could relate to a bunch of it.

"Nightmare at noon" 3/10

It was bad.

Went to see "Drag Me To Hell" Friday. Great movie.

Then swung by my local Best Buy and found a couple others. Seen them but watched them again!

Alien
Last House on the Left (1972)

El espíritu de la colmena (The Spirit of the Beehive) (1973)

Once (2006)

Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries) (1957)

I watched Wild Strawberries recently. Really beautiful film.

49th Parellel (1941)

Actually, the only real flaw in the film are the tangled and inconsistent accents, particularly Olivier's French over-execution. This is a wonderful picture full of humor and horror, and there are so many surprises, twists and turns that the ending comes far too soon- this is the kind of vivid story which could go on pleasantly forever. Of course we have Michael Powell to thank for that, a director's director who knows where to find life in his frame. He captures his actors at their most vulnerable, finds drama in the most unthinkable places, and all the while he steadies his story so that the jokes all crack nicely and the tragedies knock you flat. This expert control feels on celluloid something like a pulse, pumping all the rights things into every available space and leaving no shot a waste. An ensemble cast features many good performances and a few great ones, notably Leslie Howard's full-blooded turn as a chatty art-wise Canadian who gets picked on by a couple of Nazis for loose lips, but then pursues his chance to get even. A very funny, often angry and always riveting war-time film which is sure to have a little something for everyone.

My favorite part was the section in the Hutterite community. The extras in the scene where the Nazi makes his recruitment speech were played by actual German expatriot farmers. Amazing melding of reality and reel-ity!