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Originally Posted by Angra
This is great Chrono.
I don't know ANY of the movies from ADH II & III. Interesting stuff.
Keep the titles coming, honey. :)
By the way, is Autopsy much like Hostel?
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Thanks, Angra! :D
I actually have reviews lying around somewhere for the rest of the ADH II films - I'll pull them out and repost them here.
In terms of
Autopsy, it's interesting that you bring up
Hostel because I spent a great deal of time comparing the two with my boyfriend after watching the film. To give some background: I'm not a huge
Hostel fan, so when I look at the two and compare them, it's more about the merits of
Autopsy and how it succeeded where
Hostel failed. Now, if you're a fan of
Hostel, that critique won't help you as much. Just a warning...
I look at
Hostel to be not exactly torture porn, but more of a modern attempt at the exploitative genre while bringing back torture into horror in a big way. I think that part of the reason why it was so successful is that it was truly shocking to those who have little to no background in horror movies. Sure, there were some cringe-worthy parts for me, but if one is going to pin that movie as "torture porn," then I WANT MORE TORTURE, DAMNIT! It takes t far too long to get to the hostel and by the time we were there, there was really only two or three truly torturous scenes. Maybe I'm a jaded movie-goer, but it wasn't the "badass fucked up film" that my friends had told me it was.
Going out of
Autopsy I found myself saying to my boyfriend, "Man. People think that
Hostel is fucked up. Now THIS is a movie that they should see." Essentially,
Autopsy succeeds everywhere that, to me,
Hostel fails - it keeps up a constant level of shock and awe through gore and horror while, simultaneously it doesn't take itself too seriously; it KNOWS that it's pulp and it has some fun with it.
As I said before, I wouldn't necessarily pin
Autopsy as "torture porn;" to me that term belongs to the failed exploitative experiments in
Hostel and
Toristas.
Autopsy definitely pushes the envelop SIGNIFICANTLY more and truly challenges its viewers, as opposed to catering to them (I honestly felt as though
Hostel held back).
So, I guess the short answer is,
no,
Autopsy is not like
Hostel; it's a paradigm of what the splatter and exploitative genre
should be.
Are you a
Hostel fan?
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Originally Posted by roshiq
Nice review, Chrono! I'm now eager to to see Autopsy. I have read some positive reviews about The Broken also.
A screen shot from the movie.
...sorry to say but I think 4...4.5 out of 5 are somewhat overrating the films.
Crazy Eight = 2.8/5, Mulberry St.=3.3/5 & Borderland=2.7/5. |
Thanks, Roshiq! I honestly think that you'll dig it. By the way, have you been able to see
Tokyo Gore Police yet? One makes me think of the other because I think that they both encapsulate modern splatterpunk in two very different but very successful ways.
Re: Reviews of ADH II: I have to admit - I DO inflate the grades a bit, not going to lie. The truth of the matter is that I'm not going to hold a movie like
Mulberry St. to the same criteria that I would a movie like
28 Days/Weeks Later, or hold
Crazy Eights up to the same criteria as, say,
Ju-on. I look at these films as truly independent and what's striking to me is that, though they have budgetary constraints, they have created a story that is new, refreshing, and definitely contributes to the horror genre. Sure, there is definitely something derivative in all three films, but I think that it's highly important that there are indie filmmakers out there that can WOW me, with no budget.
That and I really was truly impressed with the films. While Mulberry St. doesn't hold up after repeat viewings (I watch it again and it IS a little heavy-handed and the low budget seeps through), I think about my initial experience with the film and how utterly impressed I was that a director created believable and sympathetic characters as well as some pretty scary (though admittedly cheesy) beasties.
Sorry to go on a rant, here, but I feel as though people sometimes pan ADH too quickly; I think that there definitely IS merit in there. And I still stick to my recommendations. :D