Seventh Moon, hungry ghosts chomp!
Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Horror Films
So I am working away from home at the moment in the lurvely coastal town of Warrnambool, which is about 4 hours from Melbourne. But I’m still there for my horror peeps! Giving you the business; check this trailer for the film ‘Seventh Moon’. I honestly can’t recall where I came across it. The plot sounds fabulous, tourist’s go off track in China during the annual ‘Hungry Ghosts Festival’ which occurs in the seventh lunar month of the year, and the horror ensues! The trailer is crazy, check out the hordes of unhappy ancestors/ghosts!
Ms Harker
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True Blood S2 Sneak Peek
Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Horror TV
I stumbled upon this website Geek Stir and found it had a sneak peek clip from HBO’s raunchy vamp series True Blood, season two! Very exciting! I can’t wait for the season to start, here’s a taste fang-bangers!
Ms Harker
The Palme d'Or, can horror take Cannes?
Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Horror Films
The list of films in contention for competition at Cannes 2009 was announced a couple of days ago. Much to my delight two films which I have featured already on this blog, as I am very excited about them Thirst and Antichrist are in the running. ‘The Woman in Black’ over at Dread Central published a list of the films she considered within the horror genre which are in the running for the Palme d’Or (best film of the festival) and also those that will be showing simply as part of the festival program. Sam Raimi’s Drag Me To Hell is showing as part of the program also. These three films I’m very keen to see especially Thirst.
However ‘The Woman in Black’s’ post got me thinking. Has a horror film ever won the Palme d’Or at Cannes? I went to the site and looked through the list of winners which dated back to 1956 and struggled to spot one. Apocalypse Now won the Palme d’Or in 1979, does that count as horror? Lets say it does, that’s one film in the Horror genre that has taken Cannes since 1956! What goes on?
There is a lot of buzz going around about Lars von Trier’s Antichrist. He won the Palme d’Or in 2000 with Dancer in the Dark, starring Bjork. Can he do it again with Willem Dafoe’s bare arse and a tree made of human limbs? People are a twittering and a blogging about it mainly due to Anitchrist being Lars von Trier’s first foray into the horror genre. There are also some stunning stills that have been released from the film on their website; which if they are any indication the film is not only going to be chilling but visually captivating and challenging.
Now I could be wrong, there may be other films that people consider horror that have won at Cannes. Or is it that the genre is usually ignored due to artsy snobbery and the reason it has a look in this year is due to the past success of Lars von Trier? Or shock, gasp, *clutch at neck* has horror been accepted as mainstream and therefore broken into these competitions, shaking the assumptions that all produced within the genre are low brow gore fests.
So the question I have for you my readers is this horror’s year at Cannes?
Ms Harker
Is horror becoming mainstream?
