True Blood Season Two: Teaser Poster
Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Horror TV
Thanks to Dead Lantern for the heads up on this one. HBO have put a new teaser poster/image on the True Blood website to tease us all in regards to the upcoming second season. Ready for seconds? I’m fanging for it!
Ms Harker
True Blood S2 Teaser
David Lynch’s ‘Twin Peaks’
Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Horror TV
A charming young male friend of mine informed me that he had never seen Twin Peaks (damn Gen Y!), so lending him my copy of the first season has lead me to reflect upon David Lynch’s masterpiece TV series Twin Peaks.
I have very fond memories of Twin Peaks, as it was my induction into the horror/obscure genre. I would stay up at night with my Dad and watch the show, here in Oz they showed it after 10.30pm due to its content (dirty rotten censors). I had the soundtrack, Laura Palmers Diary and a huge crush on Kyle Maclachlan. From then on had a huge interest in the gothic , macabre and obscure. Thanks Dad!
Twin Peaks screened in the early nineties (1990-91) and centred around a small mountain town. The Press kit describes it as:
“It’s one of those picturesque rural towns that reminds you of time-honored American traditions, like peace and order and homemade cherry pie. Visitors tend to marvel over the magnificent Douglas firs and admire the breathtaking mountain scenery. Located in the Pacific Northwest, just five miles south of the Canadian border, Twin Peaks looks like a prosperous community of contented citizens devoted to their families. On the surface, at least, it’s a bucolic life.
But that’s on the surface.”
From the first episode this quiet little town is sent into a tale spin as the local prom queen and all round American girl Laura Palmer’s body is found beside a lake ‘wrapped in plastic’. The murder is the catalyst which allows the audience to begin to discover the unsettling reality of this apparently quaint town. The man to unravel the sometimes depraved and warped story of Laura Palmers murder is FBI Agent Cooper (cue clutching pearls). The path in which he then navigates to find Laura’s killer takes Agent Cooper and the viewer through the macabre, the deviant, the obscure (Log Lady anyone?) and the occult.
Lynch’s symbolism of giants, dancing dwarfs talking backwards, red rooms and Owls hooting warnings, combined with the temptation posed to Agent Cooper by the lovely Audrey Horne; sets a thrilling level of tension between titillation, absurdity and at times fear.
If you have not seen Twin Peaks its available now on DVD, its well worth a watch. I don’t want to say anything more as I think each person who watches this has a different take on its symbolism and story, this is due to the brilliant layering of various plot lines and entangled relationships and realities created by Lynch. However, I will leave you with a quote and clip.
Ms Harker
“Thru the darkness of Future Past
the magician longs to see
one chants out between two worlds
Fire - walk with me.”
Antichrist and Willem Dafoe’s arse.
Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Horror Films
There is a fair bit of buzz around about the trailer for Lars von Trier’s new film ‘Antichrist’. The film makes it debut at Cannes next month. Many sites such as Bloody Good Horror and Dead Lantern have featured it already. The film is about a couple trying to save their marriage post the death of their son, the trailer infers the wife stops taking some type of medication and things unravel from there. In such a short trailer the images are chilling yet compelling.
Apart from the terror of Willem Dafoe’s arse can we all take a moment to worship the image of the tree in the final part of the trailer? Its brilliant! The image is sexual with the couple in the centre but the surrounding tree roots made up of miscellaneous limbs is disturbing, disturbing in a good way. Fingers crossed the film gets a general release.
Ms Harker
