Mad In Italy… Hai paura?
Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Horror Films
Greetings and Salutations.
Or more appropriately Buongiorno a Tutti. My Italian is a little rusty!
It seems that 2010 may be the year of renaissance for Italian horror, not unlike 2009 was for the French. The last Italian horror film I saw was ‘La Terza Madre‘ or ‘Mother of Tears’. Directed by the famoso Dario Argento, I entered into the viewing experience with anticipation. Unfortunately, I was disappointed. The supernatural was there just with a little too much boobs and 70’s style bush (or in these parts we refer to it as a ‘map of Tassie’) for me. While on the topic of the bush in horror how come we never get any disco balls? Always with the bush, maybe something to address in Women in Horror Month (which starts February)? But I digress.
Can Mad In Italy bring us some disco balls? Well no, but it looks like it can bring some great scares, in a modern context. Shock Til You Drop indicated the director Paolo Fazzini feels the film addresses the current financial crisis, home loans, crooked politicians and a young maniacal serial killer. Who said horror can’t be both blood soaked and social commentary? Check the trailer below. Forza Italia!
Ms Harker
Lucky she's buried in bones so we don't have to see her 'Map of Tassie'!
Tags: Horror, Horror Films
Vampires, blogs, contests and how to stop the horror community from eating its own arm off.
Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Horror Genres
Greetings and Salutations.
Recently Musings Across A Continuum was given a couple of peer nods from other horror bloggers in the forms of the ‘Kreativ Blogger’ and ‘Fantastically Frightening’ awards.
Thanks to Chuck Norris Ate My Baby who wrote these kind words:
“Ms Harker does it all from news, book and movie reviews to just plain old banter. She has a fun- quirky and very insightful way about every subject she tackles and it is always a great joy to stop by this blog, which might be the best looking one around just for the record.”
Also many thanks to The Vault of Horror and Day Of The Woman for these delightful comments:
“Musings Across A Continuum is not only a beautiful loking blog, but its also your one-stop destination for all things vampiric, specializing in pro True Blood and anti Twilight rhetoric.Plus Ms Harker comes from the land down under so the accent alone is worth it.” (b_sol, The Vault of Horror)
“No one knows vampires like Ms Harker, no one loves the boys of True Blood like Ms Harker and non one has a cooler accent than Ms Harker, I LOVE this woman and if you don’t know her you aught to.” (BJ-C, Day Of The Woman)
So the usual routine is to now go and award these little beauties to horror blogs which I favour. Many of my favourites which include the three mentioned above have already received these awards numerous times. Now call me a lazy cow, but I think there is a more pressing issue at hand. That is the recent controversy surrounding Bloody Disgusting’s move to recognize smaller horror blogs in cyber space has peaked my interest and annoyance.
In response to Total Films contest for horror blogs, which ranted was really recognizing large news sites such as Bloody Disgusting, Shock Til You Drop and Dread Central, not blogs as such. Mr Disgusting is seeking to recognize small blogs written by individuals. Asking for people to nominate themselves or others, the blogs will then be listed on the Bloody Disgutsing site for voting. Now in typical fashion of late (we all remember the Ms Horror Blogosphere debacle), some in the horror community have bitched and moaned about perceived lack of independence of said competition and accusations of ulterior motives have flown thick and fast.
I would like to say to all of those involved in attempting to highlight something I love doing (horror blogging), for highlighting a genre I love, thank you. To those getting your knickers in a twist, may I say, if your favourite genre doesn’t get some press, isn’t brought to the attention of those with the cash in some way, we won’t see more horror made and you’ll be left to chew your own arm off, which seems to be what happens when an activity like this comes along anyway, people descend into zombie hordes of criticism.
Celebrate what we love, when we get the opportunity! To illustrate my point below is a fangtastic new poster from Daybreakers.
Ms Harker
Tags: Horror
Potty mouthed girls make me smile!
Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Horror Films
Greetings and Salutations.
I stumbled across this trailer yesterday whilst browsing the tre` chic horror zine site Scars. It is from the upcoming film Kick Ass which stars Nicholas Cage and that McLuvin dude… The plot is summarized on IMDB as follows:
“Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan with a few friends and who lives alone with his father. His life is not very difficult and his personal trials not that overwhelming. However, one day he makes the simple decision to become a super-hero even though he has no powers or training.”
Now this film does not appear to have any exclusive link to horror, however the character in the trailer Hit Girl is definitely a girl after my own heart. A girl who can cuss with style and handle her weapons. Have a look and start your weekend of with a bang c*#&s!
Ms Harker
Tags: Horror, Horror Films
