Dawn of the Geeks

High Tension

Roeper said it was good but too clever (whatever that means). Ebert called it “nasty, brutish and short.” I decided that I should use a couple of my free passes to go see it since I’d seen previews and I was expecting a standard cheesy horror movie (is there any other kind? apparently). Turns out the dubbing was horrible. It’s actually a French film and they speak both english and french. I can’t really complain too much about that though as most english speaking Asian films like Kung Fu Hustle (fantastic movie) have the same audio issues. But what finally got us to leave the theater was the violence and distinct lack of plot. It opens with some guy getting head in a truck. Turns out it’s a decapitated head and when he’s done he drops in on the ground for us to see. This would be our killer. It just gets more gruesome so we left and saw another movie. I’ve never actually walked out of a movie before. It’s not scary. It’s just disgusting.

We caught the end of Batman Begins. Judging from the last 30 minutes of the film it was excellent. We’ll definitly be seeing that one. On Friday we’ll be seeing “Land of the Dead” which will hopefully be a more enjoyable horror movie. Dawn of the Dead (both versions) are excellent examples of what a horror film should be.