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Horror movie sex always gives me the willies, but Deadgirl was the most recent omgwtfbbq horror sex I have seen. I try to block most of it out if I happen to watch it, like zombie sex, or people who are fallin apart with their skin peeling off or something *shudder* ugh. #horror
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The best part(s) of ReAnimator and From Beyond.
And BTW, I guess Galaxy of Terror is too obvious to include in this list. #horror
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Recent scary sex-scenes: Deadgirl, Cabin Fever, One Eyed Monster, Pathology, the Feast series. #horror
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I love you :)
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Aren't you worried you've used up your Found Footage reserve now? #horror
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You're absolutely right!! Considering how much I loved this movie, I'm ashamed to admit it completely slipped my mind.
Is it too late to call for a recount?
12/27/08
I have yet to find a single person or reviewer who hasn't liked this movie. It's pretty much the antithesis of "Twilight," "Ultraviolet," "30 Days of Night" and ever other crappy big budget vampire movie released in the last 10 years. No pounding techno soundtrack, no stupid leather trenchcoats and bullet-time fight sequences, and absolutely no unnecessary explanations about vampire lore and all the magical things they can and can't do. (this movie rightfully assumes you know most of that stuff already, and delights in throwing out little references that may pass over the head of casual viewers)
One of the things I love about this flick is that it could have been made at any time in the last 20 years. There's absolutely nothing in it that couldn't have been filmed by The Cohen Brothers or Cronenberg in 1988 for approximately the same budget.
That's not to say it doesn't have special effects, they just aren't the driving force of the movie. Aside from that one crappy CGI cats sequence (which probably should have been filmed with animatronics or puppets) and one blink-and-you'll-miss-it set of glowing eyeballs, all the other effects were physical.
Just several gallons of fake blood, a few wire sequences, and random severed body parts. Everything else is just the actors being extremely creepy. That's the way horror movies should be!
In short, you can sum up the awesomeness of this movie with a simple equation:
'Let The Right One In' = Near Dark + Innocent Blood / Fargo + Deliverance.