Hermana Muerte (Sister Death)

Hoy toca hablar sobre una película, española en español. Salió en Netflix y es de Paco Plaza, que yo no ubicaba, pero me puse a investigar y se aventó la chulada de Rec (la primera que es la que más me gusta, claro está), yo no quería verla porque “ash España, monjas, si, seguro es el diablo o algo así”.

Y que me callo toda la boca, porque ayer se terminaba la membresía y yo estaba un poco apurada con ya ver lo que fuera, le di play y la verdad es que empieza con muy buen ritmo, o sea, sí me interesó seguirla viendo.

Algo que me pareció muy acertado fue el uso de la música, que a veces puede ser muy genérica, con los acordes inesperados para el jump scare y todo eso. La ambientación la sentía bastante bien lograda, claustrofóbica, algo sucedía o sucedió pero no sabía todavía que, se puede intuir algo, claro, pero yo no soy tan buena en ello, lo que me gusta porque me deja más espacio para sorpresas.

Yo no soy de aprenderme los nombres de los personajes o de lxs que actúan, pero les voy a decir que la hermana/novicia Narcisa me atrapó con su interpretación. También el hecho de que yo iba a la escuela de monjas de niña y escuchar los rezos, lo hizo un 70% más creepy.

Al final, lo que fácilmente pudo ser otra peli de monjas en un convento/internado resultó en uno de los filmes más atrapantes e interesantes que he visto este año, muy bien merecido el revuelo que tiene. El final me encantó, así como la música, si pueden denle una oportunidad, es una maravilla.

“Best worst manga ever”

You know it, I know it, in most “worst manga” lists or “manga to never read” there are usually the same titles, I am going to sort of talk more about genres with a few titles thrown in, WITH MASSIVE SPOILERS, like INSANE SPOILERS AHEAD, so if you do want to check out some of these, well words can’t do justice to the drawing, so you still can, but you’ve been warned. I’m leaving out the infamous “concrete girl” Junko Furuta, since it’s an old, real-life case and it is actually very sad, now that I think about it, most of the manga I’ll talk about here is quite sad in a very unique way…but I shall offer a song about the Furuta case.
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Now the actual “list

Mai-chan’s daily life
Sexually tortured girls
One I can’t remember the name, but plot
Guro works
Metamorphose/Emergence
Boku no Pico
Toddlercon in general

That is enough, now let’s go into each one, shall we! I wanna mention, I think I read most of these in SadPanda, I have since then stopped using the site, this stuff puts me in a bad mental state like it’s legit sad and I wanna live well. I like my horror, but this is a bit too much. I am aware this is all fiction and I usually don’t care but there is something…

Mai-chan’s daily life: This one is the easiest to talk about, a girl who somehow can regenerate after being horribly tortured and hurt, think about making burgers with your own arm style. The “sad” part for me wasn’t that, but her one and only friend, a limb-less girl who I recall couldn’t speak, Mai was being hung with a knife stuck somewhere and her friend (think of her like a weird sex doll pet slave style) was kind of waiting for her underneath the tree or something and the knife fell eventually and killed her, a bit far fetched but that part was owww. The baby fuck was shocking to some but I didn’t care for it.

Sexually tortured girls: The title itself lets you know what to expect, I mean, the whole story has an actual good ending because they dismantle some pedo/murder web or something, I don’t remember, but the way they tell the backstories… “She was raped by a corpse for 3 days!”, it’s like a very value shock cheap magazine thing to write, lol it does sound stupid actually..anyway, this is longer.

Weird one about abducting women and making them have kids: This was I actually felt repulsed, it was this girl trying to improve her life or something, got sold,I mean engaged to this freak in a freak family where all the males freely raped the females, incest is in order, she eventually gets even raped by her own lil bro who is also raped until he starts to like all of it and well, she’s pregnant and if she has a girl, she’ll be raped by just anyone and everyone, if he’s a boy, he’ll end up doing the same to his mom and any female. Why did I finish it? I somehow expected something to happen..but most of these titles end like this, “bad”, cos well, let’s say she was rescued, what kinda life could she possibly have? I don’t think there’s enough therapy in the world for that.

Guro works, especially Uziga Waita: So, guro and ero guro, ahh! lots of dismembering, disenboweling, chopped heads that can still contemplate their joined bodies having sex (far fetched!) ,I remember one where the whole school graduation was everyone getting beheaded lol. So, it can get gruesome and of course graphic, but some are even kinda cute.

Metamorphose/Emergence: Ugh, this one, the damn ending! Enter shy honor student with a poor social life meets a random guy who gets her into drugs and sex, enter domestic abuse and rape, enter more drug addiction and prostitution. She gets STD’s and pregnant, but some people bully her and she dies of an overdose in a public filthy bathroom , that is after they make us think she changed her life around! BUT NO, SHE WAS HALLUCINATING IN THE MOMENT OF DEATH. I mean, at least she went like that…

Boku no Pico: Shotacon, some dude “dates” a younger kiddo who kinda looks like a girl, it’s a 3 parts OVA.

Toddlercon: This one is weird, a lot of what I saw were like shorter stories, in some everyone is willing, in some they learn to like it in others they don’t seem to understand what is actually going on. Since it’s drawings and sometimes with “provocative” clothings, but still round weird small ones…it’s weird and gross but not as disturbing perhaps.

There you go! Enjoy or avoid! I am staying away from those.

Sadako vs Kayako (repost)

I was finally able to watch this in the original version ( a dubbed version in Chinese was available before, but nope) I have to say it was glorious, as a movie of that sort can be.

What started off as a joke, cos who in their right mind would put bad evil spirits to fight..~~ah Jason vs Freddy happened once~~..ok never mind that. An April fool’s joke, the idea seemed so welcomed the producers decided to go with it.

I love Asian horror, Japanese, Chinese, from Vietnam, Korea, etc, and I’ve watched most of the Ringu and Ju-On movies (Sadako comes from Ringu and Kayako comes from Ju-on) so I was so excited about this, and it delivered.

The plot is as amazing as it sounds, a girl is cursed by the video tape (with logic and common sense horror movies wouldn’t exist, seriously, who willingly watches a freaking cursed tape and has the audacity to make a DVD copy!?) and another one is cursed by entering this house,so, the super cool spirit fighter guy along with snarky blind gifted girl come up with a plan.

Let’s make them fight! It’s easy, curse the other one with the opposite foe and then let’em fight over ya, what could ever go wrong?

I shall not spoil you, please do watch, I loved it to bits, the ending is a bit “…really?” but considering the plot, it’s just as expected. Tons of fun to be have here.

Oh I’ve had an epiphany… I’ll make my top 10 Asian horror movies !!!

Ryeong a.k.a “The ghost” /”Dead friend”

Thank you South Korea, you have yet again brought an amazing movie for me. If you’ve watched “the grudge” and “dark water” and liked them, you are gonna love this one.

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After I’m done with my Asian horror movies watching fest, I’ll most definitely add this one on my new top chart. You get a girl with amnesia, a confusing past, revengeful spirit , mysterious events and a very nice plot twist, as expected from Asian films.

I have to confess I am in no way used to Korean names so it got confusing at times, also cos they all seem more similar to me than Japanese do, I’m sure that is cos I’m silly.

Anyhow, I don’t want to spoil you, but I want to recommend it, I enjoyed it so much, it has a great atmosphere, it keeps you interested and it’s an overall pretty good movie. Plus the lead character is…well, the twist was really nice, seriously.

Nancy’s ultimate top 8 Asian Horror Movies!

I just watched Sadako vs Kayako so I now must present to you my top 8.

Before anything, I won’t be including movies such as: Ichi the killer, Audition, Battle Royale, Sympathy for lady Vengeance and so on, because those are violent and bloody surely, but they lack the supernatural component,so they belong in another list! Along with most of Takashi Miike’s films.

I am leaving many movies out, yes, cos these ones are the ones I can recall most of what happened without having to watch again and made a bigger impression, but of course there are tons of good movies, like Whispering corridors, The stair of wishes or something like that, Tomie, etc.

1.- A tale of two sisters: Let’s begin with Korea, they bring to us this awesome and surely confusing tale, of well, two sisters, things are surely not what they look like. After spending some time in a mental institution the sisters come home.

2.- Ringu (The ring): Japan’s turn.What can I say? One of the first movies of this sort I’ve watched, the premise is simple, watch a tape, get cursed in X days, proceed to die. Ah vengeful spirits.

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3.- Art of the devil (Long Khong): Thailand, why are you like this? Black magic, voodoo, hella lot of revenge, seriously one of the most gruesome films I’ve watched, and damn I’ve watched such things…Yikes! The one I remember the most is the part 2, my favourite, but any of the 3 will make it hard to sleep in peace.

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4.- One missed call: Japan surely is something else. I think this is one of my all time favourites, I must had watched it about 15 times, through the years. You get a call, from your own phone, well, you get a voice message, then you die in X days (why won’t you kill people more quickly!) it’s interesting cos it tells a lot about how people make their relations and are using technology and blah blah. Plus the ringtone is cool AF.

5.- Sick Nurses: Oh another Thai beauty. I love this one because it feels like a parody, I think it’s one..I’m not sure. It’s really over the top, it presents the most commonly seen tropes in Asian horror movies, long hair, revengeful female spirit, deadly water, etc. Towards the end it turns really original and I just had to love it for it.

6.- Train to Busan: This is not what I would call terror, but it has zombies, plus it made me cry when I watched it alone in the cinema theater. Not cos it was so scary, but cos , as usually, Asian horror movies have a very sad part/backstory/ending. I loved every single minute of it. Another jewel from Korea.

7.- Shutter: From Thailand, ghosts and cameras, a perfect match. It’s really creepy, I got to watch it in a cinema theater and loved it , (in Mexico we don’t always get this sort of movies shown on the big screen, sadly)

8.- The eye: This amazing title comes from Hong Kong/ Singapore , a blind woman who gets a cornea transplant and gets to see the world sounds lovely right? Yeah, except when you can see ghosts and terrible things. (hey it reminds me of Misaki Mei from “Another” anime)

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Tomie ( manga/ Unlimited ) (repost)

This is a repost from my old blog that I lost access to.

Ah, behold the masterpiece of Junji Ito-sensei: Tomie! Which is pronounced Tomi-e Not “Tommy” as I thought, lol. Ok some may say Uzumaki is his masterpiece, but I happen to love the idea of this annoying, selfish, maniac, woman who just won’t freaking die, more so, she will come back and expand and multiply.

So I was watching episode 9 of the Junji Ito collection anime and I saw this so beautiful girl with a mole under her left eye… who could that be I wondered…? TOMI-E of course!!! They surely waited an awful long time to animate a Tomie chapter, I guess that’s normal since she has a lot. of material. It was a very nice one and it made me want to read the manga, so I read all the chapters I could find translated , then I remembered there were movies…9, so yes I’ll have to watch those as well.

The plot is Tomie is INCREDIBLE beautiful and men go mad for her, literally insane and wish to murder her, which is not a problem cos she can heal, regenerate and multiply just fine, this of course makes for quite interesting stories.

I started with the last movie it seems, it’s called Tomie Unlimited, sounds like a cool brand name..haha, I gotta say she’s my favorite actress so far, cos she’s very similar to the animated Tomie from today’s episode in Juni Itto collection, take a look!

See that??? Isn’t she nailing the character? Omg and the voice and the acting, I read some comments saying the movie was stupid but..come on, it’s a damn load of body horror, quite hard to achieve without some heavy CGI, plus the animated hmm “stages” of Tomie are faithful to the illustrations in the manga, so shush people! and I usually don’t say this about women, not specially Asian women, but this one actress, Miu Nakamura, at least in this one movie, is one of the hottest girls I’ve laid eyes on . Damn sexy, a bit scary tho, ah dreamy!!

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