Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) 08, 10/10.

Twitch's Todd Brown is at Sitges, and he's been busy as hell. He talks with King of the Hill director Gonzalo Lopez, who's got "two productions gearing up in North America and a third in Spain"; notes that Let the Right One In has won a "Golden Melies Award as the Best European Genre Film of the year"; that IFC's picked up AJ Annila's horror film Sauna; and he reviews Monster X Strikes Back, Fumihiko Sori's Ichi, Agnes Merlet's "chilling new possession film" Dorothy, Ryu Seung-Wan's Dachimawa Lee, Albert Arizza's Ramirez, Nicolas Lopez's Santos and The Embodiment of Evil, "a shocking, potent reminder that the creative blood still runs strong in [Jose Mojica] Marins's veins."

"Were my expectations lowered by decidedly mixed reviews for Dario Argento's 'return,' or were those who had seen Mother of Tears last year or in its theatrical release anticipating the equal to Suspiria, still Argento's best film?" wonders Peter Nellhaus. "Either way, Mother of Tears is for me a better film than I Can't Sleep or The Card Player, and Argento's best film visually since The Stendhal Syndrome."

"Evilution is a fun, slickly-produced knock-off of Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later," writes Mike Everleth.

"In something like an annual tradition, the Two Boots Pioneer theater devotes the month of October to classic creep-out cheapies and more recent DIY gorefests," notes Mark Asch in the L Magazine.

"Despite having previously established my feelings about this weekend's Quarantine," writes William Goss at Cinematical, "I must confess a new willingness to give it a fair shot later tonight. Regardless, this week's Cinematical Seven is all about first-person horror movies, with a couple of oh-so-subjective stipulations."

Online viewing tip. Jonathan Lapper's Killing Me Wetly.

Posted by dwhudson at October 10, 2008 2:53 PM