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Sleep Tight (Mientras Duermes) (2012) | Horror Movie, DVD, & Book Reviews, News, Interviews at Dread Central

Just how much damage can you inflict on people without them even knowing about it? How creepily disturbing can you be while flying under the radar of everyone you are violating? Jaume Balaguer?'s new movie Sleep Tight does a great job in answering those questions.

Sleep Tight is a Spanish-language film from Balaguer? who is best known for co-directing [REC] and [REC 2], and he delivers a whopper of a movie with this effort. It's the tale of Cesar, an apartment building concierge who finds himself at a spot in his life where he feels he has nothing to live for, nothing to motivate him, nothing to make him get out of bed in the morning. However, we soon find that Cesar has a few extra-curricular hobbies that seem to be fueling his interests.

During the first five minutes you'll find yourself staring at the screen going, "Wait a minute?I thought he?oh, what the ****?!" An early reveal into Cesar's exploits sets the stage for an invasive experience where we the audience become voyeurs peeping in on a devious plan of deception, intrusion and violation...

And if Balaguer? hadn't toyed with us enough throughout Sleep Tight, he saves a big reveal for the very last scene. He delivers a massive 'Holy ****!' moment to send audience members away with one last shock. It's an excellent ending to a great film.

Sleep Tight is a very entertaining experience that is going to hit home for a lot of people. It shows us that locking our doors is not always going to keep the boogeyman out, and sometimes it's the monster that smiles at you that's the most dangerous. Filled with sub-stories that add color and even humor to the main tale, Sleep Tight is brilliantly put together and brings viewers on a tense ride following a man literally on the edge with nothing to lose. For fans of unique and disturbing films, this is a must see. Tosar is perfect and Balaguer? weaves a slow-burning tale of violation that builds to an incredible climax. Well done.
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ummm...I would like to see this...NOW.
 
Eli Roth showed Amazonian villagers Cannibal Holocaust, and they thought it was hilarious! | BoingBoing

In one of the most delightfully disturbing stories you will read today, director Eli Roth screened 1980's Cannibal Holocaust for 200 Amazonian villagers who had never seen a movie before. While Roth was scouting for locations for his own cannibal-themed movie, The Green Inferno, he found a remote area with "no electricity, no running water, nothing." As a courtesy, he wanted to give the people living there an idea of what he was going to be doing in their backyard, so he showed them Cannibal Holocaust, and "[t]he villagers thought it was the funniest thing they’d ever seen." So, there's your nervous, cannibalism-related giggle of the day, plus a bonus cannibal cop! (via Movieline)
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The Disc-Less: Michael Mann's Supernatural Horror 'The Keep' & 5 Films Not Available On DVD (Halloween Edition) | The Playlist

Hey, I've actually seen two of these and I'm about to go look into the Town That Dreaded Sundown bootleg thing...

EDIT: Nevermind, looks like it's coming out on Blu next year!
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Yeah was just rushing here to update you...and it's a Scream Factory re-issue too so it should be quite nice. I saw it aeons ago and I have a boot, but I do remember it being really solid and scary, especially after driving here(Cali from NJ) and going thru these sleepy little towns. Can't say for sure but it should hold up pretty well. It has that same grainy nonfiction kinda look to it like the original TCM or Legend of Boggy Creek have.

Oh, and the Keep is a far better book, but if you judge the film as it's own entity it's groovy in that 80's disco fantasy Vangelis soundtrack kind of way. I do not imagine that has held up quite as well, but it's worth seeing. The Repairman Jack books that it's based on are terrific too btw, and a young Scott Glenn is another reason to see the thing.
 
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What's the horrific secret ingredient in Wonka + Saw mashup? | Blastr

You know who'd make a really demented Willy Wonka? Christopher Lloyd. You know who actually filmed a short trailer for a fake horror version of Willy Wonka? Christopher Lloyd. You know who's going to watch it now? You.

We've got pastiches aplenty with bits of Cabin in the Woods, Hostel, maybe a little House of Wax for flavor, and many heaping spoonfuls of Saw. Add it all up and you get the kind of funny video that isn't so much funny "ha ha" as it is funny "AHH! AHH! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!"

Enjoy.
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cannot access the video to embed...will try to correct later. Click the link in the meantime.
 
Maniac (2013) | | Bloody DisgustingBloody Disgusting

While Halloween and Friday the 13th took the world by storm, William Lustig’s 1980 Maniac never received the same attention as the aforementioned slashers, but definitely helped pave the way for A Nightmare on Elm Street and as well as its own line of various copycats. Maniac was quite simply forgotten (except among us hardcore horror nuts), which is why the idea of remaking it for name value never made any sense. Yet, to my surprise, Alex Aja and producing/writing partner Gr?gory Levasseur actually had something to say. There’s a purpose for this remake, and the execution propels it into becoming a modern horror classic.
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This isn't the first positive review I have seen of this.
 
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