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Freaks is creepy as all get-out, but I don't think it's too scary for a die-hard horror fan.
I think it qualifies as revenge-horror. And it does get scary. When you think about how they must have transformed her....
(Or maybe it's just a fine line between creepy and scary.)
Freaks is definitely a horror film, not only in its lineage through Tod Browning (who directed all of Lon Chaney's horror silents, but also directed Lugosi in Dracula). But also as a touchstone of Body Horror, a long-running strand through horror films which emerges in sixties gore (Blood Feast), post Night of the Living Dead zombie films, Cronenberg's early movies and the recent round of torture horror (Saw, Hostel, et al.)
In Stephen King's taxonomy of scares laid out in Danse Macabre he specifically notes that Horror (as distinct from Terror) must involve some deformation or violence to the physical body.
Hey, I just watched Evil Dead on Tuesday and Evil Dead II yesterday! I was going to skip Army of Darkness since I've already seen it, but it's been a while, and I need to complete the trilogy. Evil Dead was incredibly gross but often pretty terrifying in its low-budget glory. Evil Dead II was pretty hilarious and has the best Hemingway-related visual gag ever.
I love the commenter who said Fargo = Minnesota = fail. Durr... try watching the movie, dude.
I am a little uncomfortable with the movie chosen to represent Louisiana.
The synopsis: A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.
That doesn't seem so much representative to me.
I don't think the guy who created that map is terribly well-traveled. Sounds like real linkbait.
I haven't seen it but there's so many great LA movies. If The Blues Brothers can stand for all of Illinois, surely The Big Easy could have been Louisiana.
That doesn't seem so much representative to me.
Do the other movies seem representative of their states? Brokeback Mountain? Napoleon Dynamite?
I just think LA got stuck with a boring movie. I'm sure there must be tons more exciting movies for the state.
Freaks is creepy as all get-out, but I don't think it's too scary for a die-hard horror fan. Hell, there were episodes of Carnivàle that were more traumatizing.
Not to mention certain episodes of the X-Files
(cue Johnny Mathis)
Evil Dead II was pretty hilarious and has the best Hemingway-related visual gag ever.
I love the scene where the entire room starts laughing at Ash, and he starts joining in having gone completely bugfuck crazy (as in, John Crichton-worthy crazy) at that point.
