Under the Shandow

This is one gem of a horror movie which should not be missed. This movie proves that we do not need expensive visual effects to scare. This is a simple story of a family n the background of Iran-Iraq war. The movie starts off as a political movie and moves on as a family drama and slowly builds up the tension. The way all these elements are cohesively increasing the tension is impressive.

When all the families in the apartment vacate leaving the mother and daughter alone we can feel their loneliness.

This movie doesn't give any reasons for the demons to do what they do which adds to the tension.

A satisfying scary watch.

House of 1000 corpses

I wanted to watch this movie for a long time. The name of the movie is one main attraction. That too after watching the extrodinary Devils Rejects my curiosity jumped very high.

This movie when compared to devils rejects is pretty hopeless. This is one crazy movie. There is absolutely no story from begining to end there is just killing, killing and more killing. Nothing is organiased.You keep seeing people doing weird stuffs.You will need lot of patience to sit through this movie.

Horror

After a long time saw two movies and both were very satisfactory.

Drag me to hell from Sam Raimi took me back to standard horror fare which has been missing for quite sometime in mainstream cinema. Exorcist the begining was the last such movie I saw under such genre.
The movie starts off in Jet Speed and doesnt slow down. The ending is something is easily guessable otherwise the movie is a roller coaster ride with making your heart skip some beats.

Hostel though this movie is not actually a horror movie it falls under the category of torture killing genre.

I was infact afraid of watching this movie after reading the reviews. Though I m ok with watching Texas chainsaw massacre kind of movies I dont think I will be able to view scenes where people are tortured as it was described in the reviews.

The movie starts off slowly with lot of skin show thrown in. The torture scenes doesnt take much screen time and thankfuly the director leaves lot of things to our imagination. Still there are scenes where you might try to close your eyes.

The ending gives you 100% satisfaction atleast it did to me.

Hospital

There are few buildings which breath thier own life during midnights. For an observer who observes it from far they seem to emanate a life of their own. One such building is Hospital. Hospitals during night come to life of their own. Though a Hospital is different from other buildings during day time too but the difference gets lost in the euqally busy activities sorrounding it but as the day comes to an end and night takes over it will be the only building with a heartbeat of its own.

Hospitals in remote places trigger a lot of imaginations inside our mind. With those nurses walking here and there making tak tak noise with their shoes with mystery written all over their faces, with the faint smell of dettol mixed with Phenyl touching our nose, with wide variety of people loitering around, with wide variety of automobiles coming in and going out it presents a very unique picture.

Whenever I go past an hospital and stare at those windows I see people sitting in their beds in a world of their own. Its a very sad world, people with different problems. My mind starts to wander of thinking about what will be their problem, where will they be from?

During nights if we observe an hospital we see dimly lit windows, occasionaly moving figures in white clothes, occasional coughing its a world of its own. It's world of pain. As most of us dont understand our body its a mysterious world to many of us.

Above all the mystery around the hospital is increased by its Mortuary.

Claustrophobia - 2

This post is in continuation to the previous post.

Situation 2 - The other situation which I think could be highly claustrophobic is drowning. Sea or Ocean has always fascinated me. There were times when I used to sit and just stare at the vast active water body spread before me. As heights gives us a feeling to jump so does Ocean or for that matter any deep water body. They generate a strange feeling within ourselves. They invite us into their deep secrets. Try standing at the door of a compartment when a train is crossing a river. It will be very hard to resist the temptaiton to jump into the inviting water.

Now coming back to Claustrophobia, this could be experienced by people who cant swim better than those who can swim but when you are in the middle of pacific both are same.

However shallow it may be but the experience of drowning is mind numbing and highly claustrophobic.

Though I have not experienced a complete drowning there were times when I had been out of control in water. Once we from school went on an excursion to Golden Beach. The moment we saw the sea and the waves we all ran towards it and started playing. As always some over enthu guy invented an over enthu game of pushing people down unexpectedly. I became a victim to the prank and was pushed down when a big wave was sweeping me off the feet. I dont know how long I was there under the water but it felt like eternity. Lungs gasping for water inhaling seawater through nose. Hands looking for some support and not finding any. That is the ultimate moment of Claustrophobia. Though you are not inside a confined environment as described in the previous post you experience the feeling of crampedness. It just needs a second to trigger that feeling. The moment you come out oh what a relief.

Next time when you are playing in water be careful that you dont over indulge.

Claustrophobia - 1

I came across this word very late in my life as per some people's standards. I came across this word somewhere around when I was doing +2 or 1st year in college from then on I have had lot of situations to remember this word.

What could be more claustrophobic? Many will have many situations as example to say that they will feel claustrophobic in some X situation. When thinking in broad terms I could think of two situations just the thought of which could generate this feeling inside us. Let me elaborate on those.

Situation 1 - For those who have watched the movie Vanished or Kill Bill will be familiar with this situation. Yes, the thought of being put inside a coffin alive and buried will generate this feeling abundantly. Think that you are being laid inside the coffin and they are closing the top. They start hammering the nails into place. You can feel the whole coffin vibrating around you. Now its totally dark inside and already you have started to feel suffocated. When they hammered the nail few wood scraps fell on ur eyelids and are now causing an itch. You try to bring your hand to remove it but you cant lift it to your face. You can just move it to such an extent you can scratch your crotch. You shake your head and clear the wood scrap of your eyelid and open your eyes wide. Its totally dark inside and you can feel that they are lifting the coffin and lowering it into the pit. The coffin lands with a thud at the bottom of the pit dug exclusiely for you. You hear the sand being put on top of the coffin. You feel pain in your back and it slowly moves to your neck. You sense that something is crawling inside your pants through your foot. By sheer instinct you try to lift you leg but your knee hits the top of the coffin causes you more pain and the thing on your foot makes its way to your thigh. Now you dont hear anything outside. They must have completed filling sand. You suddenly feel the whole weight of the sand above the coffin coming crashing on you. You feel sick to your stomach. You throw up and most of it lands on your face. You cant wipe it. Your eyes starts to burn. You can't open your eyes. You keep them shut. The thing on your thigh is now at your crotch. It stings you.

You have now used up all the oxygen. You now inhale the air which has no oxygen in it. Your lungs scream for oxygen.

You cry, You scream.

Nobody hears. You are there all alone.

Claustrophobia to continue ...