Dark Wave

List creator: mgeis Created on: March 28, 2005 - 4:06 PM PST Description: SF Horror Festival, 1999-2002, R.I.P. (appears to have moved to LA Film fest in 2004)

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	movie title	related list	average rating	MPAA rating	watch	rent	buy
	Phantom of the Opera (1998)			Not Rated
1999
	Razor Blade Smile (1998)
1999
	The Eternal (1998)
1999
	The Evil Dead (1983)			Not Rated
1999. If you're gonna have a horror fest, it's gotta be evil.
	Black Sunday (1960)			Not Rated
1999. They did a good job of setting the tone for years to come. Real horror, no self-aware teen horror parodies.
	Return of the Living Dead (1985)
1999
	Blood (1999)
2000 (GC has copies from two distributors)
	Blood (1999)			Not Rated
2000 (GC has copies from two distributors)
	Gemini (1999)
2000
	The Convent (2000)
2000. Not super scary, but lots of fun.
	Dead of Night (1999)
2000. Missing films from this year are "Besat" (aka "Possessed", and a pretty damn good film, with the ubiquitous Udo Kier) and "Demon Lover Diary"
	Dead Creatures (2001)			Not Rated
2001. What if you became a zombie, but still had your wits about you. A good pairing with Shaun of the Dead, the same story told from the other viewpoint.
	Deep in the Woods (2000)
2001. Kids stumble upon eerie house and homeowner. Same story as usual, only this time in French.
	Seance (2000)			Not Rated
2001
	Uzumaki (2000)			Not Rated
2001
	Nightmare (2000)
2001
	Wendigo (2001)
2001. Heard lots of great stuff about this one, but fails to live up to the hype. Stylish, but not scary.
	Pyrokinesis (2000)			Not Rated
2001. Entertaining, very similar to Firestarter, by a directory known mostly for kaiju movies.
	The Nameless (1999)
2001. Looking forward to seeing this. The print at the festival lacked subtitles, so I left to get a drink or three across the street where they were showing "Plan 9 From Outer Space."
	Intacto (2001)
2002. Original story, well paced, with an as-always good performance from Max Von Sydow.
	Dog Soldiers (2002)
2002. Surprisingly good.
	Inugami (2001)			Not Rated
2002
	Dark Water (2002)
The original, not the American remake.
	Versus (Director's Cut) (2000)			Not Rated
2002. Surprisingly disappointing. Missing films from this year are "Kat", "Teenage Hooker Became a Killing Machine in Daehakroh", and "Det Okanda" (aka "The Unknown")
	Ju-On (2003)
2004 (if we count the LA "Dark Wave"). Has all the elements we've seen in every major J-horror film (ok, the one element common to all of them, the creepy dead kid), but scary nonetheless. Missing from this year is "Mojave"
	High Tension (2003)			Not Rated
Pretty good, but a predictable ending. Director Aja follows his homage to "Assault on Precinct 13" (The Nest) with another nod, this time to ending of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.