A Couple Of Movies That Pumped My Nads

Yeah... I know.

An art blog is supposed to be all pretentious guff about this exhibition and this great paint dauber... Truth is, I like a night off from the ink slinging as much as the next guy. Anyone unlucky enough to subscribe to this mess of a page is going to find a LOT of film talk here... I LOVE a good movie. And by good, I don't mean critically lauded. I mean a movie that PUMPED MY NADS!

As time goes by however, you will discover that my nads and I have slightly questionable taste, so don't go expecting to see any essays on the merits of Citizen Kane here... It bored the ass off of me and I'm not going to pretend otherwise.

Enough explaining for now... Let's get on with discussing two movies that I have seen recently that did, as I have previously mentioned, PUMP MY NADS!

Oh man... I LOVED this movie! I loved it because it was the pure bred offspring of every piece of crap VHS I ever rented when I was a kid. But put through the class filter. With a twist of EC Comics thrown in for good measure.

I may be a Tiki guy but Lord knows I love me some good, creaky, old fashioned horror. Don't believe me? Check out my dA page...

Are you back? Can you tell I've read some EC and seen a few Tales From The Crypt in my time?

Good...

I'm not going to go on about this film since there a million different reviews out there already... But Trick R Treat made my Halloween this year. Since it has the VERY distinguished honour of being the last ever DVD I bought, it needed to be good. And it was.

Which brings us neatly to my first Blu-Ray horror puchase...

The beauty of watching child actors speak in a language you don't understand is that you have no idea if they're crappy actors or not, so these guys sell this nice, slow paced story completely. Seriously, if you think back over the (mercifully short) fad for J-Horror (most of which came out of South Korea, by the way), how many films would have been trashed as soon as the kid opened his stage school mouth to deliver some wooden dialogue? We'll never know since we don't speak the language and have no idea if this is a convincing performance or not!

Therein lies the beauty of the child actor/foreign film mesh!

So, other than the slightly distracting fact that girl in it looked a little bit like Darlene from Roseanne (or am I just showing my age here?) it was a perfect way to ignore pending artistic deadlines on the comfort of my pleather couch. Plus which, any smug Twilight fan out there needs to see this and Lost Boys and then go away and think about what they've done.

Trick R Treat and Let The Right One In can now make their way to the neatly alphabetised shelves of Los Furias Tiki, happy in the knowledge that they have PUMPED MY NADS!.

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