Thursday, February 03, 2005

Yesterday, I watched the most mentally disturbing psychological thriller that left me clutching my face in horror 10mins before the show ended. - Saw. It was grotesque, gory, violent, mind numbing and scary. But it was good. (: No, I'm no sicko but I enjoy watching psychological thrillers. This B-grade flick directed by first-timer James Wan (who? - a young Aussie Chinese guy) was really good though there were a few loopholes. But who cares, it was a good movie anyway. Scary part occurred when a mechanical puppet who looked like a clown with horrible cheek bones came cycling slowly into a room with bicycle cranky sounds accompaniment. yuck.

A good psychological thriller should have the following effect on the person watching it.
1. You feel mentally numb after leaving the cinema.
2. You occasionally look behind your back when you're walking to your car in the parking lot.
3. You get nightmares while sleeping.
4. You get shivers down your spine.
5. Drops of water falling sounds eerie.

My thumbs up so far
1. The silence of the lambs (jonathan demme 1991 : anthony hopkins, jodie foster)
2. The hand that rocks the cradle (curtis hanson 1992 : rebecca de mornay, annabella scioria)
3. Single white female (barbet schroeder 1992 : bridgitte fonda, jennifer jason leigh)
4. The sixth sense (m. night shyamalan 1999 : haley joel osment and bruce willis)
5. What lies beneath (robert zemeckis 2000 : harrison ford, michelle pfeiffer)
6. Inner senses (law chi leung 2002: leslie cheung, karena lam)
7. Gothika (mathieu kassovitz 2003 : haley berry, robert downey jr)
8. Identity (james mangold 2003 : john cusack, ray liotta)
9. Taking lives (d.j. caruso 2004 : angelina jolie, ethan hawke)
10. Saw (james wan 2004 : cary elwes, leigh whannel)

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