Since this is my first post, I can't really think of anything really specific to start on or to go from, so I suppose I'll start by introducing myself a bit. Like I said in my main profile, I'm 19 (newly). My favorite color is blue, specifically robin's egg blue, and most of my clothes are at least some shade of blue. I'm a blonde half-Mexican. I have no tattoos and have never dyed my hair, and I have thirteen piercings, including each individual ear piercing. I have seven on both my earlobes put together, and then I've got my rook pierced (google image it if you don't know what that is - it's kind of hard to explain). I have my nose pierced, my belly button twice (one on top and one on the bottom), and I've got a pair of my clavicles done. I have no favorite movie. Music-wise, I listen to Kraftwerk, Queen, The Beatles, Manu Chao, and Gogol Bordello. During the school year, I have a weekly film night where I show all kinda of weird-ass movies, mostly horror, though the others get tired of that. That's all I can think about to write as a general introduction. I'm assuming that the fact that I'm a horror freak goes without saying.

I'll go ahead and mention the last few horror movies I've seen and what I thought of them. It's easy to do, since I have been keeping a notebook for over 2 years now where I write a little bit about every movie I've seen, and it's just a habit now. Starting with two days ago and going back....

1. Frailty (2001) - I mostly heard good things about this before I saw it, both from this site and from an ancient issue of Rue Morgue magazine (which I'm crazy about, I keep ordering back issues). I heard that it was fresh, original, and after watching it concluded that it was a horror movie cleverly disguised as a twisted family drama. It stars Matthew McConaughey as a grown version of Fenton (Matt O'Leary, in flashbacks) the son of a single father (widower, I think, creepily played by Bill Paxton). McConaughey is telling and FBI agent about his father, who claimed to have visions from God and angels that their family was destined to clean the Earth of demons. In flashbacks, the demons look like real people, but Fenton's father claims to see all their sins when he touches them. Fenton's brother, Adam, believes their father, but Fenton isn't quite as easily convinced. It's not a particularly scary movie, and it never says for sure whether or not there actually are angels and demons or if Adam and the father are just insane. The horror really lies in the implication that there might be angels and a God who orders people to do what in the Bible says they shouldn't be doing. I'm not religious, but I still find this a bit creepy in the context of the film. Not bad at all, really eerie - and why the hell didn't Matthew McConaughey stick to this kind of film? I see him in movies and I just can't stand him. He's watchable in this, but it was still hard for me knowing that he's in a lot of piece-of-shit movies nowadays.

2. May (2002) - This is another drama-like horror that could actually be considered to not be a horror movie at all. I thought this was kind of a mix of "Carrie" and "Amélie" as I was watching it. At the beginning, I had the thought that I would absolutely love it, just because the beginning is stylishly and beautifully shot and was funny in a way. I did like it, but I don't know if I would say in the end that I loved it. One of the things that put me off is that it was literally painful (and not in a good way) to watch May try and have a conversation with someone. I'm not exactly the most social person on the planet, but I've figured out over time what is appropriate and what is not. Even Carrie wasn't this antisocial and awkward. On the other hand, there's a scene where the guy she likes (loves), Adam, asks her a story about work and she tells him it will be gross. He says that he loves gross things, so she tells him this incredibly gruesome story about a dog that was pretty disgusting but it would just make my eyes widen if I heard it in real life. In the film, you can tell he's completely disgusted because he can't finish his lunch. I thought this was actually one of the less awkward parts until I saw his reaction, and then I had to wonder about him. He wanted to be grossed out! Anyway, like in "Carrie," (but nothing like it at all) there's a big bloody showdown at the end. This entire scene is actually pretty funny. May is clever to do it all on Halloween. The score during the part where she's sewing is really pretty, and the very end of the film is rather beautiful in a very spooky way.

3. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) - I made the mistake of reading the book first. I loved the book, and I really could not get over how different this was. In fact, it was so different that I could barely even consider them to be related. First of all, they changed it from a small town in the book to San Francisco in the movie. As a film, I thought this was actually pretty well done, and Donald Sutherland is terrific as usual. Jeff Goldblum is also fun to see in this. The most redeeming factor (for me) is how incredibly creepy the ending of the film was. Unfortunately, since I read the book, I had that story planted in my head and while I was watching the film I felt like I knew what the story should be and it kept slipping through my fingers.

4. Boy Eats Girl (2005) - The main thing I can remember about this is that it was sort of cute, but in a dull way. It's about an Irish high schooler who is depressed because he thinks he sees the girl he likes with someone else. He accidentally dies and his mother uses a magic book to bring him back to life, but she forgets the magical ingredient, so he comes back wrong - with an appetite for human flesh. This sparks a zombie epidemic. As far as I can tell, there's no way that this kid can survive because he's living unfairly after being brought back to life. The fair way to do it would be for him to die again and stay dead. Even though his death was an accident, he still died fair and square. As for the big showdown of the movie, which involves a "Braindead" lawnmower-esque scene (only with a tractor) was sort of ruined in the way that it was really not at all hardcore, and all the rubber body parts flopped around uselessly. I wasn't a huge fan of this one.

5. Dawn of the Dead (2004) - I don't think I'll write much about this one, since most of the people who will be reading this will most likely have seen this and formed their own opinion. The reason I didn't see this a long time ago is that I typically stay away from remakes, but I was finally drawn to it when I heard so many good things about it and heard the Johnny Cash song in the opening credits. This, to me, was more action than horror, and a pretty good action movie at that. My favorite scenes, probably, are the ones with the guys playing chess on opposite roofs. One thing that irked me: Sarah Polley was so obviously in love with her husband. I know she doesn't have much time to mourn, but I found it a bit hokey that she could so quickly fall in love with the TV guy. Another good part: the zombie baby.

6. Fido (2006) - This is probably the cutest zombie movie I have ever seen. I would probably show it to my mom, who rarely likes anything more intense than "Benny and Joon." Not only is the film itself beautiful, with the colors and the score, but the story really is extremely sweet. It's about a small community in the 50s, who keep zombies as servants as long as they're wearing a collar that makes them harmless. A family of three (one little boy) is one of the last households to obtain a zombie, whom the little boy names Fido and soon befriends. Not a typical zombie movie or a typical horror movie, but still very good.

These are only the last six - I've also recently seen Mulberry Street, The Signal, The Machine Girl, Teeth, Inside, The Stepford Wives (1975), and Let's Scare Jessica To Death. I might write about those later, maybe not. Although you can find my review of Inside on this website, at this link - http://www.best-horror-movies.com/inside-2007-horror-movie-review.html

THANKS FOR READING :)