Dark Twilight

--Our Town (2007)--

noreply@blogger.com (Isthar) — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:08:00 +0000

Film of psychological terror, directed by the Korean Jung Kil-Young, being this one his debut like director.

A good mixture of sorts, such as the thriller, mystery, horror or drama.

In a school everything covered with blood and cruel hung in cross form appears the corpse of a girl.
One is already the fourth murder in a small and calm Korean city, where to all the victims they have cut the neck to them.

The plot of Our Town will turn around a detective of the police, call Jae Shin, a mysterious writer of mystery (which seems to be connected with the bloody crimes), call Kyung Joo and the employee of a store.

Making use of the narrow bond between the three men, the film becomes more attractive for the spectator because it separates from thematic the habitual one of the typical police that persecutes the assassin. In addition a strange connection among them exists that already comes from years back.

Many submerged unpredictable turns in this disquieting film.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1201168/

Trailer:

--Exte: Hair Extensions (2007)--

noreply@blogger.com (Isthar) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:10:00 +0000

Ekusute call in Japan. Tape of terror directed by Sion Sono, presented/displayed in the section Orient Express of the festival of Sitges.

Film of gallant style, something habitual in the race of the film director.

It works like protagonist Chiaki Kuriyama, actress of films like “Battle Royale”, the second part of “Azumi” or “Kill Bill”.

Agents discover hair for extensions next to the corpse of a girl with the shaved head. In the autopsy they determine that their organs were robbed, thinking that she was kidnapped in a foreign country and victim of the black market of organs.

An assassin in series who feels an exaggerated predilection by the hair of died girls, a young apprentice of hairdressing salon and a suffered corpse, conforms the trio protagonist of the film. Everything will be centered in an important chain of hairdressing salons that seems to be the axis of a dark secret.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0904049/

Trailer:

--Hansel and Gretel (2008)--

noreply@blogger.com (Isthar) — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:50:00 +0000

A very personal version of the brilliant story of the brothers Grimm, Hansel and Gretel. Directed by the South Korean Yim Phil- Sung, being this one his second film. He has been awarded in the edition of the festival of Sitges of the 2005 with his tape “Antarctic Journal”.

It has not been very well received in its country of origin but in the United States and Europe.

A young Eun call, goes into in a mysterious forest, in which he ends up losing himself. A girl sees him and she offers lodging to him in her house next to her family. Next it is entered in a dream house, where they inhabit three children. The family seems to hide something very macabre.

Eun will realize of which he cannot escape of the house, where the children have lived long time without aging. One will be with books of drawings, with singular instructions that seem to speak of he himself, through which will try to escape.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1002567/

Trailer:

--Vinyan (2008), terror in the forest--

noreply@blogger.com (Isthar) — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:32:00 +0000

Coproduction of France, Belgium and United Kingdom. Directed by Belgian Fabrice Du Welz. Carried out by Rufus Sewell and Julie Dreyfus. Presented/displayed in fantastic the official section of the festival of Sitges.

Vinyan has certain similarities with the forest of John Boorman and the brilliant book of Joseph Conrad “the Heart of the Darkness”.

Paul and Janet are in Bangkok, trying to bear the loss of their son, to who they lost in an impressive Tsunami. Although the corpse has really not been recovered.

Janet, during a supper will believe to recognize his lost son in a video rolled in the Burman forest. This will little cause the one that goes into next to its husband in a tenebrous and solitary forest, filled with likeable creatures, besieging to them with sinister intentions. There they will realize that will not be able to trust anybody.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1029241/

Trailer:

--Gilles de Rais, depraved vampire--

noreply@blogger.com (Isthar) — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:10:00 +0000

“I liked to see run the blood, provided a great pleasure to me. Memory that from my childhood the greatest pleasures seemed to me terrible. That is to say, the Apocalypse was the unique thing that interested to me. I believed in hell before being able to believe in the sky. One gets tired and bores of the ordinary. I began killing because he was boring and I continued doing it because I liked to relieve my energies. In the battlefield the man never disobeys and the blood Earth everything soaked is like an immense altar in which everything what has life immolates interminably, until the same death of the death in himself. The death became my divinity, my sacred and absolute beauty. I have been living with the death since I realized of which it could breathe. My game par excellence is to imagine to me dead and nibbled by the worms”. Text said by Guilles de Rais in Nantes, when it had been arrested.

It was at the beginning of century XV, in 1404, when the man known with the sobrename of “blue Beard” was born. One of most beastly, monstrous the assassins, vile and cruel of the world. Always accompanied by the word vampire, due to its sickly taste by the blood, which provided a indescriptible pleasure to him, getting to bathe in blood.

He was the arm right of Joan of Arc in the fight against the English and named marshal of France by Carlos VII in Reim to the twenty-five years.

After the death of Joan one retired to his castle. There it was where he made his more atrocious crimes, using infantile blood in his bloody satanic sessions.

After squandering an enormous fortune, he reunited in his castle to famous specialists to find the secret of the filosofal stone and thus to solve his precarious economic situation.

Through Preslati one begins in the black magic, in the demonic alchemy and invocations.

He celebrated black masses, sacrificing young people of the neighborhoods. He mutilated them to represent sacrifices of eyes, heart or hands. In no on the attempts he obtained results but in the end that was what less it mattered to him. An unhealthy pleasure was taking body in his interior with each sacrifice and as it also advanced in number it made his depravation.

He used to kidnap to paupers and farmers between the seven and fourteen years of age, committing with them pure barbarisms, stranglings… Decapitations in the towers of the castle next to his pajes of confidence. They dismantled them and they opened in channel, amusing themselves with it and remaining next with its heads. They were ruthless assassins in addition to sexual patients.

The total number of victims cannot be calculated, due to the deep panic and terror that felt most of the relatives of children assassinated, towards the call, “disciple of Satan”. Esteem that the number had very to be elevated.

He was accused before the bishop of Nantes like: wizard, evil spirit, fortune teller, apostate, servant of fetiches, assassin of innocents, turned aside of the faith and his enemy, prophet and teacher wizard. As defense said the following thing: “the star under that I have been born has destined me to fulfill facts that nobody had been able to understand”.

The 26 of October of 1440 were lead next to their two faithfuls and collaborating profligates to the meadow of the Madeleine in Nantes to be hanged person and soon burned.

Their rest were buried in the church of the Carmelite ones of Nantes, at the request of their relatives. A true monster, one of the most ruthless assassins of the planet.

A torturator cynical patient of children. The personification of badly in the Earth. Which shortly before dying asked pardon the relatives of his victims, everything by the final fear to go to hell. In addition to all the saying, absolute a cowardly one.

--Joseph Vacher, "The French Ripper"--

noreply@blogger.com (Isthar) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:53:00 +0000

Been born the 16 of November (1869) in Beaufort, died the 31 of December (1898) in Bourg in Bresse.

Famous in series French assassin, also known like “The French Ripper”. He mutilated the sexual organs of his victims, practiced the necrophilia and the violation. In some occasions he devoured their organs and he drank the blood of their victims, from comes his fame there to him from vampire.

One became famous by his marked face, and to wear a white hat of rabbit skin.

Joseph Vacher was son of an illiterate agriculturist, of very small was sent to a catholic school, where they had too strict regimes.

In year 1983 one falls in love with a young servant: Louise, but she did not feel attracted by him. When finally she does not accept him, he shoots four shots to her, for that reason seriously she was hurt but she was able to survive. Next Vacher would stick two shots in the head in a desperate attempt of suicide. From which always he would suffer a face paralysis in the right side of his face.

He was committed in a mental institution located in Dole, Oath. After a year the doctors affirmed that he was cured totally.

Recent studies affirm that between 1884 and 1890, he possibly assassinated five people, three when still he was an adolescent, years before going off to himself.

Released to the 25 years of age, one will spend three long years assassinating and mutilating eleven people, their victims were mainly shepherds. Normally he stabbed them in repeated occasions, he drank their blood, he bit them, he practiced violations and post while still alive mortem.

During that he was a nomadic vagabond. He survived begging or working of day laborer in the different farms who found to his step.

In 1897 he tried to violate to a woman in the field. The young person fought desperately and their shouts were able to alert to their husband and son, who directly aided it and sent to Vacher to the police.

Once arrested he alleged to have been victim of the bite of a rabid dog when still he was a boy but shortly after he changed it affirming to be an envoy of God, like Joan of Arc, to obtain that people thought and understood the true virtues of the faith.

He was judged in Ain and the condemned until death in 1898, died in the guillotine, refusing to advance, being pushed by him twigs.

--Alcatraz, ghost prison--

noreply@blogger.com (Isthar) — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:50:00 +0000

Famous by the multitude of information received, on its activity paranormal, not only in the prison if not that also in the environs.
Located in an island of he himself name next to the bay of San Francisco.

In it they have been as famous personages as: To the Capone, Robert Franklin “the man bird of Gannet”, Henry Young, Morton Sobell and Roy Gardner.

First it was a fort and a military prison (1934-1963). From the 63, one became a jail of great security, in which there were practically null possibilities to escabullir itself. Mainly by its frozen waters and frightful sharks. Only three prisoners obtained it: Frank Morris and the brothers Clarence and John Anglin, but the truth is that they were never found.

"The Rock" has been called, but it was well-known originally like “the Island of the Gannets” or “the Island of the Pelicans”, due to its sterile rock aspect.

Numerous mysterious information in the island have followed one another. Mainly of visitors, prisoners and employees of the service of the national park.

They say that its light, damaged in the 1906 earthquake, suddenly appears accompanied of a mysterious sound and a sparkling green light. Later it disappears.

Many protectors and foresters affirm to have listened to inexplicable closing of doors, shouts and the sensation of being observed.

In the cell 14D of the prison the visitors and employees have informed into a severe sensation of coldness. In 1940 a prisoner shouted all the night that a being with the shining eyes wanted to assassinate to him. On the following day they found him strangled.

Walden Johnston nicknamed“gold Rule” perceived, next to guests, sobs inside the walls of the prison and next a frozen breeze that surrounded them.

Visitors of the pavilions To, B and Cs confess to have listened to cry and to moan. Psychic that visited a block C affirmed to have perceived the existence of a disturbing spirit called “Butcher”. Later it was possible to be verified that in the archives there was a gangster network called “Savage Hitman”.

Al Capone spent his last years in this prison, accompanied by one sifilis without treatment. The banjo went the time touching, in the patio and the shower. A guard confessed to have heard music of banjo of a shower. Also some used visitors and perceived melody of banjo coming from the prison. Scents to smoke, moaned, cold points in diverse zones, ghosts of prisoners or military personnel… one releases list of paranormal manifestations.

At the moment it is conserved like tourist element, comprising of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

--Azi Dahaka, dragoon of Persian mythology--

noreply@blogger.com (Isthar) — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:17:00 +0000

Azi Dahaka, also Zahhak call (in avéstico, great serpent), is a dragoon or demonic figure, which makes appearance in texts and Persian zoroastric mythology.

Monster, species of hydra, created by Mainu Angra also called Ahriman, God of the dark and eternal destroyer of the good.

Dahaka incarnates the total corruption. It is described like a similar monster to a dragoon, equipped with three heads, six eyes and three mouths with three pairs of eyeteeth. They say that their wings are so gigantic and extraordinary that they could block to the very same sun. It has thousand senses to bleed scorpions, slippery serpents and other poisonous beings.

It has the capacity to handle storms and to distribute diseases. It attacked the men and it robbed its cattle. Thraetaona call was defeated by the Feridun hero or also, but Dahaka could not be assassinated, so it was decided to tie it with strong chains to the Damavand mountain. Nevertheless it was destined to save and when arriving the aim from the world to destroy the humanity before being assassinated.

--Jeff Dailey, death by videogame--

noreply@blogger.com (Isthar) — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:32:00 +0000

Jeff Dailey was the first well-known person, to die playing videogame. This vitiated player only counted on 19 years at the moment of his death. After reaching the score of 16.660 in videogame Berzerk call, perished by a massive cardiac attack. This happened in 1981.

Berzerk is acclaimed videogame designed by an employee of Fern, just after being a sleepy in which it appeared a robot. Perhaps one is one of the most emblematic titles in which to videogames one talks about.

But not only this young person was victim of it, if not who a year later another player, of about 18 years, dies after obtaining high scores.

Two very similar deaths, the two by videogame.

--George Plantagenet, death in wine barrel--

noreply@blogger.com (Isthar) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:21:00 +0000

Known like Duke Clarence, he was born in Dublin (1449). Son of Duke of York and Lady Cecily Neville.

He married with Isabelle Neville. It had to be made privily because the king was not in agreement with this connection.

He was imputed by a crime of high treason, by king Eduardo IV, his brother. The sentence was celebrated in private, the 18 of February of 1478, in the Tower of London.

Presumably one said that he was drowned in a sweet wine barrel of Madeira. Also it was rumored that it could have been a joke of the twigs, because his fame of alcoholic was well well-known.

Nevertheless time later, when being examined the body, were not indications that the corpse was beheaded, being this one the way by which they snatched lives then.

--Eden Lake, Happiness turned nightmare--

noreply@blogger.com (Isthar) — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:21:00 +0000

One of the most controversial tapes of the year, pertaining to the Kingdom United and directed by James Watkins. Presented to the fantastic section official Meliès of the festival of Sitges. The director said of her that its intention was not to show a film with much violence, if not them consequences of this one.

An idyllic pair of fiancès decides to go to spend a weekend to Eden Lake, before it becomes a private urbanization. The lake is surrounded by a forest, which seems to be desert. Jenny does not have idea that his boyfriend Steve has the intention to take advantage of his stay to request marriage there to her.

All its happiness will become nightmare, when after a brief period of time, appears a gang of bold adolescents. They will surround the house and they will begin to cause to them.
Next they rob their properties, doing to them the stay impossible to bear. So Steve cannot remain quiet and will go in their looks for, as consequence the boys attack to him beastly, without mercy. From it will begin here most complete of the nightmares.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020530/

Trailer:

--Crisipo of Solti, to die of laughter--

noreply@blogger.com (Isthar) — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:32:00 +0000

Greek, original stoic philosopher of Solti or Tarso. Been born in century III a. C. He was one of the main figures of the stoicism, mainly after the death of Zanón de Citio, its founder. Some assigned the name to him of “porch column”.

This philosopher of the antiquity, in addition to wise person, was dice to spend a felt individual humoristic, for example, flattering with a piece of buffoonery to one of his mascots.

Concretely, he obtained that him donkey put drunkard with wine and to behave of strange form, going to look for plants. This peculiar picture produced to Crisipo an intense big wave of outbursts of laughter and was indeed this brutal attack of laughter, the one that provided “sweet” a death to him.

Thanks to this circumstance nowadays exist the popular phrase “to die of laughter”.

--Tokyo Gore Police, mutilations, revenge, blood...and blood--

noreply@blogger.com (Isthar) — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 09:20:00 +0000

Tape directed by the teacher of special effects Yoshihiro Nishimura, Japanese nationality.

We will be able to return to see in its sauce to Eichi Shiina, the frightful protagonist of “Audition”, directed by Takashi Mikke.

Tokyo Gore Police displays absolute the title that it has, showing blood in abundance, mutilations and a long etc.

The film is centered in the future next, in which the police of Tokyo has been privatized. Which will have to face the threat of a group of mutants, that when they lose an extremity becomes a peculiar and strange weapon.

Ruka, a young official has like mission exterminating them to all and to catch to the scientist who creates the monsters, well-known like The Key Man.

Ruka and The Key Man accidentally share a revenge against the police of Tokyo, which assassinated to their respective parents in the past.

A parade of defective scientists, police, mutants, revenge, blood and much more blood, conform this tape Gore.

Official trailer:

--Oni, demons of Japanese mythology--

noreply@blogger.com (Isthar) — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:06:00 +0000

Forces of the badly pertaining ones to Japanese mythology. To them the hunger is attributed to them, the diseases and other misfortunes. These beings are able in addition, to rob souls and to have normal and innocent people.

It is thought generally that they arrived at Japan from China.

One imagines to them of very varied forms, between which they are:

The Oni with form of monster, equipped with sharpened claws, two gigantic horns and the hair unkempt.

The Oni that receives human form, although sometimes imagines like a strange beings to them, having a high number of eyes or a series of fingers added the its own one. The skin color can vary enough but the tones that more usually are seen are red, blue, pink, green or the black one.

The humans who dress skins tiger and take with himself iron sticks denominate to them (kanabo) and are a great example of extreme force.

In spite of the capacity to adopt these forms, most of the Oni they are invisible.
Only the called fortune tellers “miko” and the virtuous beings are able to detect, sometimes, the presence of these demons.

--The Legend of Hoichi the Earless-- (Japan)

noreply@blogger.com (Isthar) — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:46:00 +0000

This unforgettable, frightful and supernatural legend gives rise in the Amide temple, Japan.
Hoichi, a young blind person, expert interpreter of Biwa, goes to a temple to be able to reside in it, due to him poverty. The first night of him stay a voice demands he constantly, pronouncing him name. Hoichi is worried and after a time it appears before him, a ghost of samurai passed away, which requests to him that he accompanies to touch the Biwa to him before its superior ones.

Hypnotized by the phantasmagoric forces he goes to a sinister cemetery, for Hoichi everything will be beautiful and the noble ghosts gentlemen. They will request to him that he touches the events of a epic battle. In his first night achieves a great success, next being asked for twilight after twilight.

A priest of the temple realizes of which something too strange happens, in addition to the ominous signs that shows the health of Hoichi. For him liberation he will paint the body to him with a Sutra text. Next he recommends to him to altogether remain silence and immobility in the presence of the phantom.

That same night samurai goes as usual to him encounter and he gets upset when not receiving answer of him. When approaching he does not see anything, except for the ears, point that the priest did not have by painted negligence. Samurai carry out an order of the other ghosts, takes to Hoichi the ears to him and he takes them.

In spite of the serious wretch injury, Hoichi manages to free himself of the powerful influence of the ghosts and to become a famous musician.

This legend was taken to the great screen, in the film “Kwaidan” (1964).

Hoichi animated video:

--Manticore, "man-monster", all-consuming of people--

noreply@blogger.com (Isthar) — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:45:00 +0000

The manticore has its origin in Persian mythology but also it appears in books of medieval beasts, derivatives of Greek and Roman writers.

One is a creature, a type of monster with human head, in most of the occasions describes it with horns.

It has a body of red color, frequently of a lion. In its mouth it lodges three rows of teeth in superior maxilar and other three in the inferior one, which are strong and powerful.

Normally it has the tail of a scorpion or a dragoon, with the surprising ability and to be able to shoot poisonous thorns, which have the capacity to immobilize the prey or definitively to clear the life to them.

In some writings it appears with the wings of a bat and its size can vary until reaching the one of a horse.

In most of the stories one describes them like man-monster. Body of lion, human face and the tail would be a striker pin with arrow end.

A Greek historian affirmed that its face was the one of a man of blue eyes and red skin like the cinnabar. He says that if attacks to it from the distance, it fixes its tail as if an arc one was and if they attack to it behind it is straightened and it aimed in line straight at the distance of one hundred feet.

An interesting monster, that even says itself has the faculty to imitate the human speech, whose name: manticore, means “all-consuming of people”.

--Mount Osore (Osorezan), the entrance to Hell--

noreply@blogger.com (Isthar) — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:51:00 +0000

Mount Osore is a horrifying place in Japan, constituted by commemorative monuments of souls of dead children. An encounter and shock disagreeable, difficult to digest for the majority.

Osore means fear and according to popular mythology the mount marks the entrance of hell, "Mount fear". Carbonized landscape, wells of bubbles, stinking sulfuric hot water springs and a so inhospitable lake that all the fish perish.

It has the reputation to constitute a bond between this life and the other. In July a very important festival is made, a procession of people goes to take gifts to the dead children and to locate them on the foot of the statues, an offering to Gizo, the guardian of the died children, it helps the children who have problems to find the way to the light.

Too special place, filled of one releases tradition and of a peculiar tetric beauty.

--"Tokyo" (2008), three interesting histories--

noreply@blogger.com (Isthar) — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:16:00 +0000

A peculiar film in which are three very singu lar anddifferent stories. All of them will be developed in Tokyo, each one will have on an approximated duration of 30 minutes and a different director.

"Interior Design".

Directed by Michel Gondry, author of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”, “The Science of Sleep” or “Be Kind Rewind”.

In this history a dumb pair can be seen how Tokyo in search of a promising future. She is Hiriko and he Akira. The intention of Akira is to get to occupy a place in the world of the cinema, nevertheless Hiriko submerges in a sea of doubts, not knowing anything clearly. They will suffocate in the place, while she discovers something strange. He will begin to perceive how their ribs become wood and how his body is transformed into a furniture.

Surrealist film of Gondry, the script was made next to Gabrielle Bell.

"Tokyo Shaking".

Directed by Bong Joon-jo, author of the recent and magnificent “Host”. Here one will move away of which we could see in that film.

He shows us hikkikomori (adolescent or young adult, in its majority of masculine, that lives voluntarily shut in in his house or quarter during years).

This hikkikomori, interpreted by Teruyuki Kagawa, been has hidden more than ten years in his room. Everything will give to an upset when appearing a distributing girl of pizzas, which will be strained in his house. He will be threatened by similar intrusión, perhaps but the things can change before the unexpected arrival of the love.

"Merde".

Directed by the French Leos Carax, author of “Boy meets girl” or “Amants du Pont-Neuf, Les ”.
Somewhat rare work in that we will be able to see the performance of “a excrement man”, invading the streets of Tokyo and making provocative and irrational acts. He will cause disgust and passion in the press, to equal parts. But finally he will be arrested because their neighbors got themselves to really scare of him.

Three histories with Japanese actors the two first and French actors last, the original ones in its arguments. A good proposal directed by interesting directors.

Trailer:

--Elizabeth Bathory, the bloody countess--

noreply@blogger.com (Isthar) — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:43:00 +0000

“The bloody lady”, perhaps one of in series more famous assassins of history. One says that she has in its salary more than six hundred victims. Famous by its extreme cruelty and crazy taste by the crimson liquid that all we took inside.

They say some that Bram Stoker was not based so much on Vlad Tepes as in Elizabeth Bathory, the problem it was its sex, he thought that the mentality of the time possibly did not understand that a woman was so lunatic. Therefore his novel would not have commercial pull.

Elizabeth was born in Hungary (1560), of illustrious family. She was daughter of a marriage with kinship. Distant relative of Vlad Tepes. Something similar to the epilepsy is said that in his more tender childhood suffered violent attacks. She had the luck to receive an education superior to most of the men of the place.

She was promised to the eleven years with count Ferenc Nadasdy, servant of the Emperor, general and bloody soldier. Famous to cross to its victims in the battlefield, for that reason he was known like “the black hero of Hungary”.

A year later went to live to the castle of the Nadasdy. It is to the thirteen years when she is left pregnant woman of one of the boys of the castle, which had as destiny to be castrated and to be thrown the dogs. The baby was made disappear.

Two years later house with Ferenc and is going away to live with her hated mother-in-law Ursula to the castle.

The marriage often talked on the ways more guessed right to punish the servants.

He was its husband who initiated to Elizabeth in the torture techniques. One of the favorites for her in the first times, was the one to introduce fine needles under the nails of its maids or to nail them to it in the skin. Other times she threw them to the snow and later it spilled cold water to see them how they were congealed and definitively they perished.

Another one of its tortures consisted of removing them naked to the outside and greasing its bodies with honey. They remained of that form a whole day, in which they were pecked by all class of insects.

Also she used to place burning keys and currencies in the hands of her maids.

To the 44 years it is left widow (1604), is here when its race of assassin gives beginning. Right away she expels to Ursula and the rest of the Nadasdy. The girls protected by their mother-in-law cruel were tortured in the cellars.

The nightmare gave beginning when one of her maids threw to she of the hair, while it combed she. Directly the nose of a strong slap burst to her. Due to it drops of blood ran on the skin of Elizabeth. It gave the impression her that in the places where there was blood, the wrinkles had disappeared. She thought that she had found elixir of eternal youth and supported by witches and alchemists she gave loose rein to her madness.

With the aid of her butler Thorko and Dorottya, they undressed to the young person, causing to her a deep cut in the neck, gathering its blood with a earthenware bowl. There, Elizabeth bathed and drank the liquid appraised one.

Their assistants went collecting by the environs to young people between the 9 and 26years to satisfy the bloody necessities with the countess.

At the time at which the errors of Gabor, (her brother and prince of Transilvania), put she in a delicate situation, she had as pastime burning the feminine genitals with burning candles and irons. Also it is said that she assaulted to maids, biting to them in the cheeks, shoulders and chests, mainly when she suffered headache. All this happened in its stay of Vienna, accompanied by Dorottya.

In her castle of Csejthe it was where she used “iron maiden” or “iron virgin”. Sarcofag that reflected the silhouette of a woman and that was formed by sharpened thorns. It was her instrument of favourite torture. She had been made by a German watchmaker and she herself acquired it in Nuremberg.

A frame metallic robot of human form. Equipped with a mechanism to move the lips and to be on the awares. So that it was driven was precise to touch some precious stones of its necklace. At the moment it responded with horrifying metallic sounds and slowly it raised the arms and it embraced the young person who in her interior was.

Next their sines were opened, emerging from them five daggers that were introduced in their skin. When the sacrifice was completed, the stone of its necklace was touched and the arms fell. Also its smile stopped and their eyes were closed. The countess observed everything with sadistic thoroughness, adorned with a white suit.

In 1609, due to the deficiency of maiden by the environs, she had to resort to the children and adolescents of good family, with the pretext to provide an education to them.

This error, using noble virgins and the failure to bury corpses in too foolish places, in addition to other facts, totally sank it to her.

In the 1611 she was processed by king Matias II of Hungary, due to aberrant practices and heresy, retiring she in an alcove, in which she did not have contact with anybody and whose little food was happened through a crack. In that unhealthy situation she lasted three years more.
Her allies were tortured and dead in the bonfire.

Time in which it was common to punish and to martyr the servants, to make all type of barbarisms with the greater naturalness, in that scene were she, “the bloody countess”. One already mythical vampire in the history of the humanity, a cruel, ruthless and sadistic being. A desperate woman to feel beyond its imagination, using herself hundreds of lives, fascinated with their blood and dreaming about eternal youth.

Elizabeth Bathory has appeared previously in the great screen. Recently she has appeared in the Czech production: “Bathory” (2007) and the next opening of cinema based on the bloody countess will be: “The Countess"of Julie Delpi (2009).

"Bathory" (2007) video:

"The Countess" (2008/2009) trailer:

--Siriraj Medical Museum, (THAILAND), a Museum of the horror--

noreply@blogger.com (Isthar) — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:59:00 +0000

A macabre and sinister museum, “the Anatomical museum of Congdon”, which was founded by the forensic medicine department of the Siriraj Hospital. It is located concretely in the heart of Bangkok, to borders of the river Chao Phraya and closely together of the most beautiful Thailander temples.

In this horrifying museum they are possible to be observed mummies of executed assassins, fetuses with malformations, organs conserved in formol and some that another atrocity more.

This museum is visited by students and tourist rather often, with the only intention to observe the horror in its purer degree.

At first one had mounted for the instruction of the medical young people, divided in six parts dedicated to pathologies: forense medicine, anatomy, history of Thailander science, parasitology and prehistory, each one with its own objects.

One of the most famous attractions and than monopolizes a greater number of visits, is the mummified corpse in wax of Si-Oui, a frightful chinese psicopat, which assassinated small children later to devour its bodies. This “Hannibal Lecter” fed itself on people “because she loved eating organs of humans, not because it was hungry”, illustrates one of explanatory texts.

Some of the venerated objects more are the medical instruments with which the autopsy to the monarch Ananda Mahidol or Rama VIII was made, brother of present king Rama XIX, that died in 1946 because of a firing in circumstances still not known.

Also photographies and objects of homicides, fatal accidents can be observed, suicides and catastrophes. There are sections that show collections of skulls, dissected skeletons, organs and bones, all of them pertaining ones to tragic facts.

Are to the covered with blood articles of the victims and the arms with which they were attacked.

Like a section in which the stained dress of blood of one of the victims of a rapist is exhibited, call “Nualchawee”, as well as the knife with which was assassinated and its newspaper.

There is another called section “Bodies, The Exhibition”, which shows real human bodies.

It exists a section dedicated to the “elephantiasis”, an enlargement of diverse parts of the body. An example in the famous film of David Lynch, titled can be seen “The Elephant Man”.

This Anatomical Museum, includes in honor of doctor Edgar Davidson Congdon, a sample of the dissection to complete body of the nervous system, the arterial one and of muscles, between medical utensils and bookcases filled with objects of laboratory and bottles that remember the experiments of doctor Menguele.

Some visitors, like a called Thailander Arkom Rodkantook, allege that the museum does not seem to him as horrifying as they affirm. It says to have taken to its adolescent children so that they learn parasitology and medicine, and whom in addition a space dedicated to tsunamis are very interesting.

Others say that with all the blood and violence that can be seen in the cinema, the television… what this museum shows would not have to scare to anybody.

Nevertheless others affirm not to have seen something similar in their life, like a young British tourist called Daniel Brown.

The entrance is quite economic, costs 1.34 $ approximately.

A sinister museum, really frightful. Any peculiar tourist and who comes near to his sections, will have to be prepared to live a experience crude and quite difficult to forget.

Here one is what it is hidden after the human nature, a compendium of true atrocities. Some will be scared and others will feed their macabre curiosity.

--Haunting Ground, a great survival horror of ps2--

noreply@blogger.com (Isthar) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:31:00 +0000

Haunting Ground, known in Japan as “Demento” is a magnificent survival horror. Despised by great part of the critic, with time possibly one becomes a jewel within the catalogue of ps2.

Published by Capcom it keeps many similarities with Clock Tower 3, because in both the protagonist in a young person. In addition we will have at any moment to escape of a personage in each level, which will harass to us and it will put the fear to us in the body.

Perhaps we will have to face puzles not very original, this is the most negative point of the game.
The graphs are surprising, of the best thing than it is possible to be seen in ps2, the video scenes very are obtained, transmitting multitude to us of feelings when visualizing them.
The sound fulfills its mission, scaring to us when it must.

The protagonist is a called girl Fionna, who appears locked up in a castle, after suffering a car accident. Hardly nothing will remember after the accident. One will awake stunned and average it undresses in the quarter of a revolting butcher.
Thanks to that the padlock has been opened manage to escape, next it will be united to a called dog Hewie, which will be its great ally throughout all the adventure.

It will have to be able to solve the enigmas that the castle locks up, to overcome to the enemy wrecks and deformed that live in him and to manage to escape when it is necessary so that they do not assassinate it very ruthlessly.
Development similar to Clock Tower, because Fionna will enter panic if it is not managed to escape suitably of the enemies, will even be ways that take us to the death.
The only aid that it has if it enters panic with the enemy fence, is to request aid to its dog.

In order to defend to us of the enemy attacks we will be able to kick to them, to order to Hewie that bites to them, or by means of arms created with alchemy.

Our main mission will consist the answers of the enigma and the form to leave the castle. Others will be also what they accompany to us in the adventure, like Daniella (the lady of keys), or a being with the head covered by a hood.

We were before the great history, complex and attractive, to us will maintain hooked, interested in seeing the next sequence of video at any moment.
To emphasize that some scenes are quite impressive and crude, nonapt for delicate stomachs.

Haunting Ground, Official Capcom Site: http://www.capcom.com/hauntingground/

Haunting Ground opening:

--Aokigahara Forest, suicide forest (Mt.Fuji)--

noreply@blogger.com (Isthar) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:43:00 +0000

The Aokigahara forest is one of the most legendary places of Japan, as far as fear also talks about, well-known as “sea of trees” Forest whose extension occupies more than 3000 hectares, located in the Mt. Fuji , to the west of Tokyo.

Destiny chosen by tens of people to snatch its life. Which calculates that more than 500 they have perished in that place, seems perfect to commit suicide.

Its ground is constituted by volcanic rock, its caverns is rocky and is covered with ice, even in summer.

Nonofficials exist footpaths who are used to pursue to the bodies, being voluntary those that take care of it, marking their search with plastic tapes.

There is one who says that if you commit to you in the forest, even without intention to commit suicide, the forces you vitiate force to you, since the air becomes saturated by the spirits from deads, attracted by the forest and its tenebrous depth.

A called novel has been written “the black forest”, in which the lovers of the book end up committing suicide.

Also a complete called book “the manual of the suicide” was published.

Besides to be made a tape in the 2004 “sea of trees”, which counts how four people go into by own decision in the forest to commit suicide.

Place than more sinister, loaded of, deaths a apparently interminable succession.

--Mictlan, hell of Aztec mythology--

noreply@blogger.com (Isthar) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:24:00 +0000

Lower layer of the Aztec infraworld, located to the north. Place characterized by the shady thing, the humidity of the surroundings and its demoralizing atmosphere. Pertaining to a true labyrinth of really frightful chaos, layers and levels.

It is governed by the God Mictlantecuhtli, being this one the king of deads and his Mictecacihuatl wife. Both live together in a house without windows.

All the deads had to go to Mictlán, with the exception of the people who died by a ray, the soldiers fallen in the battle and the women who perished when having descendants.

In order to accede to the infraworld, the deads had to walk during four long years below the Earth, always accompanied by a dog, which was incinerated next to the corpse. Also in the trip they were helped by the binocular of Quetzalcóatl, the God Xolotl.

--Martyrs (2008), winding and macabre film--

noreply@blogger.com (Isthar) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 01:48:00 +0000

Film directed by the french Pascal Laugier (2008).

Martyrs has given rise to a great sense of expectancy, due to its extreme violence, of very disagreeable images, causing even arches to the public.

One is based on the history of two girls catched in a sect and its advance in the title of absolute martyrs.

Its cruelty arrives at very high limits, like showing the murder of a family the complete one, or seeing how they clear the skin to a person.

His director has confessed to be fan absolute of the terror films, that deal with a subject like the violence with sense humor.

But this it is not the case, Larger has assured that this tape tried that the public followed the process of torture of the girl, almost in tune with its protagonist.

Controversy and crude film that caused disgust and repulsion in the festival of Sitges (Barcelona), until the point to leave great part of the spectators the room of projection. The organization even arranged an ambulance when coming out, to guarantee the well-being of the assistants.

A film that was denominated “extreme film” in Cannes and Toronto.

Página oficial: http://www.martyrs-lefilm.com/

Trailer oficial:

--Emma-ho, sovereign of Japanese hell--

noreply@blogger.com (Isthar) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 01:25:00 +0000

Sovereign of Japanese hell, Jigoku call. Underground kingdom that consist of eight ice regions and eight of fire.

Emma- ho is in charge to judge the souls of the men who have committed sin, assigning to them properly, to one of the sixteen existing regions, according to the degree and character of their lack. The women who have sinned are judged by their sister.

In this process, the souls see the totality of their sins in a gigantic mirror. The spirits have an option of being saved, by means of the intersection of the Bosatsu or Bodhisattvas.
The Bosatsu is holy organizations, in the Buddhist tradition, that in spite of already reaching the highest stages of illumination, they have postponed his entrance in Nirvana (existence that extends the illumination). They have like assignment, rendering its aid to all the beings, leading to them and orienting to them towards the illustrated states more.