Similar Film Styles:
Audition- Controversial Japanese director Takashi Miike creates this unnerving horror film about a widowed TV producer auditioning prospective wives. In his search, one candidate particularly stands out, a lovely ex-ballerina dressed in white. The widower cannot believe his good fortune, until he starts looking more closely at his potential bride-to-be: her autobiographical details don't quite check out, she has a number of ugly scars on her legs, and he learns that people in her life have a habit of disappearing. When he discovers a man trussed up in her living room with his tongue and feet lopped off, he concludes that she is perhaps not the woman of his dreams. Audition was screened at the 1999 Vancouver Film Festival.
The style of Audition is quite strange, and is a generally quiet, occasionally slow film despite gruesome undertones. I like the filming style and the dialogue.
Zodiac- A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. We follow the investigators and reporters in this lightly fictionalized account of the true 1970's case as they search for the murderer, becoming obsessed with the case. Based on Robert Graysmith's book, the movie's focus is the lives and careers of the detectives and newspaper people.
The idea of a serial killer being hunted is good- it creates tension and characters to root for.
Sin City- The film is primarily based on three of Miller's works. The Hard Goodbye: About a man who embarks on a brutal rampage in search of his one-time sweetheart's killer, killing anyone, even the police, that gets in his way of finding and killing her murderer; The Big Fat Kill: Focuses on a street war between a group of prostitutes and a group of mercenaries, the police, and the mob; and That Yellow Bastard: Follows an aging police officer who protects a young woman from a grotesquely disfigured serial killer.
It's not strictly a horror film- but the comic book gruesomeness is effective and I like the style of the majority of the screen being black and white with only one feature in colour.
Carrie- A young, abused and timid 17-year-old girl discovers she has telekinesis, and gets pushed to the limit on the night of her school's prom by a humiliating prank.
The idea of getting revenge on high school tormentors and a religious guardian is usually lifted from Carrie
Death Proof- Two separate sets of beautiful women are stalked at different times by a scarred stuntman who uses his "death proof" cars to execute his murderous plans.
Shot in the style of old 1970's exploitation films- it has a look unlike most modern movies that I like- although it's hard to replicate.
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