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I rented these three films this week and two were pretty good and one was decent.Ringu is the original Japanese film of the recent US release/cult hit RING and not having seen the latter, I can say that the plot is interesting--people watch a mysterious video clip and then die in exactly seven days. The backstory is believable to a degree and the ending isn't a happy one. If you've seen the US version, then this is a must. If you haven't seen either, then maybe try the original if you can find it.
Session 9 stars David Carusso, but actually the biggest star is the real life insane asylum: Danvers State Hospital, 30 miles north of Boston (Clark, care to chime in?) built in like 1855 (and expanded in 1871) in the form of a giant bat so to speak. It was closed in 1982. It was also the place where in 1948, they perfected the pre-frontal lobotomy. They also pioneered hydro therapy where patients were dunked in ice cold water to get them to snap out of it, LOL. Needless to say, some weird shit went down over the years for the up to 2700 patients housed there. It was a fully self-contained operation but finally succmbed to budget cuts and overcrowding.
The plot revolves around a five man Haz-Mat crew who is paid to go in and clean up the asbestos so that the state can reclaim the structure as a landmark and open it up to the public. The rest is kind of typical ghost story fare, but the photography of the building is really the star. Worth a few dollars and some spare time.Salton Sea stars Val Kilmer and Vincent D'Onofrio and centers around the LA Area's Crystal Meth scene. It's more of a round-about 'who done it' murder mystery, but the characters are colorful and there's a decent twist at the end. If you're a 'tweaker' than you probably don't want to watch this flick because it's a fairly gloomy depiction of gack and the speed freaks who use it.
Anyway, I'd rank them as Salton Sea, Ringu and Session 9 in that order with Salton Sea being a 8.5 out of 10.
Chris
Follow Ups:
I wonder if there's a connection with the insane pyromaniac housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers in Hitch's "Rebecca" . . .Naw, couldn't be . . .
Yeah, I was an inmate there (Danvers State Hospital) at the time and I can assure you of the movie's authenticity.clark
educational to an non-tweaker as myself. Very funny in spots. VD and VK certainly aren't afraid to take chances with a roll. 8^)Will seek out Ringu and Session 9.
Liked Ringu slightly more than Salton Sea but both were more than decent.Biggest creep outs:
Finding her son watching the video
Girl coming out of TVVincent's nose
Music is Emotion
in the Salton Sea.Cruel to the poor pigeons, but that was a riot in the context of a bunch of speed freaks.
For those not privy to the movie, you have a bunch of heavily armed scumbag meth. dealers out in the deserty sticks. The leader, Poo-Bear, played by D'Onofrio, has no nose 'cause he's tweaked so much and he's left with this rubbery stick-on job that makes his voice (between weezes from smoking it,) sound like an old time country operator--think Lilly Tomlin from years back.
These guys have nothing better to do so they map out in the sand, a small, but long road coming out of the barn and marked with string on either side. You have Poo-Bear holding a remote controller for radio controled cars and he starts mumbling about the 'lone gunman' and as he does, he starts driving this big, black, limo looking remote control buggy out of the barn. There is no roof and inside are four grey pigeons with duct tape wrapped around them so they can't fly out. One pigeon in the back seat is dressed in a pink like Jackie O. was and the one next to it, is JFK. The two in the front are the Connoly's.
Poo-Bear then starts calling out for Oswald, the CIA guy and a Russian back-up and three of his buddies appear across from the barn, perched atop three different shacks. They all have scoped .22 rifles. As the limo drives out of the barn, he gets his forth buddy playing the part of Zagruder, to start filming in order to make the macabre scene more realistic. The limo makes its way through the dirt course while he narrates and on cue, he yells for Oswald to open fire from the book depository and the scene plays out with all three shooters blasting away leaving a bunch of dead pigeons in the RC limo.
Sick, but funny.
Chris
...where Frederic Wiseman filmed the shocking documentary Titticut Follies?Ringu is much spookier and satisfying than The Ring IMO.
Haven't checked out the other two yet.
Seems like MA has a lot of insane asylums. Youre like the West Virginia of mental health, everybody dumps their loonies there.
Titicut Follies was filmed at Bridgewater.
Sorry. Sometimers strikes again. I hear MA and asylum in the same sentence and automatically think of Wiseman's film.
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