I watched El Orfanato (The Orphanage), the Guillermo Del Toro (director of Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth) presented Spanish horror film last night. Suprisingly very good. It has a few hiccups, but all in all, one of the most appealing creep-fest I've seen in a while. Never hurts when it's in Spanish, not to mention; and this is going to sound really nerdy, but the color palette was gorgeous. It's amazing to me that the rest of the world knows how to scare people but American film makers just fall short, I can't think of an American horror movie in the last ten years that has been actually scary and not just gory and sensationalist. Any that come to mind are remakes of imports.
Going to see Synecdoche, New York (directorial debut of Charlie Kaufman, writer of Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, and Adaptation) later today. I have high hopes for it, let me not be disappointed.
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