A Girl in the Dark

ONE. MORE. DAY.

“INSIDE” (“A L’Interieur”) - 2007

This French horror film is one of the best thrillers I’ve seen in years. It’s also got some of the most amazing gore in recent horror film history and Beatrice Dalle is completely fucking creepy, captivating and brilliant in the role of the antagonist.

The film centers around Sarah, a pregnant young woman whose life was destroyed by a car accident which killed her husband. She now spends her days drifting blankly through her job as a photographer with only her mother and her boss for companionship.

Flash forward to the night before her baby is due. Ignoring the wishes of her doctors and mother, Sarah opts to spend the night before her delivery alone.

In her big, scary house.

Out in the middle of nowhere.

Wouldn’t you?

Everything is going fine (if you can call completely loneliness, isolation and depression fine) until Sarah sees a figure outside her living room. Using her flash as a light, she captures cague images of a woman standing and smoking just outside the sliding glass door.

The police are called, but (obviously) no one is found.

What occurs over the next 45 minutes to and hour of film is hard to put into words without destroying the twists, the reveals, the shock and the terror.

Suffice it to say that the warped events that transpire are enough to leave yours truly, a horror film veteran, cowering behind a pillow with tears in her eyes. The action, which starts off slowly builds to a point where you have no time to recover from one horrific event before another shocking twist whips around the corner and slams into you.

While you cannot pull your eyes away from the screen for one second because of the intensity, you wish you could force yourself to turn off the film and forget everything you’ve seen thus far.

Also adding to the beautiful gore, blood and make-up is the phenomenal lighting. Everything is bathed in an eerie yellowish gauzy hue which makes everyone look dead and/or demonic and the safety of the home seem tenuous.

My friend Devon watched this last night and although he’s also a horror movie fanatic he couldn’t keep from texting me. I tried to comfort him as best I could!

Also, I like the original French trailer better than the American one.

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AAaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

gimme gimme gimme

I want to rewatch the original and see how the story has changed (seems like it’s quite a bit different) and also because I remember finding the original genuinely terrifying and fucking fun!

How long must we wait until this treasure of terror is unleashed upon us?

OHHHH MY GOOOODDDDD

The best short film I’ve seen in a long time.

Starring the lovely Selma Blair.

This film makes me so melancholy, but also with a warm, fuzzy feeling inside.

My friend Ben showed me this video a few months ago and I’ve been searching for it since so I can rewatch it endlessly.

When I first started listening to SALEM I loved their music because of the way it mixed the slowed down, warped dance beats with some almost ghost-like sounds, like some weird tripped out theremin. I like that their music is at once sensual and incredibly creepy and unsettling and the video perfectly encapsulates both aspects of the music.