"I haven't shown these to anybody. You see, I've drawn them. This is the most common figure. He's almost harmless. I think he's homosexual. Then there's the old lady. Who's always threatening to take off her hat. You know what happens then? Her face comes off with it. This is the worst one. I call him the Bird Man. I don't know if it's a real beak or if it's only a mask. He's so remarkably fast. The others. The flesh eaters, the insects and especially the spider men. You have to stay awake a while. In an hour or so it'll be day. Then I can sleep"**
"Do you hear how quiet it is? There was a time when nights were for sleep. A deep, dreamless sleep. Imagine, sleeping. Waking up without fear. Now we've kept watch every night until dawn. This hour is the most difficult. Old people used to call it the 'hour of the wolf' It's the hour when the most people die, when the most babies are born. It's the hour when nightmares come to us. And if we are awake... We are afraid"
"He fired three shots. One of them tore open a wound on my arm. I still have a small scar. I fell over in sheer terror. I thought it best to lie still. I heard him pacing back and forth then go behind the house. Then he started running towards the path. I got up washed off the blood and put on a bandage. I hid the pistol and then sat down and waited. He was gone a few minutes and then he came running back. He looked completely insane. He walked around the cottage talking to himself. Then he took out the diary and began writing. He wrote for several hours. Late morning he packed his satchel and headed off towards the woods. I've been wondering one thing. Isn't it true that when a woman has lived with a man for a long time. Isn't it true that she eventually becomes like the man? I mean, she loves him, tries to think like him, and see things like him. It's said that it can change a person. Is that why I began seeing those spirits? Or were they there regardless? I mean, had I loved him less, and not cared so much about the things surrounding him. Would I have been able to protect him better? Or was it that I didn't love him enough that made me jealous? Was it because of those 'flesh eaters' as he called them. Was it because of them it went so horribly bad for us? I thought I was so close to him. Sometimes he also said that he was close to me. Once he said it with conviction. If only I could have followed him all the time. There are so many things to ponder. So many questions. Sometimes you don't know up from down, and you get completely..."
*
original title·····Vargtimmen
language·········Swedish
**
The plot revolves around the disappearance of a troubled painter, Johan Borg, who lived on an island with his wife while plagued with frightening visions from his past and insomnia. The film is framed as a recollection of Johan's wife about the disappearance of her husband from her memory and the diary of Johan.
- What's going on? Why did you hurt yourself? Why don't you tell me what's wrong?
- I saw my twin. I feel like she's still here with me.
- I don't understand. How could you see her? She's dead.
- What happened to Pim? Tell me how she died. Ploy, why did you do this? Did you do something to her? How could you? She was your sister. You've lied to me all along.
- I'm exactly like Pim. Why couldn't you love me? Think about the time we've been living together. Doesn't it mean anything? Aren't I the person you said you loved? I never thought it would end this way. I loved you just as much as Pim did. But you only had eyes for her. The letters you wrote to her, I pretended were written to me. The only way I could make you love me was to transform myself into Pim. All the letters you received were written by me. So how can you say that you love Pim? The person you love is me! I feel bad for Pim because I'm the one who received all of your love.
*
original title·····แฝด (F̄æd) / Twin
language·········Korean·Thai
Written and directed by Banjong Pisanthanakun (Shutter 2004, The Medium 2021)
[The plot revolves around Rob, who works for a street cleaning agency that specializes in cleaning up public spaces after grisly crime scenes and disposing of the bodies. A job that allows Rob to indulge in and explore his necrophilia fetishes, which are also shared by his wife. He likes to take bits of his work home with him for his girlfriend to play with. When an opportunity presents itself to steal an entire corpse, he seizes the advantage, and soon him and his wife are engaged in a threesome with a putrefying cadaver. Unfortunately for Rob, this domestic bliss detracts from work, and he soon finds himself unemployed. Worse still, his girlfriend soon leaves him, taking the corpse with her. Left jobless and isolated, Rob's sense of abandonment and rage spill over into acts of sexual violence]
[The film begins precisely where the first film left off. After reading about the strange suicide of Rob in the local newspaper, morbidly fascinated woman realizes that he is the one to fulfill her own necrophiliac desires and decides to dig up his corpse and take it home to sexually satisfy her. When she begins to date a living man, she starts to spend more time with the living man than with the corpse, but her morbid appetite begins to spill into her living relationship with fatal consequences]
*
original title·····Die Rückkehr der Liebenden Toten (The Return of the Loving Dead)
language·········German
Saw I 2004
Saw II 2005
Saw III 2006
Saw IV 2007
Saw V 2008
Saw VI 2009
Saw VII: The Final Chapter 2010
Saw VIII: Jigsaw 2017
Saw IX: Spiral 2021
Saw X 2023*
- So, Mr. Kramer what do you do? Like, for a living?
- Please, call me John. I've been a civil engineer and an architect most of my life. Now, I have a few hobbies. I help people overcome inner obstacles*. Help them make positive changes in their lives.
- Like a life coach?
- Something like that.
- John? It was you? Why? What is this? We were only trying to help you.
- That game is over. And a new game is about to begin. All of you promised dying people. That you could save their lives. And in doing so, you took advantage of the only thing that they still possessed. Hope.
- No, John. We've worked to heal people. Your case was different.
- And still you lie. My associate here, has had a look at your bank records. Did you heal any of these 34 people? Did they have children that are now orphaned? You've been doing this larcenist dance now for more than eight years. That's more than $8 million. That's a lot of pain to inflict on others for your own enrichment.
- Please, don't do this. Please, help.
- That's exactly what we are doing. This is not retribution, it's a reawakening. Follow my instructions if you want to live. Don't hesitate. Because your time is prescribed. Now, refusing to play the game is not an option. If you refuse you will remain in this room. Forever.
- Please. John, please. Please, don't kill me.
- That's the last thing that you should be worried about. Now... I want to play a game.
*
A direct sequel to Saw I and a prequel to Saw II.
Directed by Kevin Greutert (Saw VI 2009, Saw VII 2010, Jessabelle 2014)
"Did you know that in some primitive civilizations. In order to acquire the virtues of their enemies, people would cut their victim's bodies in pieces and eat their entrails, hearts and brains. Maria hasn't killed anybody. And neither has Ludmilla. You do understand why they accused each other, don't you? Even if it doesn't appear so we are still quite close. I will never tell you how I did it, or tell you why. You wouldn't understand. On the other hand, with no corpse. Who knows. Maybe there's nothing to tell"
"You nearly ruined everything. Instead, you ruined the inspector. While you two were enjoying. I paid a visit to the inspector's house. It was quite a busy afternoon for me. First I had to take care of a little inconvenience. A former partner of mine attempted to deceive me. Then I waited for the inspector. Not to teach him a lesson mind you after all he'd gone through. But to teach you a lesson. You're our family. We're willing to forgive you. But do you want to be forgiven?"
*
Original title·····Vortice Mortale (Death Vortex)
Directed by Ruggero Deodato (Cannibal Holocaust 1980)
"There's a man that makes bounty hunters tremble. They call him Silence. Because wherever he goes, the silence of death follows"
"The outlaws in the mountains are heading there. There's a modest price on their heads. Still, it's a powerful lot, when you add 'em all together. And it's nice and legal, too. But then we have this other one. The mute who shoots thumbs off. The one who hates bounty killers. The mute who killed your brother"
- You hate me because I kill bandits. But you do the same thing, 'cause you give 'em to the hangman.
- That's different. The law has a right to kill. Because when the law kills, it's not murder, it's punishment. The death of a bandit must serve as an example to other people who'll not do...
- Go on killing. Are you gonna abolish rewards, Sheriff?
- We're gonna abolish crime. We're buildin' a great country, and we're fightin' to make sure justice governs it. And not leeches like you.
- You're on the side of the law. We're on the side of the law of survival. Survival of the fittest"
*
original title·····Il grande silenzio
language·········Italian
- I created you. Your generation was a success. You were different from the first-gen experiments by the other group, who simply tempered with brains. But once we succeeded in our experiments, The HQ was starting to get scared. There was no way to control you guys. It's understandable. There were two underlying themes: heightened physicality and a violent nature by transplanting physically perfect genes and nurturing you with violence. You were special. You stood out even from the kids in your classification. You were closest to the perfection I desired. But being on top makes one nervous. The inability to control something is a detestable trait. Ultimately, we were ordered to decommission you all. I couldn't pull the trigger, you were my life's work. But that's how the world works. It was out of my hands. We actually made a mistake. You. We underestimated you as a kid. You were absolutely incredible that day. No one who stepped in front of you survived. We've looked for you everywhere, and never in our wildest dreams did we think you'd be living such an ordinary life. We assumed you were dead, and your brain should've exploded by now, so we naturally made that assumption. Then you showed up on TV. Does your head hurt? It feels like your eyes will pop with a bad migraine. Symptoms are at their peak. When untreated, you'll bleed from every hole in your body, and then you die. Why do you think we only use a fraction of our brain? There's a reason for everything. You knew that too. That's why you limited your bodily functions to control the symptoms. But you searched for a permanent solution. You knew you wouldn't last very long. But it's all pointless. The only solution is a bone marrow transplant, but you don't know your biological parents. That's right. I am the only solution you've been searching for. This is my gift to you. How does it feel? Incredible, right? With this, you can use your power to the fullest. But it'll only last a month. Without another shot, your symptom will accelerate. In other words, you need it every month. Do you like my gift?
- It's better than I expected. I knew you had a solution. Hello, professor, it's been a while. Sure, I know who I am and who you are perfectly well. I've not forgotten it even for a day. I've been searching for you for a long time. But that wasn't an easy feat. So I switched my plan. It was a bit risky, but I was running out of time. That's right. I made you find me. You created me like this. I was so worried that I'd die like this. I can't die alone, that wouldn't be fair. I wanted to take everyone with me. But first, I need this. Where's the formula?
"Your mom'd have been so shocked to see you like that. No matter how you were born, we didn't raise you like that. As you grew up, so many cows and dogs were killed, I was actually scared, thinking that we took in and raised a witch. I wanted to send you away if I could find a way. But your mom said no. She said if we raise you with love, you'd become a lovely girl"
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original title·····마녀 (manyeo)
language·········English·Korean
Directed by Park Hoon Jung (The Tiger 2015, The Childe 2023)
"What did I just see? What is she? Could she be an alien? That was like a scene from a movie"
- The subject's designation was Ark 1 Datum Point. For our convenience, we called her ADP. She's the reference for an ongoing experiment of over 40 years. The perfect model that HQ desperately wanted to create. They were successful at finding the perfect host. They extracted the embryo and attempted to clone it. She's one of the clones.
- This girl's different, isn't she? What kind of monster she will become is the question.
- Something like this can't be allowed to roam freely in this world. It must be eliminated. HQ planted chips in all Ark children's brains. It records their brain activity and location as well. It'll help you track her down.
- Oh, fuck, dude. Did you see that? That's some next level shit!
- Just fucking shoot!
*
original title·····마녀 2 (manyeo 2)
language·········English·Korean
Directed by Park Hoon Jung (The Tiger 2015, The Childe 2023)
"Several years ago I covered firsthand the incredible story you are about to see re-created in this motion picture. It is a human horror story of ghastly proportions and profound reverberations. But because it is human, perhaps we can learn something from it. Something of ourselves of our own fears and needs. The events have been re created in detail. Nothing has been left to the imagination. It is not a story for the squeamish or the faint hearted. It is the story of Ezra Cobb: murderer, grave robber, necrophiliac perhaps, or, as you may remember him from those stories of long ago, the Butcher of Woodside"*
- Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Or something that nobody else could see, a person?
- You know, you've been acting weird all day. And now, with this seeing things shit?
- I got stung by something this morning, and I haven't felt right since.
"Can't live the life you really want to live, because the law forbids it. Boundaries set by so called modern society to stop people acting on their impulses, their natural instinct. But it doesn't have to be that way. Conformity is weakness. Let go, Edward. They don't care about you. Nobody does. You are alone. Equal their depravity in vengeance"
- What's happening to me? How are you doing this? What have you done to me? Why is this happening to me? I meet you for the first time in my life this morning. You start asking me all these questions, then all this weird stuff starts happening to me.
- You made all the choices. No one made them for you. This is all your own creation.
- So, doors leading from here to the hallway, and from the kitchen, were securely locked. The key's inside. No one could have escaped through the windows of the front room without the notice of the crowd in the street, agreed? Not even a cat could have passed through at the top of the chimney. What does that leave us?
- The windows, but that's impossible. The police said the windows are nailed shut.
- We must disprove the impossible. It has to be the windows. The murderers could not have refashioned the sash from the inside. Therefore, the sashes must have the ability to refashion themselves. oh, a spring. Anyone passing through the window would have re closed it and the spring would have caught.
- But the nail could not have been replaced. It must be the other window then. Look the nail, It's broken. Astonishing.
- Logical. Entirely logical.
- Yes, but how could the killer descend? More importantly, how could he get up there in the first place?
- Do you remember our walk behind the house up the alley? That lightning rod, Phillipe, roughly about five feet from the very window we've been discussing. look at the shudder. At right angles to the building, the lower half presents an excellent handhold. And when fully open, it's only about two feet from the gutter and the lightning rod.
- But who could have climbed up that lightning rod and swung across the shutter and into an open window four flights up?
- An extraordinary individual, yes. Let's consider two facts. First, the amazing agility needed, and second, the peculiar, shrill voice about whose nationality no two witnesses could agree. Consider the room itself, total disarray, clothes strewn all over the desk, the mattress tossed as though with ease across the room, and 4,000 francs, abandoned gold all over the floor. You know, Phillipe, the reason the police have had such difficulty establishing a motive is because there is no motive. And what do you have then? What?
- A murder of such anger, brutality, the violence involved. A mad man escaped from the asylum?
- Not an entirely irrelevant guess. What do you make of this? I found it in the chimney.
- Well, hair is the color of the young woman. But this is much too coarse, hardly the hair of a young woman.
- Now, examine this sketch of a hand. The spread of the fingers matches the marks on corpse's throat.
- Good god.
"We must move quickly. I have every reason to believe that he's living near the Rue Morgue in a natural habitat, the Bourg. I suggest a slow sweep through the woods at arm's length. This is not your common criminal. Have your men watch the trees, as well as the ground"
- That's quite a size hunk of artillery you carrying there mister.
- Yeah, it comes in handy in my work.
- I've heard about these wild Western nights before; but, I didn't believe it really happened.
- It happens.
- It troubles you, doesn't it?
- Yes, it does. I've lived in the west all my life. I've seen dozens of these trail towns, and the violence in them all troubles me. I think I'm used to it by now. I guess I was born under a troublesome star. I don't ever remember going out deliberately looking for a trouble, but..
- But it finds you anyway.
In the town of Wichita, old Kansas
There was a man, a man of peace
Things were wild in Wichita, old Kansas
He told them all, "This killing must cease!"
He shot it out with the worst men in Wichita
Made every man lay his pistol down
No one fooled with the Marshall of Wichita
And today it's a very nice town
Back in Wichita, law and order prevail
Take me back to Wichita, let me ride that Wichita trail
He had a girl, and he courted and married her
She added love to his great renown
Folks still speak of the Marshall of Wichita
And today it's a very nice town. A very nice town
- A man who made a mistake letting you live. But I'm here to remedy that.
- Look who's still trying to be a hero. How nice of you to come aboard. If you're hoping for a redo of the mess in Libya, you're too late, I'm afraid. My men are on their way to hunt you down. So I guess it's up to me to put you in an early grave. Just like I did your friend in Libya.
- Correction. He wasn't my friend. He was my brother. So you can bring your army. Bring all the fucking men you want and I'll work through every last one of them. When I get to you, I'll make sure that the only way you leave this ship is in a wonderful variety of pieces.
"Christmas! You're like genital warts! Always showing up where you're not wanted and refusing to go away! I guess you figured out that this device right here is the only thing preventing World War III, a conflict that, while devastating for many, it'll be insanely profitable for somebody. And that somebody is gonna be me. And the Expendables will take all the blame! So, enjoy the show! Kill them all!"
- The fuck? Barney? Hey, I had him with the classics! You almost fucking killed me!
- You're welcome.
- Hey, you were dead! The hell's going on? So what's the story?
- 25 years ago, we were doing a covert op, and eight of my team got wiped out. I had to fake my own death to open up a classified file, driving Marsh out of hiding so I could prove he's Ocelot. If I didn't take that job, they'd all be alive. So, it was personal. You understand.
- I need a drink.
- Me too.
*
Directed by Scott Waugh (Act of Valor 2012, Need for Speed 2014)
"You know, on almost every cow mutilation case. Bright lights in the sky, no tracks. Strange noises. Look, if it's UFOs, it's bigger than all of us. That's like saying God did it. But if it's not UFOs.."
"The test results from the cattle organ you sent me were interesting. First, the incisions, laser surgeries what I'd have to guess. And we also found traces of a rare bacterium. Clostridia botulinum. It's a poison. Extremely deadly. And this particular strand has been modified by gene splicing. The only place I've ever heard of it showing up was in some germ warfare test that the government was doing back before this was all banned, back in 1969 and 1970"
"These guys are too mobile. They move around too quickly unnoticed. That army surplus type in the helicopter's no GI. These guys are playing Uncle Sam. It's not the government. If what's going on around here is organized, you don't want to go up against it. The government, the right wing, the left wing, mercenaries, the mob, it doesn't make much difference if you get in their way"
- You do know what kind of audience this film is aimed at? The curry brigade. Four pints of beer, a chicken madras, and a horror video. Blood and tits. A few scares, a few thrills, nothing too demanding. This film wouldn't frighten a four year old. It's rubbish. You had a golden opportunity, and you blew it. If I were you, I'd get a proper job. You're finished in the film industry.
- How do you know it won't sell? What about my share of the profits? I can sue you. I've got the contract.
- Have you read your contract? You really should read the small print, you know, before you sign anything. Clause 27 states, "If, at any time, I am not satisfied with the progress of the production, I am entitled to amend our agreement, or render this contract null and void." That's just what I'm doing. Get him out of here!
- No! You bastard! Bloodstream's a bloody good film! You'll pay for this!
- Now you know the truth, I know I can help you get your revenge. I've watched him manipulate and humiliate too many people. It's time somebody played him at his own game.
- You've been busy. Now I know about them, what about you? I know nothing about you.
- There's nothing to tell. I'm just an ordinary girl. But I do love you. I've labelled all the keys. We now have access to all his properties. Is the camera gear ready? My Angel of Death. We'll just have to wait for the right moment now.
"You wanted a horror movie. Well, I've made the best horror movie you'll ever see. Watch the screen. This is real horror. Nothing's faked. I didn't have to worry about censorship, so I could do anything I liked. Look at the screen. Don't miss my finest work. Your daughter died beautifully. It's such a shame your late wife couldn't watch this with you. Or indeed your faithful dog, to curl up by your feet. I thought I might be going too far, killing the dog, but I just couldn't resist the visual effect. Greg's last performance was definitely his best. Simon's murder was particularly nasty. Judy proved a difficult subject. But I silenced her forever. I'm sure you'll agree that that was a superb display of screen violence. You're not going anywhere. You're the one I really want to kill"
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