Going way back to the beginning of the thread ...
Monday, January 9, 2006, 8:15:14 AM, one spoke:
J> I'm thinking by the way of the stream of films which I
J> think began with Audition and through Icchi the Killer
J> have recently emerged into english language cinema in
J> Wolf Creek and Hostel.
I'm not sure it's proper to place Miike's films in the same (pardon
the expression) bloodline ... those films are much more in dialog with
a long train of work in Japanese exploitation films (_Evil Dead Trap_,
the Guinea Pig films, etc.) and horror manga, and i'm not sure it
really "translates" properly without that context.
I'd date the current trend more to _Hannibal_. But I also don't think
there's much discontinuity with either English-language cinema, either
exploitation (_Bloodsucking Freaks_, _Last House on Dead End Street_,
etc.) or mainstream ("I'm singing, just singing, in the rain" ...).
From all reports I've seen both _Wolf Creek_ and _Hostel_ are
recycling utterly familiar American genre tropes (which I would *not*
say about Miike); what distinguishes this stream from the ongoing river?
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