Director/Writer: Larry Clark. Starring: Jonathan Velasquez, Francisco Pedrasa, Milton Velasquez, Yunior Usualdo Panameno, Eddie Velasquez, Luis Rojas-Salgado, Carlos Velasco.

After Ken Park, I thought Larry Clark wouldn't be able to surprise me anymore. But he did with Wassup Rockers. And what a delightful surprise it was.

Wassup Rockers is Larry Clark's most tender film (but still uncompromising, by the way) which tells the story a bunch of skateboarding teens from South Central who after being stopped by a cop for driving without license, take a bus and roam Beverly Hills. There, they receive an invitation from two rich girls to come to their big house. Sex is only the beginning of the adventures these kids will have. And the seemingly simple plot becomes a treat for those who look for nutritious cinema. My God I love this movie.

Written and directed by Neil Marshall. Starring Shauna MacDonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder, MyAnna Buring, Nora-Jane Noone.

This British horror movie reminds me how great it feels to be scared by a movie. I'm a jaded horror geek. While high quotient gore still shock me sometimes, nothing scared me anymore. So I thought. I actually covered my ears several times while watching The Descent. I had never done that since I saw the scariest Indonesian movie when I was forced to see it by my school when I was ten. It's called Pengkhianatan G30S PKI about the gruesome killing of seven generals in 1965 and how Soeharto saved the day.

The Descent tells the story of six women who hope to find a fun adventure by taking a tour into a cave. Little that they know...

What great about the movie is that it takes you inside the cave and makes your worst expectation come true. I felt like in a horror movie heaven with an ending as disturbing as Pengkhianatan G30S PKI for a ten year old (when Soeharto saved the day) that will make you feel like you are trapped in the movie forever.

I envy Neil Marshall. I think he is the first director that I'm dying to meet.

Slashers are predictable. Even the shots are predictable. But not this truly terrifying French import that will strike your nerve cords from the very beginning and never quits! Two female university students go to one of the girls' house at a remote village to study. But a killer (not your average killer) pays a visit. If the story sounds thin, it is. But what director Alexander Aja presents on screen could have only come from a genius mind, or a very sick person, or both. He assimilates art and gore like nobody else did. The finale is as disturbing as Texas Chainsaw Massacre (which it resembles). I wouldn't dare to call myself a horror fan if I hadn't watched this one.

Trivia: Alexander Aja was only 25 when he directed this. Hmmm... Some people are just lucky to be born with such talent. *weep*

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