Most overtly political horror film of recent memory?
I thought so. Thoughts?
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Homecoming was great but not as good as Toy Soldiers. 28 weeks later was awesome but not really political? Zombies as terrorists? Not sure I get it. Doomsday is maybe a better example. This movie is critical of the war without hitting you over the head with its "message".
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Multiscan152000, Overtly Political in which way?
If you mean the majority of the cast are soldiers in a miltary zone that's on forgien soil. (And oughtn't be there.) Nah. There's plenty in that catagory.
Deathwatch (2002) UK, Excellent by the way..and for the life of me, I can't remember the name of this J-Horror one I saw.
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Overtly political in the sense that the film is on of the few that directly references the American occupation of Afghanistan as viewed through the prism of a horror film. Not WW1 or 2, Vietnam or even Iraq.
The only role the occupation plays in this story is as part of the setting. The story does not choose a side on any political argument. "Conflict exists" is about as political as this story gets.
With that said, I can't think of another overtly political horror film. The only horror films that I can think of are political in a covert manner, like through allegory or metaphor.
Calling this the "most overtly political horror film of recent memory" would be like calling yourself the smartest person in your bathroom while you're sitting on your terlet.
Well put J,I failed to see anything political about this one either.It was a nice little horror story with a war as the backdrop.If there is a horror movie with an agenda,then I agree with a poster down the line from here about"the Last Winter".It was a good flick but most of my buds didn't want to watch it due to it's message on climate change.
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You most assuredly ate your Cherri-UhOhs the day you posted your reply. Your last sentence makes me wish there was a 'Love' Tab option on Imdb. You made me choke on Pink Lemonade I laughed so hard. Thank you YOU have best quote of the day..
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J-Horror one I saw.Possibly R-Point? It's South Korean
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Jw-tutor, Yes, thank you!! That's the one, for the life of me I couldn't remember it..the reallllly slow people at my video store in charge of deciding how to catagorize films SHOVED the flick under J-Horror.
I didn't get it when it was out, then when I went to grab it off the shelf they'd sent it back! So I had to rent it off line. So in short..too late..Yes R-Point was the movie I was thinking of.
I liked it much better 'this' felt rather like a remake of, or the poor cousin too that film.
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they may have put it under j-horror but you obviously couldn't tell it was korean after watching it. so what does that make you?
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Jeffscsr, Makes me not care, because your question is just meant to be incindeary, but since you've been following this thread so closely, you'll see I said I couldn't remember the name of the film in the first place, so nope I wouldn't have REMEMBERED (today) it was Korean. Though I don't know Korean OR Japanese fluently it didn't really matter. I read the English subtitles. Just like I do when I see most Forgien Language Films.
Though when I watched it I would have known shortly there after when I looked it up here on Imdb because I wanted to know the name of one of the actors...but that was quite a while ago & I've seen MANY movies since then. But I remembered enough that what I described helped another poster tell me what movie it was, so it was pretty damn good.
What it also makes me, is irritated that you seem to have missed the point just like the entire Blockbuster Company. If you want to put Eastern Horror in one catagory, that's fine. But don't just put the Korean Title there because you're too lazy to alphabetize, or rename the section 'Eastern Horror'.
And now it has made me sad :( because you really didn't have anything of value to actually 'add' to this thread.
So what does your question make you?
No wait. I know, arrogant & smug because you don't know what you're talking about?
Crap..I ruined the game. I don't think I understood the rules very well.
Now it made me tired.
No it made me bored.
Yes, this game made me bored. I don't like your game after all. I like the "Try 2 Offer Something Of Value To The Main Topic, Or Shut The Hell Up." game better.
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shareI personally didn't see any real political issue in the film. The soldiers weren't even portrayed in a negative light beyond simply being human and being messed with by an ancient evil entity. (With of course te exception of the one guy actively portrayed as an *beep* and being a blatant racist proposing they rape the girl, but he was clearly barely tolerated to begin with and only made the others look good by dismissing him..) Of course there were the two "past events" of the friendly fire and death of the woman in the house, but well... it's a warzone, and the simple existance of these incidents doesn't fall down either way. (Crap happens, it's how you deal with it that matters.)
And while of course the unicorn/gay thing at the start is something that would be taken negatively, it would be more a commentary on "don't ask, don't tell"/gays in the military than any specific war.
Maybe not so much political as current-events-oriented. Kudos to the filmmakers for even bothering to touch the subject of the Afghan war when so many filmmakers have avoided the land-mines of setting a film there. Not that this was that great otherwise.
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