¡QUÉ HORROR! 2012
The Wrap-Up
As promised,
here’s the rundown of all the other horror films I saw between October 1, 2011
and September 30, 2012, that I felt deserved some ¡Qué Horror! love, but I just didn’t get the
chance to write about in their own ¡Qué Horror! Candidate
posts…
Apologies to all
concerned that I didn’t get to talk about your films more, but for those of you
who frequent the Iguana, here are some other titles to seek out…
Imago Mortis (January 2009), dir: Stefano Bessoni
The Dead (August 2010), dir: Howard J. Ford
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (November 2010), dir: Troy Nixey
Retreat (February 2011), dir: Carl Tibbetts
The Innkeepers (March 2011), dir: Ti West
Some Guy Who Kills People (April 2011), dir: Jack Perez
The Moth Diaries (September 2011), dir: Mary Harron
Livide (Livid) (September
2011), dirs: Julien Maury & Alexandre Bustillo
Exit Humanity (September 2011), dir: John Geddes
El Páramo (The
Squad) (October 2011), dir: Jaime Osorio Márquez
Rites of Spring (October 2011), dir: Padraig Reynolds
Piggy (May 2012), dir: Kieron Hawkes
So the field
this year consisted of 46 titles, from which the final list emerged.
Plus, I should
also mention One Hundred Mornings (July
2009, dir: Conor Horgan), which isn’t strictly a horror movie, but it’s
positioned quite firmly in apocalypse cinema, and is a horrific title nonetheless (I should mention that I find it quite interesting
that amazon.co.uk simply classifies One
Hundred Mornings under “Horror”)…
Detention (March 2011, dir: Joseph Kahn), which,
alongside The Cabin in the Woods, is,
hands-down, the most entertaining film I had the awesome privilege of seeing
this past year…
Chronicle (January 2012, dir: Josh Trank), one of
the best found footage titles from the past year, and a powerful argument for
the flexibility and versatility of the superhero film…
and the
harrowing Wake in Fright (May 1971,
dir: Ted Kotcheff), which gained a well-deserved revitalization after it was
selected by Martin Scorsese as a Cannes Classic Title for the 2009 festival.
Like One Hundred Mornings, this isn’t strictly
a horror movie, but it is, nonetheless the sort of disturbing tourism-killing
cinematic experience that will put you off traveling to the particular corner
of the world it’s showcasing; in this case, the Australian Outback.
To one and all,
have a Happy Halloween, as I settle down to begin the search for next year’s ¡Qué Horror! hopefuls.
(One Hundred Mornings UK quad courtesy of
dnotes.info; Detention, Chronicle, and Wake in Fright OS’ courtesy of impawards.com.)
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