Jilted Lovers! Possessed Youngsters! Scary Paintings! Also, some phones.
Being a fan of the Asian Horror, The Duke has pretty much accepted the fact that he will probably end up being killed by a haunted iPod or some such.
I'm guessing there was probably some local girl who was maybe a psychic or similarly eccentric, and she was probably killed by either or both of her parents, possibly whilst listening to Ricky Martin or Anal Cunt or whatever you hip young folks listen to nowadays. She probably gets sucked into the chord-changes just before the middle 8, and is forever trapped within B flat and A, passing on her horrible curse of vengeance when anyone listens to said recording at a certain time of the year, or a certain day, probably the anniversary of her death / murder / being thrown in a well.
And then The Duke downloads the latest Pissing Razors or something, and thinks, "Hey, that'd go great on my iPod, just next to that selection of spooky ambient noises." Next thing you know there's a soggy woman crawling out of the 4-inch screen. I think. Kinda hard to tell in this light.
File-Sharing is killing musicians, you pirate motherfuckers.
Anyway, if any of you Asian Horror Filmmakers are reading, I'd be happy to hear your bids for my tale, which I call something along the lines of IPOD or possibly The iPod What Killed The Duke To Death, On Account Of Curses And Such.
The reason for this pontificating and pondering and so on, is that I have just watched a piece of the filmed horror from Asia what goes by the name of Phone. It seems that, not content with ensuring we never again go anywhere the fuck near spam emails or unmarked videocassettes or womenfolk, those cats want to freak us asunder at the very thought of the text messages, too.
What Phone is concerned with, is a woman is in a lift screaming a lot. Then she gets a text message, something along the lines of "I h8 u, u 6y b8ch" or something, a derogatory remark of some kind I'm guessing. What this instigates is a spot of the old flickering-lights and then the lift stops and then the woman screams a while longer. I think the credits come on after this bit. Also, she dies, too.
Article comments
1 - srp
weird. this sounds sort of interesting because i've been researching weird voyeur porn and stuff and had no idea how freakin' weird people can get. i mean, pee cams? and these ain't staged: these are real men, women, and even KIDS (not barely legal, either, i mean Kids like 9) in poses from their parents etc. And then there are tips on how to hook up spy cams on your sexy young wife neighbor, even rape requests that are fulfilled, all buried deep within "legit" sites that ARE staged; but if you go deep enough, you find creepy stuff; so this idea Duke, that you mention, that technology is evil, is as you said, intereting. to me as well...
since my work involves IT a great deal - the whole idea that technology that was developed to help us is being manipulated for what i can only think of as evil (you'd have to see these things of kids), then it's again, the people - but it's such a compelling topic. I'd be curious to know if Snuff and the like are a big deal in Asian films and if so, are they staged or real? i've heard that most are staged and i believe that - but the stuff i recently saw of children, was most certainly not staged - these were little kids; anyway
going OT but i found your piece really interesting and it hooked into some work i've been writing lately -- if you have any related links etc. or film suggest. for this topic, please do post or private email me.
cheers and thanks for such an interesting piece.
srp
2 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
srp, thanks for the comments. its well late in the night, so i just have time to suggest these links to other reviews de duke what you might find interesting, since they cover similar subjects. Especially of interest, based on what you said, will be the review of tesis.
Review Of Tesis
Review Of Mondo Cane
Review Of Mondo Cane No. 2
Review Of Cannibal Holocaust
Review Of Mountain Of The Cannibal God
Review Of Africa Addio
phew! hope you find something of worth.
3 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
shit, those links mostly don't work. hopefully these ones do;
Review Of Tesis
Review Of Mondo Cane
Review Of Mondo Cane No. 2
Review Of Cannibal Holocaust
Review Of Mountain Of The Cannibal God
Review Of Africa Addio
4 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
yep, those work