Urban Gothic
Dec. 16th, 2006 06:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI'm watching some DVDs I got because I vaguely remembered them and I'd run out of things I actually knew I wanted to buy. So, tiny bit random.
Urban Gothic, a zero budget UK series of horror stories for channel 5. ~23 minutes each.
So far I've watched the first one.
It's... fun if you want to play along?
There's not exactly room for many twists in twenty minutes.
Just the usual 'aaargh!' and the shock (hah) ending.
It had her from Hex and Sinchronicity in it.
Manages to amuse so far.
Stuff like the student-necromancer using Lucozade as Essence of Vitality.
Or the thing with the toad and the food mixer.
Now there's a vampire ep I think I vaguely remember.
I'm watching them and feeling immensely better about my own writing. I could write these. I could write better than these. And these have already been on TV, so I could write for television, no worries.
;-)
I'll watch more. Possibly only one or two more. But I think there were some in the series I rather liked.
Usual complaint about no budget DVDs though, no subtitles.
Plus they went kind of stripy for a while at the start, which I suspect is the interaction between my HD tv and these low def discs.
ep 2 Vampirology
oh yes, this was the one I remembered.
vampire looks like regular people, bit of sunscreen and no problems
no fangs, got them filed by the same guy took care of Tom Cruise
straight razor killer
philosophy?
"Be good to everyone. Cause you never know where your next meal's coming from."
... said over the corpse of someone introduced as his friend, who happened to turn up at his place when he was hungry.
Messy, nasty, full of empty posers being shown as such
and most disturbing, pretending to be one of those artsy documentaries
so when they show the murders the conceit is there's a camera crew standing there watching him murder, having goaded him into it because they're on a schedule.
Now that's nasty.
... and yes, I like it.
Episode order on the DVDs is very different than on imdb. Always handy.
ep III on disc "The one where" everyone gets what they want. Which apparently includes a lot of killing. And then talking to camera like it's a reality TV show.
Don't think this one really worked. Kind of bored now.
IV: Sum of the Parts
eeeew.
and I say that with great sincerity. EEEEEW.
Donor organs that try and get back together, with a bit of a twist in that they weren't originally human.
Severely messy one, this. Lots of insides. Lots of naked women getting autopsies with their insides being all squishy. Disgusting on whole new levels. And that was with me covering the screen. Squishy noises go a long way.
The plot was kind of not. The monster suffered from blobby budgetlessness. And it irritates me making a horror of donor organs.
On the plus side the two police detectives were one asian guy and one lesbian woman, and they not only solved the case and confronted the monster, they both survived!
... Yes, that's some groundbreaking TV right there.
Lesbian detective called Winter. Did a lot of running around corridors in a strappy top, carrying a torch and confronting messy monster types in strobe lighting.
The trouble with all these eps being a one off is they generally have that clunky we've never worked together pilot episode feeling. Is a bit annoying.
... that was some serious eeeeew. I mean, I know they're 18 rated horror shorts, but even so, eeeew.
V Deptford Voodoo
How do you find that which can't be found? It finds you.
Has Nina Sosanya, also in Casanova and Doctor Who "Fear Her". Being pretty.
I like this one. There's a lot of running around, pissed off spirits, and a bit of a twist at the end that works logically.
Also she calls off the spirits by buying them a jar from M&S. Nifty.
It was another one I remembered. There was this one effect with a kid and a cigar and bringing it up to camera turning into a burning effect, like a pov shot of getting their eye burned out. Nasty. The good horror way.
VI Old Nick
Now this one was actually good. You know when you don't quite see the ending coming? That kind of good. :-)
VII Lacuna
deeply, deeply messed up. very weird indeed. very.
also, end of disc one. Think I'll make a different entry for disc 2.
Urban Gothic, a zero budget UK series of horror stories for channel 5. ~23 minutes each.
So far I've watched the first one.
It's... fun if you want to play along?
There's not exactly room for many twists in twenty minutes.
Just the usual 'aaargh!' and the shock (hah) ending.
It had her from Hex and Sinchronicity in it.
Manages to amuse so far.
Stuff like the student-necromancer using Lucozade as Essence of Vitality.
Or the thing with the toad and the food mixer.
Now there's a vampire ep I think I vaguely remember.
I'm watching them and feeling immensely better about my own writing. I could write these. I could write better than these. And these have already been on TV, so I could write for television, no worries.
;-)
I'll watch more. Possibly only one or two more. But I think there were some in the series I rather liked.
Usual complaint about no budget DVDs though, no subtitles.
Plus they went kind of stripy for a while at the start, which I suspect is the interaction between my HD tv and these low def discs.
ep 2 Vampirology
oh yes, this was the one I remembered.
vampire looks like regular people, bit of sunscreen and no problems
no fangs, got them filed by the same guy took care of Tom Cruise
straight razor killer
philosophy?
"Be good to everyone. Cause you never know where your next meal's coming from."
... said over the corpse of someone introduced as his friend, who happened to turn up at his place when he was hungry.
Messy, nasty, full of empty posers being shown as such
and most disturbing, pretending to be one of those artsy documentaries
so when they show the murders the conceit is there's a camera crew standing there watching him murder, having goaded him into it because they're on a schedule.
Now that's nasty.
... and yes, I like it.
Episode order on the DVDs is very different than on imdb. Always handy.
ep III on disc "The one where" everyone gets what they want. Which apparently includes a lot of killing. And then talking to camera like it's a reality TV show.
Don't think this one really worked. Kind of bored now.
IV: Sum of the Parts
eeeew.
and I say that with great sincerity. EEEEEW.
Donor organs that try and get back together, with a bit of a twist in that they weren't originally human.
Severely messy one, this. Lots of insides. Lots of naked women getting autopsies with their insides being all squishy. Disgusting on whole new levels. And that was with me covering the screen. Squishy noises go a long way.
The plot was kind of not. The monster suffered from blobby budgetlessness. And it irritates me making a horror of donor organs.
On the plus side the two police detectives were one asian guy and one lesbian woman, and they not only solved the case and confronted the monster, they both survived!
... Yes, that's some groundbreaking TV right there.
Lesbian detective called Winter. Did a lot of running around corridors in a strappy top, carrying a torch and confronting messy monster types in strobe lighting.
The trouble with all these eps being a one off is they generally have that clunky we've never worked together pilot episode feeling. Is a bit annoying.
... that was some serious eeeeew. I mean, I know they're 18 rated horror shorts, but even so, eeeew.
V Deptford Voodoo
How do you find that which can't be found? It finds you.
Has Nina Sosanya, also in Casanova and Doctor Who "Fear Her". Being pretty.
I like this one. There's a lot of running around, pissed off spirits, and a bit of a twist at the end that works logically.
Also she calls off the spirits by buying them a jar from M&S. Nifty.
It was another one I remembered. There was this one effect with a kid and a cigar and bringing it up to camera turning into a burning effect, like a pov shot of getting their eye burned out. Nasty. The good horror way.
VI Old Nick
Now this one was actually good. You know when you don't quite see the ending coming? That kind of good. :-)
VII Lacuna
deeply, deeply messed up. very weird indeed. very.
also, end of disc one. Think I'll make a different entry for disc 2.