Why does she keep doing horror movies? I'd love to see some of her new stuff, but I'm a wimp. I daren't watch Wrong Turn, it looks horrific.

flugufrelsarinn | September 26, 13:40 CET

Ouch, dire death is just the worst.

Wrong Turn's a pretty standard stalk-and-slash style picture flugufrelsarinn, pretty gory, not much else going on. The women in particular are victimised with what seemed to me to be unnecessary glee (kinda like 'Scream' never happened).

'Mamba' doesn't sound to be too much better but I may watch it eventually, just for ED.

Saje | September 26, 13:56 CET

I enjoyed Wrong Turn....though it was pretty gross. I will admit most of the attraction is she seems to play damsel and hero both and run around in jeans and a skimpy white tank.=)

Check out one of her new movies this year and next. "Nobel Son" sounds awesome and has an A list cast. Then there is "On Broadway or " Sex and Breakfast" set to come out later next year. None are horror. Or an old gem "City By the sea". These new movies she plays something for everyone.

She might choose the horror movies because she like the genre or because it offers her the freedom to shoot a movie in a realitively short time. She can then go back to her her many international activities with Albania that she is so involved in lately or pick and choose through other scripts. Whatever it is, she is has having no shortage of work or people wanting here and that is good!

[ edited by Donna Troy on 2006-09-26 15:01 ]

Donna Troy | September 26, 16:50 CET

Don't forget, Saje.....Nightmare on Elm Street, the entire series, empowered women long before Scream.

pat32082 | September 26, 16:53 CET

She might choose the horror movies because she like the genre or because it offers her the freedom to shoot a movie in a realitively short time

Plus (in this case), free trip to Spain ;).

True, pat32082, Wes Craven's been pretty good in that way for a while. I was also partly referring to the whole po-mo deconstruction of stalk-and-slash victimology that 'Scream' carried out as well though. I'm not saying all horror movies from 'Scream' on have to be tongue-in-cheek or ironically self-aware, just that after seeing the old cliches being so mercilessly taken apart there's absolutely no excuse for perpetuating them, IMO.

(and to do so seems almost wilfully ignorant or at best lazy)

Saje | September 26, 17:16 CET

Sure there is - if you can do something cliched in an interesting way, that's excuse enough. If not, well, go ahead, but don't expect folks to flock to it.

zeitgeist | September 26, 18:13 CET

Well, surely if it's done in an interesting way it's not a cliche ? Interesting, at least to me, implies novelty and aren't novelty and cliche arch nemesisises ?

If you mean take a cliched situation and bring something new to it (possibly by completely subverting it), then I couldn't agree more. This is exactly what, for instance, 'Scream' does (despite its genre busting/renewing qualities it's worth remembering that 'Scream' also has plenty of buxom young women being stalked/slashed/killed in various ways).

And I also vaguely recall a show with this cute blonde chick killing vampires which took a cliche and made it interesting ;). Certainly not by perpetuating it though.

Saje | September 26, 18:45 CET

I'll stay out of your sisises argument and go right for the second part :) Yes, that's what I meant. Tell me more about this blonde chick killing vampires? Reminds me of the Anita Blake/Laurel K. Hamilton books before they went "all vampire naughty bits all the time" (and werewolf, and...).

zeitgeist | September 26, 19:14 CET

I live in Madrid, Pais Vasco is a bit far for me :(
I hope she'll do some interviews around here (hopefully Tv :D)

Angel TheVampire | September 26, 21:28 CET

I'm all for actors getting employment and while there might be worse film genres to work in, I'd hate to see someone as talented as Eliza get buttonholed as a scream queen (well, maybe that isn't a fate worse than death but ...). If you're going rehash plots (Mamba sounds like Final Destination)
make it good hash, please!

Tonya J | September 27, 01:01 CET

Clearly the plot synopsis made a wrong turn. This can only be the long-awaited origin tale of the woman whose archnemesisises all met untimely (no time-bombs involved) ends by the hand of their former comrade-in-arms, the one and only Beatrix Kiddo, a/k/a Black Mamba! Finally, we find out why a blonde assassin gets a black name instead of the also deadly and more pigmentally worthy Viveca A. Fox.

jaynelovesvera | September 27, 03:21 CET

Wait, I thought this was the horror film about the deadly effects on a group of unwary teens who think that they can venture into a ballroom and survive the Cuban dance popularized by Tito Puente and Xavier Cugat (thanks, Google).

Or the group of unwary teens who run afoul of the deadly accurate, custom-drilled-ball-wielding assassins from the Mexican American Bowling Organization (I'm not kidding, Google it, yo).

;-)

billz | September 27, 04:49 CET

billz, I see you have balls (in both your scenarios).

jaynelovesvera | September 27, 05:13 CET

Why, yes, jlv, as a matter of fact I am having a ball what with all the fun of posting here. ;-)

billz | September 27, 14:11 CET