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Side Note
Thanks Neverending!
I forgot about how much I love this subgenre of horror. Makes a person want to move out to the boonies, smoke corn-cob pipes, and collect chain-saws.
Of all the urbies I've seen so far, I have to confess that I have three favorites: The Devil's Rejects and Aja's remake of The Hills Have Eyes. I know they are both recent films and it is normally a bad thing to confess admiration for work that is derivative or remade, but there's a quality to both of these that can only be gained through a revision: clarification of conventions. Horror (like all genres) relies on convension and the reinterpretation of the same basic themes through contemporary circumstances. By capturing these and amplifying them, these two films allow for the simultaneous appreciation of this whole genre. Think of all the great grindhouse films that are called to mind in Rejects!
As we expand the list we're building in this thread, I am very psyched about watching new films from an Urbanoia point of view.
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