Dutch horror

[slayrrr666]

Another of the sister threads to the Mexican horror thread, this one dedicated to horror from Holland and The Netherlands.

So, how many Dutch horrors have you seen?

[Fenril]

The only dutch horror movie I've seen is:

- Spoorloos (1988; aka The vanishing. Dir. George Sluizer. Co-production with France). After his girlfriend dissapears in the middle of a road trip, a man embarks on an obssessive three-year search for her. But he might not like what he finds out, for, as he says: "Between her being alive and well without me finding it out and her being dead but me finding out what happened, I prefer the latter". Very good thriller, with a great ending and several twists along the way.

[Bartwald]

Dick Maas directed several horror/thriller films: there's the killer-elevator flick The Lift (1983), a rather lovely kind-of-a-slasher-film Amsterdamned (1988), a weird thriller with William Hurt Do Not Disturb (1999) and Naomi Watts-starring remake of The Lift - Down/The Shaft (2001). And his latest, soon-to-be-released killer Santa film Sint looks great, too: www.imdb.com/title/tt1167675/

[slayrrr666]

I wouldn't exactly call Do Not Disturb a horror film, more crime drama/action film. Yeah, there's a serial killer, but then so did the film Cobra with Stallone and that was an action film as well.

I'll agree with both of your viewings, having seen The Vanishing and The Shaft. I'm not a fan of thrillers, so I wasn't that big on The Vanishing and found it dull more than anything, while The Shaft was decent if not exactly anything I was overly impressed with to warrant a lot of repeat viewings. A little too long with a lot of elements that seemed to be included merely to run up the running time since the premise is a little goofy yet is played much to straight, so it tends to shift focus and feeling a little bit as well.

[slayrrr666]

I guess we can all pretty much add one more to this list: An American Werewolf in Paris. Check it, it's got money from The Netherlands:

www.imdb.com/title/tt0118604/

[Fenril]

Yes, and it's a cool movie anyway, so I guess that's fine.

But surely there's more to a movie being from x country than said country contributing money or some locales to it? I love Pan's labyrinth but I wouldn't call it Mexican just because the director is mexican and it had mexican producers (and financial backup).

[slayrrr666]

True, there's a point there, but I thought it more of a joke in the sense that we all saw a film that, while not the main country it was set up and developed in, was still in contribution with other countries including one we were discussing here. Sorta what I was going for here.