Monkey Boy

[GL]

A freak lived his entire lifetime closed down in a cellar far in the country. But one day the Monkey Boy, after the death of his "keeper", an old lonely woman, is forced to explore the world outside. The story is set during one night only, a short time to discover the world, but enough time to find Agata, an autistic young girl, the only creature that seems to be able to communicate with him in that dark night full of weird lonely and unhappy characters called human beings.

From Italy.

Trailer avaliable HERE.

[bobbygory]

I don't know about this lol

Maybe.....well maybe not, well maybe. Eww no. Okay I am being mean maybe, though I don't know.

[Maskedman]

I think someone's been eating one too many mushrooms. Anyway, doesn't sound very good. It sounds like it's gonna be horror lite.

[GL]

I'm trying to find the horror of it beyond him just being deformed, but it's from Italy so I feel good about it.

[vexer]

Sounds like there's very little horror here, no interest at all.

[bobbygory]

I don't care if it's from Italy or Mars, this sounds bad.

[vexer]

Yeah, just cause it's from a certain country dosen't automatically mean it'll be any good.

[GL]

Sure it is, European horror is automatically better than any other country in the world, and Italy is better than other European countries.

[bobbygory]

What's your point?

I don't give a shit honestly, sounds like shit. And Italy is no better then anywhere else, been there. Eh. Lived in Europe, real nice, but movie wise America is the best to me.

[vexer]

I say both countries have their merits movie-wise, don't really like one better then the other.

[GL]

Sure it does, because for every Friday the 13th they throw at us, the average quality is brought down by the inclusion of the Saw films into the genre. That brings the average score down so considerably not even a remake of Zombi 2 can bring up the score. Plus, with European (and especially Italian) films scoring so highly with hardly any films dropping below an 8/10, and a whole host of US films scoring below a 5/10, there's just no chance.

[bobbygory]

What the hell? America has had a ton more films then Europe has for the genre. What the hell?

[vexer]

Well I hardly think it's fair to judge the horror scene in America as being worse JUST cause of the Saw series.

[bobbygory]

Plus there are many many not good Euro films as well.

[GL]

I'm not measuring by QUANTITY. It's QUALITY that I'm basing my view on.

Here, I'll show you what I mean-

Friday the 13th-10/10
Saw-4/10

Averaged out, those two films make a final score of 14/20, or 7/10.

Now then:

Zombi 2-10/10
Anthropophagus-7/10

Averaged out, those two films make a final score of 17/20, or 8.5/10.

There, the Italian films score much higher because they're much better films and therefore scored higher. The US has more films, and therefore more opportunities to score higher, but the fact that they've also made a lot of films that turned out to be absolute shit lowers their rating.

[bobbygory]

Your logic makes no sense, and may be the worst logic I have ever seen.

[Maskedman]

Okay, so you're taking this from IMDB, one of the snobbiest review sites out there. Good idea!

[GL]

I don't get where you guys can't see this. It's simple:

Just because there's more doesn't mean they're better. It's the overall quality of what the country has done that proves my point.

Now, just because there's a lot of films from the US I score highly doesn't mean that they can make up for the pure crap they make as well, because I add the cumulative efforts of the country for basing my score around. You take the good and the bad and add them together, not ignore the bad stuff because you really enjoyed the good.

[bobbygory]

Italy does not shit gold, as sadly a lot of there stuff was very very very average or very sucky.

You put Friday the 13th against Saw, like that's fair?? Come on!

[GL]

THAT'S MY POINT!! A high-rated film against a low-rated one. THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.

The US doesn't shit gold either, like you said.