Bad Habits, Pathology

It's movie time again! This weekend we target some arty films... both very cleverly done with a twist at the end.

I like both but prefer Pathology better as it's more straight-forward and it's a thriller! :) Bad Habits is not bad too. It's quite a soul-searching film... the plot moves slower compared to Pathology and every scene was filmed in such a way that some thinking will be required to interpret the stories (e.g. Matilde, the nun and Gustavo, Elena's husband were actually relatives even though it appeared in the film that they are unrelated).

Warning: Do not watch Pathology if you are faint-hearted or when you just had a full meal, certain scenes may cause discomfort (e.g. cutting up the ribs and snapping the internal organs off the corpse).


BAD HABITS
Rating: M18
Consumer Advice: Sexual Scenes
Genre: Drama
Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Director: Simon Bross
Cast: Ximena Ayala, Elena de Haro
Runtime: 98 mins

Sins of indulgence… Intertwining stories of abuse, adultery, and anorexia center around a family and with obsessed mother living in Mexico City. Matilde is a nun convinced that faith moves mountains. Secretly she begins a mystic fasting to end what she considers to be the second great flood. Elena is a thin and fashion-conscious woman ashamed of her daughter’s chubbiness. She’s willing to do the impossible to make her daughter Linda thin so Linda will look like a little princess on the day she receives her first communion. At the same time Elena’s husband Gustavo – a professor of architecture - cannot cope any more with his wife's bones sticking into him during more intimate moments. For relief, he turns his attention to a buxom female student with a hearty appetite.



PATHOLOGY
Rating: R21
Consumer Advice: Mature Content
Genre: Thriller, Suspense
Language: English with no subtitles
Director: Marc Schoelermann
Cast: Milo Ventimiglia (TV series HEROES), Michael Weston, Lauren Lee Smith, Dan Callahan, Johnny Whitworth
Runtime: 93 mins
Official Website: HTTP://WWW.ENTERPATHOLOGYLAB.COM/

From the creators of CRANK. When medical student Ted Gray (Milo Ventimiglia) graduates top of his class he joins one of the nation’s most prestigious pathology programs. With talent and determination, Ted is quickly noticed by the program’s privileged and elite band of interns who invite him into their crowd. Intrigued by his new friends, he begins to uncover secrets he never expected and finds that he has unknowingly become a pawn in their dangerous and secret after-hours game at the morgue of who can commit the perfect undetectable murder. As Ted becomes seduced into their wild extracurricular activities, the danger becomes real and he must stay one step ahead of the game before he is the next victim.