Posts Tagged ‘Horror’

  • 03 May

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    Another Weekend of Trash

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    My friends and I recently got together for another one of our regular ‘trashathons’ – you may remember I covered the last extravaganza in one of my first posts here at Row Three. Basically consisting of watching as many cheap and cheesy genre titles we can handle in a weekend, our get-togethers have become a quarterly staple that I always look forward to. We’ve watched some really bad films, but we’ve also dug out some real gems in the past, many of which have disappeared completely with the DVD boom. Yes, I’m talking VHS here. Throwing picture quality out the window we’ve been scouring the bins for some long forgotten titles. This time round we didn’t manage to squeeze in quite as many films (we spent hours at a car boot sale purchasing more!) and a few aren’t obscure by any means (only two titles were on VHS this time), but I still enjoyed myself and thought you guys might like to hear what we got up to. Again I’ve dug out some trailers and clips for your amusement.

    P.S. Ratings are probably not worth it for most of these titles, but I’m going to give some scores for shear entertainment value, so don’t take them too seriously.

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  • 28 Apr

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    A second trailer for Vincenzo Natali’s SPLICE

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    While none of the distributions houses has been putting posters out (there are a few sparse festival one-sheets, but they are not very elaborate, here comes a second trailer for Canadian genetic engineering genre-mash Splice.

    Much better than the first trailer (here) this one forgoes the jump scares and gets more into the relationship, implications of letting loose a new species which is a collection of a lot of different spare parts. Frankenstein’s monster anyone? Well this is the 21st century version. And she is both more deadly and more cute.

    Splice drops into wide release (!) in June.

    BONUS: the release version is apparently uncensored version from the one I caught last September (My Review) .

    The new trailer is tucked under the seat.

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  • 14 Apr

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    One… Two… Freddy’s Coming for You

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    Personally I’m not all that excited or even interested in yet another reiteration/reboot/remake/ of The Nightmare on Elm Street series; especially being directed by a first time film maker who’s only made hard rock music videos up until this point. But I’m not completely against it either. I have to admit that I’m at least intrigued about what they might be able to do with the story and of course how Jackie Earle Haley will come across as the new Mr. Krueger. That’s partly why I’m posting this new clip from Yahoo! movies.

    It finally gives us a better peak at what we can expect Freddy to to look like; though alas it doesn’t give us his voice. In some ways I do sort of like the idea that Freddy is now somehow able to enter reality. On the other hand it’s kind of a cop out isn’t it? I mean isn’t the whole point trying to stay awake so Freddy won’t get you? Now if he can enter reality, the gimmick is gone. Still, if it allows for some more interesting kills or visceral sequences, it could work.

    What do you guys think? Worth a trip to the multiplex or a total and complete waste of time? Or worse yet, blasphemous? Check out the new clip under the seats…

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  • 09 Apr

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    Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s Intruders

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    I cannot and will not stop beating the 28 Weeks Later drum. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo follow up to Danny Boyle’s gritty outbreak/zombie film is one of the more visceral and adrenaline pumping nightmares to come along in ages. We do not often drop casting news stories around here (we prefer to wait for the more immediate look, such as a One Sheet or Trailer), but I will make an exception for Mr. Fresnadillo. Clive Owen and the underrated Daniel Brühl (Goodbye Lenin, Inglourious Basterds) head up the cast for the English language genre-film that is being produced in Spain (which should be noted is one of the current meccas for quality genre cinema).

    The film involves a young girl who has to confront her childhood demons. I do not know how literal this will be, but you can likely expect stylish and visceral filmmaking, a specialty from this director, whose debut feature, Intacto, may be short on making sense, but is incredible on a scene-to-scene basis.

  • 08 Apr

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    The Black Waters of Echo’s Pond

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    So looking at the release schedule for Minneapolis this weekend I stumbled across a title I hadn’t expected; or even heard of: The Black Waters of Echo’s Pond. Some quick research revealed a film that should have horror thirsty fans foaming and I can’t believe I’ve not heard of this until today.

    The official site showcases the interesting looking trailer which basically looks like Jumanji with a horror spin. Also following in the footsteps of recent retro feel horrors such as House of the Devil, the producers have taken to a couple of 70s/80s style, B-movie, horror posters as part of their limited marketing campaign.

    The film somehow nabbed Robert Patrick to star as well as Danielle Harris, who I remember mostly as Bruce Willis’ daughter, Darian, in Tony Scott’s The Last Boy Scout. She has apparently become quite the scream queen in later years. Add these to other lesser known character actors (James Duval) and what looks like a fairly low budget creep fest could actually lead to a lot of fun – particularly in an “after dark” type of screening.

    The YouTube version of the trailer is under the seats, but you can follow the film on the usual social media outlets as well.

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  • 01 Mar

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    Moore and Meyers fight terror in Shelter trailer

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    ShelterThough around these parts our writers and readers are likely to get excited at the prospect of seeing the great Julianne Moore in action, I must admit that I’m particularly excited to see Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein’s Shelter for the opportunity to see Jonathan Rhys Meyers in action.

    Shelter feels like a bit of a rehash of a number of other project all thrown into the mix and though the trailer doesn’t exactly scream awesome, it does suggest a solid thriller in which Moore plays Dr. Cara Jessup, a forensic psychiatrist whose patient (Meyers) apparently suffers from multiple personality disorder, a disorder she has essentially discredited. Things go wrong, a mystery unfolds and from the looks of things, Dr. Jessup is divided between science and her faith.

    This could go either way but I’m curious to see if it’s elevated beyond mediocrity by the great cast.

    Shelter opens in the UK on April 9th and though there’s also talk of North American distribution later in the year, dates are yet to be announced.

    Trailer tucked under the seat!

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  • 23 Feb

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    Review: The Crazies

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    It would be a contortionist feat to find much relevance or depth amongst all the gloss and noise in Breck Eisner’s (Sahara) paint-by-numbers update of this somewhat obscure George Romero flick, The Crazies. The original was in 1973, but like most of the Zombie Ambassador’s work, it is getting a modest budget make-over (with vampires in vogue at the moment, wither 1977s Martin?) that is all spit and polish in the technical department at the unfortunate cost of, well, actually saying much of anything. Let us be blunt, there is not one damn thing in The Crazies that was not handled significantly smarter, swifter and more stylish in Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s 28 Weeks Later.

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  • 20 Feb

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    Review: Shutter Island

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    A character, late into the game of Martin Scorsese’s wonderful Shutter Island, comments on insanity, “It was like an insect in my brain, pulling my strings” And there, ladies in gentlemen is how a well seasoned and versatile master-filmmaker can take a simple genre movie and elevate it to one of the premiere film events of 2010. The trailer suggests all kinds of horror (and mental asylum) cliches and pretty much gives away the twist ending right there. But no matter, the pleasure here is in the journey, not the destination, and the director (and his long-time collaborating editor) have no problem stepping off the path of the main story to give loads of detail on the denizens, workings and locations of the titular island-asylum-prison. Those who complain that 138 minutes is way too long for such a basic plot have completely missed the point (and the myriad pleasures) that Shutter Island has on offer.
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  • 15 Feb

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  • 12 Jan

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    Character Posters – The Crazies

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    I am one of the people that really dug the look of the trailer for The Crazies. It had a great feeling up until the point of the music (there should be a moratorium on the use of Mad World in any movie). While it is a remake, I am willing to give it the benefit of the doubt because of the first half of the trailer and for having Olyphant as the lead.

    I just received 3 character posters for and I’m even more excited. I love the dark nasty yet normal look to them. I don’t want to be scared by people running around rabid. I want to be scared by my friends and loved ones turning on me and that is the feeling I get from all three posters. My favourite is the one with the wrench.

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    The Crazies comes out on February 26th.

    The other two are beneath the seat…
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  • 05 Nov

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    My Month of Horror – A Wrap-up

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    With Halloween several days behind us now and Christmas commercials rapidly consuming the airwaves, I figured now would be a good time to close off on my month of horror films (that and this makes a good follow-up to Jandy’s previous post – it’s almost like we planned it!). Well, the writing about them anyway – I’ve still got piles of stuff to watch and intend on continuing through November and December with them (though mixing in all the other stuff I’ve put on hold such as O’Horten – I’ve been wanting to see it ever since it was the only choice I didn’t get at TIFF 2008).

    So, to sum up: 47 horror movies in 31 days. I’m pretty happy with that even if my eyes do look a bit like Drac’s above. They were all first time viewings, covered a pretty wide swath across the different types of horror films and, for the most part, provided a great deal of fun. I do often wonder about the word “fun” in conjunction with horror – should I really be smiling, laughing and having a grand old time watching people get stabbed, carved up and mutilated to tiny bits? Well, yeah…A good horror movie can toy with you, engage you in creative stories and get you invested in their characters. Horrible things can happen, but the knowledge that it’s not happening to YOU (nor is it actually happening to anyone for real) can actually make you somewhat, if I may say, giddy.

    My list of need-to-see horror hasn’t shrunk after gorging on it though – it’s probably grown by close to double the amount I actually watched simply because of recommendations from others and new films that I found after doing some digging on the ones I saw. I’m not complaining – it’s not really a bad problem to have.

    Here’s a few more thoughts on some of the good and bad experiences I had towards the end of one of my favourite (and most giddy) months of the year:

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  • 29 Oct

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    Shorts Program – The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon

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    I don’t want every one to think that the Shorts Program is just going to focus on genre film because it is not going to. Given that, I do want to present to you the short, The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon. This one is by Richard Gale and it screened at Toronto After Dark this past year. Its about 10 minutes in length but is pretty hilarious in a long drawn out way. I really hope that Gale does spend the next 9 years or so making the feature film. I will definitely be there on opening night.

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