Lovely Molly:
What's it about?
From Eduardo 'The Blair Witch Project' Sanchez, this low-fi, slow-burn, chilling, skin-crawler of a haunted house flick centres on the titular newlywed (and ex-junkie) as she returns to the not-so-peaceful family home in rural Maryland and discovers that something's going bump in the night.
Who would I recognise in it?
Alexandra Holden.
Great/Good/Alright/Shite?
I'd heard good things about this, but didn't know an awful lot about the movie itself, and perhaps that helped. It's a gradually-paced flick that prefers a highly unsettling soundscape and carefully suggestive visuals, that hold back up-front horrors in favour of something altogether more effective at getting the shivers to bother your spine. It's worth sticking around as the gently ratcheted tension builds into a haunting finale. Good.
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Friday, 13 April 2012
Triple Bill Mini Musings: Foreign Flicks and a Supernatural Slasher...
Dogtooth:
This Greek black comedy is a twisted and intriguing affair - depicting the lives of an isolated family, where the children have all been raised with strange boundaries and teachings - aeroplanes flying overhead are said to be toys that sometimes fall to the ground, they have a brother living on the other side of an insurmountable fence, only the patriarch can leave the compound, sex is emotionless, and the meanings of numerous words have been replaced without their knowledge. The film takes a gentle, yet distanced, view on the proceedings which move at a creeping pace as if from a passive or even seated perspective (oftentimes heads are entirely cut out of the frame once the characters stand up), escalating from the bizarre (the father pimps his factory's security woman out to his son at regular intervals) to the disturbing (sudden moments of blunt violence and perverse sexual practises), there's still room for a curious sense of comedy. Rocky IV, Jaws, and Flashdance all find their way into this cut-off and insular world that avoids explanation. I figured I'd give this a punt as it was showing during Film4's recent Extreme season (as presented by film critic Mark Kermode), and in spite of the more troubling moments, it makes for a fascinating and darkly comic viewing experience.
This Greek black comedy is a twisted and intriguing affair - depicting the lives of an isolated family, where the children have all been raised with strange boundaries and teachings - aeroplanes flying overhead are said to be toys that sometimes fall to the ground, they have a brother living on the other side of an insurmountable fence, only the patriarch can leave the compound, sex is emotionless, and the meanings of numerous words have been replaced without their knowledge. The film takes a gentle, yet distanced, view on the proceedings which move at a creeping pace as if from a passive or even seated perspective (oftentimes heads are entirely cut out of the frame once the characters stand up), escalating from the bizarre (the father pimps his factory's security woman out to his son at regular intervals) to the disturbing (sudden moments of blunt violence and perverse sexual practises), there's still room for a curious sense of comedy. Rocky IV, Jaws, and Flashdance all find their way into this cut-off and insular world that avoids explanation. I figured I'd give this a punt as it was showing during Film4's recent Extreme season (as presented by film critic Mark Kermode), and in spite of the more troubling moments, it makes for a fascinating and darkly comic viewing experience.
Continue reading after the jump for Import/Export, and Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II...
Saturday, 14 January 2012
In follow-up to my personal Top 50 most-favourite-favourites...
Having updated my Top 50 personal favourite films of all-time, I’ve decided to throw together a short list of some other flicks –
films which I greatly admire, and which have made a great impression upon me.
My film degree opened my mind to a whole variety of
cinematic experiences, and ever since then I’ve watched films of all varieties. I can go
from a horror movie to a drama, then onwards to documentaries, animation,
Oscar-grabbers, dim-witted blockbusters, exacting character studies, experimental
shorts, indie flicks, or musicals, and whatever else you have from big names or
no names – be they in the English language or not. The point is, if I’m
interested in it, then it doesn’t matter what country or genre the film
originates from.
My Top 50 list was designed for, and populated by, firm
favourites that I could watch at any time, at the drop of a hat – but the
following is a short list of more varied films off-the-top-of-my-head that I’ve had to be
in the right mood for, but which have left a lasting impression.
Battle
Royale (2000)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Blow-Up (1966)
Brick (2005)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)
Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001)
Downfall (2004)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
The Good, The Bad, and The Weird (2008)
The House of the Devil (2009)
Hunger (2008)
Ichi the Killer (2001)
Inland Empire (2006)
La Jetee (1962)
Let the Right One In (2008)
Martyrs (2008)
Neighbours (1952)
Pi (1998)
Repulsion (1965)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
Stalker (1979)
The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Versus (2000)
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