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DVD Review: DON'T GO IN THE HOUSE (Arrowdrome)

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DVD Review: DON'T GO IN THE HOUSE (Arrowdrome)

DVD Review: DON'T GO IN THE HOUSE (Arrowdrome)

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 03:00 AM PDT

Having a rotten mother will fuck you up.Twenty years after Mrs. Bates' incessant badgering and criticizing of a weak willed Norman turned him into a psychotic terror, Joseph Ellison's Don't Go in the House unleashed another unhinged mama's boy in Disco Donny. Arrow Video's budget label, Arrowdrome, brings this nasty little underseen gem to UK DVD uncut for the first time. A blatant riff on Alfred Hitchcock's adaptation of Robert Bloch's Psycho (itself inspired by the gruesome real-life story of Ed Gein), Don't Go in the House exceeds it's predecessor in terms of blood and gore by a country mile, while throwing in bits and pieces of other more contemporary films like Saturday Night Fever. Don't Go in the House is definitely one that every...

Love And Loss In New York In ALL THE WAY THROUGH EVENING

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 01:32 AM PDT

Here's the trailer for a new documentary that tells the story of the New York HIV/AIDS crisis in a way that emphasizes beauty and memory, love and loss, and the transcendent power of music. Every year, exuberant East Village concert pianist Mimi Stern-Wolfe performs a breathtaking concert of works by her friends, all composers, who were lost to the silent killer of New York City. The award-winning musical documentary ALL THE WAY THROUGH EVENING chronicles an era when the HIV/AIDS pandemic swept through a downtown arts community and ravaged the world. Accompanied by moving music written by those departed, the film recalls this tragedy with candid interviews from friends, family and the lovers that survived it. Directed by Australian Rohan Spong, this engaging and poignant documentary charts Mimi's...

Hey, Melbourne! Attend Unique HAIL Screening And Q&A To Support People Affected By The Criminal Justice System

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 12:30 AM PDT

Muscular, raw, visceral: these are the words that keep coming up about incredible Australian crime revenge film Hail. I'd also add beautiful, touching, poignant and explosively real; this is real life that comes uncomfortably close, seeps into your soul and just when you think you have it in your grasp it grabs you instead and drags you into a deeply upsetting nightmare without flinching. When you stagger out the other side of the maelstrom you are left marked, moved and in awe of Amiel Courtin-Wilson's brilliant feature debut and Daniel P Jones' mesmerizing central performance. After playing festivals all over the world as diverse as Venice and Fantastic Fest, Hail opened in limited release in Australia over the weekend. Now Cinema Nova is having a special fundraising event run by non-government welfare...

Review: Erik Matti's TIKTIK: THE ASWANG CHRONICLES

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 09:00 PM PDT

The first thing one would notice in Tiktik: The Aswang Chronicles is how incredibly gorgeous the computer-generated visuals are, at least compared to other Filipino productions. Opening with a shot of apologetic soon-to-be-father Makoy (Dingdong Dantes) cramped inside a tricycle with an old woman and her haul of various innards, the film immediately showcases how perfectly rendered the digitally-rendered background is, with the overloaded vehicle breezing through vast landscapes that seem to be exaggerated depictions of what is really out there. Matti dutifully maintains the spectacle throughout, struggling only when he decides to replace his actors with computer-generated monsters that are quite unimpressive. [Ed. note: We have been told by the production company that some CGI elements were rushed for the Filipino release of...

Van Damme Gets Silly In Two Clips From WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 07:05 PM PDT

That Jean Claude Van Damme can be quite funny is enormously evident to anyone who has seen 2008 effort JCVD but The Muscles From Brussels starring in a full on comedy? It's happening with the Rob Meltzer directed effort Welcome To The Jungle, in which Van Damme stars as a survival coach tasked with toughening up a group of office workers on a corporate retreat.CHRIS (Adam Brody) is a workplace weakling who doesn't have the balls to stand up to the slick office bully, PHIL (Rob Huebel), who steals all his ideas, and he has yet to muster the courage to ask out cute HR manager, LISA (Megan Boone). Even Chris' only friend, JARED, a sarcastic slacker IT guy who secretly monitors everyone's porn intake,...

Argentina Gets Grisly With THE FLAYING

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 03:00 PM PDT

There's no question about it, Argentina has emerged as the clear leader in the Latin American horror scene. With directors such as Adrian Garcia Bogliano, Javier Diment and Nicanor Loreti winning raves at festivals around the globe, the Argentinian horror scene in both the most prolific and most visible of any in South America. And the next title that looks likely to turn some heads is Nicolas Ortiz' The Flaying (El Bosque De Los Sometidos). During the early seventies, four teenage friends go on a trip through the interior of Argentina to the north of the country to watch an illegal car race take place in the streets of Cordoba. On their way, they discover a mysterious house left abandoned in the middle of the...

Dante Lam Reteams With Nick Cheung For THAT DEMON WITHIN

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 02:03 PM PDT

The creative collision of director Dante Lam (pictured) with actor Nick Chueng has been one of the most fruitful in Hong Kong cinema over the past decade. The duo has already turned out critical and popular favorites The Beast Stalker and Stool Pigeon - both of which also star Nicholas Tse - and now are re-teaming for the upcoming That Demon Within. Daniel Wu plays opposite Cheung this time, playing a paranoid cop consumed with the idea that Cheung's ex-con is on a crime spree that only he can stop. That Demon Within begins production this winter with a summer 2013 release date planned....

AFI Fest 2012 Review: Amy Seimetz' Feature Debut SUN DON'T SHINE Haunts and Thrives

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 01:00 PM PDT

There's a small scene in Sun Don't Shine that keeps playing over in my head. A woman is telling a story about the time she was making a pizza and almost burned her house down. She mixed her prescribed sleeping pills with wine and passed out during the aforementioned pizza-making. Hours later, she woke up to a smoke-filled house. (Somebody up there must be looking out for her.) Without any hesitation, she blames this happening on her doctor. After all, he gave her the medication, which means it's in no way her fault that the sleeping pills made her fall asleep, resulting in a non-edible pizza and near non-existent house. This small moment reminds me of Sun Don't Shine's running theme. It's about people who...

Blu-ray Review: THE AMBASSADOR's Mads Brugger Must Have A Death Wish

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 12:00 PM PDT

Back in 2010, Danish director Mads Brugger's film The Red Chapel screened at the Dallas International Film Festival. There wasn't anything unusual about the film's appearance here, it wasn't a world premiere or even an American premiere, but it was the first time I was able to see this strange breed of madman on screen. In this film, Brugger heads to North Korea with a pair of disabled ethnic Korean comics on an apparent goodwill tour. What Brugger really wants to know is what the fuck is going on in Korea, and the result is a hilarious docucomedy of manners in which he and his meal tickets get increasingly uncomfortable as they begin to show their hand little by little. It's a miracle he made...

Review: FRINGE S5E04, THE BULLET THAT SAVED THE WORLD (Or, The Team Loses One Of Their Own And For A Smart Guy, Walter Is Awfully Dumb)

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 11:31 AM PDT

The best and worst were on display in the most recent episode of Fringe, one in which The Observers finally started acting like the all-powerful, oppressive, occupying force that everyone keeps saying they are this season, the writers make a bold move with a favorite character, and the worst suspicions brought on by episode three are confirmed to be true. We begin with the positives.We begin with Peter out roaming the streets, siphoning gas and visiting a pawn shop to replace the necklace they took from Etta to provide solder when building a laser device in the Harvard lab. It's not our first time to be out in the streets since the season began and the series rebooted with this new, occupation themed thread but...

Fredrik Hana Has ANGST, PISS AND SHIT

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 10:00 AM PDT

Ah, Halloween. It's a time for love and romance, albeit of a somewhat twisted variety. And Norway's Fredrik Hana has cooked up something just right for the season with his new short Angst, Piss and Shit.ANGST, PISS & SHIT is a black comedy that deals with twisted, complicated love between two murdering psychopaths. A boy and a girl that once shared a fascination for mass murder and torture, but now resemble a sad and lifeless parody of relationships. Something has got to happen... and it can't be good. Check out the trailer for Hana's latest below....

Adam Berg, John Bryant, Carter Smith and More to Showcase Talents at Halloween Shorts Fest in LA

Posted: 28 Oct 2012 09:12 AM PDT

Some great short filmmakers will be strutting their stuff at the 3rd annual Razorblades In Your Reese's short film fest, a free event taking place at LA's Downtown Independent on Halloween (Wednesday October 31). One name to watch on this year's slate is Swedish director Adam Berg, creator of the Philips Carousel commercial. Berg is set to make his directorial debut with Universal's upcoming remake of Cronenberg's Videodrome. Both The Ruins director Carter Smith and John E. Bryant, best known for his SXSW feature The Overbrook Brothers, will have shorts in this year's lineup as well. Razorblades has become a good place to spot young talent. Past fest's have included works by Jason Eisener (Hobo With A Shotgun), Rodney Ascher (Room 237), and Spencer...
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