Već
sam ovde najavio anglo-američke horore vredne čekanja i umerene nade, tačnije
one kojima su datumi premijera već bili zakazani, a nekoliko njih je do sada
već i izašlo. Videti tu najavu OVDE.
U
ovom delu – drugom od tri – prikazujem odabrane horore, takođe
na engleskom, kojima se još ne zna kad će tačno izaći, ali očekuju se tokom ove
godine. Ispod ćete naći neke manje izvikane naslove koje sam sakupljao
ovde-onde, a nekolicina ih je prošla ispod radara horor sajtova koji su početkom
januara kačili slične liste i obznane. Dakle, ovo je Ghoul-exclusive selekcija.
MILO - Jacob Vaughan
A man discovers that his
chronic stomach problems are due to the fact that he has a demon baby living in
his colon. With Peter Stormare.
RESOLUTION - Justin Benson and Aaron S. Moorhead
The title
refers both to narrative solutions and visual clarity, which are slow in coming
to Michael (Peter Cilella) after he travels to a dilapidated cabin on a Native
American reservation to handcuff crackhead pal Chris (Vinny Curran) to a pipe
to save him from an impending OD death. That Michael is compelled to take up
this mission by an e-mailed video of Chris that the junkie couldn't possibly
have sent (he has no computer) is only the first of many mysteries. When not
confronting violent threats from Chris's druggie acquaintances and reservation
security thugs, Michael becomes obsessed with a collection of increasingly
high-res found media abandoned by French researchers. He believes these sources
reveal a tale involving ghosts, telekinesis, demons, portals to alternate
dimensions, and other supernatural phenomena.
IN FEAR - Jeremy Lovering
New couple Tom
and Lucy are on their way to a music festival, to meet up with friends, camp,
and explore their new relationship, when things go terribly awry. The film
opens with Lucy in the loo of a pub, while unseen to her, a leering eye stares
through a peephole. As she and Tom leave to get on the road, Tom explains there
was a slight altercation with a local due to a spilled drink, which he smoothed
over with a couple of pints and an apology... Soon Tom and Lucy are lost amidst
a maze of overgrown, shrub-ridden back roads, misdirected by signs that have
them going in circles, and gradually running out of gas. Let the games begin.
The film then becomes an exercise in the cat-and-mouse/automotive terror
sub-genre, as things become progressively worse, while we are trapped with Tom
and Lucy in a confined space, shoved intimately into their paranoia and
mounting questions of just who is out there fucking with their heads. Obvious
comparisons to Spielberg's Duel, Campanile's Hitch Hike, and
Starret's Race With The Devil.
S-VHS
Originalnim VHS-om
nisam bio impresioniran, kao što i stoji u mom rivjuu.
No, ovog puta involvirana su za nijansu jača rediteljska imena (npr. GARETH
EVANS – THE RAID!)
a i donji rivju zvuči obećavajuće...
Where V/H/S
was a raw, lo-fi and frightening odyssey via POV, its sequel is bigger, weirder
and even reflective of its predecessor.
The
protagonist is undergoing early testing of a sort of cyborg-eye (we are
actually a part of him) connected to a chip in his brain and, for research
purposes, will record his every move. As he moves about his lavish home,
Wingard finds the tech tunes to a frequency he’s unprepared for.
Mixing the
simple/classic with clever is often where S-VHS shines. Eduardo Sanchez and
longtime producer Gregg Hale (THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT) tell a tale of zombies
by zombies. Some finely repulsive gore and a fantastic first-person car trampling.
Gareth Huw
Evans, of THE RAID fame, alongside co-director Timo Tjahjanto (MACABRE, THE
ABCs OF DEATH) craft a docu-like chronicle of an Indonesian cult that flies so
high, its Fulci-esque destination will leave fists in the air. Quite probably the
most insane, “Safe Haven” brings supernatural, demonic reckoning upon on a team
of filmmakers who’re finally besieged by a climactic creature with an entrance
so very gleefully, savagely rowdy, it’s unforgettable.
HOBO WITH A
SHOTGUN’s Jason Eisener finally brings the house down with his penchant for
both mischievous sweetness and reckless genre abandon. “Slumber Party Alien
Abduction” breathes new life into the traditional design of grey, black-eyed
extraterrestrials, as their elongated bodies, constantly creeping, are framed
in stylish, eerie, chaotic silhouette. The key, though, is adoring the
on-the-cusp-of-teenagedom kids wreaking havoc on an older sister with their
parents gone.
UNDER THE BED - Steven C. Miller
The
Aggression Scale director Steven C. Miller returns with “Under the
Bed”, an homage to the much loved creature features and Amblin films of the
1980s, in particular “The Goonies” and “Poltergeist”. Of course, with Miller
being one of the rising stars of US indie horror, the film unsurprisingly also
has a nightmarish quality, making for an intriguing mix that should catch the
attention of genre fans who grew up during those heady days of kiddie danger
cinema. The film follows a troubled youth called Neal (Jonny Weston, John
Dies at the End) who returns to live with his father and younger
brother Paulie in the house where their mother died years back – an event which
Neal blamed on a monster under the bed which only Paulie has seen too. In the
years since, his father has come to believe him to be mentally ill, though soon
enough the beast is making its presence known once again, its attention focused
on Paulie.
HELLBENDERS 3D - JT Petty
Blasfemija i
ludilo!
A new horror
comedy said to be in the vein of classics such as The Exorcist and Ghostbusters.
Taking place in modern day New York, a team of holy men (consisting of
ministers and priests) battle the forces of evil. A group of badass rogue
exorcists are led by Clancy Brown.
CURSE OF CHUCKY - Don Mancini
Nisam ni znao
da se ovo radi, a eto ga, spreman i gotov, direct to dvd! Piše i režira autor prethodnih
nastavaka, pa bi trebalo da ima određen (gledljiv) nivo.
Chucky the
killer doll returns to terrorize a family funeral. After the passing of her
mother, a young woman in a wheelchair since birth, is forced to deal with her
sister, brother-in-law, niece and their nanny as they say their goodbyes to
mother. When people start turning up dead, Nica discovers the culprit might be
a strange doll she received a few days earlier.
THE GREEN INFERNO - Eli Roth
Eli Rot u svom
omažu Deodatu i srodnim kanibalističkim eksploatacijama... Krvi sigurno neće da
fali, a mozga – videćemo.
Apparently
inspired by Italo mondo films like Ruggero Deodato’s notorious 1980 Cannibal Holocaust and Antonio
Climati’s 1988 Natura contro (also known as The Green Inferno and Cannibal
Holocaust II), The Green Inferno follows an idealistic student and a group of
naive do-gooders who are captured by cannibalistic Indios after their plane
crash lands in the Peruvian jungle. In it, a group of student activists from
New York City travel to the Peruvian amazon to stage a protest and save
un-contacted tribes. Things do not go as planned.
THE QUIET ONES - John Pogue
The Quiet Ones
from Hammer Films tells the story of an unorthodox, but charismatic Professor (Jared
Harris) who uses controversial methods and leads his best students off the grid
to take part in a dangerous experiment: to create a poltergeist from negative
human energy.
HORNS - Alexandre Aja
Prema
hvaljenom romanu sina Stivena Kinga, Džoa
Hila, posle niza rimejkova vraća nam se Aža u nešto (potencijalno) respektabilniji filmmejking...
Daniel Radcliffe will portray the
number one suspect for the rape and murder of his girlfriend. He awakens one
morning to find horns starting to grow from his own head and soon realizes
their power drives people to confess their sins and give in to their impulses —
an effective tool in his quest to discover the true circumstances of his late
girlfriend’s tragedy.
SIGHTSEERS - Ben Wheatley
Kill List director Ben Wheatley is back
with a bloody romp across the English countryside that sounds as much like
Grant Morrison's Kill Your Boyfriend
as it does Bonnie and Clyde in
SIGHTSEERS.
BYZANTIUM - Neil Jordan
Ovo
ima srednje-slabe kritike, ali hell, ipak je to Nil Džordanov povratak hororu! Gledaće se, pa makar ga svi živi sa'ranili!
Neil Jordan gets
back to doing weird, Neil Jordan-y stuff with BYZANTIUM, a sexy vampire romp starring Gemma Arterton and Saoirse
Ronan. So it's disappointing that "Byzantium,"
his first wade into vampire terrain since 1994's starry "Interview With
the Vampire," should prove a lethargic and uninspired take that aims to be
something different, but ultimately isn't. Lacking the requisite scares, and
blood, that entice gorehounds, this handsome, femme-driven Irish-Brit
co-production is likely to fall between mainstream and arthouse categories
among the several territories in which it has sold (excluding North America);
better returns await in ancillary.
A FIELD IN ENGLAND - Ben Wheatley
Follows a
small group of deserters fleeing from a raging battle through an overgrown
field. As they are captured by O'Neil, an alchemist, they are forced to aid him
in... his search to find a hidden treasure he believes is buried in the field.
Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group
quickly descends into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia, and, as it
becomes clear the treasure might be something other than gold, they slowly
become victim to the terrifying energies inside the field.
KISS OF THE DAMNED - Xan Cassavetes
A sly
tongue-in-cheek tribute to old-school horror films, especially Tony Scott's
"The Hunger" and "giallo" maestros like Mario Bava and
Dario Argento, Xan Cassavetes' vampire story "Kiss of the Damned"
reps a fitting debut feature from the director of movie-buff-tastic docu
"Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession." Saucily thumbing its nose at
the insipid teen-love of the "Twilight" franchise, "Kiss"
reimagines its bloodsuckers as horny, supercilious Euro-trash with addiction
issues, sucking the life blood from naive American thrill-seekers.
CRAVE - Charles de Lauzirika
Aiden is a
hungry, thirty-something, freelance crime-scene photographer who lives in
Detroit, where hostility is seemingly everywhere. Like his old friend Pete, a
longtime police officer, he’s seen some pretty gruesome things during his
career. Aiden shoots kids’ birthday parties to help pay his rent. He’s also
somehow plagued with bizarre fantasies, mixing sex and ultraviolence. All this
makes Aiden a paranoid, delusional, yet very functional individual. But he’s also
a romantic at heart, who fancies Virginia, a cute 22-years-old who lives next
door. When things get a little hotter and heavier between them, everything gets
twisted, leading to blackmail, drama and murder.
De Lauzirika’s
stylized cinematography and themes recall the groundbreaking and influential
turns of TAXI DRIVER’s and FIGHT CLUB, while its nicely bleak and
gory humour is not too far from DEXTER’s. The film’s duo of
Australian-born lead actors is stellar, with Josh Lawson (THE WEDDING PARTY)
as the righteous yet disconnected broken main man, and sweet-and-sour Emma Lung
(TRIANGLE) as both the object of his desire and reason for his downfall.
Plus, you get a cool supporting cast including Edward Furlong (TERMINATOR 2)
and genre giant Ron Perlman (HELLBOY himself!).
HEMORRHAGE - Braden
Croft
With an early
hat tip to Hitchcock's "Psycho," helmer Braden Croft's micro-budgeted
"Hemorrhage" initially hints at an innocent's view of evil. Instead,
this thriller, birthed in darkest Canada (Edmonton), positions itself inside a
man's schizophrenic hallucinations, never quite fessing up to which horrific
episode is real or imagined, and keeping the viewer consistently off-balance.
While some of the seams show, and Croft's approach is not entirely new (Lodge
Kerrigan's "Clean, Shaven" comes to mind), it's an auspicious debut
for a director with a creative eye, and could achieve cult status.
A NIGHT OF NIGHTMARES - Buddy Giovinazzo
The set-up is
simple: a boy and a girl (an obscurist music blogger and the obscure singer
he’s driven out to interview) are set to spend a peaceful night in a remote
cabin in the mountains. Noises, mysterious messages, strange phone calls, and
other bumps in the night start to freak them out. Then the girl’s deranged
stalker shows up. Then some other things. Is somebody playing nasty tricks, or
is there more to the cabin than meets the eye?
Its
supernatural elements don’t seem to be subject to any rules, and so many of the
various twists and revelations come off as arbitrary. But the film is a clinic
in how to render that issue irrelevant.
TOAD ROAD - Jason
Banker
Writer/director
Jason Banker delivers a very realistic and somewhat depressing look into the
world of a group of hard partying friends and the unfortunate results when
their irresponsible behavior collides with a local urban legend.
Toad Road
revolves around the life of James (James Davidson), a drug-addled slacker that
spends the vast majority of his time puking on himself in a chemically-altered
haze with his equally useless group of friends. We go from one location to the
next so the group can have different experiences each time they drop acid or
eat mushrooms. This brings us to Toad Road, an urban legend about a series of
gates randomly placed in the woods near them that are rumored to be the actual
Seven Gates of Hell. If one were to pass through them, they are (literally)
walking the Highway to Hell. And it is around these gates that the true horror
of the film happens.
Some nice work
was done here on a very small budget. It's extremely trippy, with the
characters (and, at times, the audience) questioning reality. Well acted and
realistically directed, Toad Road is probably better described as a movie
experience. It does take a very long time to get up and running, but if you're
into reality bending films, you might dig this.
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