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DISCUSSting WINNIE THE POOH 2: BLOOD & HONEY
A podcast in we watch trailers for films and speculate on what might happen in them..
This week me discuss the Winnie The Pooh Horror Sequel.. and its potential for an expanded universe.
A podcast in we watch trailers for films and speculate on what might happen in them..This week me discuss the Winnie The Pooh Horror Sequel.. and it's potent...
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The first ever live action Mickey Mouse comedy horror feature film. Directed by Jamie Bailey. A Bailey Phillips Production. INTO FRAME PRODUCTIONS PRESENTSA ...
STAR WARS FILM… IN 2023!
Who’s excited for an unofficial Star Wars film this year? Well not quite..
(Zack Snyder sent a script to Lucasfilm years ago and it wasn’t commissioned so he adapted it to make it his own film, somewhat similar to how David Twohy’s Alien 3 script ended up being made into Pitch Black)
I’m sure it’s not going to be anything special but can’t be worse than some of Lucasfilm’s recent films.
When the ruthless forces of the Motherworld threaten a quiet farming village on a distant moon, a mysterious outsider becomes its best hope for survival.
A film I worked on doing the editing and recording the sound for has just started it's festival run and won multiple awards and got a number of special mentions in categories including editing.
Very excited to see where this goes!
Horror Rules!
Director: Adrian Hay
Producer: Paul Howard
Who’s excited? Not long now..
We're going back to the beginning. : is coming in May 2023 to Max. HBO Max:HBO Max is WarnerBrosDiscovery’s dir...
JEEPERS CREEPERS: REBORN (2022) - 2 MINUTE REVIEW:
As a filmmaker you never want to write a bad review for any film. So I’ll start with the positives the poster was good enough that it intrigued me.
I watched this film and was very confused as I still am now.
Jeepers Creepers: Reborn was I believe filmed during the height of the COVID-19 outbreak, if that’s true some allowances can be made I feel.
To me it feels like a student film, I watched it after a while just looking at all the cost cutting measures they’d put in place. For example the “crowd” scenes I think only had about 15 people, but all just filmed in a variety of different ways to make scenes feel more populated.
Also there’s some crazy decisions here as well such as some of the sets have obviously been filmed on a tiny stage and a background put in after, and the awful rotoscoping of the scene totally detracts from any small amount of tension the scene has.
That and the lighting is lit so evenly. The creeper loses all sense of being frightening.
I’ll say this though, one day I might watch this again once I find out what happened behind the scenes and why they made the choices they made, it intrigued me.
Whilst I can’t say I enjoyed this, the sheer confusion I had while watching this regarding some of the production choices were entertaining enough to keep me watching throughout.
SCREAM (1996) - 2 MINUTE REVIEW:
I watched Scream when I was younger back to back with Scream 2 and 3 and I think in retrospect both my age and watching all 3 in quick succession was not advisable, it meant for years I had this diluted experience of the first.
Watching them as a trilogy in one go meant the first Scream’s impact was lost on me.
Scream is a parody, through and through. It takes all the best bits from your favourite slasher films and recreates them in both an original and ultimately unoriginal way, it plays as both a tribute to your favourite slashers and a mockery.
The music is purposely over the top, the murder scenes are long and comically drawn out and everything is foreshadowed simply and effectively making it such an easy to watch film.
The pacing as well is simply outstanding with never a dull moment. Even the third act massacre is clearly foreshadowed with everyone from the party stupidly leaving in one go all at once and just leaving the core characters to deal with the bloodbath.
I watched this film to prepare myself for watching Scream 6 at the cinema and I’m glad I did, because films aren’t made like this anymore and whilst I enjoyed Scream 6, The original Scream will always be the best.
Wes Craven was a genius!
DAWN OF THE DEAD (2004) - 2 MINUTE REVIEW:
Before James Gunn was writing Brightburn and directing Slither, Guardians of the galaxy and The Su***de Squad. He wrote the remake of Dawn Of The Dead, which is most probably in my opinion Zack Snyders best directed film.
A superbly paced, brilliantly written, great remake, which takes what the original did and takes it in a new and inventive way.
All the main characters are memorable and distinct and are a-mix with those that are obviously disposable and going to be zombie-fodder.
(Spoiler) One part that feels unneeded though in the film and feels frankly unneeded is the zombie baby scene. It for some reason feels disconnected with the overall tone in my opinion of the rest of the film.
But for the zombie lover there’s gore and death a plenty and whilst the political subtext of the original 1979 film is lost, this still makes for a good horror film and one of the after almost 20 years still one of the best in the zombie genre.
KNOCK AT THE CABIN (2023) - 2 MINUTE REVIEW:
To say this film is by the numbers is an understatement. The trailer gives away the whole plot and aside from some really good performances from the majority of the cast, as a viewer I just left the cinema feeling disappointed.
Maybe it’s just me, but I go to see a M Night Shyamalan film for the twists and turns, or should I just say the TWIST and TURN, and when it’s not there, I’m just left thinking what’s the message I’m meant to leave the cinema with.
From what I gather from the book, (and as I said this isn’t spoiling anything as the story is in the film trailer) the book is more ambiguous as in is this a test by god that this family is being put through or not, and if this is a test by god why would he letter people suffer like this.
In the case of the film to not make it ambiguous means that the characters are just too vulnerable, they’re just pawns to be killed off by god at any moment and no one’s safe as god could just change the rules and kill them all.
Maybe it’d just my opinion but in a horror film, there has to some possible way for there to be a happy ending, as without it your not rooting for anyone your just waiting for the ending.
And in Knock At The Cabin, the whole plot was told in the first 25 minutes to the viewer and then you were left to just watch it happen for the remaining hour or so of the film.
Odd Pictures is a small start up making independent short films with a variety of different talent.
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