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In Defense Of Giallo...
17 September 2009 8:37 PM, PDT
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I like most horror fans have been clamoring for Dario Argento to deliver us something as interesting and exciting as some of his early works. I love stuff like Opera, Phenomena (or Creepers as I remember renting it as a kid), Tenebre (aka Unsane), Deep Red and of course Susperia. Hell, I even love Jenifer, his episode for the first season of Masters Of Horror, but... aside from that, I really haven't enjoyed Dario's work in quite some time.
With that said, I was able to get my hands on the script that Jim Agnew & Sean Keller wrote for Giallo shortly after they wrapped shooting last year. I literally read it impatiently in one sitting. I truly believe it to be a terrific script and it gave me hope that Dario could potentially deliver his best film if only he could translate this script to film properly. And with Adian Brody as the lead,
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Giallo (Film Review)
13 July 2009 12:53 PM, PDT
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From deep red to grey velvet, the cinema of Dario Argento drips with pungent pigmentation. Vivid color is deployed for texture and sensuality. The primary hues of Suspiria’s Tans Academy pulsate with a primal femininity. The densely filtered light in Inferno creates a heady dreamscape saturated with dangerous allure. And then there’s the fluid crimson, often held in sharp relief against white walls, reflective glass or pale flesh. Argento stains his imagery with baroque fanaticism, a crazed Fauvist painting frenzied nightmares from his psychedelic palette. At first, it comes as no surprise that he has named his latest film after a block of solid color: Giallo (yellow).
This is the shade many associate with the Italian director, who made such significant contributions to the giallo genre as The Bird With The Crystal Plumage and Tenebrae. Gialli were stylish whodunits with an excess of violence and gore, based on
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Vampire Girl Vs. Frankenstein Girl and Blood: The Last Vampire (Film Reviews)
30 June 2009 3:42 PM, PDT
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Vampire Girl Vs. Frankenstein Girl is exactly what you’d expect from a teaming of the directors (Yoshihiro Nishimura and Naoyuki Tomomatsu) who gave us Tokyo Gore Police and Stacy: a supergory collision between schoolgirls and the undead that represents the zenith of extreme Japanese splatter satire. And it has arrived at the New York Asian Film Festival just in time to show up Blood: The Last Vampire, which opens July 10 and represents a nadir in English-language adaptations of Far East fright fare.
Both films detail what happens when a young woman with bloodsucking tendencies comes to a new school, which in the case of Vampire Girl is already a haven for all sorts of freaks, some of whom have formed their own clubs. There’s one group of coeds who have raised self-cutting with razors to the level of a competitive sport, and another bunch who take the
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15 Bloody Box Sets
19 January 2009 8:00 AM, PST
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The deeper I delve into writing, the more movies and literature I digest. My biggest obstacle at this point is not finding the material, it’s finding the time to watch it, and the money to purchase it all. After consistently emptying my bank account on countless DVD’s and books over the last few months, I really started to ask myself one question: How the hell can I pick all this stuff up quickly and affordably? Well, an obvious solution occurred to me - why not seek out box sets?
While Ebay is my one stop shop for books (I recommend it to all), DVD’s are not always as easy to track down, so I decided to highlight 15 cool box sets which will enable you to beef up your collection without breaking your pocket book.
Omen: Pentology is a five disc DVD set (UK Release) which features the
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