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BURIED – Rodrigo Cortés

Everybody knows how much I love what I do when it comes to writing and talking about films. However, once in awhile, a film comes along that takes me by surprise and I get very excited about it and can’t wait to tell somebody..anybody! This is one of those films. Most importantly, my wife is a little tougher about films than I am. She didn’t want to see this, but I told her those golden words, “Trust me”. And well, she’s glad she did. Another thing I love about telling you about this film is, it wasn’t a big blockbuster. Wasn’t a sequel, a remake, or a disappointment.

Posted December 9th, 2011.
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CALLOUS SENTIMENT – Vincent Grashaw

This short film has an interesting story to it. It is about a young teenager who walks past a playground one day by himself. When he does, he hears strange voices, laughter, and there’s nothing there. One day, he walks by and he see’s a man and woman playing and swinging having a fun time. The man get’s angry at the woman and pick’s up an ax from where he has hidden it and kill’s the woman. The young teenager is shocked and frightened of the sight of this. He runs home to forget what he saw. Later, curiousity get’s the best of him and he goes back, this time it’s see’s a man burying a dead woman. He run’s away back home. He goes again, a group of mean guys are beating up on what appears as a gay man and then kill’s him.

Posted December 9th, 2011.
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CLEAN – Alexander Michaud

Splatter, soft-core and heavy metal are the explosive mixture injected by Alexander Michaud to slide over the sixty minutes of Clean. For some points of view it’s an amateur work, from other it’s mature. At the first group belong photography (not always well-defined) and editing (unsure and unfortunate in breaks), while the direction moves well through close-up, details and rapid movements incrementing tension involving audience to feel like a voyeuristic eye beside a wall.

Posted December 9th, 2011.
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COLD BLOOD – Steve Looker

A young woman is passed out in a garage. After coming to, she sees a dead body on the floor near her. Scared, alone and trapped she tries to find a way out. She is suddenly aware that “someone” is being tortured next door. With the sounds of chainsaws and power tools of some kind, she realizes she MUST escape before she too is a victim of this unknown killer too.

Posted December 9th, 2011.
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DEJA VU – Raifis Rodriguez

A young girl sits alone at home in her bedroom. Relaxing and enjoying her evening reading in bed. Caught up in her reading, there’s a sudden disturbance, the door to her bedroom suddenly slams shut! This startles the young girl and she investigates to how it could’ve closed on it’s own?

Posted December 9th, 2011.
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HANNAH HOUSE – Chad e Max Smith

Some time before, the woman who used to live there (Hannah) had hanged herself and her whole family died. What seemed only a sensation at the beginning, suddenly becomes real when Hannah comes back from Hell to turn their world upside-down. Hannah House is a very particular movie. It has been shot as a silent movie from the 20s and 30s, the time in which the story is set. There are black and white pictures, no dialogue and subtitles explaining to the spectator what he cannot hears.

Posted December 8th, 2011.
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(Italiano) IL METODO ORFEO – Filippo Sozzi

Uno scrittore e una illustratrice si recano su un’isola del Mediterraneo per soggiornare in una villa di campagna dove, due anni prima, è avvenuto l’omicidio di sette persone. Non è la prima volta che questi artisti, per scrivere i loro romanzi, vanno a vivere in luoghi dove è accaduto qualche crimine efferato. Lo chiamano Il Metodo Orfeo, perché ricorda la vicenda dell’antico cantore greco, che scese negli inferi per riportare in vita Euridice.

Posted December 8th, 2011.
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INSIDE – Trevor Sands

Inside is a short film directed by Trevor Sands. It begins with a young man by the name of Daniel who is being escourted down a long, gray hallway at a mental hospital. Sitting in a room across from a doctor, the room is full of actual people that represents the voices that are in Daniel’s head, his mutiple personalities. Each one different than the other, everything from a little girl to an over- sized psycho.

Posted December 8th, 2011.
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INSIDIOUS – James Wan

As far back as I can remember, haunted house films have been a part of the horror genre for … ever! Films such as The House on Haunted Hill, The Haunting, Amityville Horror, Poltergeist and Paranormal Activity … to name a few. There is something about that “creaky door”, shadows on the wall, strange noises, all the usual igredients that make haunted house films what they are meant to be scary! However, this isn’t a “haunted house” per say, it is something “else” that is haunted. I had heard about this film when it came out and the hype about how it was the scariest film since The Exorcist. Well, for me, that is some pretty big shoes to fill. So, is it as scary as The Exorcist? Read my review and find out.

Posted December 8th, 2011.
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FABIO GUAGLIONE – Interview

We already had the chance to introduce you the pot in which a hell lot of ideas and projects keep on bubbling up, now we’re gonna talk (through Fabio Guaglione‘s words, one of the two prolific directors) about the projects brought forth by Fabio&Fabio which blink an eye to Japan and its undergrowth made up of anime, manga and culture which always attracts and teases us.