To describe Drew Goddard’s new film The Cabin in the Woods as David Lynch-ian is putting it mildly. The film takes the premise of a simple slasher film and eschews all the conventions in the process, creating something unlike I have ever seen before. Any comparisons to other films would be stretching it.
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Film Review – Silent House
“88 minutes of terror”…a great tagline, but there is more to the film Silent House than an effective marketing campaign. The film marks the theatrical return of directors Chris Kentis and Laura Lau, who were last seen in theaters nearly a decade ago with their breakout hit Open Water. Times may have changed since then, but the team still knows how to put together a captivating product.
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Pulling Focus – Found Footage Films and Marketing
Found footage horror films are a genuinely modern phenomenon. We can attempt to trace roots to Cannibal Holocaust in 1980, tie origins to the aesthetic and stylistic techniques in the even older cinéma vérité genre, or, if we really want to go back, we can look at Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Both novels were written in the epistolary format, i.e. with their fictional narratives created through letters, diary entries, and newspaper cuttings. Just like modern found footage films, they sold fiction as fact and the audience lapped it up.
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Video Review – Super 8
Spencer and John review the sci-fi thriller Super 8, from writer/director JJ Abrams and producer Steven Spielberg.
This segment is also available on Stitcher, iTunes, and Zune. The audio version can be downloaded directly from here.
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Episode 91 – The Mystery of JJ Abrams
Spencer and John discuss JJ Abrams’ role in Hollywood in honor of Super 8, look at the DC Comic movies before the release of The Green Lantern, and give their DVD picks of the week.
