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typicalfilm – The Awakening

The Awakening (2011)

For those that maybe didn’t like The Haunting, this may cheer you up. While not based on The Turn Of The Screw or The Haunting of Hill House, this film has much of the same atmosphere. Jackson and James would be proud. While I never enter a film trying to ‘hack the twist’ having watched as many ghostly haunting pictures one can’t help but try. The test is when it doesn’t even matter if you do or don’t but still enjoy the entire movie. Seeing 1920s ghostbusters in action for the win! And a lady ghostbuster! Take that, internet!

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typicalfilm – The Girl in the Photographs

The Girl in the Photographs  (2015)

A partially posthumous production of Wes Craven, I had maybe expected a film with the choppy pace of his other work, and perhaps a quirky cast. Not so. If it was not the other production and directorial members taking their own tack, he seems to have reached down to his original rotten roots with this. A home invasion stalker-slasher film is best served slowly with a slight chill, and that is just what I got. By the end, I was sufficiently creeped out, not only by the atmosphere of the second half, but the demeanor of the comic in the cast. Very effective I thought, though I’m sure some would argue. A very fun film, for me, and fairly gory by typical theatre standards.

 

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Dead Air Ep 51 – Drag Me To Hell

Gather under the sluice grate, for the latest Dead Air podcast episode has been mucked off the slab ~ http://ift.tt/1ZSlCfm

It may be April GHOULS day but this episode of Dead Air is no joke. Although, the movie is pretty funny I guess. Wes and Lydia discuss the triumphant return to horror for legendary director Sam Raimi with; Drag Me to Hell. In order to impress her boss for her next big promotion a young, kindhearted loan officers decides to get tough on an elderly woman way behind her mortgage payments. Desperate to stay in her home the old woman begs and pleads but going against her very nature young Christine says no. Angry and humiliated the woman curses her that in three days she will be dragged to hell to be devoured by the demon Lamia. Time is running out for Christine and she must figure out a way to reverse the curse but with her personal and professional life crumbling down around her it’s hard to tell where life stops and Hell begins. Sam Raimi is true to form in this outrageous, ooey gooey horror comedy.

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typicalfilm – Decay

Decay (2015)

Decay (2015)

This one doesn’t seem to be getting as much attention, and now that I’ve seen it I’m not sure why. Startlingly atmospheric for a film revolving around one man and his new cadaver, I found it a really touching story. Mental illness is sometimes treated poorly in film, especially horror. I’ve my gripes with stereotypes and while this shows OCD fixations to a nearly comic degree, it serves to reflect the dire state of the main characters mental state. There are elements tied into the end that smack of cliche though I find them drowned with the visual and aural creativity put into building the world that Jonathan is willingly trapped in. Apparently this is based on a true story so I’ll be poking around to find more on that.

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typicalfilm – Cabin Fever

Cabin Fever (2002)

I have yet to watch the revamp, but in preparation did revisit the original. On blu-ray, no less. I recall watching this and at once thinking ‘Wow! It’s Richard Laymon come to life!’ with all the backwoodsian, sex, swearing, booze and realistic young adults – and at the same time thinking ‘this is rather goony.’ I was also less of a comedy fan back then, so it works even better now. There is a really great write up in the recent Splatterpunk Magazine by Jeff Burk that highlights the merits of this film. I really agree, especially with the suggestion of girl-on-boy anal exploration being something I had never seen is horror and found it’s realism and tell-it-like-it-is attitude really exciting in the face of all the teen-sex romps the genre is filthy with. Let alone the gore! It really is twice as much fun as I recalled.

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Dead Air Ep 50 – Candyman

Gather under the sluice grate, for the latest Dead Air podcast episode has been mucked off the slab ~ http://ift.tt/1MH2itW

We like to kick – streeeeeeetch – AND KICK we’re 50! We hit this milestone in style with Clive Barker’s Candyman. A graduate student, Helen, is writing her thesis on urban legends and comes across a story about a ghostly figure with a hook for a hand that is known only as “Candyman”. A vengeful legend born of a terrible tragedy that can be summoned to kill if only you dare to say his name five times, but, these are only stories right? As Helen gets closer to the truth people start dying and she loses her grip on time and reality itself. Has she gone insane or is something far more sinister at work?

This film holds a special place in Wes’ heart and you’ll hear all about it during the episode. Also, we dive deep in to our hosts past which is apparently filled with unsolved mysteries, irrational fears and something Lydia calls the “Skat Shack.” It’s an epic double stuffed episode that is sure to leave you wanting more! Raise your glasses, kids and cheers to another 50!

Sweets to the sweet on this sugar rush of a day ~ Wes and I get into Candyman for our 50th episode! Be our victim… and find us on splatterpictures.net, SoundCloud, itunes and stitcher. Man, if there is anything I actually like doing in this world it is recording this show.

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typicalfilm – Familiar

Familiar (2012)

Psychological and body horror abound. From Fatal Pictures and now available to rent or buy streaming, this short was suggested by Bind Torture Kast, right up there with Dead Air as my most favourite podcast ever. Along with a handful of other shorts, they highlighted the back-catalogue of Fatal Pictures which features the peculiar Robert Nolan in both this and Worm. No to say the actor is peculiar, but the characters he plays in these last two offerings are fascinating. Of a misanthropic and gravely dissatisfied man whose negative internal dialogue has run amok, the story takes a dark turn into Cronenburg territory.  Looking forward to something feature length from these guys, if not the release of an older short (Consumption, 2003), and the continued success of the festival run of the recent short ‘Heir‘.

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typicalfilm – The Witch

The Witch (2015)

There were one or two bits where I was hoping the film would pick up, and then found I was the proverbial frog in a pot of water. Having seen things on the farm as a kid like a chicken fetus in an egg and milked blood from a nanny goat… it was all very ‘home’ to me. With all the animals being great little actors and the scenes by candlelight I liked it much better than most period pieces with ragged clothes and farmland. I’ll be picking up my Satanism and Witchcraft text again since I’m sure half the stories of influence are in that, and Hunt The Witch Down, which is more Salem-centric. Really fun night out, if I do say.

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typicalfilm – Worm

Worm (2011)

I’ll have more to say on the recently available ‘Familiar’ in a future post, but this and that really go together – both are from Fatal Pictures, Zach of which quite graciously lent a screening copy so I could have a taste of this apple. It would seem this is a day in the life of the same character seen in Familiar. We’ve all had this super negative inner dialogue. For some it hits rarely, on the worst day. For some it is the actual all day, every day soapbox of seething hatred that literally froths behind the eyes. I know since this guy sounds a hell of a lot like me. Yes. I liked this short horror very much. I’ve become some sort of Robert Nolan fan it seems.

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Dead Air Ep 49 – The Prowler

Gather under the sluice grate, for the latest Dead Air podcast episode has been mucked off the slab ~ http://ift.tt/1pRjyIj

Sharpen your knife and strap on your combat boots because in episode 49 of Dead Air; Wes and Lydia dish out a review of 1981’s The Prowler with military precision. In 1945 the war weary world was settling back down and men and women were returning home. What should have been a time of celebration turns to bloody murder. Now, decades later the killings start again by a man clad in WWII military gear. Special effects master Tom Savini is on full display in a movie that he considers is his best work. For more episodes check out splatterpictures.net

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