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Red Balloon

By El Vez ⋅ July 28, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Shot on a RedCam 4K, Damien Mace and Alexis Wajsbrot’s Red Balloon sets its standards high right from the beginning, with an ambitious steadycam shot opening the film and setting the scene. With a team of 30 professionals (including Danny Boyle’s Colorist), the high production levels carry on throughout the film and tension builds as [...]

DN212 – Absentia – Mike Flanagan

By MarBelle ⋅ July 22, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Mike Flanagan’s missing persons, horror feature Absentia does away with cheap jump scares in favour of a character study on the tolls absence takes on those left behind, with some deftly executed ‘less is more’ frights to boot. Mike joins us to discuss building a film from your [...]

Absentia – Mike Flanagan

By MarBelle ⋅ July 22, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Absentia (2011) Absentia tells the story of a woman and her sister who begin to link a mysterious tunnel to a series of disappearances. Tricia’s husband Daniel has been missing for seven years. Her younger sister Callie comes to live with her as the pressure mounts to finally declare him ‘dead in absentia.’ As Tricia [...]

SotW: Pencilface

By MarBelle ⋅ July 1, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

“He’ll help you draw, he’ll help you erase; waste not want not…he’s Pencil Face.” Things get down right creepy in my Short of the Week review of Christian Simmons’ Pencilface: There are well made shorts that can stick in your mind for days, but much rarer is a short that is so God damn creepy [...]

Stake Land

By Laurent ⋅ June 10, 2011 ⋅ One comment

In Stake Land teenage boy Martin (Connor Paolo) sees his whole family slaughtered by a vampire before being rescued by a rogue vampire hunter only known as “Mister” (Nick Damici), who takes him under his protection. As the world is succumbing to an unexplained vampiric epidemic and civilisation crumbles around them, they travel towards Canada, [...]

UNTITLED (2011)

By MarBelle ⋅ June 4, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

With access to the medical facility he’d created within a real World War 2 bunker for an interactive installation, Craig Murray took the opportunity to shoot some practice footage with a model. The end result is a grotesquely beautiful, horror lab performance piece, set to the sounds of Múm. Warning: As we’ve come to expect [...]

Bare Bones

By El Vez ⋅ June 4, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Fashion and horror collide in the glorious amalgamation that is Alex Turvey’s Bare Bones. BARE BONES from Alex Turvey on Vimeo.

Zombies | Chainsaw Maid 2

By MarBelle ⋅ May 27, 2011 ⋅ One comment

Super lo-fi with a charm that’s hard to resist, Lee Hardcastle has taken a break from his 60 second replays in clay to bring us horrific tales of Zombies and a Chainsaw Maid. And here’s the making of Chainsaw Maid 2

Double Trouble

By MarBelle ⋅ May 14, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Dan Gitsham’s reworked version of The Sack shows the horror of being in Double Trouble.

Trolljegeren (Troll Hunter)

By El Vez ⋅ May 8, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

When I was young I developed two irrational fears, the first, bears, developed from a reoccurring dream I had. The second, trolls, originated from my dad’s feverish imagination and love of story telling. At an early age I was convinced under every bridge lived a troll ready to eat whoever tried to cross and it [...]