Thursday, August 27, 2009

How To Get Rid Of Dry Mouth

Review: Grace (2009)

By Francisco Acuña

YEAR: 2009.
DIRECTOR: Paul Solet.
PERFORMERS: Gabrielle Rose, Jordan Ladd, Malcolm Stewart and Serge Houde.

Every year we have several movies that are spoken and promises long before its release and with just a few people who saw it, ABEC expectations are fulfilled, others are in middle ground, sometimes unfortunately not. We can say that this is one of the movies I had more desire to see since I started to hear what "extreme" that was, try to convince myself not to get my hopes too, after all, just said to "Martyrs' and remaining term in the field of anyone leaving me rather indifferent.

The film tells the story of how Madeline 8 months pregnant lost her baby in a tragic accident, but she decides to continue the pregnancy, at the time of delivery, the baby miraculously comes alive, the trouble is that Grace has an appetite and a taste for blood.

I always thought that the more "virgin" watch a movie better do what I mean? A I believe that before seeing a movie makes me right, like a lot, watch the trailer, posters and see if you have an interesting cast and director, everything else in my opinion, it goes, this invasion of clips, and advertising that ABC can get to mystify a movie without even having released. That happened to me Grace, I saw a lot of material written much publicity, saying it was a movie and crudísima unbearable, and my expectations were so high that only the best outcome would please me, and Grace is a little far from excellent, but I can ensure that it is a most outstanding films of the year. Overall

I accept the uncomfortable feeling that makes all the movie, from beginning to end without leaving empty spots, sometimes it can get a little slow, but this serves to frustrate (good shape) to the viewer, is very interesting drawing and deterioration suffered some very interesting characters and their relationship with the way the movie sets, never taking anything for granted, and without explanation directly, so we get our own assumptions, also the plot unfolds in a fairly well structured, but without falling into cliches, very interesting and not let us know that can happen in the next minutes.

Jordan Ladd, Grace's mother grabs a very good performance, the film rests on her shoulders and she maintains an admirable way, too, Gabrielle Rose, Grace's grandmother, who despite his presumed madness only wants is good for her granddaughter and indulge their maternal instincts, even that is a selfish way, this movie is not good or bad, everyone has a prism of their views that ABC is blurred by their own frustrations, that little little can be converted into insanity under the extreme situation in which they live.

The script even that simple to blame for never lose that spark of originality, but if you can leave ABC go with the cheap sensationalism, music, or note, may have played more with that aspect but I have wasted so much at stake.

Finally, Grace is a highly recommended film to have a hard time in the best sense of the word, has put obstacles in its development, but nothing serious, she gave some characters less for more and I would have liked a little more footage, the story had more to tell, but it remains an excellent example of different films.

best:
-poor milk throughout their length.
-shots and camera angles, although they may seem minimalist and simple, are beautiful.

Worst:
"I had more to tell.
"Some may find it tedious.
"I expected something more."

for me: 7.8/10

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Hanna Montana Pink Skirt?

Review: The Orphan

By Francisco Acuña

YEAR: 2009
DIRECTOR: Jaume Collet-Serra
PERFORMERS: Isabelle Fuhrman, Jimmy Bennett, Lorry Ayers and Vera Farmiga.

In my country some time ago Orphan release, the truth, I was not eager to see it, because it only looked like a pile of cliches and often seen, an evil child movie kind that much there.

The movie has a premise, presumably, pretty basic, a couple after the loss of a baby decides to adopt a girl of nine, q is not as innocent as it seems and everything is slowly turning into a nightmare for the family.

From Orphan to say that now is a movie more than correct with a very good suspense management, and somehow manages to excel in this wave of remakes and live mediocre products and horror movies in our time, is not a wonder, but emphasizes that, as we all know, the average of such productions is that they are basically evil, then any glimmer of originality and quality is overrated. What I explain is that if this production had been on the "golden years" the horror would have been just another piece of the heap, but with the drought we have now, a production like this can be lifted up more than they should.

Its director, Jaume Collet-Serra had already experimented with the genre of horror with the (entertaining, but nothing more) house of wax, now in this film greatly improves the management of stress, significantly lowering gore, not really I need but it would have been nice to see more hemoglobin, suppose that spared in this regard to make it more consumable for the average audience for the commercial, come on, that have something to eat.

The performances are very good, standing out above all Isabelle Fuhrman as Esther, holding that easily let us feel sorry for her kindness and hatred and disgust to his handler and decrepit character.

the script but is a little full of topics is bearable and at times witty, mainly with his turn in the plot, original, slightly stilted, witty and unthinkable, a success. T he characters soon come to us primarily interested in the tender deaf girl, star of the most emotional moments of the footage that yes, a little slyly exploiting his disability.

exteriors and music are good, not outstanding but if they give a disturbing atmosphere of the film, which for most of its duration I felt something was missing, as more effort and desire to do something lasting, it seems that the director and the writers did their job just received their cake and nothing else, maybe they were afraid or discouraged to go a step further, instead of doing something that it lacks a bit of soul, and has plenty of convention, without going too far can we make an example "The children" that moves through similar territories and also came out this year, where its very premise view was overshadowed by the excellence of almost all its aspects.

Finally, a movie I can recommend, that will not disappoint anyone who knows he will not find the movie of the year and a good example of how to handle the suspense.

best:
-Esther's paintings.
-The end credits of the best I've seen in a long time.
-management of stress.

Worst:
-A film that you forget the time.
"That from what I read, the more overvalued than they should.
"I lack" soul?

for me: 7.3/10

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Curttains For Small Cabin

redrum test: James Wallenstein



Well here it is again the test of our blog, which has long since we did not, now is the turn of James Wallenstein blog fantastic dimension, excellent encyclopedia about all sorts of bizarre horror film fantastic, I recommend it completely!

Anyway here are the answers

Dear Fran answered here you have the test:

Hello to you all. I'm James Wallenstein, Dimension Fantastica. I hope you like my answers and has been a pleasure to pair my answer The Redrum test.

What was the film that are most marked your life? Probably

Crying Game, Neil Jordan. I have always been passionate about movies and I love many movies, but after watching it is understood the words of writer Terence Moix (great love of cinema) that they had talked movies that have magic. Crying Game made me feel that magic and cinema as never done before any film. I've seen the film over 200 times and I keep several copies of it in different formats and editions. It is a masterful film from every point of the beholder.

Why did you decide to start a blog?

Basically because being a lover of cinema, visiting countless blogs and websites around the world and all limping. What a site had, the other was missing. It was chaos and turmoil as I saw, including very famous sites that disappointed me in its contents (just not mentioned or analyzed many films), who after years of frustration over internet one day I decided to make the perfect place for amateur horror and fantasy. My blog is far from perfect or complete, but now that I have been for over two years.

accomplish your goal of making a blog where:
Dimension Fantastica
When the blog is written in Castilian number one in the United States on fantasy and horror movies. The growth rate of visitors and the blog is incredible and I received congratulations from all over the world both by his followers as professionals, so I'm in the right direction. One of my goals is to have over 10,000 daily visits real.

Your favorite movie:

- Serial killers: The Silence of the Lambs, Jonathan Demme
- Werewolves: The Company of Wolves by Neil Jordan
- Vampires: Interview with the Vampire, Neil Jordan but watch the television series True Blood, because it is great.
- Zombies: Zombie, George Romero
- Horror-comedy: Fright Night by Tom Holland
- Ghosts: The Shining, Stanley Kubrick Director

promise of the genre: I personally believe in

Nacho Cerdà, after making the Excellent Los Abandoned. I think he needs a good project, well funded and with a script level, so that the best of them and definitely convinced a fantasy film lovers in general and producers that is very worth to consider.

¿2 movies that everyone hates you and you love?

The Day of the Dead, George Romero. Everyone says that is a stupid sequel, disjointed script, but I feel great. Another film would be invaders of the abyss, Ruggero Deodato, which I love its exciting proposal, action-packed adventures.

2 movies that are little known gems that almost no value:

Serious magische und Anmerkungen auf Schwarzen Verbotene ritual, is a documentary film similar to Haxan (1922), which dates from 1929 and almost did not know any distribution , it was filmed in Poland a village near the city of Susz, by a German team and it shows the real sacrifice of a young gypsy desmembranado deformed live in a forest by four horses that pull members. Then decapitated and make a bizarre ritual burning their remains to do is not to salve with magical properties. Such a scene and not so powerful horrified producers and distributors who refused to brand something as controversial and cruel despite its undeniable anthropological value, as the team shot and lived for months with a group of real gypsies who practiced black magic. It is believed destroyed until all copies appeared in Italy (there are 3 more in the world if I'm wrong and all in private collections), which I enjoyed viewing on the year 97, thanks to my friend Nagar, a collector of hard to find songs with videos that you saved a great friendship. Another unknown gem would Entretiens d'un Inconnu Culte, Adolphe Sauveur Raynard, who worked and was a disciple of the great French director Jean Delannoy between the late 50's and over 60. It is a strange film shot in 1971 in a co-production Swiss-German-French and about a satanic cult, and apparently based on true events of a real satanic cult that was active in the 60's in Italy. Two crew members died in mysterious circumstances during it. The Cinema of Paris where he was going to the premiere of the film suffered a inundancion, delaying the premiere, and soon after the director and his wife were murdered in the house hayados they had, in bed by gunshot. The master of the film was stolen and apparently no distributor dared to release the few copies that had been made of it, supposedly threatened by the cult Italian. I had the opportunity to see one of those rare copies of the film, part of the private collection of a cinephile Catalan, some two years, invited by that gentleman. I had the pleasure of meeting him at a conference in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bafter introduce me to the wife of a friend of mine, working for a leading English audiovisual who prefer not to name.

Which character would win in a fight?

"Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees?: Jason because if it dies after passing centuries, be crumbled, pulverized and sent to hell ... How can Michael being killed?

"Pinhead or Freddy Krueger?: The Cenobites are capable of capturing and torturing a ghost? Given that Pinhead is immortal and lives in a dimension of pain, is able to bend like Freddy because ... Does the Cenobites sleep and have dreams, only territory where Freddy can strike?

gore "you most like?

The Fear in the City of the Dead, Lucio Fulci, when the girl started to vomit their guts inside the car. Brutal and disgusting!

If you put a murderer who invent a personality and how would it be?

Zapatero would be like physically. Zapatero and smile and talk like him. The truth is that the guy is scary and scares a while: you never know who really thinks or will do next. Is the most frightening, bewildering and unpredictable I have seen in my life. Tics has psycokiller, seriously.

Non-Horror Movie favorite:

As I appointed at the beginning of the interview Crying Game, give that distinction to another: The word, of Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish film a wonderful 1955.

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Pharmaceutical Calculations 2010

Review: Lesbian vampire killers

By Francisco Acuña

YEAR: 2008
DIRECTOR: Phil Claydon
PERFORMERS: James Corden, MyAnna Burying, Paul McGann and Silvia Colloca

Lesbian Vampire Killers was one of the film before its release me I was more attentive, paresis a very interesting proposal, although it was clear that sucked a little of that wonder called shaun of the dead, seemed to have enough merit on its own, after the release started reading the reviews, most of them giving a very warm welcome to the product, now I finished viewing a group that seemed a disappointment.

The movie is basically like the name says of lesbian vampires, a couple of players who go on vacation after the girlfriend of one of them leaves him and damn town where all women to be 18 years become vampires.

be the start approximately the first 20 minutes I was looking like a very fun and entertaining movie, maybe a little soft in its humor, who waited a little black, but sensed that as the vampires made their appearance and the blood started to sprout, the movie was to start, unfortunately, I'm wrong.


is that comparisons are odious, but Jimmy and Fletch, the protagonists of this story do not have half the charisma that simon pegg Nick Frost, grave error of this production make a couple of characters so alike, in their relationship and themselves with a film that shares many similarities, the other characters are hot chicks whose fate is more than known, a pastor, he was not out all the potential of a character like that and the vampires, who incidentally have a horrible design, especially the queen.

Nor should we expect much gore, the film is not about that, either sex is something you could guess by the title and promotion, leans rather to the comedy, maybe a little more soft and innocent wing which we are accustomed to this type of production, it is a pity, because if the product was a little more "courageous" and risky surely would have improved in general.

music, that itself is great, with an occasional piece to know, I also need to emphasize the sets and backgrounds, but look a little artificial ABC, give it an air to the film, as its tone blue, a success.

In conclusion Lesbian Vampire Killers is a film that did not meet my expectations, that even that has a good beat and some other point in favor, the overall result can be a bit lackluster, with many "jokes failed, but you have to aseptic does have parts that you can grab a smile and that is not all bad for a lazy afternoon with no better activity to do.

best:
"He has a rhythm and a generally good aesthetics.
"Some characters, quite nice.

Worst:
"Blood" white "of the vampire, is just a joke that loses its grace period after the first death.
-Knowing that the product could have been much better.
for me: 5.5/10

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Hannah Montana Pink Skirt?

Trailer for The Lovely Bones:


I know he has very little to do with horror films, but I can not avoid putting the trailer for this film, directed as many know by Peter Jackson, where until now all of his films is a wonder (well, maybe except the delusional world of the Feebles and remains a king kong little means)
Here the promising trailer :