#8 Piranha 3d Directed by Alexander Aja There is nothing particularly funny or poetic about the carnage in Piranha 3D. Even “disturbing” seems a bit too strong a word to describe the excessive, but still somehow palatably cartoonish bloodshed on display – can a film about pre-historic. bloodthirsty piranha really be disturbing? Tonally, this film …
#1 – Let Me In Directed by Matt Reeves In many ways very similar to the original Swedish film, Matt Reeves’ Let Me In differentiates itself through its invigorating visual style, and by contextualizing the narrative through the troubled moral atmosphere of Reaganite America. The comments that this film is “too much” like Alfredson’s film …
#3 -We Are What We Are Directed by Jorge Michel Grau The completed version of Jorge Michel Grau’s We Are What We Are had its North American premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival and left audiences very content on their way out. In the same way Let The Right One In reinvented the vampire brand …
I was lucky enough to catch the World Premiere of both [Rec]2 and The Loved Ones in 2009 at the Toronto International Film Festival. And yes they did indeed make my last year. But unless you were at the TIFF screening, you wouldn’t have ever had a chance to catch either one of these gems. …
#6- The Revenant Directed by D. Kerry Prior The night after his funeral, Bart, a soldier killed in Iraq, gets up out of his grave and seeks help from his best friend Joey. No explanation or higher education will make sense of his return, and Bart wouldn’t care in any case. Now it’s all about …
Filmmakers have continued to push boundaries and find new innovative ways to elicit the emotions of fear, disgust and horror from viewers. Since Alfred Hitchcock directors strived to provoke viewer’s nightmares, hidden fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown. Although a good deal of it is about the supernatural, others have focussed more on a …