Friday (neo) Noir: ‘Cold in July’ is a sharply focused film sporting many faces
Cold In July Written by Jim Mickle and Nick Damici …
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Sordid Cinema #82: ‘Cold in July’ + Fantasia Film Festival Highlights Part 1
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The proficient ‘Cold In July’ mashes up two genres that should have been kept apart
Indie auteur Jim Mickle has said that his newest effort ‘Cold in July’ is a combination of Bong Joon-Ho’s serial-murder thriller ‘Memories of Murder’ and the Patrick Swayze action film ‘Road House.’ That’s an eye-catching pairing, for certain…
Trailer for ‘Cold In July’ the Newest Film from Director Jim Mickle
Dexter may be over but Michael C. Hall is keeping …
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Ricky D’s 20 Most Anticipated Horror Films of 2014
10. Poltergeist Directed by Gil Kenan Written by David Lindsay-Abaire USA …
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Ricky D’s 20 Most Anticipated Horror Films of 2014
In case it isn’t obvious, I’m a pretty big fan …
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15 Best Horror Movies of 2013 (Top 10)
Special Mention: Sightseers Directed by Ben Wheatley Written by Steve …
‘Escape from Tomorrow’ and ‘We Are What We Are’: Sordid Cinema #69
This week on Sordid Cinema, Ricky, Edgar and Simon …
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‘We Are What We Are’ falters in the ending, but is an otherwise solid and grim backwoods thriller
Too few modern horror films take their cue from the power of suggestion. The less you show, the more terrifying your story can be. Some of the all-time greats of the genre, from The Haunting to The Shining, either show nothing scary or deliberately supernatural at all, or bide their time, allowing strange noises in the distance or unexpected shadows to do the heavy lifting.
‘We Are What We Are’ is one of the best horror remakes
Jim Mickle’s previous film Stake Land, a post-apocalyptic road movie with a vampiric threat, combined the tone of something like The Road with narrative flourishes (invincible hunter known only as Mister, vampires launched from helicopters like dropping bombs) more akin to comic books.
First Trailer for Sundance Horror Entry ‘We Are What We Are’
In the same way Let The Right One In …
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Film4 Frightfest – Day 5: ‘We Are What We Are’ and ‘Big Bad Wolves’ lay the competition to rest
“We didn’t want things jumping out at you. We wanted you to feel immersed, as if you were inside the scene.” Director Blair Erickson can only be referring to 3D; unlike many lazily post-converted blockbusters, his Banshee Chapter was filmed entirely in stereoscopic 3D, a conscious choice from the outset of the film’s production and a risky experiment for something so low budget.
Watch A Cannes Festival Clip From The Acclaimed Horror Remake ‘We Are What We Are’
In the critically acclaimed genre remake We Are What We …
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Fantasia 2011: ‘Kidnapped’ – ‘Stake Land’ – ‘Trollhunter’ – ‘Some Guy Who Kills People’
Our sort-of Fantasia wrap-up continues. In this hour: Miguel Angel …
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‘Stake Land’ – absorbing, and sort of moving, and quite scary…
Stake Land Directed by Jim Mickle Screenplay by Nick Damici …
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Trailer for Stake Land – Jim Mickle’s vampire-apocalypse-road-movie
Director Jim Mickle first grabbed my attention with his epidemic-rat …
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Fantastic Fest 2010: Stake Land
Stake Land Directed by Jim Mickle Horror films, despite their …
TIFF 2010 Trailer #6: Stake Land
From Jim Mickle, the man who gave us the zombie …