“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.
Kalevet (Rabies) Written by Aharon Keshales & Navot Papushado Directed by Aharon Keshales & Navot Papushado Israel, 2010 Horror is a genre that. perhaps more than any other, loves its tropes. Sure, one could levy the same barb against the romantic comedy genre or the action genre. But, the horror genre wears its tropes on …
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 focused more on a …
The time is upon us. On October 6th, Chicago will begin its annual International Film Festival. For two weeks, the film fanatics of the Windy City have the chance different types of movies from all over the world, made with a distinct passion for this wonderful art form This year, they’re boasting quite the …
September is the busiest month for the Sound On Sight team with Telluride, TIFF, Pop Montreal, The Atlantic Film Festival, New York Film Festival and yes Fantastic Fest. Starting September 22nd anyone interested in genre film will have their eyes on Fantastic Fest, one of the biggest and possibly coolest fests in the world. After …
Our Saskatoon, SK readers should be interested in this post. The lineup of films at this year’s Dark Bridges Film Festival has been announced. This marks only the second year of the fest but the line-up is great. The festival runs Sept. 29th – Oct. 2nd, 2011 at the Broadway Theatre. Dark Bridges Film Festival …
Visit the official Fantasia Film Fest website Well we are officially through the third and final week of the Fantasia Film Festival, so I figured we should do a quick look back at all the reviews we have posted in the past seven days. In seven days our crew has managed to post over …
Michael Ryan’s Five Favourites – Rabies This year at Fantasia we heard horror in an entirely new language. As Israel’s horror pioneers, Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado borrowed from the World of Expoliation Cinema, but struck off in an entirely new direction. Rabies is darkly funny and filled with rage. The very existence of the …
The Fantasia Film Festival is coming to a close this weekend and so we want to look back one last time at the highlights of the fest. It was an incredible year with many strong first time features, a batch of incredible short films and a ton of special guests. Michael, Simon, Justine and I, …
Rabies aka Kalevet Directed and Written by Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado Israel, 2010 Fantasia imdb “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference” -Robert Frost A car filled with four young and lost tennis players; a brother and sister running …