Many film websites published “decade’s best horror films” lists in late 2009/early 2010. While these lists collectively provided a rough snapshot of the genre’s ups and downs during that time, with more time to reflect, it becomes increasingly clear what an important period the 2000’s were for the horror genre on a global scale. Not …
The Divide Written by Karl Mueller and Eron Sheean Directed by Xavier Gens USA, 2011 At one point late in Xavier Gens’s interminable The Divide, one character informs another that there remains one way out of the predicament facing the pitiless survivors holed up in a dank basement at the end of the world, but …
The Divide Directed by Xavier Gens Written by Karl Mueller, Eron Sheean 2011, USA-Canada The Divide, directed by Xavier Gens, had its world premiere as part of SXSW’s midnight series this week. The film delivered midnight-appropriate content, like torture, rape and stinky corpses, but not much more. Gens didn’t know if he was making a …