The Yellow House is a scary true ghost story about a haunted house named “la Casa Matusita” in Lima, Peru. This is the most famous urban legend in Peru. There is a strange, bright yellow…
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Originally scheduled to hit store shelves this Tuesday, Blue Underground has pushed back their upcoming DVD re-release/Blu-ray debut of Lucio Fulci’s 1981 horror film to October 25th. Special features include the following:
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A Night In A Haunted House / A Night In A GraveyardTracklist
1. Entering The Haunted House
2. The Mad Organist
3. Chamber Of Horrors
4. Bats In The Belfry
5. Laboratory
6. The Haunted Ballroom
7. Snakepit
8. The Dungeons
9. The Hounds of Hell
10. The Room Of Eternal Silence
11. Long Fuse And Dynamite
12. Entering The Graveyard
13. Be Careful Where You Tread
14. The Gathering Storm
15. Vampire Mausolem
16. Witches’ Coven
17. Procession Of The Undead
18. Dangerous Bridge
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In today’s filmic climate, horror movies are often dismissed as trash from casual moviegoers and snubbed by film critics as mindless dreck that only exists for a few scares once in a while. Honestly, a lot of horror films exist to do exactly that, scare you for an hour and a half and then you move on with your life. However sometimes a horror film comes along that not only satiates your bloodlust, but comes off as a surprise attempt at artistically driven filmmaking that breaks the boundaries of the medium in order to deliver to the viewer a very specific idea, often times producing weird and enjoyable results. Sometimes, these art house horror flicks catch you off guard and you end up watching something deep and insightful when you were expecting a mediocre shock film. These are four movies that totally weren’t what I was expecting, but ended up loving.
1: Hausu (House) Dir: Nobuhiko Obayashi – 1977
What I thought it would be: A fun and ridiculous Japanese horror film that was only as weird as everything else that comes out of Japan.
What Surprised Me: Everything about the film. I knew going in that it was a little bit off the wall and weird, but I was really unprepared for how beautifully f**ked up the film is. At the start of the film, it appears that you are in for some kind of horribly written garbage that falls into every single horror film cliché about characterization (boring templates of people as characters) and outdated setups (weird haunted house in the country). The film then takes you on a two hour tour of complete sensory assault that makes absolutely no sense even after several viewings. However the interesting thing to note is that it always seems like something is going on under the surface, but you are just barely missing the allegory. Think of it like one of those puzzles you saw in magazines or on the back of cracker jack boxes when you were a kid where you held the thin piece of cardboard with red plastic over a blurry image to see the real picture. In this case however, no one gave you a decorder ring, and it’s possible the person who created the puzzle never intended to give you one.
2: Rubber Dir: Quentin Dupieux — 2010
What I thought it would be: An exploitative and ridiculous film about a sentient car tire that kills people with a lot of gore and stupid plot reasons to keep me entertained.
What Surprised Me: I thought Rubber would be a bad movie. There I said it. I was being completely judgmental and the only reason I brought it up on Netflix was because I was super bored at work and thought it would be interesting to see how a tire could kill people. What I got was a film that wasn’t about a killer tire at all. It’s about expectations, the role of the audience, and the simplicity of ridiculous storytelling for a consumer base that wants a real and logical explanation for every story driven event that unfolds on screen. Giving you a fairly interesting deconstruction of the role of the audience with a film, the director appears as if they had a project that was criticized for no reason for being unrealistic at some point in their life. The response was this film which basically tells the viewer “Look, there is no effing
reason why the stuff on screen is happening rather than to move the story along, now shut the hell up and enjoy the film”.
3: Lost Highway Dir: David Lynch — 1997
What I thought it would be: A weird and sexual thriller about identity and a musician with a bad ass soundtrack.
What Surprised Me: When I first saw the film, I didn’t understand the concept of non linear filmmaking or the reputation of the director as a surrealist filmmaker. The movie starts out simply enough with the two main leads getting a creepy video in the mail of someone walking into their home and viewing them while they are asleep. After contacting the police, the couple finds that there isn’t much that can be done and the story moves on, however it’s almost as if Lynch got straight up bored with his linear story and decided to evolve the story down seemingly random paths including a complete role change with the main character. Nothing in the movie, from emotions to the actions of characters makes any sense at all, and for some reason, we are left with a great movie that has pretty much any meaning attached to it that you feel like giving to it. It’s completely accessible and inaccessible at the same time, in some kind of weird wonderland of surrealism that forces you to talk about the film after you’ve viewed it.
1: Cemetery Man Dir: Michele Soavi — 1994
What I thought it would be: a zombie film that is only a little weird.
What Surprised Me: A zombie flick that is extremely weird and isn’t about zombies or their traditional underlying subtext at all. The film is about a man who has the job of killing zombies that rise out of their graves in order to send the souls back to rest. The movie doesn’t really waste time focusing on this aspect though; it subtly and beautifully brings philosophical questions at you from all angles including the very base concept of life or death and the role of a person conflicting with their identity. It doesn’t help that the leading woman (played by a stunningly gorgeous Anna Falchi) actually plays three different roles in the film, further blurring the line betweenreality and some kind of other metaphysical dream world. I was absolutely floored by how amazing this film was when I originally saw it, and if you are a fan of strange and beautiful horror films, you need to see this one immediately.
James Wan is no stranger to low-budget horror, more recently with Insidious which was budgeted at around .5 million and raked in more than million worldwide, not too shabby.
Well, according to Variety, James Wan is currently in final negotiations to direct another haunted house flick, entitled The Conjuring. Peter Safran and Tony DeRosa-Grund will be producing The Conjuring through Safron Co.
The idea behind the film is said to be based on the true life story of the Perron family, who claimed they lived among the dead in the 1970′s as spirits, good and evil inhabited their farmhouse.
At one time Summit originally eyed up the project, but since then, New Line stepped in and picked up the project.
This 1981 Lucio Fulci-directed horror film will finally grace North American Blu-ray shelves on September 27th via Blue Underground. Cover art has been posted on the right and can be enlarged for detailed viewing! No word on what special features will be included. However, it has been said that this edition will feature the uncut version of the film!
Please stay tuned for further details!
Premise:
A young family moves from their cramped New York City apartment to a spacious new home in New England. But this is no ordinary house in the country: the previous owner was the deranged Dr. Freudstein, whose monstrous human experiments have left a legacy of bloody mayhem. Now, someone – or something – is alive in the basement, and home sweet home is about to become a horrific hell on earth.
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This horror film, starring Amanda Seyfried will be unleashed onto DVD/Blu-ray shelve on June 14th via Warner Home Video. Trade art featuring the Blu-ray cover art can be found on the right and enlarged for detailed viewing! Special features include the following:
The Silent House (La Casa Muda) is a unique film, one that comes from Uruguay. But also it is said to be the first horror film of its kind shot in real time. This means it was shot in one continuous shot which lasted 78 minutes, so you can imagine the kind of buzz that is happening behind this one.
Here’s the bad news. Well it’s actually good or bad depending on your opinion. When ever a good foreign surfaces you just know it will be remade and in this case the American remake is already in production simply titled Silent House. The remake is being helmed by Chris Kentis and Laura Lau with Elizabeth Olsen, Adam Trese and Eric Sheffer all starring.
Anyway thanks to our friends over at 24FPS we have the international trailer and poster as well as a translated synopsis, enjoy. The Silent House is directed by Gustavo Hernández and written by Oscar Estevez. The film stars, Florencia Colucci, Abel Tripaldi and Gustavo Alonso.
Synopsis: “Laura ( Florencia Colucci) and her father ( Gustavo Alonso) settle down in a cottage which seems to be off the beaten track in order to update it since its owner ( Abel Tripaldi) will soon put the house on sale. They will spend the night there in order to start the repairs the following morning. Everything seems to go on smoothly until Laura hears a sound that comes from outside and gets louder and louder in the upper floor of the house. Wilson goes up to see what is going on while she remains downstairs on her own waiting for her father to come down. The plot is based on a true story that happened some time ago in a small village in Uruguay. “La Casa Muda” focuses on the last seventy eight minutes, second by second, when Laura intends to leave the house which hides an obscure secret and she hopes to leave unharmed.”
For more information check out their official website. The Silent House hits UK cinemas on April 8th.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuXU1nhCO50
5/10
Cheol-ha Lee
84 minutes
Kyung-Sun Shin,
Yi-Na Yun,
In-Kul Jun,
Hwa-Jung Lee,
Tae-Ho Hyun,
So-Yul Shin
This proved to be a disappointing POV "found footage" flick to come out of South Korea. There was potential, especially with the creepy location, but instead of attempting any creativity, we're given a pretty formulaic storyline and lackluster attempts at scares. All negative aside, the film kept my interest for the most part and I did enjoy some of the exploring of the home. However, unless you're a big fan of the particular sub-genre, I'd advise skipping this.
Even more than a decade after The Blair Witch Project made the "found footage" sub-genre immensely popular, there are still films out there hoping to copy its success, especially recently with Paranormal Activity, which has sparked interest in the theme once again. Better late than never (in this case never), Korea decides to jump on the bandwagon and release The Haunted House Project (aka Deserted House), which displays edited found footage of a television crew and a few enthusiastic ghost hunters, as they explore a supposedly incredibly haunted home.
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Holy s**t! That’s a name I haven’t heard in years, Ruggero Deodato, the man behind Cannibal Holocaust, Last Cannibal World and The House on the Edge of the Park, is back in action. According to DreadCentral who got the exclusive word, has revealed that Ruggero Deodato is currently helming the sequel to The House on the Edge of the Park, which is being produced by North Bank Entertainment in the UK.
The film original film featured David Hess, playing a similar character to Krug in Craven’s Last House on the Left, which was also featured on the infamous Video Nasty list in the UK.
I for one cannot wait, I love House on the Edge of the Park and glad to see Deodato is helming the sequel, in which Giovanni Lombardo Radice, reprises his role as Ricky.
Back in the day this would shock audiences and possibly still does today, but with films like A Serbian Film, pushing the boundaries even further, I wonder if the sequel to a previously banned film will still be able to offend and disturb people in this day and age?
Check out the Press Release below:
“UK production company North Bank Entertainment are teaming up with legendary Italian director Ruggero Deodato (“Cannibal Holocaust”) and actor Giovanni Lombardo Radice (“City of the Living Dead”) to develop and produce a sequel to the 1980 cult film ‘The House on the Edge of the Park’.
Filmed in Italy and New York under the Italian title ‘La casa sperduta nel parco’, the original film starred David Hess and Giovanni Lombardo Radice as two lowlife punks who invite themselves to a party at a posh villa and, after being taunted by their snobbish hosts, hold everybody hostage and subject them to various torture and mayhem.
Ruggero Deodato’s film was the subject of controversy in the UK when it was initially rejected for a cinema certificate by the BBFC when first submitted in 1981. The film later found itself on the DPP list of “video nasties” when it was revealed that the uncut version was readily available on UK video. When it was eventually passed by the BBFC in 2002, it was cut by 11 minutes and 43 secs, with almost all of the rape and violence either replaced or removed entirely. To this day, the film remains cut in the UK.
The screenplay for ‘The House on the Edge of the Park Part II’ will be written by British filmmaker Andrew Jones from a story by Ruggero Deodato and Giovanni Lombardo Radice. The film will be produced by Ian Grey and Andrew Jones for North Bank Entertainment.”
Check out the NSFW trailer which contains some absolutely crazy disco song, over the brutality… Enjoy!
What do you guys think?
