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| 28 WEEKS LATER director to helm INTRUDERS |
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Posted by: Patient #666 ( bot ) - 02-22-2010 03:41 PM
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Fango got in a news tidbit about INTRUDERS, an upcoming filmby Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, the Spanish director who first won notice with the2001 thriller INTACTO and then helmed 2007’s superior sequel 28 WEEKS LATER.>> Oursource tells us that INTRUDERS is a genre piece whose story revolves around an11-year-old girl, and will be written and directed by Fresnadillo. Productionis scheduled to begin in mid-May. No other details are forthcoming, but we’llkeep you posted. Fresnadillo is also attached to the film version of the hitvideo game BIOSHOCK for Universal, and a remake of X: THE MAN WITH X-RAY EYESfor MGM.<!--EndFragment-->
Posted on Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:05:00 +0000 at http://fangorianews.blogspot.com/2010/02...-helm.html
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| First photo from del Toro-produced JULIA’S EYES |
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Posted by: Patient #666 ( bot ) - 02-22-2010 03:41 PM
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An early photo from JULIA’S EYES (LOS OJOS DE JULIA), thelatest chiller to have Guillermo del Toro on board as a producer, has appearedon-line with news that the movie has started selling to assorted internationalterritories. Check out the pic after the jump.>>
Screen Daily reports that the co-production between del Toro, Focus Features and Rodar yRodar has sold to Optimum Releasing in the UK, CinemaMondo in Scandinavia, KinoSwiat in Poland and Rosebud in Greece, with more deals expected to be signedthis week. Belén Rueda (pictured) from the del Toro-produced THE ORPHANAGEstars in JULIA’S EYES as a woman who, while dealing with the loss of her sight,investigates the mysterious death of her twin sister. Directed by GuillemMorales from a script he wrote with Oriol Paulo, the film also stars LluísHomar, Daniel Grao, Héctor Claramunt, Julia Gutiérrez Caba and Francesc Orella,with cinematography by ORPHANAGE’s Óscar Faura and FX by DDT. >>
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Posted on Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:04:00 +0000 at http://fangorianews.blogspot.com/2010/02...duced.html
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| DRAG ME TO HELL leads horror nominees for 36th Annual Saturn Awards |
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Posted by: Patient #666 ( bot ) - 02-20-2010 11:14 AM
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The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Filmshas announced the nominees for its 36th Annual Saturn Awards (though strangelyenough, as of this posting, they haven’t posted them at the org’s official website yet). Sam Raimi’s DRAG ME TO HELL turnedout to be the most honored fright feature, scoring five nominations includingBest Horror Film.>>
Raimi’s tale of a gypsy curse is also up for Best Actress(Alison Lohman), Best Supporting Actress (Lorna Raver), Best Music (ChristopherYoung) and Best Makeup (Gregory Nicotero and Howard Berger). Also in therunning for Best Horror Film are THE BOX (plus Best Supporting Actor for FrankLangella), FROZEN, THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON(??—plus Best Younger Actor for Taylor Lautner) and ZOMBIELAND (plus BestSupporting Actor for Woody Harrelson). Other fear films in the running are THEROAD for Best Actor (Viggo Mortensen) and Best Younger Actor (KodiSmit-McPhee), and THIRST for Best International Film. Sadly, not a singlehorror feature is up for either Best Director or Best Writing.>>
Inthe television category, the Best Syndicated/Cable Series nominees includeShowtime’s DEXTER (plus Best Actor for Michael C. Hall, Best Supporting Actressfor Julie Benz and Jennifer Carpenter and Best Guest Star for John Lithgow) andHBO’s TRUE BLOOD (plus Best Actor for Stephen Moyer, Best Actress for AnnaPaquin, Best Supporting Actor for Alexander Skarsgard and Best Guest Star forMichelle Forbes). In addition, Fox’s FRINGE is up for Best Actress (Anna Torv),Best Supporting Actor (John Noble) and Best Guest Star (Leonard Nimoy). ForBest DVD Release, Dark Sky/Magnet’s THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL, Anchor Bay’s LAIDTO REST, MPI’s PONTYPOOL and Magnolia’s SURVEILLANCE are all in the running,while MGM’s THE HANNIBAL LECTER ANTHOLOGY, Anchor Bay’s HELLRAISER BOXED SETand Sony’s THE WILLIAM CASTLE COLLECTION are among those vying for BestCollection. The Saturns will be awarded June 24 in Burbank, CA.<!--EndFragment-->
Posted on Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:15:00 +0000 at http://fangorianews.blogspot.com/2010/02...inees.html
Author: noreply@blogger.com (FANGORIA Magazine Editors)
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| SOMETHING scary and funny coming from Universal |
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Posted by: Patient #666 ( bot ) - 02-20-2010 11:14 AM
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Variety reports that Universal has madea mid-six-figure deal to buy up a horror/comedy pitch called THE SOMETHING fromRodney Rothman, who will script. The writer, whose credits include producinggigs on FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL and the upcoming GET HIM TO THE GREEK, willalso serve that function on THE SOMETHING.>> Plotdetails haven’t been revealed, but the setting is outer space and the tone issaid to be similar to that of ZOMBIELAND. In addition to his big-screencredits, Rothman was also the youngest head writer in the history of LATE NIGHTWITH DAVID LETTERMAN.<!--EndFragment-->
Posted on Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:48:00 +0000 at http://fangorianews.blogspot.com/2010/02...-from.html
Author: noreply@blogger.com (FANGORIA Magazine Editors)
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| Filmmaker talks MACHETE MAIDENS and PATRICK remake |
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Posted by: Patient #666 ( bot ) - 02-18-2010 07:31 PM
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Fango caught up with Australian director Mark Hartley,creator of the amazing documentary NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD: THE WILD, UNTOLD STORYOF OZPLOITATION!, while he was in NYC grabbing interviews for his follow-up,MACHETE MAIDENS UNLEASHED. This project is in a similar vein, covering thehistory of genre filmmaking in the Philippines—though not so much homegrownproduct, he points out.>>
“It looks not so much at Filipino exploitation movies, butthe Americans who went over there to shoot films,” Hartley (pictured below) tellsFango, “so it’s kind of a fish-out-of-water story. It covers Roger Corman’sproductions, Cirio Santiago’s movies, the BLOOD ISLAND series and EddieRomero’s other pictures and Bobby Suarez, who literally just died two days ago.Bobby made CLEOPATRA WONG, THE ONE ARMED EXECUTIONER, BIONIC BOY II and thingslike that. They were films that tried to take on Hollywood and be mainstream,but were kind of beyond mainstream in trying to do it.”>>
MACHETE MAIDENS will showcase interviews with quite a numberof B-movie stalwarts, including several Fango faves. “We’ve spoken to lots andlots of cast and crew,” Hartley says. “We talked to Joe Viola, who went overthere with Jonathan Demme and made THE HOT BOX. We’re interviewing Eddie Romeroin the Philippines and a bunch of cast from the Corman and Santiago films whohave never really spoken about this stuff before, so it has been really, reallyinteresting. Sid Haig and Joe Dante, Allan Arkush and Jon Davison, who were allworking in the trailer and promotion department at New World when these filmswere getting made; Jane Schaffer, who produced Jack Hill’s films, and Hillhimself. It will be pretty definitive, and this is an era that has never beendocumented much, so it’s in the same vein as NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD—another untoldstory.”>> Having completed his Los Angeles interviews and wrapping uphis New York stint, Hartley next heads to London, Manila and Singapore, aimingto have MACHETE MAIDENS ready in time to play the major festivals this summerand fall. Director of photography Karl von Moller and co-editors Sara Edwardsand Jamie Blanks (the latter doing the score this time) are returning from NOTQUITE HOLLYWOOD, and Hartley, who says the new docu will be in the same spirit,is still enormously gratified by the response to that movie. “I was absolutelyamazed by the goodwill toward NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD; the feedback from people andthe reviews were beyond my wildest dreams. The fact that it has inspired manypeople to go and seek out the films [it covered] is truly rewarding for me, andfor all the filmmakers who told their tales. Those movies have been dismissedfor so long, and suddenly the only places you can see them is at festivals!”>> One Down Under chiller spotlighted in NOT QUITE HOLLYWOODwas Richard Franklin’s PATRICK, and Hartley reveals that he’s bringing a freshtake on that tale of telekinetic terror to the screen. “After we finished NOTQUITE HOLLYWOOD, I had discussed this with PATRICK’s producer, Tony Ginnane,and we decided we’d take a crack at reinventing it. So Justin King and I wrotea treatment and Justin’s working on the script at the moment, and hopefully, assoon as MACHETE MAIDENS is finished, we’ll get right into it.”>> The original PATRICK, written by Everett De Roche, is theHitchcock-influenced story of the titular young man, who goes into a coma afterelectrocuting his mother and winds up in a hospital being tended to by Dr.Roget and nurse Kathy Jacquard, who discover that despite his inert physicalstate, he now possesses deadly psychic abilities. For the update, “We’re sortof giving it a creepier, Gothic flavor, very much in a similar style to THEORPHANAGE,” reveals Hartley, who will direct. “There’s much more of a backstoryfor Dr. Roget, and Patrick has dream sequences and flashbacks where he’s out ofthe bed. We don’t want to turn Patrick into Freddy Kreuger; we like to think ofit as a love story with a body count. The great thing about the original wasthe fact that here’s a guy with unlimited powers, but all he wants to do is usethem to manipulate the events in that nurse’s life to make her fall in lovewith him. So we’ve kept that central premise and really upped the ante.”>> Other elements will be altered, however. “The first PATRICK,as much as it’s a really interesting film, is very much of its time. It’spredominantly set in one hospital room, and we’re trying to open it up. To behonest—and I’ve said this to Tony—it’s not that scary when you watch it now,and we’re all about giving it those jolts. Obviously, I’m a fan of PATRICK, andI want people who’ve seen the original to appreciate the remake, so we’recertainly putting nods to the first one throughout the film, but we’re notdoing a Gus Van Sant PSYCHO. I believe Jamie’s remake of LONG WEEKEND [releasedin the U.S. as NATURE’S GRAVE] suffers because they used the original script,and when people love these films and know them so well, there’s no way thatthey can embrace a film that’s so similar. We learned a lesson there, and we’lltry to tailor our PATRICK for modern audiences.”>> Ginnane is currently seeking funding and working onpre-sales for PATRICK, and Hartley is hoping to start shooting before the endof this year on a budget around $4 million. Clearly, he’s got a lot on hisplate this year—and couldn’t be happier about it. “I’d been trying to get afeature going for a long time, and then NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD, which I had workedon for 10 years, got out there,” he says. “I was just so amazed to get broughtin on MACHETE MAIDENS; I was a gun for hire on it at first, and I changed theconcept to suit the story I wanted to tell and the people I wanted to meet. Sothat has really taken over my workload, but if that comes out and I jump rightinto PATRICK, I’ll be very, very happy.” (Thanks to Arianne Ayers)>>
Posted on Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:04:00 +0000 at http://fangorianews.blogspot.com/2010/02...s-and.html
Author: noreply@blogger.com (FANGORIA Magazine Editors)
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| First set report on Aussie horror NEEDLE |
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Posted by: Patient #666 ( bot ) - 02-18-2010 07:31 PM
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No notable horror films have lurched out of WesternAustralia since ZOMBIE BRIGADE circa 1988. NEEDLE, shot just before Christmas2009, is seeking to redress the situation, and goes about it with a deadlydevice from the 18th century. The third feature from John V. Soto, who wrotePREY (released Down Under to negligible returns last year) and co-directedCRUSH (now visible via video on demand and hitting U.S. DVD April 21) with JeffGerritsen, helmed NEEDLE from a script he wrote with Tony Egan.>>
On the set, situated within the confines of an old networkTV studio in a languid Perth suburb, the common NEEDLE description offered byall is “a psychological thriller with horror elements.” Soto even says as much,before explaining a little history of the movie (which we previously reportedon with exclusive photos here).>>
Collaborating with Egan when the latter was brought in togive the CRUSH screenplay a polish sparked the development of NEEDLE. (Egan, bythe way, is the writer of FLIES 3D, a project that STORM WARNING’s Jamie Blanksis attached to direct; Blanks supplied the score for NEEDLE, as he did forCRUSH). “Over the last three years, I’ve wanted to do a whodunit/murdermystery-type movie, a sort of Agatha Christie,” Soto tells Fango. “She waslight years ahead of most people. A lot of her work has been turned into films,and she was the master of ‘Who is the killer?’ I just love the puzzle element.>> “We talked about that,” he continues, “and at the same timewanting to involve our favorite genre, horror, and include a supernaturalelement. We pitched ideas to each other continuously for months untilessentially arriving at the same concept, which was a machine with supernaturalpowers that kills people from afar. I can’t go into specifics, but let me justsay that I’d call CRUSH a gentle thriller, while in NEEDLE, the gloves are offand it’s full-on with very strong elements of horror.”>> The director casually mentions that people do die painfullyin NEEDLE: “They basically come apart from the inside. We got MEG FX involvedto help us with the kills, but it took an enormous amount of work creating themachine’s mythology. We looked at Grand Guignol, and in those days, they didhave devices that could create illusions, all these weird and wonderful things.I read somewhere about a scientist who created something like that and thought,‘That’s not a bad idea.’ I could see how it could work. So we basically builtthe mythology based on some rumors, or things we’d read or heard and theresearch we’d done. And the machine, supposedly built in the late 1800s, hasplausibility. I can’t say what it does, but it has supernatural powers and isvery effective at its job.”>> NEEDLE puts the device in the reluctant possession of ayoung guy (DAYBREAKERS’ Michael Dorman) whose father has died in a car accidenta couple of years earlier. Academic connections are called in, and soon discoverthe worst. “It’s got amazing supernatural powers—bad powers,” Soto explains.“It’s a machine for revenge. And there’s also a major backstory on that. Hisfriends get him to do a big feature story on it in the university newspaper. Hegoes back to his room, back to where he has hidden it away, and it’s gone. Onenight at a party, he had shown it to his friends, so all of them know about it,about seven of them. The next day, one of them is murdered. The police can’tsolve it, and the coroner is puzzled, as it seems the victim’s body somehowheated up on the inside. It’s quite graphic. There is no entry wound, but thereare exit wounds. It’s a real mystery. We’ve spent a lot of time mythologizingthis. When the concept is revealed, you’ll realize, ‘I should have thought ofthat.’ ”>> Investigationsinto the pointy end of NEEDLE will continue in Fango’s pages…<!--EndFragment-->
Posted on Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:39:00 +0000 at http://fangorianews.blogspot.com/2010/02...orror.html
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| SOMEONE’S KNOCKING, GOD OF VAMPIRES, VINDICATION and more indie DVD date/art news |
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Posted by: Patient #666 ( bot ) - 02-18-2010 07:31 PM
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• Fango got the word from Breaking Glass Pictures that it has picked up Chad Ferrin’s newshocker SOMEONE’S KNOCKING AT THE DOOR for release under its Vicious Circlebanner. The company also grabbed Ferrin’s previous feature EASTER BUNNY, KILL!KILL!, as well as the German production SLASHER.>>
SOMEONE’S KNOCKING (see trailer below) stars CABIN FEVER 2’sNoah Segan (who discusses the movie in Fango #291, on sale now) as one of agroup of med students who mix drug-taking with an investigation into ’70s serialkillers John and Wilma Hopper, and are soon suffering extremely unpleasantfates. It’ll hit disc May 25, while EASTER BUNNY, in which a monstrousincarnation of the titular critter takes bloody revenge on behalf of a mentallydisabled boy, will follow on June 1. Frank W. Montag’s SLASHER, in which agroup of friends are terrorized and cut up during a forest vacation, hits May4. Final cover art and specs on all these titles are coming soon.>>
• Midnight Releasing has set a May 4 street date for GOD OF VAMPIRES,Rob Fitz’s ode to Asian genre fare, and passed on a first look at the cover.Dharma Lim stars as Frank Ng, a hitman assigned to take out a crime boss whoturns out to be a monstrous creature of the night. The movie will beaccompanied by an interview featurette, a gag reel and trailers, and retailsfor $24.98. Check out Fango #289 for Fitz’s Notes from the Underground articleon the making of GOD OF VAMPIRES.>>   • <!--StartFragment-->R2 Films<!--EndFragment--> has set up a newlabel called Big Bite Entertainment, and gave Fango the scoop on the lineup andsome cover art. Bart Mastronardi’s surreal chiller VINDICATION streets April 13(see details here),while Immanuel Martin’s MIYUKI, about a Japanese exchange student with a verydark side (which we previously reported on here),arrives May 11. Also coming on the 11th are TERROR OVERLOAD, a horror anthologywith segments directed by Brant Johnson, Kevin Myhre and Jason Stephenson, andMatt A. Cade’s UNDERBELLY, in which a writer searching for his missing wiferuns afoul of a gang of psychopaths.  Further down the line is LONG PIGS, a docu-style chiller bywriter/directors Nathan Hynes and Chris Power in which they play themselves asfilmmakers following the grisly activities of a cannibalistic serial killer.This Canadian production has won awards at several festivals; check out thetrailer below. We’ll bring you further info on these titles as they becomeavailable, and you can read more about VINDICATION in Fango #292, on sale inMarch.>> <!--EndFragment-->
Posted on Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:34:00 +0000 at http://fangorianews.blogspot.com/2010/02...pires.html
Author: noreply@blogger.com (FANGORIA Magazine Editors)
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| Morse and Burke will DRIVE ANGRY |
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Posted by: Patient #666 ( bot ) - 02-18-2010 07:31 PM
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Arrow in the Head got the first word that DavidMorse has joined the cast of Summit Entertainment’s 3-D action-chiller DRIVEANGRY. This comes hard on the heels of a Moviehole announcement that Billy Burke has also signed onto the film.>>
Directed and written by the MY BLOODY VALENTINE team ofPatrick Lussier and Todd Farmer respectively, DRIVE ANGRY is about a criminal(Nicolas Cage) who sets out on a road trip of revenge against the evil cult whohave murdered his daughter and plan to sacrifice his baby granddaughter. Alsostarring William Fichtner and busy genre actress Amber Heard (from ZOMBIELAND,THE STEPFATHER and the upcoming THE WARD, AND SOON THE DARKNESS and ALL THEBOYS LOVE MANDY LANE) the film is set to roll in Shreveport, LA next month,with release currently scheduled for February 11, 2011. Morse’s long career asa character actor has included genre turns in DISTURBIA, DOUBLE VISION, THEGOOD SON and TV’s THE LANGOLIERS as well as the non-horror Stephen King filmsTHE GREEN MILE and HEARTS IN ATLANTIS, while Burke, most visible recently asBella’s father Charlie Swan in Summit’s TWILIGHT films, has also been seen inUNTRACEABLE, AFTER IMAGE, KOMODO and the Wes Craven-presented TV movie DON’TLOOK DOWN.>>
Posted on Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:21:00 +0000 at http://fangorianews.blogspot.com/2010/02...angry.html
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| Cast and director set for Gothic thriller THE MONK |
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Posted by: Patient #666 ( bot ) - 02-18-2010 07:31 PM
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Variety reports that Vincent Cassel,fresh off Darren Aronofsky’s supernatural drama BLACK SWAN, has been cast inthe title role of THE MONK for France’s Diaphana Films and Spain’s MorenaFilms. Based on Matthew Lewis’ 18th-century Gothic novel, the film will toplineCassel as Capucin Ambrosio, who is undone by temptation brought on by blackmagic and the devil himself.>> >>
DominikMoll, who first won notice with the 2000 psychological thriller WITH A FRIENDLIKE HARRY…, will direct the movie, which will co-star HARRY and PAN’SLABYRINTH’s Sergi Lopez, Geraldine Chaplin from THE ORPHANAGE and THE WOLFMANand Deborah Francois. Art director Antxon Gomez and composer Alberto Iglesiasare also part of the MONK team. The $15-million production starts its 12-weekshoot in mid-April; a previous 1990 screen version of THE MONK was written anddirected by Francisco Lara Polop and starred Paul McGann, BOOK OF BLOOD’sSophie Ward, Isla Blair and Aitana Sánchez-Gijón. Cassel’s previous genrecredits include SHEITAN (in which he was the devil), BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLFand THE CRIMSON RIVERS.
Posted on Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:31:00 +0000 at http://fangorianews.blogspot.com/2010/02...othic.html
Author: noreply@blogger.com (FANGORIA Magazine Editors)
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| SHUTTER ISLAND (Film Review) |
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Posted by: Patient #666 ( bot ) - 02-18-2010 07:31 PM
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The first thing that should be said here about SHUTTERISLAND is that it’s not the consistently scarifying horror film that some ofthe ads are making it out as—and nor is it trying to be one. While there areplenty of creepy events and imagery scattered throughout its running time,here’s a movie that truly warrants description as a “psychological thriller”—nosurprise coming from Martin Scorsese, a director who has always been just asinterested, if not moreso, in tortured souls as in tortured bodies.>>
When he last visited genre territory with 1991’s CAPE FEARremake, Scorsese changed the targets of Max Cady’s revenge from asqueaky-clean, all-American brood to the ultimate dysfunctional family, to thepoint where it eventually became difficult to feel for them. A moreconsistently sympathetic protagonist is SHUTTER ISLAND’s Teddy Daniels(Leonardo DiCaprio), a member of the U.S. Marshals who is first seen heavinginto a toilet on a boat en route to the titular locale, located in the watersoff Boston, in 1954, where he and new partner Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) havebeen assigned to investigate the disappearance of an inmate at the AshecliffeHospital for the Criminally Insane.>>
 Teddy regains his physical bearing when he reaches theisland, but his psyche isn’t as stable. He’s tormented by visions of his deadwife Dolores (Michelle Williams) and the victims he encountered when, as anArmy soldier, he helped liberate the Nazi death camp in Dachau. The latter experiencemeans that it’s dislike at first sight when Teddy meets the German Dr. Naehring(Max von Sydow), one of the key staff under Dr. Cawley (Ben Kingsley), whogives Teddy and Chuck a tour of Ashecliffe and explains the situation. Thevanished prisoner—er, patient was a mother who murdered her three children andappears to have vanished without a trace from her locked room within thehighest-security of the facility’s three wards. The attempt to track her downwill lead Teddy into a mystery that comes to encompass more ghosts from hispast, plus the possibility of bizarre medical experiments, secret conspiracies,Cold War paranoia and visits to dark, dripping passageways, the local cemeteryand its mausoleum, the imposing cliffs at the edge of Shutter Island and thelighthouse beyond them—and oh yes, a good deal of the action takes place duringa cataclysmic hurricane.>> All the ingredients, in other words, are here for a wild,lurid Gothic ride, and Scorsese certainly doesn’t hold back. He unleashes thefull bag of filmmaker’s tricks to create a modern, full-color (complete withbrighter-than-natural blood), widescreen version of a vintage picture byadmitted influence Val Lewton, with sudden, sharp camera moves and small,apparently intentional jump cuts to keep the audience on edge. As usual,Scorsese has marshaled sterling production values from his regular team ofcraftspeople, with impeccable cinematography by Robert Richardson, productiondesign by Dante Ferretti and costumes by Sandy Powell, plus an eclectic andspooky assembly of music from the divergent likes of Gustav Mahler, GyörgyLigeti, Krzysztof Penderecki, John Cage and Brian Eno. Thelma Schoonmaker’sediting is, for the most part, razor-sharp from scene to scene—though the movieas a whole could stand to be tightened up somewhat.>>  That’s because the longer the story (scripted by LaetaKalogridis, adapting Dennis Lehane’s dense and twisty puzzle of a novel) goeson, the more it becomes clear where things are ultimately headed. As he plungesinto the third act, Scorsese seems determined to plumb every nook and cranny ofTeddy’s psyche at the expense of narrative economy, and at least one majorrevelation is both explained in dialogue and dramatized in flashback wheneither one or the other (probably the latter) would have sufficed. Nonetheless,DiCaprio holds the center throughout, his still-boyish looks adding to thevulnerability of a man struggling to submerge his insecurities beneath anauthority-figure exterior. Ruffalo, as the one guy he can trust on thisassignment, offers a fine sounding board and welcome levity, Kingsley and vonSydow evoke just the right amounts of empowerment and suspicion and Williamsallows Teddy’s deceased beloved to become fully alive in his eyes. Makingstrong impressions in smaller roles are the impeccably cast likes of EmilyMortimer, Patricia Clarkson, John Carroll Lynch, Ted Levine, Elias Koteas,actor/HOME MOVIE director Christopher Denham and Jackie Earle Haley, whose solebut lengthy pivotal scene opposite DiCaprio promises great things from hisFreddy Krueger.>> SHUTTERISLAND effectively raises the hackles at moments like this, but Scorsese’sendgame isn’t to send the audience reeling from the theater in terror, but toleave them shaken from the personal tragedy at the story’s core. As such,Saturday-night thrillseekers may be a bit disappointed or nonplussed, whilethose who can get on the director’s wavelength will appreciate how he harksback to the virtues of a classic style of thriller-making. One thing’s forsure: His craft is so aggressive and unrelenting that nobody who sees SHUTTERISLAND is likely to be bored.<!--EndFragment-->
Posted on Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:02:00 +0000 at http://fangorianews.blogspot.com/2010/02...eview.html
Author: noreply@blogger.com (FANGORIA Magazine Editors)
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