December 2011
12 posts
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Dream House (Jim Sheridan 2011)
Yet another ghost film about the instability and insecurity of our homes; although not a haunted house tale in the traditional sense, Dream House engages with a number of conventions and tropes, if only to play around with them. What sticks out the most for me, is the significance of the house and Will Atenton’s (Daniel Craig) relationship to it. It is a new house recently purchased by the...
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Ever Since the World Ended (Calum Grant & Joshua...
A fake documentary about survivors after the world ended. I hesitate calling it a mockumentary, since for me that suggests that the documentary format is parodied or mocked in some way, which it is not here. Instead, the documentary style is used to great effect to suggest the hopelessness and bleak outlook for life after a virus has devastated the world. Beautiful images of an abandoned San...
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The Thing (Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. 2011)
A prequel/remake of a remake but supposedly based directly on the short story “Who Goes There?” by John W. Campbell, Jr., this film tries hard to reach the heights of paranoia which John Carpenter’s 1982 version reached, but never truly gets there. While the effects are obviously better than in Carpenter’s film, the attempted recycling of mood never takes off because the...
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Bag of Bones (Mike Garris 2011)
As a ghost story, Bag of Bones differs from many of the recently made ghost stories such as Paranormal Activity or American Horror Story (Ryan Murphy & Brad Falchuk 2011) in the way that Bag of Bones is a classic ghost story, where the ghosts are sites of memory and index of past traumas and crimes. While Sara Tidwell (the main ghost) is out for revenge, she has to mainly act through...
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