All the way back to Footsteps and through The Raid, he was indulging in intense bursts of gore and terror beyond what the usual action movie holds. Anyway, fast forward to 2012, enter V/H/S. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  ( Log Out /  Back to the found-footage aspect for a sec: it’s somewhat oxymoronic, but Evans proves to be a great fit for found-footage in large part because he has so little respect for its conventions. © Watchr Media • All rights reserved, Alamo Drafthouse's Stuck on VHS Book Explores the History of Video Store Stickers, The New Kids Is a Sean S. Cunningham 80s Classic We Need to Talk About More [Rewind], Without Kenny & Company, 80s Teen Movies Wouldn't Be the Same, Jack Nicholson's Joker Had Michael Keaton 'Nervous' & 'Self-Conscious' on Batman Set, Why Mahershala Ali Was Drawn to Blade More Than Any Other MCU Character, Evil Dead Rise Has a Female Hero Fighting Urban Deadites Reveals Bruce Campbell. It’s not like the wave upon wave of turd slasher movies that came out in the 1980s was particularly noble, but the quick-buck filmmakers behind them had to at least try to learn how to frame a shot instead of struggling to come up with reasons why someone would keep their eye to the viewfinder while leaping from building to building to escape a giant monster (god dammit, I hate Cloverfield). Yeah both the Alien one and Safe Haven were awesome. Feel free to contact us at please enable javascript to view with your scoops, comments or advertising inquiries. Dedicated horror fans will probably know what this is, but for the cheap seats: Found Footage movies, as the name implies, present themselves as an assemblage of footage found by a third party and shot by a (usually) dead or missing, (usually) amateur filmmaker. The first of these two is A Ride in the Park, a fun if insubstantial short by Blair Witch co-director Eduardo Sanchez making use of the irresistible high-concept gimmick “zombies with go-pros.” The second, in a whole other league than Ride and indeed anything in the V/H/S franchise is Gareth Evans’ Safe Haven (hey, it only took me 700 words to get to the point). But first, he would take another spin through the franchise that made his name. Having dispensed with the found-footage movie’s weaknesses, Evans shows a keen grasp of its strengths. And so, Safe Haven was one of the best horror movies of the 2010s, but unfairly trapped within an otherwise lackluster movie. It’s one of the most potent, concentrated doses of nightmare imagery you’re likely to find in 21st century film, and Evans parcels it out with a master director’s control. V/H/S/2 now available On Demand and On iTunes! The progenitor of this genre is often said to be 1999’s zeitgeist-exploding microbudget masterpiece, The Blair Witch Project, although more learned students of exploitation cinema will often point to Ruggero Deodato’s unbelievably grueling 1980 gorefest Cannibal Holocaust as its true origin. On arriving, they notice some of the expected Jonestown-esque eeriness: matching white uniforms, unsettling singalongs, Blair Witch style fetish dolls, and the deeply uncomfortable implication of child abuse (exposing this last aspect appears to be the film crew’s chief motivator). ( Log Out /  A video tape reveals a gory hallway incident. I’m not gonna bury the lede any more than I already have: I’m sick to fucking death of found-footage movies.

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. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Even though I loved the first V/H/S … Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  In the years since, found-footage horror movies have dominated the landscape to the point where I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve outnumbered conventionally shot horror movies in the past decade. So, the plot: set, as with Evans’ last two films, in Indonesia, a documentary film crew headed by Malik (Oka Antara) is interviewing a mysterious cult leader only referred to as Father (Epy Kusnandar) in a restaurant. Take a look at this bloody clip from V/H/S/2's Safe Haven segment! From the 'Safe Haven' segment of this found footage thriller comes a distributing moment as directed by contributors Timo Tjahjanto and Gareth Evans. But they aren’t there long before things take an even darker turn; as the members of the film crew are separated, Father makes some cryptic announcements over the compound’s intercom, and all hell breaks loose, in the most direct and literal meaning of the term. Evans brings his characteristic video-game aesthetic into play as well, trading in the side-scrolling beat-em-up conceit of The Raid for the survivalist horror genre: there’s the hellish occult imagery of Quake, the old-school goat-headed demons of Doom, and the wailing air raid sirens of Silent Hill. Duration 0 min 58 sec Views 7,299 Posted On June 06, 2013 Director Simon Barrett Writer Simon Barrett Studio Magnet Releasing Release June 6, 2013 Cast Adam Wingard Lawrence Levine L. C. Holt Kelsy Abbott Hannah Hughes But to be even more blunt, I don’t care. Some of them are okay – The Blair Witch Project still holds up both as a watershed moment in horror history and a genuinely unnerving scary movie, Cannibal Holocaust, for all its moral and aesthetic flaws, is still enough to leave anyone shaken, and Paranormal Activity has its moments. I’ve already made it clear how tiresome I find the blandly anonymous visual aesthetic of found-footage at large, so if Evans has to game things a bit, more power to him. V/H/S 2 'Safe Haven' Clip. You can read what the terrible twosome had to … V/H/S/2 is significantly more lumpy and uneven than its predecessor. Timo Tjahjanto and Gareth Evans direct this jaw-dropping segment of the horror anthology, in theaters July 12th. If you haven't seen it, I highly suggest that you do so soon! On the one hand, there’s no real market for standalone short films anymore (if there ever really was), so Safe Haven stood its best chance for being seen by fitting snugly in the modern cult favorites that are the V/H/S series. They manage to cajole him into letting them visit his compound for an exclusive look, to provide him with a chance to spread his message to the world. Far from the one or two camera setups usually found in the genre, cameras are everywhere in Safe Haven. Safe Haven segment from V/H/S/2 (2013) – Dir. Strap yourselves in, because this one’s gonna be heavier on the historical context than usual. Gareth Evans and Timo Tjahjanto About the author: Admin Monster Pictures is a Melbourne-based distribution / production company dedicated to delivering the most energetic, unique, creative, innovative, provocative, bizarre, frightening, challenging, surreal, offbeat, absurd, twisted, demented, raunchy, cinema in the world today.



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