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EVIL DEAD RISE by Jonny Numb
Evil Dead Rise: High-Rise, High Concept? (This review contains SPOILERS) The world is always hard on the living, but the level of difficulty varies depending on a myriad of internal and external factors. Beneath the crimson-stew bloodbath of Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise, there is a keen understanding of classism, economic strife, and familial estrangement…
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Allegoria by Jonny Numb
Allegoria: Shock Rock to Film It’s interesting to see how folks from other creative disciplines fare when they make the jump to film. Maybe it’s no surprise that novelists like Clive Barker and William Peter Blatty made auspicious transitions to directing features (both had screenplay experience), as narrative storytelling was already flowing through their veins.…
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Death Game and Knock Knock by Jonny Numb
Double Feature: Death Game and Knock Knock Death Game: Bad Times Ahead Peter Traynor’s Death Game is a strange bird: the simple plot has financially successful father George Manning (Seymour Cassel) home alone while his wife rushes off to address an out-of-town emergency with one of their children. Cue a rainstorm that brings two soaked…
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The Stylist by Jonny Numb
The Stylist: Stitched-Together Horror True to its title, The Stylist is a gorgeous film. It contains some of the most beautiful, meticulous compositions I’ve seen within the past year. The attention to color and specific lighting schemes keeps your eyes consistently dazzled. Director and co-writer Jill Gevargizian clearly had an aesthetic plan going into this, and…
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Hosts by Jonny Numb
Hosts: Home Invasion [89 minutes. Unrated. Directors: Adam Leader and Richard Oakes] Hosts gives an altogether new meaning to the notion of “home invasion horror.” It’s also a conundrum: spare in its explanation of what is happening (and why), and therefore difficult to offer much detail without giving the whole premise away. In the spirit of keeping…
