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Crash Analysis: THE SHRINE (Canada, 2010)
Intriguing enough to win you over in the end A trio heads to Poland to discover why people go missing… Carmen, a reporter played by Cindy Sampson, wants to cover a big story instead of local fodder. So when a young man from the area goes missing in Poland, she heads to eastern Europe with…
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Crash Analysis: THE DEVIL’S ROCK (New Zealand, 2011)
War is a bitch A Kiwi and a Nazi versus the devil Two New Zealand commandos (Craig Hall and Carlos Drinkwater) enter a Nazi bunker on one of the Channel Islands before D-Day. There mission is to demolish gun emplacements, but when they hear screams from within a bunker, Captain Ben Grogan (Hall) can’t help…
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Crash Analysis: THE TUNNEL (Australia, 2011)
Below ground, no one can find you if you scream A news crew goes underground and gets what they wished for This is your above average mockumentary with found footage: BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999) meets LAKE MUNGO (Australia, 2008), with [REC] (Spain, 2007) and THE DESCENT (UK, 2005) thrown in for good measure. And the…
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Crash Analysis: THE INNKEEPERS (2011)
Ghost story versus character study A supposedly haunted inn gets ready to close forever Poor Claire (Sara Paxton). She’s a bit lost like most of us and probably ponders what’s next in her life after the old Yankee Pedlar Inn closes its doors for good. Her “I’m so done with this” partner at the front…
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Crash Analysis: A WHISPER IN THE DARK (Italy, 1976)
Atmospheric – one of Italy’s best shot horrors A boy has an imaginary brother It’s odd to see a movie introduced by the director of photography, in this case, Claudio Cirillo, but for this master of the camera it is more than fitting. A WHISPER IN THE DARK, was his ninteenth feature as cinematographer, and…
