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Crash Analysis: FUNNY GAMES (USA/France/UK/Austria/Germany/Italy, 2007)
Not Close Enough Haneke’s shot-by-shot remake of his 1997 Austrian film establishes the Farber family as a trio of well-off Americans residing in a gated vacation house. They go about their normal business when a snotty, Eddie Haskell-esque kid (Michael Pitt) comes in and asks for eggs. Afterwards, the story tailspins into a hellish, tension-filled…
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Crash Analysis Support Team: ANTIVIRAL (Canada, 2012) – Guest Post from Jonny Numb
[108 minutes. Unrated. Director: Brandon Cronenberg] ANTIVIRAL is many things. Above all, it’s not a film lacking in ideas. On one hand, it’s a highly ironic (and apt) metaphor for our global obsession with celebrity culture: if injecting diseases carried by soon-to-be-deceased stars brings fans closer to their icons, the question is not “why” but…
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Crash Analysis: THE CONJURING (2013)
More like THE OVER-RATED A ghost story you’ve seen before… Wonderful directing, acting, editing, cinematography, special effects, and at least three solid scares. Sounds like a perfect movie, right? But the script came from the pens of twin brothers Chad and Carey Hayes, the duo who brought us 2007’s pathetic THE REAPING, and the laughable…
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Crash Analysis: PANIC IN YEAR ZERO! (1962)
Fifty years later, I can’t foresee a different outcome How bad does a good man have to become to save his family? Okay you freaky dreamers. Forget the Zombipocalypse. That shit ain’t happenin’. Total nuclear devastation? Not likely, but it could get ugly. Asteroid hit, or maybe the caldera in Yellowstone will…
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Crash Analysis: KICHIKU DAI ENKAI (Japan, 1997)
Gored to death… Demise of a political group Otherwise known as BANQUET OF THE BEASTS, the movie is based upon the Asama-Sanso Incident. During a ten day siege in 1972 at Karuizawa, members of the United Red Army (URA) turned against themselves, resulting in a blood bath. And in KICHIKU DAI ENKAI, the blood bath’s…
