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Crash Analysis Support Team: YOU’RE NEXT (2011) – Guest Post from Jonny Numb
YOU’RE NEXT (2011) [94 minutes. R. Director: Adam Wingard] YOU’RE NEXT begins under dubious circumstances, recycling slasher-film clichés with precious little innovation: a schlubby guy (Larry Fessenden) fucks his girlfriend (who wears a distinct look of dissatisfaction) before walking to the kitchen for a snack. It’s not spoiling anything to say that this pre-title sequence…
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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 Support Team: Kid In Play (Part II) – Guest Post from R. S. Brzoska
Like any artist, it’s worthwhile for a horror writer considering using the child-in-peril trope to think roundly about both what his/her audience expects and what the story’s needs are. How far are you willing to go? How comfortable are you with going there? As hinted at in part one, child harm is a…
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Crash Analysis Support Team: Lake Mungo (2008) – Guest Post from Writer/Director Paul Williams
LAKE MUNGO (an unfortunate title, I concur) is a 2008 “documentary” from Australia, written and directed by Joel Anderson. It tells the tale of Alice Palmer (Talia Zucker), a sixteen year-old girl who dies while on vacation with her family, by drowning in Lake Mungo. Her remaining family is father, Russell (David…
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Crash Analysis Support Team: Kid In Play (Part I) – Guest Post from R. S. Brzoska
Here is a short list of movies that have something in common. Play along for a moment. Can you guess what it is? The Sixth Sense The Hills Have Eyes Poltergeist Pet Sematary Last House on the Left The Exorcist Xtro If you guessed that each was a horror movie that…
