When a drunk dude is tricked into thinking he has killed his girlfriend by Girly and Sonny – teens who dress and act like children – he becomes the latest New Friend to join Mumsy and Nanny in their dilapidated Victorian mansion. But he soon finds out what happened to the last New Friend and concocts a plan to escape. Girly is an exceptional blend of comedy and horror that creates a unusual ambiance of pathological infantilism. Our Mother’s House (1967) as rewritten by Lewis Carroll in particularly unhinged Mad Hatter mood. The screenplay, based on the Maisie Mosco play Happy Family, sticks stiffly to its world of ominous children’s games: even the house, a woozy confection of strung together Victorian crap, calls to mind the broken-down mansions popular in children’s fiction. The guests are fed “soldiers” and told off by Mumsy in a nightmare of child rearing, and the “children” have a lullaby or playground taunt for every occasion, menacing new arrivals
http://pochepictures.com/blogme/2013/08/11/mumsy-nanny-sonny-and-girly/Sunday, August 11, 2013
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly
When a drunk dude is tricked into thinking he has killed his girlfriend by Girly and Sonny – teens who dress and act like children – he becomes the latest New Friend to join Mumsy and Nanny in their dilapidated Victorian mansion. But he soon finds out what happened to the last New Friend and concocts a plan to escape. Girly is an exceptional blend of comedy and horror that creates a unusual ambiance of pathological infantilism. Our Mother’s House (1967) as rewritten by Lewis Carroll in particularly unhinged Mad Hatter mood. The screenplay, based on the Maisie Mosco play Happy Family, sticks stiffly to its world of ominous children’s games: even the house, a woozy confection of strung together Victorian crap, calls to mind the broken-down mansions popular in children’s fiction. The guests are fed “soldiers” and told off by Mumsy in a nightmare of child rearing, and the “children” have a lullaby or playground taunt for every occasion, menacing new arrivals
http://pochepictures.com/blogme/2013/08/11/mumsy-nanny-sonny-and-girly/Friday, August 09, 2013
Karen Black dies at 74
Karen Black, the prolific actress who appeared in more than 100 movies and was featured in such counterculture favorites as “Easy Rider,” ”Five Easy Pieces” and “Nashville,” has died in Los Angeles. Black’s husband, Stephen Eckelberry, says the actress died Wednesday from complications from cancer. She was 74. Known for her full lips and thick, wavy hair that seemed to change color from film to film, Black often portrayed women who were quirky, troubled or threatened. Her breakthrough was as a prostitute who takes LSD with Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda in 1969′s “Easy Rider,” the hippie classic that helped get her the role of Rayette Dipesto, a waitress who dates — and is mistreated by — an upper-class dropout played by Jack Nicholson in 1970′s “Five Easy Pieces.”
http://pochepictures.com/blogme/2013/08/09/karen-black-dies/Wednesday, August 07, 2013
Juno Temple in Magic Magic
DIscussion and review of the Chilean horror thriller "Magic Magic", a slow burn psychological thriller
http://pochepictures.com/blogme/2013/08/07/juno-temple-in-magic-magic/Juno Temple in Magic Magic
DIscussion and review of the Chilean horror thriller "Magic Magic", a slow burn psychological thriller
http://pochepictures.com/blogme/2013/08/07/juno-temple-in-magic-magic/Tuesday, August 06, 2013
Blood On Satan's Claw
Satanic themed horror was popular in the 1970s and the British were just as guilty of devil worshipping cinema as anyone else. Here a farm worker, Ralph Gower, finds the remains of a creature in a field. When he returns with a judge (a ridiculously wigged up Patrick Wymark) to check the find, it has disappeared, but Satan’s Daughter (I’ve dated a few of those) Angel Blake finds part of it and leads some of the other teens into pagan ceremonies as they try to bring forth a demon. Tigon’s follow up to Matthew Hopkins : Witchfinder General shares little with Reeves’ film except a nicely realized period setting and a hatred for authority figures. Supernatural forces are at work here and the film correspondingly looks into its world with a natural exuberance far removed from Reeves’ rage. Wynne Simmons’ debut script had to be change from its initial plot of three interconnected stories to one story at the last second, accounting for some of the film’s unfocused, convoluted narrative-cha
http://pochepictures.com/blogme/2013/08/06/blood-on-satans-claw-aka-satans-skin-satans-claw/Blood On Satan's Claw
Satanic themed horror was popular in the 1970s and the British were just as guilty of devil worshipping cinema as anyone else. Here a farm worker, Ralph Gower, finds the remains of a creature in a field. When he returns with a judge (a ridiculously wigged up Patrick Wymark) to check the find, it has disappeared, but Satan’s Daughter (I’ve dated a few of those) Angel Blake finds part of it and leads some of the other teens into pagan ceremonies as they try to bring forth a demon. Tigon’s follow up to Matthew Hopkins : Witchfinder General shares little with Reeves’ film except a nicely realized period setting and a hatred for authority figures. Supernatural forces are at work here and the film correspondingly looks into its world with a natural exuberance far removed from Reeves’ rage. Wynne Simmons’ debut script had to be change from its initial plot of three interconnected stories to one story at the last second, accounting for some of the film’s unfocused, convoluted narrative-cha
http://pochepictures.com/blogme/2013/08/06/blood-on-satans-claw-aka-satans-skin-satans-claw/Sam Rockwell in Poltergeist remake
After a bravura performance in ”The Way Way Back,” Sam Rockwell is in discussion to star opposite Rosemarie DeWitt in MGM and Fox 2000′s “Poltergeist” remake Rockwell is mulling different film offers and hasn’t officially decided to take the part, though The Wrap reported that Rockwell is the filmmakers’ top choice and that the actor is interested in the prospect of a lead role in a studio movie produced by horror maestro Sam Raimi. Rockwell’s representatives did not respond to multiple requests for comment. MGM, which is co-financing, had no comment. Gil Kenan (“Monster House”) is directing the “Poltergeist” remake from a script by David Lindsay-Abaire, who penned “Oz: The Great and Powerful” for Raimi. Should a deal work out, Rockwell would play the patriarch of the Bowen family — they were the Freeling family in the original — whose lives are uprooted when youngest daughter Madison (originally Carol Anne) is abducted by supernatural forces that trap her in the netherwor
http://pochepictures.com/blogme/2013/08/06/sam-rockwell-in-poltergeist-remake/Monday, August 05, 2013
Discopath A Salute to Slasher Cinema
New York City, 1976. Duane Lewis is a cook at a hamburger joint. Whenever he hears disco music, he literally goes into a trance. The day he loses his job, he comes across a young roller-skater in the park who, hoping to console him, invites him to a night out at the discotheque Seventh Heaven. Bombarded by decibels, Duane’s trance state quickly degenerates into homicidal mania. The girl who brought him there soon enough bitterly regrets her invitation… Upon waking up the next morning, Duane hops on the first plane to Montreal, using a stolen passport. Four years later, he’s altered his identity. He now answers to the name of Martin, and works as an audio-visual tech at a private school for teenage girls. He wears special gear to cut out external sounds, and his employers imagine him to be hard of hearing. As a long weekend approaches, two of the school’s students elect to hide out there so they can spend the weekend in the building alone. Alone with Duane. Their secret disco party has
http://pochepictures.com/blogme/2013/08/05/discopath-a-salute-to-slasher-cinema/Discopath A Salute to Slasher Cinema
New York City, 1976. Duane Lewis is a cook at a hamburger joint. Whenever he hears disco music, he literally goes into a trance. The day he loses his job, he comes across a young roller-skater in the park who, hoping to console him, invites him to a night out at the discotheque Seventh Heaven. Bombarded by decibels, Duane’s trance state quickly degenerates into homicidal mania. The girl who brought him there soon enough bitterly regrets her invitation… Upon waking up the next morning, Duane hops on the first plane to Montreal, using a stolen passport. Four years later, he’s altered his identity. He now answers to the name of Martin, and works as an audio-visual tech at a private school for teenage girls. He wears special gear to cut out external sounds, and his employers imagine him to be hard of hearing. As a long weekend approaches, two of the school’s students elect to hide out there so they can spend the weekend in the building alone. Alone with Duane. Their secret disco party has
http://pochepictures.com/blogme/2013/08/05/discopath-a-salute-to-slasher-cinema/