Hello Darkness Film Festival

Amer: A Fascinating But Ultimately Disappointing Exercise In Style

Submitted by rich on Wed, 24/11/2010 - 13:17
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I wanted to like Amer, I really did. In fact I wanted to love it. It's the type of luxuriously stylish work that I usually fall head over heels for. I wanted to join the chorus of praise with many other critics. I wanted to become obsessed with Amer and pore over all of its sequences in minute detail for it surely is asking for that degree of close examination.

Red, White & Blue: A Harrowing Yet Utterly Brilliant Film

Submitted by rich on Fri, 19/11/2010 - 14:21
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Simon Rumley's Red, White & Blue is textbook underground filmmaking at its best. Low-budget, stylistically accomplished, uncompromising and totally niche. It's a revenge drama by way of Steven Soderbergh with a dash of 70s grind-house thrown in for good measure.

Macabre: A Decent Bit of Bloody Fun

Submitted by rich on Thu, 11/11/2010 - 13:16
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Macabre is a film that knows exactly what it is doing. It is a film that unpretentiously offers up a stock standard genre set-up in order to give the audience what they want. And what they want is buckets of blood which Macabre delivers in spades.
 

We Are What We Are: A Mildly Disappointing Slice of Art-House Horror

Submitted by rich on Tue, 09/11/2010 - 15:28
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A shabbily dressed man stumbles through a shopping mall. Obviously quite unwell yet ignored by passers-by, he comes across some mannequins in a store window. For some unknown reason these mannequins grab the attention of this sick man. As he shudders away from the window and collapses to the ground, spitting out black bile, he is still ignored by the well-to-do shoppers.

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