As Jean-Luc Godard famously never said: “All you need for a movie is a girl and a great white shark.” “The Shallows” presupposes is that adding a cute seagull, a rotting whale, and a few GoPro cameras to the mix probably doesn’t hurt. Unequivocally the best shark movie since “Jaws” (yes, even better than “Open Water” and “Deep Blue Sea”), this back-to-basics thriller either eliminates or reclaims all of the excess and gimmickry that have watered down the genre since Steven Spielberg first invented it — there’s only one killer fish, she’s shot in beautiful 2D, and it doesn’t appear as though the beast has developed the ability to swim backwards as the result of reckless genetic modifications. The film flirts with found-footage, but only in small and supremely effective doses; the shark is a digital effect, but a glorious one whose artificiality is only clear in...
- 6/23/2016
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
The fifth annual Telluride Horror Show is getting set to kick off in Telluride, Colorado, next month, and right now we have the first batch of announced films for your perusal.
From the Press Release
The Telluride Horror Show is excited to announce the first batch of films for its 5th annual festival, scheduled for October 10-12, 2014, in beautiful Telluride, Colorado.
Features
Backwater
USA | 2013 | 94 min | Director: Christopher Schrack
Followed by a Q&A with director Christopher Schrack.
A couple camping in the woods believe they are in tremendous danger even though they can't explain what is causing their terror.
Bag Boy Lover Boy
USA | 2014 | 77 min | Director: Andres Torres
Bag Boy Lover Boy follows the lowly life of Albert, an oddball hotdog vendor who is shocked to find himself suddenly becoming the bizarre muse of enigmatic NYC photographer Ivan Worthington. But shocks come his way even more so when, amidst his...
From the Press Release
The Telluride Horror Show is excited to announce the first batch of films for its 5th annual festival, scheduled for October 10-12, 2014, in beautiful Telluride, Colorado.
Features
Backwater
USA | 2013 | 94 min | Director: Christopher Schrack
Followed by a Q&A with director Christopher Schrack.
A couple camping in the woods believe they are in tremendous danger even though they can't explain what is causing their terror.
Bag Boy Lover Boy
USA | 2014 | 77 min | Director: Andres Torres
Bag Boy Lover Boy follows the lowly life of Albert, an oddball hotdog vendor who is shocked to find himself suddenly becoming the bizarre muse of enigmatic NYC photographer Ivan Worthington. But shocks come his way even more so when, amidst his...
- 9/5/2014
- by Steve Barton
- DreadCentral.com
I'll admit, I'm not as excited about Fantastic Mr. Fox as I should be. Definitely not as excited as I would be about a new live-action Wes Anderson film. But lets look on the bright side, at very least we will have a new Anderson-curated soundtrack. /Film reader Bill C sent over the complete soundtrack listing for Fox, which can be seen after the jump. 1. "American Empirical Pictures"* 2. "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" - The Wellingtons 3. "Mr. Fox in the Fields"* 4. "Heroes and Villains" - The Beach Boys 5. "Fooba Wooba John" - Burl Ives 6. "Boggis, Bunce, and Bean"* 7. "Jimmy Squirrel and Co."* 8. "Love" - Nancy Adams 9. "Buckeye Jim" - Burl Ives 10. "High-Speed French Train"* 11. "Whack-Bat Majorette"* 12. "The Grey Goose" - Burl Ives 13. "Bean's Secret Cider Cellar"* 14. "Une Petite Île" - Georges Delerue 15. "Street Fighting Man" - The Rolling Stones 16. "Fantastic Mr. Fox Aka Petey's Song" - Jarvis Cocker 17. "Night...
- 9/21/2009
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
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