Jonny T here with the news that werewolf movie Late Phases is getting a UK DVD release date o April 27th, It's been getting positive reviews and I have seen it and it's pretty good! So watch this space for a review coming very soon!
Jonny T.
METRODOME DISTRIBUTION ANNOUNCES 27th APRIL HOME ENTERTAINMENT RELEASE DATE FOR
LATE PHASES: NIGHT OF THE WOLF
“In terms of werewolf films this year, LATE PHASES is leader of the pack!”
AINT IT COOL NEWS
“Do not miss Late Phases or your eyeballs will never forgive you”
BLOODY DISGUSTING
A FILM BY ADRIAN GARCIA BOGLIANO (HERE COMES THE DEVIL)
STARRING NICK DAMICI (STAKELAND), ETHAN EMBRY (THE GUEST) AND TOM NOONAN (MANHUNTER)
Ambrose (Nick Damici) is a blind and grizzled war veteran, forced into the sedate retirement community of Crescent Bay. After narrowly surviving a savage werewolf attack, Ambrose steels himself for the next full moon and one final battle against the odds. With a note-perfect performance by Nick Damici and intensely brutal action, Late Phases: Night Of The Wolf is gory treat for all hardcore horror fans seeking a true werewolf classic.
When we went to see It Follows we saw a trailer for something called Wild Tales, Six stories of as the poster says "Apocalyptic Revenge" and it looked great so we decided our next trip would be to see it and boy am I glad we did!
As it says it six tales and these are a follows...
The first tale is the shortest tale and tells the tale of a group of people on a plane, A model talks to a classical music critic and by coincidence it appears that one of his reviews a very bad one was for her ex boyfriend, An older lady sitting in front of the critic over hears the conversation and she also knows the musician, I shall say no more as to spoil it but to say the current news events with the plane crash in the Alps made certain scenes very relevant and even more realistic, the final shot of the tale is freeze frame and an absolute brilliant one!
The second tale is set in a remote motorway style restaurant where one night a guy enters and the waitress recognises him as a Mafia boss who auctioned of thier house which led to her father killing himself and a few months later the boss even tried to seduce her mother, Distraught at seeing him there she takes his order and goes and tell he chef lady who is a very scary wouldn't mess with her type of lady and she says to the waitress that they should use the rat poison to kill him, This ends with some great twists and a lot of blood!
The third tale it has to be said was definitely my favourite, Young executive type in his new black Audi and sunglasses racing along a mountain path which if you watch carefully links in to the end of the second tale, He comes zooming up behind an old wreck of a car and tries to go around it but the carves swerves to stop him doing so, He eventually get level with the car to see a builder type smiling back at him, He calls him a red neck hits the accelerator then gives him the finger. Next we see the Audi guy get a flat tyre, He pulls over and being the executive type has no real clue how to change the wheel so calls a recovery guy to come and help him out, Then in the background you see the red neck approaching in his wreck, The Audi guy is obviously all mouth and craps himself as the red neck pulls over and proceeds to start smashing his windscreen with the tyre iron, What follows is hilarious, Gross and violent in equal measures and the conclusion to this wild tale is a classic!
Tale number four is a tale of hit and run, A rich kid wakes up his parents to tell them he has been involved in a hit and run involving a pregnant lady, They turn on the news to see that it is all over every news channel and the lady and her child have died on the way to the hospital, The police are frantically trying to identify the registration number and owner of the car, In the mean time the rich parents call over a lawyer and try to figure out how to get their son of the hook, A plot is hatched and offered to the gardener to say that he was drunk and in the car, the lawyer will defend him and they offer him $500,00 to take he wrap, The lawyer is one of the best around and the gardener will get the money and only spend a few months in prison, All sorted, but no it's not! Again I will say no more but a you can probably imagine it's no way near as clear cut as it sounds.
Tale number 5 is one about dynamite, An explosive engineer after successfully demolishing a building is on his way to see his daughter on her birthday and stops off to pick up a cake, He mentions to the lady how expensive it is then leaves, His car has been towed away so he gets a cab and goes to the place that has towed it away, In no uncertain terms he is told to pay up or he will be charged parking fees, He says to the clerk that there were no pavement markings and what they are doing is criminal, this falls on deaf ears and pisses him off, Its very similar in tone to Falling Down, One thing after another winds him up and eventually he snaps and tries to smash a fire extinguisher through one of the clerks windows, The result of this is that he loses his job and possible access to his daughter, It's a greatly told tale they you can greatly relate to on a level of getting pissed of daily by things that are unnecessary and totally out of your control.
On to tale number six the final tale, A tale of a wedding reception, All is happy at the begging with a huge disco and the bride and groom dancing and drinking wildly, The groom then proceeds to walk round thanking everyone for coming but paying particular attention to a long legged darked haired lady sitting on a table with his work colleagues, The bride spots his over friendlessness and takes out her phone where she has a number she has taken off his phone, She always had an inkling that the number was a little bit suspicious from a few months before, She calls the number twice and on both occasions the girl on the table answers, Cue the madness! It descends into total chaos and the wife makes a brilliant spectacle of herself, Very cleverly done and cringe worthy in places, you really don't know how the hell it is going to pan out, the performances and direction in this are brilliant with some fantastic camera angles.
So in summing up although for me personally the last two tales were the weakest but I've read that to some people they are the best , But one thing for sure is the fact that in every wild tale there is something that hit's you out of the blue, brilliant performances and as I said the direction in all of them is superb, Humour at it's darkest a definite must see, I know it's only March but for me this is the best film of the year so far, quite simply go see it!
8/ 10
Jonny T.
Synopsis: The night before a high profile operation on the Prime Minister, the surgeon due to perform the procedure, Yael, is surprised at her family home by four masked men. The gang quickly take control of Yael and her family and order her to kill the Prime Minister on the operating table in the morning, or else they will kill her family, who are now their helpless hostages.
Yael does her best to manage the situation, and buy her precious family some time, by injecting the Prime Minister with medication to disrupt his nervous system – giving her medical grounds to delay the operation. Under constant pressure from her captors to perform the fatal surgery, Yael lives daily with the very real and growing threat to her family. An atmosphere of increasing mistrust and paranoia develops between the hostages and the Kidnappers whilst Yael balances the preservation of her family against the life of the Prime Minister in this gripping and twisting ten-part part drama.
Hostages the Israeli TV show recently aired on BBC4 had just been released by ARROW NOIR and what a great show it is! Following in the footsteps of many releases from Arrow Noir such as The Bridge and The Killing, Arrow have expanded the range to include this Israeli TV show.
The 1st of 10 episodes opens up with 4 hostages tied to chairs and gagged whilst being watch by masked hostage takers heavily armed, we then flick back to 12 hours earlier and get to see the events that lead up to where it all started and the reasoning behind the hostage takers, At 1st it may appear that it all is to do with the mother Dr Yael Danon (Ayelet Zurer) as the synopsis above says that she is about to perform surgery on the prime minister and finds out her family has been kidnapped and is ordered to kill the prime minister.
It all really starts to kick in once she finds out and she is a great strong character who is equally as cunning if not more so that the hostage takers, along the course of episodes the hostages develop signs of Stockholm Syndrome where in bond is formed between them, but does this weaken the hostages or the hostage takers?
Well you'll just have to watch it to see! I found that with 10 episodes it was just the right length, all the performances are solid especially from Ayelet Zurer and as with all classic TV series its one of those let me just watch one more, so be warned you could be in for a few late nights!
With over the past few years with a surge of TV shows becoming huge such as 24, Breaking Bad, Game of thrones and indeed worldwide classics as The Killing and The Bridge, Hostages is easily up there for me, It has a ton of twists and turns that you you won't see coming, Brilliant cinematography and refreshing and twisted at the same time,
Hello Folks,
Jonny here with some great news that the rather excellent Discopath is finally getting a DVD release! I saw Discopath a while back a Mayhem festival and it's one of those films that I loved and always wondered where the hell did it go? But I am happy to bring you the news that it's getting a DVD release on May 4th. Picked up for distribution by Metrodome it's one you definitely need to see, Retro, Hillarious and gory, Believe me you won't be disappointed! Watch this space for a full review coming soon,
Jonny T
METRODOME DISTRIBUTION ANNOUNCES 4th MAY HOME ENTERTAINMENT RELEASE DATE FOR
STARRING JEREMIE EARP-LAVERGNE, SANDRINE BISSON, IVAN FREUD & FRANCOIS AUBIN
The mid-70's: a timid young New Yorker leads an uneventful life until he is fatefully exposed to the pulsating rhythms of a brand-new genre of music: disco. Unable to control his murderous impulses that stem from a traumatic childhood experience, Duane Lewis transforms into a dangerous serial killer exiled to Montreal.
"For nineteen-year-old Jay, Autumn should be about school, boys and week-ends out at the lake. But after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter, she finds herself plagued by strange visions and the inescapable sense that someone, something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay and her friends must find a way to escape the horrors that seem to be only a few steps behind."
A Saturday afternoon down Broadway Cinema after buying Vinyl soundtrack to Dawn Of The Dead and going to see what is described as the usual "Best horror in decades" "Scariest film in years" and a load of other quotes you've read a million times, the film in question was "It Follows".
It tells the story of Jay, Your'e average high school girl with average high school friends who just hang around with nothing much to do in a very run down and over all grim Detroit. She hooks up with a local guy called Hugh, One night they drive out to a deserted area and the inevitable happens then after a bit of sexy time he reappears in the car behind her and with a cloth smothered in something stick it over her nose and mouth and she is out cold. She awakes tied to a chair in her underwear in a location that seems like a disused car park, Stood some distance behind her is Hugh who apologises over and over and explains that she is on her way, He tells her what is the basis of the whole story in that there is a curse that you will be followed by a demon or demons and when you have sexy time with someone else this is then passed on and you will be free, or will you?
So from now on in Jay is constantly seeing these demons, The 1st one being a very creepy old lady in high school.
The premise sounds pretty Hollywood basic horror stuff but It Follows is far from any of the Horror trash that Hollywood is currently churning out, It's 100% more stylish and better made than any of that crap. It is a slow burn and one of those films that keeps you thinking and talking about it long after you have seen it as we did over a few beers afterwards in Nottingham's good old Brew Dog. The soundtrack is also brilliant, Very John Carpenter in style, The cinematography is brilliant and the shocks when they come are very cleverly done, not in your usual jump scare way but in a very clever and creepy way. As I mentioned he soundtrack and the overall sound mix was great and makes it well worth seeing at the cinema whilst and if you can. There were also a lot of undertones running throughout the film such as a lot of the scenes which involved water or the mention of water, still got me thinking! The cast are also excellent and all playing their individual roles superbly, All of them well worth keeping and eye on in the future. I'll say it again but if you get chance to see it at the cinemas make sure you do!
