Jon Knautz Tagged Articles at Cinematical
Watch This: 'Still Life' (or What 'Mannequin 3' Could've Been ... )
Filed under: Horror », Mystery & Suspense », Shorts », Fandom », Trailers and Clips »
The other day we wrote about the new horror flick Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (which hit theaters this past weekend), and Cinematical reader Aaron L. (who also happens to be a very good friend of mine) pointed out the fact that Jack Brooks director Jon Knautz had helmed a very cool short back in 2005 called Still Life. I forget exactly when I first saw this short (probably during one of Gen Art's many, many functions/contests/parties), but I remember absolutely loving it over and over again. And we've actually written about it on at least two other occasions, though it's been awhile and, well, I felt our new (and old) readers would like a little something to watch while you eat lunch/surf the internet, etc ...
The short, which runs about eight minutes, follows a very sleepy driver who's in desperate need of a rest and some gas. When he pulls off into a small town, however, he notices that it's populated by mannequins. And that's all I'll say about that. Definitely check it out if you've got a few minutes free, and then hunt down Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (read our review here) -- a film most of our team here at Cinematical dug quite a bit.
Review: Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
Filed under: Comedy », Horror », Independent », Theatrical Reviews »
In a marketplace of increasingly generic titles and often disingenuous marketing, the horror genre tends to bring a certain honesty to the table. Think about it: the words 'The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2' can simply never paint as vivid a mental picture as, say, 'Zombie Strippers'. These offerings may be comparatively lower in brow and budget, and no, not for all tastes, but with a film like that -- a title like that -- or Evil Aliens, or Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer, for that matter, what-you-see-is-what-you-get chutzpah is on their side, and while that quality might not alone do the trick when it comes to their ultimate entertainment value, it certainly doesn't do any harm.
That said, like those films (well, okay, maybe not that Pants one), Jack Brooks may not quite be the cult classic in the making that it so clearly sets out to be, but at least its influences and intent are always worn plainly upon its blood-stained sleeve.
New Goodies from 'Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer'
Filed under: Action », Comedy », Horror »
I caught the very entertaining Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer as part of the Slamdance 2008 line-up -- and I knew I had another indie horror flick on my hands that was worth hyping. (Review here.) Bolstered by a canny script and some strong work from actors Trevor Matthews and Robert Englund, JB:MS is a colorfully scrappy little monster movie with a very sly tongue-in-cheek attitude, and I'm certain it's a movie that the horror geeks will embrace once Anchor Bay unleashes it later this year. And those horror geeks have been pretty patient, so here are a few new goodies.Under the jump you'll find a brand-new Jack Brooks poster (which is slightly different from the one Bloody-Dee is sharing right here), but there's also a newly-redesigned website for the monster maniacs to click around in. The movie will open in its native land (somewhere called "Canada"?) throughout July, but fest-freaks can meet Jack Brooks when he plays at Montreal's Fantasia Film Festival on July 5. As far as U.S. distribution goes, that's up to the merchants of mayhem over at Anchor Bay.
At Last, a Date for Buffy: Jack Brooks, Monster Slayer
Filed under: Horror », Movie Marketing », Cinematical Indie », Trailers and Clips »
Canada is an evil and ancient land, older than we can imagine and sunk in the horrors of the unspeakably dangerous game of "hockey" taught to them eons ago by primordial hyperboreans who used to play the game on the living ice, using human hearts as pucks. It's only befitting that a cursed black heart is one of the main elements in an upcoming Canadian horror film Jack Brooks, Monster Slayer. The film has a new trailer, now available on Fangoria.com.Jon Knautz's distributor-less film from Ottawa's Brook Street Pictures concerns a young plumber, Jack Brooks (Trevor Matthews), whose family was massacred before his young eyes. Later in life, during a job unblocking some pipes, Jack ends up in the accursed lair of seemingly kindly old Professor Crowley (Get it? If not, here you go. Turns out that the Duke of Madness' name is pronounced with a long o, incidentally). Crowley is played by a certain Robert Englund, seen above, looking a bit like a scarier George C. Scott. The trailer includes cyclops, African witch doctors, filed-toothed maniacs and something that looks like an evil clown ... all scheduled to be battled with all the weapons in a plumber's toolbox.
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