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Despite having previously established my feelings about this weekend's Quarantine, I must confess a new willingness to give it a fair shot later tonight. Regardless, this week's Cinematical Seven is all about first-person horror movies, with a couple of oh-so-subjective stipulations:

• We're leaving The Blair Witch Project (1999) out of this. It might not have been the first of these movies, but it was undeniably the most successful and influential. There are only seven slots here, and I feel like everyone has already made clear whether they find this scary or just stupid (I fall in the former grouping, though I say this having not seen the flick since my teens). If you still feel the need to take BWP to task, comment away.
• Also omitted will be The Last Broadcast (1998), which drew mild controversy at the time of its release for its similarity to Blair Witch. I'm only not writing about it because the copy of it sitting just over on my shelf here has remained unwatched. My bad.
• The previous film by the guys behind Quarantine is The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007), which -- being in the hands of the Weinsteins -- has not yet seen the light of day beyond a couple of festivals. Having not attended any of said festivals myself, I'll just sit here and guess that it'll get dumped to DVD (probably under the Dimension Extreme label), and not any earlier than next year at that.

Now, on with the list...

Well it looks like little Colin Hanks is all grown up, and doing everything in his power not be Tom Hanks 2.0 in his new film Alone With Her. The film screened at the Tribeca Film Festival with positive results, and IFC First Take has picked up the thriller for a 2007 release.

The film stars Hanks and Ana Claudia Talancón -- seen next in Linklater's Fast Food Nation and was written and directed by Eric Nicholas (River Rats). Alone With Her centers on a stalker (Hanks) with a knack for hidden cameras who becomes obsessed with Talancón. Most of the buzz surrounding the film was because of a scene in which Hanks enjoys some "one on one" time with himself while he watches the object of his affection do the same -- It looks like we're a long way from Orange County now. Hanks decided to go the DeNiro route and gained a fair amount of weight for the project, "The guy sits every night in front of the computer, watching his quote-unquote girlfriend, so it's not like he's going to be jogging on the treadmill for 15 minutes every day. It made sense." The one thing Colin does have in common with his dad is a strong on-screen presence, so maybe the release of Alone With Her might just help nudge him out of his father's shadow just a little bit.

[via Movie Web]