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- The Call Of Cthulhu - The H.P. Lovecraft Preservation Society, a group of dauntless fans that created the brilliant, Cthulhu-themed musical, A Shoggoth On The Roof, have created the ultimate fan film, an incredible tribute to the writer whose work seeded modern horror favorites like Re-Animator and From Beyond. Shot like a 1920's era silent film, the 47-minute feature is technically amazing, shot (in black-and-white), lit and performed like an authentic film of the period would have been (although it would have horrified people of the time right into Arkham Sanitarium.) Considered Lovecraft's most famous story, the story of a man who inherits a collection of documents detailing the ghastly Cthulhu Cult, it is very faithfully adapted, not to mention super-efficient. The title cards are in the viewer's choice of an astonishing 24 different languages, and the lush, symphonic score can be played in hi-fi and the kitschy-fun, lo-fi "Mythoscope". A skillful build and an extremely satisfying payoff (think creature design King Kong '33 style) add up to one of the smartest horror films of recent memory.
Flight 93 teaser
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As Karina reported the other day, Paul
Greengrass is determined to base his 9/11 film - Flight
93 - firmly in reality. Among other things, his actors have studied videotapes of their "characters"
(real people on the flight), and he's reportedly using cockpit recording and conversations with air traffic controllers
for parts of his script. The film's teaser, which just went up at Apple, is further evidence of Greengrass' apparent
effort to avoid the trappings of Hollywood (though given the unfortunate cultural ubiquity of the flight's famous
"let's roll" phrase, only time will tell how successful he can be) for his finished product.The teaser is made up almost entirely of quick shots of a radar screen tracking the progress of Flight 93. We see the flight change course as the audio offers increasingly alarmed conversation with pilots, air traffic controllers, and passengers talking to their loved ones. The tension created is incredible, particularly given that we're just looking at a little blue plane. At the end, after a passenger tells her mother that "they're about to storm the cockpit," we finally see actual footage from the movie, a handheld shot from the front of the plane.
There's really not much here to praise or condemn, but the potential for success is there, particularly if Greengrass can keep himself from thinking that shaky handheld camera means reality, and instead elects to actually let the audience see what's going on. The film is due for release in April.
[via Movie City Indie]
Making 9/11 real for the movie version
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Heather Timmons went to England to visit
the set of Flight 93, director Paul Greengrass' treatment of the goings on aboard the one 9/11 plane that didn't hit
the hijacker's target. Unlike the more "Hollywoodized" World Trade Center that Oliver Stone is shooting with
Nicolas Cage in Los Angeles, Greengrass is making a concerted effort to shape 93 around empirical data, from cockpit
recordings and data regarding the plane's actual movements through the air, to character sketches provided by the
victims' families. Many of film's actors have studied videotapes of the passengers they portray, with the families
cooperating in the interest of telling a broader version of the story than the "Let's roll" narrative that
has dominated its telling. It seems like Greengrass is very much going for an almost scientifically indisputable
account of the flight, even though, as he admits to Timmons, "One of the reasons why Flight 93 exerts such a
powerful hold on our imaginations is precisely because we don't know exactly what happened." It's not hard to see
what kind of burden the film carries, as the first feature to attempt to dramatize the events to hit theaters.
Greengrass' investment in by-the-numbers recreation is, in a way, a statement of ideology – or, rather, a clear
declaration of intent to sidestep it. For, as NYU professor Marita Stucken tells Timmons, ""There is a pretty
big audience for that story, if - and this is crucial - if people perceive it to be sensitively told."
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