Yet another trio of Dark Sky Films titles have made their way onto Screambox, joining previously dropped classics Willow Creek, Minor Premise, and The Deeper You Dig (details), as well as Ghost Killers vs. Bloody Mary, Landlocked, and Possum (details).
First, the criminally underseen babysitter thriller Emelie, a taut thriller that will definitely surprise many of you.
I was blown away by Michael Thelin‘s debut feature which is highlighted by star Sarah Bolger, who delivers a chilling performance that would make any parent check twice before hiring a new babysitter.
In the film… “After their regular babysitter Maggie can’t make it, the Thompson family turns to her friend Anna to supervise their children while the parents celebrate their anniversary. At first, Anna seems like a dream come true to the kids, allowing them to eat extra cookies and play with things that are usually off-limits. Still, as her behavior becomes increasingly odd,...
First, the criminally underseen babysitter thriller Emelie, a taut thriller that will definitely surprise many of you.
I was blown away by Michael Thelin‘s debut feature which is highlighted by star Sarah Bolger, who delivers a chilling performance that would make any parent check twice before hiring a new babysitter.
In the film… “After their regular babysitter Maggie can’t make it, the Thompson family turns to her friend Anna to supervise their children while the parents celebrate their anniversary. At first, Anna seems like a dream come true to the kids, allowing them to eat extra cookies and play with things that are usually off-limits. Still, as her behavior becomes increasingly odd,...
- 10/27/2023
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Robin Williams has played some pretty memorable screen psychos in the past (One Hour Photo and Insomnia), and now we’ll find out how his daughter, Zelda, stacks up against her old man when she takes a dip in the genre’s deep end.
Los Angeles-based film company Mind Blur Productions is proud to announce that Zelda Williams, the 20-year-old daughter of actor Robin Williams, has been cast in the lead role of their terrifying fact-based thriller Powder Burns, which is gearing up for an April, 2010 production start date in La.
In Powder Burns Ms. Williams will play Emily Tomassini, an intelligent and devoutly religious but headstrong young woman who has been battling her mother and father over her relationship with an older, married health care professional named Philip Newman. After Emily’s spiteful dad, Paul Tomassini, has a violent confrontation with his daughter’s lover, the battles escalate into...
Los Angeles-based film company Mind Blur Productions is proud to announce that Zelda Williams, the 20-year-old daughter of actor Robin Williams, has been cast in the lead role of their terrifying fact-based thriller Powder Burns, which is gearing up for an April, 2010 production start date in La.
In Powder Burns Ms. Williams will play Emily Tomassini, an intelligent and devoutly religious but headstrong young woman who has been battling her mother and father over her relationship with an older, married health care professional named Philip Newman. After Emily’s spiteful dad, Paul Tomassini, has a violent confrontation with his daughter’s lover, the battles escalate into...
- 2/17/2010
- by Masked Slasher
- DreadCentral.com
The infamous Hillside Strangler case from the late 1970s has inspired another independent film, with C. Thomas Howell and Nicholas Turturro taking on the roles of cousins/mass murderers Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, respectively, for helmer Chuck Parello. Another Hillside Strangler project recently wrapped production with Chris Fisher at the helm and Clifton Collins Jr. and Tomas Arana in the title roles starring alongside Brittany Daniel, Lake Bell, Tom Wright and Michael Haggerty. That project -- being produced by Imperial Fish Co. and Silver Nitrate -- is told from the point of view of a liberal psychiatrist (Daniel) who is brought in by the district attorney (Bell) to determine whether Bianchi is mentally capable of being interrogated.
- 8/22/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As cannibalistic serial killers go, they don't come more influential than Ed Gein.
Since committing his atrocities in 1957, the warped Wisconsin farmer has gone on to tickle the imaginations of "Psycho" author Robert Bloch and "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" filmmaker Tobe Hooper. He also prompted Thomas Harris to create the Buffalo Bill character in "The Silence of the Lambs".
Now he finally gets a picture to call his own with "Ed Gein", but other than serving to put a name on the infamous faces, this often hokey chiller fails to capture the macabre mystique of a man who has inspired dozens of Web sites, including at least one that sells Gein memorabilia.
While those fanatics will likely be drawn to this First Look release, their numbers probably won't be sufficient to keep the picture in theaters for any notable length of time, though it should prove to be a popular addition to those Gein collectibles on the Internet once it lands on video.
Steve Railsback, who previously dipped his feet in the dark side as Charles Manson in 1976's "Helter Skelter", gives a committed performance (he also takes an executive producer credit) as the introverted Gein.
Living alone in the home of his recently departed, very controlling mother (Carrie Snodgress), Gein finds company in the cadavers of women of a certain age that he has exhumed from the local cemetery. Armed with a copy of Gray's Anatomy and some sharp instruments, he converts the cadavers (mercifully off-camera) into some truly bizarre objets d'art.
With the scripture-quoting ghost of his dead mother egging him on, he then turns to living subjects, focusing on a raunchy bartender (Sally Champlin) and a grandmotherly general-store proprietor (Carol Mansell).
But shortly after their disappearance, it doesn't take too much detective work to figure out who the likely culprit is, seeing that it's hard for a weirdo to maintain a low profile in a a town of only 642 people.
OK, so make that 640.
Director Chuck Parello ("Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 2") is proficient at establishing the delectably creepy atmosphere, but Stephen Johnston's flashback-riddled script is filled with the kind of hoary fright-night cliches that prevent the film from being more than an ersatz "Sling Blade".
That prevailing lack of imagination takes its toll on character development. While Railsback's Gein is believably disturbed, he's written so transparently as "the town psycho most likely to ..." that there's little the actor can do to compensate for the film's disappointing lack of dramatic tension.
The same applies to Snodgress' deep-voiced portrayal of Gein's bullying mother, which simultaneously summons up Piper Laurie in "Carrie" and Mercedes McCambridge in "The Exorcist".
Only Mansell and, particularly, Champlin manage to inject a spark of originality into the otherwise stock landscape.
In the end, the film not only fails to add anything significant to the Ed Gein screen legacy but -- in the wake of those suggested portraits by Hitchcock, Hooper and Jonathan Demme -- it can't help but feel like, for lack of a better expression, overkill.
ED GEIN
First Look Pictures
TARTAN Films presents a Chuck Parello film
Director: Chuck Parello
Screenwriter: Stephen Johnston
Producers: Hamish McAlpine, Michael Muscal
Executive producers: Karen Nichols, Steve Railsback
Director of photography: Vanja Cernjul
Production designer: Mark Harper
Editor: Elena Maganini
Costume designer: Niklas J. Palm
Music: Robert McNaughton
Color/stereo
Cast:
Ed Gein: Steve Railsback
Augusta Gein: Carrie Snodgress
Mary Hogan: Sally Champlin
Colette Marshall: Carol Mansell
Running time -- 89 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Since committing his atrocities in 1957, the warped Wisconsin farmer has gone on to tickle the imaginations of "Psycho" author Robert Bloch and "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" filmmaker Tobe Hooper. He also prompted Thomas Harris to create the Buffalo Bill character in "The Silence of the Lambs".
Now he finally gets a picture to call his own with "Ed Gein", but other than serving to put a name on the infamous faces, this often hokey chiller fails to capture the macabre mystique of a man who has inspired dozens of Web sites, including at least one that sells Gein memorabilia.
While those fanatics will likely be drawn to this First Look release, their numbers probably won't be sufficient to keep the picture in theaters for any notable length of time, though it should prove to be a popular addition to those Gein collectibles on the Internet once it lands on video.
Steve Railsback, who previously dipped his feet in the dark side as Charles Manson in 1976's "Helter Skelter", gives a committed performance (he also takes an executive producer credit) as the introverted Gein.
Living alone in the home of his recently departed, very controlling mother (Carrie Snodgress), Gein finds company in the cadavers of women of a certain age that he has exhumed from the local cemetery. Armed with a copy of Gray's Anatomy and some sharp instruments, he converts the cadavers (mercifully off-camera) into some truly bizarre objets d'art.
With the scripture-quoting ghost of his dead mother egging him on, he then turns to living subjects, focusing on a raunchy bartender (Sally Champlin) and a grandmotherly general-store proprietor (Carol Mansell).
But shortly after their disappearance, it doesn't take too much detective work to figure out who the likely culprit is, seeing that it's hard for a weirdo to maintain a low profile in a a town of only 642 people.
OK, so make that 640.
Director Chuck Parello ("Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 2") is proficient at establishing the delectably creepy atmosphere, but Stephen Johnston's flashback-riddled script is filled with the kind of hoary fright-night cliches that prevent the film from being more than an ersatz "Sling Blade".
That prevailing lack of imagination takes its toll on character development. While Railsback's Gein is believably disturbed, he's written so transparently as "the town psycho most likely to ..." that there's little the actor can do to compensate for the film's disappointing lack of dramatic tension.
The same applies to Snodgress' deep-voiced portrayal of Gein's bullying mother, which simultaneously summons up Piper Laurie in "Carrie" and Mercedes McCambridge in "The Exorcist".
Only Mansell and, particularly, Champlin manage to inject a spark of originality into the otherwise stock landscape.
In the end, the film not only fails to add anything significant to the Ed Gein screen legacy but -- in the wake of those suggested portraits by Hitchcock, Hooper and Jonathan Demme -- it can't help but feel like, for lack of a better expression, overkill.
ED GEIN
First Look Pictures
TARTAN Films presents a Chuck Parello film
Director: Chuck Parello
Screenwriter: Stephen Johnston
Producers: Hamish McAlpine, Michael Muscal
Executive producers: Karen Nichols, Steve Railsback
Director of photography: Vanja Cernjul
Production designer: Mark Harper
Editor: Elena Maganini
Costume designer: Niklas J. Palm
Music: Robert McNaughton
Color/stereo
Cast:
Ed Gein: Steve Railsback
Augusta Gein: Carrie Snodgress
Mary Hogan: Sally Champlin
Colette Marshall: Carol Mansell
Running time -- 89 minutes
No MPAA rating...
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