Inferno (L’enfer d’Henri-Georges Clouzot) first published by Film4 Synopsis: Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea’s film is all at once a partial reconstruction of Henri-George Clouzot’s unfinished masterpiece, and a documentary on its tragic unmaking. Review: It begins, as it ends, with a breakdown. In 2005, film restoration specialist Serge Bromberg happens to get stuck for two hours in…
Review first published by Grolsch FilmWorks “A horror film shot largely in Hi-8, with the protagonist off camera 80% of the time, and eight minutes of trees – that’s our movie!” Producer Gregg Hale’s description may not exactly sound promising, but with 1999’s The Blair Witch Project, he and writer/directors Edward Sánchez and Daniel Myrick found a…
Review first published by LWLies. Rough Cut opens with a trailer for Jesus Rinzoli’s Hiker Meat (1982), built from instantly recognisable elements of slasher, smalltown conspiracy and creature feature, and authenticated by distressed ‘celluloid’ and dodgy post-synchronisation. Indeed so familiar is everything here, and so predictable the narrative trajectory, that the film itself hardly need…