happy halloween, freaks
Friday, 31 October 2008
allcity
came across this company earlier tonight... allcity
allcity design posters and dvd art for films... i've seen their work for years and i've always been very impressed, without realising they've been from the same company... recent posters and artwork they've done have been for amores perros, breathless, 4 months, 3 weeks & 2 days, as well as a range for shane meadows films'... check out their site which includes out-take posters that were never used for campaigns they've been commissioned on... look out for the brilliant out-takes for the baader meinhof complex...
also they have included a stage-by-stage process of their design ideas for the amores perros poster campaign...
very inspiring stuff...
Thursday, 23 October 2008
Wednesday, 22 October 2008
the bell witch house party
listen up you skinny rats and fashion cats, head over to seabeds myspace for some dark and delicious ditties... there's only the one song up right now - which was originally supposed to be a longer song, but it sounds better as a short 25 second 'intro' song... the sick sound of the spook machine to come? think the fall meets the fuzztones...
Sunday, 19 October 2008
blank generation
I can't find my camera battery anywhere... Where is it? I know you have got it somewhere...
Uni has started up again in the last two weeks. Not only do I have work to do at uni, I have to find my battery and do the photos for The Shadowcops album, and design the poster for the upcoming Othello show at the Nuffield Theatre. Busy busy busy!!!
I'm quite drunk right now and in my mind reminiscing of old times...
How good are/were Richard Hell and the Voidoids????
Saturday, 18 October 2008
Film Review: Prom Night (2008)
It seems the stream of horror movie remakes aren't coming to an end any time soon, with Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and The Evil Dead amongst many others, either planned or in production. Hollywood, evidently, has run out of ideas for scary new material. So how does Prom Night fair in relation to other contemporary remakes?
A remake in name only of the Jamie-Lee Curtis-staring 1980 slasher, Prom Night is written by J.S. Cardone, a man so inept at constructing original and believable characters that even Uwe Boll probably wouldn't direct one of his scripts. The story follows a group of seen-them-all-before teens on their senior prom night, led by Hairspray's Brittany Snow, as they are stalked and slashed by their former high-school teacher-turned obsessed psychopath. The story however proves of little significance because it is both insipid and inane. There have been plenty of horror films with ludicrous plots before - see Dario Argento's back catalogue - but those films always had something else to back them up. Prom Night has nothing. Characters spew lines like they grew up in a small dark room analysing expository dialogue from Friday the 13th sequels (the bad ones at that).
For a post-Saw horror film Prom Night is surprisingly tame - there's no sex or nudity and bare-minimum blood. The 15 certificate also comes as a shock, as there’s little here that would amount to anything above a 12 rating. Its intended audience seems to be teenage girls looking for a suitable, less-bloody alternative to Halloween. A cheap scare on a sleepover perhaps? Whatever the case, anything remotely resembling tension and suspense is wasted because in almost every scare-scene there's a sense that we've seen it all before; the anticipated reflection in the bathroom mirror, the killer disappearing behind a passing vehicle in the street, the point-of-view shots, they are all here. Every frame of Prom Night has been recycled from previous, better films. Nelson McCormick's direction is uninspired and instantly forgettable, which is a shame considering he’ worked on some of America's most critically-acclaimed shows (The West Wing, Prison Break, Nip/Tuck). That said, he has little to work from with Cardone's tired script. If The Fog and The Omen were never redone, then Prom Night would certainly be the worst of the lot.
A remake in name only of the Jamie-Lee Curtis-staring 1980 slasher, Prom Night is written by J.S. Cardone, a man so inept at constructing original and believable characters that even Uwe Boll probably wouldn't direct one of his scripts. The story follows a group of seen-them-all-before teens on their senior prom night, led by Hairspray's Brittany Snow, as they are stalked and slashed by their former high-school teacher-turned obsessed psychopath. The story however proves of little significance because it is both insipid and inane. There have been plenty of horror films with ludicrous plots before - see Dario Argento's back catalogue - but those films always had something else to back them up. Prom Night has nothing. Characters spew lines like they grew up in a small dark room analysing expository dialogue from Friday the 13th sequels (the bad ones at that).
For a post-Saw horror film Prom Night is surprisingly tame - there's no sex or nudity and bare-minimum blood. The 15 certificate also comes as a shock, as there’s little here that would amount to anything above a 12 rating. Its intended audience seems to be teenage girls looking for a suitable, less-bloody alternative to Halloween. A cheap scare on a sleepover perhaps? Whatever the case, anything remotely resembling tension and suspense is wasted because in almost every scare-scene there's a sense that we've seen it all before; the anticipated reflection in the bathroom mirror, the killer disappearing behind a passing vehicle in the street, the point-of-view shots, they are all here. Every frame of Prom Night has been recycled from previous, better films. Nelson McCormick's direction is uninspired and instantly forgettable, which is a shame considering he’ worked on some of America's most critically-acclaimed shows (The West Wing, Prison Break, Nip/Tuck). That said, he has little to work from with Cardone's tired script. If The Fog and The Omen were never redone, then Prom Night would certainly be the worst of the lot.
Prom Night is directed by Nelson McCormick and is written by J.S. Cardone. The film stars Brittany Snow, Scott Porter, Johnathan Schaech and Idris Elba. The certificate is 15.
The trailer can be seen HERE.
Saturday, 4 October 2008
work work work sleep sleep sleep
the album shoot was done today with an immense hangover... the day included a dog named colin, german beer-hall songs, a flamingo, and a drunken priest...
i don't think i'll post anything until nearer the time the album comes out... i'll post some outtakes perhaps... in the meantime here's a minotaur...
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