Ghoule, reaguj!

[crippled_avenger]

Grotesque
Gurotesuku (Japan)
By DEREK ELLEY

   
A Jolly Roger release of a Tornado Film production. Produced by Kazue Udagawa, Kyosuke Ueno. Executive producers, Yoichi Kobayashi, Takafumi Ohashi. Directed, written by Koji Shiraishi.

With: Tsugumi Nagasawa, Hiroaki Kawatsura, Shigeo Osako.

Released with some cuts but no special hoo-ha in Japan in January (and in May on DVD), "Grotesque" is a very Japanese slice of gorno (torture porn) that's hardly going to hook fans of more plot-driven Yank equivalents like the "Saw" and "Hostel" movies. After a creepy start and an interesting twist midway through, the pic pretty much throws its entrails in the air during the final act. But since being banned by U.K. censors this August, "Grotesque" has become a must-see item for genre geeks internationally.

As in his earlier chillers, "The Slit-Mouthed Woman" (aka "Carved") and "Curse," minor cult helmer Koji Shiraishi shows he's several levels above just a low-budget hack. Film is technically pro at most levels and performances are largely OK.

As a whole, the pic recalls Japan's legendary "Guinea Pig" gornoseries of the '80s, with some added irony. Squirm quotient is about average, and much less than those of such '80s Hong Kong Category III shockers as "Men Behind the Sun"; gore is also mild compared with recent Asian splatterfests like the Thai "Meat Grinder" and Indonesian "Macabre."

A strain of Stygian humor is evident from the outset as an unnamed middle-aged man in a van (Shigeo Osako, looking like a young Takeshi Kitano) knocks out a young couple in an underpass, accompanied by honky-tonk music. During the main titles, he then has to pull over to whack one of them again (off camera) for causing a noise in back.

The two virginal young'uns, Aki Miyashita (Tsugumi Nagasawa) and Kazuo Koijima (Hiroaki Kawatsura), awaken to find themselves bound and gagged in a shadowy basement lined with plastic sheets. After turning on some soothing classical music, the man calmly says both will die unless they manage to, uh, stimulate him via their struggles to live.

With the care of a trained doctor, and one-way dialogue with his victims, the man then sets to work with implements ranging from a hammer and nails to a good oldfashioned chainsaw. Most of the early tension stems from what he's going to do next, and when.

There's almost zero plot compared with Western torture pics; instead, "Grotesque" riffs on the idea (thrown up in the couple's opening exchange) of whether either of the two victims would die for the other. Script springs a surprise with a switch to a bright, pristine location and a reversal of roles, before a final act that's more like old-style Hong Kong fantastic cinema than Japanese gorno.The sheer ridiculousness of this section blows any built-up tension and generates chuckles more than anything else.

Osako, who has most of the dialogue, dominates the pic with a cool, shifty performance. Onetime adult-film actress Nagasawa, who has bits in "Tokyo Gore Police" and "Zombie Hunter Rika," spends most of the time screaming semi-naked, but steps up to the plate with a final speech that appears to send up the whole genre.

Special effects run the gamut from good to cheesy. Handheld, largely closeup lensing substitutes intensity for emotional hooks.

Camera (color, widescreen, DV), Yohei Fukuda; editor, Tsuyoshi Sone; music, Kazuo Sato; art director, Norifumi Ataka; special makeup effects, Pieru Suda. Reviewed on DVD, Berlin, Nov. 13, 2009. Running time: 73 MIN.

[Ghoul]

reagovo sam ja na ovo još pre nekolko meseci, čim je izašo divx:
http://ljudska_splacina.com/2009/09/grotesque-2009.html

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http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2009&mm=12&dd=31&nav_category=12&nav_id=401361

četvrtak 31. decembar 2009.
     
B92 Info Vesti Društvo
Niš dobija najveći krst na Balkanu
31. decembar 2009. | 01:07 | Izvor: B92
Niš -- Najveći krst na Balkanu biće izgrađen u Nišu do 2013. kad se obeležava 1.700 godina od Milanskog edikta. Za izgradnju krsta biće potrebno oko million i po evra.

Krst će, prema najavama, biti visok 80 metara. Milanskim ediktom rimski car Konstantin priznao je hrišcćanstvo kao državnu religiju. Krst će biti postavljen na brdu na brdu Vinik, odakle će se videti sa svih strana Niša, rodnog grada prvog hrišćanskog cara.

Ovu inicijativu je pokrenuo Nišlija Dragan Milošević.

"Ovo je jedan prijekat koji iziskuje učešće šire društvene zajednice. Na sastanku su bili privredici koji su da žele da pomognu u realizaciji ovog posla, mada neće učestvovati samo privrednici, već svi ljudi dobre volje koji žele da Niš i i Srbija imaju ovakvo obeležje", rekao je Milošević.

Ideju o izgradnji krsta među prvima su prihvatili vladika niški Irinej i gradonačelnik Niša Miloš Simonović.

"Želja nam je da se u susret proslave godišnjice Milanskog edikta, podigne taj krst i da se Niš na taj način obeleži kao grad cara Konstantina. Najveće svetinje kojima se dičimo podizane su u teškim vremenima, a i ovaj krst se podiže u vremenu koje nije naklonjeno našim prilikama", rekao je vladika niški Irinej.

"Incijativa dolazi od privrednika i to govori da će većinu finansija obezbediti uparavo privrednici iz Niša i ovog regiona. To je nešto što je veoma značajno za čitavu Srbiju a ne samo za grad Niš. Priveligija je biti direktni učesnik proslave 2013. godine", rekao je gradonačelnik Niša Miloš Simonović.

Za izgradnju krsta biće potrebno oko million i po evra.

Građani NIša imaju različita mišljenja o izgradnji najvećeg krsta na Balkanu:

"Ideja je dobra, samo sad zavisi od sredstava, kako ih obezbediti", "Može da se napravi, ali bolje da se napravi nešto za proizvodnju", "Zašto ne bismo odvojili u taj fond, svako koliko može i da se to završi, kako smo Avalski toranj podigli tako možemo i taj krst. Ja bih bila presrećna zbog toga", kažu neki od građana.

Krst će biti u visini tridesetospratne zgrade kakva ne postoji u Nišu.

Trenutno se najveći krst na Balkanu nalazi na brdu iznad Skoplja i visok je 68 metara.

[Ghoul]

Krst će biti u visini tridesetospratne zgrade kakva ne postoji u Nišu.

bolje da su napravili tu zgradu umesto ovih glupavih kurčenja ko ima veći - krst.
ovo je direktan atak na sve one koji su indiferentni prema simbolu patnje i stradanja tog nekog apokrifnog jevreja od pre 2000 godina...

[EKSTREMISTA]

Jebi ga, sad Gule nećeš nigde u Nišu moći da se slikaš a da ti ne viri krst iza ledja.
Neupućeni gledalac bi pomislio da su ovo progurali DSS i Radikali, al kolko znam lokal u Nišu vodi koalicija Demokrata,Socijalista i Gejovaca.

[Ghoul]

lokal u Nišu vodi koalicija Demokrata,Socijalista i Gejovaca.

veće posrbice od srbina.

a slikaću se u niškoj banji.
tu valjda ta bogohulnost neće da se vidi!

[Shozo Hirono]

you wish: odatle imaš čist teren i sjajan pogled ka viniku.

[Ghoul]

sreća te svet još uvek ima 4 glavne strane, a ovi planiraju (za sada!) samo JEDAN krst, pa će ipak moći da se odabere i još poneka nekrštena strana...

[WARLOCK]

Svako jutro ces ustajati i otvoriti prozor 

[DušMan]

The Ghoul arrives in Los Angeles and quickly learns that there's more to Hollywood than glitz and glamour—there are also demons invading Griffith Park and a cop named Klimpt, who is convinced an aging starlet is a blood-sucking freak of her own creation. It's the Ghoul versus Demons in this knockdown, drag-out melee of monstrous behemoths!

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=4209&disp=table

[Джон Рейнольдс]

Ghoul! Ghoul! Ghoul! Ghoul! Ghoul!

Introducing Ghoul[1]

[Ghoul]

nije neslušljivo.

[Cenobite]

Cak bih se usudio dodati nesto vise - slusljivije je od 60% novokomponovanih svari...nekako vuce na onaj death/thrash zvuk kasnih osamdesetih/ranih devedesetih koji je izgleda zauvek izgubljen...

[cutter]

čestitam novog paju! da ga Bog poživi i najveći krst za vakta vozdigne.

[Meho Krljic]

Pazi i njemu je osamdeset godina, videćemo kolko će da potraje. Samo da nam pomogne da prebrodimo ovu krizu...

[cutter]

Sveti duh ne bi poturio njegovu kovertu da nije dovoljno krepak.

[Meho Krljic]

U to se i ja uzdam. Duh sigurno ima informacije koje su nama nedostupne.

[Джон Рейнольдс]

Postoji li neko proročanstvo u vezi sa poslednjim patrijarhom, kad već znamo da je ovaj švapski papa poslednji?

[EKSTREMISTA]

Sad će da krenu pare u nišku regiju da možete da dočekate papu kako dolikuje.

[Ghoul]

Pazi i njemu je osamdeset godina, videćemo kolko će da potraje. Samo da nam pomogne da prebrodimo ovu krizu...

do 2012. će valjda da izdrži.

posle toga i ne treba.

[crippled_avenger]

Director Ti West ("House of the Devil") is set to helm "The Inkeepers" for Dark Sky Films and Glass Eye Pix says Variety.

This spooky tale will revolve around two hotel employees trying to keep their haunted establishment afloat. Larry Fessenden wrote the original screenplay.

Shooting kicks off in Connecticut later this spring.

[Le Samourai]

Larry Fessenden wrote

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[Ghoul]

ne verujem da će lari the smarač uspeti da ovo ugnjavi kao što to obično čini - istina, za The House of the Devil je bio 'samo' producent...

[crippled_avenger]

šta je ovo? jesi ga overio?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204635/

[Ghoul]

nema s titlom pa nisam žurio.

[crippled_avenger]

Penelope Cruz could be serving as the lead in "Antichrist" and "Dogville" director Lars von Trier's next project, the psychological disaster thriller "Melancholia" reports The Playlist.

The $5 million project will apparently utilise some sci-fi elements and visual effects, but mostly it'll be a bleak and dark exploration of the "psychology view of a disaster".

Shooting will take place in Sweden and Germany later this year with a Cannes 2011 premiere likely. Peter Aalbaek Jensen will produce.

[Tex Murphy]

Oh, joy! Najprecjenjeniji režiser 20. i 21. vijeka udružuje se sa jednom od najprecjenjenijih i najnepodnošljivijih glumica! Pa to mora da bude fantastičan film.

[Will-O'-The-Wisp]

Najprecjenjeniji režiser 20. i 21. vijeka

Ispravka: najveći prevarant u istoriji sedme umjetnosti.

[Tex Murphy]

More i tako.

[Ygg]

Oh, joy! Najprecjenjeniji režiser 20. i 21. vijeka udružuje se sa jednom od najprecjenjenijih i najnepodnošljivijih glumica! Pa to mora da bude fantastičan film.

A ti si zaključio da je on najprecjenjeniji režiser na osnovu toga što si pogledao otprilike 5 sekundi jednog njegovog filma.

[Tex Murphy]

Ne, pogledao sam dvije i po minute Idiota i skoro pet minuta Plesa u tami.

[Vij]

Penelope Cruz i Lars von Trier.Zaljubljen sam!(naravno u Trier-a,a ni P. nije za baciti)

[Tex Murphy]

Feg!

[Ghoul]

ja već svršavam.
baš me veseli što je napustio one jebene negledljive pozorišne smaračine i vratio se filmovima - pa još sf-hororičnim!
to je bre njegov teren, oduvek bio - još od ELEMENTA ZLOČINA, filma koji onaj blentavi harv nije ni gledo a savršen mu je, pored ostalog, čak i za blog...

[crippled_avenger]

Oscar-nominated Austrian director Michael Haneke has abandoned his planned film about "humiliation and the physical deterioration of the aged" after seeing a Canadian project on a similar subject.


The project was tentatively called Ces Deux and Jean-Louis Trintignant and Isabelle Huppert were set to star. It was due to shoot in France this summer.

Haneke is now pressing ahead with a different screenplay although few details are known about the project. Les Films Du Losange, which will sell the new film, said the project is "about the internet" and will shoot around the world, in locations ranging from Japan to the US.

The untitled project is currently being scripted and the screenplay should be delivered by September.

[Tex Murphy]

Woooohooooo! Saće Haneke lepo da nam prikaže pošast tog demonskog INTERNETA!!! Can't wait!!!11
Mogo si ovo da staviš i u most anticipated

[DušMan]

Popboks:

Večeras će u Akademskom filmskom centru Doma kulture Studentski grad biti održan program pod nazivom Horor u animiranom filmu.

U okviru programa će biti prikazan izbor najstrasnijih filmova sa prethodnih izdanja Balkanime, evropskog festivala animiranog filma i nekoliko domaćih horora.

Uvodnu reč će dati profesor Nikola Majdak.

Program počinje u 20h, a ulaz je slobodan.

[crippled_avenger]

Kad si pričao sa Deodatom jel pominjao Šijana i da li zna da je prvobitno Šijan trebalo da snima BARBARIANSe?

[Ghoul]

nije ga pominjao, iako je šiki bio tu, na grosmanu.
čak ni šijan mi se nije time hvalio, tj. nisam ni imao pojma o toj glasini do sada.

btw: sjajan je omaž koji mu je uputio martin skorseze, pošto u SHITTER ISLANDU doktor 'nestale pacijentkinje' se zove DR. ŠIJAN!
svaki put kad je bio pomenut u filmu (bar 5-6 puta), sala se orila od smeha!

[crippled_avenger]

Nije to glasina, to je oficijelna informacija. O tome se znalo kod nas oduvek ali sam ja to posle uspeo da verifikujem i na nekim stranim sajtovima koje su pravili Ameri i Englezi upravo da ne bi bilo tih varijanti da je priča plod hvalisanja i slično. To je bilo objavljeno i kod nas u knjizi STRANCI U RAJU.

[Ghoul]

korejski splatter
THE RED SHOES

http://templeofghoul.blogspot.com/2010/03/red-shoes-2005.html

[Ghoul]

http://ljudska_splacina.com/2011/10/sector-7-2011.html

[Alexdelarge]

Snimljen film "48 sati sahrana"

Na pitanje kako za 48 sati organizovati sahranu, odgovor je dala grupa kragujevačkih studenata i diplomaca okupljenih u udruženju "Vido" koja je potpuno amaterski i bez budžeta snimila igrani film "48 sati sahrana".

Film, koji je parodija na rialiti programe, do sada je nekoliko puta prikazan u Kragujevcu, a tokom februara ovo ostvarenje stići će i u druge gradove Srbije.

Masovna pojava rialiti programa i njihov uticaj na mlade i društvo uopšte bila je osnovna ideja koja je pokrenula priču, kaže Miloš Radojković, apsolvent menadžmenta, koji potpisuje scenario filma "48 sati sahrana".

Bez budžeta, ali sa dosta entuzijazma, film je snimljen i montiran za samo tri meseca. Montažer je Aleksandar Glišović, po struci programer, koji je amatersko iskustvo sa kamerom i montažom uložio je u ovaj projekat.

Glumačka ekipa broji 10 članova. Među onima koji su se prvi put okušali pred kamerom je i Brankica Pavićević, diplomirana politikološkinja.

Nenad Glišović, član redakcije kragujevačkog Studentskog kulturnog centra, gde je "Sahrana" doživela svoju premijeru, smatra da su autori postigli cilj, a to je parodija, i dodaje da je film već postao kultni među kragujevačkom omladinom.

Velika premijera, kažu autori, biće održana krajem januara u Kragujevcu, simbolično, na 40 dana od prvog prikazivanja, nakon čega će projekcije biti organizovane i po drugim gradovima Srbije.

http://www.b92.net/kultura/vesti.php?nav_category=268&yyyy=2012&mm=01&dd=11&nav_id=572930

[Ghoul]

kolko vidim u komentarima, nastala je pogibija oko toga ko se prvi dosetio tog naslova i fore oko toga: te bora čorba, te neka niška TV...
ja sam to ovde provalio još 2007. i to baš na ovom topiku: http://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/index.php?topic=4657.0

enivej, reagovaću drugačije: pošto poznajem čoveka iz kragujevca koji je to promovisao, reagovaću traženjem dvd-a s filmom, pa ako nešto valja, prikazaću ga na mestu rezervisanom za to.

[Son of Man]

Haha, a moj ortak, inače omladinac iz Kragujevca to izvalio još 2006. i cimao se da kao snimamo 

[Ghoul]

Andrzej Zulawski Returns With Metaphysical Noir DARK MATTER



For those familiar with Zulawski's porous scifi devolution On the Silver Globe, you're in for a big treat. Seemingly blending the currently popular genres with a page from Jodorowsky, Zulwaski is working on a scifi/metaphysical/noir which is currently in the financing/development stage, and we've got the first synopsis and promo art for you below.

Corti, an important entrepreneur from Lyon, dies in his bed, with his loved ones around him. His only son, Antony, came back to see his father for the last time. For this occasion, he meets again with his forever friend, Raoul, son of one of the closest employees of Corti. Though they've been separated for years because of their studies abroad - corporate finance for Antony and nuclear physics for Raoul - those two have kept the same affection and complicity.


While Antony takes in hand the business of his father and tries to win the confidence of his top executives and financial partners, a mysterious notebook left behind by Corti will increasingly puzzle him... Who was really his father? What was he doing in Africa 30 yeas ago with those same men who faithfully remained around him until today? Why did he lead his company into the industrial adventure of Geneva's Large Hadron Collider? What is this''dark matter' in which he seems to have drowned himself? ...

Day after day, Antony feels that his own life is on the edge. He would love to understand. But soon, money is lacking and Corti's industrial empire must absolutely find cash or die... The only solution imagined by Antony becoming more and more confused is to go back to the roots of gangsterism and organize a burglary.

A fantastic burglary in the great tradition of films noirs...

But a metaphysical burglary...

[Ghoul]

Postoji li neko proročanstvo u vezi sa poslednjim patrijarhom, kad već znamo da je ovaj švapski papa poslednji?

znamo li? 

[Alexdelarge]

dokle se stiglo sa dark matterom?

[Ghoul]

dokle se stiglo sa dark matterom?

nidokle.
još se traže pare, a žuljavski ne postaje nimalo mlađi vremenom... 

zasad se našao na ovoj listi 10 najočekivanijih za 2014-tu, ali kako kažu - "it seems Zulawski still requires financing".

http://www.ioncinema.com/annual-top-films-lists/lynne-ramsay-andrzej-zulawski-yorgos-lanthimos-top-100-most-anticipated-films-of-2014

[Nightflier]

LOVECRAFT COUNTRY by Matt Ruff

The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrous work of the imagination that melds historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian horror and fantasy
Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, twenty-two year old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George—publisher of

The Safe Negro Travel Guide—and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite—heir to the estate that owned Atticus's great grandmother—they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours.
At the manor, Atticus discovers his father in chains, held prisoner by a secret cabal named the Order of the Ancient Dawn—led by Samuel Braithwhite and his son Caleb—which has gathered to orchestrate a ritual that shockingly centers on Atticus. And his one hope of salvation may be the seed of his—and the whole Turner clan's—destruction.
A chimerical blend of magic, power, hope, and freedom that stretches across time, touching diverse members of one black family, Lovecraft Country is a devastating kaleidoscopic portrait of racism—the terrifying specter that continues to haunt us today.