How do two women who’ve been raised in closed off environments deal with a desire to explore the world as other internal changes happen simultaneously?
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SFF ’15 REVIEW: Deathgasm (Jason Lei Howden)
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The film I thought of when watching Deathgasm, a metal in spirit and content horror comedy from New Zealand, is Joseph Kahn’s Detention (2011), in which the ADHD generation is spoofed in a way in which the ADHD can understand. This might be unfair to Howden’s film as Detention is a masterful barrage of sight gags and insanely quick simultaneous layers of smart dialogue. Deathgasm does just that just without the clusterfuck of genres, Deathgasm is through and through a film in which metal runs through its veins.
Read MoreSFF ’15 REVIEW: Some Kind of Hate (Adam Egypt Mortimer)
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One of the best modern slashers that uses its premise and supernatural qualities of its killer character to comment on the nature of bullying.
Read MoreSFF ’15 REVIEW: Over Your Dead Body (Takashi Miike)
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Miike's best film since Ninja Kids!!! it recalls the high level of thought and craft of Audition.
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SFF ’15 REVIEW: Director’s Commentary – The Terror of Frankenstein (Tim Kirk)
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The DVD commentary track is a frontier open to narrative exploration and much like the video game let’s play not many have seen it as a device for storytelling. Sometimes an actor will do a commentary in character, mainly for laughs rather than some sort of self-reflexive narrative continuation for the character.
Read MoreSFF ’15 REVIEW: The Nightmare (Rodney Ascher)
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If you are a fan, or just find it refreshing, of documentaries that wear artifice on their sleeves there are small details that should be of interest to you in The Nightmare.
Read MoreSFF ’15 REVIEW: Scherzo Diabolico (Adrián García Bogliano)
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Before the screening Bogliano stated that he wanted to make a more personal film and that he wanted to make a second feature in Mexico, his previous productions taking place in the US (Late Phases) and Venezuela (Penumbra, and the awesome Cold Sweat). Hopefully he continues wanting to explore what is personal to him because Scherzo Diabolico is his best work to date as it is given a strong starting point because of it: the pressure that you have to be successful when you reach a certain age...
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