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Haunting It’s now ten years since The Blair Witch Project (1999) brought the power of cinema and the (then fledgling) internet together, with its faux-true story/documentary approach to what was actually nothing more (but certainly nothing less) than a well-told (and very creepy) spook story. Back in the darkness Catalonian and Spanish directors Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza are back on the scene, with their sequel to the sublime, terrifying [Rec] (2007). So, does the second slice of P.O.V. pandemonium match up to the first? Well, yes and no. As already said, the same directors reunite (and Picturenose had a chance [...] [photopress:rec.jpg,thumb,alignleft]Dead scary The horror cinéma-vérité sub-genre is enjoying a whole new lease of life – it’s a concept that was set in motion by The Blair Witch Project (1999) and which, after an absence of nearly ten years, has been well-served recently by fake documentary flicks such as George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead (2007), [...] [photopress:large_diary.jpg,thumb,alignleft] ‘They won’t stay dead!’ Thus screamed the tagline for George A. Romero’s seminal Night of the Living Dead way back in 1968, and it would appear to have been on the money as here we are, more than 40 years later, with the world still ending not with a bang, nor for that matter a [...] [photopress:quarantine.jpg,thumb,alignleft] Redundant reboot Oh dear – another ill-advised US remake of a European horror classic… Regular Picturenose and Expatica readers will recall that I have previously raved over the recent work of Spanish horror directors, with [Rec] by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza a particular standout. Their tightly constructed nightmare for the The Blair Witch Project (1999) [...] |
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