In 1995, Danish director Lars Von Trier started the “Dogme 95” movement: rules to take filmmaking back to the roots of traditional storytelling, acting and themes while eschewing elaborate uses of special effects and technology. As such, filmmakers that participated in the movement were forbidden from shooting anywhere but on location. They could only use diegeticContinue reading “HI-8 (Horror Independent Eight)”
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Open Grave
For a film called Open Grave, the story doesn’t really need one. A man with amnesia wakes up in, well, an open grave, littered with a hundred corpses. It’s a bit excessive — literally overkill. The film’s got an intriguing enough premise that they could have shoveled dirt on this opener, which doesn’t necessarily mesh with the aesthetic ofContinue reading “Open Grave”
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