Film Local Horror
posted by April 18 at 14:43 PM
onI don’t know what Lindy West is going to say about it (she’s reviewing it in next week’s paper), but she and I saw the Seattle premiere of a locally produced horror movie, Frayed, at the Egyptian last night.
The three guys who wrote and produced and directed the movie, Rob Portmann, Kurt Svennungsen, and Norb Caoili are from Auburn, Puyallup, and Renton, respectively. (The place was packed with cheering friends last night.)
The trio are obviously Friday-the-13th-style horror movie aficionados. Frayed is a straight-up enthusiastic knockoff of early ’80s slasher movies. It’s got psycho ward escapees, sexy teenage girls on camping trips, child molesters, clown suits, creepy kids, chases through the woods, headlights on eerie back roads, and lots of stabbing.
I was pretty much hooked from the first scene—ominous grainy home video footage of a creepy birthday party.
Like the grainy video intro, the movie is a bundle of cliches (nod and wink style, I guess). My favorite moment last night was when the guy who’s getting chased through the woods stumbles upon an isolated house and called out, “Anybody here?” Lindy retorted, “Ummm… No.”
But I must say, I had a blast, and was even looking over my shoulder when I got home to my apartment.
The movie was picked up by Lionsgate and is being released on DVD.
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i would say the dweebs are argento fans. makes me wanna rent suspiria. good first outing.
Sorry for being off-topic, but did Cthulu ever come out?
Good question, when can we see Tori Spelling as a want to be mom for Cthulhu? Is it out on DVD? I might rent it ...
I've been waiting to see Cthulhu for so long. I missed it when it screened. Does anyone have an update?
@1: Seriously? Suspiria was so bad, we turned it off.
Maybe there's some kind of website we can buy it at ...
@5 - i agree, Suspiria is atrocious, don't know why anyone likes that.
Everybody: Suspiria is a 70s horror movie.
Frayed is in the 80s model.
Stop confusing these two decades.
@5 & @7 - WHAT?!?!
Just kidding. Well, not really; I absolutely adore Suspiria. But having been among the naysayers in the Pavement debate over on Line Out the other day, I can certainly appreciate the feeling that one has missed something.
THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME OF THAT WET SACK OF PULVERIZED FACE, JOSH!
you on crack. Suspiria is dario argento's finest. watch it again.
rent these 10 must see films:
1) rosemary's baby
2) suspiria
3) blackula
4) phantasm
5) texas chainsaw massacre
6) halloween
7) i spit on your grave
8) abby
9) shining
10) inferno
@11 - um, sorry, the only ones that are any good are 1, 3, and 9. I recommend you skip the rest.
No way, dude. Texas Chainsaw is a stone classic and Phantasm is awesome...oh, Cthulhu! Cthulhu sold to a major distributor and will be in theaters in the fall. There haven't been any press details yet because the ink isn't dry. Full-court media press when it's all finished up.
Oh, I should add that the version in the theaters will be rather different from the one shown at the sneak preview last year, or at SIFF and other festivals.
They've recut it as a romantic comedy!
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