Tag: Our House
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‘Come True’: Wes Craven & David Cronenberg Sensibilities Merge In A Nightmare About Sleep Paralysis [Review]
Anthony Scott Burns–filmmaker, musician, and half the team behind “Our House”–branches into science fiction with the eerily hypnotic “Come True,” starring Julia Sarah Stone. Take some Wes Craven, fold in David Cronenberg, sprinkle on a bit of Carl Jung and Philip K. Dick, and you get “Come True,” which imagines a not-so-distant future in which…
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‘Come True’ Review: A Hypnotic Dream Thriller About a Creepy Sleep Study
“Come True” wears its many influences on its sleeve, notably the work of David Cronenberg and Philip K. Dick, “A Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Donnie Darko,” with nods to “The Shining,” “Night of the Living Dead” and “The Terminator” thrown in for good measure. Nonetheless, filmmaker Anthony Scott Burns (“Our House”) melds those inspirations…
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‘It was like lighting yourself on fire’: how Shia Labeouf’s co-star changed his life
When the troubled actor made a film with Zack Gottsagen, who has Down’s syndrome, his drunken arrest nearly wrecked the project. The pair talk about rehab, redemption – and wrestlingWhere do you start with Shia Labeouf? The former child star and teenage action hero, latter-day performance artist and Hollywood outcast vapes as a tune plays…
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‘Our House’ Trailer: Bringing Parents Back From The Dead Is No Easy Task
Science fiction and horror collide once again in Our House, a new “sci-fi skin-crawler” that tells the story of a brother and sister who, in an attempt to harness wireless electricity, accidentally unlock a doorway to the afterlife and bring their parents back from the dead. Unfortunately, the spirits that occupy their home aren’t exactly…
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‘Buffalo Boys’, ‘Our House’ among Fantasia line-up
David Robert Mitchell’s Cannes competition entry Under The Silver Lake gets special screening.The 22nd edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal this summer will feature world premieres of Indonesian western Buffalo Boys (pictured) and Canadian chiller Our House.The festival, which runs from July 12-August 1, brings a roster of more than 130 films,…
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‘Our House’ Is A ‘Sliding Doors’-Meets-David-Lynch Mystery [Nd/Nf Review]
For all the transdimensional, out-of-body potential of cinema, there are few directors who can successfully execute otherworldly temporality. Films that stir parallel dimensions or transgressive timelines into their otherwise straightforward plots are forced to walk the line between sci-fi and drama without acquiescing to either genre’s overwrought potentials. If these films were to exist on…