Fear Itself

[dr mladjo]

ono kčerke od predsjednika bartleta iz west wing..

[GreenHornet]

meni više liči na Jawsa iz James Bonda

aha!!! nisam se nikako mogo sjetit na koga me podsjeća.

[HorrorHR]

TRAILER:

http://www.g4tv.com/trailers/videos/215 ... tself.html

4 epizode za sada unutra,

#1 - sa onim zubatim sa prošlih slika, djeluje fora
#2 - nisam neki ljubitelj haunted stvari ali ajde solidno
#3 - 50-50 šanse da će biti dobro
#4 - za sada mi djeluje najzanimljivije

[john_constantine]

zabavan trailer, samo mi se ona treća epizoda nikako ne uklapa...

[HorrorHR]

Prvi review sa BD:

Sacrifice (Fear Itself 1.1)

Mick Garris (MASTERS OF HORROR) brings his latest vision of a horror anthology show to NBC with the debut of FEAR ITSELF. Like his Showtime series, Garris is bringing aboard a gaggle of genre vets and a few newcomers. This premiere episode SACRIFICE provides a solid mix of both.

Garris penned the screenplay based on a short story by Del Howison. Howison’s name should be familiar to the more literal gorehounds out there, as he is the owner of the Dark Delicacies bookstore in Burbank, California—the be all, end all location for the best in horror film and book signings. Helming the episode is Breck Eisner, who’s getting his feet bloodied in the world of genre films before stepping up to lens THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON and a re-make of George Romero’s THE CRAZIES.

SACRIFICE follows four friends whose car troubles leave them stranded in the middle of the snowy wilderness. With one of the group seriously wounded, the men happen upon an old fort. Inside, they discover three beautiful sisters and a deadly secret that has been hidden behind the walls for a very long time.

SACRIFICE has a few things working against it, and a lot of things working in it’s favor. To begin with, what we are talking about here is a cut and dry monster movie. Everything is by the book. Eisner’s direction is not flashy—although he does employ a few interesting camera angles. As the film’s opening credits run, the bleak landscape calls to mind Sam Raimi’s terrific film A SIMPLE PLAN. Eagle-eyed genre fans will recognize the fort in the wilderness (A location previously used in the highly underrated GINGER SNAPS BACK). It’s clear almost immediately (we’re talking pre-credit sequence here) that the men have been lured to this location. So, we know everything is not hunky dory. The trio of girls—lead by Rachel Miner (PENNY DREADFUL)—have obviously been extremely sheltered. Their speech is stilted and when they display flashes of their sexuality, it seems forced. The film addresses these issues (which have an interesting subtext in light of recent events in Texas) with the final reveal and does well to make the viewer reassess some preconceived prejudices about their intentions.

The problems lie in the fact that the film is moving forward with all guns blazing from almost the minute the guys arrive at the fort. There is no time for character development on the part of the women and one of the guys is dispatched so rapidly it’s a wonder why he was even written into the script at all.

The effects work is pretty good stuff and those of you fearful that no blood was going to be shown can rest assured that there’s a fair amount of splatter to go around. Obviously no one is going to be swearing up a store on network television so, despite an instance or two where you’d expect a few four letter words to fly, the scripting is pretty much on the mark as far as believability.
SACRIFICE is probably not going to blow any dyed-in-the-wool horrorhounds minds, but for a primetime horror show, not airing on a pay cable network, it’s not bad. That Garris and company have taken a traditional horror film format to NBC says a lot about how much television has progressed over the past 20 years. As I said before, it’s not explicit—at least no more so than a week worth of CSI episodes would suggest—but it is fair to the viewer. If the assembled coming episodes match or hopefully enhance the favor earned by SACRIFICE, I wager we’re looking a pretty fearful summer ahead of us.

6/10 or 3 Skulls

[john_constantine]

ja upravo skidam prvi dio.

[gandalf]

Ja skinuo, neću spojlati ali se slažem sa ocjenom!

[Ghrall]

Ja sad odoh gledat prvu epzodu.

[HorrorHR]

Spooked (Fear Itself Episode 1.2)

This week’s episode of Fear Itself comes to us courtesy of Director Brad Anderson (SESSION 9) and writer Matt Venne who penned the Dario Argento helmed Masters of Horror episode PELTS. Anderson is also a MoH alumnus, having the distinction of directing one of my least favorite episodes of that series, the grating psychological drama SOUNDS LIKE.

In SOUNDS LIKE, the main character went mad because he heard things. In SPOOKED, Eric Roberts plays private detective Harry Bender with enough personal and professional baggage to pack a Greyhound bus. Having been booted off the police force 15-years earlier for extreme brutality, Bender now passes his time, catching cheating husbands and blackmailing his clients. Bender is approached by Meredith (Cynthia Watros) to investigate her own marital problems and sets up surveillance in the abandoned house across the street. But this house has a nasty history inside its walls and Bender is about to find out first hand what lies beneath the surface of this house, and his own psyche is way more than he bargained for.

Anderson and Venne seem on the surface to be giving us a standard haunted house story as the title suggests. Of course the plan here is to twist it up a bit. It’s clear from the get go that Bender isn’t one of the good guys as we witness him beating and slashing a kidnapping suspect (Jack Noseworthy). This fact is made ever more obvious when we later see him blackmail a woman who has hired him to dig up dirt on her husband. When Bender sets up shop in the decrepit home—that looks like a crack house sitting in the middle of BelAir (would this house actually exist in this neighborhood?)—we all know he’s gonna get it in the end. Where the problem lies is that we don’t care. He’s not a likable character in any sense of the word. Even as his backstory unfolds and we witness his inner demons surface, we can’t really forge any sympathy for the prick. It’s a problematic character at best.

It pains me that Brad Anderson has put together such a lackluster episode of FEAR ITSELF after the abysmal SOUNDS LIKE. All the good graces this guy has amassed by directing the intensely claustrophobic SESSION 9 and emotionally exhausting MACHINIST are being rapidly wiped out of my memory. Both of Anderson’s feature films were visually interesting if not splashy. Here the only thing worth looking at is the graffiti that adorns the house with foreboding statements like “Murder” and “Bodies in the Basement”. Actually, the most effecting moments in the film come from the spray-paint images of 4 characters that cover one wall. These images constantly change during the production and foreshadow the fate of people who set foot in the house—acting as sort of a silent Greek chorus sounding a visual death toll for the audience. It’s a very cool concept and the only thing in the film that even borders on frightful.

A film where the best thing about it the CGI set decoration, is hardly something to stand up and cheer for. Venne has shown as a writer that he can put together a gruesome tale in PELTS, but an unlikable main character also populated that film. It worked in PELTS because we were actively routing for Meatloaf to die—and what a spectacular death it was. Here the film is hampered because, we just don’t care about what happens to Bender and since it’s network television we already know he’s not going out like the last guy did. If Venne is going to keep these revenge morality tales going, he might need to soften up the edges a bit more on his lead characters. As for Anderson, the ho-hum delivery of SPOOKED should serve as a sign that this directors talents lie elsewhere and he should seriously consider moving out of Television and back to smaller, intimate and more personal film projects, like the ones that got him these gigs in the first place.

4/10 or 2 Skulls

[Ghrall]

Osrednja epizoda.Vampiri su mi dobro napravljeni ali mi je tak nekak sve mlako.E da, ono okruženje me skroz podsječa na Ginger snaps 3.Možda je čak ista lokacija tko zna.

[HorrorHR]

Zaboravih staviti ovdje:

Fear Itself S01E01 - Sacrifice
http://www.horrorhr.com/fear-itself-s01e01-sacrifice/

Fear Itself S01E02 - Spooked
http://www.horrorhr.com/fear-itself-s01e02-spooked/

[Ghrall]

Pogledao neki dan drugu i bolja mi je bila od prve a sad pogledao i Family man i mogu reći da je najbolja do sad. Čak nije toliko horor, više triler sa dozom nadnaravnog. Kraj mi je bio baš prejeben i glumci si izvrsno odradili svoje.Ma sve je super u ovoj epoizodi. Počeo skidat 4. upravo.

[gandalf]

Nešto slično Family manu je bilo u X Filesima, inače svakom epizodom postaje sve bolje, nadam se da će nastaviti tako!

[HorrorHR]

meni prve dve nisu uopće loše, najmanje su solidne, ali gledam po drugim sajtovima ubijaju totalno serijal. kao da je sranje nad sranjima, fakat ne kužim...

[A$H]

meni prve dve nisu uopće loše, najmanje su solidne, ali gledam po drugim sajtovima ubijaju totalno serijal. kao da je sranje nad sranjima, fakat ne kužim...

da ni meni nije jasno..isto napisah da su mi obje epizode isto dobre..dok vecina pljuje po drugoj epizodi..