Having dispensed with the found-footage movie’s weaknesses, Evans shows a keen grasp of its strengths. ( Log Out / Take a look at this bloody clip from V/H/S/2's Safe Haven segment!
Back to the found-footage aspect for a sec: it’s somewhat oxymoronic, but Evans proves to be a great fit for found-footage in large part because he has so little respect for its conventions. For all the problems I have with it, found-footage does possess a certain confrontational element that makes for great horror, and few shots embrace that like the moment when Father dives on a helpless cameraman and cuts his throat – effectively, cutting the viewer’s throat, since we see the shot from a button camera hidden in the victim’s shirt. Specifically: the Found-Footage Movie. Somewhat surprisingly, this managed to address a few of the big flaws with found-footage as a genre; for one, it taxes one’s suspension of disbelief a lot less when these protagonists are carrying their camera through precarious situations for 20 or so minutes as opposed to feature length (it was also the first found-footage movie I saw that brought hands-free devices into the mix, making for a less contrived shooting style as well as exploiting the inherent skeeviness of stuff like Google Glass). Horror fans willing to sift through the chaff were left clamoring for Evans to take on a feature-length horror project. Gareth Evans and Timo Tjahjanto About the author: Admin Monster Pictures is a Melbourne-based distribution / production company dedicated to delivering the most energetic, unique, creative, innovative, provocative, bizarre, frightening, challenging, surreal, offbeat, absurd, twisted, demented, raunchy, cinema in the world today.
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. On the one hand, there’s no real market for standalone short films anymore (if there ever really was), so Safe Haven stood its best chance for being seen by fitting snugly in the modern cult favorites that are the V/H/S series. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account.If you haven't seen it, I highly suggest that you do so soon! Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Dedicated horror fans will probably know what this is, but for the cheap seats: Found Footage movies, as the name implies, present themselves as an assemblage of footage found by a third party and shot by a (usually) dead or missing, (usually) amateur filmmaker. But first, he would take another spin through the franchise that made his name. The second, in a whole other league than Ride and indeed anything in the V/H/S franchise is Gareth Evans’ Safe Haven (hey, it only took me 700 words to get to the point). ( Log Out / And maybe that’s still in the future for him.
This was an amazing horror anthology, and if you're a fan of the horror genre, you're going to love it. And his plans for it were big, indeed. But they aren’t there long before things take an even darker turn; as the members of the film crew are separated, Father makes some cryptic announcements over the compound’s intercom, and all hell breaks loose, in the most direct and literal meaning of the term. Indeed, apart from two segments, it’s borderline unwatchable.
To be blunt, I’m almost certain the movie cheats a bit; on my rewatch for this article, I couldn’t pick out any specific places where there absolutely could not be a camera, but there were at least a few where I think Evans put getting the shot he wanted over making sure that shot made strict logical sense. Still, it had a higher batting average than a lot of anthology movies, and though it was inarguably about 20 minutes too long, each segment genuinely felt like it brought something to the table, even the perfunctory wraparound, and overall it made for a satisfyingly creepy watch. Our latest anthology, V/H/S/2, hit VOD a few weeks back via Magnet Releasing.
As I’ve mentioned in earlier entries in this series, Evans is no stranger to horror imagery. From the 'Safe Haven' segment of this found footage thriller comes a distributing moment as directed by contributors Timo Tjahjanto and Gareth Evans. The first of these two is A Ride in the Park, a fun if insubstantial short by Blair Witch co-director Eduardo Sanchez making use of the irresistible high-concept gimmick “zombies with go-pros.” The second, in a whole other league than Ride and indeed anything in the V/H/S franchise is Gareth Evans’ Safe Haven (hey, it only took me 700 words to get to the point). Yeah both the Alien one and Safe Haven were awesome. So, the plot: set, as with Evans’ last two films, in Indonesia, a documentary film crew headed by Malik (Oka Antara) is interviewing a mysterious cult leader only referred to as Father (Epy Kusnandar) in a restaurant. But to be even more blunt, I don’t care. A video tape reveals a gory hallway incident. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Evans brings his characteristic video-game aesthetic into play as well, trading in the side-scrolling beat-em-up conceit of The Raid for the survivalist horror genre: there’s the hellish occult imagery of Quake, the old-school goat-headed demons of Doom, and the wailing air raid sirens of Silent Hill. Graned, V/H/S also imported some of the problems of the anthology movie, such as a general lumpy unevenness from vignette to vignette. Far from the one or two camera setups usually found in the genre, cameras are everywhere in Safe Haven. Tjahjanto and Evans called EW from Jakarta to talk about their segment of V/H/S/2 which is now available on VOD and will hit cinemas July 12. Trailer Addict has setup TA, Trailers Anonymous. Even though I loved the first V/H/S … Timo Tjahjanto and Gareth Evans direct this jaw-dropping segment of the horror anthology, in theaters July 12th. It’s not like the wave upon wave of turd slasher movies that came out in the 1980s was particularly noble, but the quick-buck filmmakers behind them had to at least try to learn how to frame a shot instead of struggling to come up with reasons why someone would keep their eye to the viewfinder while leaping from building to building to escape a giant monster (god dammit, I hate Cloverfield).
Timo Tjahjanto and Gareth Evans direct this jaw-dropping segment of the horror anthology, in theaters July 12th.
In half an hour (Safe Haven is the longest segment in either V/H/S movie – Wingard et al. But for all the beard-stroking observations one can make about how the found-footage subgenre reflects our media saturated, handheld device driven culture in the 21st century (and I do feel that the horror genre reflects a given society’s values more than most), I think the glut of often indistinguishably jittery first-person horror movies in the 2000s and 2010s comes down to two things: they work like gangbusters on people that are easily rattled by youtube videos where a ghost jumps out at you, and they finally found a way to make horror movies even cheaper and easier to crank out. All the way back to Footsteps and through The Raid, he was indulging in intense bursts of gore and terror beyond what the usual action movie holds. Anyway, fast forward to 2012, enter V/H/S. You can read what the terrible twosome had to … It’s one of the most potent, concentrated doses of nightmare imagery you’re likely to find in 21st century film, and Evans parcels it out with a master director’s control. V/H/S/2 isn't in theaters until this July, but you can watch the second installment of the popular horror anthology right now on iTunes and VOD. You can find the iTunes and Apple TV link here. Feel free to contact us at please enable javascript to view with your scoops, comments or advertising inquiries. Change ), Gareth Evans Retrospective Part 4: V/H/S/2: Safe Haven (2013), Gareth Evans Retrospective Part 3: The Raid: Redemption (2011), Gareth Evans Retrospective Part 2: Merantau (2009), Gareth Evans Retrospective Part 1: Footsteps (2006), Pre-Code.Com: Reviewing Every Film, 1930 to 1934. And so, Safe Haven was one of the best horror movies of the 2010s, but unfairly trapped within an otherwise lackluster movie. A video tape reveals a gory hallway incident. How Does ‘Flash Gordon’ Stack Up To Other Classic Superhero Films?
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