It’s one week before Halloween in a sleepy Michigan suburb and the pumpkins are already rotting in the backyard. For some reason, Peter’s (Woody Norman) suspiciously strict parents (Lizzy Caplan and Antony Starr) are intent on shielding the eight-year-old from participating in the holiday festivities, which may have something to do with the spooky and unnerving presence that the boy senses within the walls of their dark and austere home.
Samuel Bodin’s Cobweb isn’t shy about drawing upon the iconography of many a horror film before it—even the name of the town where it takes place is a difficult-to-ignore nod to Halloween’s Haddonfield—yet it weaves a distinctly eerie spell over the audience in its depiction of Peter’s troubled young life. In the film, the boy becomes tormented by tapping sounds emanating from behind his bedroom wall, and after willing himself to knock on the wall,...
Samuel Bodin’s Cobweb isn’t shy about drawing upon the iconography of many a horror film before it—even the name of the town where it takes place is a difficult-to-ignore nod to Halloween’s Haddonfield—yet it weaves a distinctly eerie spell over the audience in its depiction of Peter’s troubled young life. In the film, the boy becomes tormented by tapping sounds emanating from behind his bedroom wall, and after willing himself to knock on the wall,...
- 7/19/2023
- by Greg Nussen
- Slant Magazine
Henry Rollins thought he had it rough when, on Black Flag’s 1984 album Slip It In, he sang about “drinking black coffee, black coffee, drinking black coffee, staring at the wall.” But, hey, at least he got coffee.
That’s more than Jane, the protagonist of The Yellow Wallpaper, has.
Played by Alexandra Loreth (who also co-wrote the script with director K Pontuti), Jane is a woman in America during the 1800s, which means she’s basically a second-class citizen. She has, however, fulfilled her sole purpose in life, at least according to the patriarchal attitudes of the time: she’s given birth to a child.
Now, as a treatment for postpartum depression (once believed to be a byproduct of “female hysteria”), Jane is taken to a remote country manor to “rest.” In other words, she’s confined to a small bedroom with bars on the windows and furniture nailed to the floor.
That’s more than Jane, the protagonist of The Yellow Wallpaper, has.
Played by Alexandra Loreth (who also co-wrote the script with director K Pontuti), Jane is a woman in America during the 1800s, which means she’s basically a second-class citizen. She has, however, fulfilled her sole purpose in life, at least according to the patriarchal attitudes of the time: she’s given birth to a child.
Now, as a treatment for postpartum depression (once believed to be a byproduct of “female hysteria”), Jane is taken to a remote country manor to “rest.” In other words, she’s confined to a small bedroom with bars on the windows and furniture nailed to the floor.
- 5/8/2023
- by Dr. Dobermind
- Horror Asylum
BayView Entertainment have released the horror film The Yellow Wallpaper to Blu-ray in the USA.
Synopsis:
Jane, a writer and young mother, is prescribed a rest treatment by her physician husband John, who takes her to a remote country estate for the summer. She becomes obsessed with the peculiar yellow wallpaper in the bedroom he has chosen for her. In her isolation, she secretly writes about a woman trapped in the wallpaper―that she must free.
Based on the short story The Yellow Wallpaper by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this adaptation was brought to the screen by Director Kevin Pontuti and stars Alexandra Loreth, Joe Mullins and Jeanne O’Connor.
The Yellow Wallpaper is out now on Blu-ray from BayView Entertainment
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Synopsis:
Jane, a writer and young mother, is prescribed a rest treatment by her physician husband John, who takes her to a remote country estate for the summer. She becomes obsessed with the peculiar yellow wallpaper in the bedroom he has chosen for her. In her isolation, she secretly writes about a woman trapped in the wallpaper―that she must free.
Based on the short story The Yellow Wallpaper by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this adaptation was brought to the screen by Director Kevin Pontuti and stars Alexandra Loreth, Joe Mullins and Jeanne O’Connor.
The Yellow Wallpaper is out now on Blu-ray from BayView Entertainment
Available to buy at:
Amazon.com
ImportCDs.com
DeepDiscount.com
Keep up to date with all things BayView Entertainment by following them on social media and via their website.
Links...
- 3/30/2023
- by Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
- Horror Asylum
Simone Cleary (Kate Hudson) greets Shriver (Michael Shannon) in Michael Maren’s whimsical A Little White Lie
Michael Maren’s whimsical A Little White Lie (adapted from Chris Belden’s book Shriver) stars Michael Shannon (also a producer), Kate Hudson (executive producer), Don Johnson, and M Emmet Walsh with Kate Linder, Romy Byrne, Mark Boone Junior, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Jimmi Simpson, Wendie Malick, and Zach Braff.
Honoré de Balzac, Jerzy Kosinski and Hal Ashby’s Being There, starring Peter Sellers (shown to Olivia Colman by Toby Jones in Sam Mendes’s Empire Of Light), The Landlord, Harold And Maude, Linda Lavin and Harris Yulin in A Short History Of Decay, Max Frisch’s I’m Not Stiller and Call Me Gantenbein, John Barth’s Giles Goat-Boy, James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake and Ulysses, Marcel Proust’s Remembrance Of Lost Time, Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper,...
Michael Maren’s whimsical A Little White Lie (adapted from Chris Belden’s book Shriver) stars Michael Shannon (also a producer), Kate Hudson (executive producer), Don Johnson, and M Emmet Walsh with Kate Linder, Romy Byrne, Mark Boone Junior, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Jimmi Simpson, Wendie Malick, and Zach Braff.
Honoré de Balzac, Jerzy Kosinski and Hal Ashby’s Being There, starring Peter Sellers (shown to Olivia Colman by Toby Jones in Sam Mendes’s Empire Of Light), The Landlord, Harold And Maude, Linda Lavin and Harris Yulin in A Short History Of Decay, Max Frisch’s I’m Not Stiller and Call Me Gantenbein, John Barth’s Giles Goat-Boy, James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake and Ulysses, Marcel Proust’s Remembrance Of Lost Time, Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper,...
- 3/18/2023
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
BayView Entertainment will release the horror film The Yellow Wallpaper to Blu-ray 28th March 2023.
Synopsis:
Jane, a writer and young mother, is prescribed a rest treatment by her physician husband John, who takes her to a remote country estate for the summer. She becomes obsessed with the peculiar yellow wallpaper in the bedroom he has chosen for her. In her isolation, she secretly writes about a woman trapped in the wallpaper―that she must free.
Based on the short story The Yellow Wallpaper by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this adaptation was brought to the screen by Director Kevin Pontuti and stars Alexandra Loreth, Joe Mullins and Jeanne O’Connor.
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Synopsis:
Jane, a writer and young mother, is prescribed a rest treatment by her physician husband John, who takes her to a remote country estate for the summer. She becomes obsessed with the peculiar yellow wallpaper in the bedroom he has chosen for her. In her isolation, she secretly writes about a woman trapped in the wallpaper―that she must free.
Based on the short story The Yellow Wallpaper by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this adaptation was brought to the screen by Director Kevin Pontuti and stars Alexandra Loreth, Joe Mullins and Jeanne O’Connor.
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- 3/1/2023
- by Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
- Horror Asylum
In 2012, Kier-La Janisse published House of Psychotic Women and forever changed the landscape of film analysis. Subtitled An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis, the book is an exhaustive look at films from all genres, each featuring one or more female characters with some degree of mental instability. House of Psychotic Women is split into two sections: memoir and appendix. Janisse begins by examining significant moments in her own life, confronting generational trauma, a troubled childhood, her teenage years as a juvenile delinquent, and her journey to festival programming through the lens of narrative film. Each stage of her life is paired with at least one movie in which she seeks to understand her own experiences by comparing them with a character facing a similar issue. Janisse’s vulnerable and unflinchingly honest writing invites the reader into her psyche while inspiring a deeper look into our own lives.
The memoir is...
The memoir is...
- 1/19/2023
- by Jenn Adams
- bloody-disgusting.com
This Quantum Leap review contains spoilers.
Quantum Leap Episode 7
Quantum Leap episode 7 “O Ye of Little Faith,” is the episode diehard fans have been waiting for in the sequel series. The original show carried with it specific sensibilities of good versus evil, God and the Devil, the power of the subconscious versus the rational mind and the separation of science and religious belief. These tropes popped up from time to time through all the original five seasons, but certainly the Halloween episodes and a good deal of season 5 drove full throttle into the seemingly unscientific questions of faith.
As Dr. Ben Song (Raymond Lee) leaps into the body of Fr. James Davenport in 1934 on Halloween night, creepy children stroll the streets in Depression-era costumes. The bleakness of the period is highlighted exquisitely by the trick-or-treat scenery. Our modern fears of sending our kids out into the street–alone–in homemade...
Quantum Leap Episode 7
Quantum Leap episode 7 “O Ye of Little Faith,” is the episode diehard fans have been waiting for in the sequel series. The original show carried with it specific sensibilities of good versus evil, God and the Devil, the power of the subconscious versus the rational mind and the separation of science and religious belief. These tropes popped up from time to time through all the original five seasons, but certainly the Halloween episodes and a good deal of season 5 drove full throttle into the seemingly unscientific questions of faith.
As Dr. Ben Song (Raymond Lee) leaps into the body of Fr. James Davenport in 1934 on Halloween night, creepy children stroll the streets in Depression-era costumes. The bleakness of the period is highlighted exquisitely by the trick-or-treat scenery. Our modern fears of sending our kids out into the street–alone–in homemade...
- 11/1/2022
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
The patriarchal bullshit of the world drives women crazy. This is as true today as it was in 1892, when feminist author Charlotte Perkins Gilman published her best-known work, short story “The Yellow Wallpaper.” It is the tale, told in the form of diary entries, of a woman descending into apparent psychotic madness after her doctor-husband prescribes a socially isolating, intellectually stultifying “rest cure” during a bout of what we would recognize today as postpartum depression. (Gilman based the story on her own experiences after giving birth.)
An incisive film adaptation of this groundbreaking story — one that captures the quiet horror of how the world has in the past and still today fails to acknowledge that women have inner lives that need nurturing — would be very welcome. This is not that movie. This is a stiflingly literal mounting of Gilman’s words that lacks any appreciation of both the wider cultural...
An incisive film adaptation of this groundbreaking story — one that captures the quiet horror of how the world has in the past and still today fails to acknowledge that women have inner lives that need nurturing — would be very welcome. This is not that movie. This is a stiflingly literal mounting of Gilman’s words that lacks any appreciation of both the wider cultural...
- 4/28/2022
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Based on the classic short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, movie adaptation The Yellow Wallpaper is set for release this month, and IGN has shared the official trailer today. From Mutiny Pictures, The Yellow Wallpaper movie comes to Digital on March 29. The film is said to be a “chilling and boldly original vision of […]
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- 3/24/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
"There's something wrong with this room." There's something in the walls! Mutiny Pictures has released an official trailer for an indie horror film called The Yellow Wallpaper, marking the debut of filmmakers Alexandra Loreth & Kevin Pontuti. It first premiered at the 2021 Cinequest Film Festival last year, arriving to watch on digital next week. The Yellow Wallpaper is described as a "dark and disturbing" contemporary adaptation of well-known and controversial gothic feminist horror story about patriarchy and mental health. Jane, a writer and young mother, is prescribed a rest treatment by her physician husband John, who takes her to a remote country estate. In her isolation, she secretly writes about a woman trapped in the wallpaper. Starring Alexandra Loreth, Joe Mullins, Clara Hart, and Jeanne O'Connor. This is adapted from a story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, some of you might be familiar with this already. It definitely does have a creepy vibe,...
- 3/23/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
When “Shining Vale” creators Jeff Astrof and Sharon Horgan first met they knew they had a delicate job on their hands. The series, following a novelist played by Courteney Cox, who is haunted by the ghost of a 1950s housewife (Mira Sorvino), had to strike the right tone between horror and comedy. What they knew they wanted to do was directly reference some of the classic horror and noir movies that inspired them. “The tone was being able to do references and homage without making it a spoof,” Astrof told IndieWire via Zoom.
Initially pitched by Horgan to Astrof as “‘The Shining’ but a comedy,” the creators and crew reveled in inserting references to their favorite horror features. So much so that the series almost requires repeat viewings to find everything. Something as minor as the wallpaper that papers the interior closet where Cox’s Pat Phelps finds a hidden...
Initially pitched by Horgan to Astrof as “‘The Shining’ but a comedy,” the creators and crew reveled in inserting references to their favorite horror features. So much so that the series almost requires repeat viewings to find everything. Something as minor as the wallpaper that papers the interior closet where Cox’s Pat Phelps finds a hidden...
- 3/23/2022
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
Jonathan Barkan joins the company as head of acquisitions and filmmaker relations.
US development, sales and distribution company Mutiny Pictures has picked up world rights to feminist drama The Yellow Wallpaper and thriller Drive All Night and North American rights to comedy Love In Kilnerry.
The company has also named Jonathan Barkan as head of acquisitions, head of filmmaker relations and development director. Barkan will also be a partner in the company.
Directed by Kevin Pontuti and based on a Charlotte Perkins Gilman short story, The Yellow Wallpaper stars Alexandra Loreth as a woman suffering from hysteria.
Drive All Night,...
US development, sales and distribution company Mutiny Pictures has picked up world rights to feminist drama The Yellow Wallpaper and thriller Drive All Night and North American rights to comedy Love In Kilnerry.
The company has also named Jonathan Barkan as head of acquisitions, head of filmmaker relations and development director. Barkan will also be a partner in the company.
Directed by Kevin Pontuti and based on a Charlotte Perkins Gilman short story, The Yellow Wallpaper stars Alexandra Loreth as a woman suffering from hysteria.
Drive All Night,...
- 7/15/2021
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
Alexandra Loreth in The Yellow Wallpaper
One of the standout films at this year’s Cinequest, Kevin Pontuti and Alexandra Loreth’s The Yellow Wallpaper is one of those low budget gems that risks being lost in obscurity when it really deserves a wide audience. Adapted from Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s famous short story, it tars Alexandra herself as Jane, a woman ill at ease with the domestic and maternal roles which late Victorian society has set aside for her, who is shut up in an isolated house by her doctor husband in the hope that this will effect a personality change. Unable to exercise her passion for writing, and without recourse to alternative forms of intellectual stimulation, she finds herself increasingly obsessed by the wallpaper in her room and imagines a female figure within it, hunched over and creeping along. When I met Kevin and Alexandra I asked them,...
One of the standout films at this year’s Cinequest, Kevin Pontuti and Alexandra Loreth’s The Yellow Wallpaper is one of those low budget gems that risks being lost in obscurity when it really deserves a wide audience. Adapted from Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s famous short story, it tars Alexandra herself as Jane, a woman ill at ease with the domestic and maternal roles which late Victorian society has set aside for her, who is shut up in an isolated house by her doctor husband in the hope that this will effect a personality change. Unable to exercise her passion for writing, and without recourse to alternative forms of intellectual stimulation, she finds herself increasingly obsessed by the wallpaper in her room and imagines a female figure within it, hunched over and creeping along. When I met Kevin and Alexandra I asked them,...
- 3/28/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Designing wallpaper is trickier than it looks. A good pattern has to be simple enough to be easily aligned when the paper is pasted on a wall yet complex enough to avoid causing irritation with its repetition. It has to be engaging enough to make a sale yet forgettable enough to avoid becoming a distraction. In the Victorian era, patterns featuring flowers and twisting vines predominated in the West, intended to invoke the natural world. The architect Awn Pugin condemned this approach, arguing that their 3D effect, when presented on a flat wall, created a disorientating effect, misleading the viewer into thinking that there was something beyond or inside them.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 short story hinges on this effect. Though it has been adapted several times for stage and screen, it is very difficult to capture well, as much of it takes place within its heroine's mind or within her.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 short story hinges on this effect. Though it has been adapted several times for stage and screen, it is very difficult to capture well, as much of it takes place within its heroine's mind or within her.
- 3/22/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
We've barely begun to scratch the surface of how the human brains works; that strange grey muscle that contains all these chemicals vying for supremacy, our emotions swirling, bumping against each other, always, it seems, at the edge of madness, even if we don't realize it. And at least now we aknowledge mental health problems, when in the past too many were simply shut away and ignored. Especially women. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's haunting short story has seen its fair share of adaptations, and no wonder; the bizarre tale of a woman, mostly alone in a house, who becomes obsessed over visions she sees in the ugly wallpaper of her bedroom, can be a metaphor for so many things, not the least ignorance and ignoring women's...
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- 3/21/2021
- Screen Anarchy
Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive clip from Alexandra Loreth and Kevin Pontuti‘s gothic feminist horror film The Yellow Wallpaper, an adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story by the same name from 1892 that is set to World Premiere at Cinequest this Saturday, March 20th. The duo co-wrote the screenplay with Alexandra starring in “a chilling and boldly original […]...
- 3/17/2021
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Exclusive: Paradigm and Rain Management Group have signed Kourosh Ahari, the Iranian-American director of IFC Midnight’s The Night.
Ahari also co-wrote and produced the psychological-thriller through his LA-based production banner Mammoth Pictures, along with his producing partner, Alex Bretow.
Ahari’s feature directorial debut The Night, which is currently on release in the U.S., stars Shahab Hosseini (The Salesman) and Niousha Jafarian (Here And Now).
The Persian-language film follows an exhausted married couple, Babak (Hosseini), Neda (Jafarian) and their baby who take shelter in the grand, but eerie Hotel Normandie after a night out with friends. Throughout a seemingly endless night, mysterious disturbances ruin their night’s rest as the couple soon realize they’re locked-in with a malevolent force that hungers for the dark secrets they’ve kept from one another.
According to the film’s producers, the film recently became the first U.S.-produced film...
Ahari also co-wrote and produced the psychological-thriller through his LA-based production banner Mammoth Pictures, along with his producing partner, Alex Bretow.
Ahari’s feature directorial debut The Night, which is currently on release in the U.S., stars Shahab Hosseini (The Salesman) and Niousha Jafarian (Here And Now).
The Persian-language film follows an exhausted married couple, Babak (Hosseini), Neda (Jafarian) and their baby who take shelter in the grand, but eerie Hotel Normandie after a night out with friends. Throughout a seemingly endless night, mysterious disturbances ruin their night’s rest as the couple soon realize they’re locked-in with a malevolent force that hungers for the dark secrets they’ve kept from one another.
According to the film’s producers, the film recently became the first U.S.-produced film...
- 3/10/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Screen Anarchy is pleased to share the first look at the teaser for Alexandra Loreth and Kevin Pontuti's gothic feminist horror film The Yellow Wallpaper. The film is an adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story by the same name from 1892. The original story itself was lauded by Lovecraft in his 1927 essay Supernatural Horror in Literature. Loreth and Pontuti co wrote the adaptation and she takes the lead role while he directs. The teaser and a selection of stills are below. The debut film The Yellow Wallpaper from creative duo—Alexandra Loreth and Kevin Pontuti—is a chilling and boldly original vision of madness. Jane, a writer and young mother, is prescribed a rest treatment by her physician husband John, who takes...
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- 3/3/2021
- Screen Anarchy
From its sketched out female characters to its subject matter, Netflix's Enola Holmes places feminism front and center in its story. Throughout the movie, we get allusions to a reform bill. While we don't know much about the law, the film indirectly references the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom. While searching for her mother, Enola (Millie Bobby Brown) heads to Limehouse Lane and encounters a hideout containing explosives. There, she finds a flyer with "Manchester National Society for Woman's Suffrage" printed on it. The speakers are indicated on the page as Amie Hicks, Gwyneth Vaughan, and Margaret McMillan. In case you wondered, these names aren't random.
If you sleuth the web, you'll find that Hicks, Vaughan, and McMillan were real-life European suffragists, much like Eudoria (Helena Bonham Carter) and Edith (Susie Wokoma). Here's what you should know about these three and how they moved the needle forward for women.
If you sleuth the web, you'll find that Hicks, Vaughan, and McMillan were real-life European suffragists, much like Eudoria (Helena Bonham Carter) and Edith (Susie Wokoma). Here's what you should know about these three and how they moved the needle forward for women.
- 9/26/2020
- by Stacey Nguyen
- Popsugar.com
On Body and Soul: Mirabella-Davis Gets Squeamish with Formidable Debut
As much as it speaks to contemporary understandings of female agency, Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ astute directorial debut Swallow connects to a variety of intergenerational literary and cinematic texts concerning the social and economic traps set for women. Arguably, its focus on the privileged white collar expectations from the perspective of those lucky enough to be invited into such upper echelons assists with this sense of timelessness, uniting it with everything from Charlotte Perkins Gilman and her yellow wallpaper to Todd Haynes’ Safe (1995) and beyond.
Hunter (Haley Bennett) has recently married Richie (Austin Stowell), the well-heeled only child of wealthy entrepreneur Michael (David Rasche) and his socialite wife Katherine (Elizabeth Marvel).…...
As much as it speaks to contemporary understandings of female agency, Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ astute directorial debut Swallow connects to a variety of intergenerational literary and cinematic texts concerning the social and economic traps set for women. Arguably, its focus on the privileged white collar expectations from the perspective of those lucky enough to be invited into such upper echelons assists with this sense of timelessness, uniting it with everything from Charlotte Perkins Gilman and her yellow wallpaper to Todd Haynes’ Safe (1995) and beyond.
Hunter (Haley Bennett) has recently married Richie (Austin Stowell), the well-heeled only child of wealthy entrepreneur Michael (David Rasche) and his socialite wife Katherine (Elizabeth Marvel).…...
- 3/2/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
It’s easy to believe that trapped housewives belong to a bygone era, with revelatory literary works like Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892) and Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique” (1963) taking on the kind of mythological esteem reserved for horrors long past. A century or two later, it seems we’ve evolved beyond such hidebound sexism. But “Swallow,” the revelatory first feature from Carlo Mirabella-Davis is here to tell us, in no uncertain terms, that the past isn’t quite as past as we might like to think.
Continue reading ‘Swallow’: Haley Bennett Astonishes In Housewife Body Horror Drama [Tribeca Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Swallow’: Haley Bennett Astonishes In Housewife Body Horror Drama [Tribeca Review] at The Playlist.
- 5/4/2019
- by Lena Wilson
- The Playlist
Three episodes were provided prior to broadcast.
There’s a certain magic to being in the dark sometimes. USA’s new drama series The Sinner was so far off my radar that the entire hook of the show – and that of the novel it’s based on for that matter – was a complete surprise. That’s both a good and bad thing for the first three hours of the series that I’ve seen, which are blanketed by an eerie calm reminiscent of last year’s short-lived drama Eyewitness, but are so off-the-walls strange that I’m still not entirely sure what I just watched.
It starts off normal enough. Cora Tannetti (Jessica Biel) is your average working mom, with a job at the local heating and air specialist owned by her husband’s family. She has a cute kid (Grayson Eddey), a flirty rapport with husband Mason (Christopher Abbott...
There’s a certain magic to being in the dark sometimes. USA’s new drama series The Sinner was so far off my radar that the entire hook of the show – and that of the novel it’s based on for that matter – was a complete surprise. That’s both a good and bad thing for the first three hours of the series that I’ve seen, which are blanketed by an eerie calm reminiscent of last year’s short-lived drama Eyewitness, but are so off-the-walls strange that I’m still not entirely sure what I just watched.
It starts off normal enough. Cora Tannetti (Jessica Biel) is your average working mom, with a job at the local heating and air specialist owned by her husband’s family. She has a cute kid (Grayson Eddey), a flirty rapport with husband Mason (Christopher Abbott...
- 8/2/2017
- by Mitchel Broussard
- We Got This Covered
The question “why horror?” has been answered again and again. Studies have shown that, for willing participants, the voluntary release of fear is a healthy thing. What I have to say will not apply to everyone, then, because not everyone wants to be frightened. Many of us have recently been frightened, in a new, giant, eclipsing way. Those of us who love horror, then, have a greater need for it now.
For centuries, horror has been used as a spurning, inspiring emotion in art. Euripides uses terrifying imagery and events in two landmark works: the Oresteia, an examination of how a democratic justice system can conquer chaos, and The Bacchae, a bleakly violent warning to Athens as it approached catastrophic war. Far before such issues were accepted in public discussions, Oscar Wilde wrote of the fear of sexual aberrance in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle...
For centuries, horror has been used as a spurning, inspiring emotion in art. Euripides uses terrifying imagery and events in two landmark works: the Oresteia, an examination of how a democratic justice system can conquer chaos, and The Bacchae, a bleakly violent warning to Athens as it approached catastrophic war. Far before such issues were accepted in public discussions, Oscar Wilde wrote of the fear of sexual aberrance in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle...
- 11/17/2016
- by Ben Larned
- DailyDead
For some, it seems that Gothic fiction is synonymous with classic or old fiction. Modern horror may use aspects of the Gothic, but it is still rooted in fluorescent lights and electronics—few storytellers have found a way to blend these things together into a true representation of that genre. That is not to say that it has not happened. In 2009, young author Helen Oyeyemi descended upon the literary world with a shattering and brilliant novel called White is for Witching. And seven years later, this novel is very seldom discussed. That is a shame, I dare say a tragedy, because Oyeyemi's story creates a truly Gothic, beautiful exploration of millennial terrors.
Oyeyemi was in her early twenties when she wrote White is for Witching, which both surprises me and seems inevitable. Her writing is confident, solid, and searing—signs of a mature author; but she uses her brilliance to...
Oyeyemi was in her early twenties when she wrote White is for Witching, which both surprises me and seems inevitable. Her writing is confident, solid, and searing—signs of a mature author; but she uses her brilliance to...
- 10/18/2016
- by Ben Larned
- DailyDead
At just 17 years old, Amandla Stenberg has probably accomplished more than many of us had at that age, given the dynamic life that she's lived thus far, from her acting to her activism, and everything else between. It's hard not to be impressed with the young lady, and I can only imagine what lies ahead for her, with hopefully many years left to exist, create, influence, inspire, and more. Two years ago, at 15 years old, she wrote, directed, shot and edited (yup, she did it all) a 13-minute short film titled, "The Yellow Wallpaper," based on the short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, that documents the experiences of a woman who's suffering from a mental illness, when she...
- 4/14/2016
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Todd Haynes receives his first entry in the Criterion collection with a beautiful restoration of his landmark 1995 sophomore feature, Safe, the film that launched the status of burgeoning star Julianne Moore. Though initial reactions to the film were perplexing after a premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, a growing cult following cemented the film’s reputation as a fascinating example of Haynes’ remarkable control of mise en scene, as well as a deliberately refined AIDs allegory ahead of its time. Recuperated famously as a case study as pertains to practices and definitions of whiteness, it may very well be Haynes’ most invigorating work precisely because of all the avenues of projection its fascinating obliqueness provides.
The narrative is relatively simple, especially as pertains to the work of Haynes, who often prizes experimental, non-linear narratives. A suburban housewife residing in the San Fernando Valley of 1987, Carol White (Julianne Moore) finds herself...
The narrative is relatively simple, especially as pertains to the work of Haynes, who often prizes experimental, non-linear narratives. A suburban housewife residing in the San Fernando Valley of 1987, Carol White (Julianne Moore) finds herself...
- 12/9/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Turning the Glass Around Presented by Work/Space Collective Directed by Heidi Grumelot Teatro Circulo 64 East 4th St., NYC October 16-November 1, 2014
Pia Wilson's new play, Turning the Glass Around, interweaves the naturalistic and the theatrical, the rational and the seemingly irrational, and the everyday and the supernatural in order to interrogate other, contemporary American hybridities.
The interracial marriage of Philip and Daina Lee (Don Castro and Carmen Gill) comprises the vehicle for Wilson's deconstruction of "America" and its “Dream” in the tradition of playwrights such as Suzan-Lori Parks and David Henry Hwang. The death of Philip's father, an immigrant restauranteur who loved all things stereotypically American, throws successful businessman Philip into a crisis of guilt and self-doubt. His colleagues have nicknamed Philip “The Asian Tiger” but mock his Korean background behind his back, and Philip’s firing means that he and Daina, a wealthy, well-connected African-American, are soon finding...
Pia Wilson's new play, Turning the Glass Around, interweaves the naturalistic and the theatrical, the rational and the seemingly irrational, and the everyday and the supernatural in order to interrogate other, contemporary American hybridities.
The interracial marriage of Philip and Daina Lee (Don Castro and Carmen Gill) comprises the vehicle for Wilson's deconstruction of "America" and its “Dream” in the tradition of playwrights such as Suzan-Lori Parks and David Henry Hwang. The death of Philip's father, an immigrant restauranteur who loved all things stereotypically American, throws successful businessman Philip into a crisis of guilt and self-doubt. His colleagues have nicknamed Philip “The Asian Tiger” but mock his Korean background behind his back, and Philip’s firing means that he and Daina, a wealthy, well-connected African-American, are soon finding...
- 10/27/2014
- by Leah Richards
- www.culturecatch.com
Thanks to Orlando Jones for the heads-up on Twitter (he co-stars with Amandla Stenberg in Fox's "Sleepy Hollow," playing father and daughter). Here's a short film directed, shot and edited (yup, she did all of that) by Stenberg titled, "The Yellow Wallpaper," which is based on the short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, that documents the experiences of a woman who's suffering from a mental illness, when she moves into an old house to help clear her mind. Apparently (or maybe not-so much) Stenberg, who's just 15 years old by the way, might have behind-the-camera aspirations; Or it may just be a passing fancy. The short is classified as "a student film," by the way. Did I mention...
- 6/19/2014
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Our critics' picks of this week's openings, plus your last chance to see and what to book now
• Which cultural events are in your diary this week? Tell us in the comments below
Opening this weekTheatre
Enquirer
The Guardian's Deborah Orr is one of a team conducting the interviews with journalists for this timely site-specific verbatim piece about the media. Andrew O'Hagan co-edits a project directed and edited by Vicky Featherstone and John Tiffany. The Hub, Glasgow (0141-429 0022), 19 April to 13 May.
A History of Everything
The controversial Ghent-based company Ontroerend Goed returns to the UK with a show that offers a history of everything, from now back to the Big Bang. No small undertaking from a company that has delighted and challenged spectators with previous shows including the outrageous Audience. Drum, Plymouth (01752 267222), until 28 April.
Film
The Cabin in the Woods (dir. Drew Goddard)
A bunch of great-looking teens take a...
• Which cultural events are in your diary this week? Tell us in the comments below
Opening this weekTheatre
Enquirer
The Guardian's Deborah Orr is one of a team conducting the interviews with journalists for this timely site-specific verbatim piece about the media. Andrew O'Hagan co-edits a project directed and edited by Vicky Featherstone and John Tiffany. The Hub, Glasgow (0141-429 0022), 19 April to 13 May.
A History of Everything
The controversial Ghent-based company Ontroerend Goed returns to the UK with a show that offers a history of everything, from now back to the Big Bang. No small undertaking from a company that has delighted and challenged spectators with previous shows including the outrageous Audience. Drum, Plymouth (01752 267222), until 28 April.
Film
The Cabin in the Woods (dir. Drew Goddard)
A bunch of great-looking teens take a...
- 4/15/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
One of my favourite short stories is Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper," a Gothic tale of a woman who is locked away in an upstairs bedroom of a house her husband has rented for the summer. He forbids her from working while she recuperates from a fictitious ailment but she secretly continues to write and the story is told in a series of first person journal entries that depict the woman's fall into psychosis and eventually, she believes there are women hiding in the patterns of the yellow wallpaper.
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- 12/1/2011
- QuietEarth.us
FX Networks
Another week, another mystery revealed. This time we learn just who it is behind the rubber mask of that murderous S&M freak plaguing the inhabitants of the Murder House. And it’s…revealed in the first scene.
We start off “six months ago,” right when the Harmons are buying the place. We see Nora Montgomery wandering around, distraught and confused at what’s been done to the house. She doesn’t seem to know she’s a ghost.
Another week, another mystery revealed. This time we learn just who it is behind the rubber mask of that murderous S&M freak plaguing the inhabitants of the Murder House. And it’s…revealed in the first scene.
We start off “six months ago,” right when the Harmons are buying the place. We see Nora Montgomery wandering around, distraught and confused at what’s been done to the house. She doesn’t seem to know she’s a ghost.
- 11/24/2011
- by Michael Calia
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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By Harvey F. Chartrand
Michael Moriarty, who starred in such classic films as Who’ll Stop the Rain and Pale Rider, exiled himself to Canada in 1995, following a nasty confrontation with U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno in a Washington, D.C. hotel room. Moriarty was invited along with network television executives and producers to hear Reno’s views on censorship of TV violence. Law and Order, one of the least violent shows on television, was cited as a major offender. Incensed by Reno's campaign to “forcibly end violence on television and trample on rights of free expression as guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution,” Moriarty quit the series and left the U.S. in protest. He has been a landed immigrant in Canada ever since. Why the fateful encounter with Reno led to a radical (and seemingly overnight) transformation of Moriarty’s...
By Harvey F. Chartrand
Michael Moriarty, who starred in such classic films as Who’ll Stop the Rain and Pale Rider, exiled himself to Canada in 1995, following a nasty confrontation with U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno in a Washington, D.C. hotel room. Moriarty was invited along with network television executives and producers to hear Reno’s views on censorship of TV violence. Law and Order, one of the least violent shows on television, was cited as a major offender. Incensed by Reno's campaign to “forcibly end violence on television and trample on rights of free expression as guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution,” Moriarty quit the series and left the U.S. in protest. He has been a landed immigrant in Canada ever since. Why the fateful encounter with Reno led to a radical (and seemingly overnight) transformation of Moriarty’s...
- 8/7/2011
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Juliet Landau has now released her second film (her first was the dark music video Hero) Take Flight – a documentary focusing on actor Gary Oldman making a music video for the Jewish hip hop band 'Chutzpah'. Landau, who has appeared on the Tv series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and in the Tim Burton film Ed Wood, was asked to shoot a ‘making of’ for Oldman, a friend of hers, and the resulting footage became an experience all its own. Over 50 hours of footage, from a cell phone with Pov shots to 3 cameras at once, were cut into this short.
We're happy to have Landau back with us again, discussing Take Flight along with her upcoming films The Yellow Wallpaper and Haunted Echoes...
With complete free reign, Landau pieced together a film that
“Shows a very light, playful, childlike, fluid, free, funny side to Gary... It’s like being inside his head,...
We're happy to have Landau back with us again, discussing Take Flight along with her upcoming films The Yellow Wallpaper and Haunted Echoes...
With complete free reign, Landau pieced together a film that
“Shows a very light, playful, childlike, fluid, free, funny side to Gary... It’s like being inside his head,...
- 3/3/2010
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
By Alan Kelly
Alexandra Sokoloff is a screen-writer well established in California writing novel adaptations (like the thriller Cold Kisses) for various Hollywood studios like Sony, Miramax and Disney. A graduate of Uc Berkeley where she majored in theatre and minored in just about everything else. Sokoloff has had three extremely well-received novels published: The Harrowing, The Price and The Unseen and is collaborating on a vampire trilogy with Heather Graham and Deborah Leblanc, which is due out next year...
Sokoloff explores themes of loss, loneliness, things that may be at the edge of our awareness or merely manufactured traumas created by the unnerving worlds her characters inhabit, plunging her readers into terrifying occult realms. Her novels are slices of supernatural realism which are fast, punchy, clever and chock-full of creepy intrigue.
Structure seems very important to you. Do you map your novels out before beginning; I ask this because...
Alexandra Sokoloff is a screen-writer well established in California writing novel adaptations (like the thriller Cold Kisses) for various Hollywood studios like Sony, Miramax and Disney. A graduate of Uc Berkeley where she majored in theatre and minored in just about everything else. Sokoloff has had three extremely well-received novels published: The Harrowing, The Price and The Unseen and is collaborating on a vampire trilogy with Heather Graham and Deborah Leblanc, which is due out next year...
Sokoloff explores themes of loss, loneliness, things that may be at the edge of our awareness or merely manufactured traumas created by the unnerving worlds her characters inhabit, plunging her readers into terrifying occult realms. Her novels are slices of supernatural realism which are fast, punchy, clever and chock-full of creepy intrigue.
Structure seems very important to you. Do you map your novels out before beginning; I ask this because...
- 9/28/2009
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Looking for some live horror theater to get you in the ghoulish mood this Halloween and beyond? New York City’s My Fair Heathen Productions is putting on a chilling double feature starting Halloween weekend: Memoirs Of Madness, a pair of short-story adaptations that delve into the macabre psyches of their main characters.
The first, The Yellow Wallpaper, is based on the Charlotte Perkins Gilman story of the same name. It’s told through the diary entries of a woman, confined to bed rest in her home by her physician husband. With her every move constricted she develops a dark obsession and deep hatred for the wallpaper covering her room. Concluding the show will be the famous Edgar Allan Poe tale of guilt and madness, The Tell-tale Heart. For those unfamiliar (and shame on you!), the story centers on an unnamed narrator whose supposed sanity unravels after he murders an...
The first, The Yellow Wallpaper, is based on the Charlotte Perkins Gilman story of the same name. It’s told through the diary entries of a woman, confined to bed rest in her home by her physician husband. With her every move constricted she develops a dark obsession and deep hatred for the wallpaper covering her room. Concluding the show will be the famous Edgar Allan Poe tale of guilt and madness, The Tell-tale Heart. For those unfamiliar (and shame on you!), the story centers on an unnamed narrator whose supposed sanity unravels after he murders an...
- 10/16/2008
- Fangoria
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