Toby Jones, the familiar British character actor from BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO, THE MIST and many others, teams up with his brother Rupert, making his first narrative feature as a writer/director, to come up with KALEIDOSCOPE, which harks back to a few cinematic antecedents while also offering something new.
The gangs all here Childs, MacReady, Clark and many more (even the Norwegian, more on this later), I guess I'll say this at the very start if you're a fan of the film you'll most likely love this game
The frightening phenomenon of sleep paralysis has already been given a pretty definitive screen treatment in Rodney Ascher’s documentary THE NIGHTMARE, which mixed interviews with chilling recreations. SLUMBER makes a decent go of giving it a full narrative treatment (also “inspired by real accounts”), but is ultimately undone by familiarity, even if you haven’t seen Ascher’s film.
With THE DISASTER ARTIST, James Franco’s dramatization of the making of Tommy Wiseau’s THE ROOM, heading into theaters, the time was right for Vinegar Syndrome to unearth a much lesser-known example of WTF filmmaking for Blu-ray/DVD release. Not only has the company rescued Fabrice-Ange Zaphiratos’ BLOODBEAT from obscurity, they managed to track the writer/director down to state his case for his creation.
As a storyteller, Guillermo del Toro has always been in love with monsters, so it was inevitable that he would make a film in which the protagonist becomes enamored of one. Attached years ago to a remake of THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, he has re-envisioned its classic beast as an aquatic humanoid that one woman becomes very attached to in THE SHAPE OF WATER.
