C/W for anyone involved in a (school) shooting.Įxpect a lot of talk about the film’s technical elements: the long takes, the dispassionate violence, the use of non-professional actors in a real school, and the lack of a conventional beginning/middle/end. Just in time for its 20th Cannes anniversary, we’re talking about gay director Gus Van Sant’s Elephant (2003) which takes a fictional docuseries approach to the Columbine massacre.
Give it a watch and tell us what stands out to you! It’s also a powerful, under seen film that encourages discussion due to its staunch refusal to offer answers or solutions. The slice of life film is quiet, filmed primarily in long takes and is presented in a non-linear fashion. Van Sant adopts a pseudo-documentary filming style and the cast is almost exclusively composed of non-professional teen actors who improvised their scenes and characterizations. The second film in Van Sant’s so-called “Death Trilogy,” Elephant is “the Columbine movie”: it’s a loose recreation of the 1999 school shooting that claimed the lives of 13 people. It’s been a month of vampires, slugs, and biddies with episodes on The Hunger, Night of the Creeps and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? This week, however, Trace and I are getting serious as we tackle gun violence, school shootings, and queerness in gay director Gus Van Sant‘s enthralling film, Elephant (2003). Finally, to celebrate Valentine’s Day, we’ve got an audio commentary on My Bloody Valentine (2009).
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Subscribe to our Patreon for tons of additional content! In February we have minisodes on Religious Horror and a ranking of the Wrong Turn franchise, plus full length episodes on Willy’s Wonderland and Saint Maud. Plus, discussions of bad parenting paired with comparisons to Renny Harlin’s Deep Blue Sea and Francis Ford Coppola’s Jack!Ĭoming up on Wednesday: Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, so we’re going to be discussing George Mihalka’s classic slasher My Bloody Valentine! Obviously, we’ve got to talk about that ending, but we’ll also gush over Canadian national treasure Sarah Polley, debate the film’s unlikable mad scientist protagonists and try to gauge audience reactions when this hit theaters 11 years ago. Our month of 3s has ended, so we’re kicking off February with a discussion of Vincenzo Natali’s supremely messed up sci-fi horror film (and secret Dark Castle film) Splice, which also acts as an early celebration of Joe’s birthday! Joining us for the chat is Prince Jackson, host of our sister podcast Knight Light!īefore we get to it, just a heads up if you’ve never seen the film: we’re issuing content warnings for rape, animal death, incest and (depending on how you view Dren) pedophilia and/or bestiality. You can subscribe on iTunes/Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, SoundCloud, TuneIn, Amazon Music, Acast, Google Podcasts, and RSS.Įpisode 111 – Splice (2010) feat. At first, Dren exceeds their wildest dreams, but as she begins to grow at an accelerated rate, she threatens to become their worst nightmare.īe sure to subscribe to the podcast to get a new episode every Wednesday. The result is Dren ( Delphine Chanéac), a creature with amazing intelligence and physi cal attributes.
When they propose the use of human DNA, their pharmaceutical company bosses forbid it, forcing them to conduct experiments in secret. In the film, geneticists Clive ( Adrien Brody) and Elsa ( Sarah Polley) specialize in creating hybrids of species. That film would be Vincenzo Natali‘s absolutely wild sci-fi horror film Splice. We spent all of January doing 3s like Scream 3, Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth, Psycho III and Alien 3, but now we’re moving on to February and we’re kicking it off with something undeniably weird and controversial.
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