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Showing posts with label e elias merhige. Show all posts
Showing posts with label e elias merhige. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Shadow of the Vampire (2000)


A horror directed by E. Elias Merhige, starring John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe.
A group of men are making a vampire movie when they discover that their fake vampire is real.
The plot and characters were a little predictable, as they were pretending to be making a film that I've already seen. The style fit the film very well and the production value was good. Willem Dafoe did a good job as Count Orlok and I liked how John Malkovich directed his actors when they were filming scenes. However, the whole thing was a little on the boring side. I'm rating it adequate.

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Begotten (1991)


A horror directed by E. Elias Merhige.
Dirty things get dirtier through the use of violence and sexual perversion.
The audio and video were so bad that it was obviously intentional. The crickets were REALLY ANNOYING!!!
This was suggested by the same source as Tetsuo: The Iron Man and I spent the whole time waiting for it to end so I could write a slanderous review of it. We were talking about crazy movies when they suggested these 2 and I have doubts about their definition of crazy. Disgusting is a more accurate term. The lack of dialogue and excessive use of cricket sounds combined with shoddy camera work and an intense video editing process that took more time than it was worth ensure failure. The best way to describe this is like dark lo-fi black metal. It's intended for a narrow audience and makes anyone else feel sick. Imagine a video representation of Burzum's first album.