The well

Movie Review

The twilight settings and the acting performances even of the minor roles are very appreciable, some scenes in the finale give a touch perhaps unintentionally funny that I personally appreciate a lot in horror films. A simple but well-crafted story, with realistic dialogues, the long gore scenes in the film could disturb those like me who do not appreciate them but prefer dark atmospheres and mystery, which are not lacking anyway. A low-budget production that does not disappoint but rather transports us to the past of an Italian genre cinema that is now almost defunct.

Ouija

Movie Review

As kids, best friends Debbie and Laine used to play with Laine's Ouija board. It was merely a creepy little diversion since neither of them really believed the game was connecting them to "other side." So it was just the eerie idea that some ghostly figure had its invisible hand on the planchette with theirs—moving the plastic pointer from letter to letter on the board—that kept them going at it, giggling all the while. 

The rules they played by? (Laine had picked them up somewhere and said they should never be broken.) You never played alone. You never played in a graveyard. You always said goodbye at... Read More

Interview with Paolo Martini, director of The Relic

Interview

Paolo Martini, director/producerCarrara, 1973. After his studies at University of Southern California Los Angeles, he graduates in Art Direction at IED in Milan and starts his career in advertising working forimportant agencies and clients as Mazda, Vichy, Bmw. Later he moves toRome and starts working in post productionfor Rai, Mediaset and Sitcom, writing and directing his first shorts. They arepremiered at Oberhausen and Clermont-Ferrand and winseveral international awards finding national DVD distribution with Medusa.The shorts havebeen presented alsoat the special event World Youth Alliance atUN offices in New York.In 2011 he... Read More