I've had a great idea for a low budget Brit-flick film thing:-
A group of strangers find themselves together in some kind of situation, I dunno, shipwrecked on a desert island, or stuck in a lift, or kidnapped by a genius psychopath, and after trying to figure out why they are there, they come to the conclusion that the thing that connects them is some shadowy person from their past, a mutual acquaintance, someone used to live with them, sold them a car, went to school with them, picked them up hitchhiking, whatever, this one person that they all know.
Then it turns out that he's got nothing to do with their predicament, and its just coincidence, like six degrees of separation, and after pinning all their hopes that its cos of this guy, they end up dead. Whatever mechanism or person that brought them together and killed them is just a little puzzled by their unexpected connection, but doesn't let it interfere with the sick but otherwise quite banal plan.
Later the shadowy bloke from their past reads about their deaths in the newspaper, gets a little freaked out that these disparate people who he knew all died together, but then otherwise just carries on with his day.
Life goes on.
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Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Sunday, 21 August 2011
Man shouts in street
Last night there was a bit of shouting out in the street
Thrilling stuff, I'm sure you'll agree. Not quite up to the same levels of mass civil disorder that we've come to expect in London, just shouting.
I like to think that the chap with the crutches has discovered some kind of conspiracy, possibly involving an internation crime syndicate and corruption that strikes at the very heart of Waltham Forest's civic elite, who have since conspired to bring him down and silence him.
"No one wants to know! Watch now, watch now."
Rather than just an ill and paranoid gentleman who neglected to take his medication, making his way home.
He's probably right, that no one does want to know. But I'm less sure about his warning to watch now, watch now. I watched the street for another twenty minutes or so, and nothing out of the ordinary occurred. Maybe he meant I have to watch over a longer time, and in the next few days there'll be something I should have watched out for.
Thrilling stuff, I'm sure you'll agree. Not quite up to the same levels of mass civil disorder that we've come to expect in London, just shouting.
I like to think that the chap with the crutches has discovered some kind of conspiracy, possibly involving an internation crime syndicate and corruption that strikes at the very heart of Waltham Forest's civic elite, who have since conspired to bring him down and silence him.
"No one wants to know! Watch now, watch now."
Rather than just an ill and paranoid gentleman who neglected to take his medication, making his way home.
He's probably right, that no one does want to know. But I'm less sure about his warning to watch now, watch now. I watched the street for another twenty minutes or so, and nothing out of the ordinary occurred. Maybe he meant I have to watch over a longer time, and in the next few days there'll be something I should have watched out for.
Wednesday, 27 July 2011
Film review: The Deaths of Ian Stone
Gor, DVDs are frightfully cheap on Amazon, compared to going out to the cinema, and there's the wonderful "Customers who bought this item also bought..." section, so much in the same way as wikipedia, its possible to get lost wading through pages and pages.
Anyhoo, so I've added loads of cheap horror DVDs, and they look awesome.
The first to arrive was The Deaths of Ian Stone. Some chap called Ian Stone keeps getting killed by scary floaty misty spike monsters, and at the moment of death he comes back in a new life with the same girlfriend, not remembering much of the previous life.
Its filmed in and around that London, with bits on the platform at Charing Cross and on the streets of the City of London, which is kind of neat, and its got the hot bird from Hussle in it, dressed in tight red PVC much like the fit bird from the Matrix, but in red.
Her two mates, though, in black PVC, they seem a bit corny, like they've been ripped out of League of Gentlemen or a Little Britain sketch, they lower the vibe a wee bit.
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The executive producer was Stan Winston, who designed the monsters and special effects in films like Aliens, Predator, Avatar, Jurassic Park, Terminator and many many more, we're in safe hands. You can see that they're well imagined monsters.
The film comes across a little like those Underworld movies with Kate Beckinsale, where these some kind of monsters living amongst us. But its less satisfying cos Ian Stone isn't quite who he seems to be.
And actually, it gets really unsatisfying at the end, as Ian Stone embarks on what appears to be a genocidal rampage against the floaty misty monstery chappies. I mean during the course of the movie two of the monsters redeem themselves and stop being evil, but no no, Ian Stone decides that all the rest of the monstery chaps have to die. Its kind of like the autobots hunting down the decepticons at the start of Transformers 2 Revenge of the Fallen, or the Nazis hunting down the Jews in real life.
Anyhoo, its an entertaining enough movie, if you've got a spare £2.99 I'd recommend it.
Anyhoo, so I've added loads of cheap horror DVDs, and they look awesome.
The first to arrive was The Deaths of Ian Stone. Some chap called Ian Stone keeps getting killed by scary floaty misty spike monsters, and at the moment of death he comes back in a new life with the same girlfriend, not remembering much of the previous life.
Its filmed in and around that London, with bits on the platform at Charing Cross and on the streets of the City of London, which is kind of neat, and its got the hot bird from Hussle in it, dressed in tight red PVC much like the fit bird from the Matrix, but in red.
Her two mates, though, in black PVC, they seem a bit corny, like they've been ripped out of League of Gentlemen or a Little Britain sketch, they lower the vibe a wee bit.http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
The executive producer was Stan Winston, who designed the monsters and special effects in films like Aliens, Predator, Avatar, Jurassic Park, Terminator and many many more, we're in safe hands. You can see that they're well imagined monsters.
The film comes across a little like those Underworld movies with Kate Beckinsale, where these some kind of monsters living amongst us. But its less satisfying cos Ian Stone isn't quite who he seems to be.
And actually, it gets really unsatisfying at the end, as Ian Stone embarks on what appears to be a genocidal rampage against the floaty misty monstery chappies. I mean during the course of the movie two of the monsters redeem themselves and stop being evil, but no no, Ian Stone decides that all the rest of the monstery chaps have to die. Its kind of like the autobots hunting down the decepticons at the start of Transformers 2 Revenge of the Fallen, or the Nazis hunting down the Jews in real life.Anyhoo, its an entertaining enough movie, if you've got a spare £2.99 I'd recommend it.
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