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31 Nights of Frights #1: Lake Mungo

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Australia: 2008

“Alice kept secrets. She kept the fact that she kept secrets a secret.”

In the wake of The Blair Witch Project there were an immediate glut of releases (Some of which will be coming up I’m sure) that cashed in on the ‘found footage’ craze. While it wasn’t the first film to use that conceit, it’s not hard to argue the case that BWP, as the hip kids called it, effectively gave birth to the genre or at least the genre as it exists today.

These range from good ([Rec]) to mediocre (The St. Francisville Experiment) or just so bad they remain unreleased (The Poughkeepsie Tapes).

So which is Lake Mungo?

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Announcing: 31 Nights of Frights

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Ok friends lets put aside things like lack of updates and instead focus on what will be coming. Those of you with a calender have probably noticed that today is October 1st, and as has become tradition around these parts, October 1st generally means 31 Nights of Frights. What is it? Well it’s a horror film a day, sometimes more, and all sorts of scary content to get you in the mood for the best time of the year.

I’m going to try and avoid any repeats of previous years, though that’s getting a little harder these days. The first review will be up later today.

P.S. Given the heat in the UK right now, this does not feel like a time to be spooky at all.

Some thoughts on X-Men: First Class

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Not just one of the best films of the Summer, but the best films of the year; X-Men: First Class offers smart thrills for most of it’s running time, with just a few unfortunate caveats which we’ll get into soon enough. Rest assured though that Matthew Vaughn has created a film that not only distances itself from some unfortunate entries that came before it, but leaves you hungry for more.

I’ll try and keep my views as spoiler-free as possible, but those of you who like knowing nothing about a film might need to skip this entry.

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To guide or to censor…

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When The Human Centipede was released last year it caused just the right amount of furore that a film about linking people up by their ass and mouth should cause. The director, Tom Six, perhaps sensing that the film wasn’t actually as graphic or as vile as it was made out to be, made the proclamation that the sequel would make the original look like My Little Pony.

Well it seems he was successful as this week the BBFC announced they will not be classifying the film, as no amount of cuts would make it releasable, thus basically banning the film.

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