Consecration is when you move Shutter Island to a monastery. A woman travels to Scotland because her brother committed suicide there in a monastery and jumped off a cliff. However, she does not believe in suicide and starts an investigation.
Christopher Smith (Creep, Severance) works with classic motifs of supernatural horror and mystery thriller to create a "anything can happen here and the viewer should not know what to expect for a long time" atmosphere. That works pretty well, per…
Children of the Corn by Kurt Wimmer (Equilibrium) is a reboot and at the same time a sequel, because it shows how the city was taken by the children in the first place. In the original, we are already presented with a fait accompli. In addition, the story tells how a handful of teenagers also try to resist the corn cult.
For a low-budget production, the film has quite a decent quality. This is most noticeable in the sometimes hair-raising…
Villeneuves Vision ergänzt sich in einer nahezu perfekten Symbiose mit einem Blockbuster. Dune ist sperrig und zugänglich zugleich. Ruhig und meditativ, ebenso wie bildgewaltig und episch. Exposition steht an gleicher Stelle wie Mystik und Symbolik. Villeneuve baut die Welt anhand seiner Charaktere auf, nicht andersrum, wie es ein Lynch 1984 tat. Obwohl die Skalierung so groß ist und ein gesamtes Universum beschreibt, bleibt der Film im Kleinen fühlbar. Der Film muss viel erklären. Begrifflichkeiten, Namen, Beziehungen, Geschichte. Dem Drehbuch gelingt…
Black Adam is the antithesis of Marvel's Eternals. Where the latter takes its time with backstories and characters, Black Adam covers everything you need to know in seven minutes, and then it's 110 more minutes of mouthing off. This happens at such a pace that after the first half hour I had the feeling I had missed a non-existent prequel. One could easily make a whole movie about the prequel alone.
Black Adam surges ahead with a pacing that is…
