Horror is in a strange place right now. In a genre currently steeped in remakes, "Paranormal Activity" has become the first original nail-biter to break through to the masses since "Saw," whose sixth installment showed its (and torture porn in general's) age by coming in second...
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Filed under: The Blair Witch Project, Eli Roth, Zeitgeist, Paranormal Activity, Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever, Ti West, Dead and Lonely, The Haunting in Georgia, Mark Borchardt, Screamfest, House of the Devil, Noah Segan, Larry Fessenden, Judah Friedlander, Lauren Moews
Quentin Tarantino's a great writer of dialogue, and no one's more convinced of the fact than Quentin Tarantino. The ratio of talk to action -- not gun fights or explosions, but just people doing stuff -- in "Inglourious Basterds" is, generously, nine to one. Again and again, characters...
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Filed under: Festivals, Quentin Tarantino, Cannes 2009, Mike Myers, Diane Kruger, Inglourious Basterds, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz