Friday Morning brings us Festers (get it? as in 'to fester' and/or as in 'fest'ival LOL lol lol...) the first decision of the 5 days: Jourdan McClures's Dont-trust-strangers-fable 'Rogue River' or the documentary on 'horror icon' Paul Naschy.'Rogue River' - Screen 1 10.40
Anyone seen Mum & Dad? How about Timber Falls? Or maybe a film where a lead character - usually a woman- stumbles , or willingly enters, into a stangers house - usually in the woods. Strangers who seem nice and trusting for a second but wait, whats that? then go ape-shit crazy and ends up hacking (or atleast attempting to) the aforementioned protagonist limb from limb. Know that one? Well thats what Rogue River appears to be if the trailer or synopsis is anything to go by. Even the shocks seem to be rehashed, for anyone thats seen Mothers Day (2011) or The Loved Ones (2010) the boiling water mouthwash seen in the trailer wont be overly surprising. Buts that not to say it wont be welcomed with uncomfortable leg crossing and eye-squinting-wincing. Although this looks by the books, it still looks good. Gritty and raw in look (how abouts that 70's exploitation'esque poster?) and with a lead from genre staple Bill Moseley, Rogue River looks to be a perfectly adequate horror/thriller and is sure to pleasantly surprise more than a few of us.
'The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry' - Discovery Screen 1o.35
*No trailer seems to be in circulation for this film, so the above is what looks to be an early cut of the doc's opening.
The passing of Paul Naschy in 2009 was to the spanish horror community like the death of Vincent Price was to the rest of the world. This isnt to say this documentary/homage will only be of interest to this niche group. This European horror legend's IMDB account reads like a bonafied catalogue of early horror cinema. He is a legacy. The attractive title comes from an anecdote in which Naschy recalls being on the set of I Spy (1966) with a very aged and disgruntled Boris Karloff who - being left out in inclement weather waiting for a late taxi, sufferingly weep. It is one of very many round-the-camp-fire-tales the life of such an established actor must have. This Angel Agudo documentary, hosted by Mick Garris, and with a plethora of horror cinephiles such as Joe Dante and John Landis, looks to shed some of these tales and recount the life of the legacy.
So which will it be? 'Rogue River' or 'El Hombre Que Vio Llorar A Frankenstein'?
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