I couldn’t resist. From CineFile Video, this mashup is the newest addition to my t-shirt drawer:
Am I Demon & I’m The One are from Danzig’s first coupla albums.
Serendipitously, Herzog’s Encounters at the End of the World has finally come out on dvd. 
Winter has arrived. Fer fucksakes. 15″ and it appears to be finished…
Last month’s edition of Drop Your Shorts at Toronto’s Revue Cinema yielded an exceedingly effective little number called The Top of the Stairs. I watched it–alone, late last night, here at my fugbox–and it creeped the hell outta me. All on a $3 budget and a 5-hour shoot!
Written and directed by Brendan Murphy, produced by Charlene Lydon, and starring both of them, The Top of the Stairs works along the same lines as the original version of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting (which you can watch in about a dozen parts here): the viewer is on one side of the door with the protagonists while there is some other… some thing… on the other side of the door… making a roving, unidentifiable, creep-the-fucking-shit-outta-you noise), crossed with the kind of cutting between tight and uncomfortable close- and medium-shots like you’d see in The Blair Witch Project or J-Horror.
Scarlett Pictures is a group of young filmmakers who have relocated from Dublin to Toronto, and their work has been featured at few of the Revue’s celebrations of local filmmaking talent, Drop Your Shorts. Kate Scullen wrote a short profile about the filmmakers in a recent issue of the Revue’s bi-weekly magazine–reprinted here.
You can watch half a dozen of their films at Scarlett Pictures’ MySpace. I have also watched The Last Minutes of Alan Winters, and while it is very different in tone from The Top of the Stairs, it is quite entertaining, too!
As always, kudos to the Revue for giving independent filmmakers an opportunity to screen their work on the big screen for a paying audience. Very cool. Keep an eye out at the website for the next DYS. And get offa your ass and go next time if you live in Tronna!!
