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‘I found a place’: how Backrooms captures the horror of sinister architecture
(www.theguardian.com)
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Patricio Valladares Steps Into Gaming With Experimental FMV Horror Experience
(www.relyonhorror.com)
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Buffet Infinity is the kind of movie that restores your faith in truly independent filmmaking. With so much derivative chaff bombarding us at cineplexes and on streaming services, seeing something THIS unique, fresh and experimental is an absolute delight. It’s weird, it’s funny and yes, it’s even legitimately creepy at times. I can’t help but feel like we’ll be looking back on this one as a decade-defining genre movie — even if it might take a good 20 or 30 years before everybody else figures it out.
There’s an obvious gimmick to the film. About 90 percent of Buffet Infinity is comprised of fake commercials — usually running about 30 seconds to two minutes — stitched together and overlapping in carefully selected segments. Yes, it might give you some WNUF Halloween Special vibes at first, but it doesn’t take long before Buffet Infinity becomes its own animal.
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Buffet Infinity is written and directed by Simon Glassman. It stars Kevin Singh, Claire Theobald, and Donovan Workun.
Hungry – but don’t know what to eat? Need a used car? A lawyer? How about insurance? Or a sandwich?
Echoing the Canadian comedy classic “SCTV” and picking from hundreds of hours of original, low-budget TV ads to tell the sinister tale of two restaurants battling it out in the fictional town of Westridge County. Ads for insurance, used car rivals, a local religious scholar, and a recording artist converge to tell the story of an expanding sinkhole, a cult, and an ever-growing restaurant that becomes unsettlingly sentient.
TRAILER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OFRihhrbEU
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- It's Canadian!!
- Very creepy. I'm big on slow dread movies. Kind of felt like "I am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House", but the plot device of using the in-movie podcast to explore creepy audio almost gave it a found-footage vibe (I love found-footage).
- It was so good in theatres. I've never been more sharply aware of which direction a sound was coming from. I almost feel like the only better experience would be with headphones on a laptop in the dark.
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I was actually planning to watch it in the cinema. :) Thankfully I missed the cinema window. I would not have wanted to waste a cinema trip on this.
I am relatively easy going about quality and there are many b-movies that I find very entertaining (I am not only talking about cult classic type productions), but it's difficult to enjoy Return to Silent Hill. I even liked the second Silent Hill movie (I get the impression the first one is slowly becoming a classic with time); it wasn't great, but it had its own experience to offer.
The main actor's expressions and style was off-putting. I couldn't get rid of the feeling that he was thinking in his mind "what the fuck is this shit?". The horror elements didn't work, I didn't feel any tension. The effects seemed solid from a production quality/budget perspective, but they also felt off, in a way that much smaller indie production don't.
Their story telling was also subpar. I've played the original SH2 and seen the other movies, there is a solid base for a good horror story. This felt more like a bunch of Silent Hill themed scenes stitched together with a dude who looked like he has better thing to do.
I prefer sharing interesting movies that I enjoyed, but Return to Silent Hill was bad enough that I had to write this post.
Probably should have gone in with lower expectations (watched the second one with no expectations and I had a good time).
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