‘The Price We Pay’ Review: Emile Hirsch and Stephen Dorff Get a Grisly Surprise at an Isolated Ranch
Genre fans will get their money’s worth from “The Price We Pay,” a violent and grisly crime-horror-action outing with no pretensions of being anything else. What this tale of crooks holed up at a lonely farm with a hideous secret lacks in originality it makes up for with energetic direction by Ryuhei Kitamura (“Midnight Meat Train”), excellent practical gore effects and strong performances by a quality cast including Emile Hirsch, Stephen Dorff and Gigi Zumbado. The kind of no-nonsense exploitation film that once had ’em hootin’ at the grindhouse, VOD-available “Price” will be released on limited screens by Lionsgate on Jan. 13.
The bodies start piling up soon after Grace (Zumbado of “Bridge and Tunnel”) enters a pawn shop on the outskirts of a dusty town. Down on her luck and badly in debt to the shop’s sleazy owner, Grace hardly has time to fend off his advances before...
The bodies start piling up soon after Grace (Zumbado of “Bridge and Tunnel”) enters a pawn shop on the outskirts of a dusty town. Down on her luck and badly in debt to the shop’s sleazy owner, Grace hardly has time to fend off his advances before...
- 1/13/2023
- by Richard Kuipers
- Variety Film + TV
Early on in “Vanquish,” Ruby Rose as Morgan Freeman’s improbable housekeeper is very awkwardly chopping some vegetable — the awkwardness providing a rare plausible moment, as Rose seems an even less likely maker-of-dinner than she does slayer-of-many-criminal-goons. If she’d kept slicing that carrot or whatever for the remaining 90 minutes here, the results would have been approximately as exciting as the high-body-count action occupying most of veteran writer-director George Gallo’s feature.
“Vanquish” isn’t bad so much as inert — nothing here is convincing, tense, kinetic, outrageous, or silly enough to give the movie even fleeting life. The script is so by-the-numbers, the performers can hardly hide their disinterest, a feeling soon to be shared by viewers lured by the promise of these stars in a violent revenge tale. Lionsgate opens it in select theaters April 16, followed by on demand and digital release four days later.
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“Vanquish” isn’t bad so much as inert — nothing here is convincing, tense, kinetic, outrageous, or silly enough to give the movie even fleeting life. The script is so by-the-numbers, the performers can hardly hide their disinterest, a feeling soon to be shared by viewers lured by the promise of these stars in a violent revenge tale. Lionsgate opens it in select theaters April 16, followed by on demand and digital release four days later.
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- 4/15/2021
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
It is 1978 in the City of Angels and the hard-drinking washed-up sleuth Carson Phillips is having another boozy day through its atmospheric streets. There is a hint of innate coolness and self-deprecation in his elongated voiceover intro — you might even briefly mistake Carson, played by a one-note John Travolta, for a Philip Marlowe or Jake Gittes type. But “The Poison Rose,” an astonishingly listless neo-noir wannabe from director George Gallo (writer of 1988’s “Midnight Run”), is not the deliberately poor “Chinatown” imitation it starts off as — that could have been perversely daring, maybe even somewhat entertaining. It in fact becomes something a lot worse, when Carson heads to Galveston, Texas, in search of a missing person, at which point, viewers are taken hostage by this mix of mysterious exes, confusing accents, and desperately labored plotting.
It all starts promisingly enough, with an attractive femme dressed in a seductive pose and...
It all starts promisingly enough, with an attractive femme dressed in a seductive pose and...
- 5/25/2019
- by Tomris Laffly
- Variety Film + TV
Ryuhei Kitamura is known to horror fans for his films Versus, The Midnight Meat Train, Godzilla: Final Wars, Azumi, and so many others. The film is having its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, where viewers will get… Continue Reading →
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- 9/14/2017
- by Jonathan Barkan
- DreadCentral.com
Here’s your daily dose of an indie film, web series, TV pilot, what-have-you in progress, as presented by the creators themselves. At the end of the week, you’ll have the chance to vote for your favorite.
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
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Logline: A mother waits for the train with her young son. At one point she loses sight of him. The boy is in the tracks. The train is coming. The mother screams.
Elevator Pitch:
The film is based on a true story about a woman whose child got into the train tracks, the train was coming and she started to scream. Then another woman jumped in saved the child but lost her life. It’s set in two different timelines: on one hand we see the young woman from the beginning of her day...
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
Tracks
Logline: A mother waits for the train with her young son. At one point she loses sight of him. The boy is in the tracks. The train is coming. The mother screams.
Elevator Pitch:
The film is based on a true story about a woman whose child got into the train tracks, the train was coming and she started to scream. Then another woman jumped in saved the child but lost her life. It’s set in two different timelines: on one hand we see the young woman from the beginning of her day...
- 11/15/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Filmmaker Brian Feeney just wrote in with a quick note to remind us that his latest film, Paranormal Asylum, is set to be released in the UK this August and in the Us on September 17th, 2013. Check out some artwork and details right here.
Paranormal Asylum is directed by Nimrod Zalmanowitz, features an original score by Aldo Shllaku (who worked as an assistant to Christopher Young on The Grudge and Spider-Man 3), cinematography by Patrick Ryan Morris, film editing by Echo Game director Brian Feeney, from a screenplay by Fred Edison and Gregory Scott Houghton.
Synopsis
Inspired by true events. Mark and Andy are best friends, and aspiring filmmakers, seeking their next project. They decide to investigate the mystery of Mary Malone, aka Typhoid Mary, who was sent to North Brother Island, a New York Insane Asylum, to live in a quarantined isolation after she was blamed for spreading Typhoid Fever.
Paranormal Asylum is directed by Nimrod Zalmanowitz, features an original score by Aldo Shllaku (who worked as an assistant to Christopher Young on The Grudge and Spider-Man 3), cinematography by Patrick Ryan Morris, film editing by Echo Game director Brian Feeney, from a screenplay by Fred Edison and Gregory Scott Houghton.
Synopsis
Inspired by true events. Mark and Andy are best friends, and aspiring filmmakers, seeking their next project. They decide to investigate the mystery of Mary Malone, aka Typhoid Mary, who was sent to North Brother Island, a New York Insane Asylum, to live in a quarantined isolation after she was blamed for spreading Typhoid Fever.
- 7/23/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
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