To say Herschell Gordon Lewis‘ and Jeremy Kasten‘s respective The Wizard of Gore releases pushed me to my limits is correct for all the wrong reasons. My choice to stack the 1970 original and 2007 remake back-to-back stands as one of my least favorite Revenge of the Remakes double-bills thus far. I’ve no objection to gore-forward perversions that assault audiences with repugnant visuals, unless their storytelling devolves from nonsense to unintelligible drivel from one title to the next. Even worse when one of the films can’t even sustain its titular “Gore” effects.
Lewis’ legacy as the Grandfather of Grossouts and Sorcerer of Sadistic Splatter isn’t lost on The Wizard of Gore, unlike Allen Kahn‘s screenplay, hacked apart and reassembled to maximize the grotesque kill sequences using sheep carcass guts. Kasten’s remake didn’t have to attain Kubrickian levels of storytelling to surpass its inspiration’s narrative cohesion,...
Lewis’ legacy as the Grandfather of Grossouts and Sorcerer of Sadistic Splatter isn’t lost on The Wizard of Gore, unlike Allen Kahn‘s screenplay, hacked apart and reassembled to maximize the grotesque kill sequences using sheep carcass guts. Kasten’s remake didn’t have to attain Kubrickian levels of storytelling to surpass its inspiration’s narrative cohesion,...
- 2/3/2023
- by Matt Donato
- bloody-disgusting.com
Tagline: "High School is Hell." A trailer for The Dead Ones came out in late 2019. Now, the film has been acquired by genre focused Artsploitation Films. An innovative title, The Dead Ones was developed by director Jeremy Kasten (The Attic Expeditions) and writer Zach Chassler. In the film, four outcast teens are on clean-up duty and serving Summer detention. When four masked killers turn up, they must confront a real horror. Those fighting the horror include actors: Sarah Rose Harper ("The Last Time"), Brandon Thane Wilson (The Blacklist), Katie Foster and several others. A few more details, on The Dead Ones, are hosted here. A couple of early reviews have come out, since the film's Belgium World Premiere. Anton Bitel at Rue Morgue has mentioned the Columbine influences in the film: "[The Dead Ones] play[s] out in a manner that is distressingly contemporary, in an age when, for good or ill, children lead much of their lives online,...
- 3/20/2020
- by noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Ex-Toronto International Film Festival Midnight Madness overlord Colin Geddes represented rights.
Toronto-based genre specialist Raven Banner has added The Dead Ones to its Afm sales slate and launches worldwide sales on the siege horror this week.
Jeremy Kasten directed from a screenplay by Zach Chassler about four high school teens in detention are accosted by a macabre gang dressed as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse that locks the building and begins to hunt the youngsters down.
Sarah Rose Harper, Brandon Thane Wilson and Katie Foster are among the cast. The Dead Ones premiered at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival earlier this year.
Toronto-based genre specialist Raven Banner has added The Dead Ones to its Afm sales slate and launches worldwide sales on the siege horror this week.
Jeremy Kasten directed from a screenplay by Zach Chassler about four high school teens in detention are accosted by a macabre gang dressed as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse that locks the building and begins to hunt the youngsters down.
Sarah Rose Harper, Brandon Thane Wilson and Katie Foster are among the cast. The Dead Ones premiered at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival earlier this year.
- 11/6/2019
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Here at Dread Central we recognize that indie filmmakers are the lifeblood of the horror genre, and as a result we try to cover as much of them and their projects as possible. Back in 2009 director Jeremy Kasten came to us to let us know about his latest project, The Dead Ones. Now it's time to spread the word.
Sarah Harper, Brandon Wilson, Katie Foster, Torey Garza, Clare Kramer, and Muse Watson star in the film directed by Kasten from a script by Zach Chassler.
"Filmmaking is tough, dirty, hard, and mean--as well as other words that sound like they were ripped from the covers of 1960s pulp novels," writes Kasten. "It is also, in its purest form, a thrill. Because you risk everything doing something you love. And in entertaining people you hope, in some way, to change the world."
"Although an intensely personal, totally independent film, this is...
Sarah Harper, Brandon Wilson, Katie Foster, Torey Garza, Clare Kramer, and Muse Watson star in the film directed by Kasten from a script by Zach Chassler.
"Filmmaking is tough, dirty, hard, and mean--as well as other words that sound like they were ripped from the covers of 1960s pulp novels," writes Kasten. "It is also, in its purest form, a thrill. Because you risk everything doing something you love. And in entertaining people you hope, in some way, to change the world."
"Although an intensely personal, totally independent film, this is...
- 1/22/2014
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Title: The Wizard of Gore (2007) Starring Kip Pardue, Crispin Glover, Bijou Phillips, Jeffrey Combs, Brad Dourif and The Suicide Girls Produced by Open Sky Entertainment and Sick-o-Scope Written by Zach Chassler Directed by Jeremy Kasten Scores: Technical:85 , Story:80 , Acting:80 , Overall Score: 82 I saw the trailer for this movie the day it came to DVD and was so insanely excited I went out and rented it that day. As far as I’m concerned, you can’t get any better than Crispin Glover (Willard, Back to the Future), Jeffrey Combs (Re-Animator) and Brad Dourif (the voice of Chucky from the Child’s Play series) gracing the screen in the same flick. These three are not only horror movie legends, but they’re cult film legends, which [...]...
- 8/26/2008
- by Tessa Petrocco
- ShockYa
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