Cube + Reign of Fire

Posted on December 3, 2008 by Alice Thirteen
Cube + Reign of Fire

A word about the Happening. Onto Cube! What defines horror? We love Repo; Saw is still lame. The necessity of a psychological breakdown. Clue hunting with your audience. The impact CG has on suspension of disbelief. Character exposition. Remaining unknown. Keeping your head down. Conspiracy theories. Same evidence, different conclusions. What is the cube? Equally fucked. Storyboards and framing in a cube. Blasphemous sequels. Michael’s homework. Dragons in the future. Deceptive marketing. Revisionist history. Treatment of technology. Another take on CG. Combining CG with models. Michael feels silly. Evolution. Science in creature films. Revisiting the LxG challenge. Continue reading →

Freddy vs Jason + Steal This Film 2

Posted on November 27, 2008 by Alice Thirteen
Freddy vs Jason + Steal This Film 2

Freddy actually versus Jason! Missing the point. Different approaches in the same universe. Equal time. Making the collaboration work. The new Freddy and Jason. The callbacks. The staples. This story is awesome! More Robert Englund talk. How to trap Jason. Abandoning canon. What does this ending mean? The Pirate Bay. Independent film. Digital format. A series of experiments regarding the ethicacy of film watching / buying / stealing / downloading. Law is a fucking decade behind technology. Winamp. What about borrowing? Creative commons. Stealing other types of art. The used market. Sharing a DVD. Why piracy exists. Tivo. Stop making excuses! Continue reading →

Downfall + Good Night and Good Luck

Posted on November 20, 2008 by Alice Thirteen
Downfall + Good Night and Good Luck

Introducing Hitler. Building anticipation. This is still Double Feature, so let’s compare Downfall to Cloverfield! WWII as a b story. Uncanny Iraq parallels. Socialism. Obeying the leader. Brief moments of violence. Absence of score and foreign films. A different perspective. Why you should love George Clooney more than you already do. Challenging authority. Archive footage. Stories don’t always have two equal sides, goddamnit! New media. What happened to the news? The failures of old media. The Danish cartoons. Blashpemy. Actually letting the terrorists win. You’re not neutral, you’re a failure. The Chicago Zombie March. The titular line. Continue reading →

Killapalooza 2: A Nightmare on Elm Street

Posted on November 13, 2008 by Alice Thirteen
Killapalooza 2: A Nightmare on Elm Street

A Nightmare on Elm Street films 1-7. Freddy Krueger. Robert Enguld. Let the Jason comparisons begin! Industrial 80s score. A different Freddy. Changing the rules. Enter: possession. Traditional effects. Making the viewer uncomfortable. Reoccurring characters. What to build on. The origin story. Dream powers. The shift? Recasting issues. More powers. Freddy as a slasher. Writers: pay more attention! Bad one liners. HAMSTERSTYLE MONTAGE! ”Red hamsters.” Kanye West. The hunk is not your superstar. Visual effects ego. Fixing the fetus problem. Back to Elm Street. Videogames and Pandora’s Box. Twists and tells. The rhyme. Going 3-D. Anticipation. The atrocity of New Nightmare. Children: act or leave. Making a WTF film. Michael fixes New Nightmare. The lamest gimmick yet. The final word on Wes Craven. A surprising conclusion. Continue reading →

Fur + A Dirty Shame

Posted on November 6, 2008 by Alice Thirteen
Fur + A Dirty Shame

Arizona Iced Tea. Taboos. Sexual fetishes. Lifestyle fetishes. Non linear story telling. Things you can do with a 50s biopic. Photography. Romanticizing previous eras. 30s sideshows. The 50s family myth. Finding yourself. Flashing back to an even older era in your period film. Robert Downey Jr. Warm and creepy. Establishing a feeling of trust in a technical medium. Further information upon additional viewing. John Waters. Trash films. Censorship. Importance of character names. Blasphemy. 12 Step. The M word. When satire is just reality. A creative way to sidestep pornography! Continue reading →

The People vs Larry Flynt + Jesus Camp

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Alice Thirteen
The People vs Larry Flynt + Jesus Camp

A Double Feature secret is revealed! CENSORSHIP. JESUS. What is Larry Flynt? How to win Alice’s heart…and body. Jerry Falwell is a douchebag. Using editing to get around bad deliverance. Love for America. Nothing is sacred. Niggy Tardust. Experimental scenes. Time lapse. Handling aids in film. Biopic of political drama? Post film summaries. Uh…censorship! Alice flips out and delivers a super patriotic 1st amendment speech out of nowhere. Michael throws an orange. Save the children! Jerry Falwell is still a douchebag. A perfect explanation of widescreen aspect ration using tits. Substitutes for narration. A religious debate without an atheist voice. Group think. Richard Dawkins. There is no such thing as a christian child. Or a muslim child. Or an atheist child. Children as weapons. Ted Haggard. Is the Rapture a threat? Continue reading →

2001 Maniacs + Flock of Dodos

Posted on October 23, 2008 by Alice Thirteen
2001 Maniacs + Flock of Dodos

How to pronounce the year. Proper crossover. Scareshot bar raised. New’s new favorite word. More than candy. Taking the high road. Blaxploitation. Racism. Growing up without racism. Using fiction to create hypothetical scenarios and thought experiments. The south isn’t as backwards as people say it is. Being afraid of a racial slur gives it power. No one complained when Alice said cuntpickle! Robert Englund. One liners. Complimentary gimmick scene. Subtlety. Religion and Politics. Skepticality. Titular line. Night vision rabbit. Tangents in documentaries. Muffy Moose. Voting on beer-ability. Evolution’s PR problem. Why creationism wins hearts. The role of art in combating creationism. The free exchange of ideas. Continue reading →

The Hitcher + The Punisher

Posted on October 16, 2008 by Alice Thirteen
The Hitcher + The Punisher

A word about Iron Man. Kill the rabbit. Trojan horsing Michael Bay. The date audience. Michael reprimands Alice. The turn. Alice is reprimanded again. Best scare shot yet. Filming in car. Snoricam! Taking time to establish your setting. Gore delivery. Something really shocking. Realistic death. A killer’s motivation. Your essential Punisher checklist. Speeches. As an adaptation. Michael derails the podcast. Hampster island. It’s not supernatural. Forced rating. A weak death. Same actors playing different roles in comic book films. Continue reading →

Killapalooza 1: Friday the 13th

Posted on October 9, 2008 by Alice Thirteen
Killapalooza 1: Friday the 13th

Friday the 13th films 1-10. Jason Voorhees. The longest, most explicit slasher episode yet. Retroactive twist. Fixing a long running problem through exploitation. Recaping in a sequel. 3-D. Showing off. Slasher staples. Tits. Found: Hampster Style. Another use of Scooby Doo. The Twist. The Prankster! Self aware. Titular skepticism. Fixing a train wreck while maintaining continuity. Retroactive continuity. Accepting a power. Even Jason can jump the shark. Music stops. Alice derails Michael. Believe it or not: a case that necessitates gratuitous nipples to preserving artistic integrity. Continue reading →

Auto Focus + From Hell

Posted on October 2, 2008 by Alice Thirteen
Auto Focus + From Hell

Get Alice’s DVD. Music Box Massacre IV. Michael is assaulted in Uptown Chicago. Radio voice. Jazz clubs. Censorship? Small nipples. Sex as a taboo. Open relationships. A dark and violent shift. How to change the mood. Alternate history…or not. Clarity through ambiguity. Sexual morals and public repercussion. Moving out of your most popular work. Not what you’d expect. Utilizing every possible bad film device. Conspiracies. British accents. Actual alternate history! More on comic book films. Titular and tag lines. A new approach to montages. Get high, solve crime. Absinthe! Slasher interpretation. Visuals. Getting into heaven. Continue reading →