Monday, November 29, 2010

And Soon the Darkness in 200 Words or Less

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A perfectly paced slow-burn of a thriller. Two girls go on a bicycle trip across the back-roads of France and find their way into trouble. There's some beautiful photography here too, which shouldn't be surprising since this comes from the director of the gloriously psychedelic and deranged Dr. Phibes movies. But unlike those Vincent Price camp-horror-spectaculars, this one never aims for off the rails - it aims straight and true at your nerve centers like a swift sure knife. It's exactly what I want when I sit down to watch a thriller of this sort. The hopelessness of running back and forth and back and forth over the same spots, looking for something new - why, that's almost the definition of madness.


I'm curious about the remake (it's supposed to get some kind of release in December before hitting DVD immediately after) in spite of it starring two of the least promising actresses of their generation, Amber Heard and Odette Yustman. If only to see if they get a sexy menacing Karl Urban into pants as obscenely tight as the ones Sandor Elès wore here.

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