Don’t hold your breath for a Disney remake. Irony-attuned audiences, however, will find plenty to enjoy in this elegant, darkly unpredictable fusion of ashen black comedy and urgent domestic drama, in which a standard home-alone setup degenerates into a tense worst-case scenario from every perspective – even that of the family border collie. “Fun and games for all the family take a mordant turn in Family Film a story of parental negligence and youthful irresponsibility that young and old might prefer to watch in separate rooms. Slovenian director Olmo Omerzu’s trick is couching his wry, almost anthropological observations on bourgeois indulgence in curious plot twists and diversions: not least, a nail-biting adventure involving Otto the dog, which clinches his role as the family member least prepared for, but most deserving an escape from the others. Their 15-year-old son, meanwhile, takes advantage of this delusion, cutting school and fooling around with his older sister’s coolly promiscuous best friend.Īs this unmoored family unit begins to lose its bearings both at home and abroad, a particular kind of European malaise sets in. Leaving their two teenagers to fend for themselves, a liberal couple goes ocean sailing with their pet border collie Otto, content with the notion that their responsibility as parents can be fulfilled via occasional Skype calls from the tropics. The ultimate horror movie.Laced with subtle irony and black humour, this bone-dry domestic drama unravels the blissful ignorance of a well-to-do Prague family with the same cool precision of Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure (NZIFF14). As with a lot of Kubrick's work, time has been kind, and it now seems blindingly obvious that The Shining is a masterpiece without parallel: precise, meticulous, surreal, visually astonishing, a shimmering study of a descent into madness. What a difference a bit of hindsight makes. Both lead actors left the shoot exhausted and resentful. The infamous "Here's Johnny!" scene took three days and 60 doors. Kubrick forced Shelley Duvall to do 127 takes of one scene, a record according to The Guinness Book Of Records. It wasn't a fun shoot either, by all accounts. (He 'lost' to Robert Greenwald's Xanadu). Stanley Kubrick, unbelievably, was even nominated for a 'Worst Director' award at the inaugural Razzies. Initial box-office returns were middling. READ MORE: The 50 Best Horror Movies Of The 21st Century 50) It: Chapters One and Two (2017 & 2019) READ MORE: The 100 Best Horror Movie Characters Here’s Empire’s list of the 50 best horror movies… So draw your salt circles, count the cutlery in your kitchen drawer, take a deep breath, and come with us as we guide you through the films that thrill us and chill us the most. From genre titans, to fun frighteners, or modern masterworks, there’ll be something here to make even the hardiest of horror connoisseurs among you double-check your doors are double-bolted by the time you’re done. Whether it’s seminal slashers, creepy killer clowns, or arthouse works of elevated horror that cut to the quick of society’s most terrifying taboos that get your heart pounding and your cheeks clenching, of this much we can assure you – you’ve come to the right place to find your next sleepless night.Īt the dead of night, in an abandoned house along an old Texan dirt road, the Empire team gathered to conjure up a list of the 50 greatest horror movies ever made. But one good scare? And only at Halloween? Talk about stingy! Here at Empire, we like to believe that you can have the bejeezus frightened out of you any day of the year, as many times as you like. I guess everyone’s entitled to one good scare.” It’s a good line, sure. As the great Sheriff Leigh Brackett once said in John Carpenter’s Halloween, “It’s Halloween. All These Sleepless Nights (2016) Full Movie Vote: 6.
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