If the band Tool and Pixar had sex, I believe this movie would be their baby:
It’s based on a phenomenal short film by Shane Acker and is set to hit theaters on 9-9-09. How clever.
Check out the official site here.
(Oh, and if you’re curious, the music in the trailer is Coheed and Cambria‘s “Welcome Home” – Ed.)
The most intimidating little girl EVER.
Because of the success of the big-budget film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight, vampires are now all the rage. Sharp teeth and black clothing are becoming prominent at mall food courts and Bram Stoker is enjoying a resurgence of popularity among depressed teenagers. A Pennsylvania woman was even charged with marketing goth kitties.
However, Twilight was not the best movie of 2008. In fact, it wasn’t even the best vampire movie of 2008. That honor would have to go to the Swedish film, Let The Right One In.
Based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist and directed by Tomas Alfredson, the film relates the story of an unassuming young boy, Oskar, who is regularly bullied by a group of his classmates. He soon befriends a young girl, Eli, who has moved in nearby. The fact that he runs into her only at night is lost on him, at first.
Shot exclusively in locations covered in snow, darkness or water, the film has the feel of a black and white classic, while still utilizing color (most exclusively, the color red) to maximum effect. The pace of the movie is at times deliberately slow and meandering but never lags, whether the two young leads are shyly courting each other or exacting revenge on those who have wronged them.
