NYAFF Report: THE BUTCHER Review and Teaser
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| Cinematical found this 6/13/2008 on twitchfilm.net [flag] |
As is evidenced by films such as The Poughkeepsie Tapes , Cloverfield , Five Across The Eyes , and [REC] , there has been a resurgence in video vérité horror in recent years. While skeptics may question the aesthetic qualities of this approach, there is no denying that video cameras can add a sense of immediacy and heightened realism to a horror film that cannot be achieved under normal ...
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Asian Cinema Scene: Korean 'Butcher' Does Snuff
Published 6/13/2008 by Peter Martin at Cinematical
... program notes, "torturing their captives to death, one by one, and selling the tapes overseas to foreign audiences hungry for footage of Koreans murdering one another. " It's told entirely from the point of view of two video cameras, one for the hapless victims and one for the perpetrators. So we've got torture porn crossed with a shaky cam aesthetic. What's not to love? Fangoria got the tip on a teaser trailer (NSFW, unless you're a sadistic butcher). Rodney at Twitch posted a review and says that The Butcher boils "horror ...
