“Netflix Horrors” is a regular column in which Shock Till You Drop alerts you to the latest genre titles to hit the VOD service. While this update isn't nearly as big as the one we brought you on July 1st, there is one title I'm excited to recommend to you. Before Colin Hanks when all "creepy" on Dexter, he starred in the indie thriller Alone With Her, directed by Eric Nicholas.
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- 7/8/2014
- by Ryan Turek
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Back when I manned the horror section of the video store I worked at, anytime I’d find a customer skimming through all the “S” titles with mild frustration, 99 percent of the time, I knew exactly what it was they were looking for. And when I would finally ask, my suspicions were confirmed. “Do you have ‘The Silence Of The Lamb’”? To which I’d always reply, “Ah, the Hannibal Lector movies are all in the ‘mystery/thriller’ section.” And usually this would spur a conversation with that customer that would begin with, “Really? I always thought the Hannibal Lector movies were horror!” And it got me thinking about a handful of other titles that horror fans might not even think to hunt for in the “mystery/thriller” section. There are the obvious choices like Se7en or Misery. Then, there’s also stuff like The Sixth Sense, which yes,...
- 1/26/2013
- by Rob Galluzzo
- FEARnet
Alone With Her opens with a title card that offers statistics on how common stalking has become in this electronic age, but part of what makes the movie work is how specific and personal its plotline is. Writer/director Eric Nicholas‘ second feature is a form-follows-function modern-video movie in the Blair Witch mode, with everything seen through cameras that are integral to the story—only here, the point of view is that of the threatening antagonist instead of the imperiled victim. Colin Hanks gets top billing and makes a creepy impression as Doug, a bookish and awkward young man who breaks into the house of a woman he’s become fixated on, installing tiny hidden video cameras to watch her every move. But the movie belongs to Mexican actress Ana Claudia Talancón, who plays Amy, the object of Doug’s twisted affections who is literally center screen throughout. The movie...
- 4/21/2009
- Fangoria
IFC Films, which has previously brought the likes of Larry Fessenden’s The Last Winter and Eric Nicholas’ Alone With Her to big and small screens, has announced a full lineup of fright fare for its Festival Direct video-on-demand service. These join such previously announced titles as the very different zombie movies Pontypool and Dead Snow, which hit VOD the same days they open in limited theatrical release (May 29 and June 12 respectively), and such VOD-only offerings as The Objective, Nightmare and Sauna.
Debuting April 8 and available on-demand through July 7 will be Hush (pictured), from British writer/director Mark Tonderai, in which a young couple on a road trip become the prey of a deranged truck driver. Look for a set-visit report on this film in Fango #285, on sale in June.
Following in May are Dark Mirror and Cadaver, part of the IFC Festival Direct Midnight series. Dark Mirror (available May 6-August 4), from director Pablo Proenza,...
Debuting April 8 and available on-demand through July 7 will be Hush (pictured), from British writer/director Mark Tonderai, in which a young couple on a road trip become the prey of a deranged truck driver. Look for a set-visit report on this film in Fango #285, on sale in June.
Following in May are Dark Mirror and Cadaver, part of the IFC Festival Direct Midnight series. Dark Mirror (available May 6-August 4), from director Pablo Proenza,...
- 4/17/2009
- Fangoria
IFC First Take/The Weinstein Co.
NEW YORK -- More interesting conceptually than dramatically, Eric Nicholas' thriller "Alone With Her" boasts a highly clever technological conceit, albeit one that was exploited many years ago to a lesser degree in "The Anderson Tapes". This tale of a stalker and his victim is told entirely through the point of view of the cameras he has surreptitiously placed around her apartment, resulting in an effectively chilling tale of technology-aided obsession. The film is playing exclusively at New York City's IFC Center.
The opening moments of the film clue us in as to what we're about to experience when it shows various bikini-clad nubile beauties at a beach as secretly filmed by the nebbishy Doug (Colin Hanks). It isn't long before he sets his sights on one woman in particular, the beautiful Amy (Ana Claudia Talancon), and after he breaks into her apartment and sets up his surveillance system, he is able to watch her every clothed and unclothed move.
He begins to insinuate himself into her life, using the knowledge he has gained from his voyeurism to procure her trust. It isn't long before he becomes even more interventionist, sabotaging her life in various ways so he can come to the rescue. When Amy's girlfriend (Jordana Spiro) begins to get suspicious, he takes care of the matter in a way that also is captured on tape.
For all its technological ingenuity, however, the film is ultimately a fairly routine stalker thriller that soon becomes repetitive in its contrivances. And the footage, necessarily shot on digital video, is not particularly easy to watch over the course of the film's feature-length (albeit only 79 minutes) running time.
Still, there's no denying the creepiness of its effect, and the pasty-faced Hanks, who hasn't lost all of his baby fat, is highly convincing as the high-tech stalker.
NEW YORK -- More interesting conceptually than dramatically, Eric Nicholas' thriller "Alone With Her" boasts a highly clever technological conceit, albeit one that was exploited many years ago to a lesser degree in "The Anderson Tapes". This tale of a stalker and his victim is told entirely through the point of view of the cameras he has surreptitiously placed around her apartment, resulting in an effectively chilling tale of technology-aided obsession. The film is playing exclusively at New York City's IFC Center.
The opening moments of the film clue us in as to what we're about to experience when it shows various bikini-clad nubile beauties at a beach as secretly filmed by the nebbishy Doug (Colin Hanks). It isn't long before he sets his sights on one woman in particular, the beautiful Amy (Ana Claudia Talancon), and after he breaks into her apartment and sets up his surveillance system, he is able to watch her every clothed and unclothed move.
He begins to insinuate himself into her life, using the knowledge he has gained from his voyeurism to procure her trust. It isn't long before he becomes even more interventionist, sabotaging her life in various ways so he can come to the rescue. When Amy's girlfriend (Jordana Spiro) begins to get suspicious, he takes care of the matter in a way that also is captured on tape.
For all its technological ingenuity, however, the film is ultimately a fairly routine stalker thriller that soon becomes repetitive in its contrivances. And the footage, necessarily shot on digital video, is not particularly easy to watch over the course of the film's feature-length (albeit only 79 minutes) running time.
Still, there's no denying the creepiness of its effect, and the pasty-faced Hanks, who hasn't lost all of his baby fat, is highly convincing as the high-tech stalker.
- 1/19/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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