This post contains spoilers for "Hereditary" and "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover."
Ari Aster became a big name in horror in 2018 with "Hereditary," but he'd had some practice at upsetting audiences by that point. All the way back in 2011, he caused a stir with his short film "The Strange Thing About The Johnsons," which focuses on a boy who sexually abuses his father over the course of his life. Aster said the film came from "an idea that sprouted between [him] and a few friends" about "taboos that weren't even taboos because they were so unfathomable." The short formed his thesis while studying at the American Film Institute's graduate school, and has since become infamous online as one of those films people claim they wish they never saw.
Aster brought that penchant for exploring deeply disturbing subject matter to "Hereditary," his first feature film. Depicting the disintegration...
Ari Aster became a big name in horror in 2018 with "Hereditary," but he'd had some practice at upsetting audiences by that point. All the way back in 2011, he caused a stir with his short film "The Strange Thing About The Johnsons," which focuses on a boy who sexually abuses his father over the course of his life. Aster said the film came from "an idea that sprouted between [him] and a few friends" about "taboos that weren't even taboos because they were so unfathomable." The short formed his thesis while studying at the American Film Institute's graduate school, and has since become infamous online as one of those films people claim they wish they never saw.
Aster brought that penchant for exploring deeply disturbing subject matter to "Hereditary," his first feature film. Depicting the disintegration...
- 2/19/2023
- by Joe Roberts
- Slash Film
Twenty-five years ago, Rudolf van den Berg's thriller The Johnsons was released in the Netherlands, which was remarkable in several ways. For starters, it was a horror film and we don't make too many of those over here. But even stranger were the budget and production values attached to the film: an at the time unheard of two-and-a-half million Euro (or, as the Euro didn't exist yet, nearly 5 million Dutch Guilders). In The Johnsons, a septuplet of boys grow up as murdering psychopaths, possessed by a South American demon. To fulfill his prophecy, the boys need to impregnate their sister, so she shall give birth to a monster who will plunge the world into eternal darkness. On their 21st birthday, the seven brothers escape...
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- 11/10/2017
- Screen Anarchy
This may come as a surprise to people, but not all fair-budget Dutch horror films have been directed by Dick Maas. In 1992, we got treated to The Johnsons by Rudolf van den Berg, and rest assured it was Not about those twin detectives from the Tintin comics. Instead, it was about a septuplet of boys and their sister. The girl grows up in a family, the boys in some asylum after they are discovered to have a penchant for killing other children. They escape though, and set out to fulfill an ancient prophecy: if they manage to impregnate their sister, she'll give birth to Xangadix, a god-monster who will destroy the Earth... Bizarre as the plot is, the history around the film's conception is...
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- 9/25/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Berlin – Rudolf van den Berg's "Tirza," a lost-child drama set in Africa, will be the official Dutch candidate for the 2011 best foreign language Oscar.
The film, which will open the Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht Sept. 22, follows a Dutch man whose life is torn apart when his daughter Tirza disappears while on holiday in Namibia. He sets out to find her but the only one who can help him is Ibi, a child prostitute.
"Tirza" is Van den Berg's first Dutch-language film in more than two decades. His last four features -- "Snapshots" (2002)," "Goodnight Vienna" (1997), "The Cold Light of Day" (1996) and "The Johnsons" (1992) -- were in English with international casts.
"Tirza" is a co-production between San Fu Maltha's Fu Works, Jeroen Koolbergen's Cadenza Films and Belgian producer Prime Time.
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences will announce the best foreign language nominees on Jan. 25. The...
The film, which will open the Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht Sept. 22, follows a Dutch man whose life is torn apart when his daughter Tirza disappears while on holiday in Namibia. He sets out to find her but the only one who can help him is Ibi, a child prostitute.
"Tirza" is Van den Berg's first Dutch-language film in more than two decades. His last four features -- "Snapshots" (2002)," "Goodnight Vienna" (1997), "The Cold Light of Day" (1996) and "The Johnsons" (1992) -- were in English with international casts.
"Tirza" is a co-production between San Fu Maltha's Fu Works, Jeroen Koolbergen's Cadenza Films and Belgian producer Prime Time.
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences will announce the best foreign language nominees on Jan. 25. The...
- 9/3/2010
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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