Flicks: The Tunnel (2011)

The Australian Blair Witch pseudo-doc features some extremely scary scenes.

Tangles: The Motion Picture, also known as The Tunnel (2011), directed by Carlo Ledesma and made for $135,000 Aussie Dollars ($36,000 of which was crowd funded), is a very scary, very well-produced pseudo-doc/horror film shot in Sydney in 2010.

In the tradition of Blair Witch, REC and Paranormal Activity a news crew travels to a forbidden area of the world in order to document some extremely strange goings-on. In this case an underground tunnel system beneath the city that holds a dark secret.

As the group explores the lightless, subterranean world with only two cameras and a few flashlights the news crew inexplicably loses the sound man, James 'Tangles' Williams. After they lose Tangles they all panic, run and go screaming his name like a lost pet for the next 20 minutes. As the group goes deeper and deeper into abandoned tunnel system they lose most of their equipment, lights included, and are hunted from the shadows by a growling, moaning humanoid creature - a lanky, hyper-quick C.H.U.D. with an axe to grind against the world above.

Shortly after finding a bloody chair slathered in fresh blood (presumably Tangles), an oozing pile of eyeballs, watching the humanoid break a guard's neck like a dry chicken bone in a lake of darkness - all through the eerie green night vision lens of a commercial grade camera the group struggles back to the surface.

A well made horror film with genuinely spooky turns. Probably the first of many from this production crew. The Sleaze-A-Saurus gives it 4 out of 4 "screaming skulls".

References:
IMDB, The The Tunnel (2011)
Wikipedia, The Tunnel (2011 film)

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Flicks: V/H/S (2012)

V/H/S is a scarier version of Paranormal Activity and The Blair Witch on steroids.

V/H/S (2012) is available today on-demand at iTunes two months before the limited theatrical release! V/H/S features six horror film directors' unique shorts dealing with the paranormal or supernatural. These shorts are told as found footage, on VHS cassettes, that a group of burglars find after being hired by an unknown party. This main arc is known as "Tape 56".

"Amateur Night" directed by Adam Wingard (director of the deranged Signal (2007)) a man who thrives in independent film-making communities and circles brings his short "Amateur Night". This chapter, titled "Amateur Night", according to Bruckner's interview at Creative Loafing, "is about a group of college-age dudes who on the final night of spring break decide to go out with a pair of spyglasses to try and trick some girls into making a porno without their knowledge. They find out that they're not the only sexual predators out that night." This chapter was entirely shot in Atlanta, GA.

Ti West (The Innkeepers (2012)) directs "Second Honeymoon," which centers on a young couple (fellow V/H/S director Joe Swanberg and actress Sophia Takal) whose trip takes some incredibly creepy turns as a mysterious stranger videotapes the sleeping couple in a seedy motel room.

Irish film-maker Glenn McQuaid (I Sell The Dead (2008) directs "Tuesday the 17th" - a Blair Witch themed short on steriods. This time the witch/killer is all too visible and, covered in a truly disturbed direction in VFX, hunts down a group of young people before being caught!

Actor and director Joe Swanberg 17-minute-long short, “The Sick Thing That Happened To Emily When She Was Younger” is the chilling story of a college student who turns to her long-distance medical school boyfriend when she begins to fear she is haunted by ghosts. The story is told through recorded Skype conversations.

The last director for V/H/S is actually four directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Justin Martinez, Chad Villella and Tyler Gillett who are collectively billed as Radio Silence. All four have paid their dues on dubious "popular" series for cable television and have now set out to create something critically successful with their short "10/31/98".

V/H/S was a critical success at both Sundance and SXSW in early 2012. The flick will screen on-demand at iTunes two months before the limited theatrical release starting August 30th. The film it will be in selected theaters on October 5th 2012.

References:
IMDB, V/H/S (2012)
Magnet Releasing, V/H/S
Movie Web, Ti West/VHS Interview
Facebook, V/H/S

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