SHAM020 - Footprints

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by loops

I got the remastered AWE dvd and watched it the other night with the sound turned right up and it was even more terrifying. Definiteley the scariest zombie movie ever.

I've been spending a few minutes trying to work this out, racking my brains and going through movies so could you please put me out of my misery - AWE = ? Is it one of The Beyond/Zombie Flesh Eaters/City of The Living Dead/Zombie Holocaust?

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by loops

Only a silly person expects a 12 rated film to be a bloodbath!

Anyone that isn't a member here,or doesn't frequently visit the BBFC website,probably wouldn't know it's a 12,especially if they've collected the other 19.

[Make Them Die Slowly]

"Footprints" got a really good review in the new Fortean Times and was scored 8/10.

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

It's something of a unique movie M,something that you don't see very often.

[Make Them Die Slowly]

Here's the review from Fortean Times.

Though released by Shameless and starring Florinda Bolkan(notorious nun "Flavia the Heritic"),Bazzoni's disquieting giallo shuns the conventional blood,sex and nudity and concentrates instead on psychological weirdness.

Bolkan plays Alice,an overworked translator who wakes one morning to discover she has lost three days;finding a ripped-up postcard from Garma Hotel in her kitchen,she travels to the island in an attempt to figure out what has happened to her.Some of the people there seem to recognise her,and it becomes clear that on her last visit she was running from something;meanwhile,her nightmares about an evil scientist(Klaus Kinski)abducting subjects for his murderous lunar experiments grow more vivid.As she pieces together connections between her dreams and forgotten actions,she spirals into a frenzied terror - has her mind been unhinged by stress and tranquilisers,or is she victim of an awful plot?

Shot by master Italian cinematographer Vittorio Storaro,Balkan is a lonely figure dwarfed by imposing buildings and landscapes as the weight of the world around her presses in.Strange and slow,"Footprints" presents a horrifyingly believable vision of confusion and paranoia that hooks the imagination.

8/10: unsettling entangling of fear and nightmare.

[Almar@Cult Labs]

Hey thanks for putting that up - it's a lovely review.

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Klaus Kinski must have made a small fortune appearing for five minutes in many films over the years.In FOOTPRINTS his total screentime must be about three minutes.
Remember CODENAME:THE SOLDIER? Giving him equal billing with Ken Wahl was preposterous.
But then again,I suppose a name like Kinski's helped put bums on seats.....

[Make Them Die Slowly]

Bet Kinski never made as much as Brando in "Superman" even if you added up all his 10 minutes.

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

No one could.

[massi70]

my order at Play.com for Footprints is 'packing'