In 1980 Stanley Kubrick released his masterpiece of modern horror, The Shining. Over 30 years later we are still struggling to understand its hidden meanings. Rodney Ascher’s film Room 237 is an exploration of the truths concealed in The Shining.

Kubrick’s film was scored in large part with pre existing classical recordings, but the score for Room 237 has taken as its inspiration the elegant but quirky film music that accompanied low budget horror movies in the 1970s. Composers Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson utilize a combination of vintage and contemporary analogue synthesizers, as well as acoustic instruments to create an atmosphere that is at once both haunting and funky.

Musicians:
Jonathan Snipes - Synthesizers, Pianos, Vocoder, Percussion
William Hutson - Synthesizers, Percussion
David Rothbaum - Guitars & Bass
Nick Murray - Drums
Maryclare Brzytwa - Flute
Bear McCreary - Clavinet
Cristina Bercovitz - Vocal Effects

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Facing Change: Documenting America - Debbie Fleming Caffery

This video is the first in a series of features on the photographers of Facing Change: Documenting America, a non-profit collective of prominent photographers and writers who have come together to explore the United States during one of the most enduring times in the nation’s history.

The work of Debbie Fleming Caffery, one of the FCDA photographers, focuses on the death of community life in the small towns surrounding the Mississippi Delta. You can read more about Facing Change: Documenting America and Debbie Fleming Caffery on the Leica blog: bit.ly/uiWuB0.

Shot and Edited by Trevor Bayack

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SNOWTOWN

If you love dark, dramatic films you have to see this movie.  By all means try to see it in the theater.  You don’t want to be distracted.  We just watched it at the AFI Film Festival and it was an awesome, gut wrenching experience.  Snowtown will always be in our minds. 

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Halloween Horror Marathon #4 A record movie watching year. 55 hrs One of the craziest and most fun movie watching crews in the world.  From left to right:   Jennifer Luna, Shawn Bannon, Alix Bannon, James Paul Luna, Jennifer Yarbrough, Kyle Bannon

Halloween Horror Marathon #4

A record movie watching year. 55 hrs

One of the craziest and most fun movie watching crews in the world.  From left to right:   Jennifer Luna, Shawn Bannon, Alix Bannon, James Paul Luna, Jennifer Yarbrough, Kyle Bannon

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Phenomena 1985

Halloween Horror Marathon #04

We had some cool movies that were imported from the UK at the marathon, Phenomena being one of them. The Blu-ray is so beautiful, it’s like watching the movie for the first time.  This is a Dario Argento film, he’s made some pretty sweet movies and they’re worth checking out. Phenomena has some particularly sweet jam sessions throughout the movie.

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Cannibal Holocaust  1980

Halloween Horror Marathon #04

Cannibal Holocaust is probably the most controversial films of all time. The director was arrested after the film was finished and released. The film itself was banned in tons of different countries. We got an imported Blu-Ray of the uncut version. It was easily the most disturbing of the films we watched, which is saying something. I don’t blame people for not wanting to watch it at all, so we watched this one when there weren’t too many people left watching. There’s a lot of real stuff in this movie and other things that are questionable, which is why the director was arrested. He was never charged in the end but you still never know exactly what really happened. There are apparently quite a few different versions of the film around and I’m not exactly sure of all the differences. This one is pretty crazy and I can’t say that I’d really recommend it based on how graphic and insane it is. I thought it was worth seeing, so if you can find it and it sounds like your kind of movie, then go for it. I’d recommend doing a little research into what it’s all about before you do though.

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Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil  2010 Halloween Horror Marathon #04 Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil was definitely one of the highlights on the party. It’s got a pretty awesome plot and it’s super hilarious. This movie was another import, but I’m pretty sure that it comes out in the next few months in the States here. We couldn’t wait that long though, had to have it for the party! I’d say that this movie is a must see.

Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil  2010

Halloween Horror Marathon #04

Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil was definitely one of the highlights on the party. It’s got a pretty awesome plot and it’s super hilarious. This movie was another import, but I’m pretty sure that it comes out in the next few months in the States here. We couldn’t wait that long though, had to have it for the party! I’d say that this movie is a must see.

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Halloween movie marathon

Over this past weekend we had a Halloween movie marathon. About 16 people came throughout the first night. The whole deal last around 50 hours of horror movie watching straight. A small group stayed almost the entire time. By the end about 23 movies had been watched. I won’t be going through them all, but we have some special highlights at the marathon that i’m going to share in these upcoming posts here. I will list off the movies we watched just in case you want to check them out for yourself at some point. Some of them are on Netflix instant streaming if you want to watch them there.

  1. Night of the Living Dead 1968
  2. Coven
  3. Phenomena
  4. Spider 2007
  5. Tucker And Dale Vs. Evil
  6. Amityville Horror
  7. Martyrs
  8. We Are the Night
  9. Harpoon
  10. Troll 2
  11. Sheitan
  12. Dead Snow
  13. The Burning
  14. Rosemary’s Baby
  15. The Shining
  16. Silence of The Lambs
  17. Cannibal Holocaust
  18. Sleepaway Camp
  19. The Lost Boys
  20. The Company of Wolves
  21. The Hunger
  22. The Keep
  23. Nekromantic
  24. I spit on Your Grave
  25. Martha Marcy May Marlene
  26. Hellraiser

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