From ScreamFest 2024: «Scared Sh1tless»

For most of us, the first day at a new job can be frustrating, maddening, and even scary. Despite those chances, or maybe because of them, Sonny decides to join his father’s business as a plumber, using this also as a chance to beat his phobia to germs, a condition that has controlled his life for quite some time.

What seemed to be a routine call to just unclog a toilet in an apartment building, ends up being a battle for survival against a sadistic creature that was created in a lab for the sole purposes to kill any living being nearby, and it is now roaming the plumbing in the same building that Sonny and his Dad are working.

This is the premise of “Scared Shitless” the new film directed by Vivieno Caldinelli, written by Brandon Cohen, and that just played at ScreamFest 2024, one of my favorites film festivals, and that is taking place from October 8th through October 17th, in Los Angeles California.

Ok, I will start by stating that I personally dislike scatological humor in movies, and therefore I tend to avoid films like the ones from Troma Entertainment for the same reason (I will mention that I really like “Mother’s Day”, although that film has no toilet humor at all). When I heard some very good things regarding “Scared Shitless” from previous festivals, it made me decide to step out of my comfort zone and give it a chance.

And I am glad I did!

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Reto Kosnar V8#13- Desde ScreamFest 2024 – «Scared Sh1tless»

Seguimos con la cobertura de el festival de cine de horror ScreamFest 2024, que se está llevando a cabo en Los Angeles del 8 de Octubre hasta el 17 de Octubre. 

En esta ocasión hablaremos de «Scared Sh1tless», donde un par de plomeros (no de los que venden plomo, sino que arreglan cañerias) atienden una llamada que parecia normal en un edificio de departamentos, pero se acaban enfrentando a una peligrosa criatura que se quiere devorar a todos los residentes.

 

 

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Reto Kosnar V8 #10- Desde ScreamFest 2024 – «Test Screening»

Seguimos con la cobertura de el festival de cine de horror ScreamFest 2024, que se está llevando a cabo en Los Angeles del 8 de Octubre hasta el 17 de Octubre. 

En esta occasion hablaremos de «Test Screening» donde en un pueblo de Oregon que va en declive, se da una exhibicón de prueba para un filme misterioso. Esto cambiará para siempre la vida de todos los habitantes, llevandolos a una horrible pesadilla. lleguenle sin miedo!

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Reto Kosnar V8#08- Desde ScreamFest 2024: «ICK»

Y empezamos nuestra cobertura de ScreamFest 2024, uno de los mejores festivales de cine de horrror en Los Angeles y se está llevando a cabo del 8 de Octubre al 17 de Octubre,

Esta noche hablamos de «ICK», donde un maestro de ciencia en un pueblito bicicletero debe de encontrar la manera de acabar con una extraña yerba que amenaza con convertir a toda la poblacion en una especie de zombies.

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From ScreamFest 2024 : «Ick»

Opening this year’s ScreamFest Film Festival, we had the chance to see “Ick”, the new film from Joseph Kahn, a director with a MASSIVE career directing Music Videos, and a very distinct sense of humor. 

 

In the past, Kahn brought films like “Detention” and “Bodied”, along with a very dark and twisted short film based on the Power Rangers franchise. This time with “Ick”, Kahn tries to bring a PG13 gateway horror Creature Feature to the TikTok generation.

 

Onto a brief synopsis!

 

For quite some time, a strange herb has been growing in the small town known as Willow Creek. Affectionately called by the locals as “The Ick”, the herb seems to sprout in just about everywhere, and for some reason, nobody in Willow Creek seems to be bothered by it, nor interested in finding out where it came from. What they care most for, is their Football team, especially its star athlete Hank. 

 

Hank’s apparently idyllic life as the town’s Golden boy comes to an abrupt end due a weird accident in one of the most important games in his life. In just a few weeks, he loses his scholarship, his girlfriend, job opportunities and pretty much, the control of his life, falling into depression and alcohol, until he finds a new purpose, teaching science in the same high school he used to attend. 

 

After several decades being dormant, The Ick starts to show a strange behavior and even a mind of its own, managing to infect and control some of the residents of Willow Creek as Zombies, starting a hostile takeover little by little. This will make Hank finally step up from his meaningless existence and fight to save not only his town, but also the girl that could be the daughter he never knew he had.


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Reto Kosnar V8#07 Falling Stars

Esta noche hablamos de «Falling Stars», el relato de 3 hermanos que por andar de curiosos y querer ver el cadaver de una bruja, se meten en un problemon y tandran que ver como quitarse una maldicion que amenaza con acabar con ellos y todos sus seres queridos.

Lleguenle sin miedo!

 

 

 

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«Falling Stars», Witches, Brooms and Death from above. (on VOD and theaters on October 11th)

Three brothers find the hard way that no conspiracy theory could prepare them for the worst night of their lives. There is something dangerous lurking in the skies, but it does not come from outer space. 

“Falling Stars” is the new film from Gabriel Bienczycki and Richard Karpala, coming to theaters and VOD on October 11th, and it brings a tale of brooms, corpses and curses. 

Set in an alternative reality where witches are not really just a myth or something that grown ups use to scare the young so they learn to behave, we meet a trio of brothers celebrating the first night of the harvest season. In said nights, rumor has it that you can see some falling stars in the sky, but these are not in fact celestial bodies from outer space, but rather witches descending to the ground in search of victims.

This is dismissed to some degree by Adam and Sal, the younger brothers, but Mike, the oldest one, seems to know better. 

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Reto Kosnar V8#01- eVil Sublet

Y regresamos a las andadas con el Reto de 31 Filmes, durante 31 noches…

Empezamos con «eVil Sublet», donde un matrimonio renta un apartamento amueblado en una zona muy exclusiva por un precio demasiado bueno. Pues chance esta maldito, pero si es para lo que te alcanza…

Pues no puede estar tan mal ¿no? Lleguenle sin miedo!

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Now on VOD: «eVil Sublet» ; What is wrong with some haunting if the rent is cheap?

When you were a child, surely every time you saw a horror movie about a haunted house, you asked yourself “Why don’t they just move out?”, and chances are, now that you are an adult paying the rent you know the answer… “Because we can’t afford to rent anywhere else”. This sad truth is part of the premise of “Evil Sublet” the new horror-comedy film written and directed by Allan Piper, and that will be released on VOD on October 1st.

Here is the Official Synopsis:

“Alex and Ben find their dream apartment in New York’s East Village (AKA the eVil). Who cares if it’s cursed if the rent is cheap and it’s got an eat-in kitchen, right?

But when the bad roommate situation of living with murderous ghosts becomes too much for them, they must enlist the help of friends to escape the evil of their sublet.”

I really liked this film, A LOT. It has a lot of humor and very nice running gags that made me chuckle and even laugh aloud several times. It managed to stay balanced between comedy and horror, although it does stays a little bit more with the humor than the scares. I am not complaining, because when the movie wants to be scary, IT BECOMES SCARY. This is something we can understand from the very opening scene, that got me hooked, by the way.

Now, let me give an idea of what to expect with “Evil Sublet”.

You know that moment in some comedy films, when a joke does not land and the film drags it for too long or the joke is repeated again and again in the movie, but still is not funny? Well, this film has EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE: It has several good jokes and gags that are very subtle and go by very fast, almost a “blink and you miss it” kinda thing.

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