Snake of June (2002), Shinya Tsukamoto
Extremely horny, wet, and noir-ish psycho-thriller. Touches of Lost Highway, Brian DePalma and the weird architecture of Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
thanks to whichever one of my mutuals recommended this recently.
Some tests done for 28 Days Later for CFX. These were shot using an early digital Canon stills camera on long exposure 1-3 secs.
Danny Boyle originally wanted the rage attacks to look somewhat like Francis Bacon paintings.
One of the most Gothically creepy battles of all time was the Wilderness, 1864, and it's tragic that a movie hasn't been made about it.
First, off, it took place in the exactly same area that the battle of Chancellorsville was the previous year, so the soldiers saw skeletons in rotten uniforms and rusty muskets laying around.
Second, THE FOREST CAUGHT FIRE. The men literally fought in the forest fire. The soldiers could hear wounded men screaming as they burned to death.
30,000 casualties. For comparison, the battle of Bakhmut in Russia-Ukraine had around 70,000 casualties but this was over 10 months. The Wilderness was 2 days!
Fun fact: I was a Civil War re-enactor for the Wilderness. We were marching through a fairly open woodland (historically accurate), and knew that ahead of us were the Confederates. We couldn't see them. We kept walking and walking and got more and more nervous, because we couldn't see them. Then ALL OF A SUDDEN, a wall of gray uniforms and ugly red flags appeared just a few yards away, and the Rebs shrieked their awful yell, fired, and charged. I've rarely been so terrified. Really let me know how it could have been. I became a "casualty" and lay there while the Rebs charged over me.
What's a horrifying historical event that deserves a film?
If this was made today, the animators would be using shaky camera angles, motion blur, constant flashing, dutch angles, zooming, distortion, and fake post-processing lighting, and everyone would praise it as the peak of animation.