Book of Names ... (The Who's in List)

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It's gonna be a bloodbath this year, with so many of you signing up for the slaughter.
Oh well, more cool movies for me to watch. :)
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(several of last years entrants' entrails etc.)
 
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Well young padawan ... :)

That's from the the Pre Heavenly Creatures / Frightner's / LOTR Peter Jackson's "Dead Alive" NZ title "Brain Dead".

It's a true Gem.

Some tonal similarity to Evil Dead 2. 7,000 X's the gore. But cartoony enough to not be Gorno, like Hostel, yet just real enough to be disturbing.

I highly recommend these pre-famous or lesser known Jackson gems.
Meet the Feebles
Dead Alive
Forgotten Silver (maybe the most obscure)
the list would not be complete without
Bad Taste
though that one I can take or leave.
the other's are flat out brilliant

Somewhere in between the above and the American movies in terms of notoriety is
Heavenly Creatures
also brill.
 
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Forgotten Silver is the only one I havnt seen.

I dig them all...but Meet the Feebles and Bad taste are something special.
Meet the Feebles because it has coked up muppet knife throwing and nam
flashbacks...and Bad Taste because its a whole movie of Peter Jackson acting.
 
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you guys have to add Forgotton Silver to the NetFlix cue.

Peter Jackson discovers that his elderly neighbor is the widow of Colin MacKenzie, a fellow Kiwi and undoubtedly cinema's most unsung auteur. Despite pioneering film effects like
SOUND (before hollywood),
and
COLOR (before hollywood),
and tracking shots (before hollywood),
and even achieveing flight a few days before the Wright brothers,
his monumental bad luck rendered him completely forgotten.

Jackson takes it upon himself to discover the set of his biblical epic Salome, and see that this forgotten genius is given his rightful kudos. He is basically set up as being greater than Orson Welles and doing everything Orson did first and better.

When the doc aired in New Zealand, much like the reaction to Orson Welles's War of the Worlds which people took as real, people were writing in to the television station, to the editorial section of newspapers and calling in to talk shows saying that they were shocked and angry that such a New Zealand National treasure had been hidden from the world for so long.

Hilarious stuff largely because it is presented so straight.
 
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Great movie. Someone tried to present it to me as a straight documentary, but I was fooled only for about the first ten minutes.

When an adolescent Mackenzie is described as orchestrating a massive theft of hundreds of chicken eggs from the surrounding farms to be able to make motion picture film from the yolks, I burst out laughing and the illusion was gone...Incredibly clever movie though. Peter Jackson is too cool for school.

Fun fact - Nancy Schreiber was DP on the film. EDIT - well, one of the credited DP's...she's listed as Camera Op and DP: Additional Photography

After you watch the movie, you should google it to see what the popular opinions were at the time, upon release and after the hoax was revealed. The New Zealand paper headlines in particular are the funniest. The citizenry really wanted to believe that they had unearthed their country's very own historical cinema wunderkind...
 
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Did you know there was a popular film named "Dissonance" for Drama Fest? No biggee you can't copyright a title, but FYI.

If you still want me to change it let me know and I will change it in the list.

If you want to change it on your thread you have to PM a mod. I would do it for you but I ain't got the power. They keep me on a short leash around here.
 
I did not know of the past entry. Hopefully it doesn't share too much in common, ha. I think I will keep the title if thats ok with the original dissonance creators. Would appreciate if you could change it on the book of names to Dissonance too.

Thanks,
Gulroc
 
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