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This years bizarre award goes to Quentin Dupieux otherwise known as Mr. Oizo .  When Oizo's Flat Beat came into the underground techno world there was a shift that occured with club kids, this shift came in the form of intelligent music.  Oizo's music is not only good to bob the head to, but creates an atmosphere you can slip into.  So it is no surprise that years later that when Dupieux put his mind to creating 90 minutes of pleasure cinema - he does so successfully. The film begins with Lieutenant Chad delivering a monologue that breaks the fourth wall and describes to his audience and us about his theory of "no reason" in great cinema.  In an interview with Speakeasy , Dupieux describes the writing process of Rubber, " I am writing a lot stuff and I realized my best ideas were related to the “no reason” [concept]. Each time I am trying to be too smart or too clever, I think I am not too good of a writer, but when I have stupid, no reason ideas, I t...

Instead of a lengthy comparison between Let The Right One In and Matt Reeves remake , we'll just stick with the basics.  Yes, this is an inferior remake of a foreign film.  Yes, Reeves takes out the subtlety and ambiguity that made the original such a powerful and beautiful work of art, and instead replaces these elements with bouts of action and decent make-up effects.  We would like to say that there is no merit to Let Me In , but that may be too harsh so lets look at the facts.  The in-medias-res beginning we thought would take this film into the realm of the book, but instead it is needlessly placed to spruce up the twenty minute test (for non-screenwriters out there this is the captivating twenty pages/minutes that will ultimately capture your viewer and if this fails then the rest will as well).  Our new Hakan is now played by the brilliant Richard Jenkins and is miscredited on IMDB as "The Father," this may shed some light on how exactly Reeves ruins...

To review Catfish is problematic in several ways.   We could provide spoilers and dive into the plotline, but since most people haven’t seen the film yet, we would ruin the experience.   Another potential problem of a review would be jading your preconceived notions about the film itself and therefore again ruining the experience.    So in this difficult position we would like to briefly discuss the hype machine of this film. Countless interviews have been done with Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman that all describe the authenticity of the film.   In an early showing Morgan Spurlock ( Super Size Me ) told the two that their film was the best mockumentary he’d ever seen.   Henry & Ariel’s response to allegations that their film is a hoax add more intrigue to the hype machine: we could have never imagined the direction this film went.   The biggest problem is the gimmick of the trailer or it is the film’s saving grace, we can’t tell.   I...

Dear George A. Romero, We here at CineNiche have been long time fans of your work, we eat up any information on your new projects and each of us buy any Fangoria that has an interview with you in it.  We love your films, from the genre changing Night Of The Living Dead onward, your films have always been an inspiration to our own indie spirit.  Your ability to provide a social commentary more blatant than other horror directors and your simple yet highly effective camera work has shown us a good story means everything.  And what better story than your forty plus year ongoing tale of humanity's inability to help each other.  Even in Dawn Of The Dead your characters help themselves and guard the fort against the living and the undead.  Your films are important to us and even when they are not at their best, they still offer something toward the genre.   Martin was a revolution to the vampire film.   Monkey Shines was a pitch perfect adapt...

This is an excerpt from CineNiche editor Shaun Huhn's unpublished book on the horror genre The Wonderfully Terrifying: An Insight Into Our Love Of Being Afraid. This is from the "Monster" section of the book where he writes about witches but we chose this to showcase our favorite film Suspiria.  Enjoy. The following has been taken from the limited edition DVD of Suspiria , writer Scott Michael Bosco has captured everything that identifies a Dario Argento film.  It is entitled “Introduction for Dario Argento Films.”  He describes Argento more poignantly than I ever could, so here is that page:   “When we enter the realm of a Dario Argento film, the laws of the possible and probable are challenged.  Like a master architect, a new framework of realities has been constructed concealing the audience in a house with many doors, even more rooms, and numerous windows. There is only one entrance, which we enter with free will and exist only when allowe...