I wish I had the time to watch and blog about 100 movies in 100 days. Luckily, I don’t have to, since Scott Hamilton did it first. There’s a lot of interesting stuff here, including many horror movies, and the reviews are well-written and witty. And it includes a review of a Korean war/horror movie called R-Point, which I really want to see.
I was asked this question in a radio interview very recently, and since I got a chance to give the URL to this blog, I figured people might be arriving here curious about it. Hello, Norwegian P3 listeners! So, there’s a small essay on the Mexploitation genre and its history up. I might add images and whatnot later, but for now, that’s where to go. It also contains some links to the most relevant mexploitation-themed posts on this blog.
This video, titled “Cell phone in microwave”, starts out as a typical “let’s destroy stuff in wacky ways” YouTube video, but isn’t quite that… Nice work, too.
I’ve just spent a few hours getting the content from the old Mexploitation blog online here. It was a bit more work than I expected, especially given some character set issues, and the lack of images, but it should be all fixed now. Feel free to browse backwards and take a look if you haven’t seen it before, there’s quite a bit of decent content here.
The short we did post on for Atole Metafilms a few months back is now on YouTube, after being shown at parties and other improvised screening locations around Mexico. The sound is sadly not great, but apart from that, it turned out fairly ok.
Sorry about the long delays, I’m hoping I’ll get more time to write soon. In the meantime, we’ve been doing some good work. Latest news: We did postproduction supervision on the only Mexican movie this year to go to Cannes, in the Un Certain Regard section. It’s called Los Bastardos, and we finished just on time to get it to the festival, where’s it’s been getting mixed, but generally relatively positive reviews. Apart from the supervision, we also did some VFX previsualization for it, which was fun, and very in tune with genres I like, but I guess I shouldn’t spoil that part of the movie, it’s kind of crucial. Here’s Screen Daily’s review, there’s also Variety’s review, and here’s the Hollywood Reporter.
Oh, and the actual illegal Mexican immigrant to the US who plays an illegal Mexican immigrant to the US in the movie got treated rather badly by French border police when entering the country to attend the festival. Life imitates art, minus the shotgun.
My IMDB page is looking a bit less pathetic too, as a result of all this work, although it’s got a way to go before it matches my partner Øyvind’s page, now that he’s gotten in some of the stuff he’s worked on before.
Warren Ellis’ new webcomic Freakangels goes live Friday, the 15th of February. It’s SF/Steampunk with sexy goth chicks. From the creator of Transmetropolitan and a bunch of other great stuff. It’s bound to be good.
This is a bit late, really, but you can see a short movie we did (very hurried) post on tonight, at a party at a pool hall (yeah, I’m not sure I get it either). It’s directed by our friend Elías Herrera Zacarías, who also directed the Sussie 4 video we did. The short’s called “Vi tu cel”, and the party starts at 10 (the movie likely shows a bit later). There’ll also be DJs and stuff. It’s in Colima 55, esquina con Frontera, in Roma Norte. Entrance is 50 pesos. Oh, and our names are on the poster, I think it’s the first time that’s happened.
This was on the street not so far from my house. It says “Weight control with laser - 100% natural“. That is, laser dieting. I could see some surgical uses, I suppose, but 100% natural?
Yes, it’s a new year. And the hosting on my old blog went down, so I’m here on new hosting, with a new domain, etc. The old content will be moved here relatively soon, in the meantime I’m going to try to write some new stuff here. I’ve been reading a lot of horror theory lately, some good and some not so good, so I’m going to be reviewing that, I think. In the meantime, happy new year, and stay tuned.