Hey everyone. Capone in Chicago here. What is slowly becoming one of my favorite horror/genre-themed festivals that I cover, the Bruce Campbell Horror Film Festival has just announced the first wave of titles of its third annual incarnation in Chicago.
It has been announced that director Fede Alvarez's Don't Breathe , Jim Hosking's The Greasy Strangler , and Darren Lyn Bousman's Abattoir will all screen at this year's Bruce Campbell Horror Film Festival, which takes place in Chicago, Aug. 18-21. Other new films to be showcased at event include Beyond the Gates - about a VHS board game with evil powers - and Found Footage 3D , which is produced by Texas Chain Saw Massacre cowriter Kim Henkel and features Carter Roy, from last year's apocalypse thriller, Refuge .
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That particular binary has been especially vexing when describing the films of Brian De Palma, the visionary director who has spent nearly 50 years creating a body of work that makes a strong case that in cinema at least, style is substance. Because of the style-substance dialectic, De Palma's movies tend to have a polarizing effect on audiences, and the cavalier-which is to say agonizingly stylized-way he has depicted violence, especially sexual violence against women, has drawn visceral outrage for decades.
Gather around, students. School may be out for summer, but we've got an important lesson for you to get you ready for next week's premiere of Dead of Summer .
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The way Jake Paltrow describes them, the films of Brian De Palma were a gateway drug, the entry point in his transformation from movie fan to serious cinephile. "I was really into low-budget horror movies when I was young," he says.