Burning Inside, written and directed by Nathan Wrann, willfully and consistently undermines all the conventions of the traditional revenge thriller. There are none of the usual, vicariously-enjoyed, redemptive emotional high and low points associated with the genre. Instead, the film is a minimal, slow descent into much darker territory than would be typically expected from this type of material.
When a revenge thriller wants to go deeper into its darker side, it generally starts by upping the its violence quotient. For example, the Death Wish movies give Charles Bronson a larger, meaner toolbox to dispatch his victims in more gruesome and grisly ways with each installment.
However, Wrann goes in the completely opposite direction, taking a sparse, near structuralist approach. Thus, when the eventual revenge sequences play out, Burning Inside completely robs the audience of the usual gleeful, cathartic release these scenes are supposed to provide. As such, the film...
When a revenge thriller wants to go deeper into its darker side, it generally starts by upping the its violence quotient. For example, the Death Wish movies give Charles Bronson a larger, meaner toolbox to dispatch his victims in more gruesome and grisly ways with each installment.
However, Wrann goes in the completely opposite direction, taking a sparse, near structuralist approach. Thus, when the eventual revenge sequences play out, Burning Inside completely robs the audience of the usual gleeful, cathartic release these scenes are supposed to provide. As such, the film...
- 7/6/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
We recently reported on film distributor Channel Midnight's first DVD release, the violent and visually striking horror film Burning Inside, and now comes the news that it's being made available as an app in the iTunes Store.
From the Press Release:
Channel Midnight Releasing continues its mission to distribute unique, uncompromising genre films by using new technology to bring filmmaker Nathan Wrann's Burning Inside to the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad via an app developed by Stonehenge Productions containing the Burning Inside feature film and a number of links and special features.
"We were excited to work with Channel Midnight to develop the Burning Inside app," said Mark Smillie, founder of Stonehenge Productions. "The app offers access to a new distribution channel and allows fans to engage their friends through social media and share their experiences and comments on the film. We believe this will ultimately help spread the...
From the Press Release:
Channel Midnight Releasing continues its mission to distribute unique, uncompromising genre films by using new technology to bring filmmaker Nathan Wrann's Burning Inside to the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad via an app developed by Stonehenge Productions containing the Burning Inside feature film and a number of links and special features.
"We were excited to work with Channel Midnight to develop the Burning Inside app," said Mark Smillie, founder of Stonehenge Productions. "The app offers access to a new distribution channel and allows fans to engage their friends through social media and share their experiences and comments on the film. We believe this will ultimately help spread the...
- 6/16/2010
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Film distributor Channel Midnight has announced its first DVD release, the violent and visually striking horror film Burning Inside.
Synopsis:
Burning Inside is an intense, surreal, and violent exploration of the entangled nature of revenge and memory from Nathan Wrann, Dalton Gang Productions, and Elmar Berger's Manic Entertainment. The film is the second feature by Hunting Season writer and director Nathan Wrann and stars Michael Wrann and Kristina Powis.
John Doe awakens from a coma to find that he has no memory of his life, who he was, or how he became comatose. He embarks on a life of normalcy, taking a wife, starting a family, mowing the lawn. This ‘Norman Rockwell’ world is soon torn from him, however, as he becomes driven to get revenge. Revenge for a life he does not remember. Revenge for pain lost to amnesia. Revenge for what he believes to be true. John...
Synopsis:
Burning Inside is an intense, surreal, and violent exploration of the entangled nature of revenge and memory from Nathan Wrann, Dalton Gang Productions, and Elmar Berger's Manic Entertainment. The film is the second feature by Hunting Season writer and director Nathan Wrann and stars Michael Wrann and Kristina Powis.
John Doe awakens from a coma to find that he has no memory of his life, who he was, or how he became comatose. He embarks on a life of normalcy, taking a wife, starting a family, mowing the lawn. This ‘Norman Rockwell’ world is soon torn from him, however, as he becomes driven to get revenge. Revenge for a life he does not remember. Revenge for pain lost to amnesia. Revenge for what he believes to be true. John...
- 5/19/2010
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
John Doolan, the screenwriter of Synthetic Cinema International’s fifth feature Sasquatch Assault, got in touch to give us the skinny on the movie, currently shooting in Norwalk, Connecticut. Co-produced by Vijaya Cine Enterprises, the film is being produced and directed by Andrew Gernhard (who previously served as producer on Synthetic’s genre outings Banshee!!!, Blood Descendents and Werewolf: The Devil’s Hound, among others, and dropped us some FX-test and early set photos—see below).
“I took a lot of inspiration from some of John Carpenter's films, like The Fog, The Thing, Prince Of Darkness and Assault On Precinct 13,” Doolan tells Fango. “I have to admit that I also watched a lot of the not-so-successful Sasquatch films to avoid making any similar mistakes.” Starring Synthetic alumni Greg Nutcher, Hank Torrance, Cristina Santiago, Michael Wrann and Kevin Shea, along with newcomers Alex Exum, Cuyle Carvin, Sarah J. Ahearn and Andrea Sáenz,...
“I took a lot of inspiration from some of John Carpenter's films, like The Fog, The Thing, Prince Of Darkness and Assault On Precinct 13,” Doolan tells Fango. “I have to admit that I also watched a lot of the not-so-successful Sasquatch films to avoid making any similar mistakes.” Starring Synthetic alumni Greg Nutcher, Hank Torrance, Cristina Santiago, Michael Wrann and Kevin Shea, along with newcomers Alex Exum, Cuyle Carvin, Sarah J. Ahearn and Andrea Sáenz,...
- 11/4/2008
- Fangoria
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