It’s one week before Halloween in a sleepy Michigan suburb and the pumpkins are already rotting in the backyard. For some reason, Peter’s (Woody Norman) suspiciously strict parents (Lizzy Caplan and Antony Starr) are intent on shielding the eight-year-old from participating in the holiday festivities, which may have something to do with the spooky and unnerving presence that the boy senses within the walls of their dark and austere home.
Samuel Bodin’s Cobweb isn’t shy about drawing upon the iconography of many a horror film before it—even the name of the town where it takes place is a difficult-to-ignore nod to Halloween’s Haddonfield—yet it weaves a distinctly eerie spell over the audience in its depiction of Peter’s troubled young life. In the film, the boy becomes tormented by tapping sounds emanating from behind his bedroom wall, and after willing himself to knock on the wall,...
Samuel Bodin’s Cobweb isn’t shy about drawing upon the iconography of many a horror film before it—even the name of the town where it takes place is a difficult-to-ignore nod to Halloween’s Haddonfield—yet it weaves a distinctly eerie spell over the audience in its depiction of Peter’s troubled young life. In the film, the boy becomes tormented by tapping sounds emanating from behind his bedroom wall, and after willing himself to knock on the wall,...
- 7/19/2023
- by Greg Nussen
- Slant Magazine
Henry Rollins thought he had it rough when, on Black Flag’s 1984 album Slip It In, he sang about “drinking black coffee, black coffee, drinking black coffee, staring at the wall.” But, hey, at least he got coffee.
That’s more than Jane, the protagonist of The Yellow Wallpaper, has.
Played by Alexandra Loreth (who also co-wrote the script with director K Pontuti), Jane is a woman in America during the 1800s, which means she’s basically a second-class citizen. She has, however, fulfilled her sole purpose in life, at least according to the patriarchal attitudes of the time: she’s given birth to a child.
Now, as a treatment for postpartum depression (once believed to be a byproduct of “female hysteria”), Jane is taken to a remote country manor to “rest.” In other words, she’s confined to a small bedroom with bars on the windows and furniture nailed to the floor.
That’s more than Jane, the protagonist of The Yellow Wallpaper, has.
Played by Alexandra Loreth (who also co-wrote the script with director K Pontuti), Jane is a woman in America during the 1800s, which means she’s basically a second-class citizen. She has, however, fulfilled her sole purpose in life, at least according to the patriarchal attitudes of the time: she’s given birth to a child.
Now, as a treatment for postpartum depression (once believed to be a byproduct of “female hysteria”), Jane is taken to a remote country manor to “rest.” In other words, she’s confined to a small bedroom with bars on the windows and furniture nailed to the floor.
- 5/8/2023
- by Dr. Dobermind
- Horror Asylum
BayView Entertainment have released the horror film The Yellow Wallpaper to Blu-ray in the USA.
Synopsis:
Jane, a writer and young mother, is prescribed a rest treatment by her physician husband John, who takes her to a remote country estate for the summer. She becomes obsessed with the peculiar yellow wallpaper in the bedroom he has chosen for her. In her isolation, she secretly writes about a woman trapped in the wallpaper―that she must free.
Based on the short story The Yellow Wallpaper by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this adaptation was brought to the screen by Director Kevin Pontuti and stars Alexandra Loreth, Joe Mullins and Jeanne O’Connor.
The Yellow Wallpaper is out now on Blu-ray from BayView Entertainment
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Synopsis:
Jane, a writer and young mother, is prescribed a rest treatment by her physician husband John, who takes her to a remote country estate for the summer. She becomes obsessed with the peculiar yellow wallpaper in the bedroom he has chosen for her. In her isolation, she secretly writes about a woman trapped in the wallpaper―that she must free.
Based on the short story The Yellow Wallpaper by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this adaptation was brought to the screen by Director Kevin Pontuti and stars Alexandra Loreth, Joe Mullins and Jeanne O’Connor.
The Yellow Wallpaper is out now on Blu-ray from BayView Entertainment
Available to buy at:
Amazon.com
ImportCDs.com
DeepDiscount.com
Keep up to date with all things BayView Entertainment by following them on social media and via their website.
Links...
- 3/30/2023
- by Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
- Horror Asylum
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- 8/28/2022
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- 8/21/2022
- by MaryAnn Johanson
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- 7/31/2022
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Kier-La Janisse is a legend in the genre film community. With over twenty years of writing, analysis, programming, and festival experience, she helped build the community that we all strive to support, and a pillar of her contribution to the culture is her groundbreaking 2012 book, House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films. It's a hefty handle to be sure, but Janisse's book is one of the most influential pieces of film analysis of the 21st century, and for its tenth anniversary she's gone back to those dark places and expanded its scope. With coverage of more than 100 additional films and an exclusive CD featuring Janisse's reading of the classic The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins...
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- 6/3/2022
- Screen Anarchy
Exclusive: Mina Sundwall (Lost in Space) and Michael Cimino have been set to lead the thriller podcast series Jane Anonymous, which will premiere exclusively on Apple Podcasts and the Fictionz App.
The series based on the novel of the same name by Laurie Faria Stolarz (Blue is for Nightmares) was adapted by Stephanie Wu (Green Plastic Sandals). It will follow Jane (Sundwall), a 18-year-old girl who fights to escape a kidnapper—examining her relationship with a fellow captive (Cimino), and their struggle to understand that everything they thought they knew might all be a lie.
Andres Rosende, who produces and edits the popular Bad Friends podcast from comedians Bobby Lee and Andrew Santino, is directing the series, which will consist of five, 20-minute episodes. The first is slated for release on June 2nd. Sundwall and Cimino are exec producing alongside Fictionz, which is serving as the project’s financier and distributor.
The series based on the novel of the same name by Laurie Faria Stolarz (Blue is for Nightmares) was adapted by Stephanie Wu (Green Plastic Sandals). It will follow Jane (Sundwall), a 18-year-old girl who fights to escape a kidnapper—examining her relationship with a fellow captive (Cimino), and their struggle to understand that everything they thought they knew might all be a lie.
Andres Rosende, who produces and edits the popular Bad Friends podcast from comedians Bobby Lee and Andrew Santino, is directing the series, which will consist of five, 20-minute episodes. The first is slated for release on June 2nd. Sundwall and Cimino are exec producing alongside Fictionz, which is serving as the project’s financier and distributor.
- 5/26/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Happy Monday, dear readers! We’re back with this week’s horror and sci-fi home media releases, and we have a ton of killer titles arriving on Tuesday that you will undoubtedly want to add to your own Blu-ray and DVD collections. Scream Factory is showing Wes Craven’s Cursed some love with their new Collector’s Edition release, and not to be too confusing, the 2022 historical horror The Cursed is also headed to multiple formats this week as well.
The Beta Test by Jim Cummings and Pj McCabe is headed to both Blu-ray and DVD this Tuesday, courtesy of IFC, and if you haven’t had a chance to check it out yet, Behind the Monsters: Season 1 is a fun watch for anyone who is super into iconic horror characters. Conor McMahon’s vampire comedy Let the Wrong One In is also being released this week, and if you’re a big Jason fan,...
The Beta Test by Jim Cummings and Pj McCabe is headed to both Blu-ray and DVD this Tuesday, courtesy of IFC, and if you haven’t had a chance to check it out yet, Behind the Monsters: Season 1 is a fun watch for anyone who is super into iconic horror characters. Conor McMahon’s vampire comedy Let the Wrong One In is also being released this week, and if you’re a big Jason fan,...
- 5/9/2022
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
The patriarchal bullshit of the world drives women crazy. This is as true today as it was in 1892, when feminist author Charlotte Perkins Gilman published her best-known work, short story “The Yellow Wallpaper.” It is the tale, told in the form of diary entries, of a woman descending into apparent psychotic madness after her doctor-husband prescribes a socially isolating, intellectually stultifying “rest cure” during a bout of what we would recognize today as postpartum depression. (Gilman based the story on her own experiences after giving birth.)
An incisive film adaptation of this groundbreaking story — one that captures the quiet horror of how the world has in the past and still today fails to acknowledge that women have inner lives that need nurturing — would be very welcome. This is not that movie. This is a stiflingly literal mounting of Gilman’s words that lacks any appreciation of both the wider cultural...
An incisive film adaptation of this groundbreaking story — one that captures the quiet horror of how the world has in the past and still today fails to acknowledge that women have inner lives that need nurturing — would be very welcome. This is not that movie. This is a stiflingly literal mounting of Gilman’s words that lacks any appreciation of both the wider cultural...
- 4/28/2022
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
The debut film The Yellow Wallpaper from creative duo—Alexandra Loreth and Kevin Pontuti—is a chilling and boldly original vision of madness. Jane, a writer and young mother, is prescribed a rest treatment by her physician husband John, who takes her to a remote country estate for the summer. She becomes obsessed with the peculiar yellow wallpaper …
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- 3/24/2022
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
Based on the classic short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, movie adaptation The Yellow Wallpaper is set for release this month, and IGN has shared the official trailer today. From Mutiny Pictures, The Yellow Wallpaper movie comes to Digital on March 29. The film is said to be a “chilling and boldly original vision of […]
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- 3/24/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
"There's something wrong with this room." There's something in the walls! Mutiny Pictures has released an official trailer for an indie horror film called The Yellow Wallpaper, marking the debut of filmmakers Alexandra Loreth & Kevin Pontuti. It first premiered at the 2021 Cinequest Film Festival last year, arriving to watch on digital next week. The Yellow Wallpaper is described as a "dark and disturbing" contemporary adaptation of well-known and controversial gothic feminist horror story about patriarchy and mental health. Jane, a writer and young mother, is prescribed a rest treatment by her physician husband John, who takes her to a remote country estate. In her isolation, she secretly writes about a woman trapped in the wallpaper. Starring Alexandra Loreth, Joe Mullins, Clara Hart, and Jeanne O'Connor. This is adapted from a story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, some of you might be familiar with this already. It definitely does have a creepy vibe,...
- 3/23/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
When “Shining Vale” creators Jeff Astrof and Sharon Horgan first met they knew they had a delicate job on their hands. The series, following a novelist played by Courteney Cox, who is haunted by the ghost of a 1950s housewife (Mira Sorvino), had to strike the right tone between horror and comedy. What they knew they wanted to do was directly reference some of the classic horror and noir movies that inspired them. “The tone was being able to do references and homage without making it a spoof,” Astrof told IndieWire via Zoom.
Initially pitched by Horgan to Astrof as “‘The Shining’ but a comedy,” the creators and crew reveled in inserting references to their favorite horror features. So much so that the series almost requires repeat viewings to find everything. Something as minor as the wallpaper that papers the interior closet where Cox’s Pat Phelps finds a hidden...
Initially pitched by Horgan to Astrof as “‘The Shining’ but a comedy,” the creators and crew reveled in inserting references to their favorite horror features. So much so that the series almost requires repeat viewings to find everything. Something as minor as the wallpaper that papers the interior closet where Cox’s Pat Phelps finds a hidden...
- 3/23/2022
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
Alexandra Loreth in The Yellow Wallpaper
One of the standout films at this year’s Cinequest, Kevin Pontuti and Alexandra Loreth’s The Yellow Wallpaper is one of those low budget gems that risks being lost in obscurity when it really deserves a wide audience. Adapted from Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s famous short story, it tars Alexandra herself as Jane, a woman ill at ease with the domestic and maternal roles which late Victorian society has set aside for her, who is shut up in an isolated house by her doctor husband in the hope that this will effect a personality change. Unable to exercise her passion for writing, and without recourse to alternative forms of intellectual stimulation, she finds herself increasingly obsessed by the wallpaper in her room and imagines a female figure within it, hunched over and creeping along. When I met Kevin and Alexandra I asked them,...
One of the standout films at this year’s Cinequest, Kevin Pontuti and Alexandra Loreth’s The Yellow Wallpaper is one of those low budget gems that risks being lost in obscurity when it really deserves a wide audience. Adapted from Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s famous short story, it tars Alexandra herself as Jane, a woman ill at ease with the domestic and maternal roles which late Victorian society has set aside for her, who is shut up in an isolated house by her doctor husband in the hope that this will effect a personality change. Unable to exercise her passion for writing, and without recourse to alternative forms of intellectual stimulation, she finds herself increasingly obsessed by the wallpaper in her room and imagines a female figure within it, hunched over and creeping along. When I met Kevin and Alexandra I asked them,...
- 3/28/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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