Posts Tagged ‘escape’
Recap: American Horror Story Asylum S2 E4 – I Am Anne Frank: Part 1
Sister Jude is introduced to a new patient that has come to Briarcliff. She attacked a man in a bar after making an anti-Semitic joke. Jude says that her treatment will start in the morning.
Shelley (still strapped to the operating table) asks if she’s going to die and Dr. Arden responds with “After this, you’ll probably live forever.”.
Recap: American Horror Story Asylum S2 E3 – Nor’easter
In the present Teresa stabs Bloody Face which gives her just enough time to try to get away while dragging Leo’s body with her. As she tries to make her getaway she runs right into Bloody Face. She turns to run the opposite direction only to see ANOTHER Bloody Face in the distance. He pulls out a gun and shoots the couple then the two Bloody Face’s reveal to be young men in masks. One doesn’t look so excited about what they did and the other looks to be getting a kick out of it. The unsure guy tells the other guy that he feels uneasy about the whole thing and then notices Leo’s arm is ripped off. That’s when they turn around and see the REAL Bloody Face right behind them.
Back in 1964 Sister Eunice comes to Sister Jude and let’s her know that a big storm is coming. She hands Sister Jude some mail and notices a newspaper from 1949 with a headline regarding a hit and run that Sister Jude was involved in. Dr. Arden starts to take a look at the microchip he extracted from Kit’s neck and chops it into pieces. Much to his surprise he watches as it all comes back together.
While Sister Jude is doing some baking in the kitchen Dr. Thredson comes to talk with her . He mentions something about her possibly having a guilty conscience and she automatically asks him “Where did you get the newspaper from?!”. He quickly lets her know that he has no idea what she’s talking about.
Sister Eunice goes to visit a patient in her room and she quickly notices the evil in her. She has her kneel down to say prayers and as soon as she starts reciting them Eunice takes a pair of scissors and stabs the lady in the neck and chest repeatedly causing blood to fly everywhere. Eunice then heads to Dr. Arden’s office and he flirts lightly with her. She basically tells him she knows that he wants her and proceeds to make advances towards him. He becomes disgusted and enraged and tells her to leave.
Sister Jude begins to recieve mysterious phone calls from a little girl saying that she left her there and that she didn’t even bother to get out of the car. Jude breaks down and starts to cry telling the little girl she was so sorry.
Sister Jude starts to drink the communion wine and then gathers everyone together to watch a movie to get everyone’s mind off the imposing storm. Lana, Grace and Kit attempt to make another escape. Jude notices something is going on and calls all the guards out. Shelley (the resident nympho) tries to help by groping one of the guards as they try to make a break for it. While all of this is going on Dr. Arden has completely flipped and starts putting lipstick and drawing nipples on the statue of the Virgin Mary. He then proceeds to push the statue down and it shatters.
Shelley stops fooling around with the guard and attempts to run away but runs right into Dr. Arden. Lana, Kit and Grace are shown trying to escape in the rain outside but run into some sort of feral “people”. Dr. Arden takes Shelley to his office and ends up raping her the knocking her out. Lana, Kit and Grace secretly return back to the rest of the patients watching the movie like nothing ever happened.
When Shelley wakes up she is laid across an operating table. She tries to get free and Dr. Arden lets her know that everything is going to be fine and that his surgery skills are impeccable. He pulls back the sheet that’s over her to show that he amputated both of her legs.
WOW. Things seem to be getting more and more intense as each episode goes by. Sister Eunice looks like she’s going to be stirring the pot in the Asylum and Sister Jude looks to be on the verge of cracking. Dr. Arden is on totally different level at this point and whatever darkness is within him is starting to come out in full force. Nothing is more creepier than a crazy doctor with a scalpel.
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Beyond The Black Rainbow: Review
Written and directed by Panos Cosmatos, Beyond the Black Rainbow takes place in the year 1983 in a mysterious facility called the Arboria Institute. There, Dr. Barry Nyle (Michael Rogers) has a girl named Elena (Eva Allan) under his supervision that over time he becomes obsessed with. She escapes her holding cell and tries to make her way out of the facility but Dr. Nyle won’t let her get away very easily.
This movie is a very interesting Sci-Fi flick to say the least. We’ll just say you’re either going to love it or you’re going to hate it. I definitely didn’t hate it. The first thing that came to mind after the first viewing (Yes, I watched it more than once.) was “David Cronenberg”. Cronenberg’s early work was much like this and that’s a definite positive. It of course had its “WTF” moments but that’s what make this film unique. The thing that really impressed me the most was the look of the film. You can look at it and say “What about it? It looks old.” without realizing that this film was filmed in 2009 I believe. It’s one thing to shoot and edit a film in 1983 as opposed to shooting and editing a film 2009 to make it look/feel like it was done in 1983. That takes a great deal of work. They visuals were fantastically psychadelic. They were beautiful but with an added horror element. I was quoted as saying during the movie “It’s like you’re on drugs but without the drugs.” If that won’t explain it then I don’t know what will. There were times that I had to look away for a moment because of bright flashing lights or a lot of quick cuts that made my eyes hurt a bit but it was only few moments. The story I felt could have had a bit more substance to it but it was good for what it was. Kudos to Panos Cosmatos for making this film. Whether or not people thought the film was good or bad it still got people talking about it. In time it will definitely find a proper audience and be adored by the same group of people that love Cronenberg’s Videodrome and Scanners. I say it’s a definite watch if you’re into the strange/artistic/psychadelic type of films.
A thank you to Magnolia Pictures for allowing me to review this film.
