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Born and raised in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arriaza did not take the normal road in becoming a writer.
With a need to help support his family, he dropped out of high school and went to work at an early age. He has worked as a pizza maker, an electrician, a carpenter and a luxury home electronics salesman. He went on to open a successful luxury custom home theater design and integration company. After Born and raised in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arriaza did not take the normal road in becoming a writer.
After an injury forced him to close, he took time off and focused on life. He took up cooking, drawing, and writing, all passions he had ignored for way too long. He is now a stay at home dad, fantasy writer and head chef of the household.
Making his cinematic directing debut, Nick Murphy attempts to create with The Awakening something of a slow-burning, haunting ghost movie less about spectres in the night and rather more about a group of people haunted by the pallor of the Great War, yet after a promising start it's not quite a balance he manages to successfully pull off. Inevitably, her false faith in rational belief is….
When I was in high school, there was always this one picture in the corner which people would stand over and stare at over their lunch break. It was a whole-school photograph from the mid-'60s, with everybody lined up in their uniforms, forcibly smiling, you know the drill; except for one part. If you looked at the window of the school in the background, you could see a blurred, faded face staring out into the crowd within, and almost everybody who saw this photo instantly thought one thing; there was a ghost in the window.
Of course, there are many more likely explanations, such as a teacher happening to…. It's legitimately impressive how this film went from an amazing, tense, deeply visceral psychological horror to the worst fucking film I've ever seen. Watch this film up until the basement reveal, then immediately shut the film off and just pretend they all magically died. Despite some stunning cinematography and superb acting, the conclusion honestly ruined the entire film. All possibility of not being able to sleep or having this film stick with me was blasted away like a shotgun to the face.
The writer should just quit entirely and never, ever be allowed to go near the ending of any script ever again. The film was littered with small minute details that bubbled up to absolutely nothing and for that reason I absolutely cannot recommend this anger inducing shit fest of a film. Ever since "The Wire," Dominic West's name in the credits has usually been enough to get me interested in a film, and character actress Imelda Staunton has always been a draw as well. Both are worth watching in this supernatural thriller set in 's England, but the real heart and soul of the film is Rebecca Hall "The Prestige," "Vickie Cristina Barcelona" who is riveting as Florence Cathcart, an investigator who specializes in debunking paranormal hoaxes.
Invited to investigate unusual occurrences at a boys' boarding school, she sees things that are difficult to explain or dismiss. The convoluted story is fairly intriguing at first and there are some nice moments of tension throughout, but as twists accumulate and contrived truths are revealed, we are left with a disappointing final third.
Still, the primary cast and splendid period atmosphere do make it a fun watch.
Rebecca Hall is great in everything, but some of her films are not as strong as others. At the very minimum, the first act of this a really compelling piece of film. It isn't long until they find themselves in the killer's lethal cross-hairs.
Saw this recently on a DVD. Having background information about the Zodiac n having seen Fincher's excellent Zodiac multiple times, i decided to watch this. Obsession apart, honestly, the trailer was very enticing but the movie wasn't. This film is about a couple who gets hold of some snuff footage linking it to the Zodiac. They along with the help of a friend, decide to track down the true identity of the Zodiac and claim the long offered reward money that could change all their lives. The movie opens with a re-creation of one of the Zodiac's murder—an attack on a couple parked in a car on the side of a road in San Francisco a la David Fincher's Zodiac.
This movie relied more on the silly investigation as opposed to the actual murders committed by the Zodiac Killer. Even the investigation was kinda meh. The connection between the snuff footage and the Zodiac killer is concluded very easily by the trio.
The premise of the film was very good. The film reels are discovered in a small town in Virginia where the couple reside in a trailer.
The Zodiac killings happened in San Francisco. How did those reels get there all the way from San Francisco?
The Zodiac going into hibernation?