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Amanda Gusack's 'In Memorium' finally available! You can finally catch Amanda Gusack's amazing indie 2005 horror film In Memorium online November 9th, 2010 on Indieflix!
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11/06/10 |
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Bleedfest Film Festival - Los Angeles Bleedfest is a one-day Los Angeles, California event screening three feature length horror/thriller films directed by women! On Sunday, July 18th 2010 at the Two Roads theater, you can see The Commune (directed by Elisabeth Fies), Dead Hooker in a Trunk (directed by Jen and Sylvia Soska) and Amanda Gusack's rare In Memorium as an all-day triple feature...
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06/10/10 |
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Amanda Gusack's 'In Memorium'; a haunting on camera before 'Paranormal Activity' Before Paranormal Activity caused such a stir, Amanda Gusack directed the indie ghost story In Memorium, which is only now receiving its dues. Gusack more recently directed the higher-budget horror/thriller The Betrayed, which stars Melissa George and is available on DVD.
Gusack's haunting-caught-on-home-video film is one of our favorite examples of women directing awesome new horror movies, and we'd love to point out that if you like Paranormal Activity, you'll love In Memorium. On July 27, Dennis Wade was diagnosed with terminal cancer. On September 25th, he began to document his illness. On September 27th...the cameras recorded something else. Check out these three clips from In Memorium...
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10/27/09 |
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The Betrayed (2009) Directed and Written by Amanda Gusack
Featuring Melissa George, Oded Fehr, Alice Krige, Christian Campbell, Donald Adams, and Scott Heindl
In Memorium, Amanda Gusack’s previous horror film, was a well-shot and amazing venture into psychological horror. Her much bigger budgeted follow up, The Betrayed, is a thriller starring Melissa George which is unfortunately less touching and novel than In Memorium.
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07/15/09 |
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In Memorium (2006)
Written and Directed by Amanda Gusack
Featuring Erik McDowell, Johanna Watts, Levi Powell, Mary Porster
2005, 73 minutes
www.inmemoriumthemovie.com
Whenever I see a new film that utilizes a story-within-a-story to use black and white, low quality, or documentary-style camera work, (Making a film within a film, The Collingswood Story, The Last Broadcast, The Blair Witch Project)) I think 'Uh Oh'. There have been some really bad examples of this kind of purposeful bad-camera usage in recent years, and it can turn out badly for everyone. Oftentimes, the movie-within-a-movie is exactly that; an excuse to not light things properly, to not execute proper camera usage, and to cover up flaws in budget restrictions by chalking it up to part of the storyline. There are some exceptions to this where this type of filmmaking style really does work, as in The Blair Witch Project, Razor Eaters, and now, thankfully, I can add In Memorium to the 'good'list. This review contains mild spoilers. The filmmaker requests that you read with caution...
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09/13/06 |
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