2023-12-09 20:05:04
A Decay its backstory is perhaps more exciting than the film itself: Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino realized the cherished dream of horror fans by making the two-parter in 2007 Grindhouse-t. A It’s sure to die is in Terror planet was a curiosity not only because the two iconic directors paid homage to and parodied the B-horror films of the 70s, making two films that were not perfect, but undeniably cool and unique, but also because it also included trailers for several fictional horror films. They weren’t left to chance either, they were directed by well-known faces of the genre such as Rob Zombie, Edgar Wright obsession Eli Roth.
The completely overwhelmed previews, which insist on the proliferation of genres and their overstepping, have gained unexpected popularity, according to fan feedback, many would have liked to watch a full-length movie based on the few minutes of previews. But who wouldn’t be interested if Danny Trejo goes on a revenge campaign with a machete? This is how fictitious previews began to swell into films one after the other: a Machete he has already lived through two films, but Jason Eisener could also do the Beggar with a rifle all-night version. Among the previews, one of the most overshadowed is perhaps the Thanksgiving including a man decapitated during oral sex, a human head sewn onto a turkey, and a scene in which a cheerleader, a kitchen knife, and a trampoline meet in an unfortunate encounter that ends in death. At the time, Roth said about the film that he and the killer in the teaser trailer, a Decayin the role of screenwriter Jeff Rendell they shared a childhood dream of directing a completely over-the-top Thanksgiving horror movie.
A Thanksgiving it is based on a very interesting concept: Roth enthusiastically told me at the time that directing a prequel is the best thing in the world, since there are no rules, and instead of a full movie, only the best parts have to be shot. He shot it in just two days and didn’t overthink it, to say the least.
Bring the cheesiest cameras, chop off people’s heads, invite as many naked women as you can and trust me
Roth said at the time, pretty much making an absolutely ridiculous and over-the-top trailer. “It’s so absurd, ridiculous and sick that it’s good,” he summed up the several-minute trailer.
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Although he stated that the Thanksgiving after wanting to produce fake trailers for the rest of his life, he soon got the idea to expand the Thanksgiving murder porn into a feature film. THE Decayt is not accidentally promoted with the fact that it has been in the works for sixteen years: Roth a Grindhouse with such intensity since then, but he worked almost all the way on the film, which he occasionally put aside due to his other projects – for example, he played the Jewish Bear in Dishonest Brigantykin and tortured him with two women Keanu Reeves (Cup-cup). So the biggest question presents itself:
Is it a good idea to turn a joke that was basically thrown together in two days into a movie, the strength of which came from the complete lack of effort and expectations?
Roth’s answer was a resounding yes, but it was also obvious that as much as the camo trailer did not require an investment of energy, it was a big task to turn it into an appreciable film. Mainly also because the former didn’t really have a plot, because it wasn’t even needed. Most of the sixteen years were spent on the script, and the Roths had a great sense of the basic situation for an event that is truly horroristic for many, often compared to a zombie apocalypse: Black Friday.
A Decay it starts from this: while people give thanks with their families in a festive atmosphere, a few hours later they are already killing each other for a waffle iron. THE Decayin this literally happens, mass hysteria turns into carnage in a Plymouth department store, several people die a ridiculously brutal death in a Roth-like manner. A year later, a masked figure begins decimating those who were there in the store, at the center of everything, true to a good slasher, is a group of teenagers Patrick Dempsey along with his paternal sheriff.
A script written here or there for decades, obviously not the Decay will be a school example of well-written characters, well-thought-out logical chains and a twisty plot. It is particularly weak in these three areas: you can’t really identify with its characters, the big twist raises a lot of logical obstacles, and in addition, the film completely falls apart in terms of plot in the second half. But, of course, who is the one who directed a Thanksgiving horror directed by Roth, who is known for his slightly sly but very strong films in tranches, and which also has the title of Decay, are you watching because you want complex characters and a compelling story? The title should not be blamed on Roth: while the original English title already in the 2007 trailer referred to thanksgiving with noble simplicity and no painful puns, the Hungarian translation is another outstanding example of the Hungarian title culture, which is only more incredible that the They are violentthat is From time immemorial is in The mone is falling the Hungarian circle trained on high-quality title shows has not yet produced such a title.
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The film therefore has a clear target group: fans of the director and mindless horror films, those who want to have fun with their brains turned off for almost two hours, even if the fun includes watching people roasted into turkeys and cheerleaders used as wine bottles. If we are aware of all this, then a Decay it achieves its goal, because it is quite entertaining in its own way, Roth has also proven once again that he will never be a Tarantino, but no one can entertain with cutting with more dedication than him.
Although it can hardly be called a feat, it has a good sense of how to push past B-movie clichés and how to evoke a lot of movies. In addition, if the cat appearing in the film is familiar from somewhere, we are not mistaken: it is still from 2019 A favorite cemetery he also signed his cat star Tonic for a cameo. In domestic distribution, the highest age classification is also justified, but the minimum expected from the director of Motel films is that the ratio of insides and torn faces per frame is as high as possible. With the Black Friday theme, even the consumer society gets its share: the masked killer wielding an ax is nowhere near as scary as the consumer zombies behaving like aggressive wars, who are able to put aside the festive dinner and shake the cordon at the sight of special offers.
Anyone whose eyes lit up after seeing the 2007 trailer will definitely have fun, as will anyone who likes brainteasers drenched in morbid humor and human juices. THE Decay its biggest positive is that it is far from striving for genre reform or world redemption, it is just the overgrowth of a crazy director’s crazy fantasy, which, although far from flawlessly realized, it fulfills the set goal completely. This is also supported by the fact that, although it will only start in cinemas this week, Roth has already announced that the studio has given the green light to the sequel, and moreover, there is no need to wait another sixteen years, it is expected to arrive in 2025. The question is whether the most important driving force of the turkey-killer story will last for another film (an entire franchise?): the joke factor.
Thanksgiving, 106 minutes, 2023. 24.hu: 6,5/10
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