list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Dead Calm on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Dead_Calm/8281/default.aspx Title: Dead Calm
Year: 1988
Director: Phillip Noyce
Plot: Grieving over the death of their son, a married couple decide to take a long yachting trip for relaxation's sake. Their journey takes a dark turn, however, when they rescue a young man from a drifting vessel. The couple soon discover that the other ship's crew had been brutally murdered by their new passenger, and find themselves in a battle of wits against this violent sociopath. Interestingly, a previous attempt had been made at adapting the novel that inspired this film by none other than Orson Welles; footage from his unfinished version, known as The Deep, can be seen in the documentary Orson Welles: The One-Man Band. ~ Judd Blaise, All Movie Guide
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]]>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:01:19 GMTDead Calm1988Phillip NoyceGrieving over the death of their son, a married couple decide to take a long yachting trip for relaxation's sake. Their journey takes a dark turn, however, when they rescue a young man from a drifting vessel. The couple soon discover that the other ship's crew had been brutally murdered by their new passenger, and find themselves in a battle of wits against this violent sociopath. Interestingly, a previous attempt had been made at adapting the novel that inspired this film by none other than Orson Welles; footage from his unfinished version, known as <a href=/films/8568/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>The Deep</a>, can be seen in the documentary Orson Welles: The One-Man Band. ~ Judd Blaise, All Movie Guide19Tag Target (>10)12113http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t06122hxliw.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Dead_Calm/8281/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/9/29/35681.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 9/29/2008 12:01:19 PM
Body: Olly Blackburn’s sexy thriller Donkey Punch premiered at Sundance earlier this year, and we caught it as part of Fantastic Fest, where it was paired with a “Hipsters Overboard!” Donkey Punch Boat Party on Town Lake in Austin, which sadly did not involve the actually tossing overboard of any hipsters. Austin has tight jean, rakish-angle hat-wearing party rats coming out of the woodwork, and it probably would have been a benefit if some had slipped into the dark water, never to be seen again. The film is what you would get if you mashed Dead Calm and Open Water 2 together and sprinkled it liberally with heavy doses of ecstasy and trance club music. I know that it probably doesn’t instill a lot of confidence in a review when you reference Open Water 2: Adrift in the second paragraph, but that film should have had a title of its own and not been a sequel, because it’s not a bad Saturday afternoon thriller itself. Plus, it also involves a gaggle of young hipsters who shouldn’t be out on a luxury yacht. The plot of the film is fairly basic: three London girls visiting Mallorca on vacation meet up with three boys in town who crew on a yacht. Before long, they’re all out partying on the yacht, now with the addition of a 4th boy who was keeping an eye on the boat. Liberal amounts of drugs, alcohol and music lead to storytelling, where we all find out what a “donkey punch” is, and then, of course, to some donkey punching. It’s fairly graphic orgy-style sex, which is why the film landed an NC-17 rating for the States. Of course, the young and impressionable brother decides that he needs to impress, and he dishes out a donkey punch. This doesn’t really have the same desired result as the urban legend, and it results in one very dead blonde partygirl. The rest of the film concerns the boys trying to decide what to do about the situation. When they decide to dump the dead body overboard and say she fell off while drunk, the other two girls don’t take it too well. Suffice it to say there’s plenty of screaming, pleading, bleeding, and dying. While the film doesn’t feel like a groundbreaking new indie or cinematic breakthrough, what’s impressive is that Blackburn manages to make this feel like an extremely expensive film, even though the budget was only a million pounds. The actors, pretty much unknown to American audiences, all give solid performances, although Tom Burke stands out among them as the antagonizing Bluey. The film looks gorgeous and has an ambient moody score that is reminiscent of Michael Mann’s Heat. Blackburn has only directed three small films and an episode of a television series in the UK, however Donkey Punch manages to feel like a slickly produced studio movie with at least ten times the budget. If you’re in the mood for a Shallow Grave-esque thriller with a bit more sex and drugs, then you’ll probably want to check out this movie. Let’s just hope that it doesn’t give rise to Dirty Sanchez: The Movie. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:01:19 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com9/29/2008 12:01:19 PM Olly Blackburn’s sexy thriller Donkey Punch premiered at Sundance earlier this year, and we caught it as part of Fantastic Fest, where it was paired with a “Hipsters Overboard!” Donkey Punch Boat Party on Town Lake in Austin, which sadly did not involve the actually tossing overboard of any hipsters. Austin has tight jean, rakish-angle hat-wearing party rats coming out of the woodwork, and it probably would have been a benefit if some had slipped into the dark water, never to be seen again. The film is what you would get if you mashed Dead Calm and Open Water 2 together and sprinkled it liberally with heavy doses of ecstasy and trance club music. I know that it probably doesn’t instill a lot of confidence in a review when you reference Open Water 2: Adrift in the second paragraph, but that film should have had a title of its own and not been a sequel, because it’s not a bad Saturday afternoon thriller itself. Plus, it also involves a gaggle of young hipsters who shouldn’t be out on a luxury yacht. The plot of the film is fairly basic: three London girls visiting Mallorca on vacation meet up with three boys in town who crew on a yacht. Before long, they’re all out partying on the yacht, now with the addition of a 4th boy who was keeping an eye on the boat. Liberal amounts of drugs, alcohol and music lead to storytelling, where we all find out what a “donkey punch” is, and then, of course, to some donkey punching. It’s fairly graphic orgy-style sex, which is why the film landed an NC-17 rating for the States. Of course, the young and impressionable brother decides that he needs to impress, and he dishes out a donkey punch. This doesn’t really have the same desired result as the urban legend, and it results in one very dead blonde partygirl. The rest of the film concerns the boys trying to decide what to do about the situation. When they decide to dump the dead body overboard and say she fell off while drunk, the other two girls don’t take it too well. Suffice it to say there’s plenty of screaming, pleading, bleeding, and dying. While the film doesn’t feel like a groundbreaking new indie or cinematic breakthrough, what’s impressive is that Blackburn manages to make this feel like an extremely expensive film, even though the budget was only a million pounds. The actors, pretty much unknown to American audiences, all give solid performances, although Tom Burke stands out among them as the antagonizing Bluey. The film looks gorgeous and has an ambient moody score that is reminiscent of Michael Mann’s Heat. Blackburn has only directed three small films and an episode of a television series in the UK, however Donkey Punch manages to feel like a slickly produced studio movie with at least ten times the budget. If you’re in the mood for a Shallow Grave-esque thriller with a bit more sex and drugs, then you’ll probably want to check out this movie. Let’s just hope that it doesn’t give rise to Dirty Sanchez: The Movie. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/groups/Filmspotting/Re_Top_5_Sea_Water_Movies/304/9359/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Tonester
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Post Date: 5/25/2007 5:13:59 PM
Body: Agreed on Dead Calm, strip away those 80's cues (Billy Zane's Walkman for one) and this film holds up very well. Phillip Noyce is an underrated director - I have heard that his Rabbit Proof Fence is very good, but haven't seen it.I'd heard that Orson Welles had just about completed a very similar film to Dead Calm based on the same source material in the sixties, but so like so many of his projects he ran out of money before he could edit it. Welles himself was in the Sam Neill role, with Laurence Harvey playing the bad guy.Harvey is brilliantly cold in the original version of The Manchurian Candidate, this sounds like it could have been a lost gem.By the way, I still don't understand why Das Boot didn't get a mention. Somewhat ironically, it's much beloved here in the UK and frequently referenced in comedy and the like. I think this is because the mini series version shown on the BBC in the early 80's was probably the first foreign language movie I ever watched.
]]>Fri, 25 May 2007 21:13:59 GMTTonesterFilmspotting5/25/2007 5:13:59 PMAgreed on Dead Calm, strip away those 80&#39;s cues (Billy Zane&#39;s Walkman for one) and this film holds up very well. Phillip Noyce is an underrated director - I have heard that his Rabbit Proof Fence is very good, but haven&#39;t seen it.I&#39;d heard that Orson Welles had just about completed a very similar film to Dead Calm based on the same source material in the sixties, but so like so many of his projects he ran out of money before he could edit it. Welles himself was in the Sam Neill role, with Laurence Harvey playing the bad guy.Harvey is brilliantly cold in the original version of The Manchurian Candidate, this sounds like it could have been a lost gem.By the way, I still don&#39;t understand why Das Boot didn&#39;t get a mention. Somewhat ironically, it&#39;s much beloved here in the UK and frequently referenced in comedy and the like. I think this is because the mini series version shown on the BBC in the early 80&#39;s was probably the first foreign language movie I ever watched. http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/Creepy/MemberTagFilms.aspxCreepy
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