E. Elias Merhige
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What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
Directed by Jemaine Clement
influenced by Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
Themes
Tomando como pretexto a tres antiguos vampiros que intentan sobrevivir a la vida moderna en Nueva Zelanda, los realizadores reflexionan sobre el verdadero peso del personaje en la cultura popular, inspirándose en trabajos como Drácula: muerto pero feliz (Dracula: Dead and Loving It, Mel Brooks, 1995) o La sombra del vampiro (Shadow of the Vampire, E. Elias Merhige, 2000).
From Alain Resnais’s Last Year at Marienbad (1961) to David Lynch’s Eraserhead (1976) to E. Elias Merhige’s Begotten (1990), such films create a bewildering cinematic experience so that even if they are despised, as they often are, they are not easily forgotten.
Lynch certainly remains a factor throughout, but Men goes through a number of changes during its runtime — from the grounded story of a woman's grief and guilt, to an increasingly terrorized siege drama a la Straw Dogs , and finally into the shocking realm of E. Elias Merhige's Begotten and Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo: The Iron Man .
This is a punishing work for viewers looking for something even more antagonistically surreal than Eraserhead or Jodorowsky.
"Wants so badly to be the next "Eraserhead" you can taste it."
…which has appeared in films like “Shadow of the Vampire” (2000), “Let the Right One In” (2008) and “Daybreakers” (2009)…
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Directed by Michel Gondry
influenced by Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
As John Malkovich, playing director F.W. Murnau in Shadow of the Vampire, explained, "We are scientists engaged in the creation of memory, but our memory will neither blur nor fade."
Titles like Fallen , Kiss the Girls , The Bone Collector , Taking Lives , and Suspect Zero , just to name a few.
In an irrestibly dark, comedic take on the gang who couldn't shoot straight, this "Big Deal On Madonna Street" meets "Suspect Zero" launches Irish playwright Martin McDonagh into feature films with flair and literary precision.
So what makes "Suspect Zero" any different from "Taking Lives, " "Twisted," "Murder By Numbers," "Along Came a Spider," "The Watcher," "The Bone Collector," "Kiss the Girls, "Copycat," "Se7en," etc., etc.?