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8 Remains
8 Doors
Germany 2018
produced by Juliane Block, Willi Haninger, Laura Sommer, Thomas Sander (executive), Pat Wintersgill (executive), Malcolm Winter (executive), Monika Gergelova (executive) for J-Blockbuster, Aquaset Filmworks, Angry Hamster
directed by Juliane Block
starring Maja-Celiné Probst, Gregory B. Waldis, Kevin Leslie, Anne Alexander Sieder, Priscilla Wittman, Pete Riley, Andrea Schneider, Isabelle Mann, Rada Boehning, Oscar Thore Queck, Hanna Schmidt-Foss, Judith Hahn, Maja Makowski, Luise Deborah Daberkow, Thomas Sander
screenplay by Laura Sommer, co-writers: Wolf-Peter Arand, Juliane Block, music by Ilia Eshkenazy Jossifov
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Tally (Maja-Celiné Probst) and Damian (Gregory B. Waldis) seem to be
such a cute and loving couple - until one day when making out, he
strangles her to death. Only instead of dying as such, her soul is sucked
into a weird mirror world that allows her to revisit her past and his, and
she finds instances in her earlier life that have put her in the typical
victim role, including an abusive stepfather (Pete Riley), but also how
Damian has preyed on other women close to her, and that their deaths or
disappearances might have had to do with him. Now as traumatic as some of
these memories are, she can't change anything about her past, but not
being dead as such yet, she can prepare for the future. Problem is, Damian
is also able to enter her mirror world, and he wants her dead for good ... Certainly
not your run-of-the-mill shocker, 8 Remains is a clever
psychological puzzle that plays with its layers of time and reality, and
also with the natural order cause and effect, all wrapped up in the guise
of a surreal thriller - and if that all sounds very confusing in writing,
it works on film thanks to a cleverly conceived script, a directorial
effort heavy on atmosphere that doesn't hit one over the head with
neither the hidden nor the obvious, and a uniformly strong, relatable
cast. Rather unusual for sure - and well worth a watch!
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Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to -
a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle,
all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to
the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
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