“The Further is a world far beyond our own, yet it’s all around us, a place without time as we know it,” Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye) explains in the 2011 occult horror film Insidious. “It’s a dark realm filled with the tortured souls of the dead, a place not meant for the living.” Director James Wan saw the astral world through the eyes of fear. It was how he was able to evoke the most terror from the nether regions of soul and thought.
Horror films have made a spiritual ghetto out of the universe which lies between dream, sleep and death. They focus on the malevolent realm of incubi, succubae and the Red-Lipstick-Face Demon. The map to the Further is not limited to shadowy studies. Many mystical practices are divided into black and white magic out of fear and superstition, but there can be room for both.
Insidious...
Horror films have made a spiritual ghetto out of the universe which lies between dream, sleep and death. They focus on the malevolent realm of incubi, succubae and the Red-Lipstick-Face Demon. The map to the Further is not limited to shadowy studies. Many mystical practices are divided into black and white magic out of fear and superstition, but there can be room for both.
Insidious...
- 4/2/2021
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
The Legend of Gavin Tanner.
We Were Here and Flushed have scooped the nominations for the West Australian Screen Awards.
The West Australian Screen Awards celebraes excellence and achievements in feature film, short film, web series, music videos, television production, documentary, games and interactive productions.
Short drama We Were Here, directed by David Vincent Smith and produced by Joshua Gilbert and Simon Camp, earned six nominations, the most for the awards.
Short comedy Flushed, directed and produced by Richard Eames, also received six nominations.
ABC comedy TV series The Legend of Gavin Tanner, written and directed by Matt Lovkis and Henry Inglis and produced by Lauren Elliott received five nominations, as did short drama Sol Bunker, produced by Glen Stasiuk and directed by Nathan Mewett.
Film and Television Institute Wa (Fti) chief executive, Paul Bodlovich, said the WASAs were one of the most important events on the cultural calendar in Western Australia.
We Were Here and Flushed have scooped the nominations for the West Australian Screen Awards.
The West Australian Screen Awards celebraes excellence and achievements in feature film, short film, web series, music videos, television production, documentary, games and interactive productions.
Short drama We Were Here, directed by David Vincent Smith and produced by Joshua Gilbert and Simon Camp, earned six nominations, the most for the awards.
Short comedy Flushed, directed and produced by Richard Eames, also received six nominations.
ABC comedy TV series The Legend of Gavin Tanner, written and directed by Matt Lovkis and Henry Inglis and produced by Lauren Elliott received five nominations, as did short drama Sol Bunker, produced by Glen Stasiuk and directed by Nathan Mewett.
Film and Television Institute Wa (Fti) chief executive, Paul Bodlovich, said the WASAs were one of the most important events on the cultural calendar in Western Australia.
- 5/31/2016
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
Through an online forum, filmmaker Megan Spencer is reaching out to people who know, or whose lives have been touched by, a missing person. The forum is structured around the release of the new Australian film, Closed For Winter, which deals with one family's grief following the disappearance of one of their daughters. Starring Natalie Imbruglia, Closed For Winter was filmed in Adelaide which, according to Spencer, is the Australian capital for missing persons.
- 4/21/2009
- FilmInk.com.au
Natalie Imbruglia has revealed that she has melancholic tendencies. The 'Torn' singer, who plays a depressed woman in new movie Closed For Winter, admitted that she found it easy to identify with her character Elise Silverton. "For all my strength, I also have that vulnerable side. There's something - a melancholy, I guess," she told Sydney Morning Herald. "Sometimes I get a bit down. I see it in a couple of my sisters, too. We can lean towards that, that melancholy, but we also have the ability to pull ourselves out of it, and some people just don't. That's the difference." (more)...
- 4/16/2009
- by By David Balls
- Digital Spy
Natalie Imbruglia says she "leans" towards depression. The Australian star, who plays a depressed woman in new film 'Closed for Winter', found it easy to identify with her character Elise Silverton because they share similar personality traits. The singer-and-actress said: "For all my strength, I also have that vulnerable side. There's something - a melancholy, I guess. "Sometimes I get a bit down. I see it in a couple of my sisters, too. We can lean towards that, that melancholy, but we also have the ability to pull ourselves out of it, and some people just don't. That's the difference." Natalie also confesses she didn't feel worthy of the success of her debut album 'Left of the...
- 4/15/2009
- Monsters and Critics
Natalie Imbruglia says she "leans" towards depression. The Australian star, who plays a depressed woman in new film "Closed for Winter," found it easy to identify with her character Elise Silverton because they share similar personality traits.
The singer-and-actress said: "For all my strength, I also have that vulnerable side. There's something - a melancholy, I guess."
"Sometimes I get a bit down. I see it in a couple of my sisters, too. We can lean towards that, that melancholy, but we also have the ability to pull ourselves out of it, and some people just don't. That's the difference."
Natalie also confesses she didn't feel worthy of the success of her debut album "Left of the Middle" - which included hits such as "Torn" - and struggled for inspiration while working on her 2001 follow-up "White Lilies Island."...
The singer-and-actress said: "For all my strength, I also have that vulnerable side. There's something - a melancholy, I guess."
"Sometimes I get a bit down. I see it in a couple of my sisters, too. We can lean towards that, that melancholy, but we also have the ability to pull ourselves out of it, and some people just don't. That's the difference."
Natalie also confesses she didn't feel worthy of the success of her debut album "Left of the Middle" - which included hits such as "Torn" - and struggled for inspiration while working on her 2001 follow-up "White Lilies Island."...
- 4/15/2009
- icelebz.com
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