Sundance 2010: Bits 'n Pieces - Day 9
Frozen Made People Faint?
Is Adam Green’s Frozen so intense that it will incite physical reactions in its audience? If Frozen’s Sundance screenings are any indication, you might want to bring a barf bag when the ski lift thriller opens next week. According to Dread Central, someone fainted at Frozen’s Sunday premiere, two people vomited at the next screening, and a woman passed out at the Thursday night screening. (Star Shawn Ashmore reports that Sunday’s fainter came back like a champ to finish the movie. High five!)
See for yourself when Frozen opens in limited release on February 5 – and if you happen to be in Los Angeles, you can catch the flick with the cast and director in attendance for a special screening and Q&A at 7:30pm at the Mann’s Chinese theater in Hollywood.
Todd Haynes’ Early Part-Horror Film Poison Honored
Sundance 2010 was full of new indie horror titles, but the fest also included a special revival of the feature debut of indie auteur Todd Haynes, whose three-story Poison debuted at Sundance in 1991 and went on to win the Jury Prize. Poison consists of a trio of intercut tales, one of which – the segment entitled “Horror” – is a black-and-white, B-movie style story about a mad scientist who distills the human sex drive into a potion, drinks it, and transforms into a hideous monster. The film, lauded by several film festivals when it debuted, drew criticisms from conservatives at the time but is an example of how horror films can also be postmodernist texts to convey and discuss much more than just hacking and slashing. Watch a clip from Poison below.
