A few years ago I read a short review in UK film magazine Empire about a remake of Mario Bava's Rabid Dogs,which I was curious to view,but never spotted it on disc. Digging into titles on streaming service Shudder, I was happily surprised to find the flick on the site,leading me to freeing the dogs.
View on the film:
Currently his lone co-writing (with Benjamin Rataud and Yannick Dahan)/directing credit, Eric Hannezo & cinematographer Kamal Derkaoui drive into the edges of Mario Bava's colourful Horror stylisation, most noticeable in a Festival of the Bear celebration in a small town, covering the screen in flickering flames and Folk chants, whilst the car ride is frozen in time, via a dip into Bava's surrealist side by Hannzeo,with a cover of Radiohead's Creep washing over the frozen in time passengers.
Keeping the Bava- inspired styling to the edges, Hannezo drains the real-time format of tension, by shooting the rest of the flick in a flat glossy appearance, which rids the car ride and violent outbursts of any tension or grit, due to them being presenting in dry mid-shots.
Stuck in a car with four actors whose performances as four bank robbers is stuck in the interchangeable mumbling gear,Lambert Wilson (aka:The French guy from Matrix 2 and 3!) gives the stand out turn as the dad, thanks to Wilson taken the clean-cut dad,and chipping away to his way,as he finds himself trapped with rabid dogs.
View on the film:
Currently his lone co-writing (with Benjamin Rataud and Yannick Dahan)/directing credit, Eric Hannezo & cinematographer Kamal Derkaoui drive into the edges of Mario Bava's colourful Horror stylisation, most noticeable in a Festival of the Bear celebration in a small town, covering the screen in flickering flames and Folk chants, whilst the car ride is frozen in time, via a dip into Bava's surrealist side by Hannzeo,with a cover of Radiohead's Creep washing over the frozen in time passengers.
Keeping the Bava- inspired styling to the edges, Hannezo drains the real-time format of tension, by shooting the rest of the flick in a flat glossy appearance, which rids the car ride and violent outbursts of any tension or grit, due to them being presenting in dry mid-shots.
Stuck in a car with four actors whose performances as four bank robbers is stuck in the interchangeable mumbling gear,Lambert Wilson (aka:The French guy from Matrix 2 and 3!) gives the stand out turn as the dad, thanks to Wilson taken the clean-cut dad,and chipping away to his way,as he finds himself trapped with rabid dogs.
