Thai Horror ALONE Wins Toronto After Dark Audience Award!

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1. Drewbacca 11/01/2007 @ 7:28pm

   THANK GOD!!!  I was really expecting it to go to Kaufman’s Pultrygeist.  Whew!  that’s a load off my mind.

   Alone is very deserving of the award and was my personal Gold medal winner from TAD.  Great line-up this year, but Alone was in the upper eschelons.  Thanks for programming it (I assume you did).

2. Kurt Halfyard 11/01/2007 @ 8:19pm

   Well done.  Alone is a great horror crowd-pleaser.  It’s the coherent narrative mixed with Asian-flavoured creepiness.  Here is hoping that if this wins enough awards, it’ll get some advertisement for a North American release, instead of going the other way and buried for remake rights.

3. Drewbacca 11/01/2007 @ 8:21pm

   Unforunately I read somewhere that the remake is already in the works.

4. Mack 11/01/2007 @ 8:50pm

   This is great news. And I just watched It Came From the West tonight I said to my roommate as we watched that, “This can be easily made into a 90 min feature”. Lo and behold I have been fully blessed tonight with good news. I see ICFTW being made with an Army of Darkness flavor and gaining cult status immediately.
   Now, must have Alone on DVD!

5. John A 11/01/2007 @ 9:00pm

   Here is a bit of info about the remake:

   http://www.beyondhollywood.com/24-frames-grabs-marshas-alone-horror-movie/

6. Garth 11/01/2007 @ 9:23pm

   It’s articles like this that make me even more annoyed that I couldn’t get the time off to see ANYTHING I wanted to see this year.  Oh well, I have bootlegs of Alone and Nightmare Detective, with awful subtitles, that I can watch… *sigh*

7. Drewbacca 11/01/2007 @ 9:29pm

   Garth - yeah, I picked up a copy of the Alone DVD while in Toronto’s Chinatown.  The subs are laughable and not worth even popping into your DVD player (your copy obviously may be different).  Not worth ruining the movie for yourself if you’re constantly laughing (literally) at the subs instead of enjoying the movie.

8. Kurt Halfyard 11/01/2007 @ 9:55pm

   ahem.  Kloofy.net and a subtitle overlayer program.

9. Adam Lopez 11/02/2007 @ 1:52am

   Alone is still doing its Festival run boyz!  Lets encourage the fans to go see it the way it’s meant to be seen.... in the dark with a jumping audience of fans.

10. Swarez 11/02/2007 @ 3:01am

    Does anyone know when it will hit legal DVD? I want to see this pronto!

11. Mack 11/02/2007 @ 4:20am

    I just put up a link for the R3 DVD guys and gals. Buy! Buy now!

12. Kurt Halfyard 11/02/2007 @ 5:40am

    Adam, I wholeheartedly agree.  This movie will probably have twice (or more) the impact watching it on a big (BIG!) screen with cinema quality sound.

13. Garth 11/02/2007 @ 8:45am

    Now you’re just rubbing it in, Kurt…

14. Swarez 11/02/2007 @ 9:20am

    Put down the order. Look forward to see it on my bog ass screen.

15. Kurt Halfyard 11/02/2007 @ 11:23am

    Garth, that’s what i do (it’s petty, but fun!). 

    /i have few friends.

    

16. Garth 11/02/2007 @ 1:59pm

    You do it well, sir.

    Everyone needs a little petty fun.

    I, personally, am more of a “knocking people down in order to build myself up” person, but whatever floats your boat.

17. DJensen 11/02/2007 @ 10:08pm

    I wasn’t that impressed by Alone as a horror movie. The plot, the characters, the situation, the twist(s) were all great, but as far as horror goes it was sub-par camera shock/music spike. I think I gave it a 3 on the voting ticket, but I rated Mulberry Street *and* The Tripper 5s each.

18. John A 11/03/2007 @ 5:51am

    I don’t want going to knock you for enjoying Mulberry Street (which I enjoyed) or The Tripper (which I found completely forgettable). I found Alone to have a good story with pretty good ending. Yes, it did rely a bit too much on amped noise spikes near a few times but I thought it did a great job of creeping me out which I prefer over being shocked in my horror movies. Mulberry and The Tripper did not creep me out at all.

19. DJensen 11/03/2007 @ 8:29am

    Mulberry Street and The Tripper weren’t trying to creep people out though — no long atmospheric build up scenes, no skin-curdling tension, no WTF? implications. Alone tried but it didn’t pull it off (for me). The camera shocks (is there a proper term for the sudden reveals meant to scare?) were predictable and as cheap as ever, and counted against the few legitimately creepy indirect encounters with the twin (the beach foot prints, the elevator, the glass divider).

    I’m not knocking anyone for liking Alone, I just didn’t like it for the same reason I generally don’t like most ‘horror’ movies, the cheap use of quick startles and violin spikes.

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