Director: Geoff Murphy
Writers: Bill Baer, Bruno Lawrence & Sam Pillsbury (based on a novel by Graig Harrison)
Release year: 1985
Condemned to live
Zac Hobson wakes up to what could have been a normal day. But it’s not. His life will never be the same as he finds out he’s the only person left on this earth. What happened and where have all the people gone?
Writer: Vidal Raski
Director: Harlan Asquith & William Mayo
Release year: 1973
Danish title: Dvaergen
Great evil can sometimes come in very small packages….
I have waited quite a while to see this film. I do not exactly know why I wanted to see it so badly, considering I have a great distaste and fear towards dwarves, little people, midgets….whatever the hell they are called. I guess for someone who is well over 6 feet tall, it makes sense that my fears are of things that are tiny.
Director: Charles Guard and Thomas Guard
Writer: Graig Rosenberg, Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard, based on a 2003 screenplay by Ji-woon Kim
Release year: 2009
Uninvited but nevertheless endurable US re-make.
When Anna, who lost her mother in a tragic accident, returns from a psychiatric clinic, she is happily re-united with her sister Alex. But she also comes home to Rachel, her father’s new girlfriend, to which she doesn’t take a liking. When terrifying nightmares begin to haunt her, Anna gets convinced not all is well with her family…
Director: Ranald MacDougall
Writer: Ranald MacDougall, based on a story by Ferdinand Reyher and a novel by M.P. Shiel
Release year: 1959
Three’s always a crowd!
Ralph Burton isn’t exactly having a good day. First, the mine he’s working in collapses. And when he finally manages to crawl his way out to freedom, he finds himself to be the last man on the face of this earth…
Directors: Michel Gondry, Leos Carax & Joon-Ho Bong
Writers: Michel Gondry, Leos carax & Joon-Bo-Hong
Release year: 2008
Tokyo seen through visionary eyes
With great anticipation audiences attended Offscreen Film Festival’s opening-film Tokyo! (the screening sold out). Understandably, as the movie is a quite ambitious project featuring three prominent directors of contemporay cinema, each stituating their unique tale in modern day Tokyo, one of the most enigmatic metropolitan cities on earth.
