RED KINGDOM RISING
UK, 2011
Director: Navin Dev
8/10
The acting is awesome, especially the strong and expressive performance from the strangely beautiful Emily Stride, and Silvana Maimone as super-weird witch-like mother.
Huge thanks to director Navin Dev who provided me with
a screener of "Red Kingdom Rising".
UK, 2011
Director: Navin Dev
8/10
"Red Kingdom Rising", the first full-length feature from British up-and-coming director Navin Dev, is a unique and pretty stunning micro-budget horror/fantasy-blend, strongly inspired by Lewis Carroll's "Through The Looking Glass", the sequel to "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland".
From the first to the last minute, this movie is just wonderful, thanks to Navin Dev's marvellous script and superb direction. The first half is grim, atmospheric and creepy as fuck. Many of the scenes in the old house really scared the shit out of me.
The second half goes into a completely different direction: many surprisingly amusing moments (the girl with the cat mask), many bizarre scenes (the whole kitchen scene) and a few quite disturbing sequences (father's cellar).
The acting is awesome, especially the strong and expressive performance from the strangely beautiful Emily Stride, and Silvana Maimone as super-weird witch-like mother.
Jamie Havill's camera work is gorgeous and carefully composed, Martin Thornton's soundtrack is powerful and impressively haunting, the editing is fabulous and the make-up effects all look just brilliant.
A remarkable and very well made debut which hopefully gets the attention it deserves.
Huge thanks to director Navin Dev who provided me with
a screener of "Red Kingdom Rising".
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Sounds awesome! I want to go to there!
ReplyDeleteHmm, intriguing stills... and that cover is pretty creepy too. Is this going to be available soon?
ReplyDeleteI'm a fan of Lewis Caroll's book, so yes, when would this be out? Looks creepy, and I like it!
ReplyDeleteHey everyone! Thank you Maynard for such a glowing review. 'Red Kingdom Rising' is not available to buy/ watch just yet but please 'like' our facebook page for updates! Thank you!
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@Craig:
ReplyDeleteI hope you get the chance to see it soon. You'd love it.
@Michele & Kai:
Not yet but hopefully soon. Check out RKR's comment and FB page.
@RKR:
Thank YOU for sending me this wonderful and highly original movie. I loved it!