The Decay of Fiction is a 2002 American 35mm part color and part black-and-white experimental film noir project directed by independent filmmaker and artist Pat O'Neill. The film, initially conceived as a documentary, was produced by O'Neill and Rebecca Hartzell for Lookout Mountain Films. Filming took place in Los Angeles.
The film is set at the site of the old Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. It has no identifiable plot and features no recurring characters. An estimated budget of $250,000 was put forth to fund the film and it took eight years to complete. It premiered on October 12, 2002, at the New York Film Festival. The film has also been screened at six other film festivals and at eight non-festival exhibitions. It received generally favorable reviews. Multiple critics commented on the film's visual appeal. [...]Voir plus...
, 1h33 GenresScience-fiction, Thriller, Horreur ThèmesMaladie, Film post-apocalyptique, Religion, Le futur, Zombie, Épidémie, Politique, Dystopique, Film catastrophe ActeursSilke, Julio Perillán Gandarias, Nadia de Santiago Note57% Rares survivants d'une guerre bactériologique, une petite communauté dirigée par Maria vit enfermée dans un immeuble en plein délabrement. Dehors, l'ensemble de la population a été transformée en zombies : le moindre contact et c'est la mort assurée. Et puis il y a les êtres Invisibles, des entités qui se baladent librement dans l'immeuble. Le seul moyen de détecter leur présence est une subite baisse de la température, connue sous le nom de l'heure froide...
, 1h25 OrigineEtats-Unis GenresDrame, Fantasy, Horreur, Policier ThèmesReligion ActeursMichael Q. Schmidt, Melanie Wilson Note42% Elliot (Peter Tullio), Warren (Philip Marlatt) and Terry (Melanie Rose Wilson) dabble in Satanism and hold a ritual in an abandoned woods. When nothing happens, they return to their car only to find that it won't start. An accident happens, leaving Terry injured. Seeing a distant light through the trees, Elliot hikes toward the light to seek assistance, leaving Warren to watch over Terry. Terry disappears and Warren becomes frightened. He hikes into the woods seeking Elliot and encounters hillbilly seductress Jenny (Vanity Meers) and her inbred father Ned (Michael Q. Schmidt)... but things are not what they appear as they meet the entity raised by their earlier ritual. [...]Voir plus...
, 1h36 OrigineEtats-Unis GenresDrame, Thriller, Biographie, Horreur, Policier ActeursPatrick Bauchau, John Aylward, Jack Conley, Jillian Armenante, Silas Weir Mitchell, Mollie Milligan Note59% At St. John's Orphanage in 1882, children, including a young Albert Fish, are being paddled as punishment for their sins. Albert Fish as an adult (Patrick Bauchau) then tells an anecdote of a horse that some older boys at the orphanage set on fire, comparing himself to the horse. He regularly whips himself with a belt while hallucinating himself as he appeared in the orphanage. Fish kills a boy scout, Francis McDonnell, before visiting the Budd family home, where he abducts and murders ten-year-old Grace Budd (Lexi Ainsworth) on June 3, 1928 under the pretense of taking her to his niece's birthday party. Throughout the film is a film noir-style narration by Detective William King (Jack Conley), of the Missing Persons Bureau. King searches for Grace Budd for six years, before finally tracking down and arresting Fish. Fish is found guilty despite evidence of his insanity, and promptly sentenced to die in the electric chair. [...]Voir plus...