Hole Head 2010 - Program Guide 'Shadow'
Shadow
Director: Federico Zampaglione
A soldier returning from a tour of duty in Iraq goes on a mountain bike adventure in the Austrian Alps to forget. There he meets a pretty, young girl who joins him on what seems to be a romantic adventure.
Spiraling views of mountain biking amidst clouds on landscapes with rolling downhill slopes, and snow covered alps in a region known among riders simply as “bikers paradise.” This movie takes place in an area that seems blessed yet has a dark and sinister past. Angelique tells the viewer a bit of the history of the area that includes a storey about, “A group of rebels took shelter in an underground coal mine in the woods, but they were found by soldiers ... and the soldiers burned them alive … and now the locals say that up there in the hills are ghosts and anyone who enters that part of the forest will never come back...”
After a nasty confrontation with some deranged local hunters the couple seeks refuge in the woods. While trying to escape they separate and he stumbles into a bunker that’s hidden in the alps along side a terrifying host. All that follows is heart-stopping intensity filmed with a camera that is not shy. This film contains scenes of violence so vivid they’ll make you cringe. The hills and the changing reality of what might have been a romantic adventure changes again and again. The theme of the hunters and the hunted takes a turn for the very worst just when it seems things really could not possibly get more terrifying.
The situation has gone beyond grim. It’s at this point where you’ll see things you might wish you hadn’t. I’m not kidding. If you are prone to nightmares you’ll find the Shadow delivers.
Nightmares and terrible hallucinations are ongoing here. The Shadow delves into an area seldom, if ever, explored in film. As visual distortions reach demonic intensity there is… Well, suffice to say there is a psychedelic encounter that only the most dedicated of shamans would embrace… We are not taking Peyote, this is quite possibly the most obscure of hallucinogens and in the hands of a wicked, bald and terribly emaciated torturer? Lets just say it clearly does not bring out the best.
The brutality of the hunt is bad. Then? The stench of burning flash and the terrible slicing razor blades of the chamber is absolutely awful… That smell of fear. “Really, it can’t possible get any worse!” It does. As the credits roll you’ll understand. It just got worse again. Much worse.
- Mike Skurko
Director: Federico Zampaglione
A soldier returning from a tour of duty in Iraq goes on a mountain bike adventure in the Austrian Alps to forget. There he meets a pretty, young girl who joins him on what seems to be a romantic adventure.
Spiraling views of mountain biking amidst clouds on landscapes with rolling downhill slopes, and snow covered alps in a region known among riders simply as “bikers paradise.” This movie takes place in an area that seems blessed yet has a dark and sinister past. Angelique tells the viewer a bit of the history of the area that includes a storey about, “A group of rebels took shelter in an underground coal mine in the woods, but they were found by soldiers ... and the soldiers burned them alive … and now the locals say that up there in the hills are ghosts and anyone who enters that part of the forest will never come back...”
After a nasty confrontation with some deranged local hunters the couple seeks refuge in the woods. While trying to escape they separate and he stumbles into a bunker that’s hidden in the alps along side a terrifying host. All that follows is heart-stopping intensity filmed with a camera that is not shy. This film contains scenes of violence so vivid they’ll make you cringe. The hills and the changing reality of what might have been a romantic adventure changes again and again. The theme of the hunters and the hunted takes a turn for the very worst just when it seems things really could not possibly get more terrifying.
The situation has gone beyond grim. It’s at this point where you’ll see things you might wish you hadn’t. I’m not kidding. If you are prone to nightmares you’ll find the Shadow delivers.
Nightmares and terrible hallucinations are ongoing here. The Shadow delves into an area seldom, if ever, explored in film. As visual distortions reach demonic intensity there is… Well, suffice to say there is a psychedelic encounter that only the most dedicated of shamans would embrace… We are not taking Peyote, this is quite possibly the most obscure of hallucinogens and in the hands of a wicked, bald and terribly emaciated torturer? Lets just say it clearly does not bring out the best.
The brutality of the hunt is bad. Then? The stench of burning flash and the terrible slicing razor blades of the chamber is absolutely awful… That smell of fear. “Really, it can’t possible get any worse!” It does. As the credits roll you’ll understand. It just got worse again. Much worse.
- Mike Skurko
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