Film Shots: Julia’s Eyes, Mother’s Day, and Attack the Block
The latest in the never ending stream of (arguably) needless
Hollywood horror remakes sees “Saw” franchise director Darren
Lynn Bousman serving up an all new version of the 1980 Charles
Kaufman Troma semi-cult hit of the same name. Having recently
revisited the original, the film is clearly an odd candidate for
a glossy makeover, being one of the odder genre outings of its
period, a strange mix of bizarre humour, bad taste gore and
sexual degradation, run through with a weird, though not
ineffective vein of satire. Unsurprisingly, Bousman dumps pretty
much everything apart from the very basics of the premise,
disappointingly turning the film into yet another in that other
most popular of modern horror subgenres, the home invasion
flick.  This time around, he focuses the action on a pretty
ghastly group of upper middle class bohemian suburban types
whose party at central couple Jaime King and Frank Grillo’s new
house is ruined by the arrival of the