Daily Archives: October 30, 2011

For this weeks blog we watched three short films by by Marc Craste and Studio AKA: The Good News, Hounds of Flesh, and Pizza Sangre.  These films are titled as dark, and they live up to the billing.  Each film … Continue reading →

What a chilling Halloween treat! These three Pica Towers shorts were creepy. While the setting, a tower of tortue was scary, the best part of the shorts are the sound effect. Just listening the the sounds, without watching the animation … Continue reading →

Whatever you do, don’t follow the robot into Pica Towers! The three shorts featured on Studio aka’s site are anything but typical. If it weren’t for the robots, you would think they were part of a traditional horror story, but … Continue reading →

The Pica Towers films were a great example of how short stories with little background and minimal scenery can still be scary. Many modern scary movies make the mistake of showing and telling you too much about the characters and … Continue reading →

The immediate feeling I got from the audio in ‘hound of flesh’ was that something unpleasant was about to occur.  The echoes of something going on far away made me uneasy about what was going to happen to the blind … Continue reading →

Robots torturing robots. Robot dogs stealing blind robot’s cane. Robots shooting robots. What the hell? That is the question I was asking from the time I visited the site to when I finished Pizza Sangre. What the hell! When I … Continue reading →

I think one of the best techniques in film for creating a sense of foreboding is good use of shadows.  The Pica Towers shorts really used shadow well to heighten the sense of unease throughout the shorts.  In short films, there’s … Continue reading →