the deaths of ian stone is a 2007 british-american horror film directed by dario piana .

the film stars mike vogel and christina cole .

the story centers on an american man living in britain , ian stone ( vogel ) , who is killed each day by mysterious beings .

he then enters a new existence , unaware of his prior lives .

when he begins to remember past existences , he is once again in danger of being killed , with each death more gruesome than the last .

the deaths of ian stone

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the deaths of ian stone . . . em , some good effects from what must of been one of stan winstons last films but i found it slow and boring , hence the 2 stars , disappointed .
oh my . . . ian stone , you are a sexy man . please , take me now . take everyone now .
this video is grabbed from the movie splinter ( 2008 ) . its ost is by elia cmiral ( the same of ronin , the deaths of ian stone , stigmata etc . ) but in the ost album there is not this song : ( help me please : )
the premise of a guy dying every few minutes might sound like a fun movie and the fact that he is stalked by monsters through each of his lives makes for a neat metaphysical chase movie premise , but the deaths of ian stone collapses in on itself because of repetition . instead of stone biting the dust in elaborate , final destination style , only to wake up and die again , the filmmakers mostly just stab the protagonist to death .
“ the deaths of ian stone is influenced quite a bit by memento , the matrix and even cemetery man . it’s got its flaws , but for a miniscule budget movie , it’s pretty impressive in a lot of ways , delivering the kid fo paranoid horror we saw back in the days of the twilight zone . ” lucius gore , esplatter
the jolt of the rock knocked barkley off balance and out of the back of the raft .
stone is full of obvious plotting and lame death scenes . the twists aren’t surprising , and the deaths aren’t terrifying or even that interesting . instead of making a commentary on fatalism or playing off of the goofy , groundhog’s day premise , the filmmakers choose to give 7 variations on the same boring chase scene .
medea and ian loved each other once , and the plot of the movie is based in her attempts to snap him out of his newfound love for jenny , either by killing her , or by making ian forget her .
“he had a way of making you feel welcome , ” maple grove elementary principal ian stone said . “he had a way of just being a kind soul . i’m not even sure he knew how special he was . ”
ian with jenny , though instead of her learning to accept him , he learns to become more human .
on an otherwise ordinary night , the young ian stone encounters a mysterious creature and is forced into the path of an oncoming train . rather than facing certain death , ian finds himself reborn into a new life that feels strangely familiar . after his second death , it becomes apparent that ian is being hunted by an evil presence , and will be forced to die every day until he can solve the mystery of his own life .
maple grove principal ian stone , right , talks to students about “drake’s bench , ” which contains the words courage , teamwork and leadership . drake would have graduated from sixth grade last month .
“between vogel’s allure and stan winston’s phenomenal production values , the deaths of ian stone could have stood alone without the film festival gimmick . it’s not a perfect film by any means , but it is sheer entertainment . and that’s enough to make this a must - see for horror and science fiction fans alike . ” blake french , contact music
for about half of the movie . it also reminds me of a horror version of
“ the deaths of ian stone is content with being a fairly straight - forward genre piece . consequently , as we gradually learn what is happening ( thanks to a johnny explainer character who gives austin powers’ basil exposition a serious challenge for the title of “obvious mouthpiece” ) , the film becomes less interesting . the puzzle pieces of the plot fall into place well enough , but the picture they form is of a conventional monster movie . ” steve biodrowski , cinefantastique
on an otherwise ordinary night , the young ian stone encounters a mysterious creature and is forced into the path of an oncoming train . rather than facing certain death , ian finds himself reborn into a new life that feels strangely familiar . after his second death , it becomes apparent that ian is being hunted by an evil presence , and will be forced to die every day until he can solve the mystery of his own life . urltoken
i figured before i sat down to watch the most hyped films of the winter , i’d schedule in one more low - budget , limited release flick . this film made its debut at the after dark horror fest earlier this year and duly disappeared again . that’s a shame because the individuals i spoke with who attended the event said this movie was one of the better showings ( it’s the reason i’m watching it now ) . the movie i speak of is the deaths of ian stone .
ian stone is an average man . he loves ice hockey but lives for his girlfriend , jenny walker . late one night while driving home from a painful loss on the ice , ian comes across a bewildering discovery , that looks like a dead body near the railroad tracks . investigating the grisly discovery , ian is attacked by the “corpse” , forced onto the tracks and subsequently run over by an oncoming train .
at a reported budget of $ 11 million , english horror - fantasy
the deaths of ian stone
is definitely a production - value cut or three above the other entries in this year ' s after dark horrorfest program : it ' s got a fairly original concept and diverting visual effects from oscar - winning f / x maestro stan winston , who also produced .
at a reported budget of $ 11 million , english horror - fantasy “the deaths of ian stone” is definitely a production - value cut or three above the other entries in this year’s after dark horrorfest program : it’s got a fairly original concept and diverting visual effects from oscar - winning f / x maestro stan winston , who also produced . but this slick genre [ … ]
deaths tells the story of an all - american guy who is murdered each day by horrifying pursuers , only to wake up in slightly different lives to experience the terror of being murdered again .
ian stone ( mike vogel ) is a working stiff , an american businessman who travels to england for business only to find himself trapped in a bizarre reality : every day he dies a horrific death at the hands of an unknown killer . . . only to wake up and murdered again and again . can ian get to the bottom of the mystery and break the recurring chain of death and resurrection ?
from bad to worse : every day ian descends a little lower in status and lifestyle .
worse yet , the movie doesn’t even have rules . the monsters are chasing stone because he used to be one of them but somehow killed one of these immortal monsters and left the tribe .
in this byzantine psychological thriller directed by dario piana , working stiff ian stone ( mike vogel ) finds himself trapped in a bizarre reality : every day he dies a horrific death at the hands of a killer , only to be resurrected and murdered again . can ian get to the bottom of the mystery and break the recurring cycle of death and rebirth ? christina cole , michael feast and jaime murray also star .
ian and gray found something better to feed on . love . which led to them leaving the fold .
in england , ian stone finds himself trapped in a weird situation : everyday , he meets the same persons in the most different situation , including medea and jenny ; around 5pm , the watches stop and ian is haunted by beings with claws and he has a painful death , waking again in another life . when an old man meets him and tells that he must protect jenny to resurrect again , ian begins to unravel a great mystery .
at the same time a girl named jenny ( played by christina cole ) seems to hold the key to ian ' s deaths and new lives while an odd older gentleman ( played by michael feast ) keeps showing up to tell ian about what ' s going on . these stories converge when the gentleman , called
gray ,
tells ian that ian himself is a harvester , but no longer relies on pain , fear , or death because he fell in love , much like gray did before . and ian , the big softy , fell in love with jenny , the girl who keeps showing up in his life , the girl who he keeps close to him in his various lives .
in england , ian stone finds himself trapped in a weird situation : everyday , he meets the same persons in the most different situation , including medea and jenny ; around 5 pm , the watches stop and ian is haunted by beings with claws and he has a painful death , waking again in another life . when an old man meets him and tells that he must protect jenny to resurrect again , ian begins to unravel a great mystery .
the harvesters won ' t give up trying to kill ian , but he ' s prepared to fight back .
the size of the knife wielded by the girl during the junkie ian scenes changes significantly from a large butcher knife in the kitchen , to a small steak knife once outside when stabbing the evil girl .
anyway , the movie is basically what it says on the tin : dude named ian stone dies a lot . bam . we ' re done here . let ' s pack it up and go home . that ' s a show .
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so while i wouldn’t necessarily call the deaths of ian stone much of a horror film , it definitely has its moments to give you a feeling of dread now and again . the movie excels more as a science - fictiony / fantasy thiller – mixing in mysterious occult type creatures and scenarios with a touch of suspense ( after all we’d like to know why this is happening to ian ) . obviously , you won’t be seeing this at the movie theater , so you’re only shot to see it is by picking it up the dvd when it gets released sometime in the near future . check it out as a backup option if you can’t get your hands on the movie you really wanted .
groundhog day gets the horror treatment as a man finds himself having to die a new death with every new day . when a strange creature forces him into the path of an oncoming train , ian stone ( mike vogel ) believes his life is finally over . but when he wakes , stone finds himself re - born into another , different life , though one with a strangely familiar feel . as the creature returns once again to stalk his prey , stone realises that if he is ever to break the ongoing cycle of death , he has to uncover the secrets about his life that are responsible for his living nightmare .
stan winston are fun to look at , but they don’t make that much sense . the way the monsters trap stone in a series of unending deaths is never established , nor is there a reason that clocks stop functioning when the monsters are near . luckily , no one in this world has a digital watch or a grandfather clock because this would break the entire gimmick .
the investigation found no violation of state law despite “allegations of the raft being improperly loaded , ” the report said .
during ian ' s double - kill moment in the morgue , you can see the prosthetics on his chest crease once he drops to his knees for the fatal blows .
a slang term has cropped up in recent years that is most likely the auditory equivalent of a cat’s death screams as it is being used as a makeshift hockey puck to anyone who isn’t a proud american slacker . it is a product of our infamous need to bastardize two words into one for the sake of brevity and individuality , and one i find myself utilizing more often than i would care to confess . the word is “a’ight , ” the hell spawn of “all” and “right . ” an ugly contraction indeed , but fitting in summing up my personal feelings for “the deaths of ian stone . ” far from a great motion picture , but not without its praiseworthy merits . it’s just a’ight .
at a reported budget of $ 11 million , english horror - fantasy “the deaths of ian stone” is definitely a production - value cut or three above the other entries in this year’s after dark horrorfest program : it’s got a fairly original concept and diverting visual effects from oscar - winning f / x maestro stan winston , who also produced . but this slick genre piece is less than satisfying in narrative and character terms , with a repetitious , gimmicky structure and murky motivation . in most territories , tube and dvd seem likelier than theatrical exposure .
shapeshifter weapon : the harvesters create blades of varying lengths on the ends of their arms . dual wielding optional .
anyway , i liked this one . even if it isn ' t the best movie it made an impression on me . i thoroughly enjoyed the movie , even ian stone ' s long flowing harvester hair . . . no , especially ian stone ' s long flowing sexy fabio hair . it ' s a movie i recommend , but realize that it ' s rough enough around the edges that some people may dislike it . i mean , i went into this expecting the worst , and i could certainly see other people getting the worst out of it , so take my recommendation with a fickle bit of doubt spread into your head . so . . . yeah . it was much better than absolutely awful which translates to me actually liking it quite a bit .
these stories of 11 of the 12 commercial rafting deaths in colorado in 2014 and 2015 are based primarily on colorado parks and wildlife incident reports , which include sheriffs’ and coroners’ documents . rapids classifications and water flows are for the incident dates . mapped incident locations are approximate . drake durkee’s story is told in the main article .
the phrase “the victim made no attempt to self - rescue” appears repeatedly in investigative reports of rafting deaths . several of the reports also mention a victim was a “big person” or had trouble squeezing into the wetsuit before the trip . in a handful of cases , the victim was too heavy for other passengers to pull back into the boat . at least one outfitter has a policy that if a guest can’t fit into a life jacket , they can’t go .
ian meets a strange old man who tells him he is in danger . the old man tells him that he is being hunted by the harvesters , a group of mind - controlling characters who cannot be killed and feed off human fear…
as the boat entered the royal gorge , guide james palmer , 43 , had sevilla sit in the middle of the raft so he could rest . in a section of the river called the narrows , the raft was thrust by the squeeze box rapid into a sheer rock wall on the right side of the river .
ian did cross medea ' s heart . she ' s making him hope to die . and she later repeats the first line before sticking an actual needle in his eye .
confused yet ? i certainly was , an indication that “deaths” had succeeded brilliantly in the first third of its run time . it was a most intriguing puzzle , one that kept me anxious to discover where director dario piana and writer brendan hood would take this bewildering premise . who were the harvesters , and what did they want with ian ? what made him special , unlike the number of victims whose life forces the demons drain in their relentless pursuit of him ? why was jenny a constant player in differing roles within each of his lives ? at what point in this film did jaime murray begin blatantly mirroring elizabeth hurley’s performance in the “bedazzled” remake without my noticing ?
dan was there , surrounded by his firefighters , when rescuers pulled his son’s body out of the arkansas . drake’s foot was snagged at the bottom of the river , his body trapped by an undercut rock chiseled away by the power of the water .
“highside ! , ” yelled palmer , trying to shift the weight distribution of the raft .
after the first death , ian is in the office and after the conversation with the girl the scene starts to speed up , indicating that time is passing by at a fast pace ; yet even with the rapid time change , the sun ' s rays that pass through the office never move or change in any way as it should .
the safety speech along the banks of the arkansas river covered everything . but a group of rafters visiting colorado from oklahoma didn’t actually expect they would fall into the rushing , frigid whitewater .
the movie ends with the revelation that ian killed an unkillable harvester , and then he proceeds to hunt the rest of them down because that ' s how he rolls . the creepiness goes right out the window at that point , but i had a fun time watching him kill everybody , so i didn ' t mind so much .
at first , stone is a star hockey player preparing for college . next he is a lawyer . after this , well , the movie begins to get a bit fuzzy in my memory . i know he ends up as a junkie in one life . it’s sort of like
ian suddenly jolts awake in a sanitary office setting , hinting that the prior events may have been no more than a particularly vivid nightmare . jenny is no longer a lover but his colleague , and it isn’t long after before this current reality is shattered as ian is violently murdered by his live - in girlfriend medea ( jaime murray ) , who is also one of the shape - shifting monsters . however , not before he is approached in an alley by the dishevelled gray , portrayed by english character actor michael feast . he informs ian that the “harvesters” are coming for him each time a clock stops , and he will be resurrected only to repeat the cycle should they succeed in their abstruse objective .
soto was described by one of the guides as “very jolly” and the “biggest person i could pull into a raft , but not bigger than the equipment . ” some of his family had floated the same stretch of the animas , but the river wasn’t as high as it was last june .
ken would tell a state investigator that his memory of the events was limited , but he remembered being “flipped out of the raft” and feeling “exhausted” when he grabbed the rope and reached the shore .
“some of the film is a bit matrix - like and it is never completely explained how ian goes from one life to the next without starting over each time ( it’s slipstream fiction but the film should have offered an explanation ) . however , if you accept the film at face value and don’t dig to deep for details , it is enjoyable creature horror . ” parlor of horror
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the second boat to enter three rocks rapid struck a large wave , dumping all of its passengers . the raft behind it — the one carrying 52 - year - old hernandez of lakewood — flipped and spilled all of its passengers when it reached the frothy class v wave . the fourth boat in whitewater adventure outfitters’ chain struck the third and was held by the forces of a whitewater “hole . ” all of its passengers washed out .
three sisters and a group of their friends take a trip to the home of the recently deceased grandfather - - who died a particularly grisly death - - to learn more about the promise of an inheritance , only to encounter a family of psychos who have taken up residence in the old man ' s cabin .
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the final stretch of the highside adventures trip over violent class iii and iv rapids was wild , with two passenger dumps in the span of a few river bends . the second time kenneth barkley , 43 , of brighton , went overboard , he did not survive .
instead of swimming toward shore , sizemore was looking to a guide in the safety kayak for help , the investigative report says . they weren’t able to reach each other because of the turbulent and steep shoot of the river . the guide in the other raft tossed sizemore a rope , but he didn’t catch it .
” lost points with a lackluster hockey sequence detailing the final supposedly exciting moments of a match . luckily , the film’s connection with the sport ends there , as titular protagonist ian ( mike vogel ) blows a last second goal attempt and his collegiate team suffers defeat at his hands . depressed and lamenting how he hadn’t felt “quite right” all day , he gives his sweetheart jenny ( christina cole ) a ride home before coming across a man lying prone in the road . as ian attempts to call for help , the man transforms into a large creature and drags our young star to his untimely death compliments of an oncoming train .
surprised me . i was honestly not expecting to like this movie very much . sad , but true . i don ' t like being biased against films when watching them , but i was certainly biased against this one . maybe it was because the main character ' s name is ian stone and he looks like the exact opposite of any person i could ever even hope to like . he looks like a prick . boy does he look like prick . maybe it ' s because from the way the film was shot i really expected to find myself making fun of the movie rather than enjoying it . . . but . . . but ! ! ! ! !
all but three of the 12 people who died on guided trips in 2014 and 2015 were on class iv and v rapids , which make up an estimated one - quarter to one - third of the commercial trips in this state , according to outfitters and arkansas headwaters recreation area statistics . the other three deaths , including drake durkee , were on intermediate rapids rated class iii , although the rapid where he fell into the arkansas river , called big drop , borders on class iv depending on water flow .
i also enjoyed his demon fabio hair . human ian has close cut hair . harvester ian has wonderful fabio hair . i loved it . i loved that fabio hair so much . i had such a question mark above my head when i saw it there , swaying to some unseen breeze like he was about to seduce everybody in the room with his ugly mug . i mean , how can you say no to hair like :
the second year of horrorfest seems to have produced some better films . i’ve only seen 2 this time , but neither has plumbed the depths of penny dreadful or reincarnation . that said , imdb very accurately lists , “déjà vu” as one of the related keywords for the series .
i don’t know how many of you saw any of the horrorfest films , but let me tell you , they suck . almost universally . i saw 5 or 6 of last years crop , and only
minutes before erik luna unexpectedly fell backward out of a raft into clear creek , a photographer on the riverbank took the perfect action shot : the family smiling and laughing in a spray of whitewater .
van hodges , 48 , from enid was on a half - day raft trip through the bighorn sheep canyon section of the river the day he died . five passengers , including hodges , were tossed into the water when their raft hit the top of a rapid called three rocks . their guide , brian botelho , 29 , yelled and pointed toward the left side of the river , showing the people in the water they should swim left to avoid a whitewater “hole” in the middle of the river . botelho paddled the same direction and began plucking people back into the boat .
just through lower beaver falls , the raft barkley rode in struck a bridge support head on , despite the crew’s frantic back paddling . the nose of the raft hit the concrete . the raft turned sideways and instantly flipped , the bottom of the boat now along the bridge support . “highside left ! ” the guide had shouted , trying to prevent the flip . but as the boat wrapped around the bridge support , all eight passengers , including the guide , were dumped into the 40 - degree water .
the last of the four rafts on the trip floated near the spot where dawson had last seen his brother , and a passenger in that boat shouted that he saw an arm — grasping for something — come out of the water . “their boat floated over the arm , ” according to the report .
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melissa and dan durkee reached big drop rapid near midnight , the roar of the arkansas river filling their ears as they peered over the edge .
it’s why people who book rafting trips must sign a waiver acknowledging the “inherent risk” of going out on the river .
drake was sucked under an undercut rock and trapped within seconds of falling out of the boat . customers are warned during the pre - float safety talk not to stand up in the river , he said .
is a missed opportunity . still , it’s better than the majority of after dark’s releases .
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is not a good movie . but , unlike they , it might actually be hood’s fault this time . the film is almost like a horror version of a sketch film . every 10 - 15 minutes eli stone dies and awakens in a new life . but people bleed through from life to lfe like snl cast members appearing in consecutive skits .
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newly hired guides must have navigated the same stretch of the river at least once before they are allowed to take paying customers .
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a rotating team of people , including a raft passenger who was a nurse , administered cpr on hodges for about 40 minutes . the official cause of death was drowning .
“a lot of the serious accidents are screening errors , whether it’s an error of the passenger or an outfitter , ” he said . “would you go to a ski area for the first time , slap on skis , take the lift to the top of a black run , go down and say , ‘i wonder what is going to happen now ? ’ ”
should be incredibly embarrassed with itself for being one of the worst movies i ' ve ever seen .
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standing in the subway talking about what the creatures were , the blood from the infected tract wound from the heroin needles is completely gone , as well as the entire wound itself .
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as the raft following botelho’s entered the rapid , its passengers — shocked at the sight of people in the water — stopped paddling . their raft drifted sideways and into the hole , where it flipped and everyone fell out .
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the raft surfed briefly in place , held by the suck of the wave . dawson saw his little brother bobbing in the water , nearing the right riverbank , and yelled to him , “swim to shore ! ” his grandfather floated a few yards downstream , struggling for air in the frigid water , and was pulled into one of the other rafts by a passenger .
no , seriously , i ' m not kidding at all . i ' ve been watching japanese horror or fairly bland horror movies for the better part of two months at the moment of writing this review , and this is really a breath of fresh air ( well , this movie and
“i’m having the time of my life , ” palmer told his family just minutes before he fell overboard .
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another guide , with the help of three passengers , pulled sevilla into their boat . but he was not responsive , and his face was purple . by this time , the raft was hitting boat eater and triple drop rapids , and the guide couldn’t pull to the side of the river and start cpr until they were through the whitewater .
guides from the other rafting company radioed the owner of the adventure company , who called authorities at about 3 : 30 p . m . the exact time drake fell from the raft is not known , but reports estimate the call came 20 to 40 minutes later .
the guides had no radio or phone reception in the canyon , according to the state report .
all throughout these odd revelations , a very creepy seductress harvester named medea ( played by jaime murray ) keeps trying to kill ian . . . or at least make his life a living hell . ian and medea had a thing or something back in the day and she ' s a clingy broad and can ' t let go . well , that and she ' s a little on the loony side . the chick is easily the scariest thing in the movie . her expressions change so quickly that i ' m surprised she doesn ' t get whiplash . she acts in such a way that her conviction is kind of as terrifying as her methods . i mean , the woman plays a great villain . i didn ' t expect that when first seeing the movie , but damn . damn . that ' s all i ' ll say on the matter .
“i didn’t understand it was going to be that bad , ” steve leim of stillwater would later tell a colorado state parks investigator . “i did not think the boat was going to flip over . ” the group , he said , didn’t understand “the power of the water . ”
as they headed into double knife rapid , their raft clipped a rock wall on the left side of the rapid . “get down , ” shouted 43 - year - old guide ryan wiese . upon impact , three of the five passengers fell overboard .
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during the safety talk along the shore , a guide used drake as a model , grabbing him by the straps of his life jacket and leaning backward to demonstrate how to pull someone back into the boat should they fall into the river .
many of them wore orange broncos jerseys with no . 88 , for demaryius thomas , drake’s favorite player . the choir sang the beatles’ “blackbird , ” and the teachers cried .
all four rafts pulled over on the right side of the river . “the guides then realized that drake was unaccounted for , ” according to the report , and began a frantic search . one guide crossed the river to search the opposite bank while the rest ran up and down the west side , closest to where drake was last seen .
math and her 13 - year - old daughter were with a group of mothers and daughters who traveled to colorado for the girls’ soccer tournament . moms were in one raft , and most of the girls were in another .
the spot was in the same place where melissa had dropped to the ground along the riverbank that first night and refused to move .
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kodi rafting assistant head boatman dan triantafillou talks to a group about safety before heading out on the arkansas river near salida on june 10 , 2016 . this stretch of the river includes class iii , iv and v rapids , and is one of the most commercially floated areas in the nation .
then on the third day , one of the guides who hadn’t talked to authorities the day of the accident called chaffee county officials to say he had been downstream from drake and there was no way the boy had floated past him . the information from guide chris williams caused rescuers to move their search 150 yards upstream , not far from where the 11 - year - old had fallen overboard .
but less funny and with a dude jumping in front of trains and stuff .
mcdonald , 48 , had more rafting experience than any other guide on the trip . the guide of drake’s boat , kristen vetter , 34 , a nurse , had several years of experience on various rivers but was on her fifth trip for the adventure company .
the friends “understood the difficulty level” but “underestimated the danger , ” hing told a state parks investigator .
with everyone back in the raft , and the boat heading downstream toward more rapids , the passengers were celebrating — and ignoring paddle commands . without paddlers , the raft was spinning when it went , backward , over the top of a barely submerged rock .
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a rafting group run by one of colorado’s 200 licensed outfitters prepares to launch a float down the arkansas last week .
many of the 12 deadly accidents in the past two years , which are detailed in state parks reports and law enforcement documents reviewed by the denver post , involved people who were in their 40s and 50s and out of shape . two had heart problems , according to reports .
the johnsons’ raft struck a rock , and their guide , jason connolly , 41 , bounced out . he swam toward the raft and tried to climb back in . but before he could , the raft hit a hydraulic hole and began “surfing” — bouncing and spinning on top of the hole . the tug of the river dragged connolly under the raft and downstream about 15 yards before he was able to swim to shore .
rescuers used a rope to pull drake upstream , which freed his foot from the rocks . as they worked to gently lift drake’s body out of the water , they tried to shield him from rafters who whooped and cheered as they bounced down the arkansas , one of the most heavily commercially rafted rivers in america .
“drake ! , ” his parents called into the darkness , hoping against the odds that their son had saved himself and was now somewhere in the desert scrub brush and juniper along the riverbank . he had been tossed out of the raft into the murky , pulsing water and had not been seen since .
instead , hodges grabbed for the guide , something passengers were told not to do before the trip launched . the guide swatted hodges’ hands away and again told him to hold onto the kayak . when hodges did not respond , the guide grabbed the back of his life jacket and floated him toward shore .
on the bank of the river , one guide began cpr while another ran to the road , flagged down a car on colorado 14 and asked the driver to call 911 and send help . palmer “kinda blinked , and it looked like he tried to take a breath of air . and after that , there was nothing , ” a guide said later . they continued cpr for about 35 minutes until emergency responders arrived , but palmer was not revived . the cause of death was sudden cardiac arrest because of “environmental stress . ”
eventually , math was pulled to shore by two kayakers from another float trip at the terminator 2 rapid . she had no pulse , and cpr compressions did not revive her . she was pronounced dead by emergency responders along the bank of the river . cause of death was drowning .
fleming william . suddenly but peacefully at the royal alexandra hospital , paisley , on sunday 1st july 2018 . bill , beloved husband of the late ann and loving…
while he was in the water , madison felt “a lot of stress on the body” and that his “chest felt like it was going to cave in . ”
when they started their next difficult run , the raft carrying sizemore and lenz stalled after going over the second ledge in a steep section of frothy whitewater . the boat momentarily “surfed , ” held in place by the hydraulic hole . the raft turned left , and sizemore and another man tumbled into the river .
meanwhile , the johnsons and another man were thrown into the river as the raft surfed in place . the other passenger was sucked under the raft and spit out , able to swim to shore . the johnsons floated downstream .
before the anniversary of drake’s death this week , melissa passed out notecards with his picture and a message asking people to “do an act of kindness for someone” on june 10 . the family also has created the drake durkee foundation to give scholarships and awards in his name . “my worst fear is people forgetting him , ” she said . “i’m not afraid of anything else . ”
john farrington monday 25th june passed away peacefully surrounded by his loving family . formally from petworth avenue and husband of the late glenys…
maddox drives to hecla junction recreation area , a popular pull - out point for rafting trips along this stretch of the river .
costlow said colorado’s regulations are among the most stringent in the country and were written at outfitters’ request to distinguish them from fly - by - night guides who set up shop for the season . guides turning away people who don’t look fit but say they are ready to float will “be accused of sexism , racism , any kind of ‘ism’ you can think of , ” he said .
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the guide navigating the raft carrying chris sevilla down the arkansas asked the colorado springs man several times whether he should continue with the whitewater trip as it got increasingly more hairy . sevilla , 45 , was worn out from zip lining the day before , his arms too tired to paddle . he was short of breath .
i didn ' t particularly like it . lots of blood & gore , but not very scary . the acting & special effects are very good , but i don ' t like watching 2 / 3 of a film before i have the foggiest idea of what ' s going on ! maybe i ' m thick ? the plot was unnecessarily complex . it was reminiscent of dark city , which , in my opinion , was far more intriguing with its disturbing sets & events .
their boat was third in line as it entered big drop rapid , which begins at a right - hand bend in the arkansas . it’s a series of complex currents , a sharp left - hand turn against broken rock wall and a large , crushing wave on the left side of the river .
he wakes up in an office cubicle . he’s still alive , but older and living with a beautiful woman named medea . jenny is part of this life , but she’s not his girlfriend , just a co - worker , and one of a number of apparently familiar faces .
on the other hand , for a low - budget feature , the acting and special effects are mostly good . mike vogel comes across a good choice for the lead role . he’s a been around long enough to know his good looks will only get him so far . he doesn’t overdo each of his characters’ personas like he was back in an acting class ; he maintains a commonality across them all which i felt was key to the believability of the role . jaime murray as medea ( one of the lead harvesters ) , tended to exaggerate her evilness a bit too much , but that could be easily overlooked since she looks fantastic in her leather / vinyl suit . look out carrie - anne moss , another actress seeks your crown ! ian’s love interest , jenny ( christina cole ) did enough to not detract from the movie , although i would have preferred it if she portrayed the role in a tougher fashion .
the day after drake fell into the river , authorities — plus 10 of dan’s firefighters who rented atvs — searched the river and its banks as far as 26 miles downstream to rincon recreation site in fremont county .
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at dark that first day , the search was suspended until the next morning .
drake sang in the choir and got good grades at maple grove elementary , and his classmates chose him to represent them at the state capitol by giving the pledge of allegiance . the durkees’ lives revolved around getting drake to activities . dan was his coach .
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at 2 a . m . , they built a campfire on the bank , and melissa sat down , tugged her sweatshirt over her face and ears , and tried to drown out the noise of the raging water . the sound was making her physically sick .
while dan and melissa were driving to buena vista , the rafting company owner and his wife drove dawson and his grandfather back to the company’s rustic building , where smiling pictures of rafters in whitewater flash on a television screen in the lobby , and where the boys’ grandmother was waiting in her car . when kathy feeldy saw them get of the car without drake , she knew something terrible had happened .
despite the rather . . . awful decision that fabioed inside of my head , the movie was pretty good , often very enjoyable . i liked the atmosphere , the acting , even the horror . . . though the horror was few and far between . there were some thrills though and some gore , all of which were well done . the suspense is very well executed , and i found myself more than once wondering what would happen next . the movie wasn ' t predictable in the slightest , and that might be the best part about it . i did find that there seemed to be a few instances of really bad cgi though , mostly with the harvester eyes , but it only occurred a few times and only irked me slightly .
horror hunger : harvesters don ' t have to kill their victims—gray gains his nourishment as a peek - a - bogeyman . however , the fear of the dying is powerfully addictive .
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the dvd comes with a clean transfer . piana has some really nice angles and camera movements . the movie looks significantly more expensive than i could have possibly been because of his precise work . the dvd shows this off .
sevilla was loaded onto the train , where cpr continued until they connected with freemont county emergency services in cañon city . about an hour passed from the time of the accident until sevilla reached cañon city , where he died .


peacock is a 2010 american psychological thriller directed by michael lander , written by lander and ryan roy , and starring cillian murphy , ellen page and susan sarandon .

it was editor sally menke 's final film .

peacock ( 2010 film )

the company has been scouting locations for about three months and is building a set in peacock gap in san rafael , according to deborah albre , marin film liaison for the california film commission .
among the examples cited in the report : cornfield productions , producers of the mystery movie
peacock ,
starring ellen page and susan sarandon , received $ 3 . 2 million in tax credits for a film that had a $ 9 . 5 - million budget . the audit found that about $ 4 . 6 million in expenditures from the 2010 release should not have qualified .
susan sarandon as fanny crill , the wife of peacock ' s mayor , who also runs a local woman ' s shelter . [ 4 ] sarandon has said that peacock is
a very strange little piece — kind of ominous .
[ 5 ]
paramount pictures corp . is planning to shoot a new , as yet unannounced , feature film in marin , according to local film industry spokespeople .
after opening its doors in late 2010 , cape town film studios has been so aggressively courted by so many movie producers that it was obliged to turn away 32 film projects in 2014 alone . ( sources say it turned away the latest star wars and spider - man films , although the studio refuses to comment . ) paradoxically , south africa’s own film producers have seldom managed to crack the global market . there hasn’t been a true global smash hit from a south african production company since the apartheid - era comedy , the gods must be crazy , in 1980 .
an intriguing film that leaves certain afterthought , peacock tells a story about john , a withdrawn character with traumas , unknowingly cross dressing as his alter ego , emma , who is much friendlier and receptive to others than he is .
cannes - winning south african film maker oliver hermanus is planning to use his next film to explore military conscription and how it shaped white masculinity during apartheid . by vukile dlwati
a marginally effective little psychological drama that ultimately ( in the very end ) becomes slightly unsatisfying . peacock is a little - seen , almost - unheard of hitchcockian thriller about the residents of a farmhouse in rural 1950 ' s nebraska ( the town is called peacock ) after a train derails and nearly kills a mysterious woman living there .
peter jackson , who revamped new zealand’s film industry , is to direct “the hobbit . ”
peacock is a movie starring cillian murphy , ellen page , and susan sarandon . a train accident in rural nebraska gradually unveils a mystery involving the town ' s bank clerk .
“that is not the total budget for the film , ” deutsch said . “if they have $ 100 million in qualified expenditures , then the actual film budget is a lot more . ”
a dark and sometimes difficult film with plenty of depth peacock is a great debut from michael lander containing a stunning set of character studies from cillian murphy both men expertly bringing to life a heartbreaking tale of a damaged human being split apart by his horrific past and desperate to find inner peace .
last week , iowa prosecutors bolstered their criminal case against tom wheeler , the state ' s former film chief , charging him with various felonies , including official misconduct over his handling of state film tax credits .
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release . this is the third such film in a row that i ' ve reviewed . four if you count
according to variety , constantin film will be the main distributor , and the budget is around $ 60 million .
erik deutsch , a spokesman for the california film commission , said this year’s california film & television tax credit program allows for additional tax credits for films shot outside of the los angeles area — including those in the bay area .
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the film definitely has an interesting concept . i guess we ' ll have to wait and see how it turns out .
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iowa rapidly expanded its film credit program in 2007 , developing one of the most aggressive tax incentives in the country , one that was touted by the local film office as
half - priced
filmmaking . producers of more than 150 projects applied for funding .
a deep and thoroughly interesting character study dramatic psychological thriller peacock is an immensely involving story that always remains realistic and sensitive even when dealing with a subject that has been the center of so many less intelligent and heavier handed horror movies since jekyll and hyde .
unfortunately , the film can’t quite make it all the way on performance and ingenuity of concept alone . somewhere around the 3 / 4 mark , the novelty of the central quirk wears off and peacock starts treading water a bit . lander tries to push his movie into thriller mode as the two personalities battle for control . but despite the action onscreen , it never really deviates from being a small , melancholic film with two central characters that , while well - rendered , haven’t really won our sympathy or warranted an emotional investment . because of this , there’s no real tension , and as interest wanes , the film just kinda sputters to an indifferent conclusion .
runge ' s attorney , matthew whitaker of des moines , said the state is blaming filmmakers for the mismanagement of its film office .
“we’re all feeling much happier today , ” said graeme mason , the chief executive of the new zealand film commission . mr . mason said government incentives and the expertise of local workers would probably have held the country’s film industry together even if the hobbit films had left .
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“i don’t want to say if i’m not 100 percent sure , ” albre said . she said a location scout contacted her about three months ago and that the company had been looking earlier to shoot in bolinas , inverness or point reyes , before settling in peacock gap .
the choice to have cillian murphy wear brown contact lenses in this film is as tragic as the scene in which he shaves off his eyebrows .
scavenger hunt # 38 - may 2018 6 . a film with a cast member or director born in may ( cillian murphy , may 25 )
production has begun on kings of mulberry street , a feature film written and directed by acclaimed director and producer judy naidoo , and set in the fictional town of sugarhill district , populated mainly by people of indian descent . the film is being shot in verulam and tongaat in kwazulu natal .
hiding his secret split personality from the rest of the quiet small town of peacock no one has ever seen emma before that is until a train crashes into his back garden while emma is hanging out the washing and everyone around suddenly wants to know everything about john’s mysterious wife .
peacock is a decent drama \ thriller imagine psycho or dressed to kill minus the horror aspects . cillian murphy is fantastic as always . my only gripe is that no one in town can tell that its cillian in drag . if you can suspend disbelief and overlook that , its very enjoyable
like mr . jackson , many film crew workers in new zealand have been inclined to see the presence of australia’s media alliance as undue meddling from a neighboring country whose own film industry has been in decline for years , mostly because a strong australian dollar made production there less attractive than in other places .
loukuz ( 5 years ago ) reply i just watched this film , and i loved cillian ' s performance . it was outstanding . and i did understand what was going on with john / emma in the film . i only wished someone would have caught on in the end . but it was left with a wondering thought of
how well we really don ' t know what goes on in our neighbors closed doors ,
it was an interesting film .
this is the first custom - built , state - of - the - art film studio in sub - saharan africa , and it’s rapidly becoming one of hollywood’s favourite places to shoot . it touts itself as “the most successful film studio in the developing world” – a grand claim that might even be true .
albre said she was not sure of the title , although she understood it was likely an action film , and likely a sequel to an earlier paramount project .
like albre , walter said he was not able to release more details on the new film . paramount , which is scheduled to make its own announcement soon on the film , requires associates and staff to sign a non - disclosure agreement and often uses code names for its films instead of actual titles , walter said .
“the lesson is that everybody is pandering to the film industry , ” said schuyler m . moore , a los angeles entertainment lawyer . mr . moore cautions that state subsidies for film production often amount to picking money from one pocket of an economy to fill another — and that producers are quick to side with a higher bidder .
we maintain she did nothing wrong and was acting according to the guidelines ,
whitaker said .
everything she did was approved by the film commissioner .
when the rally takes place , emma shuts herself in her home , ignoring the attendees . she gives the money to maggie , telling her to leave because it is not safe here in peacock , as well as trying to prevent the abuse that she herself had endured . the film ends with maggie holding jake over her shoulder as they walk down the porch steps , with jake waving a childhood toy of john ' s that emma had given him and emma barring herself in her home .
while the film can ' t measure up to its psychologically bent scenario , it ' s still an intriguing choice at the local dvd store or on - demand service .
incentives to woo hollywood productions were suspended amid allegations of abuses , the state ' s former film chief is accused of official misconduct and six filmmakers are charged with fraud .
bill pullman as edmund french , john ' s boss . [ 4 ] pullman has described peacock as
a very interesting script ,
explaining that his role
is another character hiding the fact he ' s the closest one like [ skillpa ] . it ' s a very different part for me .
[ 6 ]
director lander , from what i could find , other than peacock , has one short film to his directing credit from ten years ago…if this is what the dude does every time , then he’s worth the wait . i appreciated the fact that not everything was spelled out for me ( till the end , but that’s my only beef ) and that i got the pleasure of getting to figure some sh * t out on my own…always good to dust the rust off this old noggin of mine from time to time !
but the cape town studio has provided a different route for south africa to enter the global film business . it estimates it has created 50 , 000 part - time jobs and attracted some $ 140 - million ( u . s . ) in film investment over the past five years , reaching profitability faster than anyone expected in south africa’s troubled economic climate .
never does that , choosing instead to ramble on uselessly until it finally cant ramble on anymore . what ' s worse is that the film is so bland i couldn ' t help but keep thinking about where emma had come from and when the film failed to give me even that nugget of information , i was pissed off ; i invested 90 minutes of my time to an uninteresting film and didn ' t even manage to walk away with the satisfaction of understanding what i ' d just seen and what the point of it was .
john skillpa , a quiet bank clerk living in tiny peacock , nebraska , prefers to live an invisible life . this might have to do with john’s secret : he has another personality no one knows about , a woman who each morning does his chores and cooks him breakfast before he starts his day . then , in a moment , everything changes…
these days , with the total media saturation of studio marketing campaigns and the internet - born near - impossibility of keeping anything under wraps , it’s really rare for a movie to sneak up on me . that is to say , most of the time when i pop a flick in my dvd player , i already know virtually everything there is to know about it . but recently i got a refreshing change of pace with michael lander’s peacock . aside from the cast , i knew nothing about it going in . no trailers , no synopses , no images…nothing . and that made the unexpected quirk at the core of the film ( revealed in the opening moments ) truly surprising and the film itself that much more engrossing .
cillian murphy as john / emma skillpa , a
retiring , shy and completely nondescript bank employee
leading a double life as emma , his female alter ego . murphy stated that
peacock stunned me as a script from start to finish . it offers an incredible challenge to an actor — one i couldn ' t turn down .
[ 2 ]
john skillpa , a quiet bank clerk living in tiny peacock , nebraska , prefers to live an invisible life . this might have to do with john ' s secret : he has another personality no one knows about , a woman who each morning does his chores and cooks him breakfast before he starts his day . then , in a moment , everything changes .
twenty - two years after the death of apartheid , south africa has become a popular film location , prized for its natural beauty , sunshine and diverse landscapes that can double for most parts of the world . but the challenge now is to convert its film sector from location - based shooting to a manufacturing - based studio industry , which could create three times as many jobs .
a film crew shoots part of the netflix series “13 reasons why” in larkspur . shooting has begun in marin on a second season of the controversial teen series . ( courtesy city of larkspur )
a film adaption of capcom’s long - running video game [ video ] series , “monster hunter , ” will go into production this september in cape town with a budget of $ 60 million .
the state famously depicted in kevin costner ' s 1989 baseball classic
field of dreams
has become mired in an ever - widening scandal over alleged abuses of its film tax credit program .
john skillpa , a quiet bank clerk living in tiny peacock , nebraska , prefers to live an invisible life . this might have to do with john ' s secret : he has another personality no one knows about , a woman who each morning does his chores and cooks him breakfast before he starts his day . then , in a moment , everything changes . . .
the tax credits offer added incentives for film projects to come to the bay area because “they are based on the local rebate , ” walter said . “they have to spend the money locally . ”
but former gov . chet culver suspended the film program in 2009 after an internal audit found irregularities , including filmmakers using tax credit funds to purchase a land rover and other luxury vehicles for themselves .
“they’re supposed to start prepping ( to shoot the new film ) on monday , ” said mark walter , general manager of the mare island studio space where paramount is now staging its bay area projects .
the strength of the first three quarters , however , is enough for me to give this a rental recommendation . it’s got an intriguing concept that , if nothing else , makes it unique among a sea of largely homogenous vid store options . and ultimately , 3 / 4 of peacock is probably more compelling than 4 / 4 of a lot of a lot of other flicks you’ll come across .
cillian murphy delivers a career defining performance as john skillpa , a quiet bank clerk living in tiny peacock , nebraska , who prefers to live an invisible life . this might have to do with johns secret : he has another personality no one knows about , a woman who each morning does his chores and cooks him breakfast before he starts his day . then , in a moment , everything changes .
the 200 - hectare studio , located about 30 kilometres from the centre of cape town , is majority - owned by two south african companies with close connections to the local television and film industries , including a company headed by anant singh , producer of the film version of nelson mandela’s memoirs , long walk to freedom – one of the early films shot here . the western cape provincial government owns a further 10 per cent .
wheeler was among six officials in iowa fired or forced to quit over allegations they mismanaged the film tax credit program , which was suspended in 2009 . wheeler was arraigned tuesday and pleaded not guilty to the charges .
the iowa debacle goes well beyond that of a bribery scandal in louisiana in which a former top film office official was given a two - year prison sentence in 2009 for steering tax credits to a local producer .
development of the studio had been foundering for several years before the 2008 arrival of dekker , who had long experience in converting warehouses into film - production sites . “nobody believed in it , ” he recalls . “the negative feeling was so overwhelming . the local film industry said it can’t work , it’s crazy , it’s insane , it will go down in two years . but i believed in it . and everybody’s starting to take it seriously now . ”
i know i said i was taking a full week off , but i can never pass up a movie that was filmed 30 miles from where i live . i had been waiting for peacock to hit theaters , and it really just never happened . i think most of that is due to it pretty much just going straight to dvd . i think this is probably one of the best straight to dvd movies i have ever seen .
‘s gender - bending premise suggests all kinds of weird possibilities , the film’s execution doesn’t capitalize on any of them , and the final product is a muddled , small - town drama with only the occasional hint of slight weirdness .
full financial estimates for this film , including domestic and international box office , video sales , video rentals , tv and ancillary revenue are available through our research services . for more information , please contact us at research @ urltoken .
now , because being surprised made me enjoy it more than i otherwise would have , i really don’t want to give away the twist on this side of the jump . so i’ll just say that peacock is about a deeply disturbed 1950s bank teller named john skillpa ( cillian murphy ) with a secret lady friend who , as the film goes on , becomes less and less satisfied with staying secret . i recommend that you go out and rent it without knowing anything more specific ; seriously , don’t even read the synopsis on the back of the case…it’ll be a lot more fun that way . not interested ? then hit the jump for the necessarily spoiler - heavy review .
ha ( 8 years ago ) reply i love the irony in your rambling sentence , here :
that ' s also fine , i tend to like it when directors leave something for the audience to figure out but when you do so , you also have to provide enough information so that the audience can figure the mystery out for themselves and peacock never does that , choosing instead to ramble on uselessly until it finally cant ramble on anymore .
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south african government support , including a program of 20 per cent rebates , has been crucial in attracting film projects from hollywood and elsewhere . south africa’s weak currency , which has devalued drastically in the past two years , is another advantage .
walter said his idea to create urltoken as a joint venture with the film industry’s cinelease in existing facilities at mare island a year ago appears to have been a fortuitous proposition — given the auspicious tax credit program climate , combined with the proximity to iconic bay area filming locations . within 48 hours of opening film mare island , paramount had committed to lease the studio for its first season of “13 reasons why” — a project that has become one of netflix’s most popular shows , he said .
prime minister john key announced the agreement at a news conference late wednesday in wellington , after a week in which thousands of film workers had taken to the streets in support of efforts to save the movies after a labor dispute had stalled production .
for many in new zealand , however , the fight to retain the latest productions by mr . jackson , who is widely credited with revamping the country’s film industry , involves economic survival . roughly $ 500 million in spending hangs in the balance .
it comes as several cash - strapped states are scaling back their film incentive programs , which have been instrumental in luring production away from california . however , it ' s too early to say whether this retrenchment will keep more filming in california .
if you don ' t have the checks and balances , film programs can get in trouble , and that ' s what happened in iowa ,
said peter dekom , an entertainment industry attorney who helped craft new mexico ' s program .
new zealand’s feisty film workers have taken to the streets this week to try to keep peter jackson’s production of “the hobbit” in their country , nudging the prime minister , john key , toward a tuesday summit meeting with a visiting contingent of warner brothers executives .
as of tuesday afternoon in wellington — the new zealand capital and the center of a growing movie industry sometimes called wellywood — the matter was unsettled . but it was clear that mr . jackson’s furry little film creatures were not going anywhere without a fight .
it ' s clear from the get go that there ' s a mystery to john and lander tries to stretch that mystery as far as he can but in the end , it ' s simply not enough to keep the story going for 90 minutes and so the film stretches to include other side characters , none of which are particularly interesting or important . the film also draws out john ' s gradual â€œdeathâ€ as emma becomes the dominant personality but there doesn ' t seem to be any motivational pull to emma ' s actions and it ' s never clear why she does what she does . it doesn ' t help that the film continually hints as to why emma developed in the first place but other than a sentence about john â€œmeetingâ€ emma on the day his mother died , the film never provides an answer . that ' s also fine , i tend to like it when directors leave something for the audience to figure out but when you do so , you also have to provide enough information so that the audience can figure the mystery out for themselves and
great movie although it didn ' t go where i thought it was heading - there may not have been a better actor for this role than cillian murphy - as usual ellen page is an endorsement for any film & this indie role suits her to a tee - the rest of the cast is notable - the film contains stunning photography ( not of majestic mountains ) and images that appeared perfectly constructed for a very visual movie - well crafted script with many scenes where a single word delivers the next chapter of the storyline - highly recommended for the moviegoer who likes to be emotionally drained as well as entertained - almost from the start , this is an edgy film where it feels like something is just about to happen and there is little expectation of that something becoming anyone ' s successful pursuit of happiness .
nearby , on the same film - production lot , are replicas of a sandy caribbean beach , a blood - soaked nairobi hospital , a historic american town , nelson mandela’s prison cell and the futuristic set of a tent - pole movie based on a stephen king novel .
john skillpa , a quiet bank clerk living in tiny peacock , nebraska , prefers to live an invisible life . then , in a moment , everything changes . a train caboose runs off its tracks and crashes into john ' s backyard and destroys more than the weathered planks of his wood fence . when neighbors descend on the scene , they discover john ' s other personality , emma , for the first time and mistakenly believe her to be john ' s wife . this launches john into the glare of the spotlight and eventually shatters the delicate balance of his sanity .
now the studio is expanding again , having built another workshop and sound stage this year , and it remains solidly booked . the new sound stage was immediately grabbed for the film version of stephen king’s dark tower series , starring matthew mcconaughey and idris elba . shooting on the first movie began in may .
though set in small - town nebraska , [ 2 ] peacock was filmed in iowa : filming began on may 6 , 2008 in odebolt , in sac county , while greenfield and adair county also staged production for several days , including scenes in greenfield ' s town square and its e . e . warren opera house . [ 9 ] [ 10 ] filming was scheduled to continue on june 5 , 2008 in boone , iowa , but due to weather conditions , cornfield productions was forced to delay filming until the following day ; the filming ended on june 9 . [ 9 ]
the audit said the film office allowed filmmakers to rely on estimates of production costs , rather than actual expenses , and to count out - of - state salaries toward the tax credits . the investigation also said producers set up shell companies with local addresses that actually purchased goods and services from out of state .
deutsch said he didn’t know if the big - budget “untitled paramount project” that is listed in 22 film projects approved for tax credits this year on the commission’s website was the one being shot in marin . that project is listed as having a record $ 100 million - plus in expenditures that qualify for tax credits .
nevertheless , one of the greatest contributions to this film is performance . cillian murphy ( no bias bros ) completely pulled off the two different skillpas , despite the stark contrast in personalities . his performance did convince me otherwise when implausible events occurred , and i ' m honestly not sure how many actors can actually do that .
i enjoyed this film for what it was . it had a very hitchcock vibe , and cillian murphy did a great job . the movie built some suspense very well , and certainly had a creepy vibe throughout . however , it is one of those films that you wished went a different direction with its story . granted , the toil between the two personalities ( emma & john ) in one person was intriguing , but i couldn ' t help but feel like it would have been considerably better if it had a little more
meat
to it . the acting , and intriguing character study , saved what ' s other - wise a mediocre film .
with a brilliant ensemble cast including susan sarandon , bill pullman , ellen page and josh lucas all on fine form the film contains a tour de force performance from cillian murphy who further cements his reputation as a great acting talent , completely convincingly bringing both john and emma to life and making them very separate and very believable human beings .
“no doubt if they’ve got something to say , they’ll say it , ” mr . english said . “the rough estimates of taxpayer support for this film are around 50 million to 60 million new zealand dollars — maybe more if they spend more , so it’s pretty generous . ” that translates to $ 38 million to $ 45 million .
have you ever seen a direct to dvd movie and wonder why it never made it to theaters ? i watch these kinds of films all the time , some of them don ' t deserve a theatrical release others make me wonder why it didn ' t get one , especially when they have a great group of actor starring in the film .
“lander’s thriller wannabe is a confusing jumble of badly developed ideas which happen to be acted out by a talented group of actors who are squandered away in a film that is so concerned with creating a mystery that it overlooks the fact that it also needs to be a good movie . a sad waste of a great cast . ”–marina antunes , quiet earth
the film , for the most part , is an intriguing , low - key little drama ( with thriller - ish elements toward the end ) that’s bolstered by good performances and the novelty of the central twist . lander plots a story that , though sputtering toward the end , is never what you’d call predictable and thereby is very engaging up to a certain point . furthermore , he crafts an effectively morose film world that really grounds a concept that , on the surface , sounds kind of silly . and kudos to him for a seamlessly pulled - off first - act fakeout…the movie begins with murphy in drag as the mother , and i had no idea it was him until lander wanted me to .
as he is in pretty much everything , he ' s great in this movie . not many actors can pull off the dual personality . especially not when the personalities are dual gendered . there ' s so much nuance to his performance . his hand movements , his posture , eye movements , vocal inflections . . . . he definitely carries the film .
in a statement , mr . jackson said he was grateful to the government for introducing legislation and added , “i feel enormous gratitude to the film technicians , actors and fans who came out in support of making these films in new zealand . to the thousands of people who took the time to write and let us know they were with us — thank you . ”
john then visits maggie at the shelter , agreeing to give her a ride to madison , as well as just over $ 1000 , his savings at the bank . emma offers maggie a job at the bank , in an attempt to keep maggie in peacock . john asks maggie to meet him at the local motel at 11pm that night to collect the money . emma seduces a man at the bar that night , and leads him to the motel room that john had arranged . she beats the man unconscious , lays him on the bed , and sets the motel on fire as maggie comes to meet john . emma , long gone , gets to feign the
death
of her
husband .
an amazing and right on target review for this straight to dvd drama . i wish i had seen this review before i had seen the trailer . lionsgate released 2 trailers for this film . one of which makes it out to be a movie that leans more towards the horror genre than the suspense / thriller genre . very misleading and gets the movie to the wrong audience .
peacock follows the story of john skillpa , a quiet bank clerk living in nebraska , who appears to have a perfectly ordinary life . however , john has a secret which is threatening to be discovered . suffering from multiple personality disorder , john disguises one half of his personality under the character of
emma
, a woman who cooks and cleans for him every morning . one day , a freight train derails and crashes into his garden , unleashing a whirlwind of events as john ' s alter ego is discovered and he must invent a story involving a secret marriage in order to maintain his secret . young , single mother , maggie holds the key to john ' s past , and sparks a battle between the two personalities as emma begins to take over john ' s life completely .
suggested a strange , somewhat creepy tale of john skillpa , a quiet man with a secret , a secret that the trailer gives away . but even with the big reveal thrown out so quickly , the trailer does something else : it suggests a film with mystery , intrigue and perhaps a little something sinister as if the fact that john is also emma is simply a passing fact of little consequence sadly , the truth about
boocatbutterbee ( 2 years ago ) reply melanie , why do you have to express your disagreement in such a disagreeable way ? it diminishes your underlying point . the obnoxiousness is an unneeded distraction and makes me wonder about sadism . . . further , i do not believe the film was
brilliant
. it wasn ' t well - enough written to be that good . even i am smart enough to recognize that fact .
the old “split - personality” flick finally rears its head around me once again…it’s been quite some time since i’ve gotten the pleasure of watching one and reviewing something such as this . granted , i’ve sat through many a split - personality disorder movie in my day ; the most famously well - known of these of course would probably be sybil , which if memory serves won many well - deserved awards for sally field . the most lesser - known , of course , would probably have to be the michael keaton - starring multiplicity . or were those clones ? my memory fails me on that one , as it was so gawdawfully painful to sit through that i’ve tried repeatedly for years to forget as much about it as humanly possible . peacock , though , is a bird of a much different and brightly - colored * snicker * feather .
the legislation is expected to require workers to designate their status as an employee or a freelance worker when beginning a project , then stick with it , according to one person who was briefed on the talks but spoke anonymously because the agreement was not complete . thus , anyone who contracted individually with producers of “the hobbit” as a freelance worker at the beginning of the film could not change status later and claim the rights of a permanent employee .
the filming of the train derailment scene occurred at a local set of train tracks ; line producer brian bell explained that this particular shot was a
visual effects
shot , where the train would eventually be digitally edited to appear as if it is passing through skillpa ' s backyard , even though it is not physically there . although the shooting took four hours to complete , it only comprises about 10 to 15 seconds of the film . [ 9 ]
the studio has garnered high praise from producers and performers . british actor stephen fry , after completing his role in a television adaptation of the borrowers here , tweeted that the cape town studio made britain’s famed pinewood studios “look v shabby . ” andrew macdonald , a producer of dredd , told time magazine that the cape town studio is one of very few in the world that can create a film looking like a $ 100 - million production for less than half of that cost .
john skillpa ( cillian murphy ) , a quiet bank clerk living alone in tiny peacock , nebraska , prefers to live an invisible life in order to hide his secret : he has dissociative identity disorder , the implied result of childhood trauma inflicted by his abusive mother . his alter ego is a woman , emma , who each morning does his chores and cooks him breakfast before he starts the day . one day while he is using the outside yard clothesline as emma , a freight train caboose derails and crashes into john ' s backyard . when his neighbors come to the scene ,
emma
enters his house , putting john ' s other life into the spotlight , so he is forced to tell his neighbors that emma is his wife , married in secrecy . forced to fool the town into believing he and his alter ego are man and wife , john and emma must maintain their secret while in public view .
new zealand’s film industry received an enormous boost from the production of mr . jackson’s “lord of the rings” and “king kong” films , and has continued to be a center for special - effects work on other movies , including james cameron’s “avatar . ” the industry had revenue of 2 . 8 billion new zealand dollars in 2009 , or $ 2 . 1 billion — roughly 2 percent of the gross domestic product , according to statistics new zealand , an agency that monitors the country’s economy .
but behind the agreement is a hard economic reality . hollywood has the upper hand in deciding where to film its big - budget extravaganzas , and there are many places willing to pay to attract filmmakers . and so the negotiations found executives of a giant american studio sitting across the table from the chief executive of a sovereign nation , population 4 . 4 million , wrangling over the fate of a pair of films and , with it , a not insignificant part of that nation’s economy and public image .
perhaps just as important , wednesday’s agreement also calls for new zealand to increase its contribution to each film by $ 7 . 5 million , in addition to a standing government incentive that reimburses up to 15 percent of the spending in new zealand by a high - budget production like “the hobbit . ” in a further twist , mr . key told reporters , in a commitment to time warner and its global media group , new zealand would contribute $ 10 million to a marketing campaign that would tie the films to tourism in the country .
as the film opens , the protagonist and his lady friend are caught up in a routine that sees her existing solely to meet his needs : making him meals , getting him off to work , doing his laundry . she doesn’t even leave the house . as we find out early on , john suffered immensely at the hands of his mother , who left him emotionally crippled and barely able to function in the real world . however , he was so dependent upon her that after she died , he had to find a replacement . and so he did…in the form of a split personality .
tries hard to rise above the bare bones story concept but the acting and great score ( brian reitzell ' s work is hauntingly gorgeous ) are simply not enough to do it . when the credits rolled , i was so confused that i searched the extras for some clarification only to find an alternate ending that confused me even more . lander ' s thriller wannabe is a confusing jumble of badly developed ideas which happen to be acted out by a talented group of actors who are squandered away in a film that is so concerned with creating a mystery that it overlooks the fact that it also needs to be a good movie . a sad waste of a great cast .
polyvinyl ( 4 years ago ) reply i think it is very clear that emma is john reincarnating his controlling mother in his split personality . her control over him did not end when she died . and he fights this control over him , while she becomes the dominant persona . at last he prevents the child from becoming her / his next victim but is unable to free himself . in the end he returns into the cage of his mind . the film / script is not perfect , but cillian murphy gives a stunning performance of this torn mind , especially when at the end the two characters melt together and you can sense emmas presence just in the way
john
moves .
mr . jackson was not present in the meetings with new zealand officials , though his manager , ken kamins , who is also an executive producer of the film , was , along with toby emmerich , new line’s president , and john a . rogovin , warner’s general counsel . the discussions were generally smooth , according to the person who spoke anonymously . that person said both warner executives and government officials agreed from the outset that new zealand was the preferred location , if the union question could be resolved , and if warner could recoup some of the money it had lost in the delay , partly from a strengthening of the new zealand currency . canada , germany and britain had all surfaced as viable alternative locations .
now , before you go raking me over the coals for dealing out spoilers when you know how much i hate them , step off…everything , with the exception of my excerpt from the most excellent song by rockwell , in the quick fix above can be peeped in the trailer on the movie’s official website . i strongly questioned why they would ever drop the “big reveal” bomb in the trailer like that , but in watching the movie itself unfold and unravel before my eyes , it suddenly became very clear to me – the filmmakers weren’t nearly as concerned with whether or not we knew the “how” of it all – they wanted us to watch the film closely and pay attention so that we could learn the “why” of it all… . nicely played !
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