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‘Southbound’ and ‘V/H/S’ Alum Directs Bloody Cherry Glazer Music Video, ‘XX’ Segment!
We’ve known Roxanne Benjamin for a long, long time, from way back when she reviewed films for Bloody Disgusting out of various festivals. She then ended up producing both V/H/S and V/H/S/2 with us before making her directorial debut on our Southbound anthology. Next up for this up-and-comer is the below music video for Cherry Glazer. The vicious video is for the song “Nurse Ratched” off Apocalipstick, which is out on January 20, 2017 on Secretly Canadian. The video was shot by super DP Tarin Anderson and edited by, get this, Jason Eisener (Death Note, Hobo With a Shotgun, V/H/S/2)!
“I wanted to make the video for ‘Nurse Ratched’ feel like a throwback to ‘70s era exploitation films in both theme and style-something totally over-the-top violent-but with a surreal and dream-like quality,” Benjamin tells us. “For the look, we shot day-for-night and then added an archival 16mm Fujifilm process. It seems like in road horror movies, it’s split down the middle between whether the hitchhiker or the driver is the one to be afraid of, but almost always the predatory one is male. It was fun to play with the idea of who we should be scared for and who we should be scared of with Sasami and Clem’s dynamic.”
But that’s not all, looking over at IMBd for some info I discovered that Benjamin not only wrote and produced a segment of XX for musician St. Vincent (Annie Clark), but she also directed one of her own. While we don’t have information on that yet, she joins an elite squad of female filmmakers that include Karyn Kusama (Girlfight, Jennifer’s Body, The Invitation), Sofia Carrillo, and Jovanka Vuckovic.
It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.
Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.
Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.
“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.
“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”
You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…
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