{"id":2163,"date":"2013-03-14T20:33:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T00:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinemacrazed.wordpress.com\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2013-03-14T20:33:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T00:33:39","slug":"the-earth-rejects-him-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/14\/the-earth-rejects-him-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"The Earth Rejects Him (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/MY8IlYf.jpg\" width=\"255\" height=\"227\" \/>Director Jared Skolnick&#8217;s &#8220;The Earth Rejects Him&#8221; is one of the most surreal horror films I&#8217;ve seen in a very long time. It&#8217;s not often I can watch a movie with a baffled expression and still recommend it as a great film. Not many indie directors know how to direct child actors, and director Skolnick brings out the best in his young cast. Ellis Gage gives a very memorable performance as this young boy who finds himself in an extraordinary predicament and has no idea how to handle it without becoming homicidal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><!--more-->Gage plays Ray, a young boy who accidentally falls off a cliff after a dare on a bike. Thankfully he survives without a scratch, but while scrambling to get up the cliff again, he finds a human skull. While marveling at it, he chips off a tooth and tucks it away by impulse as his friends call the police to report the remains. When Ray buries the tooth to give it something of a ceremonious burial, the tooth transforms in to something the young boy was never quite prepared for. &#8220;The Earth Rejects Him&#8221; just becomes so much more bizarre once the tooth is buried, and director Skolnick offers a very unusual look at a young boy who decides to accept this situation and use it to his benefit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">But once his accident takes a turn for the worse, he&#8217;s never quite sure if he desires the results after all. Skolnick&#8217;s &#8220;The Earth Rejects Him&#8221; is such a unique and creepy horror short and one that gives audiences a chance to interpret its meanings rather than splash the screen with gore and grue, and I appreciated it for that. Director Jared Skolnick assuredly has a compelling short horror oddity on his hands, with an original premise, a bizarre concept, and a story open to interpretation that will invoke many a conversations among viewers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Jared Skolnick&#8217;s &#8220;The Earth Rejects Him&#8221; is one of the most surreal horror films I&#8217;ve seen in a very long time. It&#8217;s not often I can watch a movie with a baffled expression and still recommend it as a great film. Not many indie directors know how to direct child actors, and director Skolnick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[310,477,501,938,1008,1087],"class_list":["post-2163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-e","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-short-film","tag-supernatural","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}