{"id":22736,"date":"2016-10-14T09:13:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T13:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22736"},"modified":"2016-10-14T09:13:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T13:13:16","slug":"givertaker-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/14\/givertaker-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"GiverTaker (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/givertaker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22737\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/givertaker.jpg\" alt=\"givertaker\" width=\"550\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/givertaker.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/givertaker-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/givertaker-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>For the nineties kids that grew up with great YA horror fodder like \u201cGoosebumps,\u201d \u201cFear Street,\u201d and \u201cAre You Afraid of the Dark,\u201d director Paul Gandersman and writer Peter S. Hall really seem to have done their research, building a pretty damn great short horror film around the mold of a series called \u201cThe Dead Kids Club.\u201d I hope they can find the funding to continue producing films under this label, as I\u2019d love to see a series of shorts or feature length films within \u201cThe Dead Kids Club\u201d concept.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of ideas to be mined from the teenage experience in regards to bullying, gossip, relationships, revenge, and how tough it is to grow up in a generation filled with such ruthlessness. \u201cGiverTaker\u201d is a very good taste of the concept. Sarah has a bone to pick with the girls in her class, and after offering them up as sacrifices to the enigmatic entity \u201cThe Givertaker,\u201d she invites them in to her basement to view its full power. With the help of coins and a mere wish, she seeks to torture the girls she once called friends and angrily tries to find out who spread a vicious rumor in their school that caused her to become an outcast.<\/p>\n<p>The GiverTaker is a terrifying entity that director Gandersman keeps shrouded until the big unveiling, and before then the build up is entertaining and quite twisted. The performances all around are fantastic, with director Gandersman lending the film a really slick and stylish nineties aesthetic. \u201cGivertaker\u201d is teeming with talent, including solid special effects and great creature effects, overall. It\u2019s a very well told and written short film with a narrative that Hall sets up and resolves quite brilliantly. I hope we can see more films from this series very soon. I think \u201cThe Dead Kids Club\u201d has strong potential to be a banner horror anthology.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/182476140\" width=\"640\" height=\"268\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the nineties kids that grew up with great YA horror fodder like \u201cGoosebumps,\u201d \u201cFear Street,\u201d and \u201cAre You Afraid of the Dark,\u201d director Paul Gandersman and writer Peter S. Hall really seem to have done their research, building a pretty damn great short horror film around the mold of a series called \u201cThe Dead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[274,385,477,501,703,840,938,1008,1087,1196],"class_list":["post-22736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-demon","tag-g","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-mystery","tag-revenge","tag-short-film","tag-supernatural","tag-thriller","tag-witches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22736","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=22736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22738,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22736\/revisions\/22738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}