{"id":23260,"date":"2016-11-15T03:36:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T08:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=23260"},"modified":"2016-11-15T03:01:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T08:01:50","slug":"k-shop-2016-ithaca-fantastik-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/15\/k-shop-2016-ithaca-fantastik-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"K-Shop (2016) [Ithaca Fantastik 2016]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"k-shop\"<\/a>Following his father\u2019s death and an accident with a client, Salah starts down a revenge path against racists and those who have wronged his father and himself. Written and directed by Dan Pringle, this vigilante-horror film delivers plenty of vengeance and bloody violence with some original ideas on how to get rid of the bodies.\u00a0 It has themes that will hit close to home for some such as racism, familial duty, wanting for a better life, etc.\u00a0 Of course, what makes the film interesting is the less than common (and advisable) path the lead takes towards his goals.\u00a0 His vengeance is violent, bloody, and rather merciless.<\/p>\n

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The lead character is fairly well written and his main antagonist has enough background to make him truly despicable.\u00a0 The rest of the characters are pretty thin and only there to serve their short term purpose with few exceptions who come into play towards the second half and end of the film. As the entire film revolves around lead Salah, the actor chosen to play him had to be able to carry the entire film almost completely on his own.\u00a0 The actor trusted with this part is Ziad Abaza who takes it and imbues it with a conviction and lust for revenge that pulls the viewer in and keeps them involved throughout the film.\u00a0 He has a good, strong screen presence without being an obvious vigilante.\u00a0 His character has layers and he shows this in his interpretation.<\/p>\n

Playing Salah\u2019s main antagonist, or enemy, one man he most wants to take down is Scot Williams as Jason Brown, a reality TV star turned club owner, promoter, and generally scummy human being.\u00a0 Williams plays this part with glee, clearly enjoying being the powerful bad guy.\u00a0 His being almost a complete opposite to Abaza in how they are in their respective parts adds interest to the story. The special makeup effects by Jennifer Drew and Jenny Nelson along with the visual effects by Kyran Bishop, Doug Brown, and Laura Johnson create the kills, wounds, dead bodies, and other effects which are at the core of the film\u2019s horror elements.\u00a0 Their work look great on camera and the blood is just the right shade of dark red while being quite plentiful.<\/p>\n

In a film this dark and with the center idea that is here, the effects had to work or they would have killed the film. K-Shop is a horror film with central themes that are much more than a simple slasher, it shows more in depth ideas while the way it is done makes it feel like a simple revenge film.\u00a0 It could and should have been more.\u00a0 It is entertaining but the ending basically kills the whole film which is much too bad as it is a very good film until those last few minutes.\u00a0 The film almost has a message while being a good horror film with lots of revenge and kills, which only makes that lackluster ending more frustrating.\u00a0 What makes that ending feel out of place is hard to pinpoint, perhaps it\u2019s the tone, or it\u2019s writing, but something about it feels off and perhaps tacked on while it may very well not be.<\/p>\n

The rest of the film has a certain feel to it, but this part, however short it may be, does not.\u00a0 The film is still worth seeing and perhaps having a warning about this will help viewers appreciate this ending better.<\/p>\n

Ithaca<\/strong> Fantastik 2016 ran from the 9th<\/sup> until the 13th<\/sup> of November 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following his father\u2019s death and an accident with a client, Salah starts down a revenge path against racists and those who have wronged his father and himself. Written and directed by Dan Pringle, this vigilante-horror film delivers plenty of vengeance and bloody violence with some original ideas on how to get rid of the bodies.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[111,367,477,703,840,950,1013,1087],"class_list":["post-23260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-arthouse","tag-foreign","tag-horror","tag-mystery","tag-revenge","tag-slasher","tag-suspense","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23260","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23262,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23260\/revisions\/23262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}