{"id":9386,"date":"2008-10-03T19:14:57","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T23:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=9386"},"modified":"2008-10-03T19:14:57","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T23:14:57","slug":"dead-fury-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/03\/dead-fury-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Fury (2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"deadfur1b\"<\/a>Frank Sudol\u2019s \u201cDead Fury\u201d is inspired by classics such as \u201cJohn Carpenter\u2019s The Thing,\u201d \u201cEvil Dead\u201d and most likely \u201cNight of the Living Dead\u201d and as such is a clear homage that notifies the audience of its intentions before the credits even roll. I\u2019m a fan of Sudol\u2019s \u201cCity of Rott\u201d even in spite of the general problems it had in the final act, and he follows it up with a surreal and unusually constructed monster in the house story about four friends out on a hunting trip who find\u2026 demons? I want to say Demons who act like Zombies. Either way, \u201cDead Fury\u201d is a film that\u2019s been met with a bit of scorn from critics, but I like it.<\/p>\n

I enjoy the blas\u00e9 sense of fear the gang exhibits when confronted with the evil menaces, and I even enjoy Sudol\u2019s continued desired to introduce heroes we wouldn\u2019t expect. There\u2019s a woman who just doesn\u2019t know when to take a hint, the goth who thankfully gets it first, the hero Max, with an Eastwood rasp and an Ash heroic quirk, and of course Pap, the old man who contributes nothing but inexplicably makes it through the hordes of zombie demons coming through the woods.\u00a0 There\u2019s a certain bravery with director Sudol\u2019s insistence on creating his movies all on his own (he voices all the characters, too) and that\u2019s why his universe is so damn brutal and unusual.<\/p>\n

Only Sudol would have the balls to include a demonic squirrel as one of the villains in the final act, and only a character of Sudol would see a mutilated body of their friend and scream \u201cWe could still take him to the hospital!\u201d Yes, Sudol is a sick bastard, but one of the many individuals who define independent filmmaking. He does it all himself on a very small budget, and the end result is a damn entertaining horror thriller that kicks animation in the balls with its unique style and creativity. Bring on some more, Sudol. As with “City of Rott,” Sudol doesn’t quite know when to quit.<\/p>\n

When it seems like the movie should have long ended, “Dead Fury” just keeps chugging along with a back story in to the demons that would have been best left on the cutting room floor. I never cared about the revenge story, or the freaks arc, or any of the diary entries; sadly writer Sudol just makes it feel like he’s padding the movie’s running time that would have been better used on back story for the characters. In spite of being ten minutes too long, “Dead Fury” is a movie you’ll either love or hate, and I really loved what it had to offer as a love letter to the horror genre that takes twists and turns you won’t expect. And it helps that the DVD has some boss features.<\/p>\n

As for the DVD, Unearthed Films has given Sudol\u2019s flick a pretty good treatment all around. There\u2019s a five minute Behind the Scenes narrated by Sudol who explains his animation process by using Adobe Photoshop. We\u2019re also given a thirty four minute excluded storyboard and dialogue montage, as well as ten minutes of Deleted or Extended Scenes from \u201cDead Fury.\u201d Finally we get a Two minute slide show of character sketches and storyboards from the movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Frank Sudol\u2019s \u201cDead Fury\u201d is inspired by classics such as \u201cJohn Carpenter\u2019s The Thing,\u201d \u201cEvil Dead\u201d and most likely \u201cNight of the Living Dead\u201d and as such is a clear homage that notifies the audience of its intentions before the credits even roll. I\u2019m a fan of Sudol\u2019s \u201cCity of Rott\u201d even in spite of […]<\/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":[58,99,249,259,276,419,477,501,897,1012,1087],"class_list":["post-9386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-animation","tag-d","tag-dark-comedy","tag-demons","tag-gore","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-satanic","tag-survival","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9386","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=9386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}