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A Chronicle of Corpses
A Chronicle of Corpses is a 2000 gothic art-house film directed by Andrew Repasky McElhinney.
A Chronicle of Corpses was named one of the Top Ten Movies of the Year by The New York Times and its original camera negative is in the permanent collection of MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art (New York) along with other movies directed by Andrew Repasky McElhinney.
"An unseen assassin is killing off members of the family one by one, but in a way that defies cinematic expectations. A Chronicle of Corpses imagines the horror movie as seen through a telescope, making full use of artfully composed long takes that reduce victims to insignificant pinpoints on the horizon. Scurrying back and forth across the lawns of a musty 19th century estate, cloaked by an all-pervasive darkness, the aristocratic Elliott family is actually being destroyed by the weight of ever-shifting American history and Gothic tradition."
The credits of 'A Chronicle of Corpses' bills the actors in alphabetical order: Marj Dusay (Grandmother Elliot), Harry Carnahan Green (Tyrone), Ryan Foley (Sara), Kevin Mitchell Martin (Mr. Elliot), Sally Mercer (Mrs. Elliot), Jerry Perna (Father Jerome), Melissa Rex (The Killer), Lindzie Calabrese Rivera (The Baby), Amanda Scheiner (Anna), David Semonin (Uncle Grady), Georges Spence (Swales), David Scott Taylor (The Beggar-Slave), Margot White (Bridgette), and Oliver Wyman (Thomas).
Interviewed in The Film Journal about developing A Chronicle of Corpses, McElhinney commented: "I like the horror genre because it is disreputable and anything is permissible. As long as you fulfill certain genre expectations -- or actively don't go in the direction of those expectations -- you have a 'horror film.' A Chronicle of Corpses appears to both 'embrace and reject conventions' because the movie is ultimately interpretive, impressionistic -- an open text. It is not up for the film (or the film's director) to decide how or what the picture is finally, but for the viewer to work with, and become part of, the text and interface with it in his or her own way."
Fangoria remarked A Chronicle of Corpses is "History written in blood" and that "Corpses is a fusion of highbrow and lowbrow aesthetics."
McElhinney has stated that the A Chronicle of Corpses screenplay, "was pretty set by the time we went into rehearsal (which I'm not sure was a good thing in the end) but Kevin Mitchell Martin who plays Mr. Elliot was actually so in tune with my style for that film and understood his character so deftly that he improv-ed his monologue ("I feel so hungry to remember . . .") right before the woods tracking shot where his character disappears."
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A Chronicle of Corpses
A Chronicle of Corpses is a 2000 gothic art-house film directed by Andrew Repasky McElhinney.
A Chronicle of Corpses was named one of the Top Ten Movies of the Year by The New York Times and its original camera negative is in the permanent collection of MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art (New York) along with other movies directed by Andrew Repasky McElhinney.
"An unseen assassin is killing off members of the family one by one, but in a way that defies cinematic expectations. A Chronicle of Corpses imagines the horror movie as seen through a telescope, making full use of artfully composed long takes that reduce victims to insignificant pinpoints on the horizon. Scurrying back and forth across the lawns of a musty 19th century estate, cloaked by an all-pervasive darkness, the aristocratic Elliott family is actually being destroyed by the weight of ever-shifting American history and Gothic tradition."
The credits of 'A Chronicle of Corpses' bills the actors in alphabetical order: Marj Dusay (Grandmother Elliot), Harry Carnahan Green (Tyrone), Ryan Foley (Sara), Kevin Mitchell Martin (Mr. Elliot), Sally Mercer (Mrs. Elliot), Jerry Perna (Father Jerome), Melissa Rex (The Killer), Lindzie Calabrese Rivera (The Baby), Amanda Scheiner (Anna), David Semonin (Uncle Grady), Georges Spence (Swales), David Scott Taylor (The Beggar-Slave), Margot White (Bridgette), and Oliver Wyman (Thomas).
Interviewed in The Film Journal about developing A Chronicle of Corpses, McElhinney commented: "I like the horror genre because it is disreputable and anything is permissible. As long as you fulfill certain genre expectations -- or actively don't go in the direction of those expectations -- you have a 'horror film.' A Chronicle of Corpses appears to both 'embrace and reject conventions' because the movie is ultimately interpretive, impressionistic -- an open text. It is not up for the film (or the film's director) to decide how or what the picture is finally, but for the viewer to work with, and become part of, the text and interface with it in his or her own way."
Fangoria remarked A Chronicle of Corpses is "History written in blood" and that "Corpses is a fusion of highbrow and lowbrow aesthetics."
McElhinney has stated that the A Chronicle of Corpses screenplay, "was pretty set by the time we went into rehearsal (which I'm not sure was a good thing in the end) but Kevin Mitchell Martin who plays Mr. Elliot was actually so in tune with my style for that film and understood his character so deftly that he improv-ed his monologue ("I feel so hungry to remember . . .") right before the woods tracking shot where his character disappears."