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Irish director Jim Sheridan is probably best known for films like My Left Foot or In The Name of the Father.

His most recent film, which got a very negative review in this weekend’s Sunday Business Post is much more commercial and stars Daniel Craig and Rachel Wiesz.

Dream House is a horror – but with this film it’s pretty clear that the horror refers not only to the film’s genre but the film itself.  According to the LA Times, Sheridan was so unhappy with the cut that the studio released that he wanted his name removed from it!

Even the trailer (below) was met with negative reception, as it gives away more of the film’s plot and twists than many would be comfortable with

Related articles

• Dream House – review (guardian.co.uk)
• Cinema & Film: Film Review: Dream House – (15) (coventrytelegraph.net)
• Dream House (15) (independent.co.uk)
• Dream House (jmountswritteninblood.com)
• How Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz fell in love filming Dream House (mirror.co.uk)
• Jim Sheridan Wanted Out of His Dream House Before it Was Opened to the Public (dreadcentral.com)
• Dream House Video Interviews with Director Jim Sheridan And A Behind-The-Scenes Clip (dreadcentral.com)
• Dream House Director Jim Sheridan Tried To Remove His Name From The Movie (perezhilton.com)

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Jennifer’s Body stars Megan Fox (Transformers), who reprises her “hot babe” style role and Amanda Seyfried (Mamma Mia) who is trying to play a convincing “ugly duckling”.

Basic plotline – Jennifer thrives on the flesh of boys. If she doesn’t get flesh / blood often enough she begins to lose her looks – getting paler and more “washed out” over time. The fresh blood keeps her looking young and attractive

I could go into more detail about the dynamic between the two leading female actors. (The lesbian undertones are quite interesting… )
I could try to justify the script’s weaknesses
I could even try to convince you that it was worth going to see, but who am I kidding?

Jennifer’s Body will be available on DVD, BluRay and cable TV. Wait until it is.

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There was a lot of hype surrounding the cinema release of Cloverfield earlier this year, so the DVD release was bound to be as overhyped. Not that hype is necessarily a bad thing.
The Cloverfield DVD will be released in the US on April 22nd and in the run up to the “event” there is a pretty nice competition running which is based tightly around the film’s theme.
You can put together your own Cloverfield style film with monster effects etc., and get in on a chance to win lots of prizes. Unfortunately the competition is open to US residents only.

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