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GUT – 10 Best Horror Films of 2012!!!

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So I am slightly delayed on this due to the Naked Holiday shenanigans, but in addition to GUT being one of Anythinghorror’s 10 Best Horror Films of 2012:

“This is a slow-burn of a film and this goes in some really dark places and has an ending that will leave you shocked and open-mouthed. I love this film!!”

www.anythinghorror.com/2013/01/03/anything-horror-scotts-10-best-horror-films-of-2012 

Plus GUT is #1 on FrightFiles Best Finds of 2012:

“1.  Gut-  I think this is the best feature length horror film of 2012, period.  Smart, intriguing, well acted, well directed, sexy and more!”

www.horrorfansreview.com/best-of-2012.html

I would LOVE to share with you Greg Petaloudis’ write up on ‘GUT’ which is probably one of the most thorough & detailed articles available..  Thank you good sir..  This is AH-MAZING…  😀

http://horrorunlimited.blogspot.com/2012/11/gut-film-by-elias.html

GUT: New Horror Movie by Director Elias: WINNER Best Thriller Feature: Atlanta Horror Film Festival 2012

G U T (2012)
Written and Directed by:  “Elias”
Producers: Anna Ganster, Elias
Production companies: Gut Productions, BiFF JUGGERNAUT Productions
Starring: Jason Vail, Nicholas Wilder, Sarah Schoofs, Kristianna and Kaitlyn Mueller, Angie Bullaro, Maria Victoria, Karl Pfeiffer and Miles Joris-Peyrafitte
May 2012 World Premiere:
Norway’s 60°N Os International Film Festival
Eastern European Premiere:
Transilvania International Film Festival (Shadows section)
 
WINNER
BEST THRILLER FEATURE
Atlanta Horror Film Festival 2012

GUT (2012)
A film by Elias

G U T WAS AN OFFICIAL SELECTION OF:

 THRILLER! CHILLER!

SARAH SCHOOF’S ABDOMEN IS SLIT OPEN IN G U T (2012)
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Sarah Schoofs and Jason Vail in G U T (2012)

Great production & behind the scenes photos from GUT here

Sarah Schoofs (Lily) and Jason Vail (Tom) talking
things out in the great outdoors in G U T (2012)

Writer-director, Elias (left), getting in on the action!
Here, Sarah Schoofs (Lily) and Jason Vail (Tom) are
rehearsing  a very important love-making scene!

MINI BIOGRAPHY for Elias 
Born in Boston, Elias moved to New York to study film at the School of Visual Arts where he graduated in 2000. Since then he has written, produced, directed, and appeared in films, including “The Voice Inside” (winner of the Boston Underground Film Festival’s Award for Most Offensive), “Dead Sucks,” and the H.P. Lovecraft-inspired “LovecraCked! The Movie.”
His producing credits also include “With Anchovies… Without Mamma” and the horror feature “Alone.” Since completing “Gut,” he wrote the thriller “Dark,”Whitney Able (“Monsters”) attached, and is
currently working on two more scripts, one of which he plans to direct next.
Credits (feature films):
Alone (2012) – producer
Gut (2012) – producer/director/writer
LovecraCked! The Movie (2006) – producer/director/writer
Credits (short films):
Frankie (2011) – producer
Dead Sucks (2009) – producer/director/writer
With Anchovies… Without Mamma (2009) – producer
The Voice Inside (2001) – producer/director/writer
G U T (2012)
Tom (Jason Vail) is the average next door guy heading
off to work. Married to loving wife Lily (Sarah Schoofs),
with a lovely young daughter, Katie (Kaitlyn Mueller).

REVIEW by: Scott Shoyer

 The snuff film has been a “go-to” topic in horror films for years. Whether it’s about tracking down an alleged snuff film (8MM), people being forced to ‘star’ in a snuff film (VACANCY), or documentaries on the snuff film phenomena (SNUFF: A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT KILLING ON CAMERA), the snuff film seems to be a great source of inspiration and fascination for the horror-going public. The film, GUT, takes the classic urban legend and does something unique with it — it becomes just an aspect of the plot and not the focus of the film itself. Let’s see what the results are. Tom (Jason Vail) is your average guy. Married to loving wife Lily (Sarah Schoofs), with a charming young daughter, Katie (played by both Kirstianna and Kaitlyn Mueller) and a typical, average marriage. Tom, though, seems to be going through some tough times and hates the mundane routine his life has fallen into.

Great production & behind the scenes photos from GUT here
Great production & behind the scenes photos from GUT here
Lily (Sarah Schoofs) talking with her friend during a happier moment in GUT (2012)

Tom (Jason Vail) is looking his wife Lily (Sarah Schoofs) not to make love, but
rather to eviscerate her exactly in the same way he witnessed in that snuff film
he and Dan previously watched that just he can’t can’t seem to get out of his mind!
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Tom (Jason Vail) tries to make love to his wife Lily (Sarah Schoofs). However,
he’s still thinking about that snuff film he and Dan had previously watched.
Great production & behind the scenes photos from GUT here
Great production & behind the scenes photos from GUT here
Tom (Jason Vail) can’t make love to his wife Lily (Sarah Schoofs) since he’s
still thinking about that snuff film he and Dan had previously watched.
Tom (Jason Vail) makes love to his wife Lily (Sarah Schoofs)

The same boring job, eating lunch at the same time every day in the same diner. He becomes aloof, showing signs of depression, and begins to slowly push away the people in his life who love him the most.
One such person is, Dan (Nicholas Wilder), Tom’s long-time best friend. Dan is still single and clings to his college way of life like plastic wrap adheres to jello. Dan is one of those people Tom has been pushing away and tries to talk to Tom about it. Tom insists everything is okay but it’s obvious it isn’t. So in a ‘hail mary’ attempt to cheer Tom up and reconnect with him, Dan goes onto an underground genre-themed website and orders what the filmmaker claims is an authentic snuff film. Dan doesn’t believe it for a second, but he buys it to try to shake Tom out of his funk.

 That night the Tom and Dan watch the snuff film and when it’s over… Dan
mentions that he’d like to talk about what they just saw. Tom yells at him,
“What is there to talk about,” and storms out of Dan’s apartment!

Tom (Jason Vail) walks the streets at night thinking about that snuff film he watched
a few days ago where a pretty girl is tied to a table and then eviscerated. For
some reason, he just can’t seem to get those grisly images out of his mind!

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Some things can NEVER be unseen!

Great production & behind the scenes photos from GUT here

Tom’s mounting feelings of guilt and disillusionment quickly give way to paranoia and fear. One snuff video soon follows another and another, blurring the line between reality and voyeuristic fascination, and threatening to dismantle everything around them.

Tom (Jason Vail) and (Sarah Schoofs) in a scene from GUT
That night the two watch the film and when it’s over Dan mentions that he’d like to talk about what they just saw. Tom yells at him, “What is there to talk about,” and storms out of Dan’s apartment. But leaving the room where he saw the ‘snuff’ film was easier than getting the snuff film to leave him, and later that night Tom finds himself unable to stop thinking about what he saw. On the film there was a naked woman strapped to a table and a gloved hand bearing a razor sharp knife slices open the woman’s stomach, reaches into the wound, and pulls out her intestines. Not only was there no dialogue or any other plot, but the effects looked incredibly real. The film has gotten under both Dan and Tom’s skin and Tom finds himself more and more preoccupied (or is he really obsessed) with that mysterious film?
No this does not suddenly become like the Nicholas Cage film 8MM where he submerges himself in the underground to track down whether the film was real or reel. No! Tom doesn’t get so obsessed he becomes a killer. What GUT does is pretty damn unique. It uses the snuff film as both the backdrop and the driving force of the plot. GUT is a psychological horror film and is one of the best I’ve seen. This is a slow burn movie that focuses 100% on the characters and offers a fantastic payoff in the end. The ‘payoff,’ though, isn’t a scene of explosive violence, but is a more-than-satisfying culmination of everything Tom and Dan have gone though. GUT slowly builds the tension, suspense, and horror until it reaches it’s stage of critical mass.

Great production & behind the scenes photos from GUT here
QUOTE: “Instead of going straight for the gut — pun intended — Elias takes aim at
your brain, exploring how the horror genre can have adverse effects on those already unbalanced individuals who seek some sort of strange solace in the bowels of human misery. Keeping the tale grounded in the real world takes talent, and Elias has certainly done a wonderful job making you believe this sort of thing could happen. Of course, strong performances from both Jason Vail and Nicholas Wilder helps matters tremendously. The entire affair is wholly impressive.” BeyondHollywood.com – March 18th, 2012
Tom (Jason Vail) looks at the blood on his
hands from (Sarah Schoofs) stomach wound.

GUT really explores how the event of watching such an intense film would affect someone and how it would forever change you. On the one hand, Dan becomes bold and screws up his courage to ask out the waitress, Sally (Angie Bullaro) who works at the diner they go to every day. Tom, though, becomes both horrified and fascinated with the films. Tom’s thoughts about the snuff film become ambiguous because the subject material horrifies him, yet it’s the one thing that’s made him feel something in a long time.
Lately he’s become alienated and detached from the world and the snuff film has served as some kind of bizarre umbilical cord that re-tethers him to his life.
But when he starts fantasizing about slitting his own wife’s stomach open and is unable to enjoy something as innocent as having a tickle fight with his daughter because her tummy becomes exposed, he knows there’s something wrong.

Director Elias on the set of GUT

Writer-director Elias has an amazing amount of focus and control over his film here and needs to be commended. In lesser hands GUT would have easily spun outta control and left the viewer scratching their heads thinking, “What the fuck did I just see?” But Elias knows exactly what he wants GUT to be and never lets it stray or get off track, not even for a second.
The acting here is top-notch and much of the success of GUT must be given to the performances of Mr. Vail and Mr. Wilder. Watching this film you’ll find yourself investing a lot into these two characters. If you don’t, you really won’t “get” anything out of the experience.
But these two make it easy to forget we’re watching a film. Their performances grab you from the opening scene and hold you until the final frame. I felt as though I went through the same cathartic effect as these two characters did by the final reel.

Great production & behind the scenes photos from GUT here
QUOTE: “…GUT is a powerful and sublime film that relies on patience and slow builds to be effective. You’ll need a healthy dose of patience to get to the good stuff in this film—not a knock. This low budgeter is worth getting behind because of the deft use of silence and patience letting the character unfold without a lot of forced dialog. Most filmmakers lack this much restraint and you end up caring more about these characters because of it.”

Ain’t It Cool News – Nov 11th, 2011

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