{"id":1597,"date":"2017-02-16T04:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2017-02-16T04:01:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T09:01:07","slug":"horror-anthology-xx-offers-a-quartet-of-disturbing-films-out-feb-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2017\/02\/16\/horror-anthology-xx-offers-a-quartet-of-disturbing-films-out-feb-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Horror Anthology XX Offers A Quartet of Disturbing Films; Out Feb. 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>XX <\/em><br \/>\n\u201cFour Deadly Tales from Four Female Filmmakers\u201d<br \/>\nDirectors: Jovanka Vuckovic, Annie Clark, Roxanne Benjamin, and Karyn Kusama<br \/>\nStarring: Natalie Brown (\u201cThe Box\u201d), Melanie Lynskey (\u201cThe Birthday Party\u201d), Angela Trimbur (\u201cDon\u2019t Fall\u201d), Christina Kirk (\u201cHer Only Living Son\u201d)<br \/>\nOpens February 17: In Theaters, on demand, on Amazon and iTunes<\/p>\n<p>If you are seeking to be disturbed, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magnetreleasing.com\/xx\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>XX<\/em><\/a> gives you plenty of options. The new horror anthology offers up four short films, all directed by women with female leads, plus some wonderfully creepy stop animation interstitials. Each film represents a different style of telling a horror story. Jovanka Vuckovic, Annie Clark (a.k.a. St. Vincent), Roxanne Benjamin, and Karyn Kusama direct four films distinct in tone and approach. There is psychologic terror, mystery, body horror, a tale of ordinary madness, family drama, plus a monster or two. For those who need to be warned, there are a few spoilers ahead.     <\/p>\n<p>First up is \u201cThe Box,\u201d based on Jack Ketchum\u2019s Bram Stoker Award-winning short story of the same name. The concept is simple and elegant, worthy of Edgar Allan Poe. Susan and her two young children are on their way back home on the train just before Christmas. Seven-year-old Danny, excited for Santa\u2019s visit, can\u2019t resist asking the stranger next to him what\u2019s in his shiny red box. After he looks, Danny is no longer excited. Back home, he stops eating. His parents can\u2019t figure out what\u2019s bothering him as he becomes increasingly gaunt and standoffish. As the tension mounts and the mystery deepens, we learn that Danny\u2019s disturbance is contagious when it spreads to his older sister.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LGH-zJ9_uFs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe story is told from the mother\u2019s point of view, and her hysteria is palpable as she watches her family crumble, reaching a crescendo in a dream sequence in which she makes the ultimate sacrifice to end the trouble. Vuckovic, who directed and adapted the screenplay, keeps the frustrating mystery up to the very end of the story. It\u2019s an advantage of the shorter format that she doesn\u2019t necessarily have to solve it. She can leave Susan, and by proxy the audience, to speculate. Bring them to the point where they have to know and them leave them there with a knot in their stomach. <\/p>\n<p>Annie Clark seems to have had the most fun directing \u201cThe Birthday Party,\u201d which she co-wrote with Roxanne Benjamin. Like the music she makes as St. Vincent, it is colorful and bizarre, joyous in a way. In her director\u2019s statement, Clark admits her segment is more black comedy than straight-up horror. Pure horror gives her too much anxiety. \u201cOne look at a serial-killer raising the knife the moment before the blood-plunge,\u201d she says, \u201ca child possessed by a demon, a malevolent ghost haunting a remote cabin, and I cannot sleep forever.\u201d So she took a few things that give her the most anxiety \u2013 death, humiliation, and being responsible for children \u2013 and tied them together in a story about a child\u2019s party gone horribly wrong.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1601\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1601\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1601\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2017\/02\/16\/horror-anthology-xx-offers-a-quartet-of-disturbing-films-out-feb-17\/attachment\/5\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/5.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1920,801\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"5\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Melanie Lynskey in \u201cThe Birthday Party\u201d in XX, a Magnet release.  Photo courtesy of Magnet Releasing.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/5-300x125.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/5-1024x427.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/5.jpg\" alt=\"Melanie Lynskey in \u201cThe Birthday Party\u201d in XX, a Magnet release.  Photo courtesy of Magnet Releasing.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"801\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/5.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/5-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/5-768x320.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/5-1024x427.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melanie Lynskey in \u201cThe Birthday Party\u201d in XX, a Magnet release.  Photo courtesy of Magnet Releasing.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>Mary wakes up to a bright new morning looking like she\u2019s about to attend her own funeral. It\u2019s her daughter\u2019s eighth birthday, and she\u2019s having a costume party for the neighborhood kids and their nosey parents. The nicely-appointed house is already decorated, apparently by an assistant named Carla, with black and white streamers and balloons. Mary adjusts the taxidermied cat on the counter and tries to muster the strength to get dressed and face the day. She doesn\u2019t think her husband is home yet to lend a hand. Turns out, he\u2019s home, but he\u2019s slumped over in his chair in his office, dead from an overdose. What follows is Mary\u2019s hilariously futile attempt to put a happier face on the day, quite literally, as the neighbors and kids flow into the house and start the dance. She doesn\u2019t even get a chance to change out of her nightgown. No matter. She has a flask. She nearly gets away with her plan to hide dad, at least until Lucy can enjoy her party, but alas, she has made a very poor choice of disguises. That\u2019s where all of Clark\u2019s anxieties come flying out at once before the punchline, a perfectly-timed cut to the title card and multiple subtitles that get successively more laugh-out-loud funny. The horror that compels the story isn\u2019t supernatural or suspenseful, it\u2019s the knowledge that Mary is doomed, and every decision is making it worse, until that moment when time slows down just before it all crashes.  <\/p>\n<p>Roxanne Benjamin wrote and directed \u201cDon\u2019t Fall,\u201d the most conventional horror film in the bunch. Four hikers are making their way on a dusty, rocky desert trail, wondering aloud where the hell they are. Jay brags about his faithful internal compass. Never a good sign for the characters\u2019 enduring health when one of them tells the rest essentially, \u201cHey, don\u2019t worry\u201d in the first couple of minutes. Especially when that\u2019s followed by the discovery of some spooky paintings of a horned creature on the rocks, a painting they assume to be ancient. All four have obvious faults to exploit. Paul is a joker and a stoner. Jay thinks he\u2019s got everything figured out. Jay\u2019s sister Gretchen pushes Jess when they\u2019re all looking over a steep cliff as a joke, one that\u2019s not terribly funny to someone who\u2019s afraid of height like Jess. Jess\u2019s biggest fault, her fatal fault, is that she\u2019s a tagalong.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1602\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1602\" style=\"width: 4800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1602\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2017\/02\/16\/horror-anthology-xx-offers-a-quartet-of-disturbing-films-out-feb-17\/attachment\/7\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/7.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"4800,2700\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"7\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;7.\tBreed Wool in \u201cDon\u2019t Fall\u201d in XX, a Magnet Release.  Photo courtesy of Magnet Releasing.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/7-300x169.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/7-1024x576.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/7.jpg\" alt=\"7.\tBreed Wool in \u201cDon\u2019t Fall\u201d in XX, a Magnet Release.  Photo courtesy of Magnet Releasing.\" width=\"4800\" height=\"2700\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/7.jpg 4800w, https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/7-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/7-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/7-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4800px) 100vw, 4800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1602\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">7.\tBreed Wool in \u201cDon\u2019t Fall\u201d in XX, a Magnet Release.  Photo courtesy of Magnet Releasing.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nLate that night, Gretchen wakes up in a cave and finds that the horned creature in the painting is very real. It only shows itself briefly, a vibrating shadow, a kind of bug devil. When Jay finds her, she is mutating into a beast that makes quick work of Jay and Paul, and Jess is left running in the dark trying to escape. \u201cDon\u2019t Fall\u201d functions in a similar manner to the Scream movies. Benjamin keeps the tropes coming as if she\u2019s preparing the audience for the Horror SATs, which is what makes this so fun. By the time you sense one coming, you\u2019re already deep into it, and well on your way to the next. Except the characters seem to exist in a world in which no one has seen a horror film, so they\u2019re clueless about the ramifications of their actions. Napalmed with facepalms. <\/p>\n<p>The most ambitious film in this collection, from a storytelling perspective, is \u201cHer Only Living Son,\u201d written and directed by Karyn Kusama. It\u2019s enigmatic, never dealing with its subject matter by name. Kusama gives you the horrible outline and lets you draw in the details. The story centers on mother and son Cora and Andy. We know Cora needed to escape someone, to raise Andy, but we don\u2019t know who. We just get a doctor giving her some money to help her disappear. The story picks up again on the verge of Andy\u2019s eighteenth birthday. He\u2019s a dangerous kid, likes to torture animals and, as it turns out, his schoolmates. He\u2019s in need of discipline, but everyone around Cora seems to be convinced Andy is something special. His high school principal won\u2019t punish Andy for tearing out a girl\u2019s fingernails. Cora finds him in the bathroom one night covered in blood, and he screams about her invading his privacy and storms off, leaving her to clean it up.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1604\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1604\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1604\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2017\/02\/16\/horror-anthology-xx-offers-a-quartet-of-disturbing-films-out-feb-17\/10_small\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/10_small.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,563\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"10_small\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Christina Kirk in \u201cHer Only Living Son\u201d in XX, a Magnet Release.  Photo courtesy of Magnet Releasing.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/10_small-300x169.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/10_small.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/10_small.jpg\" alt=\"Christina Kirk in \u201cHer Only Living Son\u201d in XX, a Magnet Release.  Photo courtesy of Magnet Releasing.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/10_small.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/10_small-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/10_small-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1604\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christina Kirk in \u201cHer Only Living Son\u201d in XX, a Magnet Release.  Photo courtesy of Magnet Releasing.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nEverything starts to twist. The nice mailman tells Cora that Andy\u2019s real dad, not the Hollywood star he thinks is his deadbeat dad, is coming to claim him. Andy is changing physically, too, trying to keep his box of discarded claw-clippings away from his mother in a box under his bed. That\u2019s when we learn that Cora isn\u2019t just the put-upon mother of a delinquent teenager. She\u2019s smarter and stronger than we\u2019ve been led to think, maybe even stronger than what\u2019s coming for her son. The final scene of \u201cHer Only Living Son\u201d is the emotional high point of the collection, the reason why this film had to be last. It\u2019s a beautiful, heartbreaking moment, a definitive ending that nonetheless preserves a sense of wonder, something to linger on while the credits roll.        <\/p>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"880\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/nickzaino.com\\\/departmentoftangents\\\/2017\\\/02\\\/16\\\/horror-anthology-xx-offers-a-quartet-of-disturbing-films-out-feb-17\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:108602730}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 880px; height: 171px;\" data-original-width=\"880\" data-original-height=\"171\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 255px; height: 171px;\" data-original-width=\"255\" data-original-height=\"171\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2017\/02\/16\/horror-anthology-xx-offers-a-quartet-of-disturbing-films-out-feb-17\/director-karyn-kusama-with-actors-michiel-huisman_-jay-larson-and-tammy-blanchard-from-the-invitation-courtesy-of-drafthouse-films\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"251\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"167\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"1610\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Director-Karyn-Kusama-with-actors-Michiel-Huisman_-Jay-Larson-and-Tammy-Blanchard.-From-THE-INVITATION-Courtesy-of-Drafthouse-Films.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,665\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D3S&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1401879870&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;70&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;2200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Director Karyn Kusama with actors Michiel Huisman_ Jay Larson and Tammy Blanchard. From THE INVITATION &amp;#8211; Courtesy of Drafthouse Films\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Director-Karyn-Kusama-with-actors-Michiel-Huisman_-Jay-Larson-and-Tammy-Blanchard.-From-THE-INVITATION-Courtesy-of-Drafthouse-Films-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Director-Karyn-Kusama-with-actors-Michiel-Huisman_-Jay-Larson-and-Tammy-Blanchard.-From-THE-INVITATION-Courtesy-of-Drafthouse-Films.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Director-Karyn-Kusama-with-actors-Michiel-Huisman_-Jay-Larson-and-Tammy-Blanchard.-From-THE-INVITATION-Courtesy-of-Drafthouse-Films.jpg?w=251&#038;h=167&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Director-Karyn-Kusama-with-actors-Michiel-Huisman_-Jay-Larson-and-Tammy-Blanchard.-From-THE-INVITATION-Courtesy-of-Drafthouse-Films.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Director-Karyn-Kusama-with-actors-Michiel-Huisman_-Jay-Larson-and-Tammy-Blanchard.-From-THE-INVITATION-Courtesy-of-Drafthouse-Films-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Director-Karyn-Kusama-with-actors-Michiel-Huisman_-Jay-Larson-and-Tammy-Blanchard.-From-THE-INVITATION-Courtesy-of-Drafthouse-Films-768x511.jpg 768w\" width=\"251\" height=\"167\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"251\" data-original-height=\"167\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"Director Karyn Kusama with actors Michiel Huisman_ Jay Larson and Tammy Blanchard. From THE INVITATION - Courtesy of Drafthouse Films\" alt=\"Director Karyn Kusama with actors Michiel Huisman_ Jay Larson and Tammy Blanchard. From THE INVITATION - Courtesy of Drafthouse Films\" style=\"width: 251px; height: 167px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Director Karyn Kusama with actors Michiel Huisman_ Jay Larson and Tammy Blanchard. From THE INVITATION &#8211; Courtesy of Drafthouse Films <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 116px; height: 171px;\" data-original-width=\"116\" data-original-height=\"171\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-small\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2017\/02\/16\/horror-anthology-xx-offers-a-quartet-of-disturbing-films-out-feb-17\/roxanne-benjamin\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"112\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"167\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"1609\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Roxanne-Benjamin.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"667,1000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 6D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1463155271&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;144&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Roxanne Benjamin\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Roxanne-Benjamin-200x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Roxanne-Benjamin.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Roxanne-Benjamin.jpg?w=112&#038;h=167&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Roxanne-Benjamin.jpg 667w, https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Roxanne-Benjamin-200x300.jpg 200w\" width=\"112\" height=\"167\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"112\" data-original-height=\"167\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"Roxanne Benjamin\" alt=\"14. Roxanne Benjamin, director of \u201cDon\u2019t Fall\u201d in XX, a Magnet release. Photo courtesy of Magnet Releasing.\" style=\"width: 112px; height: 167px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> 14. Roxanne Benjamin, director of \u201cDon\u2019t Fall\u201d in XX, a Magnet release. Photo courtesy of Magnet Releasing. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 255px; height: 171px;\" data-original-width=\"255\" data-original-height=\"171\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2017\/02\/16\/horror-anthology-xx-offers-a-quartet-of-disturbing-films-out-feb-17\/annie-clark\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"251\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"167\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"1608\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Annie-Clark.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,667\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 6D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1463240944&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;154&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Annie Clark\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Annie-Clark-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Annie-Clark.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Annie-Clark.jpg?w=251&#038;h=167&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Annie-Clark.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Annie-Clark-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Annie-Clark-768x512.jpg 768w\" width=\"251\" height=\"167\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"251\" data-original-height=\"167\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"Annie Clark\" alt=\"Director Annie Clark, on the set of \u201cThe Birthday Party\u201d in XX, a Magnet release. 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