{"id":23570,"date":"2015-08-29T09:17:02","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T08:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=23570"},"modified":"2015-08-29T09:17:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-29T08:17:02","slug":"screen-daily-aaaaaaaah-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/screen-daily-aaaaaaaah-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Screen Daily: &#8216;Aaaaaaaah!&#8217;: Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.screendaily.com\/reviews\/aaaaaaaah-review\/5091681.article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.screendaily.com\/reviews\/aaaaaaaah-review\/5091681.article\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23572 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"screendaily15d\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/screendaily15d.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a>Dir\/Scr. Steve Oram. UK, 2015, 79 mins.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>In its enthusiasm for poo-flinging, food-fights, penis-chewing, cannibalism, tea-bagging and sudden stabbings, the film sets out to shock in a particularly cosy way<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Inhabiting a waste ground somewhere between radical theatre and slob comedy, Steve Oram\u2019s debut as a writer-director-star \u2013 following up his writer-actor work on Ben Wheatley\u2019s Sightseers \u2013 is liable to corner a small but devoted cult following. It\u2019s at least as interested in gross-out gags that out-gross the average Hollywood frat-boy film as it is in delivering a skewed yet pointed look at a suburban Britain where everyone communicates in grunts and gestures the way cavemen and women do in Hammer Fillms\u2019 well-remembered prehistoric adventure films (One Million Years BC, When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth).<\/p>\n<p>AAAAAAAAH!\u2019s specific precedents might include such one-offs as Richard Lester\u2019s post-apocalyptic The Bed-Sitting Room, Akira Kurosawa\u2019s rubbish-strewn Dodes\u2019ka-den or Claude Faraldo\u2019s Parisian troglodyte drama Themroc, but it\u2019s fresh, distinctive and strange enough on its own and tight enough at 79 minutes not to outwear its welcome.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.screendaily.com\/reviews\/aaaaaaaah-review\/5091681.article\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Screen Daily<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dir\/Scr. Steve Oram. UK, 2015, 79 mins. In its enthusiasm for poo-flinging, food-fights, penis-chewing, cannibalism, tea-bagging and sudden stabbings, the film sets out to shock in a particularly cosy way Inhabiting a waste ground somewhere between radical theatre and slob comedy, Steve Oram\u2019s debut as a writer-director-star \u2013 following up his writer-actor work on Ben [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,27,110],"tags":[1022,1350,1351],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23604,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23570\/revisions\/23604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}