{"id":25699,"date":"2016-05-31T06:58:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T05:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=25699"},"modified":"2016-05-31T06:58:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T05:58:35","slug":"variety-film-review-aaaaaaaah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/variety-film-review-aaaaaaaah\/","title":{"rendered":"Variety: Film Review: \u2018Aaaaaaaah!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2016\/film\/reviews\/aaaaaaaah-review-steve-oram-1201783607\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2016\/film\/reviews\/aaaaaaaah-review-steve-oram-1201783607\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25700 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"variety16a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/variety16a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"71\" \/><\/a>Steve Oram&#8217;s deeply British feature debut is the kind of mesmerizing cult oddity whose fan base will be limited but passionate.<\/p>\n<p>It may be filmed in the Academy ratio, but Steve Oram\u2019s low-budget feature debut \u201cAaaaaaaah!\u201d could hardly be considered a nod to classic Hollywood. Rather, the 4:3 frame indicates something more primal, evoking the so-called \u201cvideo nasties\u201d (a wave of mostly cheap horror films banned on VHS in the U.K. in the 1980s, following a wave of moral panic over the perceived degeneration in values these films would cause when made available for home viewing). \u201cAaaaaaaah!\u201d is set in exactly the kind of world Mary Whitehouse feared, and functions as a kind of loving Swiftian satire on the more brutish aspects of modern life. Though it\u2019s at once too subtle and too extreme to attract a broad audience, those who get something out of gross-out humor, silent film and British comedy will treasure \u201cAaaaaaaah!\u201d as a rare cult gem.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2016\/film\/reviews\/aaaaaaaah-review-steve-oram-1201783607\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Variety<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Oram&#8217;s deeply British feature debut is the kind of mesmerizing cult oddity whose fan base will be limited but passionate. It may be filmed in the Academy ratio, but Steve Oram\u2019s low-budget feature debut \u201cAaaaaaaah!\u201d could hardly be considered a nod to classic Hollywood. Rather, the 4:3 frame indicates something more primal, evoking the [&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":[1022,1349],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25699"}],"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=25699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25701,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25699\/revisions\/25701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}