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POUNDCAKE (2023) Satirical horror slasher - trailer

Poundcake is a 2023 American satirical horror film about a madman who is stalking straight white men to punish. Written, directed, edited by and starring Onur Tukel (That Cold Dead Look in Your Eyes; The Misogynists; Catfight; Applesauce; Summer of Blood). The movie also stars Ron Brice, Eva Dorrepaal, Pia Paez and Zarius LeGrand. Plot synopsis: There’s a madman loose in New York City. Late at…

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SCENES FROM AN EMPTY CHURCH Onur Tukel USA, 2021

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Trailer For The Horror Comedy POUNDCAKE About a Psychopath Killing Straight White Men in New York City — GeekTyrant

I’ve got a trailer here for an upcoming indie horror comedy satire movie titled Poundcake. The movie is about a psychopath roaming the streets of New York City and murdering straight white men and no one cares. The movie comes from filmmaker Onur Tukel (Catfight, Summer of Blood, Applesauce, The Misogynists), and it‘s a slasher film with political discourse. The films that Tukel makes are all…

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Summer of Blood

2014/dir. Onur Tukel/86 min

1/5★ 12/13/22

uh... ok. i'd like to try and give a little more explanation for the divisive reviews.

summer of blood follows Erik, a nyc shitbag as he loses his girlfriend (jody) because he won't marry her, then fails three dates before being bitten by a strange man in an alley and wakes up a vampire. that's the description as far as i knew and covers the first thirty minutes of the movie. after awakening, he is fired from his job and stumbles through the streets, failing one hunt before biting a kid who looks like a young weird al yankovic. afterwards he reaches out to the three women he failed before and has great sex with them. he hypnotizes his landlord so he doesn't have to pay rent, and during an orgy the women (who he has turned into vampires) realize he doesn't respect them. he then attempts to win back his ex-fiancee but succeeds only in biting her new boyfriend on the ankle. then he runs into the vampire that turned him and they share a guy and talk back at erik's apartment. the vampire makes a joke that if erik wants to be human again all he has to do is pray to god. erik takes the subway and when he returns home jody is waiting for him, revealing that she and her boyfriend have split. they sit in silence. jump to six months later, it's erik and jody's honeymoon and erik needs to drink. jody offers herself but erik insists his vampirism is a curse, to which jody responds that this is another way for him to avoid commitment. erik leaves and instead of biting a dog, bites his ex coworker. they return to the hotel room where jody is and bite her, before praying to god to make them normal. jody wakes as a vampire and asks when they're going to fuck.

the score was occasionally good? especially the synths that came in at tense moments. cinematography is fine, it doesn't get in it's own way and occasionally pulls out for those beautiful shots that incorporate urban decay and seem inevitable in nyc but i know takes significant sight scouting, planning, and lighting. actors are pretty good, probably the two stand outs were anna margaret hollyman as jody and melodie sisk as blake. onur tukel could kill it in the gay community but moving on.

i theorized before i watched this that the movie would be ironic with erik, that he's a shitty guy and everyone knows. people who left positive comments were able to buy into that, to understand it as tukel wrote it, and people who didn't did not understand it. i guess i erred on that side thinking of bad media takes where "problematic protagonist=glorifying bad behavior" and hoped it wouldn't be "i understood the irony, and it was bad anyway."

partially i feel like this is because the humor doesn't hit for me. like, here's an example where erik runs into jody's boyfriend outside her apartment.

ERIK: are you seeing jody?

BOYFRIEND: no no no. i'm going to vacuum the carpets. I do that for the building.

E: really? is that why... really?

B: no. i'll be honest with you. there's an old man on the third floor. he's got boils all over his back. i'm here to lance them.

E: oh you're a lancer? i thought you were a lawyer.

B: no, no, no, no. i'm a freelance lancer. A freelancer, if you will.

E: that's funny because i have a cyst you can lance, (flips him off) right here on the tip of my finger.

B: you couldn't afford me.

E: you're wasting your time, bucko. she still loves me. and you don't have a chance in hell.

B: ask me how big my dick is.

E: excuse me?

B: ask me how big my dick is.

E: no. ... how big is it? how big?

B: ask jody's vagina.

it's written like improv, but it's definitely written. it's a little too stilted, the boyfriend too sure of what he's going to say next. i saw another review compare S.O.B. to What We Do In The Shadows and personally it isn't even close. compare this scene with deacon's sexual dancing for his friends? or the shaming? or nick trying and failing to be cool? the swearwolves? come on.

if you find the humor funny you may be satisfied by that alone. if you think a guy being awkwardly racist to a woman on a date is funny then this is your movie. some people really like awkward humor! and the acting/cinematography/score is by no means bad! but without the humor this movie is pretty rough.

and erik DOES get back with jody in the end. the boyfriend fucks a goat. it's not one of those movies where everyone is a terrible person because jody says one mean thing once but is otherwise lusted after and put on a pedestal. erik changes (he gets a cellphone, gets married, wants to change) but doesn't change enough (bites another woman on his wedding night, bites his new wife when she's trying to leave him, asks for a selfish prayer after having been selfish the whole movie). so what's the point? guy who eats shit gets to suck and fuck forever with hot women... why? because he manipulates them? is this supposed to be one of those "that's how it is in the real world, kiddos!" things?

there were two moments (three but two are related) where i got really interested. the first one i'll mention is when the boyfriend popped erik in the nose when he was trying to hypnotize him. it was so good to see erik finally get his shit rocked. it made me so hopeful that the movie would end with him dying, it didn't even have to be moral or anything he just sucks so bad. immediately after he's punched jody goes all soft and gets him a washcloth and the boyfriend starts really curdling when he gets his ankle bit.

the other two moments were (one) when the vampire is drinking erik's blood and erik goes to kiss him and (two) when the vampire is taking a shower at erik's apartment and has erik wash his back. partially i was expecting some homophobia, which would have been SOMETHING to react to, but when it wasn't i was pulled in. it was more one of those naruto/sasuke "guy is so misogynistic it becomes gay" things. of course a misogynist would have a moment with a man that makes is crystal clear his unwillingness to help others is to his own detriment. ONLY a man could show you your own human failings when you only see men as humans.

but erik is incapable of real change. he can't become worse, more vampiric. he can't become better (human again), can't do the most moral thing a vampire can do (traditionally) and die, all he can do is go back and ruin the life of the human he wants to most. he could have other people, but he doesn't. he wants to have jody AND cheat on her. (specifically saying "have" here to reflect erik's mindset)

i read a comic onur tukel wrote in early 2020 about his newest movie, Black Magic for White Boys, where he's describing the political climate that led to the movie. he points out homelessness, gentrification of black neighborhoods, and liberal blindness to its own harm. then he talks about how the three white archetypes of this movie don't improve. because he's a pessimist, and does anyone expect anyone to get better, anyways? we should just stop canceling people like jk rowling, stop destroying public property (like statues of george washington), and vote :)

S.O.B. could be about men. unable to change, terrible but unaware of the scale of their actions because they're so blinded by the need to feel good, every moment, at any cost. S.O.B. could be about people, cruel to each other in new ways every day. S.O.B. doesn't have enough form to be about form. Doesn't have any significant genre leanings, doesn't do anything clever or new or insightful, doesn't have anything really to say except "what if the shittiest guy you knew went on a big adventure to change his life, stayed the same, and still got everything he ever wanted anyway." And man, if i wanted more of that i would just go on twitter.

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Catfight (2016) Onur Tukel

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Halloween (2018) director David Gordon Green co-authored a children’s book retelling of John Carpenter and Debra Hill’s original Halloween titled The Legend of Halloween.

Author/filmmaker Onur Tukel (Applesauce, Richard’s Wedding) co-wrote and illustrated the book. Halloween franchise producer Malek Akkad and Halloween (2018) executive producer Ryan Freimann oversaw the production.

The hardcover book is available now via Further Front Publishing. You can pick up a copy for $24.99 on Amazon. Watch the trailer below.

Michael Myers has been a naughty little boy. On Halloween night, he took a knife and did some very bad things. Luckily, he was caught and locked away in Smith's Grove Sanitarium. Dr. Loomis was determined to keep him institutionalized for the rest of his life. Dr. Loomis knew what was behind Michael's vacant stare... it was evil... purely and simply evil. Years later, Michael escapes and makes his way back to Haddonfield - the night HE came home - for some more mischief and mayhem. What is it about Halloween that drives this young man to kill? We might never know.

Order The Legend of Halloween from Amazon.

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Actor Philip Paul Kelly (Ragtime On Ellis Island, Elf the Musical, Titanic the Musical) makes an appearance in Onur Tukel's film "Black Magic for White Boys" which has its world premiere at the 23rd Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, Quebec Canada this evening. Read>>>>https://bit.ly/2YNxAMP

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Catfight (2016)

Plot: Old friends Veronica (Sandra Oh) and Ashley (Anne Heche) haven’t seen each other since college; the former is now a trophy wife, the latter a struggling artist. They meet at a party and their thinly-veiled insults soon turn into something more physical, starting a cycle of revenge that lasts years.

Review: Catfight is what happens when somebody takes a Peter Griffin versus the giant chicken sketch from Family Guy, extends it to ninety-plus minutes, and makes it live action.

This is not a subtle move; funny certainly, but subtlety has gone out the window. It’s just a surprise that neither Oh nor Heche get thrown through afterwards. There is a serious point to all this of course, which is a scathing critique of American life at that feels of a similar vein to Idiocracy or God Bless America. Veronica (Oh) and Ashley (Heche) are college friends who have fallen out of touch, when they meet at a party. Veronica mistakes Ashley for bar staff (she’s helping her girlfriend Lisa (Alicia Silverstone) who is organizing the party), and the two begin a slanging match that ends with Veronica waking up in a hospital bed two years later.

Two years that have seen her husband and son both die, and all her savings depleted - it’s that kind of dark comedy - and see her start to try and aclimatise to more austere surroundings. It isn’t long however before she hunts down a now successful and pregnant Ashley, and ruins her show, before beating her up in a nearby junkyard. She wakes up two years later having lost her baby, and her girlfriend has left her for a man, and the whole cycle begins again. There are so many brutal points woven throughout the story however, that you can’t help but laugh - a revelation that the draft has been reinstated and the age lowered to 16, but you still have to be 21 to buy beer, for example.

It’s not going to be everybodies cup of tea, but it doesn’t have to be; one toe-curlingly excruciating scene where hipster Lisa turns down baby shower presents for very ‘first world problem’ reasons is both brillaint and terrible at the same time. Yet it’s very well made, and has a serious point behind all the theatrics.

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"Catfight" (2016): Fight scene No. 2

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Trailer Release for THAT COLD DEAD LOOK IN YOUR EYES!

Trailer Release for THAT COLD DEAD LOOK IN YOUR EYES!

Dark Star Pictures will release the new horror-thriller, THAT COLD DEAD LOOK IN YOUR EYES on demand this November 9, 2021. The film is directed by Onur Tukel (Catfight, Summer of Blood) and features Nora Arnezeder (Army of the Dead) & Max Casella (The Sopranos). You can watch the new trailer, along with more film details down below. From The Press Release THAT COLD DEAD LOOK IN YOUR EYES ON…

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THAT COLD DEAD LOOK IN YOUR EYES (2021) Reviews and release news

THAT COLD DEAD LOOK IN YOUR EYES (2021) Reviews and release news

That Cold Dead Look in Your Eyes is a 2021 American multi-genre hybrid film about a young man who is losing his job, girlfriends and mind. Also known as Tes Yeux Mourants Written, directed and edited by Onur Tukel (The Misogynists; Catfight; Applesauce; Summer of Blood). Produced by Jacob Karim. The movie stars Nora Arnezeder (Army of the Dead), Franck Raharinosy, Alan Ceppos and Max…

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Onur Tukel's That Could Dead Look In Your Eyes to hit On Demand

Onur Tukel’s That Could Dead Look In Your Eyes to hit On Demand

Directed by Onur Tukel, That Could Dead Look In Your Eyes follows Leonard, a man who is about to lose his girlfriend, home and job. Upon that, he’s having strange hallucinations. Is it stress or an after effect of new technology installed all over the city? He must figure it out or he’ll be trapped in this nightmare forever. It stars Nora Arnezeder, Franck Raharinosy, Alan Ceppos, and Max…

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Film after film: Catfight (dir. Onur Tukel, 2016)

a very very broad satire that throws figurative and literal punches at the US war-mongering politics and at the vanity of the rich, not everything works for me story and joke-wise, but everything does make total sense, even the fart machine jokes that don't land (it's the execution that is at fault, not the farting); at some point, the film reaches the structural predictability of a generic pop song, giving you an expectation of a chorus that happens exactly when and how you predict it should; while Heche and Oh (plus Silverstone) provide the unhinged raw center, they are framed by interesting peripheral characters played by Amy Hill and Ariel Kavoussi, the latter of whom gives my favorite performance, modulated with nuance by her body and voice