Section: MIDNIGHT MADNESS

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CHAINSAWS WERE SINGING

Sander Maran
EE, 2024, 118 Min

Estonian musical horror comedy shot guerilla style, a true guilty pleasure and a declaration of love for uncompromising B-movies. Tom, a suicidal man about to drown himself in a shallow river, meets Maria and falls in love with her at first sight. When the girl is kidnapped by a chainsaw-wielding Killer living in the woods, Tom sets out to rescue her.

#feature #humor #horror

Performance

2024-11-07 | 21:00
Obenkino
2024-11-08 | 21:00
Kammerbühne

The filmmakers describe the movie as the ultimate mix between Monty Python, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Les Misérables. These titles don't seem to go together at all at first glance, but that's the idea behind the film, which oozes goofiness, quirkiness, and crude humor. Fake blood flows like water, sawed-off limbs fly into the air, villains snack on their victims' fingers. And in the midst of all this bloody buffoonery, characters, including the Chainsaw Killer, suddenly start singing about their feelings or suffering. CHAINSAWS WERE SINGING is a true return to the roots of B-movies, to the films of Troma Studios, the early work of Roger Corman, Peter Jackson and Robert Rodriguez. Debutant director Sander Maran clearly considers himself their heir and continuer of the tradition of filmmaking independent not only of big budgets and producer control, but also of any narrative, logical or ethical constraints. Every frame of this insane slasher film reflects his incredible love for cinema as an art in which anything, absolutely anything is possible.

Text: Ksenia Reutova

07.11.2024 | 21:00 | Obenkino (original version with English subtitles)

08.11.2024 | 21:00 | Kammerbühne (original version with english subtitles + simultaneous translation into German)

Drehbuch
Sander Maran
Kamera
Darn Arseman
Ton
Mr. Rann Saade
Schnitt
Sandra M. Naer
Ausstattung
Kadri Kuusler
Musik
Mrs. Ann Aarde
Darsteller
Karl-Joosep Ilves, Laura Niils, Janno Puusepp, Martin Ruus, Rita Rätsepp, Ra Ragnar Novod, Henryk Johan Novod
Produktion
Marani Bros
Co-Produktion
Sander Maran, Kaur Maran, Karl-Joosep Ilves, Jan Andresson, Peeter Maran
Sander Maran

Sander Maran - Chainsaws Were Singing is the debut feature film for director Sander Maran (born 1990, Estonia). After attending The Baltic Film and Media School, his previously acclaimed short films include Curiosity Kills (2012), Framed by a Kid (2012), Rubik's Cube Terror (2012) and Turbosledge! (2013)

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