Le morti di Ian Stone

(The Deaths of Ian Stone)

2007, regia di Dario Piana

Scheda: Nazione: GB-USA - Produzione: Stan Winston Productions, SWFX, Isle of Man Film Commission, Odyssey Entertainment - Distribuzione: Medusa, After Dark Films, Emperor Motion Pictures, Lark Films Distribution, Magna Pacific, Paradiso Home Entertainment, Scanbox Entertainment, Shaw Organisation, Showgate, Tiglon - Soggetto: Brendan W. Hood - Sceneggiatura: Brendan Hood - Fotografia: Stefano Morcaldo - Montaggio: Celia Haining - Art Director: Gerard Bryan - Arredamento: Bridget Menzies - Costumi: Nancy Thompson - Musiche: Elia Cmiral - Effetti speciali: Anibrain, Elements Special Effects, Stan Winston Digital, Stan Winston Studio - Formato: Color - Durata: 87'.

Cast: Mike Vogel, Jaime Murray, Christina Cole, Michael Feast, Charlie Anson, Michael Dixon, George Dillon, Marnix van den Broeke, Andrew Buchan, Bill Nash, Anthony Warren, Jason Steadman.

Trama e commenti: cinematografo.it - kataweb.it - mymovies.it - film.spettacolo.alice.it - filmup.leonardo.it - comingsoon.it - thrillermagazine.it: «Duro a morire Ian Stone. Fosse per lui ne farebbe volentieri a meno, una volta e via. Invece, per gli imponderabili scherzi del destino, finisce nelle grinfie di una setta di vampiri che si nutrono di paure. Tra le tante che affliggono l’umana esistenza,la più ricercata è quella della morte (appunto…). Detto, fatto: Ian Holm nel corso del film morirà più e più volte solo e soltanto per permettere alle malvagie creature di nutrirsi a loro piacimento. Il tema sarebbe da incubo, ma la storia paga pegno e presto abbandona i risvolti più inquietanti per finire dalle solite parti che si chiamano “fanciulla in pericolo” (in ogni nuova vita che segue ogni nuova morte, Ian Stone (Mike Vogel) si ritroverà accanto, per quanto in situazioni diverse, sempre la stessa fanciulla…), e “dai che ce la fai” (il finale non lascia dubbi in proposito…), così che le buone intenzioni profuse all’inizio vanno a lastricare le solite vie dell’Inferno. Le morti di Ian Stone di Dario Piana è un tipico thriller-horror estivo a forte rischio tenuta (il sottoscritto + altri due in sala…) per cui chi è interessato si affretti…».

Plot Summary, Synopsis, Review: IMDb - entertainment.msn.com - allmovie.com - tvguide.com - filmcritic.com - collider.com - channel4.com - en.wikipedia.org: «The story centers on an American man living in Britain, Ian Stone (Vogel), who is killed each day by mysterious beings. He then enters a new existence, unaware of his prior lives. When he begins to remember past existences, he is once again in danger of being killed, with each death more gruesome than the last. Ian Stone is an average kid. He loves ice hockey but lives for his girlfriend, Jenny Walker. Late one night while driving home from a painful loss on the ice, Ian comes across a bewildering discovery; what looks like a dead body near the railroad tracks. Investigating the grisly discovery, Ian is attacked by the "corpse", forced onto the tracks and subsequently barreled over by an oncoming train. He wakes up in an office cubicle. He's still alive, but older and shacked up with a beautiful, but eerily mysterious woman by the name of Medea. Jenny is still there, but she's not his girlfriend, just a co-worker and one of a number of apparently familiar faces. Ian learns that he is being hunted by the Harvesters; a group of mind-controlling vampire-like characters who cannot be killed and feed off human fear. Everyday, at different times and different places, the clocks stop and they kill him. The only problem is that Ian won't stay dead. He wakes in a new life, a new place, only for the cycle to repeat itself. And indeed, they do come again. They chase Ian mercilessly, all the way back to his apartment where Medea, who is clearly one of them, is waiting. Once again, Ian is killed... He wakes to find he's a junkie in a rundown apartment, with Jenny living a few doors down. He implores her to remember him, desperately reaching out and searching for someone to help him make sense of what's going on. When the harvesters come again Jenny and Ian have no choice but to run. As they seek refuge on a subway train heading out-of-town Jenny confesses to her memories of Ian's former lives... When they disembark they are again confronted by a group Harvesters - a seething mass of pulsating veins, pitch-black muscles and midnight flesh. We recognize some of the barely human faces from Ian's previous lives including Medea who reveals a shocking truth; that Ian was one of these monsters until he rebelled against the colony and managed to kill one other Harvester. Medea and the Harvesters...».

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