{"id":12202,"date":"2015-09-09T22:33:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T02:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=12202"},"modified":"2015-09-09T22:35:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T02:35:56","slug":"suburban-tales-v-a-marble-hornets-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=12202","title":{"rendered":"Suburban Tales V: A Marble Hornets Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/AlwaysWatching_SlenderMan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12205\" alt=\"AlwaysWatching_SlenderMan\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/AlwaysWatching_SlenderMan.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/AlwaysWatching_SlenderMan.jpg 350w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/AlwaysWatching_SlenderMan-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>I fully admit I\u2019d never heard of the Marble Hornet \/ Slender Man web series, which became a phenomenon in the found footage genre, offering a new spin and format to tell the almost archeological story of what happened to a family seen in a box of found videotapes, and the local news crew who fall prey to the tall figure seen every so often hovering in the background of birthday parties, family park outings, or looking into the family\u2019s house from outside.<\/p>\n<p>Innately creepy, the mundane quality of a suburban home \u2013 new or a classic sixties bungalow \u2013 is milked in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=12200\">Always Watching: A Marble Hornet Story<\/a><\/strong> (2015), the first attempt to mount a theatrical, feature-length franchise of\u00a0Troy Wagner and Joseph DeLage\u2019s series.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a decent effort that\u2019s perhaps more rewarding for those preferring mood and weird ambiance over graphic gore, and while the final twist feels familiar, it sets up the franchise for another loop in which another group of characters will become doomed \u2013 if not to die, than live in fear of an urban and urbanely dressed grim reaper.<\/p>\n<p><em>Coming next:<\/em> reviews of <strong>Cub<\/strong> \/ <strong>Welp <\/strong>(2014) from Anchor Bay and <strong>Spider Baby <\/strong>(1967) from Arrow Video, plus the British flicks <strong>Carla\u2019s Song<\/strong> (1996) and <strong>A Month in the Country<\/strong> (1987) from Twilight Time.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review of Always Watching (2015) from Anchor Bay, the first of a proposed film franchise based on the hit Marble Hornets web series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[3927,2562,2563,3935,3928,980,3934,3931],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MarbleHornets_logo_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-3aO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12202"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12211,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12202\/revisions\/12211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}