{"id":8352,"date":"2014-04-03T11:06:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T15:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8352"},"modified":"2014-04-03T11:09:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T15:09:22","slug":"r-i-p-everett-de-roche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8352","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Everett De Roche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Patrick_pic_1978.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8353\" alt=\"Patrick_pic_1978\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Patrick_pic_1978-300x166.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Patrick_pic_1978-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Patrick_pic_1978.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A key player in Australia\u2019s film industry during the 1970s and 1980s and best known for a series of clever and sometimes vicious Ozploitation films, prolific writer Everett De Roche passed away yesterday at the age of 67.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in TV, De Roche maintained collaborations with directors Simon Wincer &#8211; <strong>Snapshot<\/strong> (1979), <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/d\/2904_DarkForces.htm\">Harlequin<\/a><\/strong> (1980) &#8211; and Richard Franklin, within whom he wrote a string of classic Australian shockers including <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/p2r\/2263_Patrick1978.htm\">Patrick<\/a><\/strong> (1978) and <strong>Roadgames<\/strong> (1981), after which he penned several of Wincer\u2019s Hollywood films (the decent <strong>Psycho II<\/strong>, and the tepid <strong>Cloak and Dagger<\/strong>, <strong>F\/X2<\/strong>, <strong>Link<\/strong>, and the terrible TV movie <strong>Running Delilah<\/strong>) before returning to horror for the director\u2019s final film, <strong>Visitors<\/strong> (2003).<\/p>\n<p>De Roche also wrote the films <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/s\/3292_StormWarning2007.htm\">Storm Warning <\/a><\/strong>(2007), which Jamie Blanks turned into a nasty, nihilistic film after the script remained unproduced for decades, and a 2008 remake of his 1978 oddball eco-horror <strong>The Long Weekend<\/strong>, which starred John Hargreaves (<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=7346\"><strong>The Odd Angry Shot<\/strong>)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although his horror work showed him in top form, I <em>highly<\/em> recommend <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/d\/2904_DarkForces.htm\">Harlequin<\/a><\/strong> (also released as <strong>Dark Forces<\/strong>). It\u2019s a highly underrated and very odd thriller with fine performances, and often poetic dialogue for such a subversive, dark little tale. One caveat: if you watch the old Elite release (under the <strong>Dark Forces<\/strong> moniker), avoid looking at the main menu because it\u2019s the film\u2019s last shot!<\/p>\n<p>R.I.P., and thanks for proving strong characters, proper dialogue, and unusual concepts could work so well in carefully paced horror. A more detailed account of his life and credits is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/if.com.au\/2014\/04\/03\/article\/Vale-Everett-De-Roche\/GCGTIPRKEE.html\" target=\"_blank\">if.com.au<\/a>.<\/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>A key player in Australia\u2019s film industry during the 1970s and 1980s and best known for a series of clever and sometimes vicious Ozploitation films, prolific writer Everett De Roche passed away yesterday at the age of 67.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[2571,2632,2633],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Patrick_pic_1978.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-2aI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8352"}],"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=8352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8356,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8352\/revisions\/8356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}