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By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (22)

We got a couple of indie teen movie trailers lined up for you below, and I actually dig them both. The first is for a selection from this year’s Sundance Film Festival — Adam Salky’s Dare, which is based on his own 2005 short. It has a certain Mysteries of Pittsburgh quality to it — it’s about a repressed teenage girl (Emmy Rossum) and a loner teenager who has never kissed anyone, who both break-out of their shells slash come-of-age, so to speak, when they fall for a bad boy played by Zach Gilford — (Matty Saracen, to “FNL” fans). It’s certainly got potential. And Gilford somehow makes that wooden acting style work for him. Don’t ask me how. Alan Cumming and Sandra Bernhardt add some adult legitimacy:

The other is for Afterschool, from writer/director Antonio Campos. It’s about a prep school kid who inadvertently captures the death of two students on camera. It’s creepy-as-hell looking, and Manahlo Dargis’ blurb actually has me sold: “Tidy, Nasty, and Neat.” If the movie vibe is as disturbingly delicious as the trailer vibe, I’ll be all over Afterschool.

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Sandra wishes she were Sarah.

Posted by: dawn at September 29, 2009 11:55 AM

Afterschool is giving me some great Brick vibes, an adult story that just happens to take place in a school setting.

Posted by: twig at September 29, 2009 12:00 PM

Like the awesome 50 best debuts list posted recently this is getting few comments while everyone went apeshit commenting about a Twilight posters post. Sometimes I seriously wonder whether you lot are above all the crap and hype you claim to be above.

These two movies look good. Thanks for bringing this to us Dustin.

Posted by: barf at September 29, 2009 12:15 PM

Afterschool looks like it could be really excellent and I think Dare might not totally suck.

Posted by: admin at September 29, 2009 12:20 PM

Dare looks like it could be alright, afterschool looks like it could be awesome. Kind of an Elephant-y feel, and I second the Brick likeness.

Posted by: John Denver's Wingman at September 29, 2009 12:24 PM

barf

A lot of people might not be able to view videos at the office, either. So there's not much for them to comment about.

Posted by: twig at September 29, 2009 12:24 PM

You beat me to it Admin.

Posted by: John Denver's Wingman at September 29, 2009 12:24 PM

A lot of people might not be able to view videos at the office, either. So there's not much for them to comment about.

This.

Posted by: Skewicide Blonde at September 29, 2009 12:25 PM

Never thought I'd see "Alan Cumming" or "Sarah Bernhardt" and "adult legitimacy" in the same sentence.
Alan always struck me as the type of guy who would sneak up behind you, slit your throat, then let the blood spray all over him as he giggled maniacally. Weird guy.
Sarah is a humorless hag.
The movie looks intriguing, though.

Posted by: Kballs at September 29, 2009 12:27 PM

I'm kinda seeing the Brick vibe too from Afterschool.
The Dare movie looks like an above average teenager angst flick.
I'll watch just about anything with Alan Cumming in it though.
He's just delicious & interesting, on a couple of levels.
What are the release dates?? I'm in... on both.

Posted by: Ms MoMo at September 29, 2009 12:27 PM

Is it me or does Sandra Bernhardt look more like a horse than she did ten years ago?

Posted by: bignick at September 29, 2009 1:11 PM

Is he the guy who's hooking up with hot models on ___Tallconnect Co m___ ? actually there're lots sexy people there, Online chat, blogs, forums, flirtation and messages! Start an May-December romance just a click away! Whether for heat or passion, you are gonna be surprised what you might be end with!!LOL :-)

Posted by: gorden at September 29, 2009 1:49 PM

These both look really good to me. Are they actually going to be distributed?

And why do I know that kid in Afterschool? ...to the IMDb!

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at September 29, 2009 2:09 PM

Is Zach Gilford on Tallconnect C om? Because I would May-December romance that boy's face off.

Posted by: marya at September 29, 2009 2:10 PM

...aha. He's the hot kid on Royal Pains.

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at September 29, 2009 2:12 PM

The Dare movie looks like an above average teenager angst flick.

How did Dare look like an "average teenager angst flick?" I didn't even really see any "angst." Thirteen would be an angst flick. Since when would the bad-boy be the bisexual one? Has that been the case? I totally need to rethink high school because that would actually explain a lot. Then again, if you have the smart girl who is best friends with the outcast...that bad-boy would never even play into it. They would end up kissing each other first.

Afterschool. I get the vide that people are saying with Elephant but wouldn't even Elephant be borrowing the vibe from O? Just wondering.

Posted by: DeistBrawler at September 29, 2009 3:16 PM

I'd watch both. Especially Afterschool, but Dare looks ok.

I've never thought Gilford was wooden. He's just kind of.... still? And he has an interesting face, so I don't mind looking at it even if he's not doing much.

Posted by: Tarn at September 30, 2009 5:03 AM

Afterschool looks awesome. Dare gives me a case of the mehs, but if Matty Saracen is in it I'm watching.

Posted by: Austin asking for trouble at September 30, 2009 10:44 AM

Wow...Dare makes me look at Ana Gastyer in a new light, and makes me want to hug Alan Cumming for coming back after Fox unwisely canned him from X3. I haven't been this happy for the two of them since Reefer Madness.

As for AfterSchool...yeah, it has Brick written all over it. I love it!

Posted by: Doctor Controversy at September 30, 2009 10:56 AM

Omfg!! Dare was like the best short movie eva, I watched that thing about a hundred times. Perfect play, perfect mix between awkward awkward and funny awkward.

And WTF did they do to it?? Seriously, the actors in the short were perfect - now they're some woodfaced honks!

Posted by: Kabada at September 30, 2009 3:05 PM

Momentary soapbox of sorts: it's just really fucking sad that, even in a movie that apparently has a fairly central theme of sexual confusion and experimentation, we get a few different scenes of the "bad boy" grinding away with the "good girl" and one brief shot of ,the "outcast" brushing past the bad boy. Sexily. And that's it. Mayhaps I'm judging the movie too early, but any amount of money says that, even if anything does happen between the two male characters in the film, it's barely shown, while the hetero sex gets to be as graphic as you like. And it's not even about titillation (that's what internet porn is for, after all), it's just so frustrating that even in the post-Brokeback world, movies not specifically designed for gay audiences shy away from showing anything remotely gay, lest the straight viewers spook and flee from the cinema, trying desperately to wash off the Bad AIDs. I just...it makes me weary, is all.

Ugh. Whatever. Afterschool looks good.

Posted by: Shay at September 30, 2009 8:36 PM

I saw DARE at Sundance.

Shay--it actually doesn't shy away for the sexual contact between the guys AT ALL. The trailer kind of does--but not the film itself. Pretty straightforwardly depicted on both the hetero and homo sex scenes.

The best teen movie I've seen in a long-ass time. Somewhere between Mean Girls, Thirteen, American Beauty and Cruel Intentions.

Posted by: Brian at October 6, 2009 5:37 PM

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