STASH HOUSE (Eduardo Rodriguez, 2012)

[MFS]

This After Dark Action-idea seems interesting, and while I'm not gonna be expecting anything extraordinary, hopefully there'll be some good films to come out of it. Atleast it puts Dolph in the theater, where he belongs!

[Jox]

Ticket sweepstakes
http://www.campuscircle.com/sweeps/AfterDarkAction/

[Nikolai Cherenco]

Here's a trailer for all 5 After Dark Action films:
http://www.craveonline.com/film/preview ... nt-trailer

And a 30'' spot
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=450482344965117

I have hope again.It looks much better than the trailer for Stash House and Dragon Eyes.

[Jox]

Co-star Jon Huerta talks STASH HOUSE

http://www.iamrogue.com/roguetv/video-i ... inale.html

[Geoff]

Man Im really looking forward to this one!

[Jox]

The STASH HOUSE trailer made it to iTunes and is displayed on the Apple trailers homepage
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/inde ... tashhouse/

[Jox]

Variety review
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947522/
The review is so-so but it's more than decent coming from Variety for Dolph film...

a passable time-filler at best. Nonetheless, marketable content and Dolph Lundgren's name should yield profitable home-format sales after limited theatrical exposure in After Dark's inaugural action mini-fest.

(Lundgren, dully used)

A couple of late twists in Gary Spinelli's screenplay add little, and Eduardo Rodriguez's direction is uninspired. Assembly is OK.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/ne ... 5397.story

Dolph Lundgren appears as an oddly sympathetic heavy.

[Jox]

Jon Huertas, who stars in ”Slash House,” was excited to play bad guy Ray Jaffe who is trying to retrieve his stash of heroin that is lined within the walls of a foreclosed house purchased by an unsuspecting young couple, David and Emma Nash, played by Sean Faris and Briana Evigan.

“When you’re playing a good guy, you really stick to the parameters of what a good guy is,” Huertas says. “To play a bad guy, you can go to the director and say here’s something crazy that this guy could do and usually the director will be more open to it.”

It was also an exciting opportunity for Huertas to work with action screen legend Lundgren.

“He’s someone I watched when I was really young; I mean he was in ‘Rocky,’” he exclaims. “Working with Dolph was pretty surprising. I’ve never worked or met him before. He’s very intelligent, very clean cut and very healthy. First of all he was so good in ‘The Expendables.’ It really made me believe he had gotten strung out. You see a lot of actors that had their heyday and they end of getting strung out. In ‘Expendables,’ he (convincingly looked like he) was strung out. When I met him, he was so put together and so smart. I found out he was a Rhodes scholar and a chemical engineer before he ever got the job in ‘Rocky.’ He’s a highly intelligent man and he’s freakin’ bad ass.”

http://www.knoxville.com/news/2012/may/ ... -features/

[savagesketch]

The "trailer" for the film that is available with the On Demand services is really just an extended clip from the film where Faris' character is bringing Evigan to the house for the first time. It has a digital look and the dialogue is reminiscent of a Lifetime Original movie... Either way, it'll still be nice to see how the whole film plays out.

[Jox]

By the way, which On Demand services is it on?

[Moltisanti]

It's up for rent through Amazon Instant:

http://www.amazon.com/Stash-House-Theatrical-Rental/dp/B00828ITFU/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1336746502&sr=8-4

Also through Vudu:

http://www.vudu.com/movies/#!content/312098/Stash-House

Wish it was available through my satellite company but as of yet it's not. I've never watched one of these On Demand titles through my Playstation but I'll figure it out. Hope to watch this and EL GRINGO a little later today.

[savagesketch]

Anyone who has XFINITY as their cable provider can also order it. The cost is $6.99 for a 2-day rental...

http://xfinitytv.comcast.net/movies/Sta ... 2225946699

[Jox]

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainmen ... bled=false

Dolph Lungren, the star of one of the movies, “Stash House,” says it’s a great opportunity. And who’s going to argue with a 6’5” guy who’s been tossing stuntmen around since Chris Hemsworth was in diapers.

“For most movies there's a different experience on the big screen,” he says. "If it goes straight to DVD it's not quite as cinematic. I think it's a great initiative to put it together.”

He says it was as much fun filming “Stash House,” about a pair of thugs menacing a couple that’s holed up in the titular mansion, as it was the upcoming “Expendables 2” - even if the craft service table wasn’t as fancy.

“In today's world of the ‘event,’ high budget film being the main type of action film that gets made for theatrical release, it's hard for younger and new talented filmmakers to get a shot,” After Dark Films President and CEO Courtney Solomon said by email. “The idea was also to give the audience an alternative, not hiding the fact these films are not event films with large budgets.”

The other films on the slate are:

* “El Gringo,” featuring Christian Slater as a corrupt cop south of the border.

* “Transit,” starring Jim Cavaziel as a man trying to keep his family safe from killers.

* “Philly Kid,” about a former college wrestling champion forced into a mixed martial arts fighting circuit.

* “Dragon Eyes,” with Jean-Claude Van Damme kicking his way through a dangerous town.

Lundgren says even in this age of CGI blockbusters, there’s still room for more low-tech avengers.

“If you're just acting in front of a green screen a lot and you have five stunt doubles doing everything, that's not really my thing,” says the action star.

[Moltisanti]

Sad to say it but this one was a dud. Takes what feels like a lifetime for anything suspenseful to happen. First hour is pretty much four characters wandering inside and outside a house. In the last act Lundgren is finally given the chance to cut loose a bit and have some fun with his role but by that time it's way too late to change the overall impression of the film.

[savagesketch]

Sadly, we can consider this period as being the stage in Dolph's career where he simply took a number of projects purely for the paychecks in lieu of his divorce. Hopefully, The Expendables 2 will be a new direction that will put him on a new path...