Maybe you’ve heard about the Tommy Haver-directed film An American Crime: Catherine Keener and our tag of the day Ellen Page, and tells the true crime story of the torture and murder of Sylvia Likens (Page) by Gertrude Baniszewski (Keener) in Indianapolis in the ’60s. No? Watch the trailer for a quick refresher. For the film’s closing credits cover queen Petra Haden collaborated with the composer Alan Ari Lazar, who overlapped 20+ tracks of her voice to create a chilling but meditative tapestry. The eerie calm after the eerier storm.
Now that’s some creepy choir-of-one stuff, especially considering the context.
An American Crime premiered at Sundance and will show up on Showtime this year.
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“The most terrible crime ever committed in the state of Indiana.” Sounds intense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Likens
That’s a fantastic track. Hope that Petra can get together enough of that decent material to make Charlie proud. Did anyone care for that dog? Or was that a wasted effort? I know I thought it was garbage. Now that Petra is concentrating on other genres she might find something that fits.
off-topic, but have you guys checked out the new Cloud Cult? their new album leaked a couple days ago and it’s wonderful.
Brings back memories of reading the fictionalized account of the event. Book’s called Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum. Most disturbing book I’ve ever read.
this movie looks depressing, although i can’t stop watching….i wonder if keener will get noticed for this movie…i kind of liked her in capote as harper lee….
I watched this movie, and I have never cried so much in my life… I will have a hard time watching Keener play in another movie after this. It was just hard to believe anyone would let this happen and not say a word. They are just as sick as the people doing the crime.
I watched this movie, and I have never cried so much in my life… I will have a hard time watching Keener play in another movie after this. It was just hard to believe anyone would let this happen and not say a word. They are just as sick as the people doing the crime.
just saw that movie and the song came on i was like woaa thats creepy i literally got goosebumps. totally going on mah ipod XP