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New York 2009 Horror film festival lineup announced
14 hours ago
The New York City Horror Film Festival has announced their 2009 feature film lineup that includes over fifty feature & short horror and sci-fi films not just from the U.S, but from around the world, that rang in subject matter from terrifying, to gory, and to hilarious. Taking place November 18 thru 22, 2009 at the Tribeca Cinemas, located at 54 Varick Street at Canal Street. The Festival’s Opening Night Gala will take place this year at Blvd (Spring & Bowery) on November 18 at 8:00pm. The gala is open to the public and will feature live performances, 20 short films, complimentary cocktails and more. To check out the full lineup, trailers, schedule, and tickets available at the fest official site here. »
Bood Rain: DVD review
7 November 2009 2:08 AM, PST
Director: Kim Dae Sung. Review: Adam Wing. Like your detective movies? How do you feel about period dramas? What about a little bloodthirsty horror to round off your day? Think we’ve got you covered; Kim Dae Sung brings us Blood Rain, an effective historical thriller set in 19th century Korea. Blood Rain tells the story of a slew of grisly murders plaguing a small, isolated island village. Seems everybody is dying on the island and yet nobody ever makes the decision to leave. With the killer still on the loose, the government sends in special investigator Wong Gyu (Cha Seung Won) to crack the case. He might not look like Sherlock Holmes, or in fact Professor Layton, but he does solve riddles and it’s not uncommon for him to be seen sporting a rather fetching hat. Sort of. While conducting his dogged investigation, without the aid of an »
Hard Revenge Milly films coming to R1 DVD
7 November 2009 1:40 AM, PST
Now here's some great news! Us film distributor Well Go USA is going to be releasing Hard Revenge Milly and it's sequel Hard Revenge Milly: Bloody Battle on R1 DVD in January of 2010! Violent martial arts action directed by Takanori Tsujimoto, starring Miki Mizuno and with Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police, The Machine Girl, Robogeisha, etc) doing the effects!! Can't wait! Synopsis: Hard Revenge Milly. In post a apocalyptic Japan, Yokohama City has become an epicenter of violence ruled by a vicious gang. The worst of the new breed of criminals, The Jack Brothers . When The Jack Brothers viciously murder Milly's husband and daughter leaving her to die, she vows revenge. She learns the art of sword combat from a master swordsman named Jubei, and eventually sets off to confront The Jack Brothers and fulfill her destiny. »
Really long first trailer for The Killer Inside Me
6 November 2009 1:00 PM, PST
Straight out of the American Film Market comes this almost 6 minute long trailer for Michael Winterbottom's upcoming The Killer Inside Me. The cast on this film is pretty hefty with Casey Affleck leading as the sheriff of a small town who slowly goes from mild-mannered lawman to murdering psychotic trying to cover his own tracks. Kate Hudson, Simon Baker, Jessica Alba, Ned Beatty and Bill Pullman also star. The film is an adaptation of the classic book by Jim Thompson, who also wrote the book that Stanley Kubrick's The Killing was based on »
Really long first trailer for The Killer Inside Me
6 November 2009 1:00 PM, PST
Straight out of the American Film Market comes this almost 6 minute long trailer for Michael Winterbottom's upcoming The Killer Inside Me. The cast on this film is pretty hefty with Casey Affleck leading as the sheriff of a small town who slowly goes from mild-mannered lawman to murdering psychotic trying to cover his own tracks. Kate Hudson, Simon Baker, Jessica Alba, Ned Beatty and Bill Pullman also star. The film is an adaptation of the classic book by Jim Thompson, who also wrote the book that Stanley Kubrick's The Killing was based on »
New stills from British gothic horror Black Death
6 November 2009 6:21 AM, PST
This one pretty much does what it says on the tin. We’ve tracked down some new stills for Christopher Smith’s upcoming gothic horror - starring Sean Bean - Black Death. Those in the know will recognise Smith’s name as the brains behind several of our fave horrors of recent years, among them being the recently released ‘Triangle’ and the hilariously dark, horror comedy ‘Severance.’ Still in post production, Black Death is due out next year. Annoyingly we can’t direct link to the pics as they’re embedded in a Flash slideshow. But here’s how to see them. From the link select “completed films,” “fiction,” then “Black Death.” »
Trailer for Aussie horror thriller The Clinic
6 November 2009 3:19 AM, PST
More news coming out of Australia - in the form of teaser trailer - for new horror thriller, The Clinic. Set in the 70s Auss, Clinic is the first feature (all the more impressive, considering that) project by director James Rabbitts and stars Tabrett Bethell, Andy Whitfield. Link to the trailer below. Plotline. While travelling across country with her fiancé, Beth wakes along in an isolated clinic to a mother's worst nightmare. Her child has been abducted. Trapped and facing an unknown enemy, Beth struggles to piece together the clinic's deadly secret. Just how far will a mother go to save her child? The Clinic trailer »
Trailer for Aussie horror thriller The Clinic
6 November 2009 3:19 AM, PST
More news coming out of Australia - in the form of teaser trailer - for new horror thriller, The Clinic. Set in the 70s Auss, Clinic is the first feature (all the more impressive too, considering that) project by director James Rabbitts and stars Tabrett Bethell, Andy Whitfield. Link to the trailer below. Plotline. While travelling across country with her fiancé, Beth wakes along in an isolated clinic to a mother's worst nightmare. Her child has been abducted. Trapped and facing an unknown enemy, Beth struggles to piece together the clinic's deadly secret. Just how far will a mother go to save her child? The Clinic trailer »
Duncan Jones Moon heading for R2 DVD/Bd
5 November 2009 8:04 AM, PST
Duncan Jones Low-Budget - multi award winning - Sci-Fi, Moon, is set for release on DVD/Bd in the UK next week. We’ll put our hands up to say we haven’t seen (soon be changing that) it yet, but we’ve heard nothing but good things about this debut feature by the young Brit director. Moon stars Sam Rockwell as an isolated lunar astronaut begins to lose his grip on reality in a cerebral sci-fi thriller, with apparently, one heck of a twist. Looking through the discs specs it seems Sony have done the release proud, with a fairly decent stack of extras. Moon goes on sale November 16th. Synopsis: Sam Bell is just two weeks away from finishing a lengthy, lonely contract mining Earth's primary source of energy, Helium-3, on the dark side of the moon. »
Duncan Jones Moon heading for R2 DVD/Bd
5 November 2009 8:04 AM, PST
Duncan Jones Low-Budget - multi award winning - Sci-Fi, Moon, is set for release on DVD/Bd in the UK next week. We’ll put our hands up to say we haven’t seen (soon be changing that) it yet, but we’ve heard nothing but good things about this debut feature by the young Brit director. Moon stars Sam Rockwell as an isolated lunar astronaut begins to lose his grip on reality in a cerebral sci-fi thriller, with apparently, one heck of a twist. Looking through the discs specs it seems Sony have done the release proud, with a fairly decent stack of extras. Moon goes on sale November 16th. Synopsis: Sam Bell is just two weeks away from finishing a lengthy, lonely contract mining Earth's primary source of energy, Helium-3, on the dark side of the moon. »
Nikkatsu whips up a Sushi Typhoon
4 November 2009 2:17 AM, PST
Music to these Japanese - gore flick - fanboys ears. According to Screendaily, Japanese studio Nikkatsu is launching a stand alone extreme gore label, Sushi Typhoon, to produce films from Japan’s leading cult directors including such as Takashi Miike and Yoshihiro (Tokyo Gore Police) Nishimura. Veteran Nikkatsu producer Yoshinori Chiba is to run the label which promises to deliver the kind of “violent, popular works that only Japanese cinema has engendered.” The first project from the label is action Samurai drama, Alien Vs Ninja (another Ninja movie?!), directed by Yuji Shimomura (Death Trance). The film is currently in post-production and Nikkatsu is planning to give it a Japanese theatrical release at the same time as its DVD release in the U.S. Other directors with projects on the boil for Sushi Typhoon include Noboru Iguchi, who previously directed Machine Girl for Nikkatsu, and Sion Sono, whose credits include Suicide Club »
The Uninvited: Review
4 November 2009 1:01 AM, PST
Director: Lee Su-yeon. Review: Adam Wing. A strange thing happened to me whilst watching The Uninvited, on three separate occasions I found myself falling asleep during the course of the movie. Not a unique occurrence I’m sure you’ll agree, it has after all been a very long week, but not the most positive of endorsements either. The interesting thing is, one of the lead characters in the film suffers from narcolepsy, coincidence or curse? You decide. The Uninvited is a 2003 Korean horror/drama directed by Lee Su-yeon, not to be confused with the 2009 Hollywood remake of A Tale Of Two Sisters, also entitled The Uninvited. This particular unwelcome guest stars Jeon Ji-hyun (My Sassy Girl) and Park Shin-yang (The Big Swindle), and tells the tale of an interior decorator that witnesses the death of two children on a subway journey home. »
Koji Wakamatsu films on VOD and in Los Angeles
3 November 2009 9:31 AM, PST
It's a good time to be a Koji Wakamatsu fan! french distribution company Dissidenz has made 4 of the controversial Japanese director's films available via Video On Demand with english subtitles, with more coming next year! Currently available are Secrets Behind The Wall (1965), The Embryo Hunts in Secret (1966), Violated Angels (1967) and Go Go Second Time Virgin (1969). If you can't read French, then go to the right hand side of the screen and change the scrollbox to Usd or Eur and the page will be available in English. »
Aussie horror The Reef starts streaming tomorrow
3 November 2009 2:23 AM, PST
Australian 'Black Water' director Andrew Traucki is back with another - people get stranded, then picked off one by one by a giant beastie - "based on true events“ horror flick titled The Reef and from tomorrow you can watch Traucki and the production team making the film, live via a streaming video link online. In what they’re are hailing as a “world first,” the live stream will go behind the scenes, where you will get access to cast, director and producer, interviews, watching the director call action and lots of shark footage. To take a peek, check out the films official site. »
Soi Cheang’s Accident on English subbed DVD
3 November 2009 1:07 AM, PST
Hong Kong director Soi Cheang’s (better known for his ultra violent cult films ‘Dog Bite Dog’ and ‘Shamo’) latest work, the psychologically thriller Accident, is up to order on English subtitled DVD. Produced by Johnnie To - and hailed as one of the best dramas to come out of Hk this year- Accident stars Louis Koo, and Richie Ren, in a Cat and Mouse battle for survival. Synopsis: A self-styled “accident choreographer,” the Brain is a professional hitman who kills his victims by trapping them in well crafted “accidents” that look like unfortunate mishaps but are in fact perfectly staged acts of crime. Perennially plagued with guilt, he is also suspicious and morbid by nature. The recent avalanche of memories of his lost wife does not make things any easier. After one mission accidentally goes wrong, causing the life of one of his men, the Brain is convinced that »
Vigilante options Warren Ellis’ Black Summer
2 November 2009 12:49 PM, PST
Comic writer extraordinaire Warren Ellis must be a hot thing in Hollywood at the moment because yet another comic of his has been optioned for a film, and this time it's Black Summer, an 8 issue mini series he wrote for Avatar Comics that ran from May 2007 to July 2008. Pre-production has already started on an adaptation of Red starring Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman and now Helen Mirren, his comics Ocean and Gravel (as previously reported) are currently in development, he's writing a King Arthur-type film script and he's also writing an anime series for Marvel starring Wolverine and another with Iron Man. And now yesterday Variety reported that Vigilante Entertainment has optioned his Black Summer series with Ryne Pearson (Knowing) adapting. »
New poster for Russian slash horror Phobos
2 November 2009 8:16 AM, PST
We’ve been following news on upcoming Russian slasher horror Phobos for some time, and while they are taking their sweet time releasing a trailer for the film, another new poster has just appeared online. Russian film house “Art Pictures Studios” are fronting the project, so we’re assuming the cup is half full on the production values front, and good things should be ahead. You can see the poster (full size) and some stills from the film, at the link. Synopsis : A rainy summer evening…Young people are arriving at the new trendy club named Phobos, built inside a huge reconstructed underground bomb shelter. At first nothing wrong, but as the last of the revellers arrives, the huge blast door slams shut, blocking All communication with the outside world. Then total darkness envelops them…. »
New poster for Russian slash horror Phobos
2 November 2009 8:16 AM, PST
We’ve been following news on upcoming Russian slasher horror Phobos for some time, and while they are taking their sweet time releasing a trailer for the film, another new poster has just appeared online. Russian film house “Art Pictures Studios” are fronting the project, so we’re assuming the cup is half full on the production values front, and good things should be ahead. You can see the poster (full size) and some stills from the film, at the link. Synopsis : A rainy summer evening…Young people are arriving at the new trendy club named Phobos, built inside a huge reconstructed underground bomb shelter. At first nothing wrong, but as the last of the revellers arrives, the huge blast door slams shut, blocking All communication with the outside world. Then total darkness envelops them…. »
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