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Adrian Garcia Bogliano, Laura Caro And Francisco Barreiro Talk Fantastic Fest Winner HERE COMES THE DEVIL

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Adrian Garcia Bogliano, Laura Caro And Francisco Barreiro Talk Fantastic Fest Winner HERE COMES THE DEVIL

Adrian Garcia Bogliano, Laura Caro And Francisco Barreiro Talk Fantastic Fest Winner HERE COMES THE DEVIL

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 07:00 PM PDT

Here Comes the Devil, which just swept the Horror Features category at the Fantastic Fest 2012 awards is, without doubt,  an Adrian Garcia  Bogliano film. Full of beautiful women, eye popping compositions, and dread drenched suspense, Bogliano's creative ownership over the film is unmistakable. But Here Comes The Devil is so much more than the above implies. This is no mere thrill ride exploiting sex and violence. Here Comes The Devil may well be a new classic of the genre showcasing, as it does, a talent in full stride. This is ferociously unsettling stuff conjuring an impressive spectrum of ideological specters as parents grieve, children commit unspeakable acts, and madness descends on  a marriage in deep crisis. The film ends on a harsh twist that...

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: THE FINAL MEMBER Grips You By The Short Hairs

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 06:30 PM PDT

In a year full of great docs this Fantastic Fest entry has managed to create some substantial buzz, which comes as little surprise considering the photo accompanying the online press materials showed a group of severed animal phalluses arranged neatly on a table in a darkened room. What is, perhaps, surprising is that the buzz runs significantly deeper than simply the shocking subject matter. Who would have thought it would be such a winsome affair?The Final Member is pure, feelgood documentary that just happens to be about Sigurdur "Siggi" Hjartarson - a 70 year old Icelandic man who collects mammal penises for the tiny but respected Icelandic Phallological Museum. Intrigued? Disgusted? The story hasn't even started yet. Siggi is missing one key element of his...

Fantastic Fest: Øystein Karlsen Drunkenly Reviews Øystein Karlsen's FUCK UP

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 06:00 PM PDT

The best thing about this movie is definitely the all the different teams in both grades and the Building up of the film. It seems so mom author has complete control over the way layer upon layer of history and emotions are revealed. In addition to the excellent performances and an amazing soundtrack, the film is a journey into the depths of human nature. Its ustreberske and light footed storytelling helps to emphasize that this is a movie from beginning to the creation of superior forces, all "at the top of their game." If you see one film this year is the Fuck Up. A ernergisk, emotional, energetic atmospheric story that whips forward and leave you again crying with a smile on his face when...

Exclusive: KING KELLY Trailer Promises Sex, Drugs & Internet Stardom

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 03:00 PM PDT

Andrew Neel's experimental thriller King Kelly enjoyed its World Premiere at SXSW earlier this year, and recently bagged Best Director and Best Actress awards at PiFan in Korea. It's the story of a wannabe Internet star, King Kelly (Louisa Krause), who performs online stripteases when not running drugs around the city. Things turn sour when Kelly's embittered ex-boyfriend steals her car - together with its trunkful of narcotics - kicking off a riotous 4th of July weekend fuelled with sex, drugs, violence and good ole fashioned hedonism. Shot entirely on iPhones, King Kelly has been touted as a resonating dissection of Internet Celebrity culture and "Generation Me", and it will screen next month as part of the opening weekend programme at this year's Golden Horse...

Park Chan Wook's STOKER Trailer Brings A Bleak Beauty

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 02:30 PM PDT

Were you one of those worried that Oldboy director Park Chan-wook would have difficulty bringing his unique style to Hollywood? Fear no more. The full trailer for the Korean auteur's latest has arrived and it is every bit as dark and starkly beautiful as you could have hoped.After India's (Wasikowska's) father dies in an auto accident, her Uncle Charlie (Goode), who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her emotionally unstable mother Evelyn (Kidman). Soon after his arrival, she comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives, but instead of feeling outrage or horror, this friendless girl becomes increasingly infatuated with him. Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, Dermot Mulroney, Jacki Weaver, and Nicole Kidman star in this super dark affair. Watch...

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: THE AMERICAN SCREAM Happily Haunts the Halloween Season

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 01:01 PM PDT

If you prefer Jack O' Lanterns to Christmas trees, The American Scream will feel like an overdose of Hallowe'en candy - without the tummy ache. Revolving around a family in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, the film explores the (possibly) growing phenomenon of obsessively decorating homes with elaborate costumes and props appropriate to the occasion, and then inviting neighbors over to enjoy a scare or two. Skeletons, ghosts, witches and tombstones are particular favorites in these handcrafted haunted houses, which may take months to prepare, and can be a very expensive proposition for folks often strapped for cash. No admission is charged, so the only reward is the fleeting amusement expressed by crowds of strangers. The American Scream begins 30 days before Halloween as preparations are shifting into high...

Watch A Clip From Darkly Hysterical Short SUGAR

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 12:30 PM PDT

One of the great pleasures of the film festival experience is the joy of the sudden surprise, when something that you weren't expecting pops up, smacks you in the face and shouts "Here I am!" Those moments don't come incredibly often when attending a festival that you have programmed a significant part of but they're still out there and the biggest for me at Fantastic Fest this year came with the short film Sugar.Playing in front of award winning Dutch crime comedy Plan C, Sugar provides a one-two punch of dark Dutch wit.Klaasje, Bert's scantily-dressed downstairs neighbor, stops by to borrow a cup of sugar. What looks like a regular situation with - possibly - a sexual outcome unexpectedly turns into Bert's worst nightmare.Smartly directed...

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: TAPED Captures Tightly Wound Thrills

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 12:00 PM PDT

Dutch director Diederik Van Rooijen delivers a stripped-down, no-nonsense chase thriller through deepest darkest Argentina, boasting tight, assured direction and a pair of knockout central performances. Being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and witness to something that you'd frankly rather not have seen, has long been an effective thriller movie staple. From Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot through Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow Up to Peter Weir's Witness, it's a fast and incredibly impactful way of putting ordinary people into extraordinary and oftentimes extremely dangerous situations, for the sake of heightening the drama and delivering white knuckle thrills. In Taped, Van Rooijen delivers exactly such a premise - a situation anyone could seemingly find themselves in - and ramps up the tension...

Mesmerizing Trailer For Fantastic Fest Award Winner VANISHING WAVES

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 11:30 AM PDT

Lithuanian scifi romantic thriller Vanishing Waves leaves Fantastic Fest with a handful of awards, the picture taking all of the awards but Best Actor in the Fantastic Features competition, along with a high dose of praise from audiences enamored by the film's stylish blend of arthouse and genre elements. And our own Brian Clark rather fell in love with the film himself when it screened at the L'Etrange Festival in France just prior to arriving here in Texas.Have you ever dreamed of being inside the head of another person - a beloved one or your rival ? Have you ever wished to experience the ideal relationship, where two minds come into total fusion? "Vanishing waves" - a sci-fi melodrama. Following solid scientific experiment, based on...

NYFF 2012 Preview: Classics To Catch

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 11:03 AM PDT

The New York Film Festival does such a stellar job with their so-called "sidebar programming" (see last year's Nikkatsu Studio Retrospective) that if you were to opt out of the main slate entirely, you would still be near-guaranteed to have a blast at the fest. And with NYFF turning 50 this year there are plenty of treasures from cinema's past to choose from. Yes, this post is mostly a guide for our NYC readers on what they may want to make some time for at the fest, but that doesn't mean the rest of you have to be jealous of them. (I can't believe I almost considered using the winking face emoticon! What kind of film journalist am I?)     Now, truth be told,...

Lund 2012 Review: WITHER Bolstered By Bloody Good Violence!

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 10:00 AM PDT

The Lund International Fantastic Film Festival showcases tonight the world premiere of Wither, a rare horror entry from the land of Bergman. A full blooded affair unafraid to lay on the blood and gore, Wither may struggle with some of the story elements but still ends as a very entertaining offer. Here's how the festival describes it. Albin, his girlfriend Ida and their friends are all in their late twenties. During a family dinner, Albin's dad tells the couple about a supposedly abandoned house deep in the woods. Albin and Ida sees this as an opportunity to get together with their friends one more time and spend the weekend there. They all get together and are soon on their way. Everyone is excited about...

When Fans Cry: Waiting For The Second Half Of A Story

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 08:01 AM PDT

On these here pages of Twitch we've paid quite some attention to the Australian DVD release of the Japanese anime horror-thriller series When They Cry, with several reviews for both season one and season two. For good reason: When seen as a whole, this series tells a convoluted, bold story which I urge everyone who has an interest in horror or science fiction to go check out. Imagine the David Lynch series Twin Peaks, only a version where everything turns out to have been well-planned from the very beginning and where everything actually makes sense in the end. Storywise, When They Cry is THAT good. Convoluted and bold indeed. But the way this series finally was released in English-speaking territories was convoluted as well. For...

EXCLUSIVE Lund 2012 Video: The RESOLUTION Guys LUND THE RIGHT ONE IN

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 07:31 AM PDT

Where in the world do we find the filmmakers of Resolution now? Why, Sweden of course, in anticipation of the screening of their film tonight at the Lund International Fantastic Film Festival. It seems that Aaron has 'hooked up' and is eager to share this news with Justin. Perhaps Aaron will have more to tell the audience at tonight's screening. The directors will be in attendance. ...
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