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TV Beat: DRACULA Debuts, A Bloodthirsty Vampire in Victorian-Era London

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TV Beat: DRACULA Debuts, A Bloodthirsty Vampire in Victorian-Era London

TV Beat: DRACULA Debuts, A Bloodthirsty Vampire in Victorian-Era London

Posted: 27 Oct 2013 07:00 PM PDT

Posing as a rapacious and ostentatiously wealthy American, Dracula stalks the streets of London in 1896, exacting bloody revenge against high-minded and arrogant British titans of industry. The American TV series Dracula debuted this past Friday evening with decidedly posh settings alternating with threadbare backlot streets. It appears that much of the budget was allocated to resplendent Victorian costumes, which helps fix the characters in an upper-class atmosphere of pomp and privilege. Into the stultifying air strides Alexander Grayson (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), a brash entrepreneur who boldly makes a business proposition to two pompous tycoons, who promptly reject his offer and put him in his place as an impolite rapscallion. Grayson, as we've seen in the opening scene, was brought back to life in Eastern...

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Morelia 2013: Film Awards Go To WORKERS, THE NAKED ROOM And THE GOLDEN CAGE

Posted: 27 Oct 2013 01:30 PM PDT

On Saturday, October 26, the award ceremony for Morelia 2013 took place. I don't know how the show went, as I instead attended the last festival screening of Blue is the Warmest Color, but here are some thoughts and the complete list of winners. Earlier, the results of the press voting were revealed, with Diego Quemada-Díez's The Golden Cage and Quebranto taking home the best film and best doc award, respectively. I'm one of the few persons at the festival who didn't love the bittersweet The Amazing Catfish, hence it was surprising that the press chose The Golden Cage, a drama about immigration, over it. On the other hand, Quebranto winning was hardly a surprise, though my favorite doc was The Naked Room. The Amazing...

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Morelia 2013 Review: THE NAKED ROOM (EL CUARTO DESNUDO), A Powerful Display Of Sadness And Insanity

Posted: 27 Oct 2013 06:00 AM PDT

Nuria Ibáñez's documentary The Naked Room (El Cuarto Desnudo) has a very powerful moment in which a little boy is questioned by a psychiatrist about his biggest wishes. The answers are simple and concise but, at the same time, lack that magic innocence that would lead other kids to say something related to toys or fantasy dreams. Pretty much everything in The Naked Room, including this boy's desires, has to do with love and family. More precisely, the lack of that: all the problems that come with a difficult childhood and that remain, in a way or another, through growth. The Naked Room exposes the complex and hard situations that are the consequence of something as simple as a kid wishing for a more loving...

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On The Set Of Juno Mak's RIGOR MORTIS

Posted: 27 Oct 2013 05:00 AM PDT

Way back in the summer of 2012, Twitch was gifted the rare opportunity to visit the set of Juno Mak's homage to classic Chinese vampire movies, Rigor Mortis. Now that Mak's film has completed a hugely successful fesitval run and has opened here in Hong Kong, we can share some of these fantastic images with our readership.Boasting an all-star cast of Hong Kong veterans, including Chin Siu Ho, Anthony Chan Yau, Nina Paw Hee Ching, Cheung Fat, Kara Hui, Richard Ng and Lo Hoi Pang - many of whom were present during our visit - Rigor Mortis is a delightfully atmospheric chiller that promises a successful career ahead for Mak if he continues to direct.Photos © Stefan IrvineYou can find even more images over at Irvine's Flickr...

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Full Disclosure: Twitch's Lists Of Shame - October

Posted: 27 Oct 2013 04:00 AM PDT

As we enter the final quarter of 2013's Full Disclosure, I was hoping to have all our contributors check out something at least vaguely horror-related knowning that this feature would publish close to Hallowe'en. Well, the trials and tribulations behind the scenes of Full Disclosure have been many and varied, sometimes akin to herding cats, and so while not everyone on this list is weighing in on a new discovery within the horror genre (myself one of the guilty parties), we do have contributors viewing such pillars of the genre as Dracula, Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari for the very first time. So behold, our (occasionally) spookily-themed delve into our personal cinematic lists of shame!...

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