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Norbert Kiel's Debut Horror Thriller REPLACE Gets The Green Light!

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Norbert Kiel's Debut Horror Thriller REPLACE Gets The Green Light!

Norbert Kiel's Debut Horror Thriller REPLACE Gets The Green Light!

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 07:30 PM PST

German short film maker Norbert Kiel will soon start on his feature film debut, Replace. A trio of Toronto based production companies will work with Germany based Sparkling Pictures to get the project started. Ultra 8 Pictures, A71 Productions and 108 Media are backing the project which will begin shooting here in Canada later this year. 108 Media will handle international sales. There is no word on casting yet. Replace portrays a young woman with a strange skin disease who's forced to make a choice when she discovers that she can replace her own skin with other woman's and maintain her beauty.All of the Toronto based writers here at Twitch are thrilled of course because we have all known Ultra 8 Pictures' dynamic duo of Colin...

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Mondo Media Is Relaunching Korean Animation AACHI & SSIPAK

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 06:30 PM PST

Mondo Media will be relaunching the 2006 Korean animated cult film Aachi & Ssipak on March 11th! They will do so on YouTube, iTunes and Google Play. They have enlisted the help of Dick Figures creators Ed Skudder and Zack Keller (reportedly a YouTube sensation?) who have rewritten the script and re-voiced the feature. Yes. It will be dubbed. Check out the trailer below.Sometime in the future, mankind has depleted all energy and fuel sources, however they have somehow engineered a way to use human excrement as fuel. To reward production, the government hands out extremely addictive, popsicle-like "Juicybars," which in turn also makes them constipated. Aachi and Ssipak are street hoodlums who struggle to survive by trading black market Juicybars. Through a chain of...

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WE ARE STILL HERE Promises Atmospheric Haunted-House Horror

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 05:00 PM PST

Any new ghost movie set in the 1970s automatically has my attention, especially when the people involved have good track records. Setting a movie in that time period removes the clutter and distraction of modern technology, which means the filmmakers must rely more fully on the strength of the story and characters to create a frightening atmosphere. Such is the case in favor of We Are Still Here, which stars Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator) and Andrew Sensenig (The Last Exorcism Part II), as well as Lisa Marie and Larry Fessenden. Here's the official synopsis, which sounds like it will give a familiar premise a good, hard shove. : After their teenage son is killed in a car crash, Paul (Sensenig) and Anne (Crampton) move to the...

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New Wildflower Awards Recognize Independent Korean Cinema

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 04:30 PM PST

The Wildflower Film Awards, a new audience-led initiative to recognize achievements in independent Korean cinema, is getting underway this month. Launched by Korean film expert and koreanfilm.org founder Darcy Paquet, the awards will be handed out each February to outstanding contributions in Korean cinema's low-budget realm. Winners will be selected in categories for Best Film, Director, Documentary, Actor, Actress, New Actor, New Actress, New Director and Cinematography, in addition to a Documentary Jury Prize. Eligible films were released commercially during 2013 and featured a budget under the 1 billion won mark ($930,000). A selection committee met once or twice a month to screen some of the 80 eligible films and selected the Wildflower nominees along with a few critics earlier this year. Nominees in the six...

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Review: VIDEOCLUB Is The Best Zombie Film Made In Chile So Far

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 04:00 PM PST

The search for the perfect zombie film made in Chile has been something that many filmmakers have tried and failed to different degrees. While Videoclub isn't the exception -- it's a spectacular and grandiose way of plummeting to the ground due to wrong filmmaking -- this might be the most decent effort so far, when it comes to creating a cohesive plot with a series of events that follow one another. In a sense, you could say that it's watchable, but was it great? Nope. Good? Nope. Disappointing? Not really, since we don't expect much in this day and age."Videoclub" was the name that Video Stores have in Chile. Just like in many parts of the world, they have recently receded, and because of that, you...

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Berlinale 2014 Review: Subdued Yet Powerful, NIGHT FLIGHT Soars

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 03:30 PM PST

LeeSong Hee-il returns to Berlin a year after White Night (2012) with his fourth feature Night Flight. While his last film was a subdued but powerful work about lingering memories of homophobia in modern Seoul, his new film is his most ambitious yet. Retaining queer themes, Night Flight goes beyond the scope of his past works by weaving a wider tapestry of social motifs that touch on many of the issues facing youths and minorities in contemporary Korea. As the years pass between middle and high school, a trio of friends becomes separated over time. Yong-ju and Gi-taek remain close yet Yong-ju is a closeted homosexual and Gi-taek has fallen to the bottom of the food chain within the school's hierarchy. Meanwhile, Gi-woong, by virtue...

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Robots! Mop! People! Longer, Live-Action PATLABOR: THE NEXT GENERATION Teaser

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 03:00 PM PST

Feast your hungry eyes upon more than 60 seconds from the upcoming live-action Patlabor: The Next Generation project, thanks to a tipster who alerted us to the teaser. Our own Hugo Ozman previously informed us that the project "will consist of a 7-part television series in 2014 and a feature film in 2015, with original creator Oshii Mamoru directing the feature film as well as some of the series' episodes. Long a favorite amongst anime fans, the project is eagerly anticipated by a lot of people. "It has previously been announced that the new project will not be a remake of earlier stories, but will be telling the story of the next generation of Patlabors. The production cost is reported to be 20 million US...

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Berlinale 2014 Review: YVES SAINT LAURENT Is Saved By Lead Performance

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 02:30 PM PST

There are two biopics out this year on Yves Saint Laurent, the iconic French women's fashion designer. Considering his importance in French fashion culture, this is probably not surprising (at least that there might be more than one film about him; two in one year is likely just an odd coincidence). Already released in France, Jalil Lespart's version has made its Berlinale debut, and to be honest, I'm hoping the next one might be a bit more, well, interesting. While not boring per se, Yves Saint Laurent is a standard, paint-by-numbers biopic. It covers the significant part of Saint Laurent's career, his rise and fall and rise, his personal life and problems; if you don't know much about him (which I didn't) it's some education....

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Review: NURSE Nakedly Exploits Sex and Serial Killers for Fun and Profit

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 09:00 AM PST

Exploitation (wink) films (wink) are so hard (tee hee! hehe!) to make (wink) nowadays. Back in the halcyon days of the 1970s, producer Roger Corman could assign a young director to make a film on a tiny budget on a tight schedule with almost complete freedom, as long as elements that could be exploited -- nudity, action, violence -- were included. He made it look so easy! In the decades since, hundreds have followed that formula, but they usually leave out the crucial ingredients that distinguished the best films of Corman and his protégés: some degree of social consciousness, and the ability to make a film that would still be good even without any exploitation elements. Nurse makes sure to include the classic exploitation elements,...

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Raven Banner Sells Zombie Flick THE BATTERY To US, UK, Germany, France, Oz, And New Zealand

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 07:00 AM PST

Raven Banner is handling international sales of Jeremy Garner's festival hit The Battery. And leading up to the European Film Market in Berlin they have just announced that film has been picked up by Shout! Factory in the U.S. Elsewhere in the world it was picked up by MetroDome in the UK, Zylo in France, Accent in Australia and New Zealand and Meteor in Germany. Raven Banner and Anchor Bay will be screening the film here in Canada as part of their Sinister Cinema Series this spring. ...

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FICUNAM 2014 News: Full Lineup Revealed, With Miyazaki's THE WIND RISES As Opening Film

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 06:00 AM PST

The lineup of FICUNAM 2014 is ready and things will kick off on February 27 with the Mexican premiere of one of the most anticipated films of the year: the final feature by animation master Miyazaki Hayao, The Wind Rises. This opening screening will be a free event, taking place in a downtown Mexico City public plaza (Santo Domingo) and being the one and only chance to watch The Wind Rises at FICUNAM (it will be released theatrically in Mexico later this year). As Twitch previously reported, Sono Sion's Why Don't You Play In Hell is another Japanese film that premieres in Mexico, as part of the festival's Strokes section (two showings are programmed) and as the annual drive-in movie. Other highlights are Gianfranco Rosi's...

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