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PiFan 2014 Review: Horror Comedy MOURNING GRAVE Aims Low But Hits Its Mark

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PiFan 2014 Review: Horror Comedy MOURNING GRAVE Aims Low But Hits Its Mark

PiFan 2014 Review: Horror Comedy MOURNING GRAVE Aims Low But Hits Its Mark

Posted: 03 Aug 2014 04:00 AM PDT

Korean horror has been in the midst of a rough streak for the past half decade. Relying on worn out themes, new works been have trotted out regularly every summer but even with lowered expectations, each year has put forth an increasingly lackluster and listless lineup of new films. Trying his best to buck the trend is the experienced short filmmaker Oh In-chun, who steps up to the feature-length plate with his horror-comedy debut Mourning Grave. In-su has a very special ability. Though he would no sooner be a normal teenager, he has the ability to see the spirits of the departed. After leaving his hometown, where he developed his unwanted ability, In-su is forced to go back and confront his demons. He stays with...

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Want To See KICK-HEART? In The US Or Canada, Now You Can

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 08:00 PM PDT

Last year saw the release of Yuasa Masaaki's Kick-Heart, the first anime short to be funded through a Kickstarter campaign. Made at the famous Production IG studio and with Oshii Mamoru attached as an executive producer, the end result was still a piece of typical Yuasa Masaaki brilliance: colorful, sexy, and funny, with great music. However, it being an animated short made it difficult to find, unless you were involved in the Kickstarter campaign, or happened to visit the right festival. The good news is: this has now been remedied for the US and Canada. As of yesterday, Kick-Heart is available through Vimeo on Demand. In Kick-Heart, a wrestler has to fight a charity match against a sadistic female wrestler. When she discovers he is...

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COLT 45: Watch The Second Trailer For Du Welz's Ultra Slick Action Flick

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 02:40 PM PDT

Well, now. If the idea of Calvaire and Vinyan director Fabrice du Welz tackling a dark crime / action thriller wasn't enough to get you all excited and the stellar first trailer for his upcoming Colt 45 wasn't enough to do the job either then how about this: Yes, it's a second trailer for the upcoming release and it's even better than the first, which was already pretty damn good.Police armourer and firearms instructor Vincent Milès is a shooting ace. Only 25 years old, his prowess is the envy of the world's finest but, to the incomprehension of his colleagues, Vincent refuses to join the police action units. Trapped in a situation primed to blow sky high, Vincent is left with no choice but to...

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THE ABCs OF DEATH 2 Coming This October

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 11:00 AM PDT

The second run of the ambitious anthology, The ABCs of Death 2, has a release date! It will arrive first On Demand on October 2 and then open theatrically on October 31. The producers have yet to announce its World Premiere but that news should come along shortly. Directors: Aharon Keshales, Navot Papushado, Alejandro Brugues, Bill Plympton, Chris Nash, Dennison Ramalho, Erik Matti, Evan Katz, Hajime Ohata, Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska, Jerome Sable, Jim Hosking, Juan Martinez Moreno, Julian Barratt, Julian Gilbey, Julian Maury, Alexandre Bustillo, Kristina Buozyte, Bruno Samper, Lancelot Imasuen, Larry Fessenden, Marvin Kren, Robert Boocheck, Robert Morgan, Rodney Ascher, Soichi Umezawa, Steven Kostanski, Todd Rohal, Vincenzo Natali.Synopsis: The ABCs of Death 2 is the follow-up to the most ambitious anthology film ever conceived...

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HARD BOILED COP: Watch The Short And Long Versions Now

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 10:01 AM PDT

Early last month we brought Ulrik Bruchholz's short film Hard Boiled Cop to your attention, primarily because it starred German martial artist Mathis Landwehr. Landwehr has done loads of work in television (Lasko - The Fist of God) and short films (Kingz) back home in Germany, yet remains largely unknown on the international stage, which is a shame. Bruchholz himself is no slouch, having done a fair amount of stunt related work on films like Must Love Death, Cloud Atlas and the upcoming XYZ Films creature feature Stung (plug!). As the story goes, Bruchholz began working on a feature film back in 2008, but after three years production broke down. He took what footage he had and started piecing it together to make the climactic fight in...

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Elle Fanning To Play Mary Shelley In Film By WADJDA Director Haifaa al-Mansour

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 09:01 AM PDT

Nineteenth-century author Mary Shelley wrote her novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, when she was 19 (just let that sink in for a minute.) The subject of countless adaptations and recreations, it is one of the two things for which she remains most famous, the other being her relationship with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, whom she met and married around the same time. Their relationship was tumultuous, to say the least, and it will be the subject of a new film, A Storm in the Stars, with Elle Fanning in the lead role. Haifaa al-Mansour, director of the amazing film Wadjda, will helm the project. Written by Emma Jensen and to be produced by Amy Baer under Gidden Media, the film will focus on the early years of the Shelleys'...

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Fantasia 2014 Review: THE HARVEST, A Coming Of Age Fable Of Wicked Proportions

Posted: 02 Aug 2014 08:00 AM PDT

After a very lengthy hiatus into directing for TV, ranging from single episodes of John From Cincinnati to Masters of Horror, John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait of A Serial Killer) is back with his first feature film since the turn of the century. Most people will recall the hysterically trashy noir from the late 1990s, Wild Things, the one that featured then popular starlets Neve Campbell and Denise Richards ejnoying a lengthy spot of erotic mingling; I believe the film also showed the world Kevin's Bacon.McNaughton chooses a painterly, often cloying, small town Americana vibe in The Harvest, such that it first appears that the director has taken up the mantle of restrained, simple drama -- to the point of somnambulism, but gradually, and with care, the film...

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Melbourne 2014 Review: CATCH ME DADDY Imbues Stunning Tension And Displays Confident Direction

Posted: 01 Aug 2014 12:15 PM PDT

Director Daniel Wolfe came into recognition with his awesome music video Time To Dance for the band The Shoes. The clip featured a disturbed psychopath, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, who, essentially, murdered hipsters who could not dance. This tongue-in-cheek idea was not played for laughs, however, and the results proved both strangely beautiful and troubling, the murders as visceral as anything a music video has produced, and the editing a bizarre, quick pace of reality and delusion.This year, Wolfe premiered his debut feature, Catch Me Daddy, at Cannes. The film contains his signature style; searing violence, cool pacing, and the majority of elements found in his music work, from the roving camera and cluttered interiors to beautiful exteriors. Together, these components craft a truly disturbing screen...

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