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Teaser For THE LOST TOUR, Vietnam's First Zombie Movie

Teaser For THE LOST TOUR, Vietnam's First Zombie Movie

Posted: 29 Aug 2014 04:00 AM PDT

This Halloween, horror lovers in Vietnam will have a chance to enjoy the country's first zombie movie, The Lost Tour (Rừng Xác Sống, litterally translated Zombie Forest). Le Van Kiet (House In The Alley) will serve as scriptwriter, director and producer for what will be his second film. The Lost Tour will follow the footsteps of two American friends who travel to Vietnam for the first time. Instead of spending time with the famous tourist destinations, they decided to explore the distant suburbs of the countryside to participate in exciting activities, enjoy the exotic dishes of each places. Unfortunately, they get lost in a dense forest, and the nightmare of zombie uprising begin...The Lost Tour was filmed by the main characters with the use of hand-held cameras. The main...

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First Wave Of Titles Announced For DEDFEST, Hellberta's Horror Festival

Posted: 29 Aug 2014 03:00 AM PDT

Early bird passes are now on sale for Dedfest: Hellberta's Horror Festival in Edmonton, Alberta. And to add some incentive, the festival has announced the first seven titles from this year's lineup. Dedmontonians will get their fill of the return of Nazi Zombies in Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead, an Australian haunting from The Babadook, and Canadian Giallo goodness in The Editor. They will also see the documentary Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Doctor Moreau. There is the latest from the directors of Inside, Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo's Among the Living. From Belgium, they will see Alleluia by Fabrice du Welz. To top off the list, there will be a joint DEDfest/Metro Cinema Crime Watch screening of Maniac Cop!Early bird passes are on sale...

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Spectrefest 2014: THE GUEST To Open And THE BABADOOK To Close

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 10:30 PM PDT

Spectrefest, the genre festival put on by Elijah Wood and his partners at Spectrevision, has announced its program for its second year. In partnership with Cinefamily, the program has been spread out over two months starting next Thursday, September 4, with Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett's thriller The Guest. The festival will close suitably enough on Hallow'en night with Aussie chiller The Babadook, directed by Jennifer Kent.Other films include Kevin Smith's Tusk, a double bill of Dead Snow, Kiwi horror flick Housebound, and a 30th anniversary screening of Gremlins with director Joe Dante in attendance. It is going to be a good two months! 9/4 Opening Night Event - The Guest (dir. Adam Wingard) Scheduled to attend: Adam Wingard, Simon Barrett9/16 Tusk (dir. Kevin Smith) (co-presented by Fantastic...

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Review: AS ABOVE/SO BELOW, Found-Footage Garbage In/Garbage Out

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 10:01 PM PDT

If you gain pleasure from beating yourself up for 90 minutes, have I got a movie for you! It's been 15 years since The Blair Witch Project, yet filmmakers still insist upon employing found-footage techniques as though they represent an entirely new way of telling a story, as though audiences have not already been pummeled into submission by highly-trained professional filmmakers struggling to pretend they have never made a movie before. For reasons that I cannot fathom, John Erick Dowdle's As Above/So Below represents a bizarre regression in his directing career. Though I have yet to catch up with Dowdle's debut film, Poughkeepsie Diaries, I felt that his sophomore feature, a remake of the exceptional Spanish thriller [REC] entitled Quarantine (2008), was an above-average horror...

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OPEN WINDOWS: New Poster Stars Elijah Wood And Sasha Grey

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 04:00 PM PDT

Have a look at the new one-sheet for Nacho Vigalondo's thriller Open Windows. His film will be in select theaters on November 7. If you would like to see it earlier, there will be an early VOD release on October 2.Our Managing Editor, Peter Martin, caught the film at SXSW and concluded his rave review with these thoughts..."Somewhat similar to Cary Grant in North by Northwest, forcibly inebriated and careening down a mountain road toward certain death, Open Windows zooms along as though it's out of control, dashing from here to there in a heedless race to the closing credits. But Nacho Vigalondo is not drunk at the helm, and his film only appears to be out of control. Open Windows thrills and chills, and...

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Macabro 2014: MEXICO BARBARO Gets An Official Poster, Plus More New Images

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 03:00 PM PDT

Macabro 2014 hosted a very special public conference with seven of the eight directors that are part of the upcoming horror anthology México Bárbaro. It was the first time the project was presented to a wide audience in Mexico City, with each of the filmmakers, including Lex Ortega and Jorge Michel Grau, talking about their respective segment. We published an article and an extensive interview with six of the directors already, so let's stay focused on the brand new stuff.  We got to see the first México Bárbaro teaser trailer during the conference. It didn't show much but the images are quite promising. It also introduced a metal song, with the singer repeating the film's title. The trailer is not yet available online for your enjoyment, but...

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Review: THE SUMMER OF FLYING FISH Tries To Tackle A Centuries Old Conflict

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 12:00 PM PDT

The year 2013 was a special one for Chilean cinema, I talked about it in my list of the best Chilean movies of 2013 that I posted here on Twitch. One of the main reasons was the amount of films from my country that ended up in Cannes, and all of them receiving from average-to-great reviews. One of the films, and the one who received the most glowing reviews of them all (alongside Jodorowsky's latest) was The Summer of the Flying Fish (El Verano de los Peces Voladores), about a 16 year old girl on vacation with his wealthy father in the south of Chile, near the indigenous population, the Mapuche.What seems to be, in the beginning, a peaceful retreat from the capital city, slowly turns...

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Brit Horror ITS WALLS WERE BLOOD Adds Steve Oram, Edward Hogg, And More

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 11:30 AM PDT

The history of a haunted house, from the 19th century to today, will be explored in spooky fashion in the British anthology film Its Walls Were Blood. Steve Oram (Sightseers), Edward Hogg (Anonymous), and Polly McIntosh (White Settlers) have all joined the cast, per Screen Daily. Oram (pictured) was exquisitely good in Sightseers, and McIntosh brings beauty, grace, and feral intensity to her roles, so, yes, this is good news for the anthology flick. Individual segments will be directed by Sean Hogan (The Devil's Business), Paul Hyett (The Seasoning House), Tom Shankland (The Children) and Paul Davis (The Body). Of those filmmakers, I'm most familiar with Hogan, who has consistently plowed a fiercely independent, often uncomfortable path in his work, which includes the haunting Lie Still, and a nicely...

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Review: CANOPY, An Interesting Experiment, But Less Than It Could Have Been

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 11:01 AM PDT

It was back in the early 2000's, shortly after the release of O Brother, Where Art Thou, that word began to circulate that the Coen Brothers intended to shoot a film adaptation of James Dickey's novel To The White Sea. It caught the eye, not just for the fact that Brad Pitt was slated to star, but also due to the story playing out almost entirely without dialogue, with Pitt playing a WWII pilot struggling to get back to safety after his plane crashes behind enemy lines. The hefty 80 million dollar proposed budget killed To The White Sea dead but now -- a decade later and with a far, far smaller budget -- first time Australian filmmaker Aaron Wilson has essentially made that movie...

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Charlie Hunnam To Be Crowned In Guy Ritchie's KING ARTHUR Film

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 10:30 AM PDT

Charlie Hunnam will be crowned king in Guy Ritchie's upcoming King Arthur film. The Sons of Anarchy star is in final negotiations to play the titular role in what Warner Bros. is planning to be a six film series, according to Variety and Deadline. Hunnam will reunite with Pacific Rim co-star Idris Elba, in the role of the Merlin-esque character who guides Arthur. There is also word that Elizabeth Olson is the front-runner for the female lead. Which would be alright by a lot of us, I imagine. And while some say, "Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government," we have not had a really good King Arthur flick since 1981's Excalibur.Warner Bros. plans to release the first film...

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Review: THE CONGRESS, Ambitious And Mostly Successful

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 10:02 AM PDT

Loosely based on the sci-fi musings of Stanislav Lem, Ari Folman follows up his Oscar-nominated Waltz With Bashir with this ambitious and mostly successful exploration of celebrity, cinema and the subconscious. One of the biggest criticisms of Cinema, and Hollywood in particular, is that there are no good roles for women after they reach a certain age. Once they hit their 30s, their 40s if they're very lucky, then most jobbing actresses either run out of work or find themselves stuck playing wives, mothers, matrons or grannies for the rest of their careers. It is with this sentiment in mind that Ari Folman opens The Congress, his loose yet ambitious adaptation of Solaris author Stanislav Lem's 1971 novel, The Futurological Congress. Robin Wright plays a...

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The UNDERWORLD Reboot Is On Its Way

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 09:30 AM PDT

There are some reboots you did not know you needed until they are already happening. Lakeshore Enteratinment is rebooting the Underworld franchise, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The first Underworld film dropped in 2003 and three sequels emerged in 2006, 2009, and 2012.Lakeshore has hired Priest scribe Cory Goodman to pen the script. Do you want a reminder of how well that film was received? He has also written the script for The Last Witch Hunter, which stars Vin Diesel, and is in pre-production right now. No word if Kate Beckinsale will assume the role that gave rise to her stardom or make any sort of appearance. ...

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Review: THE NOTEBOOK, A Chilling Tale Of Creepy Twins In WWII Hungary

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 09:00 AM PDT

The idea of viewing wartime through the eyes of children has had its share of cinematic treatments over the years. Based on a prize winning novel of the same name, Hungarian director János Szász adds The Notebook/Le Grand Cahier to that list. It's a WWII drama that has a darker, much more sinister tone in reflecting human survival than, say, Steven Spielberg's JG Ballard adaptation, Empire of the Sun (1987), starring baby Christian Bale. The film tells a story of young twin brothers (played by András and Lázló Gyémánt), singularly known only as bastards by their cruel grandmother, who reluctantly takes the boys into her care in her rural farm. This was decision of the twins' parents, who thought the kids would have a better chance...

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Check Out Simon Pegg In This Animated Poster For KILL ME THREE TIMES

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 08:32 AM PDT

Kriv Stenders' thriller Kill Me Three Times, starring funny man Simon Pegg, is all set to have its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, September 6, 2014. We have a new animated poster to share with you. Simon Pegg plays the mercurial assassin, Charlie Wofle, who discovers he isn't the only person trying to kill the siren of a sun drenched surfing town (Alice Braga). Charlie quickly finds himself at the center of three tales of murder, mayhem, blackmail and revenge. With an original screenplay by James McFarland, the film also stars Sullivan Stapleton (as a gambling addict that attempts to pay off his debts through a risky life insurance scam), Teresa Palmer (as a small town Lady Macbeth), Callan Mulvey (as a wealthy beach...

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Review: KUNDO: AGE OF THE RAMPANT Marches With A Confident Swagger

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 08:00 AM PDT

With big stars and a hefty budget, Kundo: Age Of The Rampant marches into theaters with confidence and tongue planted firmly in cheek. This hybrid period film owes more to spaghetti westerns than the history of its Joseon Era setting and some may take umbrage at the film's excessive running time, but with a raucous charm and an array of well-mined genre tropes, it's sure to keep most spectators satisfied. A group of Robin Hood-like bandits called Kundo roam the land, taking from the corrupt rich and giving back to the embattled poor. Dol Moo-chi, a lowly butcher, finds himself embroiled in an assassination plot hatched by the young prince Jo Yoon, what wants to put himself next in line for the throne. When he...

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Review: THE LAST OF ROBIN HOOD Kills Off Errol Flynn Once And For All

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 07:00 AM PDT

There aren't enough R's in "Errol Flynn" to convey just how R-rated the actor's life truly was. It's said that Flynn, one of the most iconic Hollywood swashbucklers to ever live (his most famous work, 1938's The Adventures of Robin Hood remains widely regarded as the best film version of that particular tale), knew few boundaries in his decadence and promiscuity. Naturally, it all caught up with him, taking its toll first on his gleaming career, then on his very life. But the years between the former consequences and the latter were greater than many may realize. The Last of Robin Hood, devoid of any bite whatsoever, attempts to chronicle the final years of Errol Flynn (Kevin Kline, fully committed), from 1957 to 1959. By this...

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