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Short horror by women at the New York Horror Film Festival 2009
6 November 2009 3:51 PM, PST
The 2009 New York Horror Film Festival (November 18 thru 22) at the Tribeca Cinemas in New York City, USA has a great lineup of shorts and features directed and produced by women this year. The creepy spin on the Van Helsing tale Abraham's Boys (Dorothy Street), dark fairy-tale White Radishes (Christina Won), Together (Gigi Romero), award-winning short Death in Charge (Devi Snively) and claymation feminist horror short Barbee Butcher (Sophie Lagues) all follow feature film The Shadow Within by Silvana Zancolo.
Horror produced by women at the fest includes The Familiar (Jennifer Snick), Must Love Death (Anna Wendt), and Sweatshop (Katherine Banks, Kristi Boul and Laura Bryan.)
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- Superheidi
Silvana Zancolo's 'The Shadow Within' plays NYC Horror Film fest!
6 November 2009 2:36 PM, PST
Director Silvana Zancolo's new horror film The Shadow Within is playing the 2009 New York City Horror Film Festival (Nychff) (November 18 thru 22) on Sat, Nov 21, 6:30Pm at the Tribeca Cinemas in New York City.
The Shadow Within is a supernatural thriller about Maurice Dumont, a nine year-old with an enduring connection between this world and the next...
Propelled by grief over the death of Maurice’s twin brother Jacques at birth, his mother falls under the influence of the enigmatic Madame Armand, who seduces Marie with the hope that the Dumonts will be reunited again by forcing Maurice to act as a medium to the afterlife. When Maurice suffers an unaccountable fever, Dr. Prevost becomes fearful of the mysterious changes to his body. As Jacques asserts himself through Maurice, Maurice deteriorates, coming to the realization that Jacques desires the same thing he does: the love of their parents, only »
- Superheidi
Ursula Dabrowsky & Sue Brown's feature 'Family Demons' gains distribution trhough Ifm!
6 November 2009 1:57 PM, PST
Family Demons, the award-winning psychological horror film produced by Sue Brown and directed by Ursula Dabrowsky, has been picked up for worldwide distribution by Ifm World Releasing Inc, the Us/Australian international film and TV sales company!
Billie (Cassandra Kane) kills her violent alcoholic mother (Kerry Reid) in a fit of fury and repressed anger. Helped by her boyfriend Sean (Alex Rafalowicz) she plans on getting out of town and heading for the big city but her mother’s vengeful, evil ghost will not let her go....
A real nail biter, this Australian production has already won ”Best Australian Director” at the 2009 Night of Horror Film Festival and was nominated as a finalist in the 2009 DigiSPAA awards.
watch the trailer:
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- Superheidi
Silent But Deadly Productions: Watch their female-created 'Sbd' webseries
5 November 2009 12:36 PM, PST
The Minneapolis, Minnesota USA-based all-female production company Silent But Deadly (Rachel Grubb, Brooke Lemke, and Virgina Head) have 4 films under their belt including the Rachel Grubb-directed horror/thriller feature Why am I in a Box? and a new ten-episode web-series called Sbd that you can watch now.
Sbd synopsis: Jill (Lemke) and Gina (Grubb) are roommates—single, unemployed and left to their own devices. Gina is in love with a fictional villain from her favorite movie, and Jill likes to talk to the audience in her head. Together, they take everyday obstacles way too seriously and make their lives more interesting than they have any right to be...
It is Silent-But-Deadly's goal to provide opportunities for women in front of and behind the camera in roles to help them expand their knowledge, experiences and talents while working in a nurturing and positive environment. They also provide internship and shadowing »
- Superheidi
People's Choice Awards nominate Bright Star, Hurt Locker, and True Blood
5 November 2009 1:00 AM, PST
The incredibly inane, but nevertheless mainstream representative, People's Choice Awards have nominated some impressive women and films in their categories this year;
Abbie Cornish, of Bright Star, for fave breakout star; Christine Jeffs' Sunshine Cleaning, Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker and Jane Campion's Bright Star for fave independent films; Catherine Hardwicke's Twilight as fave film; and the Barrymore-directed Whip It's Ellen Page, Eve and Kristen Wiig as best onscreen pairing. Not to mention the Charlaine Harris-created True Blood, the Eliza Dushku-produced Dollhouse, and female-watched Ghost Whisperer as fave sci-fi/fantasy shows. True Blood, not surprisingly, appears in the TV Obsession category.
Did you know You can vote right here? You're people, and you can choose stuff.
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- Superheidi
The Molting #1: Guilty Susie
5 November 2009 12:00 AM, PST
The Molting #1 (of 12)
“Chapter 1: Guilty Susie”
Writer/Illustrator: Terrance Zudnich (Scary Stud of the Year 2008)
Colorist: Brian Johnson
Designer/Letterer: Oceano Ransford
Indie comics is, to be blunt, a sucker’s game these days. The days of Dave Sim and Jeff Smith are long gone. The Direct market contracts more and more every year, plenty of small scale titles are fighting for catalog space with no way to beat the stranglehold Diamond Distributors holds on the thousands of comic stores left in America. To self-publish, and self-distribute, takes a certain sort of madness, or major balls. Not to mention serious cabbage...
Terrance Zudnich is either crazy or has major balls, and has probably got some disposable income. The co-creator/co-star of Repo! The Genetic Opera (and veteran storyboard artist) has written, drawn, self-published (in color!), and self-distributed the first issue in what promises to be a 12-issue “portrait of »
- Dan Coyle aka Deadpool
Ask Joe Bob: Could my white, male, mid-thirties boyfriend be a psychopath?
4 November 2009 12:34 PM, PST
Welcome to the first edition of the newest romantic advice column for horror lovers on Pretty/Scary - 'Ask Joe Bob'. Joe Bob Briggs , the drive-in movie critic of Grapevine, Texas, will be dispensing sex and relationship advice from his uniquely male, and sometimes gross, point of view. The idea here is that women Need This Information, the kind that men never share.
Dear Job Bob,
I've started dating a white man in his mid thirties whose house is filled with horror posters, DVDs, creepy masks, weapons, slasher action figures, and movie collectables. Nothing else; just gross horror and torture stuff...
He thinks living in this environment and watching horror movies 24/7 helps discharge any of his homicidal tendencies. But I can't help thinking when he's gently making love to me under his Texas Chainsaw poster that he'd rather be hanging me on a meathook. Or at least carving a hole »
- Superheidi
Strigoi (2009)
4 November 2009 12:00 AM, PST
Written and directed by Faye Jackson
Featuring Constantin Barbulescu, Roxana Guttmann, Vlad Jipa, Catalin Paraschiv
www.strigoimovie.com
Review by rochefort
In the opening scene of Strigoi, directed by Faye Jackson (Lump), ex-Communists Constantin and Ileana Tirescu (Constantin Barbulescu and Roxana Guttmann), cold-hearted landowners whom the townspeople suspect of murder, are themselves murdered and buried angry-mob-style. Soon after, Vlad (Catalin Paraschiv) returns to his Romanian hometown after an extended vacation in Italy, and finds that the townspeople are dropping like flies. Almost everyone but him is convinced that an undead Constantin and his wife are responsible, but Vlad and local policeman Octav (Vlad Jipa) decide to conduct their own amateur investigation into the steadily-rising death toll, uncovering a long-buried local history of corruption, racism, and supernatural dirty tricks...
An alternative to the glut of glossier and more expensive vampire movies both recent and upcoming, "Strigoi" is a mixed bag of »
- Superheidi
Shakra's Industrial Strength Dance Workout – Because Corsets Can Only Do So Much...
3 November 2009 5:52 PM, PST
Now I’m not sure really how to classify this, but these girls describe their art as “Transfusion Dance.” (Now don't get your hopes up, there's no blood letting in the dvd.) I picked it up thinking that this could really work because metal music would be a great sound to work out to and if I had to listen to one more “Only 3 more! You can do it!” in the terrible sing song voice of “Sasha” on the last dvd I purchased I'd probably murder the television. I was desperate for something that got me moving without forcing me to endeur faux beach landscaping or kick boxing routines. A metal fitness video seemed too good to pass up...
First things first, it doesn't look big budget but that makes it all the more appealing. They obviously didn't hire models to pretened they were trained fitness models so I feel »
- MinervaLi
Roselyne Bosch's 'The Round Up' (Aka 'La Rafle'); French holocaust horrors
3 November 2009 5:21 PM, PST
France's Gaumont Pictures produced the 2010 highly ambitious — and potentially controversial — movie The Round Up, written and directed by Roselyne Bosch (who also wrote and directed the 2005 psychological horror film Animal). The Round Up (La Rafle) will tackle the subject of French collaboration with the atrocities of The Holocaust...
Budgeted at E20 million ($26.4 million) and set during the second World War, The Round Up is about a French police operation involving 9,000 officers, which rounded up 13,000 Jews, mostly the elderly, women and children, on the night of July 16, 1942. Most were kept at Paris' Velodrome d'Hiver sports stadium; many were sent on to Auschwitz. The operation was ordered by France's Vichy government.
"America has a lot of movies, about Vietnam, the CIA, the Iraq War. This round-up is probably the biggest tragedy in French history, but it's never been told in film," producer Alain Goldman said.
The Round Up stars Jean Reno and »
- Superheidi
The Fourth Kind (2009)
2 November 2009 6:57 PM, PST
Directed and written by Olatunde Osunsanmi
Featuring Milla Jovovich, Elias Koteas, Corey Johnson
Alien abductions seem to have slipped off the cultural agenda in recent years. Gone are the glory days of the 1990s, when The X-Files inspired everyone and their grandmother to believe that they were beamed into the belly of a spaceship on a nightly basis in order to be violated in the name of alien research (the "fourth kind" of alien encounter). A 2000 poll suggested an eye-popping 52% of Americans actually wanted contact with an Et, although interest - and belief - in alien life forms has since waned. However, as we turn the final corner towards 2012, it seems we can expect the little grey rocketmen to make a re-appearance, at least at our multiplexes, if not actually brandishing their anal probes at the end of our beds. Once again, it seems horror audiences may want to scream »
- Karina
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