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Finals Week: 'The Ghost as Domestic Inheritance in Ursula Dabrowsky's Film "Family Demons"'
16 December 2009 12:50 PM, PST
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Family Demons: The Ghost as Domestic Inheritance by Donna McRae
Low cinematic genres – (as Clover, Williams and Robin Wood and others) have often pointed out – often handle explosive social material that mainstream cinema is reluctant to touch. — Joan Hawkins (1)
Can you make a film about the aftermath of incest and child abuse and its effect on three generations of women in the same family? Would this film contain an inherited ghost running through the narrative that could represent repressed feelings of colonial guilt on another level? Could this film prick the conscience of a nation that might be shuddering in silence for all its past sins? Would you get funding for this film from an Australian funding agency if you didn't have a track record? Would this very serious film fill cinemas, especially Australian ones? Could you get international profile actors to star in your film? Or would Australian film actors like Gracie Otto,
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Drawing on Your Nightmares: Nihilism and Horror
10 December 2009 6:22 PM, PST
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I’m sorry to have gone delinquent on my posts here, because this has been a crazy year for me and horror. My Solomon Kane series "The Castle of the Devil" was well received, and I pushed that adventure story about as far as I could, with the help of Mario Guevara’s macabre visuals. I made it to Crypticon in Seattle and met Adrienne Barbeau and Tom Atkins, toured the sites where the Green River Killer’s victims were found, and read and watched as much horror as I could get my hands on.
As my previous posts show, I’m a little old-fashioned, though not completely retro. I’m writing this while watching The Ring (in this case I buy American) and dying to see the final episode of "Dexter" season four this weekend, and the last comic I read was the new issue of Hack/Slash from
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UK Fangorians: New Years Eve Horror Allnighter in London!
10 December 2009 1:45 AM, PST
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This event sounds cool as hell, and if we were in London - we'd have to be there. For our UK readers, check out the full details below on the New Year's Eve Gash "Horror Film Experience" celebrating the past decade in horror cinema with 17 films on 5 screens!
We’ve created a totally unique New Year’s Eve event to celebrate 10 years of great horror movies made this century.
We’re playing a serious line-up of films on 5 screens allowing you to watch what you want to watch. Until midnight we’ll all enjoy a double feature together and take in a series of weird and wonderful live performances, comedy and music in one of London’s biggest screens. After the chimes have rung in the New Year you can stay as long as you want and take in some really great stuff from our Movie Carousel. Afterall this is our cinema for the night.
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
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Aussie horror Dying Breed: Blu-ray Review
8 December 2009 10:04 AM, PST
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Director: Jody Dwyer. Review: Adam Wing. It’s Australia’s turn to get down under your skin with Jody Dwyer’s twisted vision of terror, The Hills Have Eyes has a lot to answer for, and Dying Breed proves once again that keeping it in the family is rarely a good thing in the world of horror. Convinced that Tasmanian tigers still exist, and determined to finish the work that her sister started, zoologist Nina (Mirrah Foulkes) sets off on an expedition with her partner Matt, their financier Jack and his girlfriend, Rebecca. An interesting array of characters, not to mention wilfully annoying, between them they have also starred in the likes of Wolf Creek, Snakes On A Plane and Saw. Not exactly strangers to the world of torment and torture then… Their quest leads them deep into isolated territory, which is now inhabited by the descendants of Alexander Pearce
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Big Lebowski Screening and New Years Movie Marathon!
2 December 2009 2:00 AM, PST
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The fantastic friend of quality films that is the Genesis Cinema in Whitechapel has brought to our attention that they are again showing some classic films and hosting some brilliant sounding events in the coming month due to the success of their excellent 80’s film series back in October and it’s all starting off with the special screening of the classic Coen Brothers film ‘The Big Lebowski’.
Big Lebowski is a phenomenal film and my favourite film of all time, it’s also created one of the biggest cult followings spawning the Lebowski-Fest Festivals which celebrates all things Lebowski and also the creation of the religion of Dudeism.
This film should not be missed on the big screen as it may change your life!
So get down to the Genesis Cinema, 93-95 Mile End Road, Whitechapel on the 10th December at 8:30pm to witness this film and if
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- Gary Phillips
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IFC Acquires 'Coffin Rock' and 'Paintball' -- Release Info
1 December 2009 10:22 AM, PST
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Bloody Disgusting learned that IFC Films has acquired two genre films for release in 2010. Arriving in NY theaters on January 29 is Filmax's Spanish thriller Paintball; directed by Daniel Benmayor the film pits man against man in a vicious game of paintball deep in the woods. For those of you who love OnDemand as much as I do, you can watch it at home on January 13.
Also arriving on OnDemand February 3 is the Aussie thriller Coffin Rock, which comes from the producers of Wolf Creek. Click either title above for more info on each film, posters, images and trailers.
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Wishes Do Come True
30 November 2009 9:35 PM, PST
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While some don't believe wishes come true, they certainly are for writer and director J. Harkness (Shot Of Love) as his latest film, Birthday, has been Officially Selected In Competition for the Anchorage International Film Festival, and will be releasing in Australia in 2010.
J. Harkness' first wish was to adapt his stage play, Birthday, into an independent feature film. This wish came true when he found financial backing, a passionate and impressive cast, and the support of the sex industry, in which the film is set. All were inspired by Birthday's story of human intimacy and love within the conflicting and compelling world of sex workers, and the film was filmed in Harkness' home town of Adelaide in 2008, with a cast that includes Kestie Morassi (Wolf Creek), Richard Wilson (Clubland), Travis McMahon (Kokoda), Chantal Contouri and newcomer and co-producer Natalie Eleftheriadis in the lead role.
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New Art and Synopsis: Comedown
27 November 2009 12:21 PM, PST
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A new piece of promo art and a new "shorter" synopsis have slipped online for Menhaj Huda's psycho-laden flick, Comedown, which tells of the dangers of taking to the airwaves illegally.
The film which begins its shoot in London on March 2010 stars Martin Compston, Adam Deacon, Red Madrell and Duane Henry.
New Short Synopsis
The film is set against a contemporary London backdrop of abandonment and decay. Six tearaway teenagers setting up a relay aerial for a local pirate radio station at the top of a condemned tower block, are targeted by a resident psychopath intent on exterminating the 'vermin' he perceives are besieging his home.
Original Synopsis
"Mercy Point, a high-rise tower block conceived and built in the sixties, condemned in the nineties. Abandoned by all, it is now home to a brooding malevolence, and what resides within its empty floors is truly terrifying.
Lloyd, a young man in his early 20's,
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- Uncle Creepy
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Official One Sheet and First Hi-Res Still from 'Outcast'
25 November 2009 11:00 PM, PST
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From Bankside Films (Coffin Rock, from the producers of Wolf Creek) comes Colm McCarthy's buzzed about Outcast, which stars James Nesbitt, Kate Dickie, James Cosmo, Niail Bruton.
Today we got our hands on the first one sheet and official still from the film that tells the tale of Petronella (a Scottish/Romany girl) and Fergal (her mysterious Irish traveller boyfriend). As their doomed relationship plays out, a Beast stalks the estate, killing locals, working its way towards our protagonists. Meanwhile Cathal and Liam, two mysterious travellers from Ireland use ritual and magic on a blood hunt. Mary, Fergal's mother performs ritual and magic of her own. As Cathal comes face to face with Mary in a vicious finale we know one thing: the Beast must die.
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Film oracle CinemaScore spells doom for The Box
19 November 2009 4:21 PM, PST
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CinemaScore is the audience-reaction research tool of choice for the film industry - because of its uncanny accuracy. Not good news for Richard Kelly, whose latest film The Box has just been awarded a rare-as-Ed-Wood's-teeth F-grade
There can be no doubt that Cameron Diaz's new film has flopped. The Box, a horror thriller adapted from a short story by Richard Matheson by Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly, took just $7.5m (£4.5m) in its first weekend of release in the Us. The critics, too, were far from convinced.
But that's not the worst of it. Many films are panned far more viciously. Many films fail to make back their budget (The Box's is said to be about $30m). But few suffer the ignominious fate of being awarded an F grade by CinemaScore, the market research company which tots up opening-night audience reaction to major new releases.
How it works
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‘Road Train’ Trailer Is Hell On Wheels, Australian Style
19 November 2009 8:29 AM, PST
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Road trip movies are fairly common and often mundane, but there's a subset within the genre that has a greater appeal to someone like me... and that's road trips gone bad. I'm a sucker for terror on the asphalt films like The Hitcher (original), Joy Ride, and Duel. There's something about being away from home and driving in an unfamiliar place with death right behind you. It's harder to do in Us films these days thanks to cell phones, Gps, and Stuckey's, but none of those conveniences are a guarantee in the harsh outback of Australia. Which is where the latest horror on wheels film comes from... check out the trailer for Road Train.
I like the look of this one. It could easily have gone the route of a Wolf Creek/Roadgames mash-up, but director Dean Francis and writer Clive Hopkins have added a little something extra into their monster truck tale. Is
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- Rob Hunter
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Brittany Murphy, Stephen Moyer Spooked by 'The Caller'
18 November 2009 10:33 PM, PST
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Yup, we're still on top of our game. First (and only) announced here on Bloody Disgusting was The Caller, a new film from the company behind Wolf Creek.
While we brought you the director (Mathew Parkhill), writer (Sergio Casci) and synopsis (read below), the Hollywood Reporter has learned that Brittany Murphy (Across the Hall, Deadline, The Dead Girl), Stephen Moyer ("True Blood", Priest) and Luis Guzma have all joined the J-horror flick that begins shooting in Puerto Rico on Friday.
Penned by Sergio Casci, when troubled divorcee, Mary Kee, begins to receive mysterious phone calls from an unknown caller she quickly begins to feel haunted in her own home. When she discovers that the person is calling from the past, Mary realises that she will have to kill her in order to survive but how do you kill someone living in the past and what will happen if she fails.
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Shadows of The Dark Knight Pt 1: The new wave of dark movies
17 November 2009 4:13 PM, PST
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Welcome to the dark side of cinema, where horror meets heroes.
Batman blockbuster The Dark Knight soared at the box office last year, becoming America's second highest-grossing movie of all time and earning a billion dollars.
The film was dark in more than just name, pushing its rating to the limit and leading to record complaints about film censors being too lenient with its certificate.
Its success led to predictions that it would be a trendsetter in superhero moviemaking. So what happened to the dark era of comic book adaptations? Do dark movies work? And should all superhero films be dark?
Human Horrors
The trend for sinister cinema started way before Nolan's Batman adventure.
The past few years have seen a growing tendency in films to show man himself as the monster rather than fantasy creatures and mythical beasts.
This became firmly established through a number of slasher films and
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- David Bentley
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Diaz's The Box Panned
16 November 2009 5:16 PM, PST
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Cameron Diaz's new film The Box has been voted one of the worst films of all time by moviegoers - just days after its U.S. release.
The thriller, based on Richard Matheson' 1970 short story Button, Button, has been panned by film buffs in America, with officials at CinemaScore, who monitor fan reaction to movies, giving the flop an F rating - the lowest score possible.
Company boss Ed Mintz says, "People really thought this was a stinker."
Mintz rates the film as the fourth least popular this decade, behind 2006 horror Bug, Wolf Creek in 2005 and Darkness, which came out in 2002.
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Slaughtered Finishes out the Afm with a Bucket of Blood!
12 November 2009 11:44 PM, PST
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A film that played at the American Film Market this week and at the Grimfest UK in 2009 Slaughtered aka Schooner of Blood is a film with a bite. From the dark mind of Kate Glover the film follows the myth of Ivan Milat who inspired the 2005 film Wolf Creek. Not for the squeamish a short trailer is available for fans of horror along with an unofficial one-sheet poster seen left. Check out all the details available until a North American release date is announced.
The synopsis for Slaughtered here:
"A masked killer terrorizes the young bar staff at a remote Australian pub. As night falls, and the body count rises, it's not just the drinkers who are the ones getting slaughtered."
Director: Kate Glover.
Writer: Kate Glover.
Cast: Chloe Boreham, Christopher Tomkinson, Cassandra Swaby
A teaser trailer for Slaughtered here:
More details on Slaughtered can be found at the official homepage:
Slaughtered Homepage
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- Michael Ross Allen
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The Graves: A Horrorfest 4 Selection with Theatrical Trailer
10 November 2009 8:56 PM, PST
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A 2010 Horror Fest 4 selection, The Graves looks like a cross between The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Wolf Creek from 2005. Here, however, two girls get lost in the Skull City mine and in the lonely deserts of sun-baked Arizona. But, are the really lost or players in a deadly game of survival? Fans will have to wait until late January, 2010 before experiencing the frightmare that is The Graves. Have a look at the synopsis and trailer below - if you dare!
A synopsis for The Graves here:
"On their last weekend together, Megan and Abby Graves are lost in a remote part of the Arizona desert where they are lured to Skull City Mine, an abandoned mine town. But they soon learn Skull City is anything but abandoned — and there is no way out.
The sisters are now prey, forced to unleash their most primitive instincts in a desperate, all-out battle
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- Michael Ross Allen
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The Problem with Torture Porn
27 October 2009 8:56 AM, PDT
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Just when it seemed that usage of the term “torture porn” was behind us, it’s once again raised its ugly head - from reviews of The Hills Run Red and Lars von Trier's Antichrist to blog posts about how Paranormal Activity earned more than Saw VI this past weekend.
"Torture porn" is a term that simply doesn't make sense when describing horror films that feature graphic depictions of torture. To the uninitiated, it sounds more like a subgenre of porn than a horror subgenre, as evidenced by Roger Ebert's review of Antichrist:
"... These passages have been referred to as 'torture porn.' Sadomasochistic they certainly are, but porn is entirely in the mind of the beholder. Will even a single audience member find these scenes erotic?"
When a film critic with as much experience as Roger Ebert misunderstands the term, it's obvious that "torture porn" has
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Brian Matus, a.k.a. Hellstorm)
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[DVD Review] Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!
7 October 2009 9:57 AM, PDT
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Not Quite Hollywood is a documentary about the history of Australian cinema, but not quite the film history that most people would remember—or care to, anyway. Case in point, director Mark Hartley interviewed a couple of Aussie film critics and historians, who bitterly lamented the existence of these movies.
It’s a profile on “Ozploitation,” the wave of Australian exploitation movies popping up during the late 70’s and early 80’s. The most famous of the lot is of course Mad Max, but there are plenty of other far more obscure films that people not down under most likely won’t recognize. Not that it matters to the enjoyment of the doc. Not Quite Hollywood isn’t a nostalgia piece, but a celebration of what transpired and an encouragement for the current Aussie directors trying to jumpstart a revival. People like Saw creators James Wan and Leigh Whannel or Wolf Creek director Greg McLean,
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- Arya Ponto
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DVD Weekly Roundup – Mon 5th October 2009
2 October 2009 10:34 AM, PDT
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Red Cliff
John Woo hasn’t exactly lit up the screen with his Hollywood films has he? Face/Off is enjoyable I guess but the less said about Windtalkers, Paycheck and even Mission Impossible 2 the better really. It’s a shame because the man is capable of directing action sequences better than anybody else on the planet.
Red Cliff sees John Woo look to Chinese history for inspiration. It’s a sweeping, magnificent epic that looked amazing on the big screen.
The Han dynasty is coming to an end in third century China so as a last ditch attempt for survival the Emperor raises an army that stretches close to a million to attack the two neighbouring kingdoms.
Red Cliff boasts beautiful cinematography and action set pieces. It’s great to see a Director back at the top of his game.
Looks incredible on Blu-Ray.
Damage
Leave your brain at the door for this one.
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- Alex Wagner
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Pet Sematary Director Developing a Case of Hydrophobia
16 September 2009 1:02 AM, PDT
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Director Mary Lambert is leaving the Pet Sematary behind in lieu of some more oceanographic terrors. Seems she has developed a serious case of Hydrophobia, the title of a new chiller about a killer mermaid that can only be stopped by a man afraid of water. Think of it as the anti-Splash.
I hadn't heard anything about Hydrophobia until stumbling upon a blurb about it on Moviehole. They were reporting that Wolf Creek star Nathan Philips is rumored to be joining the cast opposite Bai Ling, who it seems will be playing the killer mermaid. Bai Ling as a murderous man-eating mermaid; I can totally see that. I can totally see that even without the mermaid aspect.
Scouring the Internet for further information, I ran across the film's MySpace page and the website of cinematographer Michael Karp, who I can only presume must be attached to the project since he
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