As enduring as accounts of alien contact at places like Area 51 in Nevada or Roswell, New Mexico, remain in the popular imagination, few films have been able to sustain a memorably cinematic premise based solely on scattered rumors about random encounters with bug-eyed extraterrestrials. Lacking even a clear connection to this established branch of UFO folklore however, Man Underground doesn’t succeed any better at establishing evidence of human-alien contact. In fact, those expecting the usual sci-fi trappings like high-tech spacecraft and menacing ETs will likely be disappointed by filmmakers Michael Borowiec and Sam Marine’s far more terrestrial concerns.
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- 7/18/2017
- by Justin Lowe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tagline: “We Are Watching You.” Indican Pictures is releasing Michael Borowiec and Sam Marine's Man Underground. The film is a blend of sci-fi, thriller and mystery. In the film, Willem (George Basil) is convinced of the existence of aliens. He recruits two friends, to go in search of something in the stars. But, he finds his answers much closer to home. The theatrical release, for Man Underground, begins in mid-July. The theatrical release will be followed up by a mid-August DVD an Video-on-demand release. More details on this indie thriller are hosted here. The trailer shows Willem at a conference. He is enamoured by conspiracy theories. And, he is also interested in discovering what happened to him as a government employee. Broken and scarred, Willem turns to the stars for the truth. The official DVD artwork is hosted here. The graphic shows Willem and Flossie (Pamela Fila) looking skywards.
- 7/13/2017
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
People of New Jersey and surrounding environs: the wonderful Lighthouse FIlm Festival is coming your way, and it's got a stellar lineup to keep you well occupied next weekend. Running Thursday June 8th - Sunday June 11th, in and around Long Beach, the festival is featuring a plethora of amazing fiction, documentary, and short films. Some highlights include: the opening night film King of Peking, about a father and son film projection team, who begin to pirate DVDs to make ends meet; Fits and Starts, the feature debut of director Laura Terruso starring Wyatt Cenac; Man Underground, the quiet and disturbing alien abduction thriller by Michael Borowiec and Sam Marine; Dina, the Sundance Documentary Grand Jury Award winner, and the closing film is another thriller,...
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- 6/3/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Matt Edwards Sep 22, 2016
Here are some upcoming movies that might be hard to track down, but are well worth the effort of doing so...
Den of Geek, last month, attended the London FrightFest film festival to indulge in five days of genre films and social anxiety (our favourites).
You can only see so much of the line-up, due to the boring constraints of time, physics and human biology, but we saw a lot of films, a few of which we really need to tip you off about. Partly because you won’t want to miss them when they do get a general release in the UK, but also because they’re probably going to need your support.
Here are six upcoming genre films to keep an eye out for.
The Master Cleanse
Written and directed by Bobby Miller
Former app designer Paul (John Gallecki) is listless. His life has gotten...
Here are some upcoming movies that might be hard to track down, but are well worth the effort of doing so...
Den of Geek, last month, attended the London FrightFest film festival to indulge in five days of genre films and social anxiety (our favourites).
You can only see so much of the line-up, due to the boring constraints of time, physics and human biology, but we saw a lot of films, a few of which we really need to tip you off about. Partly because you won’t want to miss them when they do get a general release in the UK, but also because they’re probably going to need your support.
Here are six upcoming genre films to keep an eye out for.
The Master Cleanse
Written and directed by Bobby Miller
Former app designer Paul (John Gallecki) is listless. His life has gotten...
- 9/5/2016
- Den of Geek
UK fans have been enjoying five days of nailbiting action with the 2016 edition of the Horror Channel FrightFest, which has just come to a close at Shepherd's Bush, London, and we have been chronicling the event with the official FrightFest TV daily highlights packages. Day Five's subjects? Director Steven DeGennaro, Actor Scott Allen Perry and Producer Charles Mulford discuss Found Footage 3D; Director Tricia Lee and Actor Peter Blankenstein discuss Blood Hunters, Directors Michael Borowiec and Sam Marine discuss Man Underground; Director Nick Jongerius and Actor Charlotte Beaumont discuss The Windmill Massacre; Director Ivan Silvestrini discusses Monolith; and Director Babak Anvari discusses Under The Shadow....
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- 8/30/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Yeon Sang-ho’s apocalypse thriller won the Cheval Noir Award for Best Feature and the Audience Award for Best Asian Feature as the festival came to an end in Montreal.
RedPeter Film’s Train To Busan is on a roll after it hit 10million admissions in its native South Korea on August 7. The film premiered in the Midnight Screenings section in Cannes and has sparked remake offers. Well Go USA Entertainment released it in the Us in July.
Organisers at the 20th Fantasia International Film Festival said the event, which boasted 19 world premieres, 209 screening and 11 Vr films, attracted more than 100,000 spectators.
Guillermo Del Toro (pictured with Fantasia co-director Mitch Davis and fantasia co-director of international programming Anthony Timpone) and Takashi Miike received the Cheval Noir and Lifetime Achievement Awards.
Jean-Claude Lord received the inaugural Prix Denis Héroux honouring his contribution to developing the Québécois genre.
Other Cheval Noir award-winners included best director Kiyoshi Kurosawa for Creepy, E J-Yong...
RedPeter Film’s Train To Busan is on a roll after it hit 10million admissions in its native South Korea on August 7. The film premiered in the Midnight Screenings section in Cannes and has sparked remake offers. Well Go USA Entertainment released it in the Us in July.
Organisers at the 20th Fantasia International Film Festival said the event, which boasted 19 world premieres, 209 screening and 11 Vr films, attracted more than 100,000 spectators.
Guillermo Del Toro (pictured with Fantasia co-director Mitch Davis and fantasia co-director of international programming Anthony Timpone) and Takashi Miike received the Cheval Noir and Lifetime Achievement Awards.
Jean-Claude Lord received the inaugural Prix Denis Héroux honouring his contribution to developing the Québécois genre.
Other Cheval Noir award-winners included best director Kiyoshi Kurosawa for Creepy, E J-Yong...
- 8/8/2016
- by govi2016@lawnet.ucla.edu (Alec Govi)
- ScreenDaily
Aliens are here. That’s the message Willem Koda (George Basil) would have us believe — the 360 viewers clicking on his YouTube channel’s posts. He’s an ex-geologist who rode a government contract until the unexplainable left him with nothing but emotional and psychological scarring, the type that broke him in pieces and irreversibly ended his career and marriage. Aliens were the culprits, the secretive work he engaged in deep beneath Nevada in underground tunnels an experience never to leave his consciousness. Life and love became secondary with a quest to expose the truth taking focus. He devoted his life to this mission, speaking at events to push his rhetoric onto the public and helping someone with similar viewpoints create a machine to eventually prove everything they believed was true.
When we meet Willem at the start of Michael Borowiec and Sam Marine‘s Man Underground, however, he’s merely...
When we meet Willem at the start of Michael Borowiec and Sam Marine‘s Man Underground, however, he’s merely...
- 7/25/2016
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
William Koda (George Basil) is a man with a story to tell. Once a geologist for the U.S. government, he now spends his time in upstate New York telling tales of digging tunnels deep underground where they uncovered…something. Speaking to a small, mostly disinterested crowd, he speaks of cover-ups, plots to rid the world of the truth, and a grand conspiracy to keep the truth deeply hidden below ground. Man Underground takes at its core the most driving aspect for any conspiracy junkie, the notion that you’re only being paranoid if they’re not actually out to get you. For Koda, he experience has left scars both physical and psychological, and it has resulted in a palpable kind of quiet rage, a somber quietness that comes...
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- 7/23/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Co-directors Michael Borowiec & Sam Marine will screen their unsettling feature debut, Man Underground, at this year’s Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal. Led by Flaked’s George Basil, Man Underground centers on a paranoid conspiracy theorist who decides directing a film about his alien contact experiences could lend them more credence with skeptics. Elements of sci-fi, paranoid thrillers and a quirky sensibility collide to create what looks to be a refreshingly unique tone. And based on some early praise out of a previous festival appearance at Cinequest, it’s one worth looking out for. Synopsis: In a small town in upstate NY, Willem Koda, a retired geologist and alien conspiracy theorist, struggles to find an audience for his controversial beliefs. After befriending Flossie, a local waitress and aspiring...
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- 7/6/2016
- Screen Anarchy
London-based genre festival to feature 19 world premieres and 35 UK & European premieres.
Horror Channel FrightFest has unveiled the line-up for its upcoming 17th edition, taking place at its new home of the Vue Shepherd’s Bush from Aug 25-29.
Sean Brosnan’s revenge thriller My Father Die [pictured] receives its European premiere as the opening film, while the UK premiere of Sang-ho Yeon’s Cannes title Train To Busan closes this year’s festival.
In total, the 62-strong feature line-up includes 19 world premieres and 35 UK & European premieres. Ivan Silvestrini’s Monolith, Tricia Lee’s creepy chiller Blood Hunters and Nick Jongerius’ gory The Windmill Massacre are among the world premieres.
Meanwhile, Adam Wingard’s eagerly anticipated The Woods will receive its European premiere in the Main Screen strand, playing alongside the likes of Stephen King adaptation Cell, Italian box office hit They Call Me Jeeg Robot and Cody Calahan’s Let Her Out.
Other Main Screen...
Horror Channel FrightFest has unveiled the line-up for its upcoming 17th edition, taking place at its new home of the Vue Shepherd’s Bush from Aug 25-29.
Sean Brosnan’s revenge thriller My Father Die [pictured] receives its European premiere as the opening film, while the UK premiere of Sang-ho Yeon’s Cannes title Train To Busan closes this year’s festival.
In total, the 62-strong feature line-up includes 19 world premieres and 35 UK & European premieres. Ivan Silvestrini’s Monolith, Tricia Lee’s creepy chiller Blood Hunters and Nick Jongerius’ gory The Windmill Massacre are among the world premieres.
Meanwhile, Adam Wingard’s eagerly anticipated The Woods will receive its European premiere in the Main Screen strand, playing alongside the likes of Stephen King adaptation Cell, Italian box office hit They Call Me Jeeg Robot and Cody Calahan’s Let Her Out.
Other Main Screen...
- 7/1/2016
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
The first programming has been revealed for the 20th annual Fantasia International Film Festival. Taking place from July 14th–August 2nd in Montreal, this year’s Fantasia will honor Guillermo del Toro with the Cheval Noir Award, and the newly revealed first wave of programming includes screenings of Lights Out, Abattoir, In a Valley of Violence, Under the Shadow, Trash Fire, Teenage Cocktail, and more:
Press Release: Montreal, May 26, 2016 – The Fantasia International Film Festival will be celebrating its 20th Anniversary in Montreal this summer, taking place from July 14-August 2, with its Frontiéres international co-production market and Industry Rendez-Vous weekend being held July 21-24. The full lineup of over 130 feature films will be announced July 5th. In the meantime, the festival is excited to announce a selected first wave of titles, along with several special happenings.
For Fantasia’s 2016 poster, the festival has once again turned to award-winning Quebec visual artist Donald Caron.
Press Release: Montreal, May 26, 2016 – The Fantasia International Film Festival will be celebrating its 20th Anniversary in Montreal this summer, taking place from July 14-August 2, with its Frontiéres international co-production market and Industry Rendez-Vous weekend being held July 21-24. The full lineup of over 130 feature films will be announced July 5th. In the meantime, the festival is excited to announce a selected first wave of titles, along with several special happenings.
For Fantasia’s 2016 poster, the festival has once again turned to award-winning Quebec visual artist Donald Caron.
- 5/26/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
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