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The tenth anniversary of the Mobido Film Festival runs from Oct 26th to Nov 5th in the heart of Mexico City. Today the festival is announcing their lineup of devilish delights.    Some members of the Morbido international familia return to the festival with their latest films; Alexandre O Phillipe (78/52), Can Evrenol (Housewife) and Ted Geoghegan (Mohawk) will be hanging out in the Cdmx. Other popular titles from the international circuit include The Endless, 68 Kill, Japanese zombie flick I Am a Hero, and Aussie thriller Hounds of Love.    There are a few Canadian titles in the mix this year; Chad Archibald's The Heretics, Lowell Dean's Another Wolfcop, Peter Ricq's Dead Shack, and Leo Scherman's Trench 11. On a technicality we are also claiming Gigi Guerrero and her new project, the series La...

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Considered the world’s largest genre film festival and running over three weeks long, Fantasia is celebrating its 19th edition this year and the lineup is pretty incredible. This year’s fest runs July 14 through August 4 and will see over 130 feature films including more than 20 world premieres. Legendary filmmaker Sion Sono is delivering three new movies with Tag, Love & Peace, and Shinjuku Swan, meanwhile Tales of Halloween and A Christmas Horror Story are bringing horror anthologies back to the big screen. In addition, the festival will offer up the Montreal premiere of Marvel’s highly anticipated Ant-Man, the world premiere of Israeli horror flick Jeruzalem, the world premiere of Assassination Classroom and the first Canadian screening of the Canadian/Kiwi festival hit Turbo Kid. The festival is rounded out with screenings of Big Match, Crumbs, Deathgasm, The Demolisher, Experimenter, Cooties, We Are Still Here, The Editor, Cub, He Never Died,...

Apart from sporting a mean moniker, Gabriel Carrer’s vigilante film The Demolisher looks impacting and synthy; a hard edged throwback of citywide violence. The Demolisher is the fourth feature from Carrer, the Canadian indie filmmaker behind If A Tree Falls, Kill and the Henry Rollins-starring In The House of Flies. In the film, “Bruce (Ryan Barrett) is an ordinary repairman tormented…

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Horror has been in Canada's snow for decades now, starting with the classic Cannibal Girls and Black Christmasin the early '70s, through the classic early Cronenberg years of Shivers, Rabid and The Brood in the late '70s. In the '80s, we got films like Prom Night, My Bloody Valentine and The Gate. In the past decade, we've had flicks like the Ginger Snaps series, Cube and PontyPool. In fact, you could even count the last three Dead movies by George A. Romero as Canadian — after all, he is a Canadian citizen now and made all three films in Toronto.

Being both a film writer and a host of a monthly horror film series called Fright Nights at the Projection Booth (based out of Toronto, Canada), I have noticed an incredible renaissance of grindhouse and horror directors coming out of Canada in the past few years. Southern Ontario,...

Releasing in May is David King's smash "Ozploitation" film Purge. A must-see for lovers of cyberpunk, Purge takes place in a utilitarian, genetically engineered parallel universe. Layla, a Bdsm mistress, just wants to fit in and be happy, but her nemesis won't let her. Check out http://www.purgefilm.com.au/ to find out more. In Kill, six strangers, winners of a dream vacation contest, awake to find themselves terrorized by insane Tiki-men in masks and taunted by their deranged captors. It soon becomes clear than only one thing will save them: kill or be killed! Directed by Chad Archivald and Philip Carrer, get Kill on DVD in April!

After some festival play last year, all has been quiet on If a Tree Falls (review here), until now. Here’s the press release:

Independent Canadian horror director Philip Carrer (Pgc) (Desperate Souls, Kill, If A Tree Falls, and, in pre-production, In The House Of Flies) and producer Chad Archibald, (Sweet Karma, Neverlost, Bail Enforcers) have just unleashed the latest and final release poster for If A Tree Falls (Official Selection, Fantasia Film Festival 2010) – the latest Canadian addition to the genre.

Additionally, If A Tree Falls is pleased to announce that it also has secured a distribution deal for its release in Canada this summer.

A very special announcement on the film will be made public at Shock Stock 2011 (April 29th-May 1st in London, Ontario, Canada) with more news on additional release dates and other exciting updates.

Here’s the plot: “In Canada about eight percent of all homicide incidents are murder-suicides.

In the new indie horror flick If a Tree Falls, more kids get in a car for a scenic trip through the countryside and make it to their destination, happy and unscathed. Of course I'm bullshitting. That would be a completely awful movie, no?

From the Press Release

Independent Canadian horror director Philip Carrer (Pgc) (Desperate Souls, Kill, If A Tree Falls, and, in pre-production, In The House Of Flies) and producer Chad Archibald, (Sweet Karma, Neverlost, Bail Enforcers) have just unleashed the latest and final release poster for If A Tree Falls (Official Selection, Fantasia Film Festival 2010) – the latest Canadian addition to the genre.

Additionally, If A Tree Falls is pleased to announce that it also has secured a distribution deal for its release in Canada this summer.

A very special announcement on the film will be made public at Shock Stock 2011 (April 29th-May 1st in London, Ontario, Canada...

Today we got word of a new indie project entitled In the House of Flies, which promises that, unlike previous horror films with people ‘trapped’ in a situation, this film is largely based on character instead of shock factor.

Canadian genre writer and director Philip Carrer, aka Pgc (If a Tree Falls, Troma Films’ upcoming fall 2011 release Kill, and the Lionsgate /Alliance Atlantis release Desperate Souls), along with producer Chad Archibald, surfaces once again in bringing Angus McLellan’s horror/thriller In the House of Flies to life.

Synopsis:

Set in the “retro” 1980's, In the House of Flies focuses around an abducted couple forced to tackle their way to freedom. Alone, isolated, and locked in an undisclosed suburban basement, Heather and Steve find themselves surrounded by numerous mysteriously sealed suitcases - each containing valuable clues to their very own survival. Both Heather (Lindsay Smith) and Steve (Ryan Kotak) must...

Director Philip Carrer's new genre project 'In the House of Flies' has got some early teaser artwork to help raise eyebrows and draw some attention to the new kidnap thriller. It features, well, a fly on it. Albeit quite a close-up, detailed view of a fly - but it seems to do the job. Philip Carrer ('If a Tree Falls', 'Kill') reteams with fellow producer Chad Archibald and will helm from a script penned by Angus McLellan. Check out the new one sheet, the synopsis and what Carrer had to say on the project, set to star Lindsay Smith and Ryan Kotak, below....