The Criterion Collection captures Lynne Littman’s 1983 post-apocalyptic horror-drama.
Western Canada’s largest genre film festival, The Calgary Underground Film Festival (or CUFF), just dropped its entire lineup for the 23rd edition. Existing in a kind of liminal season where the city could be the piled under snow, or T-shirt patio weather, the festival obliges with an equally unpredictable mixture of prestige horror, indie comedies, quirky satire, under the radar Canadian drama, and oddball documentaries. The festival opens with Damian McCarthy’s supernatural horror, Hokum, which stars Adam Scott (Severance, Party Down). Our own J Hurtado noted that the film puts “McCarthy into the upper echelon of contemporary horror filmmakers alongside people like Ari Aster and Oz Perkins.” The festival closes with I Love Boosters, the latest from Boots Riley (Sorry To Bother You) featuring a superb ensemble,…
Biopics aren’t my favorite kind of film. The things a person has done are often more interesting than the person himself, and it is not often that you need to know the background story of the person, what motivated him. Often you’re just shown talent, or necessity, or opportunity. Or what happened. So for me it wasn’t without irony that I noticed that one of my favorite films this year at the International Film Festival Rotterdam was I Swear, a biopic. It even won the audience award, as if to rub it in. And it wasn’t even the only biopic I liked at the festival: master animator Sylvain Chomet, of The Triplets of Belleville and The Illusionist fame, had made a nice one too. His…
Marama, the Maori gothic-horror from writer-director Taratoa Stappard, will arrive in theaters on April 17th. Distributed by Dark Sky FIlms and Watermelon Pictures, Marama is wrapping up its festival run in the coming weeks at festivals across the U.S. The new trailer and poster premiered the other day. Catch up with the trailer below the announcement. Dark Sky Films together with Watermelon Pictures proudly announce the April 17th theatrical release of festival favorite MÃRAMA, a new genre-bending gothic horror feature from Indigenous Māori writer-director Taratoa Stappard (Taumanu, Emkhatsini). MÃRAMA had its world premiere at TIFF and went on to numerous prestigious festivals including Palm Springs, AFI Fest, Sitges and others. MÃRAMA will be in select theaters on April 17th. Anchored by a powerful…
The second wave of titles in this year’s Overlook Film Festival were announced today, now completing the full lineup. An all new section has been added to the festival program, Side Shows. Highlighting films that are not neccessarily horror flicks but occupy the genre space in their own way, the three flicks chosen for this section are exceptional choices: Over Your Dead Body, Normal and The Furious. Other additions include Canadian oddity Buffet Infinity, French stuck-in-a-toilet horror Flush, SXSW anthology Grind, and Kiwi gothic horror, Mārama. Make your way through the massive announcement that follows to find more titles, events and programs at this year’s Overlook Film Festival. THE OVERLOOK FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES SECOND WAVE LINEUP AS FULL FESTIVAL IS UNVEILED …
The newest film from director Tran Thanh, who helmed last year’s comedy of errors The 4 Rascals, is heading for release in North America, Europe, and Asia tomorrow (Thursday, March 26). Bunny!! (orig. Tho Oi) is described as “a dramatic psychological thriller,” and the trailer definitely has dark vibes. In my review of The 4 Rascals, I noted that the film’s sweet and goofy was a bit undermined by its turn towards melodrama before rebounding in its concluding scenes. As the trailer shows, Bunny!! appears to start with a bright, comic, and romantic scenario before turning decidedly darker and menacing. The official synopsis reveals just a bit more: “Bunny!! is a dramatic psychological thriller centered on a popular relationship advice host whose carefully curated life…
For the first time we get a sense of how director Daniel Goldhaber and their co-writer, Isa Mazzei, mixed the mondo horror of the original flick into a narrative structure.
Director Oscar Boyson’s dark comedy stars Jaeden Martell, Asa Butterfield, Noah Centineo, Chris Bauer, Jennifer Ehle, Anna Baryshnikov and Avan Jogia.
The biggest Lord of the Rings fan on the planet, Stephen Colbert, will write the next Lord of the Rings movie.