Sitges 2012: Sci Fi Thriller CRAWLSPACE Gets A Crazy-Ass Poster And Trailer
With its world premiere in competition at Sitges just around the corner, claustrophobic Aussie sci fi action-thriller Crawlspace has unleashed its first pulsating trailer and an eye-popping poster. Clearly inspired by iconic poster artist Drew Struzan, Australian artist Hugh Fleming (who created his own... More »
  

Hey Toronto! Swarez's UNDYING LOVE is Playing Tonite at LITTLE TERRORS
Justin McConnell's semi-regular monthly short film festival, Little Terrors, gets a comfy new home at the Carlton Cinema in Toronto.  The series showcases the best in horror short-fimmaking to a city that seems to constantly hunger for genre, and is... More »
  

Short Film, Short Review: Jesus Orellana's ROSA
Debuting tonight before the opening night screening of Kike Maillo's Eva at the Sitges Film Festival is Jesus Orellana's dazzling animated short film Rosa.Orellana wears his influences on his sleeve here, Rosa taking obvious inspiration from Ghost In The Shell,... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

THE RAID - Iko Uwais. Joe Taslim. Gareth Huw Evans. Fight!
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Full Trailer For Dystopic French Scifi CARRE BLANC
Back in mid-June Twitch was proud to premiere three clips from Jean-Baptiste Leonetti's brilliant dystopic science fiction film Carre Blanc. We had the chance to see the film at a market screening in Cannes and walked away enormously impressed by... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

First Trailer For Cuban Zombie Comedy JUAN OF THE DEAD
About a year ago the powers behind the scenes of Alejandro Brugues' zombie comedy Juan of the Dead did about the worst thing they could have done at the time. They took a zero budget proof of concept promo for... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

HOFF 2011: ATROCIOUS Review
Meet the children of the Quintanilla family. There is July, the teenage daughter. She is not quite rebellious but certainly chafes against her mother's care. And there is Christian, slightly older but in many ways simpler. All Christian wants... More »
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Sitges 2010: WELCOME TO THE SPACE SHOW Review
Following a delirious prologue featuring alien poachers locked in deadly combat with a bad-ass entity of pure fire, Koji Masunari's animated feature Welcome to the Space Show innocently begins with a group of children being dropped off at rural summer camp. It... More »
By Peter K.   
  

Sitges 2010: Trailer For First Person Horror ATROCIOUS
After the global success of the [REC] franchise it is, frankly, surprising that there hasn't been a flood of Spanish language first person horror projects looking to repeat that success. The first that I'm aware of - and one... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Getting an Orgasm from Integral Calculus: Trailer for RITES OF LOVE AND MATH
Three subjects that are more linked than one might expect, love, passion and mathematics, The Rites of Love and Math is what happens when you combine a Berkeley Math and Physics professor and a French filmmaker (Edward Frenkel and Reine... More »
  

Stellar UK Trailer For Fantastic Fest Winner WE ARE WHAT WE ARE
Right on the heels of winning the prestigious Next Wave Awards for Best Film and Best Script at Fantastic Fest - and immediately before its imminent arrival at the Sitges festival in Spain - a new trailer for Jorge... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Sitges 2010: Paco Cabeza's NEON FLESH Proves Aptly Titled In First Teaser
Soon to premiere at the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival, Paco Cabeza's Neon Flesh (Carne De Neon) looks to establish Cabeza as a sort of Spanish language answer to Guy Ritchie with its stylized tale of violence. The prospect... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Fresh Trailer For African-Set Zombie Flick THE DEAD
About to premiere at the Film4 Fright Fest in London before moving on to appearances at Fantastic Fest and Sitges, the Ford Brothers' upcoming zombie picture has been winning a load of advance admiration and excitement based on the early... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Early Look at First Poster for PRIMAL!
Here's a movie I've been hearing about for ages now, and looks like it's finally gearing up for release -- after getting selected for a whole bunch of genre film festivals around the globe, including the first wave of films... More »
  

Fantasia 2010: EVANGELION 2.0 YOU CAN (NOT) ADVANCE Review
[With the latest Evangelion feature taking a bow at Fantasia today now seems a good time to revisit my earlier review from Sitges.]When the five feature revisioning / relaunch of Hideaki Anno's seminal anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion was announced... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

CROPSEY Gets Theatrical Release, New Teaser
The fascinatingly creepy documentary Cropsey is hitting the road for series of theatrical dates after a successful festival run in 2009. The film's theatrical run kicks off on June 4th, 2010 with a screening on the grounds of Willowbrook Mental... More »
  

Action Fest 2010: VALHALLA RISING Review
[My review of Valhalla Rising originally ran when the film premiered in Toronto but with it now screening at Action Fest I hereby present it to you again.]You could say that the mark of a good film maker is that... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

ICHI Review
[This review originally ran as part of our coverage of Sitges 08, but I revisit it now on the occasion of its BluRay release in the UK.] Freshly off a screening of Fumihiko Sori's Ichi - a partial re-envisioning,... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

First Footage Arrives From Philip Ridley´s HEARTLESS!
Philip Ridley won himself a lot of love many years back with a little vampire film titled The Reflecting Skin - a picture that stars a young Viggo Mortensen and an exploding frog - and has asked for a lot... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Sitges 09: SUMMER WARS Review
When director Mamoru Hosoda appeared on the scene with 2006's The Girl Who Leapt Through Time the cries went out immediately hailing him as the heir apparent to legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki.  The comparison was an obvious one.  Not only... More »
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