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Raskolnikov2089 posted:Hey, I liked Blair Witch 2. It's easier to watch now if you pretend Michael Weston's on his most bizarre Burn Notice mission yet. Edit: Page 48nal Destination snipe?
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The original Paranormal Activity really bothered my roommate, mostly because before we watched it, I managed to convince him it was all 100% legit. I kind of wish I could have watched it with the same mindset, because it had him really freaked out for a couple days
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XIII posted:The original Paranormal Activity really bothered my roommate, mostly because before we watched it, I managed to convince him it was all 100% legit. I kind of wish I could have watched it with the same mindset, because it had him really freaked out for a couple days Hell I worked with someone who I couldn't convince that it was fiction. He wouldn't believe me no matter what I told him. Dude was a dumbass anyway.
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Iron Crowned posted:Hell I worked with someone who I couldn't convince that it was fiction. He wouldn't believe me no matter what I told him. Dude was a dumbass anyway. That's just bizarre. It's not like anyone involved in the project or any of the advertising tried to sell it as anything other than fiction. I guess some people must believe everything that's told with a sense of verisimilitude. You should take it upon yourself to gently caress with them by showing them fake documentaries or Man Bites Dog or Mordom or something.
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PhonyMcRingRing posted:It's easier to watch now if you pretend Michael Weston's on his most bizarre Burn Notice mission yet. Adding BW2 to my netflix queue now, just to watch it with this mindset.
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I'm 15 minutes into Daybreakers, and I just said something I never thought I'd say in my life. "Did that vampire just explode?" Good movie so far though.
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Cheezymadman posted:I'm 15 minutes into Daybreakers, and I just said something I never thought I'd say in my life. I found Daybreakers to be pretty entertaining. Not a great movie by any means but at least it tried to be a different kind of vampire movie.
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Waterhaul posted:The trailer for Paranormal Activity 2 has been released here. I know a lot of people hated the first one, mostly due to annoying characters, but I thought it was a very effective film and am pretty interested in what this one attempts to do to top it. It can't be worst than Blair Witch 2 anyway. I REALLY wanted to like the first Paranormal Activity. I saw the trailer and immediately got hyped because it was terrifying. I told all of my friends and family about it and we caught it opening night, full house. Then I sat through the entire movie and every single scare in the movie was ruined by the trailer. It was like they took all of scary parts, mashed them into the trailer and the movie was just the dialog that ties all of the scares together. I'm excited for #2, and that trailer seems reasonable; but from here on out I'm not watching any more trailers for it so they don't ruin the movie again.
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Cheezymadman posted:I'm 15 minutes into Daybreakers, and I just said something I never thought I'd say in my life. Obviously you've never seen Blade.
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Criminal Minded posted:Obviously you've never seen Blade. Or The Lost Boys, or From Dusk 'Til Dawn, or Near Dark. Really, vampires that don't explode feel like more of a novelty to me.
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LtKenFrankenstein posted:Or The Lost Boys, or From Dusk 'Til Dawn, or Near Dark. The difference between all of those movies and Daybreakers is that the quoted movies don't suck.
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Am I just seeing things or in that last shot from the PA2 trailer, the baby isn't in the crib...but is in the crib in the mirror image? No idea why I just spoilered that.
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Blair Witch 2 is totally under appreciated. It does the self-aware horror movie thing way better than Scream or New Nightmare. Plus it has one of the most ridiculous lines I've ever seen in a film.
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Frightfest 2010 lineup. PROGRAMME = SCREEN 1 THURSDAY AUG 27 6.30pm HATCHET II (World Premiere) FrightFest continues its strong relationship with Adam Green by hosting the world premiere of the sequel to his 2006 slasher sensation. Picking up right where the splatter-tastic original ended, Marybeth escapes the clutches of the deformed, swamp-dwelling iconic killer Victor Crowley. After learning the truth about her family’s connection to the hatchet-wielding madman, Marybeth returns to the Louisiana swamps along with an army of hunters to recover the bodies of her family and exact the bloodiest revenge against the bayou butcher. Delivering unapologetically unrestrained gushers of gore, HATCHET II is everything you loved about the original - only darker, funnier and on shocker steroids. 90 mins Director: Adam Green USA 2010 Danielle Harris – Marybeth Kane Hodder – Victor Crowley Tony Todd – Rev. Zombie Tom Holland – Bob R.A. Mihailoff – Trent 9.15pm PRIMAL (World Premiere) Primordial nature runs amuck in a smartly played spectacular slice of neo Ozploitation. 12,000 years ago a caveman tried to communicate the presence of an unknown primal entity only to be devoured by the Neanderthal evil. Now six friends on a field trip set up camp in the same remote wilderness. But when one takes a dip in a nearby waterhole terror descends on the remainder as they realise its kill or be killed. A frenzied visceral nightmare, PRIMAL is a hugely enjoyable rollercoaster ride through primitive panic with the best one word ending ever! 85 mins Director: Josh Reed Australia 2010 Krew Boylan - Mel Lindsay Farris – Chad Wil Traval – Dace Damien Freeleagus – Waren Rebekah Foord – Kris 11.30pm DEAD CERT (World Premiere) It’s a splatter Disco Inferno as East End gangsters and Eastern European vampires battle it out for the ultimate prize – owenership of the night-club, ‘The Inferno’. Foul-mouthed thugs take on a city infested with the undead in a super-modern take on ‘Dracula’ influenced by House of Hammer classics plus FRIGHT NIGHT and THE LOST BOYS. You think you know all there is to know about vampires? Well, you’re wrong, dead wrong, in director Steve Lawson’s all-action horror that paints London town red - with blood! 90 mins Director: Steve Lawson UK 2010 Craig Fairbrass – Freddy ‘Dead Cert’ Frankham Jason Flemyng – Chelsea Steve Danny Dyer – Roger Kipling Billy Murray – Dante Livienko Dexter Fletcher – Eddie Christian FRIDAY AUG 28 TOTAL ICON: TOBE HOOPER Total Film Magazine have joined forces with FrightFest to introduce a new attraction to this year’s festival. It’s called ‘Total Icon’ and will celebrate the career of living legend Tobe Hooper. As well as showing Tobe’s ferocious 1974 masterpiece THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE on the big screen, we will be unveiling his rarely seen, restored and re-mastered 1969 debut, EGGSHELLS. And that’s not all: there will be a 45-minute onstage Q&A with the great man himself, here visiting the UK for the first time in 18 years. 10.45am EGGSHELLS (Total Icon Retrospective) Director Tobe Hooper’s little seen and long thought lost debut feature is now a must-see hippy trippy head space fantasy time capsule containing many portents of THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE to come. Hooper: “It’s a real movie about 1969, kind of verite but with a little push, improvisation mixed with magic. It was about the beginning and end of the subculture. Most of it takes place in a commune house. But what they don’t know is that in the basement is a crypto-embryonic hyper-electric presence that managed to influence the house and the people in it. The presence has embedded itself in the walls and grows into this big bulb, half-electronic, half organic. Almost like an eye, but like a big light, it comes out of the wall, manipulating and animating. I’ve always described it as being a mixture of Andy Warhol’s TRASH and Walt Disney’s FANTASIA”. 90 mins Director: Tobe Hooper USA 1969 Mahlon Forman – Mahlon Boris Schnurr (Kim Henkel) - Toz Ron Barnhart – Ben Skabarsak Amy Lester – Amy David Noll – David 1.00pm THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (Total Icon Retrospective) Time has not dimmed the shock value of the seminal classic from director Tobe Hooper, based on the same real-life Ed Gein case that inspired PSYCHO. Only granted a certificate from the British Board of Film Classification for its 25th Anniversary release in 1999, this highly influential scream-filled chiller tells the story of five Texas hippies who encounter a family of murderous cannibals. Hooper masterfully uses documentary-style realism, coupled with the horror of anticipation and suggestion, to take the terror factor into stunning and disturbing areas. Made on a micro-budget that adds to the harsh tone, this razor-sharp nightmare began the power tool cult and brought Gunnar Hansen’s Leatherface to horror icon glory. But it’s the brutal accumulative effect of Hooper’s mater-of-fact direction that freezes the scalp and puts alarmed imagination on overdrive. 83 mins Director: Tobe Hooper USA 1974 Marilyn Burns - Sally Gunnar Hansen – Leatherface Allen Danziger - Jerry Edwin Neal - Hitchhiker Paul A. Partain – Franklin 3.15pm INTERVIEW WITH TOBE HOOPER. The interview will be conducted by Total Film’s deputy editor Jamie Graham. Total Film has regularly tagged THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE as ‘The Greatest Horror Movie Ever Made’ and could not be happier to welcome Tobe Hooper to FrightFest. 5.30pm ISLE OF DOGS (World Premiere) Darius is the gang boss from hell, a deadly bastard and the last man you’d cross. So when he discovers his young Russian bride Nadia is sleeping with Rilry, a small time crook, he makes him an offer he can’t refuse. Kill or be killed. In the tradition of LONDON TO BRIGHTON, an unflinching exploration of just what people will do to survive. Written by Sean Hogan and director Tammi Sutton (the upcoming WELCOME TO GRAVELAND starring Danny Trejo and Vinnie Jones), comes a barking Brit body count horror. 90 mins Director: Tammi Sutton UK 2010 Edward Hogg – Riley Barbara Nedeljakova – Nadia Andrew Howard – Darius Gwilym Lee – Block Stuart McQuarrie – Billy 7.45pm F (World Premiere) Welcome to the Class of 2010. The college day ends, the school building becomes a vast complex of dark corridors, and eerily quiet classrooms, What none of the remaining teachers and pupils realize is tonight is going to be a night they will remember for the rest of their lives – especially English teacher Robert Anderson, a burned-out, world-weary alcoholic trying to reconnect with his daughter. For the school comes under relentless attack from a faceless threat intent on causing maximum mayhem. Will lessons be learned? 80 mins Director: Johannes Roberts UK 2010 David Schofield – Robert Anderson Eliza Bennett – Kate Anderson Emma Cleasby - Lucy Ruth Gemmell – Sarah Balham Juliet Aubrey – Helen Anderson 9.15pm RED HILL (Preview) Police officer Shane Cooper (‘True Blood’ star Ryan Kwanten) relocates to the dusty farming village of Red Hill with his pregnant wife, Alice, to start a family. Then news of a prison break sends the local law enforcement officers into a panic and Shane’s first day on duty rapidly turns into a nightmare. A taut horror western, which unfolds over the course of a single day and night, and told with explosive action and chilling violence, 95 mins Director: Patrick Hughes Australia 2010 Ryan Kwanten – Shane Cooper Claire van der Boom – Alice Cooper Steve Bisley – Old Bill Tom E. Lewis – Jimmy Conway Christopher David – Slim 11.30pm ALIEN VS. NINJA (UK Premiere) Once upon a time in Japan, a band of great Iga Ninja warriors witness a roaring giant fireball crashing into the distant forest. Rushing to investigate the mysterious asteroid, they are stunned to be confronted by new alien enemies. This is the story of the brave Ninja facing their biggest challenge ever to defeat the space monsters and their alien offspring. In the tradition of TOKYO GORE POLICE comes killer Kung Fu, gratuitous violence, silly splatter, high-powered action - and men in grey rubber suits. 90 mins Director: Seiji Chiba Japan 2010 Mika Hijii Masanori Mimoto Shuji Kashiwabara Donpei Tsuchihira Ben Hiura SATURDAY AUG 29 11.00am CHERRY TREE LANE Preview) CHERRY TREE LANE was Mary Poppins’ address, but there’s nothing remotely Disney about this cautionary tale from Paul Andrew Williams, director of the critically acclaimed LONDON TO BRIGHTON and THE COTTAGE. Christine and Mike are an ordinary middle-class couple living in what could be any house on any street. It’s an average evening as they prepare dinner, open a bottle of wine and bicker waiting for their teenage son, Sebastian, to come home from football. The doorbell rings. And the family’s nightmare begins. Tense, harrowing and disturbing, CHERRY TREE LANE is one address worth visiting if your nerves can stand it. 80 mins Director: Paul Andrew Williams UK 2010 Rachael Blake – Christine Tom Butcher – Mike Sonny Muslim – Teddy Jumayn Hunter – Rian Ashley Chin – Asad 1.15pm THE TORTURED (UK Premiere) Meet Elise and Craig, an upper-middle-class couple with a beautiful son and a very good life. But that charmed life is destroyed and shattered when their only child is kidnapped and killed by a sexual deviant. Obsessed with revenge when the criminal justice system does not adequately punish the murderer, the couple seizes a golden opportunity to abduct him when a tragic accident occurs. Hold on tight as the twists and turns in director Robert Lieberman’s horror thriller continually surprise and shock. 90 mins Director: Robert Lieberman USA/Canada 2010 Jesse Metcalfe – Craig Erika Christensen – Elise Bill Mosely – Kozlowski Chelah Horsdal – Liane Thomas Greenwood – Ben 3.15pm 13HRS (World Premiere) Sarah Tyler returns to her troubled family home in the isolated countryside, for a much put-off visit from Los Angeles. But as a storm rages outside, Sarah, her family and friends shore up for the night, cut off from the outside world. But something is about to come out of the driving rain and darkness. Something that needs to kill and is looking for human prey. Something that holds a terrifying secret so devastating that, in one night, it could wipe out the entire Tyler bloodline. 85 mins Director: Jonathan Glendening UK 2010 Isabella Calthorpe – Sarah Tyler Tom Felton – Gary Gemma Atkinson – Emily John Lynch – McCrae Simon MacCorkindale – Duncan THE HORROR CHANNEL PRESENTS 6.30pm I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (European Premiere) Arguably the most notorious title in horror history, the original 1979 exploitation classic became an iconic Video Nasty. So prepare for the one unrated remake everybody has been anticipating, a violent, shocking story of bloody revenge. When writer Jennifer Hills retreats to a charming cabin in the woods to start her next book, her presence in the small town attracts unwanted redneck attention. Intending to teach the city girl a lesson, they break into her cabin to scare her. However, what starts out as terrifying acts of humiliation, uncontrollably escalates into a night of abusive assault. But against all odds Jennifer survives her ordeal and intends to turn the tables on her tormentors… 90 mins Director: Steven R. Monroe USA 2010 Sarah Butler – Jennifer Hills Daniel Franzese – Stanley Chad Lindberg – Matthew Tracey Walter – Earl Woodason Rodney Eastman – Andy TOTAL FILM PRESENTS 8.45pm MONSTERS (Preview) Director Gareth Edwards’ sensational debut is a provocative post-Apocalyptic parable and an all-round remarkable achievement. Six years ago a NASA probe returning to Earth with samples of alien organisms crashed over Central America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear there and half of Mexico was quarantined. Now the American and Mexican military struggle to contain the giant creatures. It’s through this perilous infected zone that a cynical journalist must escort his stranded boss’ daughter to U.S. border safety. MONSTERS is involving and satisfying as it is surprising and moving, something utterly unique, original and awe-inspiring. 97 mins Director: Gareth Edwards UK 2010 Scoot McNairy – Andrew Kaulder Whitney Able – Samantha Wynden 11.55pm DREAM HOME (UK Premiere) How far would you go to keep your dream home? FRIDAY THE 13th meets ‘Location, Location, Location’ in a blood-soaked slasher doubling as a satire on the current housing and banking crises. Cheng Lai-sheung is an upwardly mobile professional happily working two jobs, finally ready to invest in her first home. But when the deal falls through on her luxury dream home she takes drastic action to keep her dream alive. DREAM HOME returns Hong Kong Cinema to a level of gratuitous violence not seen since the glory days of RIKI-OH! and THE UNTOLD STORY, and is the strongest Asian horror for ages. 96 mins Director: Ho-Cheung Pang Hong Kong 2010 Josie Ho – Cheng Lai-sheung Eason Chan – Derek Tsang – Lawrence Chou – Juno Mak - SUNDAY AUG 30 11.00am THE PACK (UK Premiere) The earth wants blood…and there are those who cannot refuse it. In a snowy no man’s land loner Charlotte Massot picks up hitchhiker Max for security after being hassled by an unruly motorbike gang. But when Max goes missing at the La Spack truck-stop café and she investigates his disappearance, little does she realise she is being set up to take part in a ghastly, unholy ritual. Franck Richard’s debut feature follows in the sick and slick tradition of recent French fear fare with BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF star Emilie Dequenne and Gallic gore favourite Philippe Nahon acting their heads off. Literally. 80 mins Director: Franck Richard France 2010 Emilie Dequenne – Charlotte Massot Benjamin Biolay – Max Yolande Moreau – La Spack Philippe Nahon – Chinaski Eric Godon – Jean-Jean 1.00pm. FILM4 FRIGHTFEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM SHOWCASE – to be announced soon. ANDY NYMAN’S QUIZ FROM HELL Dare you take part? Can your brain withstand the trivia terror? FrightFest has tempted SEVERANCE and BLACK DEATH movie actor, and ‘Dead Set’ TV star Andy Nyman off the West End stage where he’s currently appearing in ‘Ghost Stories’ at the Duke of York’s Theatre to host a mind-bending test of horror knowledge. The questions are going to be hard and the interactive rounds especially so. But if you win, you’ll win big. So join Andy as he probes your cranium and hits your funny bones in the FrightFest Quiz from Hell. The Quiz from Hell is brought to you by Simon Williams and Lee-Jay Bannister, the brains behind the film-themed pub quiz ‘You’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat’. Now in its sixth year at the Boogaloo pub in Highgate, North London, ‘You’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat’ has developed a cult following, The Evening Standard has called it ‘London's best pub quiz for film buffs’. To find out more visit https://www.film-quiz.com. For more information about private events, visit https://www.quizevents.com. 4.00pm. WE ARE WHAT WE ARE (SOMOS LO QUE HAY) (UK Premiere) Shown in the Director’s Fortnight strand of the Cannes Film Festival 2010, Jorge Michel Grau’s independently produced, envelope-pushing shocker was acclaimed as “the Mexican LET THE RIGHT ONE IN”. A middle-aged man dies in the middle of a shopping mall leaving his widow, two sons and daughter destitute. The devastated family is confronted with a massive challenge…for they are cannibals. But who will provide the victims now their father has gone? The task falls to the eldest son Alfredo, yet he’s far from ready to accept the challenge especially as he carries another secret all his own. 99 mins Director: Jorge Michel Grau Mexico 2010 Adrian Aguirre – Adriana Miriam Balderas – Sheyla Francisco Barreiro – Alfredo Carmen Beato – Patricia Daniel Gimenez Cacho – Tito 6.30pm KABOOM (UK Premiere) The director of NOWHERE and MYSTERIOUS SKIN brings his signature vision and sharp sense of smart fun to a wildly sexy apocalyptic movie. Bisexual college student Smith stumbles upon a monstrous conspiracy in a seemingly idyllic Southern California seaside town. And his drug-fuelled everyday life of lusting gets turned upside down after witnessing a gruesome murder that draws him into a sinister underground cult. A surreal mash-up of styles, sexuality, supernatural and sci-fi genres, file this one under instant cult classic. 88 mins Director: Gregg Araki USA/France 2010 Thomas Dekker – Smith Hayley Bennett – Stella Chris Zylka – Thor Juno Temple – London Andy Fischer-Price – Rex 9.00pm A SERBIAN FILM (UK Premiere) The most controversial hot button movie of the year is an unflinching look into the moral, political and ethical abyss that is Serbia today. When a former porn star is lured out of retirement to make one last ‘artistic statement’ on the sexploitation industry little does he know the depths of depravity to which he will sink. For the director is concerned less about the pleasures of the flesh than the degradation of the human animal. Be warned, the depiction of one man’s descent into vice-ridden hell is brutal and violent to an extreme. Director Srdjan Spasojevic’s walk on the wildest side is meant to shock the viewer out of complacency and could only come from those living through collective national pain and victimization now determined to throw that hurt and fury on screen. The result is an experience you will never, ever forget. 104 mins Director: Srdjan Spasojevic Serbia 2009 Srdjan Todorovic – Milos Sergej Trifunovic – Vukmir Jelena Gavrilovic – Marija Katarina Zutic – Lejla Slobodan Bestic – Marko 11.30pm THE LOVED ONES (UK Premiere) The coolest Ozploitation horror in ages is director Sean Byrne’s hilariously dark and supremely confident mash-up of MISERY, SAW and CARRIE. Cute young Brent is still traumatized over the death of his father when he’s picked out by classmate Lola to attend her gore-soaked private prom. Kidnapped by her devoted father who will do absolutely anything Lola requests, Brent soon finds himself in the company of the deadliest pair since Burke and Hare. Slick, quick and sick Byrne’s stylish twist on teen horror provides fresh jolts, graphic gasps and superior scream ‘n’ squeal shocks. 84 mins Director: Sean Byrne Australia 2009 Xavier Samuel – Brent Mitchell Robin McLeavy – Lola John Brumpton – Eric Victoria Thaine – Holly Jessica McNamee – Mia MONDAY AUG 31 11.15am VIDEO NASTIES (World Premiere) From director Jake West and producer Marc Morris, a brand new feature length documentary charting the Video Nasties phenomenon and shedding light on one of the most important and scandalous eras in British film history. Featuring archive material of James Ferman, Mary Whitehouse, plus a wealth of authoritative cult film experts, journalists and academics and contemporary UK horror film directors including Neil Marshall and Christopher Smith. The doc is a companion piece to the Nucleus Films release ‘Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide’, which features every single trailer to the films that fell foul of the Director of Public Prosecutions, A panel discussion will follow this definitive document of a most extraordinary time. 60 mins Director: Jake West UK 2010 1.15pm THE DEAD (World Premiere) The Ford Brothers have burst on the scare scene as a fresh force in the horror fantasy arena. In the very near future most of the world has succumbed to a living dead virus. After crashing off the coast of Africa in a plane, Lt. Brian Murphy battles for survival across inhospitable parched terrain in search of a way to get back to his beloved family in America. Saved by local military man Sgt. Daniel Dembele, who is also searching for his son, both men join forces to fight the ever-present flesh-eating threat stalking the bush. THE DEAD features stunningly shot burnished landscapes, brilliant special make-up and visual effects and terrific dust devil zombies. 90 mins Directors: Howard J. Ford & Jon Ford UK 2010 Rob Freeman – Lt. Brian Murphy Prince David Osei – Sgt Daniel Dembele Dan Morgan – James David Dontoh – The Chief 3.30pm BEDEVILLED (UK Premiere) From director Jang Cheol-soo, the new South Korean name to watch, the tale of two women living on the idyllic island of Moodo. Seoul banker Hae-won once visited Moodo to see her grandparents and had befriended Bok-nam, a local girl. Back on the island again to regain balance to her life, Hae-won is shocked to see everyone treating Bok-nam like a slave - a plaything for the men and a workhorse for the women. Hae-won remains indifferent to Bok-nam’s pleas for help, not wanting to become involved in complicated situations. Then Bok-nam loses the only thing that had kept her going and finally snaps, a sickle in hand to mete out the bloodiest of revenge. 115 mins Director: Jang Cheol-soo South Korea 2010 Seo Young-hee – Bok-nam Ji Sung-won – Hae-won 6.30pm RED, WHITE & BLUE (UK Premiere) FrightFest launched director Simon Rumley’s THE LIVING AND THE DEAD in 2006. Now we present his latest harrowing masterpiece built around the universal horror of that ever-encroaching shadow of mortality. In Austin, Texas, Erica spends her nights trawling local bars and beds. Damaged emotionally, never really connecting with anyone until she meets the older, mysterious Iraq war veteran Nate. Despite his quiet air of danger, Nate's the only guy who doesn’t want to get her into pants and the two form a hesitant bond. But one of Erica's casual sexual encounters is about to frighteningly rebound on the whole community… 103 mins Director: Simon Rumley USA 2010 Amanda Fuller – Erica Noah Taylor – Nate Marc Senter – Franki Nick Ashy Holden – Alvin Patrick Crovo – Carl 9.00pm THE LAST EXORCISM (UK Premiere) From producer Eli Roth and visionary director Daniel Stamm comes a possession nightmare of epic proportions. Disillusioned by years of defrauding poor believers out of their hard-earned cash, evangelist preacher Cotton Marcus has decided to put the record straight by starring in a fly-on-the-wall documentary exposing the con tricks of his demon-busting trade. A letter from a poor southern farmer begging for help in driving evil off his land seems to give Cotton the perfect opportunity to expose the phoniness of his satanic ministry. But then he meets the farmer’s disturbed young daughter, Nell, and everything changes… 95 mins Director: Daniel Stamm USA 2010 Patrick Fabian – Cotton Marcus Ashley Bell – Nell Sweetzer Louis Herthum – Louis Sweetzer Caleb Jones – Caleb Sweetzer Shanna Forestall – Mrs. Marcus PROGRAMME – DISCOVERY SCREEN FRIDAY AUG 28 10.45pm BURNING BRIGHT (UK Premiere) High tension and jolting suspense percolate the most unusual and sneakiest thriller of the year. Johnny Gavenau’s latest get-quick-rich scheme is to turn his Florida ranch into a Safari Park. As the main attraction he buys a dangerous Bengal tiger from an unscrupulous circus trader. But the ravenous beast gets loose, its’ only refuge the ranch house interior where stepdaughter Kelly and her autistic little brother Tom reside... Nature runs amok but human nature proves to be the real villain in director Carlos Brooks’ taut twist on the home invasion chiller. 80 mins Director: Carlos Brooks USA 2010 Garret Dillahunt - Johnny Gaveneau Briana Evigan – Kelly Taylor Charlie Tahan – Tom Taylor Mary Rachel Dudley – Catherine Taylor Meatloaf – Howie 12.45pm THE CLINIC (UK Premiere) While travelling across Australia in 1979, heavily pregnant Beth Church is abducted. Waking up in an abandoned abattoir, she’s horrified to find her baby has been removed. Searching the isolated prison for a way out she finds three other women in exactly the same terrifying predicament. And so their deadly game of survival begins Raw psychological horror as SAW meets THE VANISHING with a gripping hereditary twist in director James Rabbitts’ feature debut. 100 mins Director: James Rabbitts Australia 2009 Tabrett Bethell – Beth Church Andy Whitfield - Cameron Clare Bowen – Ivy Freya Stafford – Veronica Sophie Lowe – Allison 3.00pm FINALE (UK Premiere) A bereaved family descends into a vortex of paranoia after the supposed suicide of the oldest son in director John Michael Elfers’ shocker styled after classic 60s and 70s Italian horrors. Saturated in a dark, rich and creepy gothic atmosphere, seeping with dread and anxiety, Elfers’ keen eye for startling visuals imbues his gripping supernatural cult shocker with eerie carnality, forbidden desire and erotic imagery. 93 mins Director: John Michael Elfers USA 2009 Carolyn Hauck - Helen Michaels Suthi Picotte – Kathryn Michaels Elizabeth Holmes – Mrs. Bliss Steven Nieport – The Collector James Johnson – Peter Michaels 5.00pm WOUND (European Premiere) David Blyth makes a welcome return to the genre he pioneered in 1984 with a fantasy chiller exploring the dark worlds of mental illness, incest, revenge and death. Blyth’s supernatural horror follows Tanya as she searches for Susan - the mother she has never met, who gave her up for dead after being abused by her own father. Tanya has ‘returned from the dead’ to confront and possess Susan with all her deepest fears and desires, sending her into a state of madness and gore-filled retribution. A controversial cult film in the making, WOUND explores the wicked ties that bind. 80 mins Director: David Blyth New Zealand 2010 Kate O’Rourke – Susan Te Kaea Beri – Tanya Campbell Cooley – Master John Sandy Lowe – Mistress Ruth Brendan Gregory – Neil 7.15pm OUTCAST (Preview) A gripping, shockingly visceral portrait of the sidhe - Celtic fairy people - whose wild magic is steeped in blood, pain and ritual and director Colm McCarthy captures it all in his tale of strange emotional ties. A female member of a nomadic tribe harbours a secret shame that forces her into housing estate exile with her young son. There she hones her skills in a dark, ancient breed of enchantment. An unusual horror mash-up that's equal parts intelligent, engaging, and unexpectedly creepy. 92 mins Director: Colm McCarthy UK/Ireland 2010 Kate Dickie - Mary Niall Bruton – Fergal James Nesbitt – Cathal Karen Gillan – Ally James Cosmo – Laird 9.45pm HIGANJIMA: ESCAPE FROM VAMPIRE ISLAND (UK Premiere) Based on the Japanese manga that has captivated readers worldwide, an Asian sensation arrives in the United Kingdom. No one has ever returned from the island of Higanjima, especially Akira’s older brother who went missing two years ago. Desperate to see his brother again, Akira talks his friends into joining him to search the island. Once there they realize it’s ruled by vampires. Then Akira makes a startling discovery – his brother is still alive and has become a vampire hunter… 122 mins Director: Kim Tae-kyun Japan 2010 Hideo Ishiguro – Akira Dai Watanabe – Atsushi Asami Mizukawa – Rei Koji Yamamoto – Miyabi Tomohisa Yuge – Ken-chan SATURDAY 29 AUG 11.00am CHRISTOPHER ROTH (UK Premiere) Maxime Alexandre’s ace cinematography highlighted the work of his best friend Alexandre Aja (SWITCHBLADE ROMANCE, THE HILLS HAVE EYES and MIRRORS). Now, as Max Sender, he has directed this unique horror chiller about a thriller writer, Christopher Roth, who has arrived in Umbria, Italy, to get his creative juices flowing. However, the Roths’ arrival coincides with a gruesome murder carried out by The Boar, an elusive serial killer holding the locals in a grip of terror. Soon Roth finds it’s hard to resist that little thrill you feel right before you go beyond the imaginary and flirt with reality. 90 mins Director: Max Sender/Maxime Alexandre Belgium/Italy 2010 Joaquim De Almeida – Christopher Roth Anna Galiena – Catherine Roth Inigo Lezzi - Filippo Jessica Bonanni – Giovanna Cardelli Ben Gazzara – Paul Andersen 1.15pm FANBOYS (UK Premiere) It’s Halloween night 1998 and STAR WARS fanboys across the globe eagerly await the release of EPISODE 1 - THE PHANTOM MENACE. But for Eric, Linus, Hutch and Windows, the term fanboy is a badge of honour and the former high school friends undertake an audacious plan. To go to director George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch, break in, steal an early copy of the movie and stake their claim as the first fans in history to watch it. But to secure their place in the fanboy hall of fame they’ll have to contend with a bizarre group of Hell’s Angels, a crazy pimp, a deranged cluster of trekkies and William Shatner, Billy Dee Williams and Carrie Fisher. 90 mins Director: Kyle Newman USA 2008 Sam Huntington – Eric Chris Marquette – Linus Dan Fogler – Hutch Jay Baruchel – Windows Kristen Bell – Zoe 3.30pm AFTER.LIFE (UK Premiere) After a horrific car accident, Anna wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon preparing her body for burial. Confused, terrified and still feeling very much alive, Anna doesn’t believe she’s dead, Trapped inside the funeral parlour, she is forced to face her deepest fears and accept her death. With an unrelenting edge of menace, this stylish and erotic chiller provocatively questions the line between life and death. 104 mins Director: Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo USA 2009 Christina Ricci – Anna Taylor Liam Neeson – Eliot Deacon Justin Long – Paul Josh Charles – Tom Peterson Chandler Canterbury – Jack 6.35pm. FINALE 9.00pm BURNING BRIGHT SUNDAY AUG 30 11.00am HIGANJIMA: ESCAPE FROM VAMPIRE ISLAND 1.30pmn OUTCAST 4.05pm WOUND 6.35pm AMER (BITTER) (Preview) A huge hit at FrightFest Glasgow earlier this year we are showing AMER in London for those who couldn’t see this artful masterpiece. For gialli fans will absolutely not want to miss co-directors Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s immaculately executed flawless valentine to the 70s thriller genre. Recreating the motifs, clichés and visual codes from the vintage Italian back catalogue, the Belgian-based duo unfold a virtually dialogue free tale of frightening obsession, sexual sensation and stunning black-gloved murder. 90 mins Directors: Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani France/Belgium 2009 Cassandra Foret Charlotte Eugene-Guibbaud Marie Bos Bianca Maria D’Amato Harry Cleven 9.05pm THE CLINIC MONDAY AUG 31 11.00am – AMER 1.30pm AFTER LIFE 3.35pm FANBOYS 6.35pm CHRISTOPHER ROTH
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Jul 2, 2010 17:42
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C2C - 2.0 posted:Am I just seeing things or in that last shot from the PA2 trailer, the baby isn't in the crib...but is in the crib in the mirror image? Yep
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Jul 3, 2010 06:00
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So any slither of hope I had for Scream 4 has gone out of the window now that Ehren loving Kruger has been brought in to do rewrites on the film. Lauren Graham walked off the project because her character was reduced to a few lines (Which is a shame as she's generally great). Hasn't it started shooting already? Just how far into production do you need to go before you decide to completely rewrite a script? This is going to be 'Cursed' all over again isn't it? A film that was so extensively reshot that you could actually release 2 completely different versions (With a different cast for a lot of it).
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Jul 3, 2010 08:32
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Is there an American equivalent of FrightFest?
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Jul 3, 2010 08:48
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DrVenkman posted:So any slither of hope I had for Scream 4 has gone out of the window now that Ehren loving Kruger has been brought in to do rewrites on the film. Lauren Graham walked off the project because her character was reduced to a few lines (Which is a shame as she's generally great). Hasn't it started shooting already? Just how far into production do you need to go before you decide to completely rewrite a script? Yeah I can't see this being good. Lauren Graham being in it had made me kind of interested but with multiple actors walking out on the project and Craven himself being "I'm going to make fun of all the dumb horror films that have come out since the last Scream  ", when he himself has released nothing but crap just makes me think the entire thing is going to be a big mess.
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Jul 3, 2010 11:03
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Anyone think they should do another adaption of And Then There Where None (AKA Ten Little Indians). I think you could do a decent update if you had the right people behind it.
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Jul 3, 2010 22:16
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Wasn't that basically 'Identity'? I don't know that they could really pull it off now, the concept has been done so many times (Really, isn't any slasher film just a variation on that principle anyway?). It's a shame though, because I've always loved that idea. A country mansion, storm outside and people getting murdered. It's why I love 'Clue'.
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Jul 4, 2010 01:13
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The most awesome Christie story ever was The Murder of Roger Akroyd. Did they ever do an adaptation of it? It's ending has been copied so many times that any adaptation today wouldn't have the same effect that it had.
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Jul 4, 2010 01:28
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Boring posted:the guy in the first film was called micah, so i'm guessing the baby is called hunter? I haven't seen anything to make me think there's any connection between the characters/events of the first movie and the second. Also, the "shocking ending" of the trailer for 2 isn't very shocking...it's a girl standing in a doorway. XIII posted:The original Paranormal Activity really bothered my roommate, mostly because before we watched it, I managed to convince him it was all 100% legit. I kind of wish I could have watched it with the same mindset, because it had him really freaked out for a couple days It's certainly odd, but I have to envy anyone who saw the film with that perspective. Like it or not, if you actually believed what was going on in the film, you'd have the most authentically frightening movie-going experience ever (which is what a lot of us really want).
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Jul 4, 2010 03:02
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Tears for Fears posted:I haven't seen anything to make me think there's any connection between the characters/events of the first movie and the second. Also, the "shocking ending" of the trailer for 2 isn't very shocking...it's a girl standing in a doorway. The "shocking" thing is Katie was never found therefore this could be Katie I mean really the "Katie's whereabouts are unknown" thing is the biggest thing that leads you to believe they could be connected Anyway, rented the dvd the other day. Quite possibly the greatest dvd ever. Why? First: No sound or pictures on the menus. Second: Opens with just "Play movie" and "Play movie wtih alternate ending" on the menu. Third: Doesn't automatically go back to the menu when it's done, it loving sits on a black screen till you hit the menu button All that plus the ending where she kills herself? Goddamn. The video place is selling it for eight bucks, I'll grab it tomorrow for sure.
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Jul 4, 2010 03:51
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Dickeye posted:
Is that the only alternate ending on the disc? The cop one's not included?
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Jul 4, 2010 04:07
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tokidoki posted:Is that the only alternate ending on the disc? The cop one's not included? That's it. I like it a lot better than the cop one or the jump scare. The jump scare releases 90 minutes' worth of tension, but the suicide one is more disturbing. Plus, that whole final night is completely reshot. They don't do the thing with the sheet sliding off Micah, Katie stays on her side of the bed, her movements are a lot slower and more dreamlike (to the point where I have to wonder if they slowed the footage down in editing), and there's more of a pause between her leaving the room and her screaming Apparently there's endings they never even shot, including one where she beats Micah to death with his camera.
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Jul 4, 2010 04:14
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Dickeye posted:That's it. I like it a lot better than the cop one or the jump scare. The jump scare releases 90 minutes' worth of tension, but the suicide one is more disturbing. Sounds interesting. I'll have to check it out if it's been re-shot.
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Jul 4, 2010 04:29
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Just rent it. And start the movie, then go back to the menu to get an option to jump right to the final scene That's another thing I liked: No scene selection. This is seriously the most barebones DVD and I love it.
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Jul 4, 2010 04:31
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DrVenkman posted:So any slither of hope I had for Scream 4 has gone out of the window now that Ehren loving Kruger has been brought in to do rewrites on the film. Lauren Graham walked off the project because her character was reduced to a few lines (Which is a shame as she's generally great). Hasn't it started shooting already? Just how far into production do you need to go before you decide to completely rewrite a script? Oh God no! The one possible good thing is that hopefully this kills the "start of a new trilogy" bullshit Kevin Williamson kept spouting off on. I don't want a new trilogy that focuses on new people with the main stars of the first three in the background (or worse, all get killed off). I want a (a!) reunion movie with Sidney, Dewey, and Gale front and center. Perhaps that's what they're doing now? It would fall in line with them cutting down on the new characters' parts. Thing is it's WAY too into production for me to be comfortable with.
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Jul 4, 2010 08:09
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As for Paranormal Activity 2, I have so many mixed feelings about it. I don't mind them making a second one, and I have a feeling they're going about it the right way: this is an instance where I think everybody does simply want to see the first one again only bigger and badder. But, like I said about Scream above, I don't want this to become some ongoing series. Thing is though (and this might not totally be fair since we don't even know if this footage will be in the movie or if the movie will even really look like this) the footage already looks too in-authentic; coming across convincingly enough as "real" footage was pretty much the key to get the heebie-jeebies going in the first one. The trailer looks like a movie trying to look like real footage.
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Jul 4, 2010 08:17
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lizardman posted:The trailer looks like a movie trying to look like real footage. For me the entire thing looked like it was filmed through a bunch of surveillance cameras set up throughout the house. There's one problem with that though: why the hell would you have surveillance cameras set up throughout your entire house? It isn't Wal-Mart.
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Jul 4, 2010 08:23
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Senf posted:For me the entire thing looked like it was filmed through a bunch of surveillance cameras set up throughout the house. There's one problem with that though: why the hell would you have surveillance cameras set up throughout your entire house? It isn't Wal-Mart. The same reason you set up a camera facing your bedroom door and bed. Also the house looks pretty large. It's not totally unheard of for people to set up security cameras in large houses. Sure, it's intrusive, but paranoia's a hell of a state of mind.
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Jul 4, 2010 09:06
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Tears for Fears posted:I haven't seen anything to make me think there's any connection between the characters/events of the first movie and the second. Also, the "shocking ending" of the trailer for 2 isn't very shocking...it's a girl standing in a doorway. its the same house right?? that must suggest a connection
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Jul 4, 2010 17:54
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Boring posted:its the same house right?? that must suggest a connection I don't think it's been said that it's the same house. Could be, though. Rented Saw and Behind The Mask today, because I liked both movies and I'm interested in watching them with commentary.
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Jul 4, 2010 18:41
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Tears for Fears posted:I haven't seen anything to make me think there's any connection between the characters/events of the first movie and the second. Also, the "shocking ending" of the trailer for 2 isn't very shocking...it's a girl standing in a doorway. I thought the shocking ending for the trailer was that the baby wasn't in the crib, but was in the mirror's reflection. edit - oh poo poo, the chair in the reflection when the dog is laying on the ground is rocking. TUS fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Jul 4, 2010 |
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Jul 4, 2010 20:46
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Boring posted:its the same house right?? that must suggest a connection Again, I haven't seen anything to suggest it's the same house. I highly doubt it is. They're not going to reuse characters, settings, or even plot from the first one. I guarantee this will be an all new story.
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Jul 5, 2010 04:40
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I am 90% that it is the same house. I just watched the movie a couple of weeks ago and that staircase is the same.
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Jul 5, 2010 04:49
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foodfight posted:I am 90% that it is the same house. I just watched the movie a couple of weeks ago and that staircase is the same. Didn't the staircase in the original have a decorative metal railing? The staircase the trailer shows in the sequel has regular wooden balusters. Seems like a different staircase to me. I'm looking forward to this. The first movie wasn't the best horror movie ever but it certainly was suspenseful enough.
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Jul 5, 2010 05:11
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foodfight posted:I am 90% that it is the same house. I just watched the movie a couple of weeks ago and that staircase is the same. I presumed it was the same house too, since the original was filmed in 06/07 it wouldn't be weird if some renovations had happened on the house, all they have to do is set the film a few years after the first. My guess at the plot is that a new family move into the house and the demon wants a new host/child to torment since it's whole thing was that it'd been following Katie since she was a baby. Waterhaul fucked around with this message at 07:32 on Jul 5, 2010 |
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Jul 5, 2010 07:12
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I hope they do go with the baby in peril theme. It would explain why the parents have set up motion cameras in the room and we could have some creepy baby monitoring noises as well. One of my bigger problems with horror movies like Paranormal Activity and Blair Witch are that they rely too heavily on images to scare people when sound is so much more effective. A similar movie called My Little Eye worked sound in so well that the viewer was both looking and listening for the scares and they were rewarded on both counts. Edit: Two new King movies in the pipeline. I'm counting on the remake of IT being as good as possible because it seems like the studio are loving around with Pet Sematary to try and make it more teen orientated. Interview with the screenwriter here. IT as a two hour cinema release with an R rating and a less knowing Pennywise? Yes please. Local Group Bus fucked around with this message at 15:24 on Jul 5, 2010 |
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Paranormal worked on the audio level too. How much of it was anticipation based on hearing the demon walking, or hearing that distortion noise that accompanied poo poo happening?
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