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Slamdance ’11 REVIEW: Latest First-Person Horror Ain’t So ‘Atrocious’!
Getting quite a bit of buzz out of the Slamdance Film Festival (taking place kitty-corner to the Sundance fest) is the Spanish-language first-person psychological chiller Atrocious, which focuses on the case of a brother and sister who investigate a local urban myth while on holiday, resulting in strange occurrences at the family’s summer house.
Ryan Daley was lucky enough to be one of the first ever to see the film, which he calls a “success”: “While it doesn’t know any new tricks, Atrocious is a dog that perform the old tricks just fine. As the camera whips through the trees in well-edited POV shots, there’s something about the long sequences of night-visioned hedge maze stumbling that are completely hypnotic.”
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Big screen movie sequel Mortal Kombat II is bringing its fatalities to the small screen next week as it heads to streaming.
The sequel will make its global streaming debut exclusively on HBO Max on July 24. The film will debut on HBO linear on July 25 at 8:00 p.m. ET.
Mortal Kombat director Simon McQuoid returns to the helm from a script by Jeremy Slater (“Moon Knight,” Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire), based on the popular video game franchise.
This time, the fan favorite champions — now joined by Johnny Cage (Karl Urban) himself — are pitted against one another in the ultimate, no-holds barred, gory battle to defeat the dark rule of Shao Kahn that threatens the very existence of the Earthrealm and its defenders.
Adeline Rudolph, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Ludi Lin, Mehcad Brooks, Tati Gabrielle, Lewis Tan, Damon Herriman, Chin Han, Tadanobu Asano, Joe Taslim, and Hiroyuki Sanada also star.
A version of MORTAL KOMBAT II with American Sign Language (ASL)will also stream exclusively on HBO Max the same day, performed by ASL Dubber Justin Perez and directed by Rosa Lee Timm (“Sinners with BASL,” “Minecraft with ASL”). The interpretation for this film will feature Visual Vernacular, a unique sign language form that combines elements of ASL, mime, facial expressions and body movements to convey highly visual stories.
From New Line Cinema, James Wan’s Atomic Monster, Broken Road Productions, and Fireside Films, Mortal Kombat II is rated R for “strong bloody violence and gore, and language.”
Look for Mortal Kombat II to arrive on 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD on July 28.
Mortal Kombat III is already in development with Slater returning to pen the script.
(L-R) LUDI LIN as Liu Kang and MAX HUANG as Kung Lao in New Line Cinema’s “Mortal Kombat II,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.
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