Story by Jonny Bunning
Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival opened on Tuesday with Joe Dante’s Burying The Ex. While the Belgian audiences are enjoying 13 days of the best new horror movies, genre filmmakers from across the world have converged on the city for the second Frontières International Co-Production Market.
This Mecca for the macabre sees hand picked projects in development make presentations to industry professionals.
Here are the most exciting movies you will be seeing in the near future.
78/52: Horror documentaries are hot in the wake of Jodo’s Dune, Room 237 and Doc of the Dead. The team behind the latter are back with one about the most famous wet moment in cinematic history (No not the pool scene from Wild Things). The shower scene from Psycho will be the the subject being discussed by present days film aficionados to Hitchcock’s own granddaughter. Get ready to want Elijah Wood making the stabbing music sounds as a message alert.
Döner: Imagine the falafel eating bonus scene from Avengers with an added mafia massacre. Set in Paris expect a side order of guns with your late night snack.
Jessie’s Demons: The producer of Turbo Kid that took you to an apocalyptic 1997 are back with a different kind of trip. Voodoo & narcotics fuel the titular party girl as she researches rituals.
Seems like hospital horrors are hot again with the success of The Void‘s Indiegogo campaign. One Drop is another healing location about to get impregnated with “hitchhikers from the otherside” via the human womb.
Skin & Bones: It’s not just the cold of Canada that is causing teeth to chatter. Something is chewing up locals in this fur trade period piece. Frozen blood popsicle anyone?
Sinners: Imagine the West Borough Baptists Church set in Scotland with a more deadly female disciple doing more than picketing funerals for fun & games.
In the spirit of being transparent I’d consider myself a friend of the makers of Sinners from attending their film festival, Mayhem in Nottingham UK. I have previously worked with the director of Skin & Bones and might be helping out with the Canadian release of Turbo Kid.
I’m genuinely excited by all of the projects being pitched.
These were my personal highlights regardless of industry connections.
