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[Fantasia '12] New Stills From ‘Schoolgirl Apocalypse’!

Fantasia Fest selection Schoolgirl Apocalypse will premiering at the fest on Monday, July 30th and will be available on iTunes on Tuesday, July 31st. Now we have some new stills from the film.

In the film from writer/director John Cairns, “A Japanese schoolgirl, Sakura, has her idyllic small-town life turned inside-out when the local males start savagely killing the females. Armed with only her kyudo bow for protection and an English textbook for comfort, Sakura journeys through an apocalyptic world of mayhem. As trauma from witnessing the violent deaths of friends and family drives her toward madness, Sakura takes refuge in an animated dream-world where she meets Billy, a character from her English text! Billy helps her survive murderous zombies, as well as an even more formidable foe in Aoi (Tsujimoto), as she races to find real-world Billy and answers to the questions: Why is all this happening? And who or what is behind it?

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[Fantasia '12] Exclusive Clip From ‘Toad Road’ Parties Down With The Condom Trick

Black Out Films and Random Bench Productions are excited to announce the world premiere of Toad Road at the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montréal. The Fantasia Festival kicked off July 19th and continues on through August 7th in Montréal, Canada, with the Fantasia Film Market making its debut from July 26-29, 2012. The film is directed and produced by Jason Banker and marks his first narrative feature. And now we have an exclusive clip! And yeesh! Let’s be honest, a lot of clips are boring. Not this one! While there’s nothing here in terms of people getting killed, this is one party trick I wouldn’t want to try!

Inspired by an urban legend, Toad Road is an intimate meditation on lost youth evocative of Gus Van Sant (with a racy touch of Larry Clark) and a radical deconstruction of genre cinema, a devastating and brilliant object of contemplation and dread, and a journey down unexpected paths.

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[Fantasia '12] Win A Copy Of ‘Schoolgirl Apocalypse’ Right After It Premieres!

Fantasia Fest selection Schoolgirl Apocalypse will premiering at the fest on Monday, July 30th and will be available on iTunes on Tuesday, July 31st. And we happen to have a pair of download codes that we’re giving away!

In the film from writer/director John Cairns, “A Japanese schoolgirl, Sakura, has her idyllic small-town life turned inside-out when the local males start savagely killing the females. Armed with only her kyudo bow for protection and an English textbook for comfort, Sakura journeys through an apocalyptic world of mayhem. As trauma from witnessing the violent deaths of friends and family drives her toward madness, Sakura takes refuge in an animated dream-world where she meets Billy, a character from her English text! Billy helps her survive murderous zombies, as well as an even more formidable foe in Aoi (Tsujimoto), as she races to find real-world Billy and answers to the questions: Why is all this happening? And who or what is behind it?

Check out the trailer inside and shoot us an email at [email protected] with YOUR FULL NAME to win a code! READ MORE

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[Fantasia '12] Exclusive Teaser For ‘Hemorrhage’ Has Voices In Its Head

Hemorrhage, from first-time Edmonton, Alberta writer-director Braden Croft, is a serial killer thriller fusing a twisty road movie structure to an unsettling descent – or rather freefall. The film is playing the the ongoing Fantasia Film Festival and we’ve landed an exclusive teaser!

In the film, “After six years in a mental institution, young murderer Oliver Lorenz is deemed safe to reenter society. In many ways living in the shadow of his father — an eminent doctor specializing in frontal lobotomies — Oliver is an extremely gifted young man yet painfully and uncontrollably crushed by his condition, which impedes any normal social interaction. Keeping his psychopathic and schizophrenic urges at bay, Oliver seems to be doing fine. There’s the occasional hiccup, but nothing that can’t be controlled with copious amounts of medication and a little bit of counseling. Soon enough, Oliver is assigned a job as a janitor at an abortion clinic. Fate intervenes, unplanned and unaccounted for, to complicate things further: Oliver, busy enough with the disintegration of his life, quite simply falls… in love. With Claire, a young nurse he meets at the clinic. This complicated surge of feelings sends Oliver into a tailspin of self-doubt and a subsequent date quickly turns into a kidnapping — seemingly against both kidnapper’s and victim’s will. Because what Oliver doesn’t quite realize yet is that the voices in his head are relentlessly driving him toward a specific goal, one with its share of consequences and copious bloodshed, one perhaps directly linked to his familial past and his desire to be rid of his condition.

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New Teaser For Fantasia Film Selection ‘Toad Road’ Certainly Looks Mumblecore

There’s a new trailer (via TwitchFilm) for director Jason Banker‘s upcoming Fantasia Fest selection, Toad Road. It’s way too early to call for sure, but it looks to have a flat, mushy mumblecore aesthetic that I don’t know if I can buy into.

Inspired by an urban legend, ‘Toad Road’ is an intimate meditation on lost youth evocative of Gus Van Sant (with a racy touch of Larry Clark) and a radical deconstruction of genre cinema, a devastating and brilliant object of contemplation and dread, and a journey down unexpected paths.

Head inside to check out the teaser. Toad Road premieres July 26th at Fantasia Fest. READ MORE

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Buddy Giovinazzo’s ‘A Night Of Nightmares’ Builds Its Foundation With A Poster And Synopsis

A Night Of Nightmares, from director Buddy Giovinazzo (Maniac 2, Combat Shock, Life Is Hot In Cracktown), is an official Fantasia Fest selection and stars Marc Senter (The Devil’s Carnival), Elissa Dowling (The Theatre Bizarre) and Jason London (Dazed And Confused). Now, Twitch has landed the synopsis and poster for the project.

In the film, “Mark Lighthouse is on his way to interview a subject for his underground music blog. Ginger, his newest singing discovery, is living in an old house up in the mountains, where she’s agreed to give him an interview and cook him dinner.

At the house, Ginger is not only talented but an exotic beauty as well. Mark starts his video interview and he and Ginger hit it off right away. They banter good-naturedly, their time together is easy. When Ginger gets a strange call from the eccentric owner of the mountain house, Cliff Tanner, they both laugh over his old-fashioned “down home” simplicity.

Throughout the interview in the house, small things occur. Keys are missing, a door is open that was shut earlier, music plays from a record player. It all seems harmless until Ginger’s psychotic ex-high school teacher, Phil, appears with a gun. Just released from prison after nine years for raping Ginger when she was 15 years old, he’s tracked her down to be with her, forever.

Head inside for the old school poster. The film will play Fantasia Fest in Montreal which runs from July 19th until August 7th. READ MORE