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[Fantasia '12] More Dirty Horror ‘Hidden in the Woods’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 07, 2012 @ 7:39pm
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The 16th annual Fantasia International Film Festival is gearing up to take Montreal by storm with three weeks of inspiration and thrills starting July 19 and running all the way through August 7. Yesterday we revealed the full Second Wave announement that included gems such as Sleep Tight and A Fantastic Fear of Everything. Now we’re revealing new imagery from a handful of titles…

Patricio Valladares’s Chilean Hidden in the Woods, which also screens at Frightfest in the UK, looks absolutely insane. While we’ve already shared a poster and image, we now have several new looks at the film that are rustic, dirty and bloody. I’m IN.

“This raw slice of demented energy. Inspired by true events, is the terrifying story of two sisters raised in forest isolation and subjected to torments from their abusive drug dealer father. When they finally report him, he chainsaws the two investigating cops to death and is jailed before he can tell psychotic drug lord Costello the exact location of his remaining stash. So Costello sends violent henchmen to find the missing merchandise hidden somewhere in the woods. Reaching heights of deranged frenzy unlike anything seen before, director Patricio Valladares is yet another exciting talent to emerge from the current hotbed of South American horror.” READ MORE

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[Fantasia '12] Nipple-Biting Oddness In ‘The Warped Forest’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 07, 2012 @ 6:52pm
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Out of Japan comes some Takashi Miike shite with Shunichiro Miki’s The Warped Forest, a super trippy looking genre film described by the festival like so: “Miki brings us in a universe where giants, nipple sucking fuzzy creatures and flying time traveling devices coexist with totally normal people. This is an essential work in the new wave of radical, rainbow-coloured, hallucinogenic Japanese comedies that blend deadpan humour, delirious dream logic, creeping paranoia and empathic, easygoing optimism into the strangest of cinematic brews!”

“Settle into your chair and be transported to a place both familiar and alien; where a giant shop-girl can barely fit in her store, there’s a weird green pod in every bedroom, and terrifying wood nymphs provide a heartbroken woman with the anatomically correct fruit everyone seems to covet. In the end we are left, like Alice, with the Red King’s conundrum: are we dreaming them or are they dreaming us?”

[Fantasia '12] ‘Excision’ The Queen Of Terror

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 07, 2012 @ 6:35pm
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One of the more truly bizarre coming of age horror stories premieres at this past January’s Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by Anchor Bay for release later this year. Richard Bates, Jr.’s Excision features “Nip/Tuck”‘s sex bomb AnnaLynne McCord as an incredibly ugly, disturbed and delusional high school student with aspirations of a career in medicine goes to extremes to earn the approval of her controlling mother. Ryan Daley liked it a bit less than I did, but it’ll definitely shock and awe when you guys see it.

Anyways, gearing up for Fantasia, we’ve got a clean look at that sweet sales poster, along with some new (and old) imagery.

“Life sucks when you’re seventeen. Alienated teen Pauline (AnnaLynne McCord) struggles with the pressures of fitting into high school, pleasing her parents and a burning desire to lose her virginity. With a grotesque curiosity for the darker side of life, Pauline is considered a social outcast by everyone around her. Enticed by flesh, she retreats into her own fantasies and hopes to become a great surgeon…that is if she doesn’t go mentally insane first.” READ MORE

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[Fantasia '12] Festival Drags Out New Look At ‘Sleep Tight’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 07, 2012 @ 5:47pm
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Already acquired for U.S. release by Dark Sky Films, we’ve scored new imagery from director Jaume Balaguero’s Sleep Tight. He’s best known for co-directing REC and REC 2, along with Darkness, Fragile and Nameless.

“The residents of the building where Cesar works as a doorman are not aware of the overtime he has been putting in. Apparently, he is at their service both day and night.”

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[Fantasia '12] Zombies & Sea Monsters In Thai ‘Dead Bite’!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 07, 2012 @ 4:32pm
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Out of Thailand comes the undead horror comedy Dead Bite, which looks insanely fun. Below you can dig on three images and a pair of posters for Joey Boy’s flick that has its Canadian premiere this month.

“Oh yes! Redneck islanders, zombies, sea monsters, an evil mermaid and a giant shark vs. a bunch of horny rappers and many, many gorgeous bikini models. This is what midnight screenings are all about folks! Thai hip hop star Joey Boy makes his feature directorial debut with an awfully hilarious and sexy gore fest that will make audiences scream for more.”

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[Fantasia '12] Trailer, First Stills For ‘Cold Blooded’ Revenge

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 07, 2012 @ 3:27pm
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From director Jason Lapeyre comes the Canadian horror thriller Cold Blooded.

In the film, “A female police officer has to keep a prisoner from escaping a nearly abandoned hospital unit at the same time his violent partners come looking for him.”

We’ve landed the first bloody official stills, which can be checked out in full inside.

[Fantasia '12] From ‘Texas Chainsaw’ Writers Comes ‘Boneboys’!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 07, 2012 @ 3:22pm
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Having its world premiere is Duane Graves, Justin Meeks’s Boneboys, which not has the following imagery. It was scripted by Texas Chainsaw Massacre‘s Kim Henkel.

“A gut-wrenching, non-stop roller coaster ride through the hellish underbelly of inner-city America. A birthday celebration at an upscale restaurant sets in motion events that bring Sissy, her brother, Mikey, and friends, Kenny and Barbie, face to face with the macabre world of the Boneboys. Inspired by Jonathan Swift’s cannibalistic tale A Modest Proposal, the Boneboys are international predators who deal in human flesh – dead or alive. Their hunting grounds are the cities of the world.”

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[Fantasia '12] Japananimation Horror ‘Asura’ Heads To Hell

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 07, 2012 @ 2:18am
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Out of Japan comes Keiichi Sato’s animated horror Asura, which now has a poster for the Canadian premiere.

“Over forty years since it came into being, Akiyama’s “Ashura” remains a raw and affecting action-horror-tragedy, and its potency is only further amplified in this new anime. Keiichi Sato, director of TIGER & BUNNY and KARAS, oversees a masterful blend of digital animation and handcrafted artwork spiked with startling fights and chases and flashes of fearsome beauty. Vivid and intense, ASURA is a journey through hell not soon forgotten.”

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[Fantasia '12] More Simon Pegg Terror In ‘A Fantastic Fear of Everything’ Images

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 07, 2012 @ 2:11am
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We’ve added the UK quad and official imagery from Crispian Mills and Chris Hopewell’s A Fantastic Fear of Everything, which stars Shaun of the Dead‘s Simon Pegg.

“Jack (Simon Pegg) is a children’s author turned crime novelist whose detailed research into the lives of Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck, persecuted by the irrational fear of being murdered. When Jack is thrown a life-line by his long-suffering agent and a mysterious Hollywood executive takes a sudden and inexplicable interest in his script, what should be his ‘big break’ rapidly turns into his ‘big breakdown’, as Jack is forced to confront his worst demons; among them his love life, his laundry and the origin of all fear.”

[Fantasia '12] Second Wave Announced! ‘A Fantastic Fear of Everything,’ ‘Under the Bed,’ ‘Excision’ & Much, Much More!!!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 06, 2012 @ 10:45am
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Need to catch up on all of the movies you’ve missed at Sundance and SXSW? The 16th annual Fantasia International Film Festival is gearing up to take Montreal by storm with three weeks of inspiration and thrills starting July 19 and running all the way through August 7.

The Second Wave Announcement has just been sent over to Bloody and is beyond promising. The 3-week-long festival is jam-packed with premieres and surprises ranging from screenings of Simon Pegg’s A Fantastic Fear of Everything to the coming-of-age Sundance selection Excision, the Spanish thriller Sleep Tight, Martyrs director Pascal Laugier’s The Tall Man, not to mention the world premiere of our children’s horror tale Under the Bed.

We’ve added the entire second wave beyond the break with the First Wave available here. READ MORE

[Fantasia '12] Take A Microscopic Look At ‘Errors of the Human Body’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 04, 2012 @ 6:36pm
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Our final piece of Fantasia Film Festival news of the day comes in the form of a new still from Errors of the Human Body, which will have its world premiere at the Montreal fest later this month.

Written and directed by Eron Sheean, who penned last year’s The Divide, “Errors’ is an unsettling, stylistically bold look at the personal and ethical horrors of modern genetic engineering, oscillating quite ambiguously between pure science and terrifying science fiction.” It stars Michael Eklund.

We’ve added the new image below alongside some pretty cool previously released stills. READ MORE

[Fantasia '12] Demonic Fury Unleashed In ‘Memory of the Dead’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 04, 2012 @ 4:33pm
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Javier Diment’s Argentinian Memory of the Dead (La Memoria del Muerto) will world premire this month at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal and we’ve got a pair of bloody new stills to entice you into attending, along with a pair of festival one-sheets.

“This bedazzling giallo-inspired supernatural horror film boasts a strong visual design and a ferociously Grand Guignol sensibility.” Horacio Acosta, Raquel Albéniz and Jimena Anganuzzi all star.

Prepare for Latin American demonic fury!

[Fantasia '12] Worship New Imagery From ‘Doomsday Book’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 04, 2012 @ 4:26pm
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Also screening at this month’s Fantasia Film Festival is the South Korean’s anthology Doomsday Book, which hails from Yim Pil-sung (Hansel and Gretel) and Kim Ji-woon (A Tale of Two Sisters).

We’ve scored two new looks at the anthology film featuring three stories tackling in very different ways as many apocalyptic scenarios.

Be prepared to deal with a zombie invasion, a delicate moral dilemma raised by a robot who’s the reincarnation of Buddha, and a most unusual object that’s about to destroy the planet!

I’m dying to see some imagery from the zombie segement…

[Fantasia '12] A Taste Of ‘Beast’ Blood

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 04, 2012 @ 12:24pm
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Playing as part of this month’s Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, we’ve landed some super cool images from a new horror out of Denmark.

From director Christoffer Boe comes Beast, which originally had its premiere at last arch’s SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas.

Nicolas Bro, Marijana Jankovic and Nikolaj Lie Kaas star in this disturbing and poetic nightmare drama that treats Love as both a force of nature and a chemical imbalance.

“Bruno loves his wife Maxine, but his love and body are slowly undergoing a transformation. Something is beginning to stir inside him and there is nothing he can do to stop it. Because when you first delve into the dark side of love to find power, aggression and hatred, there is no turning back.”

Trailer inside! READ MORE

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[Fantasia '12] ‘A Night of Nightmares’ Image Gallery

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 04, 2012 @ 12:13pm
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From director Buddy Giovinazzo (Combat Shock, Maniac 2, Life Is Hot In Cracktown, The Theatre Bizarre) comes A Night of Nightmares, which stars Marc Senter (Lost, Red White And Blue, Brawler), Elissa Dowling (The Theatre Bizarre) and Jason London. The pic will be premiering at the upcoming Fantasia Festival later this month, and to gear up we’ve landed a few new images.

“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.” READ MORE

The ‘Dead Sushi’ Have An Extreme Hunger For Flesh!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 02, 2012 @ 11:45am
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Walker Pictures and Nishimura Eizo’s Dead Sushi, the latest horror/comedy from acclaimed Japanese director Noboru Iguchi, will World Premiere at Montreal’s prestigious Fantasia International Film Festival on July 22nd, followed shortly thereafter by its Asian Premiere at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan). Even though we’ve already given you a bloody taste of the movie, we’re excited to bring you the following exclusive still to chew on. The Japanese splatterfest looks straight up whack.

Iguchi, best-known for his high-octane 2008 action/comedy The Machine Girl, has become an international sensation with jaw-dropping, boundary-pushing films such as RoboGeisha, Karate-Robo Zaborgar, and Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead.

“The film, which stars 21-year-old martial arts prodigy Rina Takeda, tells the tale of Keiko, the daughter of a legendary sushi chef, who runs away from home when his kung fu-like regimen becomes too severe. Finding work at a rural hot springs inn, she is ridiculed by the eccentric staff and guests, including the employees of a pharmaceutical firm there on a work vacation. But little do they know that a disgruntled former researcher has also come to the inn with a plan for revenge, using a serum he developed that can awaken the murderous instincts of ordinary sushi, turning it into bloodthirsty monsters! Keiko must use both her sushi training and her martial arts skills to save the others and defeat the flying killers.”

Following the eclectic style of the director’s previous work, Dead Sushi is a tasty mix of action, comedy, and splatter as only Iguchi can do. With special effects by Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police) and appearances from The Machine Girl and Sukeban Boy’s Kentaro Shimazu, Asami, and Demo Tanaka, this lethal sushi is well worth a nibble!

Learn more about Noboru Iguchi’s film at the official website or Facebook. READ MORE

[Fantasia '12] Teaser Trailer and Clip From Bloody Short ‘Familiar’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on June 27, 2012 @ 7:37pm
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[Fantasia 12] Teaser Trailer and Clip From Bloody Short Familiar

Fatal Pictures has just announced “Familiar”, a new horror short starring Robert Nolan, Astida Auza and Cathryn Hostick as the seemingly idyllic yet ultimately doomed Dodd Family, will premiere at this July’s Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal.

“Through a series of tragic events a middle aged man grows to suspect the negative impulses plaguing his mind may not be his own.”

It was written/directed by Richard Powell and produced by Zach Green. Cinematography & co producer Michael Jari Davidson.

Get more on Facebook. Watch the teaser trailer and a clip below. READ MORE

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[Fantasia '12] Jennifer Lynch To Q+A ‘Despite the Gods’ Drama!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on June 26, 2012 @ 6:33am
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With the Fantasia Film Festival hosting the premiere of Jennifer Lynch’s Chained, it only makes sense for them to also share Penny Vozniak’s Despite the Gods, a documentary on Lynch’s abysmal Hiss, which quietly snuck into Red Box’s across the Nation last October. It’s hard to pinpoint what went wrong, but there were some warning signs last January when it was reported that the flick, starring Mallika Sherawat as snake woman who can take on various forms, was taken away from Lynch in the editing stage. What’s cool about the Fantasia screening is that Lynch will be in attendance. This Q+A should be EPIC.

“ ‘Despite the Gods’ brings us behind the scenes on the set of Lynch’s Bollywood/Hollywood action film about a man-eating snake goddess. Out of her depth shooting on location with an Indian crew and two top Bollywood stars, Lynch turns her production into a vehicle for her own self-actualization, paying no regard to timeline, budget or reality. As the story in front of the camera derails, the story behind the camera explodes.”

Trailer and images inside! READ MORE

[Fantasia '12] Nothing Says NC-17 Like This First Ever Look At ‘Chained’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on June 26, 2012 @ 5:24am
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Another genre flick screening at the forthcoming 16th annual Fantasia International Film Festival (July 19-August 7) is Jennifer Lynch’s (Hisss and Surveillance) NC-17 thriller Chained, which stars Vincent D’Onofrio, Julia Ormond, Jake Weber, Eamon Farren, Conor Leslie and Evan Bird.

Recently acquired by Ancor Bay, we’ve score the first ever still to go along with two international one-sheets. Frankly, I’m not a huge fan of Lynch, but the NC-17 and promise of brutality (there must be something wrong with me) pique my interest.

In the film, “Eight-year-old Tim and his mother Sarah are picked up by Bob, a deranged taxi cab driver on the hunt for his next victim. Tim witnesses his first murder, the murder of his mother, but it would not be his last. Bob keeps Tim as a reluctant protégé, forcing him to clean and bury the bodies of the young women he drags home. Now a teenager, Tim must make a life or death choice between following in Bob’s footsteps or breaking free from his captor.” READ MORE

[Fantasia '12] Home Made Weapons, Buckets of Blood Gorge Up ‘Human Race’ Stills

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Posted by MrDisgusting on June 26, 2012 @ 5:10am
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Announced last week as part of the 16th annual Fantasia International Film Festival, taking Montreal by storm July 19-August 7, we’ve scored a new look at Paul Hough’s supposedly gory The Human Race. Seeing a mob carrying a bunch of homemade weapons is enough to get my ass into a theater seat. Bring the blood!

From the director of The Backyard comes this stunning action/sci-fi/horror film that challenges conventions and supposedly takes enormous risks: “Veronica suddenly finds herself in a surreal and horrifying marathon race. The rules are simple: If you are lapped, you die. If you step off the path, you die. Many will start but only one may cross the finish line alive.”

Paul McCarthy-Boyington, Eddie McGee, B. Anthony Cohen, Celine Tien, Ian Tien, Trista Robinson, Fred Coury all star.

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[Fantasia '12] Ron Perlman and Edward Furlong ‘Crave’ Vigilante Violence

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Posted by MrDisgusting on June 26, 2012 @ 4:30am
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Screening at the forthcoming 16th annual Fantasia International Film Festival (July 19-August 7) is Charles de Lauzirika’s vigilante thriller Crave, which we’ve landed the first stills from. There’s a hint of blood, one can only hope there’s a lot more where that came from!

Having its world premiere at the Montreal film fest, the long anticipated feature directorial debut from regular Ridley Scott collaborator de Lauzirika stylishly depicts an alienated crime scene photographer (Josh Lawson) teetering on the verge of vigilantism. Also stars Ron Perlman and Edward Furlong.

“A downtrodden photographer, haunted by the urban violence and decay around him, retreats into an inner world of dark fantasies. Those dangerous visions explode in reality with deadly consequences when his intoxicating new relationship with a beautiful young woman goes sour.”

Get the gallery below or more at the film’s Facebook. READ MORE

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[Fantasia '12] This ‘Dead Sushi’ Still Has A Taste For Flesh

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Posted by MrDisgusting on June 26, 2012 @ 4:27am
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It was announced yesterday that Walker Pictures and Nishimura Eizo’s Dead Sushi, the latest horror/comedy from acclaimed Japanese director Noboru Iguchi, will World Premiere at Montreal’s prestigious Fantasia International Film Festival on July 22nd, followed shortly thereafter by its Asian Premiere at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan). While the above link has a taste of the madness, we’ve landed one helluva cool new still.

[Fantasia '12] Hot Vampire Action In Japanese Anime ‘Blood-C: The Last Dark’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on June 26, 2012 @ 4:23am
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Screening at the forthcoming 16th annual Fantasia International Film Festival (July 19-August 7) is Naoyoshi Shiotani’s Japanese anime Blood-C: The Last Dark, which we’ve landed a new still and poster.

The manga creator team CLAMP developed the story and original character designs for the vampire television series and film, and Production I.G has been animating both projects. Naoyoshi Shiotani (Tokyo Marble Chocolate, key animator on Blood+ and Blood-C) is directing the film instead of the television version’s director Tsutomu Mizushima. Writers Jun’ichi Fujisaku and Nanase Ohkawa (CLAMP), animation character designer/chief animation director Kazuchika Kise, and voice cast members Nana Mizuki (Saya Kisaragi) and Kenji Nojima (Fumito Nanahara) are returning from the television series.

Niconico, the English version of the online video service Nico Nico Douga, streamed the television series outside of Japan as it aired. The film’s story is set in Tokyo one year after the television series. Get more at the official website.

[Fantasia '12] Bloodthirsty Japanese Monsters Premiere In ‘Dead Sushi’!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on June 25, 2012 @ 12:50pm
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Walker Pictures and Nishimura Eizo have announced that Dead Sushi, the latest horror/comedy from acclaimed Japanese director Noboru Iguchi, will World Premiere at Montreal’s prestigious Fantasia International Film Festival on July 22nd, followed shortly thereafter by its Asian Premiere at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan). Check out the first stills, poster and trailer below!

Learn more about Noboru Iguchi’s film at the official website or Facebook.