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[Fantasia '12] Trio of New Images From IFC Midnight’s ‘Replicas’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 20, 2012 @ 7:49am
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We’ve landed a trio of new stills from IFC Midnight’s Replicas, the Jeremy Regimbal-directed home invasion thriller that stars Josh Close, James D’Arcy, Selma Blair and Rachel Miner. No release is set, but it’s sure to go to a New York theater day-and-date with VOD. IFC acquired out of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival in New New York.

“After the accidental death of their six-year-old daughter, the Hughes family escape their busy upscale suburban life and head to their isolated cottage for some quality time. An evening with their friendly neighbors is suddenly interrupted when one man’s obsession with perfection escalates into a violent struggle, forcing the families to go beyond what they ever thought they were capable of in order to survive.”

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[Fantasia '12] Teller Brings Live Performance Terror To The Screen With ‘Play Dead’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 07, 2012 @ 8:43pm
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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…

Directed by Teller (of Penn & Teller) comes a new horror out of left field entitled Play Dead, which has definitely piqued my interest.

“Thrill seekers, spiritualists, lovers of magick and the occult, have we got a show for you. Behold: PLAY DEAD, an enormously entertaining live performance film directed and co-written by the legendary Teller (of Penn & Teller), shot by DARK STARS RISING author Shade Rupe and performed by the supernaturally charismatic and brilliantly funny illusionist/sideshow performer Todd Robbins. What is it? A no holds-barred recreation of the live midnight spook shows of yesteryear!”

This will be a world premiere!

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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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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

[FrightFest '12] Eye-Catching Imagery From Giallo ‘Tulpa’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 03, 2012 @ 12:33pm
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Having its WORLD premiere as part of the Film4 FrightFest in London, below you’ll find some eye-catching new imagery from Federico Zampaglione’s Italian giallo horror Tulpa.

“Giallo returns to the Italian cinema fore in a sensational new horror thriller from spaghetti superstar Federico (SHADOW) Zampaglione. Meet Lisa Boeri, the ultimate driven professional at the top of her corporate game. But by night Lisa frequents the notorious Club Tulpa, owned by a mysterious Tibetan guru. There, unshackled from repression and guilt, Lisa will do anything with any stranger to attain a higher Zen consciousness. Suddenly her lovers start getting murdered in shocking ways. Lisa can’t go to the police because of the scandal impacting on her day job. So she tries to unmask the anonymous assassin herself… with truly nightmare consequences.”

The 90-minute feature stars Claudia Gerini, Michele Placido, Nuot Arquint, Michela Cescon and Ennio Tozzi.

[FrightFest '12] Festival Poster & New Look At Chilean Horror ‘Hidden in the Woods’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 03, 2012 @ 12:19pm
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Having its UK premiere as part of the Film4 FrightFest in London, we’ve landed an excluisve new image and two festival posters for Patricio Valladares’s Chilean Hidden in the Woods.

From Thursday, August 23 to Monday, August 27 the UK’s leading event for horror fantasy fans will be back at the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square to present 48 films in three screens. Empire 1 will house the main event while the Discovery and the newly-created Re-Discovery strand will play in Empires 4 & 5. There are eleven countries represented, with a record-beating fifteen world premieres and twenty-three UK or European premieres.

[FrightFest '12] Meat-Grinder Gore & Crotch Shots In Extremely NSFW ‘Paura’ Trailer

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Posted by MrDisgusting on July 02, 2012 @ 7:28pm
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On Saturday, August 25th, the UK Film4 FrightFest will premiere Manetti Brothers’ Paura 3D, which we teased in one of our preview pieces. The trailer is extremely NSFW with the most horrifying imagery being a Lebron James jersey.

“When mechanic Ale overhears a conversation between a wealthy customer and the garage owner, he knows what he and his two best mates are going to do for the next few days. Marchese Lanzi wants his car serviced while he goes on a short holiday. and before long the trio move into his Rome villa intent on having a wild weekend in total luxury. But something is about to happen that will change their lives forever. Tender and savage, shocking and brutal, the Manetti Brothers pile on the Fear!”

Paura 3D stars Peppe Servillo, Francesca Cuttica, Lorenzo Pedrotti, Domenico Diele and Claudio Di Biagio.

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

[FrightFest '12] The Best of the Rest: Hi-Res Looks At ‘After’ ‘Remnants’ ‘Errors of the Human Body’ & More!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on June 29, 2012 @ 12:14pm
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Did I hear you say you wanted more out of the forthcoming Film4 FrightFest? Taking place Thursday, August 23 to Monday, August 27, the UK’s leading event for horror fantasy fans will be back at the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square to present 48 films in three screens. (Check out the festivals official website for ticket info.)

We’ve already covered Paco Plaza’s [REC]3 Genesis and Jaume Balaguero’s, stunning thriller Sleep Tight to death, but there’s a few films getting some well-deserved attention from such as Hidden in the Woods, a Chilean chiller, the Dutch Kill Zombie!, the Japanese Dead Sushi and Germany’s Errors of the Human Body and We Are the Night.

Also under the radar but bound to get people buzzing are Steven C Miller’s Under the Bed, Ryan Smith’s After, The Butcher Brothers’ The Thompsons, Peter Engert’s Remnants, Stig Svendsen’s Elevator and Buddy Giovinazzo’s return to the genre A Night of Nightmares.

Check out a whopping 25 new hi-res images inside! READ MORE

[FrightFest '12] The Big Boys: New Imagery From ‘American Mary’ & ‘Chained’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on June 29, 2012 @ 11:59am
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With the 13th annual Film4 FrightFest line up revealed, we can continue to unload new imagery from the UK fest that takes place Thursday, August 23 to Monday, August 27. The UK’s leading event for horror fantasy fans will be back at the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square to present 48 films in three screens.

The big announcements included Sinister starring Ethan Hawke, the Sam Raimi produced The Possession and Jennifer Chambers Lynch’s “jaw-dropping” Chained, to the Maniac remake, the surgical underground of American Mary and the V/H/S anthology from yours truly.

While you’ve already seen stills from most of those films, we did land a new look at Jen Soska and Sylvia Soska’s American Mary, about a medical student who traves down the rabbit hole to perform twisted surgeries to pay for school, and Jennifer Lynch’s hotly anticipated NC-17 thriller Chained, about a deranged taxi cab driver on the hunt for his next victim. (Check out the festivals official website for ticket info.)

[FrightFest '12] New Images From The Best of British Horror: ‘Cockneys vs. Zombies’ ‘The Inside’ ‘May I Kill U?’ ‘Before Dawn’ & More

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Posted by MrDisgusting on June 29, 2012 @ 11:47am
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This morning we announced the 13th annual Film4 FrightFest line up that will unload from Thursday, August 23 to Monday, August 27. The UK’s leading event for horror fantasy fans will be back at the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square to present 48 films in three screens. (Check out the festivals official website for ticket info.)

Part of the announcement, the Best of British horror fantasy gets its usual FF fanfare with their already announced opening film Paul Hyett’s The Seasoning House and closer, James Nunn and Ronnie Thompson’s Tower Block. Also showcased are Peter Strickland’s extraordinary Italian horror deconstruction Berberian Sound Studio, Jon Wright’s creature feature Grabbers, the living dead romp Cockneys vs. Zombies, the human experiment warning Guinea Pigs, the killer clown comedy Stitches, the cannibal serial killer chiller Sawney, the psycho cop thriller May I Kill U?, the gory allegory Before Dawn (above), the fear of The Inside and the frightening Community.

Some new images have been released from a few of the aforementioned films. Dig on ‘em inside! READ MORE