Tribeca Film Festival’s Cinemania Lineup Announced! Includes ‘Replicas’, ‘Rat King’ And Others!

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Posted by EvanDickson on March 08, 2012 @ 6:01pm
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Tribeca Film Festivals Cinemania Lineup Announced! Includes Replicas, Rat King And Others!

The crowd-pleasing Cinemania section returns to the Tribeca Film Festival, tempting audiences to experience the most exciting genre films from all corners of the globe. Typified by tense thrillers of all types, this year’s program takes viewers from the simmering home invasion drama Replicas to a twisty underworld kidnapping plot in Graceland; from the intense action of France’s Sleepless Night to online gaming run amok in Rat King. The Cinemania films this year also embrace a darkly comic edge, including the darkly satirical Eddie – The Sleepwalking Cannibal, the over-the-top comedic violence of Revenge for Jolly!, and Jackpot’s heist-comedy-gone-wrong. This gripping lineup, alternately suspenseful and hilarious, serves up just the right number of twists and laughs for late-night filmgoers.

I spoke with Tribeca Festival Programmer Cara Cusumano this morning, and in her words, “ The section itself is supposed to be for late-night audiences. A lot of horror movies, a lot of extreme comedies, a lot of intense thrillers. A lot of stuff that will be exciting for late night screenings. We really want to represent the best of genre filmmaking because it’s really thriving and we want to celebrate it in a special way.”

Hit the jump for the lineup, some stills and a few more words from Cusumano! READ MORE

[EFM '12] Real-Life Game Of Horror Created By The ‘Rat King’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on February 15, 2012 @ 5:55pm
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[EFM 12] Real Life Game Of Horror Created By The Rat King

Finnish filmmaker Petri Kotwica directs a new game of cat-and-mouse entitled Rat King, which is being sold at the ongoing EFM in Berlin. Check out the art and trailer inside.

“Juri, 18 is seriously addicted to online gaming, so much so he becomes isolated from his single mother and his girlfriend is about to leave him. He decides to quit but is soon lured back by one of his net-mates, Niki 18, who, when they meet for the first time, turns out to look strikingly like Juri. Niki has a web-address tattooed on his arm and when Juri types it into his computer, he gets lured into a curious game that grants him the username RAT KING. As the game becomes increasingly dangerous, Niki vows to help Juri get through it. But the game triggers off a series of life-threatening events and pretty soon Juri realizes that he is gaming for his life.”

Max Ovaska, Julius Lavonen, Nina Koponen, Outi Mäenpää and Janne Virtanen all star in the thriller. READ MORE