A seemingly wholesome and benevolent family, the Parkers have always kept to themselves, and for good reason. Behind closed doors, patriarch Frank (Sage) rules his family with a rigorous ferver, determined to keep his ancestral customs intact at any cost. As a torrential rainstorm moves into the area, tragedy strikes and his daughters Iris (Childers) and Rose (Garner) are forced to assume responsibilities that extend beyond those of a typical family.
After premiering to mixed review out of the Sundance Film Festival (I liked it), Stake Land director Jim Mickle’s We Are What We Are remake is heading to the Cannes market. With that, the sales agents have released the first ever footage from the cannibal flick starring Julia Garner, Bill Sage, Wyatt Russell, and Ambyr Childers.
In it we get a taste – pun intended – of the family of cannibals. They’re enjoying soup in an extremely unsettling setting.
“A seemingly wholesome and benevolent family, the Parkers have always kept to themselves, and for good reason. Behind closed doors, patriarch Frank rules the roost with a rigorous fervor, determined to keep his ancestral customs intact at any cost. As a torrential rainstorm moves into the area, tragedy strikes and his daughters Iris and Rose are forced to assume responsibilities that extend beyond those of a typical family. The most important task the girls face is putting meat on the table— but not the kind that can be found at the local supermarket. As the unrelenting downpour continues to flood their small town, local authorities begin to uncover clues that bring them closer to the secret that the Parkers have held closely for so many years.” READ MORE
Baume and Mesquida play French vampire sisters shacking up at a safe house in their Connecticut summer estate. Ventimgilia’s character, a screenwriter, falls for Baume, however, when Mesquida’s bloodsucker shows up, she’s none too happy about the love affair her sister is enjoying.
Magnolia Pictures releases Xan Cassavetes’ wonderful Kiss of the Damned in theaters on Friday, May 3rd. However, you can see it on the big screen early and I encourage you to do so! I really had a lot of fun with the film (review here) and here’s your chance to see it with a nice crowd!
The screening goes down Monday, April 29th at 7:30pm at ArcLight Hollywood (6360 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028). We have 5 PAIRS of tickets (10 total) – so we are going to randomly pick 5 winners, each of whom can bring one guest. All you have to do is email contest now closed and PROMISE you can be there at least half an hour early (7PM) to claim your ticket. Also, be 17 or over please.
In the film, “Beautiful vampire Djuna tries to resist the advances of human screenwriter Paolo, but eventually gives in to their passion. When her sister Mimi comes to visit, Djuna’s love story is threatened, and the whole vampire community becomes endangered…” Joséphine de la Baume, Milo Ventimiglia, Roxane Mesquida, Anna Mouglalis, Michael Rapaport, Riley Keough and Ching Valdes-Aran star. READ MORE
Magnolia Pictures has released a new red band clip from writer/director Xan Cassavetes’ Kiss of the Damned. I really had a lot of fun with the film (review here), and this clip really sells the vibe of the overall movie.
In the film, “Beautiful vampire Djuna tries to resist the advances of human screenwriter Paolo, but eventually gives in to their passion. When her sister Mimi comes to visit, Djuna’s love story is threatened, and the whole vampire community becomes endangered…” Joséphine de la Baume, Milo Ventimiglia, Roxane Mesquida, Anna Mouglalis, Michael Rapaport, Riley Keough and Ching Valdes-Aran star.
Kiss Of The Damned is on iTunes/On Demand now and in theaters May 3, 2013. The VERY NSFW clip can be found inside! READ MORE
Evan Dickson caught a screening of Xan Cassavetes’ Kiss of the Damned at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas. Available on iTunes/On Demand March 28, and in theaters May 3 from Magnolia Pictures, the pic follows a beautiful vampire who tries to resist the advances of a human screenwriter, but eventually gives in to their passion.
“Kiss of the Damned is one seriously fun, sexy, stupid and gory good time,” said Dickson. “It reminds me of the 80′s every bit as much as House Of The Devil did, but where that film evoked nostalgia by painstakingly recreating the aesthetics of that decade, Kiss Of The Damned succeeds simply by being one of those movies at heart.”
He continues, “If you’re looking for a stylishly empty, sexy and bloody film – you could do a lot worse.”
Click here to read his review in its entirety. READ MORE
If director Xan Cassavetes is 100% aware of what kind of movie Kiss Of The Damned is, then I think she’s approaching genius. If not, I thank her anyway because this is one seriously fun, sexy, stupid and gory good time. It reminds me of the 80′s every bit as much as House Of The Devil did, but where that film evoked nostalgia by painstakingly recreating the aesthetics of that decade, Kiss Of The Damned succeeds simply by being one of those movies at heart (despite the fact that it takes place in the present day).
What do I mean by one of “those movies?” I’m talking about the kind of movie you’d pick up at Blockbuster when you were in middle school simply because it had an awesome poster (which, incidentally, this film has as well). You’d get home and pop it in and either be bored to tears or treated to a seriously lurid ride, it could go either way. Kiss Of The Damned takes the latter route, elevating a set-up only a notch or two more complicated than your basic Cinemax outing.
Milo Ventimiglia plays Paolo, a screenwriter who has ensconced himself in a house far away from Hollywood in order to finish what seems like his last stab at writing a commercial screenplay. He’s easily distracted though and, after meeting the beautiful Djuna (Josephine de La Baume) during a night out, he’s inextricably infatuated. Djuna digs Paolo too, but she’s got a rare “blood disorder” that doesn’t allow her to venture our into sunlight. Scarily persistent, Milo keeps courting her until she finally relents and agrees to hook up with him under one condition – she needs to be tied up so she can’t bite him. Needless to say their lovemaking is somewhat acrobatic (despite the bondage) and she’s presented with a fair shot at his neck, which she takes.
In short order, Djuna begins to school Paolo in the ways of the vampire. They try to drink only synthetic or harvested blood and kill only animals (killing humans is strictly forbidden). But that doesn’t mean they live in a prudish culture. Paolo instantly takes a shine to the Euro-glitterati lifestyle that accompanies eternal life. Soon enough, trouble comes in the form of Djuna’s more carnal and violent sister, Mimi (Roxane Mesquida). Mimi doesn’t believe in the whole “not killing people” thing. She’s also not big on being tied down, preferring her three-ways and one night stands anytime and anywhere she can get them.
Mimi’s entrance not only serves to tempt Paolo and endanger cushy bubble that vampire culture has grown accustomed to, it also kicks the film in the rear right as it begins to coast on the enjoyable perversity of its’ first act. Michael Rapaport also makes a welcome cameo as Paolo’s (naturally) coked out agent that provides a nice reminder of the life Paolo was so ready to escape.
If I’m making Kiss Of The Damned out to seem like some thrill-a-minute masterpiece, it’s not. Almost none of its characters or logic could survive even the slightest bit of scrutiny and there’s a mid-film conversation about the place of vampires in society that stops the whole thing cold for at least 5 minutes. Still, it’s good schlocky fun up until (and after) that point. If you’re looking for a stylishly empty, sexy and bloody film – you could do a lot worse.
I kind of like the lava lamp swagger and 70′s titles to this. Magnolia Pictures has just released the red band trailer from writer/director Xan Cassavetes’ Kiss of the Damned, which plays next month’s SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas.
In the film, “Beautiful vampire Djuna tries to resist the advances of human screenwriter Paolo, but eventually gives in to their passion. When her sister Mimi comes to visit, Djuna’s love story is threatened, and the whole vampire community becomes endangered…” Joséphine de la Baume, Milo Ventimiglia, Roxane Mesquida, Anna Mouglalis, Michael Rapaport, Riley Keough and Ching Valdes-Aran star.
Kiss Of The Damned will be available on iTunes/On Demand March 28, 2013, and in theaters May 3, 2013. The VERY NSFW trailer can be found inside! READ MORE
As a perfect Valentine’s Day treat, Magnolia Pictures released a heated, sexy and violent clip from writer/director Xan Cassavetes’ Kiss of the Damned, which plays next month’s SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas.
In the film, “Beautiful vampire Djuna tries to resist the advances of human screenwriter Paolo, but eventually gives in to their passion. When her sister Mimi comes to visit, Djuna’s love story is threatened, and the whole vampire community becomes endangered…” Joséphine de la Baume, Milo Ventimiglia, Roxane Mesquida, Anna Mouglalis, Michael Rapaport, Riley Keough and Ching Valdes-Aran star.
Kiss Of The Damned will be available on iTunes/On Demand March 28, 2013, and in theaters May 3, 2013. Head inside to check it out! READ MORE
In anticipation of its premiere at SXSW ’13 next month, a cool new poster has premiered (via Movies.com) for writer/director Xan Cassavetes’ Kiss of the Damned. The film will be during the SXSW midnight line-up. I’ll be there for the fest and am excited to check it out.
In the film, “Beautiful vampire Djuna tries to resist the advances of human screenwriter Paolo, but eventually gives in to their passion. When her sister Mimi comes to visit, Djuna’s love story is threatened, and the whole vampire community becomes endangered…” Joséphine de la Baume, Milo Ventimiglia, Roxane Mesquida, Anna Mouglalis, Michael Rapaport, Riley Keough and Ching Valdes-Aran star.
Kiss Of The Damned will be available on iTunes/On Demand March 28, 2013, and in theaters May 3, 2013. Head inside to check it out! READ MORE
Sundance Film Festival kicked off this past weekend and one of the first films to play the “Park City At Midnight” portion of the event was Stake Land director Jim Mickle’s We Are What We Are. It’s a remake of Mexican director Jorge Michel Grau’s picture about a family of cannibals that’s been moved from its original setting of Mexico City, to a poor part of the Catskills region in New York State.
Ryan Daley caught a screening of the film at the fest and wrote in with his review. “… this crafty exploration of familial ritual has a lot to say and it says it well. In Mickle’s film, tradition may have the power to bind people together, but if overused or outdated, tradition can also rip people apart.”
We Are What We Are has several other Sundance screenings coming up. 1/22/2013 @ 6:00 pm at the Egyptian Theatre, 1/25/2013 @ 11:30 pm at Prospector Square Theatre and 1/26/2013 @ 6:00 pm at Broadway Centre Cinema 6.
Check out the full review here!
Magnolia Pictures has announced a January 8 DVD and Blu-ray date for their indie horror love story, Jack & Diane, directed by Bradley Grey and starring Juno Temple, Riley Keough, Cara Seymour, Dane DeHaan, Michael Chernus and Kylie Minogue.
“Jack and Diane, two teenage girls, meet in New York City and spend the night kissing ferociously. Diane’s charming innocence quickly begins to open Jack’s tough skinned heart. But when Jack discovers that Diane is moving, she pushes her away. Unable to grasp her new feelings, Diane’s emotions begin to cause unexplainable violent changes to her body. Through these awkward and insecure feelings, the two girls must struggle to turn their first love into an enduring one.“. READ MORE
Paris-based Memento shared the first ever image from Stake Land director Jim Mickle’s cannibal We Are What We Are, a US remake of Mexican horror film Somo Lo Que Hay, starring Julia Garner, Ambyr Childers, Bill Sage and Kelly McGillis. Mickle will transpose Mexican director Jorge Michel Grau’s picture about a family of cannibals from its original setting of Mexico City, to a poor part of the Catskills region in New York State.
Screen Daily also reports that Memento has picked up world sales on Germinal Alvarez’ debut picture Back in Crime starring Jean-Hugues Anglade as a police inspector on the hunt for a serial killer known as the Eardrum Slasher. Anglade plays Richard Kemp, a police inspector who has been trying to solve a series of slasher murders for more than 20 years. Mélanie Thierry co-stars as a psychologist who gives evidence after witnessing an attack. In a strange twist, Kemp travels back in time to the site of the first murder and tries to change the course of history.
Lastly, Deadline says that Millennium Films has acquired to rights to Eliza Graves, a thriller to be directed by Brad Anderson (The Machinist). “The movie is about a new physician who arrives to apprentice at a mental institution where he falls in love with a patient under circumstances that are more complicated than they seem.” Joseph Gangemi’s screenplay is based on the Edgar Allan Poe short story “The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether.” Millennium plans to start production in spring 2013 and will begin making offers to principal cast next week.
In theaters November 2. Jack and Diane, two teenage girls, meet in New York City and spend the night kissing ferociously. Diane’s charming innocence quickly begins to open Jack’s tough skinned heart. But when Jack discovers that Diane is moving, she pushes her away. Unable to grasp her new feelings, Diane’s emotions begin to cause unexplainable violent changes to her body. Through these awkward and insecure feelings, the two girls must struggle to turn their first love into an enduring one.
Magnolia Pictures has released an incredibly dramatic trailer for their indie horror love story, Jack & Diane, directed by Bradley Grey and starring Juno Temple, Riley Keough, Cara Seymour, Dane DeHaan, Michael Chernus and Kylie Minogue.
“Jack and Diane, two teenage girls, meet in New York City and spend the night kissing ferociously. Diane’s charming innocence quickly begins to open Jack’s tough skinned heart. But when Jack discovers that Diane is moving, she pushes her away. Unable to grasp her new feelings, Diane’s emotions begin to cause unexplainable violent changes to her body. Through these awkward and insecure feelings, the two girls must struggle to turn their first love into an enduring one.”
It will open on VOD platforms September 28 with a limited theater planned for November 2.
In Memento Films project directed by Jim Mickle, Keough and Garner to play two sisters forced into cannibalism by father as part of family tradition
Riley Keough (Jack and Diane), granddaughter of the late Elvis Presley, Julia Garner (The Last Exorcism 2), Bill Sage (American Psycho) and Wyatt Russell (Cowboys & Aliens ) have joined the cast of Stake Land director Jim Mickle’s We Are What We, Screen Daily reports.
MFI describes Mickle’s We Are What We Are as a “re-imagination” of Mexican director Jorge Michel Grau’s absolutely fantastic Somo Lo Que Hay, about a family of cannibals in Mexico City.
Mickle, best known for his cult vampire picture Stake Land, which won Toronto’s Midnight Madness sidebar in 2010, has transposed the story to a poor part of the Catskills region in New York State. Using the clandestine cannibal premise of Grau’s film as a jumping off point, Keough and Garner will play a pair of sisters who are secluded from mainstream society. Following the untimely death of their mother, their father, played by Sage, forces them to perform a depraved ritual, carried out by their ancestors for generations. Russell will play a young deputy who is in love with Keough’s character.
Principal photography will begin in the Catskills on May 29, and will extend to the first week of July. The film will be delivered in January 2013. READ MORE
![[Tribeca 12 Interview] Everything You Want To Know About Grisly Jack & Diane](/photosizer/upload/2JackdianeStill040212.jpg "[Tribeca 12 Interview] Everything You Want To Know About Grisly Jack & Diane")
With the synopsis of Jack and Diane screaming love story and hinting werewolves, you may have asked yourself the same two questions I have. With this sounding more like a love story, is this worth my horror-thirsty attention? Can we expect Jack and Diane to be to lycanthropes, as Let the Right One In was to vampires?
I got with the director Bradley Rust Gray (The Exploding Girl) and proposed these questions. I got the answers plus a whole lot more. Read on, and you’ll see what a well spoken, intelligent film maker he is – how he chose the long hard road over the easy CGI fix – and why BD brethren should take an interest in this lycan-ized love story that has been flying under our radar. READ MORE
![[Tribeca 12] First Look At Jack & Diane](/photosizer/upload/2jackdiane030612.jpg "[Tribeca 12] First Look At Jack & Diane")
Magnolia Pictures has acquired Bradley Rust Gray’s Jack & Diane, which will have its world premiere in the “narrative” section of the forthcoming Tribeca Film Festival in NY.
“Tomboy Jack and bubbly Diane fall head over heels in love one hot summer in New York City. When Diane reveals she must leave the city for school in Europe, their budding love is tested. Weaving horror elements into a distinctive and fresh yet timeless and universal first-love story, TFF alum Bradley Rust Gray (The Exploding Girl) brings his unique vision to this idiosyncratic story of the joys and terrors of first love.”
Juno Temple, Riley Keough, Cara Seymour, Dane DeHaan, Michael Chernus and Kylie Minogue all star.
Magnolia will premiere this fall. READ MORE
Most Popular
Most commented on articles over the past 7 days.
Featured Stories
Top Stories From Bloody Disgusting
Please reactivate your account by selecting a new password and entering the secret code obtained from your email address.
16 Comments
[BD Caption Contest] Win An Autographed ‘No One Lives’ Prize Pack!