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TIFF ’08: Behind-the-Scenes of ‘Vinyan’… and a Clip!
One film we’re pretty excited to see at the Toronto International Film Festival is Fabrice du Welz’s latest feature, Vinyan (trailer), which takes a couple into the depths of Bangkok in search of their missing son. This evening I was e-mailed links to two behind-the-scenes videos, which feature interviews with Welz, accompanied by footage from the locations of the film. Unfortunately both videos are in French, but the visuals really make me even more excited for the film. Check out Video #1 or Video #2. Also, if you click here you can check out a clip from the film. Click the title above for pics, posters and more, along with a much more detailed synopsis.
Zach Cregger is no stranger to violent movies, with his first two at-bats in the horror genre yielding the films Barbarian and Weapons. But even those movies can’t compete with the level of violence on display in his next movie Resident Evil, he teases in a new chat.
Zach Cregger tells Empire Magazine that Resident Evil is “definitely the most violent thing I’ve done.” He teases, “You gotta go grotesque! I wanted to go all the way.”
“So it’s gnarly. It’s brutal,” Cregger continues. “A very bloody affair.”
He also tells Empire, “Fleshing out what [the Umbrella Corporation is] up to and how the T-virus works, that’s not what this movie is. This movie is about one dude’s journey on foot, fighting monsters. I don’t give a fuck about checking boxes. All I cared about was just telling a fun story. We step on the gas at about eight minutes in and never take our foot off the floor.”
Resident Evil opens in theaters and IMAX September 18 from Sony.
The film is being billed as “a thrilling — and terrifying — reinvention of the Resident Evil franchise” from the mind of visionary filmmaker Zach Cregger (Barbarian, Weapons).
Austin Abrams (Weapons) stars as Bryan, a medical courier who unwittingly finds himself in a non-stop race for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.
Zach Cherry (“Severance”), Kali Reis (“True Detective: Night Country”), Paul Walter Hauser (“Black Bird”), and Johnno Wilson (“Twisted Metal”) round out the cast.