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To the familiar sounds of cicadas during a Tokyo summer, 11-year-old Karin and her father Tetsuya, leave the city by train to arrive at a countryside temple, whose caretaker is the grandfather she has never met. It is a grand old property at the edge of a forest, near a sleepy little town. Local spirits abound. Wait. Does this all sound kind of familiar?   After 40 years of Studio Ghibli creating masterpiece after masterpiece, the studio was sold off to Nippon TV at the end of last year due to a lack of any successors to its founders, Miyazaki-san who seems to have retired for real this time, after many false attempts, and Takahata-san, who passed away in 2018. Given that there many not be…

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Bursting with ingenuity and good old fashioned, “come on pals, let’s make a movie!” can-do energy, Sander Maran’s debut feature, Chainsaws Were Singing, is a gleefully gory musical romantic horror comedy that really hits the spot and proves that sometimes fun is more than enough. A gloriously overstuffed mish-mash of influences from across the genre spectrum, Chainsaws Were Singing is a love letter to low budget cinema and also a love letter to love, itself. A hyper-violent cross between films like Cannibal! The Musical, Bad Taste, and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre; Chainsaws Were Singing celebrates lowbrow art in such a delightfully ridiculous way that it’s impossible not to smile. There is a lot going on in Chainsaws Were Singing, almost too much – we’ll…

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The fifth edition of the Santiago Int’l Film Festival’s Morbido Lab announced the six titles participating this year.   Variety reports that Coffee Table’s Caye Cesas and Eli Roth’s former co-writer Guillermo Amoedo will have projects there this year. Mi padre de teror Pablo Guisa Koestinger from Morbido will be there to advise.   With him they will bring Director Luis Javier Henaine (Disappear Completely) and our friend Adrian Garcia Bogliano (recently announced Someone’s At The Door) to provide mentorship as well.    All six participating titlles are in the gallery below.   Guisa looks back to predict a bright future for previous pitches from the strand, stating that several past projects are “currently in different development stages while others have become a reality, release…

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Robert Bronzi is still out there in the indie genre space, toting big guns, and they’re coming in hot with a new crime/thriller werewolf movie called 12 to Midnight (which sounds way more interesting than 11:48 PM EST).    The actor who is a dead ringer to Charles Bronson is teaming up with UFC Hall of Famer Tito Ortiz, Daniel Roebuck and Sadie Katz in a crime/thriller creature feature from Mark Savage. The trailer and key art came out with the release information this morning. Check out the trailer down below.   TRAILER RELEASED FOR NEW CRIME/HORROR THRILLER 12 TO MIDNIGHT, STARRING ROBERT BRONZI, TITO ORTIZ, AND DANIEL ROEBUCK,   STREETING AUGUST 1ST   12 to Midnight, the new crime/horror thriller starring Robert Bronzi (Death…

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Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark star in this moody new British folk horror, directed by Daniel Kokotajlo.

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Art the Clown is set to unleash chaos on the unsuspecting residents of Miles County as they peacefully drift off to sleep on Christmas Eve.

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