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Our friend at Blood Window Javier Fernandez has brought something to our attention that deserves yours. An Argentine cosmic horror flick called Blind Paradise has been acquired by sales outfit Firebook Entertainment who will takes worldwide sales into AFM soon.    From ScreenDaily who broke the news the other day:   Set against the haunting backdrop of the vast Patagonia region in Argentina, Blind Paradise centres on a young man who believes he is an orphan and follows the call of a mysterious messenger who assures him his father is living on an unknown island in the southern part of the country.   Upon his arrival, the man discovers he has been lured as part of a plan to replace his dying father in an…

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A ruthless political struggle between Sweden and Denmark turns bloody under the tyranny of the mad King Christian II. Caught up in this deadly war, two sisters seek revenge on the men who brutally murdered their family. This looks like a hoot. Mikael Håfström’s action-adventure comedy Stockholm Bloodbath is coming to cinemas and On Demand on November 8th from Brainstorm Media. It just looks like one big rollicking adventure flick with big set pieces and smaller melees. Perfect to dive into without much effort. The official trailer and poster have been released, check out the trailer down below.  Inspired by one of the bloodiest and darkest events in Scandinavia, making it an epic portrayal of history. Featuring a star-studded cast of international actors, including Sophie Cookson (Kingsman-The Secret Service), Claes Bang (The…

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Mórbido, my Mexican home away from home, has announced the lineup for this year’s festival. As expected there are a tonne of great films coming to CDMX at the end of the month and I’m super sad that I’m not going to be there to experience it con mi familia Morbido.   Local lad Isaac Ezban will open this year’s festival with his terrific horror hit, Parvulos. Other local and LatAm offerings include Edgar Nito’s A Fisherman’s Tale, A Mother’s Embrace from Christian Ponce, 1978 from Nico Loretti, Portraits of the Apocalypse from Fabien Forte, and I’m really curious to see how Catholic Mexicans respond to Pedro Cristiani’s Deus Irae. Really curious.    Morbido alumni Alexandre O Philippe’s Venice-winning documentary Chain Reactions will play at the festival along with…

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I am generally indifferent to collage style posters, particularly when designers transitioned from hand-painted to photoshop. However, I do admire the commitment to verticality taken by design house, Fable, for Justin Kurzel’s neo-nazi procedural, The Order. The pull quotes, the above the line credits, festival laurel, the title, even the American flag, and Nicholas Hoult’s pump action all emphasize the top-down approach here. The only outlier here is Jude Law pointing his firearm off screen. As an aside, Law is giving a magnificently haggard character-actor performance here, riffing on a specific kind Nick Offerman americana. Given its early 1980s setting, the poster here goes with a burnt cream (not sepia!) colour palette, which I am also digging here. The whole package comes together without looking too busy…

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Every genre, sub-genre, and micro-genre eventually exhausts itself. But genres typically don’t end; they expand, they evolve, and adapt, drawing on new ideas from outside the genre, mixing elements from other genres, and ultimately resurrect themselves, reborn on the ashes of the old. Someone, somewhere, is thinking far too much about the current state of the undead sub-genre. Fresh, bold, new ideas are what the exhausted zombie/undead sub-genre desperately needs. Instead, longtime fans of the sub-genre George Romero reinvented in 1968 with Night of the Living Dead have been subjected to the never-ending Walking Dead spin-offs and the occasional standalone straight-to-streaming, straight-to-the-memory-hole entry made on a micro-budget and D-level actors. Writer-director Lowell Dean (the Wolf Cop series) provides more than a few in his latest…

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