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A faux true-crime documentary about two detectives pursuit of an infamous serial killer named Mr. Shiny, who terrorized Southern California for almost two decades.   Strange Harvest will have its world premiere at Fantastic Fest soon. The trailer has gone out today, check it out below. Strange Harvest was directed and written by Stuart Ortiz, one of the writer and directors of the effective and jumpy Grave Encounters movies back in 2011 and 2012.   Their latest stars Peter Zizzo, Terri Apple, Andy Lauer, Matthew Peschio, Janna Cardia, Thomas Wolfe Jr, Tim Shelburne, Christina Helene Bra, and LA Williams.    In my first film Grave Encounters, we used the found footage medium to try and present a fantastical supernatural story, as if the events actually…

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The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival has announced their lineup of features, shorts and events for this year’s festival, happening from October 17th through 24th at Nitehawk Cinema’s Williamsburg and Prospect Park locations.    Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy’s Dead Mail will open this year’s festival. James Ashcroft’s The Rule of Jenny Pen starring Geoffrey Rush and John Lithgow is the Closing Night Film. Emma Benestan’s festival circuit hit, Animale, will be the festival’s centerpiece film.   Larry Fessenden will be honored with this year’s Leviathan Award, the ceremony features a screening of their film, Habit. Other festival circuit standouts include Rita, Timestalker, Black Eyed Susan, The Dead Thing, Sayara and The Soul Eater.    And chalk up a win for the home team today as our own Izzy…

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This will be neat, and if nothing it will be worthy of your support in the coming days. Darrell Dennis’ film, The Great Salish Heist, will be going nationwide in Cineplex cinemas on September 28th, in honour of National Truth and Reconciliation Day.   A down-on-his-luck First Nations Archeologist seeking redemption teams up with a group of misfits from the Rez to break into a museum and reclaim sacred artifacts that rightfully belong to their people.    The Great Salish Heist is the first-ever Indigenous heist film. It was written, directed and starring Dennis. They are joined by Canada’s recently crowned Miss Universe, Ashley Callingbull, Canadian and Indigenous icon Graham Greene and sci-fi/genre icon Tricia Helfer.    Tickets are on sale now.   The Great…

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From Sammo Hung’s Far East to the Coen Brothers’ West (Texas), plus on 4K: Wim Wenders’ ‘Paris, Texas’ and Fellini’s ‘8 1/2.’

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If you’re a genre fiend with a taste for the low-budget and oddball, you might have noticed Kenichi Ugana’s name appearing time and again over the past few years at festivals such as Fantasia, Japan Cuts, and Nippon Connection. With his career beginning only a decade ago, the director of Visitors and Love Will Tear Us Apart has been astoundingly prolific, with four new films released within the past twelve months. Now, Ugana has been unleashed upon the audience at TIFF’s Midnight Madness, the most prestigious international stage that a quirky Japanese genre comedy has seen in some time. The film in question is The Gesuidouz, a low-key but appropriately noisy farce about a group of aspiring punk musicians and their love of horror films….

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In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: the music videos from Zia Anger. What’s in a name? Just like the emotion that is her last name, Zia Anger’s music video protagonists seem on the edge of exploding. On the verge of bursting their emotion out in the open. It seems curious that Anger herself only recently made her first feature film, aptly named My First Film, as she herself has been taking a long build-up to the Big Explosion that is a first feature. It is only fitting that all her music videos to date seem like little bursts of energy. There was a reason why Anger, for the longest time, seemed your…

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A teenage assassin, codename 13, is part of a secret organization of assassins known only as The Shadows. When she fumbles during her last mission she is suspended and shipped back to Jakarta to wait until her mentor, Umbra, calls her back into action. While she waits she meets 11-year-old Monji, whose mother is mixed up with the local criminal element, doing what she has to, to provide for her son. When Monji goes missing 13 tears a through the underbelly of Jakarta, riding a dizzying wave of destruction that reaches more levels of corruption through law enforcement and the local government. It will no doubt create enough noise to get the attention of Umbra and the rest of The Shadows. One thing at a…

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What once seemed like a pipe dream is on track to becomes a reality as Severin plans to release brand new 4k restorations of three of Meyer’s seminal films, 1968’s Vixen!, 1975’s Supervixens, and the filmmaker’s theatrical swan song, 1978’s Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens. Thanks to a new licensing deal struck between Los Angeles-based cult film specialists Severin Films and the Russ Meyer trust, the long thought impenetrable Meyer vault is now accessible. In a deal that has been years in the making, the Meyer trust has agreed to allow Severin access to restore and release at least some of Meyer’s films. The initial trio, the very loosely linked Vixen trilogy, pre-order for the set opens in October with release set for December…

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There is a railroad trestle over Gregson Street in Durham, North Carolina, that is a bit lower than it should be.   In spite of flashing lights and a few signs, several times a month a cube van or tractor trailer will peel their own roof off by rushing underneath. Some of the nearby residents have dealt with this 11 foot 8 bridge using an activist sense of humour. By placing a camera there and posting the carnage on YouTube, this satiric bit of civic duty got the bridge raised a few additional inches. The occasional truck still ‘executes a sweet peel,’ but then perfect can be the enemy of good sometimes.    What might have been a pragmatic Canadian approach to a similar road…

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A burned-out professional sniper finds himself trapped in an all-glass penthouse by a lethal competitor and must find a way to survive and escape with little to no cover between him and the killer.   One of the hardest working blokes in action cinema, Scott Adkins, is back again with Take Cover, an action thriller coming to theaters and On Demand on October 4th. Brainstorm Media is handling the release and they’ve sent out the official trailer and poster.    Directed by Nick McKinless (The Iron Grip) and starring Scott Adkins (John Wick: Chapter 4, Doctor Strange, IP Man 4) and Alice Eve (Bombshell, Star Trek Into Darkness), TAKE COVER is a relentless, pulse-pounding action thriller that will leave audiences on the edge of their…

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