Screen Anarchy

Our friends at Grimmfest in Manchester, England have the enviable task of following up yesterday’s big announcement from the Brothers Gallagher and revealing the poster art for this year’s festival, along with the shorts program and a Preview Night.   The full cut of the poster is down below. We think you can never go wrong with death cars and the near minimalist art work is very nice.    On opening night the festival will host the European premiere screening of three episodes from Tales From The Void. They feature episodes directed by Joe Lynch, Francesco Loschiavo and John Adams & Toby Poser.   All of the shorts playing at this year’s festival are in the announcement that follows.  Grimmfest, Manchester’s International Festival of Fantastic Film, will…

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Hong Kong’s top-grossing movie of the year is director Soi Cheang’s Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In. Set largely in Kowloon Walled City (long since demolished), the martial arts blockbuster pits warring triads in a battle to the death over control of the tenement slum. Caught in the middle: hapless Mainlander Chan (Raymond Lam), whose search for an identity card has made him the target of expert assassins from both sides. Led by heavyweights like Louis Koo, Richie Jen, Aaron Kwok, and the legendary Sammo Hung, Twilight is also a showcase for a younger generation of performers, like Philip Ng, who plays Sammo Hung’s top killer King. Philip Ng has starred in action films for almost 20 years, working with the some of the best…

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Lost in a world reclaimed by nature and overrun by mysterious creatures, a young man with amnesia teams up with an eccentric survivalist to find his missing girlfriend.

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An ex-con tries to find a place in the world in For Alice, a small-scale drama that premiered at this year’s New York Asian Film Festival. Set largely in the endlessly photogenic Mirador Mansion, the movie shifts smoothly from film noir to coming-of-age drama without ever breaking entirely free of genre conventions. The script, by Chow Kam Win (also the director) and Kiki Lam, sketches its characters with care and precision. Alice (Kuku So in her film debut) lives with her mother Ping (Amanda Lee) and stepfather Raymond (David Siu). Ping is an alcoholic gambler currently losing too much money in Macao; Raymond is a lecherous tailor who has abused Alice in the past. Lee and Siu flesh out their characters efficiently, Siu uncannily effective…

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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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Terry Jacobs is a recently paroled felon forced to go undercover to bring down Griff, the head of the most infamous mob syndicate in Italy.

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Yesterday, the first look at Luke Sparke’s adaptation of Ethan Pettus’ Primative War novels went out, and we can share that with you now, down below. Sparke’s live action adaptation will come out some time in 2025. There’s no trailer yet, but a small selection of stills of the cast were sent out.    Dinosaurs in the Vietnam war. It sounds like something that we’d dream up when we were kids, playing with our G.I. Joes and Jurassic Park figures at the same time. Someone’s gone and made it real, for all those kids who’ve grown up and craving somethng a bit more adult in approach.    A new mature take on the dinosaur genre. Live-action adaption of popular book and comic series by Ethan Pettus….

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Summer is coming to a close and life returns to normal after months of vacations, excursions and more than enough livations.   Our collective attention now turns towards spooky season, some of us starting a two month celebration, starting on September 1st. From the first weekend in September let Arrow help you get in the mood with Selects from Adam Green and Ovidio G. Assonitis, a 4K restoration of Sergio Martino’s 1973 classic Torso, along with quartets of vampire and monster movies.    Everything you need to know about next month’s programming on the Arrow Player is listed below.    ARROW Player Announces September 2024 Lineup Streamer Highlights Sun and Screams, Resurrected Masterpieces, Monsters Everywhere, Selections from Adam Green & More   September 2024 Seasons: Adam…

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Shudder’s newest survey series, Horror’s Greatest, starts streaming today on the platform. Over the course of five episodes an array of experts, from filmmakers, actors, academics and such, weigh in on five categories. They are, drum roll please: Tropes & Cliches, Giant Monsters, Japanese Horror, Horror Comedies and Stephen King Adaptations. Ooo-ooooh.    A bevy of our friends, paragons and contemporaries chime in on some of their favorites. The list includes The Boulet Brothers, Axelle Carolyn, David Dastmalchian, Ted Geoghegan, Brea Grant, Author Joe Hill, Morgana Ignis, DeWayne Perkins, Jeffrey Reddick, Kate Siegel, Jenn Wexler, and Alex Winter. You know, to name a few.    Then there are ‘horror authorities’, a list includes academics like Rebecca McKendry, Film historian Nathanial Thompson, Film scholars Ben Sher…

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The indie slasher Director’s Cut from filmmaker Don Capria arrives in theaters October 31st, with digital release to follow. The official trailer came out this week. You will find it down below.    Capria makes their feature film debut with a horror flick that treads familiar territory for horror and thriller fans, that of the small band that takes a gig in the middle of nowhere and it goes horribly, horribly wrong. Those are tough gigs. The pay is shitty, the beer is warm, and everyone’s trying to kill you.    Director’s Cut stars character actor Louis Lombardi. Listed only at Mister Director in the credits at IMDB, they’ll be the one putting the aspiring punk band through the ringer. Look for the horror flick…

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