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We’ve got to hurry with this announcement because we’ve got to get in line to catch the world premiere of Hell Hole here at Fantasia. The latest horror flick from the Adams Family premieres in less than a couple hours. If the just released official trailer is anything to go by, tonight’s audience is in for a silly, gory ride. Check it out down below. In the Adams Family’s celebration of the classic creature-feature, an American-led fracking crew working deep in the Serbian wilderness find themselves at odds with government assigned environmental advisors. When they get approval to drill, the workers uncover the unimaginable: a dormant parasitic monster entombed deep in the frozen rock. Now awakened, it tears through the mining facility in search of…

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A struggling young journalist returns to the hometown he abandoned long ago with hopes of digging up a story about the local psychiatric facility, what he finds instead is a past that refuses to rest in Matthew Fifer’s psychological thriller, Haze. Joe (Cole Doman) is a man adrift. Recently having left rehab and without a steady job, he does the only thing he can, he moves back in with his estranged father at the family home in Long Island. There is a problem though, his father isn’t there, he went off to work in Florida, leaving Joe at the house alone with his thoughts and little to occupy himself. When he pitches a story about the long-shuttered psyche facility to his editor he’s offered $300…

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A young woman’s transition from high school to university gets hijacked by a global conspiracy – and some wild new drugs – in director Miguel Llansó’s third feature, Infinite Summer, premiering this week at the Fantasia International Film Festival. Mia (Teele Kaljuvee-O’Brock) decides to spent some time with her best friend Grete (Johanna Rosin) are too to a rural cabin to enjoy a summer of freedom. Grete is a bit older and has just returned from London, she brings with her a much older friend, Sarah (Hannah Gross), who sees Mia as an innocent ripe for corruption. When her friends reach out to the local hippie drug dealer – or as he prefers, “meditation teacher – Dr. Mindfulness (Ciaron Davies), he sends them on the…

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In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: two music videos for Bundock Lanoie by Denis Villeneuve. Denis Villeneuve made a few music videos in his career, the two most notable for Bundock Lanoie. That band was an offshoot of the famous quebecois band Bündock, consisting of two core members, Pierre Bundock and Dominique Lanoie. The duo made one album together called Bundock-Lanoie, with two of the lead singles being Ne Me Dis Pas (below) and Ce’st le éte (also below). Both singles got music videos directed by Villeneuve. They feel like they come from a very different director, while a lot of his hallmarks are still there. What’s most noticeable is that one…

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Coming at you with the first word that Michael Donovan Horn’s debut feature film, a slasher/thriller and whodunit titled Bone Face, has been acquired by the folks at Uncork’d Entertainment.   When a masked killer slaughters several campers in a small town, a sheriff and a deputy track the murderer to a local diner where, using their investigative skills, they must discover which person in the diner is the actual killer. IMDB Further details about distribution will come later this year. For now, above is our first look at Elena Sanchez as the town sheriff and their deputy, played by Jeremy London.    Horn directed their own screenplay.    UNCORK’D ACQUIRES BONE FACE FOR WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTION   Uncork’d Entertainment has acquired worldwide distribution rights to the…

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This year at the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival, several juries awarded several films. The Critic’s Jury awarded their prize by unanimous decision to Ennennum, an extremely well-written science fiction drama in which Ouso and Devi, a married couple, get confronted with the possibilities (and pitfalls) of technological immortality. You can read my review here. A week later I had the chance to interview its writer and director Shalini Ushadevi, so we sat down for a talk. ScreenAnarchy: Congratulations on your win. I was on that jury and it was the shortest deliberation ever, we all had your film as number one on our separate lists. Shalini Ushadevi: Thank you, that is great to know, that is very validating also. I heard it took a…

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Genre film legend Chuck Russell returns to horror after a twenty-year hiatus with his take on the classic ‘80s franchise, Witchboard. In reimagining the concept, Russell adapts the story of a Ouija board with a grudge into a bigger, flashier adventure now set in New Orleans and exploring the history of the spirit board going back to the 17th century. Though it doesn’t reinvent the wheel, Russell’s Witchboard is a perfectly decent – if a little long – stab at the haunted item subgenre that should satisfy fans of the earlier franchise. Christian (Aaron Dominguez) and his fiancée, Emily (Madison Iseman) are out gathering wild mushrooms in the run up to the grand opening of their new Creole restaurant in New Orleans when she stumbles…

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Jun (Wakaba Ryûya) is a man grieving the brutal murder of his girlfriend who finds his only solace in exacting revenge against her killer, Mizoguchi (Iseya Yûsuke). He meticulously plans and executes a scheme to surreptitiously assassinate the man responsible for her death, but there’s a problem. The next morning when Jun awakens, he experiences a sense of déjà vu, and he soon learns that his entire world has reset, Mizoguchi is still alive, and he has to kill him all over again. Revenge is a dish best served over and over and over again in Araki Shiji’s Penalty Loop, a dazzling time loop thriller with big ideas and stellar direction that may be one of the year’s best science fiction films. Though the microgenre…

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A private detective forced to face the ghosts of his past when his niece asks him to investigate her father’s death.

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Shudder and IFC Films announced that a sequel to Chris Nash’s smash hit slasher flick, In A Violent Nature, is in early development. Variety reported on this yesterday after the news was revealed during the “The Bold Voice of Contemporary Horror” panel at SDCC. The teaser poster of the now infamous steel hook was unveiled during the announcement.    Sequel producers include Peter Kuplowsky and Shannon Hanmer, and the first film’s writer and director, Chris Nash, will return as screenwriter. Emily Gotto, Nicholas Lazo and Samuel Zimmerman are overseeing development for Shudder.   “‘In a Violent Nature’ demonstrated that there continues to be a yearning for new perspectives in the horror landscape. We knew immediately that this distinctive take on the slasher would enthrall fans…

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