Screen Anarchy

Stick around long enough in life and you get to watch everyone’s offspring grow up and start to pursue their own interests. Not speaking for all film nerds like ourselves but a fair number of creatives likely wish one of their brood took up the mantle and started creating their own stuff. Which brings us to Fuller Freeman and his dad Todd.    Todd we’ve talked about over the years and he’s been very gracious with his time, editing my interview videos these past few months. We knew for a while that his son Fuller got the filmmaking bug early and has already directed and edited music videos for local artists. Fuller’s first short film, a cosmic horror called Breed, has been completed and submitted to…

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Crushing almost sixty years of twentieth-century turmoil into less run time than the equally decade-skippy first season of HBO’s House of the Dragon, Chen Kaige’s Farewell My Concubine joins the Criterion Collection this week in a new 4K transfer. The film was the first Chinese feature to win the Palme D’Or at Cannes, but was later banned, then censored, then banned again in its home country. It remains a bravura act of filmmaking, which fuses two men’s personal longings to the end of China’s Imperial era and the devastation of the Cultural Revolution. The first hour is exquisite, if agonizing. Young Douzi — already so androgynous as to be easily mistaken for girlish, with bright red ribbons in his hair — is given by his…

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Our friends at Black Fawn Distribution are handling the Canadian rights for Jesse Thomas Cook’s The Hyperborean and are starting things off with a VOD release this Wednesday across all major platforms.    They’ve sent out the opening scene of the sci-fi horror flick, an animated prologue giving an account of the discovery of a malevolant force hidden in the aurora. Check it and the uncensored trailer below the announcement.    Black Fawn is also taking pro-orders for the Blu-ray release coming later this year. To the left you’re looking at the retro VHS-style artwork that will come with the release. The link for ordering is in the announcement that follows.    Black Fawn Distribution is thrilled to announce the acquisition of The Hyperborean. The…

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Pirelli, an ex-lawman, travels to Mexico searching for the heir to a Los Angeles fortune, while confronting his own complicated past. But what he finds in Baja challenges him to the core.

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Adam Newman’s monster movie Round The Decay is coming during spooky season.   A young woman returns to the site of her broken engagement, Newport’s Valley, a sleepy tourist town with an all-consuming secret.   To help drum up some interest the official trailer was released today. Check it out along with a small selection of stills below the announcement.    Settle In with Folk Horror Monster Movie ROUND THE DECAY Trailer   With inspirations ranging from Pumpkinhead to Cube, Round the Decay offers a fresh take on the monster movie formula with roots extending into psychological and folk horror. Settle in with the official trailer.   Written and directed by Adam Newman (Everwinter Night), the film follows a young woman as she returns to…

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Wild Eye Releasing is putting Mark Polonia’s micro (what’s below micro?) indie horror flick Mummy Shark out on VOD and DVD on October 8th.    You folks know the drill with movies like these. They’re done fast, cheap and keep the lights on at home. Check out the official trailer and a small gallery of stills down below.  Unwrap the new trailer for Mummy Shark! Available October 8 on VOD and DVD   FROM THE MAKERS OF AMITYVILLE IN SPACE, SHARKULA, and SHARKENSTEIN   The mummified remains of an alien shark are discovered in ancient Egypt in the latest film from legendary B-movie director Mark Polonia!   Deep within the hidden chambers of an ancient Egyptian pyramid, a shocking discovery is made: the mummified remains of…

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Michael, the last son of a shepherding family, lives with his ailing father, Ray. Burdened by guilt over the death of his mother, Michael has isolated himself from the world. When a conflict with rival farmer Gary and his son Jack escalates, Michael is drawn into a devastating chain of events, forcing him to confront the horrors of his past and leaving both families permanently altered. Christopher Andrews’ thriller Bring Them Down, starring Christoper Abbott and Barry Keoghan among others, will have its World Premiere here in town at TIFF in September. MUBI already has streaming rights North America, the UK & Ireland, Benelux, LATAM and Turkey. They sent along our first look at the pair of actors, which you will find down below.    MUBI,…

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Our friends at MotelX, the excellent genre film festival in Lisbon, Portugal, have annonced the first wave of titles for this year’s festival, coming up this September.    Festival standouts Sasquatch Sunset, In A Violent Naure, Oddity, Cuckoo, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person and Your Monster feature in this first wave. Can Evrenol’s new movie Sayara will play at the festival, with the director in attendance.    As expected there are a lot of cinematic culture events going on as well, including the 50th anniversary of the 25 of April Revolution in Portugal celebrations with films banned at the time, and the presentation of the feminist encyclopaedia “I Spit On Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies”, by Heidi Honeycutt. That program comes with…

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When a small town wrestling star develops a crush on an openly gay classmate, he begins to be stalked by a grotesque creature that invades his thoughts, all the while struggling to live up to the standard set by his legacy-obsessed dad.

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Omer Tobi’s debut feature sees a weary supermarket cashier in the Israeli desert embarks on an unexpected journey of self-discovery in the echoes of Ulrich Seidl´s poetics.

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