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An unusual family lives an unusual life in Mark H. Rapaport’s Hippo, one of the stranger films that has played at the Fantasia Film Festival. Rapaport drops us into a suburban dystopic home where society’s rules don’t seem to apply, and no subject is too taboo to elicit nervous laughter. Hippo (Kimball Farley) and his Hungarian adopted sister Buttercup (Lilla Kizlinger) share a troubling relationship with each other and their mother, Ethel (Eliza Roberts), as they approach adulthood wholly unprepared for the world outside their doors. A young man on the verge of adulthood, Hippo is an odd duck. He spends his days playing video games, bossing around his mother, and searching for automatic weapons on the internet. It’s the late ‘90s, two of these…

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Imagine it’s the 90s, in the early days of wide home computer use, with dial-up models, compact discs as the main mode of music listening, and you’ve fallen asleep in front of your television. You wake up in a dark hour and images of beaches and modern dance and a strange pair of investigators sitting on a beach trying to figure out why scientists are dying mysteriously. Perhaps you think you’re still asleep, watching this strange, visually intriguing and sometimes not quite coherent story, but you can’t help but be drawn in. You might be watching Dream Team, the latest lo-fi, lo-budget speculative experimental work by American filmmakers Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn. Using 16mm film, the film is a strangely comic (not dark exactly,…

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Directed by Naoyuki Itō and animated by Madhouse, Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom is a continuation of season four of Overlord, the anime. The actual plot of the film has almost nothing to do with the series. You can watch it thinking it’s a high fantasy film about invasion and war, and only be confused a couple of times. The plot: the Sacred Kingdom has been attacked by the Demon Emperor Jaldabaoth and his army of half humans (half pig, half wolf, and so forth). The kingdom’s best paladin, Remedios Custodio, leads a small team to the neighbouring Sorcerer Kingdom to ask for aid. His Sorcerous Majesty is a huge skeleton, an undead, and the focus of the film. He is not the main character, however….

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Director George Nolfi’s film stars Anthony Mackie and Morena Baccarin.

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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 of Encyclopedia Pictura. Recently the trailer for A24’s The Legend of Ochi dropped online, and the filmmaker behind it might not ring a bell as it is his debut feature. Isaiah Saxon should be well known to fans of animated shorts and music videos though, as he is one part of the collective Encyclopedia Pictura. Allow me to introduce the collective to newcomers, as Encyclopedia Pictura well deserves to be a household name. If three things are emblematic for Encyclopedia Pictura it is their ambition, their mixed-media approach and their love for nature. Let’s tackle their ambition first: Encyclopedia Pictura is not…

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After escaping a brutal Russian labor camp, three men must overcome the treacherous wilderness and each other, as their journey home turns into a brutal fight for survival.   Saban Films is putting Derek Barnes’ action flick, White Out, out on VOD & Digital on November 22nd, 2024. They have sent along an exclusive clip to share with you today. You will find it and the trailer down below.    It appears to the moment that our main characters escape from the Russian labor camp. It is a wee bit chaotic and frantic, as mass prison escape attempts are, we imagine. But it is violent. If that floats your boat then check it out below.    White Out was directed by Derek Barnes. It was…

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A cop investigates a crime scene on the cusp of a zombie outbreak. Arguing with herself, she tries to cover up a mistake not knowing that something worse is about to happen.    After a night out with the boys a husband needs a good night sleep before his next shift begins. Too bad his mother-in-law thinks that giant rats have taken her cat.    An expectant mother makes a video diary for her unborn daughter, as she and her partner wait out the apocalypse in her family’s remote, rural home.    A father tries to communicate with his dead son, through the zombie that took their young life.    Portraits of the Apocalypse is an anthology made up of four tales, written, directed and…

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After featuring a number of key art that left the standard credit block out the design, it is nice to see this poster from Mexico’s festival darling coming-of-age plague-zombie film, Párvulos, has a more traditional sense, where they are tucked discreetly into the bottom right corner. That and the evocative reminder of a reaching Bub from Day of the Dead. The attractive part of this design however is its commitment to verticality. It is not simply the block-red title card and director’s credit moving upwards along the left side, but the reaching hands (almost as if grabbing for the tagline, which it should be noted is the core theme of the story). The pull quotes and festival laurels, stacked downward on the right add even…

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June 25th, 1978. It is the day of the World Cup final between Argentina and Holland. It is also a time of military dictatorship, a junta has taken over the country. A death squad is under orders to find a group of dissidents and when they get a proper lead they go round them up and proceed to torture them. What starts out as inhumane interrogation goes to hell as the death squad discovers they have kidnapped a group of people who have aligned themselves with something far more evil than these puppets of the junta.    “We should not play soccer amid the concentration camps and torture chambers” C.O.B.A.   Once again the Onetti Brothers (What The Waters Left Behind and it’s sequel WTWLB:…

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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.   Mikael Håfström’s action adventure Stockholm Bloodbath comes to cinemas and On Demand tomorrow, Friday, November 8th. We have an exclusive clip from the distributor Brainstorm Media to share with you today. We chose the clip with a fair share of carnage in it, an assault on a wedding.    If anyone has any objections to this marriage speak now – preferably not with a sword – or forever hold your peace. Jakob Oftebro and Claes Bang look on as their soldiers attack a wedding party, then decide…

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