“A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction,” Stanley Kubrick once said. “It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.”

The Oldenburg Film Festival and Brussels-based Cold Wave/Electro-Rock musical duo Pornographie Exclusive have taken this to heart. On Friday evening, they will put on a special show in the form of the world premiere of an anthology film called One-Way Ticket to the Other Side, accompanied by a live gig by Pornographie Exclusive (Pe), at Oldenburg’s State Theater.

The organizers promise to take audiences on a “road trip through the labyrinths of the human psyche.”

Pe consists of actress and dubbing specialist Séverine Cayron (The Belgian Wave) and writer, director and cinematographer Jérôme Vandewattyne (Spit’n’Split, The Belgian Wave) who was honored with last year’s Audacity Award in Oldenburg,...

Als Abschlussfilm des Internationalen Filmfest Oldenburg feiert Christophe Honorés „Marcello Mio“ am 15. September seine Deutschlandpremiere.

Christophe Honorés „Marcello Mio“ mit Chiara Mastroianni feiert in Oldenburg seine Deutschlandpremiere (Credit: Festival de Cannes)

2016 hatte das Internationale Filmfest Oldenburg Christophe Honoré eine Retrospektive gewidmet, jetzt kehrt der französische Filmemacher nach Oldenburg zurück. Wie das Festival heute mitteilt, wird die Deutschlandpremiere seines aktuellen Films „Marcello Mio“ (hier unsere Spot-Besprechung) am 15. September den Abschluss der diesjährigen 31. Ausgabe bilden.

In „Marcello Mio“, der im Cannes-Wettbewerb seine Weltpremiere gefeiert hat, spielt Chiara Mastroianni sich selbst als Schauspielerin, die eines Tages beschließt, einen Sommer lang die Identität ihres verstorbenen Vaters Marcello Mastroianni anzunehmen. Sie kleidet sich wie er, spricht wie er und wird irgendwann sogar mit Marcello angesprochen.

Bereits zwei Tage vorher, am 13. September, feiert der Mitteilung zufolge das vom Filmfest Oldenburg initiierte Projekt „One-Way Ticket to the Other Side“ seine Weltpremiere. Produziert von Jerome Vandewattyne, Séverine Cayron,...

The Bloody Disgusting-powered Screambox is home to a variety of unique horror content, from originals and exclusives to cult classics and documentaries. With such a rapidly-growing library, there are many hidden gems waiting to be discovered.

Here are five recommendations you can stream on Screambox right now.

Ghost Killers vs. Bloody Mary

If bustin’ makes you feel good, Ghost Killers vs. Bloody Mary should be at the top of your queue. Imagine Sam Raimi remaking Ghostbusters from a Kevin Williamson script, and you have a pretty good idea of what this Brazilian horror-comedy is like: gory, self-aware, irreverent, and wildly entertaining.

When a local high school summons Bloody Mary, the Ghoulbusters — a team of local YouTubers with a cheesy ghost hunting show — are called in to take out the vengeful spirit. In addition to possessing people to the point of cranial combustion, the ghost exploits the high school setting by haunting inanimate objects,...

On the surface, David Cronenberg’s 1996 adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s 1973 novel Crash is a drama about an unlikely group of people who come together over their shared fascination with car crashes.

The novel is written in the first person from the point of view of Ballard’s proxy, James Ballard. He’s a successful film producer in an open marriage to wife Catherine; both partners routinely engage in casual sex with co-workers and strangers alike, seemingly in pursuit of upending their relationship ennui.

The sex, which is captured by Ballard in incredibly specific and laborious prose, is cold, dispassionate, and almost clinical. The novel is often described as a work of science-fiction; despite containing virtually none of the tropes of the genre, Crash reads like a warning of a dystopian future in which citizens have become so desensitized that they will be pushed to pursue more and more extreme...

Exclusive: After a two-year journey to gain back the rights to The Way, Emilio Estevez has arranged with Fathom Events to re-release the film nationwide on May 16 on about 800 screens or more. The effort has led to not only a chance to dust off a 12-year old film, but also to start progress on a sequel.

The film was scripted and directed by Estevez, partly inspired by the Jack Hitt book Off The Road: A Modern Day Walk Down the Pilgrim’s Route Into Spain. The film starred Estevez’s dad, Martin Sheen, and the director played the small role of a man who died while making the pilgrimage called El Camino de Santiago, also known as The Way of Saint James. This is where the Apostle James was buried. His dad takes over the effort, his son’s ashes in tow, and is about the people he meets along...

The first time Nicolas Winding Refn returned home to Denmark from L.A., it was out of financial necessity.

After the barnstorming success of his first two films, Pusher (1996) and Bleeder (1999), Copenhagen-set crime dramas starring a then-unknown actor by the name of Mads Mikkelsen, Refn went Hollywood with the ambitious psychological thriller Fear X (2003) starring John Turturro and Deborah Kara Unger. But Fear X bombed so badly, it forced Refn’s film company Jang Go Star into bankruptcy and sent the director home to try to repay a 5.5 million, in Danish currency, debt with a pair of Pusher sequels.

Late-career redemption came with Drive (2011), starring Ryan Gosling, which won Refn the best director honor in Cannes (and picked up an Oscar nomination for best sound editing), and The Neon Demon (2016), another LA-set film, which established Refn’s trippy, neon-tinged aesthetic among a growing based of art-house fans.

When the Covid-19 pandemic hit,...

We’re wrapping this week up with a new episode of the Wtf Happened to This Horror Movie? video series, and with this one we’re looking back at the 2006 horror video game adaptation Silent Hill (watch it Here). To find out what went into bringing Silent Hill to the big screen, check out the video embedded above!

Directed by Christophe Gans, who also crafted the screenplay with Roger Avary and Nicolas Boukhrief, Silent Hill has the following synopsis:

Unable to accept the fact that her daughter is dying, Rose decides to take the girl to a faith healer. On the way, the pair drive through a portal in reality, leading to an eerie town called Silent Hill. The town is surrounded by a potent darkness, and the human survivors fight a losing battle against it.

The film stars Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Laurie Holden, Deborah Kara Unger, Kim Coates,...

“Return to Silent Hill,” a horror film based on the classic Konami survival/horror video game series, is in development. The news was announced at the end of a livestream dedicated to announcing new titles in the franchise.

Christophe Gans, who directed 2006’s “Silent Hill,” based on the first game in the series, was confirmed to direct the film. He appeared in a video message during the livestream to discuss the project. In addition, Victor Hadida, who executive produced the 2006 film, will produce “Return.” Gans confirmed that the movie would adapt the second game in the franchise, which was announced to receive an upcoming remake for the Playstation 5 during the same livestream.

“The film tells a story of a young guy coming back to Silent Hill, where he has known a great love,” Gans said during the livestream. “And what he is going to find is a pure nightmare.”

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Grace Covington (Scout Taylor-Compton) wants nothing more than to find her birth parents. We’re told her former foster child has been looking for quite some time, perhaps helped in part by her Princeton-graduate, Hamptons-vacationing jock of a boyfriend’s (Nolan Gerard Funk’s Jack) money. Well, she finally has a lead thanks to the owner (King Orba’s Frank) of an old plantation down in Charleston—apparently near where she was born. He’s invited her to come stay and hear what he knows to point her in the right direction. Jack agrees to accompany her despite seeming like the kind of guy who’s never gone below the Mason-Dixon line in his life, declaring his undying love before throwing her to the wolves that are his parents on the way down.

It’s the usual introduction for this type of film: urban comfort making way towards backwoods anxiety.

David Cronenberg will receive the honorary Donostia Award at the 70th San Sebastian Film Festival. The gala ceremony will be followed by the presentation of Cronenberg’s latest film, “Crimes of the Future,” a daring science fiction movie starring Viggo Mortensen, Kristen Stewart and Lea Seydoux. The movie world premiered in competition at Cannes.

The celebrated Canadian filmmaker has so far directed 20 features including works considered today to be the classics of genres like sci-fi, horror, psychological drama and thriller.

San Sebastian previously welcomed Cronenberg in 2004 for the screening of “Crash” as part of the Incorrect@s retrospective, as well as in 2007 for the premiere of “Eastern Promises” on opening night.

Cronenberg joins the list of moviemakers to have received the Donostia Award, alongside Francis Ford Coppola, Woody Allen, Oliver Stone, Agnès Varda, Hirokazu Koreeda and Costa-Gavras, among others.

Besides “The Fly” and “eXistenZ,” some of Cronenberg’s most iconic...

Is it a sexually depraved nightmare or artistic triumph? Critics and audiences were divided on David Cronenberg's "Crash." Based on J.G. Ballard's equally controversial novel, "Crash" follows film producer James Ballard (James Spader), who has a detached relationship with his wife Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger). They have an open marriage and eagerly share the details of their trysts with one another, but James feels unenthusiastic about sex in general. Everything changes when he gets into a serious car accident that leads him to discover an underground subculture of car-crash sexual fetishism. Both James and Catherine find sexual euphoria in the perverse fusion of flesh and metal. 

Despite the highly sexual content, "Crash" is anything but titillating. Cronenberg's clinical direction, the...

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Stars: Scout Taylor-Compton, Nolan Gerard Funk, Jeff Fahey, Kevin Ragsdale, Deborah Kara Unger | Written by Mark Young, Robert Sheppe | Directed by Rich Ragsdale

As The Long Night opens Grace and her boyfriend Jack are hanging out in their NYC apartment. She’s not a native New Yorker though, she’s from the South. Exactly where is a bit of a mystery, as she never knew her family. So when she gets a call from Frank saying he has a promising lead on her ancestry they drive down to see him. Thankfully he told her where he hides his spare key because when they arrive he’s nowhere to be found.

It doesn’t take long before they’re seeing strange altar-like things in the woods and strange figures in the distance. And snakes that seem to appear and disappear. Jack has the good sense to realize something is very wrong and decides they’re leaving,...

To mark the release of Crash on 14th December, we’ve been given 1 copy to give away on 4K Ultra HD.

Technology and sexuality meet in a head-on collision in Crash – director David Cronenberg’s controversial adaptation of writer J.G. Ballard’s hugely transgressive 1973 novel starring James Spader and Holly Hunter.

Spader stars as James Ballard, an advertising executive whose deviant sexual desires are awakened by a near fatal automobile accident with Dr Helen Remington (Hunter). Soon the pair, alongside Ballard’s wife Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger), are drawn into an underground world of car crash fetishism presided over by renegade scientist Vaughan (Elias Koteas). Danger, sex and death become entwined as eroticism and technology join together in a disturbing, deadly union.

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“Succession” is one of HBO’s most acclaimed drama series and an Emmy frontrunner in 2020, and its popularity has been bolstered in part by its addicting opening credits sequence. The 90-second sequence is set to Nicholas Britell’s Emmy-winning original theme music and cuts together footage of the New York City skyline with home video footage of the Roy family. The grainy home videos remind viewers about the privilege and isolation of the Roy family at the start of each episode. It turns out this now-classic opening credits sequence owes a lot of credit David Fincher, who crafted virtually the same sequence to open his 1997 mystery thriller “The Game.” Both openings have been embedded in videos below.

An eagle-eyed Reddit user recently noticed the similarities between the “Succession” and “The Game” opening credits and brought it to the attention of viewers. Fincher’s 1997 movie begins with grainy home video footage...

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The term "cult" as it refers to film today has become little more than a marketing cliché. So very few films truly merit the designation. The defining attribute of any true cult film is the quality of transgression: visions and/or portrayals that defy established modes of discourse and/or codes of conduct. Crash achieves multiple transgressions in its 100-minute running time. Cronenberg's Crash is a faithful adaptation of the psychosexual novel by "New Wave" science-fiction author J. G. Ballard (1930-2009). It involves a cult whose members seek sexual gratification from being in car crashes. The transgressive subject matter of the source novel was leveraged by Cronenberg, who was philosophically predisposed to undertake the adaptation to film. In a subsequent introduction to his novel Ballard wrote that the modern world is ruled by fiction, a sentiment expressed by Cronenberg through the medium of Professor Brian O'Blivion and...

If you listened to our Silent Hill / Resident Evil episode of Corpse Club, then you know that here on Daily Dead, we're big fans of Christophe Gans' 2006 adaptation of the haunting Konami video game, so we're thrilled to share the full list of bonus features for Scream Factory's Silent Hill Collector's Edition Blu-ray ahead of its July 9th release:

"Dare to step inside the horrific town of Silent Hill, where darkness preys on every soul and Hell’s creations await around every corner. But know that once you enter… there is no turning back. On July 9, 2019, Scream Factory™ is proud to present cult horror thriller Silent Hill Collector’s Edition Blu-ray. Directed by Christophe Gans, this stylish horror film stars Radha Mitchell (London Has Fallen), Sean Bean (Game of Thrones), Laurie Holden (The Walking Dead), Deborah Kara Unger (The Game), Kim Coates (Sons of Anarchy), Tanya Allen (The Newsroom...

Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. David Fincher's The Game (1997) is showing March 23 – April 22, 2019 in many countries around the world.“...from any given body of fictional text, nothing necessarily follows, and anything plausibly may.”—William H. Gass, “The Concept of Character in Fiction”What is The Game? “The eternal question,” an unnamed character intones, when he is asked this by its newest player, Nicholas van Orton (Michael Douglas), a middle-aged millionaire unaccustomed to befuddlement. Mainstream critics, who similarly dislike being perplexed, didn’t quite know what to make of the film when it premiered in 1997: responses were tepid and noncommittal, and, despite its $100 million box office draw, it has long been considered a minor work in David Fincher’s oeuvre, ensconced between the seminal Se7en (1995) and the belatedly-loved Fight Club (1999). It is a film that is at once subtle and silly, whose perfunctory...

Stars: Stephen Dorff, Deborah Kara Unger, Jonathon Schaech, Nick Roux, Chelsea Ricketts | Written by Jared Rivet | Directed by Kevin Greutert

n estranged family hires a cult deprogrammer to free their teenage son from the brainwashing he’s undergone at the hands of a vicious cult, but find themselves under siege when the cultists surround their cabin, demanding the boy back. A vicious battle unfolds, testing familial loyalties and unleashing a bloodbath in this suspense shocker, which is apparently based on a true 1980s story…

A riff on the Assault on Precinct 13 template of a building under siege, Kevin Greutert and co. try to bring something new to the all-too-familiar story, giving Jackals an extra depth with the cult deprogrammer angle. However the idea of a cult going to such lengths to retrieve a lost member basically seems like a throwaway storyline: an excuse for the “bad men” to attack our protagonists,...

Happy October, gang! With the Halloween season now officially underway, we have an incredible day of horror and sci-fi home entertainment releases to enjoy. Arrow Video has put together three stunning special edition sets for Children of the Corn, Don’t Torture A Duckling, and The Suspicious Death of A Minor, but we also have several other modern cult titles debuting as well, including Popcorn, 976-evil, and The Hidden.

For all you Charles Lee Ray enthusiasts out there, Cult of Chucky and the Chucky: Complete 7-Movie Collection both come home on Tuesday, and Scream Factory is also releasing the recent indie horror thriller Jackals on Blu-ray.

Other notable home entertainment titles bowing on October 3rd include American Horror Story: Roanoke, A Ghost Story, Haunters: The Art of the Scare, Little Shop of Horrors: The Director’s Cut, iZombie: The Complete Third Season, and Vampyr: Special Edition.

They knew they would have to go up against a violent cult to reunite with their son, but one desperate family has no idea how soon they could become human prey in Jackals, a cult-centric horror movie coming to Blu-ray and DVD beginning October 3rd. To celebrate the new home media release, Scream Factory has provided us with three Blu-ray copies to give away to lucky Daily Dead readers.

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A potent blend of the horror, thriller and home-invasion genres, Jackals makes its Blu-ray and DVD debut on October 3rd, 2017 from Scream Factory and Tap inc.

From The Press Release

From director Kevin Greutert (Saw 3D: The Final Chapter) and producer Tommy Alastra (Sunset Strip) comes a disturbing vision of a fractured family that will do anything to get the son they love back from the unspeakable evil that has taken control of his mind. A potent blend of the horror, thriller and home-invasion genres, Jackals makes its Blu-ray and DVD debut on October 3rd, 2017 from Scream Factory. The release also includes a commentary with director Kevin Greutert and writer Jared Rivet, interviews with the cast and crew and the original theatrical trailers as bonus features. Fans can pre-order their copies now by visiting ShoutFactory.com

When Justin Powell (Ben Sullivan) is captured by two ski-masked men and...

From Kevin Greutert (Saw 3D: The Final Chapter) and Tommy Alastra comes Jackals, starring Johnathon Schaech, Stephen Dorff, and more. After Justin (Ben Sullivan) is taken and brainwashed by a cult known as the Jackals, his family battle the cult in order to bring him home, and you can watch their brutal battle for family when Jackals hits Blu-ray and DVD on October 3rd from Scream Factory:

Press Release: From director Kevin Greutert (Saw 3D: The Final Chapter) and producer Tommy Alastra (Sunset Strip) comes a disturbing vision of a fractured family that will do anything to get the son they love back from the unspeakable evil that has taken control of his mind. A potent blend of the horror, thriller and home-invasion genres, Jackals makes its Blu-ray and DVD debut on October 3rd, 2017 from Scream Factory. The release also includes a commentary with director Kevin Greutert and writer Jared Rivet,...

"Your leader must be an amazing guy." Out today in select theaters and on VOD from Scream Factory Films is Jackals, a cabin-centric horror film that pits a family against a violent cult one fateful night in the woods. To celebrate the film's release, we've been provided with an exclusive clip from the film for Daily Dead readers to enjoy, in which Stephen Dorff's character shares some critical words with a member of the cult that is trying to kill him and his loved ones.

"In a potent blend of the horror, thriller and home-invasion genres, an estranged family attempts to save their son from a murderous cult in the terrifying psychological thriller Jackals. Opening in select theaters and On Demand September 1st, 2017 from Scream Factory Films, Jackals is a shocking and suspenseful saga from director Kevin Greutert (Saw 3D, Visions) and producer Tommy Alastra (Sunset Strip).

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Stars: Stephen Dorff, Deborah Kara Unger, Jonathon Schaech, Nick Roux, Chelsea Ricketts | Written by Jared Rivet | Directed by Kevin Greutert

They knew it would take steely resolve and iron daring to go up against the violent sect who have brainwashed their teenage son, Justin. But the estranged Powell family and the cult deprogrammer they’ve hired in desperation had no idea how soon they would become the bloody prey in this suspense shocker, which is apparently based on a true 1980s story…

A riff on the Assault on Precinct 13 template of a building under siege, Kevin Greutert and co. try to bring something new to the all-too-familiar story, giving Jackals an extra depth with the cult deprogrammer angle. However the idea of a cult going to such lengths to retrieve a lost member basically seems like a throwaway storyline: an excuse for the “bad men” to attack our protagonists,...

"Leave us alone!" FilmRise has debuted an official trailer for a new action film titled Vengeance: A Love Story, adapted from the Joyce Carol Oates novel titled Rape: A Love Story. The story is about a local police officer who goes for vengeance when a local gang rapes a woman. The criminals find a way to walk away free thanks to a hot shot lawyer, and so the detective takes matters into his own hands. Nicolas Cage stars as John Dromoor, with a cast including Anna Hutchison, Talitha Bateman, Deborah Kara Unger, Don Johnson, Joshua Mikel, Rocco Nugent, Joe Ochterbeck, Carter Burch, and Charlene Tilton. This looks like a generic vengeance movie, especially with Nicolas Cage, but who knows. It's also interesting they removed the word "rape" from any description of this film, but it's definitely a major part of the plot. Here's the first trailer (+ new poster) for Johnny Martin...

The second trailer for Kevin Greutert’s Jackals is here, and we’re happy to bring it to you exclusively! Check it out below, and look for more on this one soon! Starring Deborah Kara Unger (Crash, Silent Hill), Stephen Dorff (Blade,… Continue Reading →

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With only four weeks till the start of the festival, Frightfest organisers have announced not only some of the guests set to appear over the August Bank Holiday weekend, but also the addition of another film to the line-up! The 150 plus guest-list this year is as vibrant and eclectic as ever, with nearly 40 of the films represented… New to the film line-up is Jackals, Kevin Greutert’s potent blend of horror thriller, home invasion terror and murder cult chiller, which stars Stephen Dorff and Deborah Kara Unger. The film is scheduled for Saturday 25th August, 4pm and 4.30pm in the main screens at the Cineworld Leicester Square.

Check out the new festival trailer and guest details below:

From the press release:

It’s been five years since Don Mancini and Fiona Dourif raised the Empire roof with Curse Of Chucky and this year they are joined by the irrepressible Jennifer Tilly...

They knew they would have to go up against a violent cult to reunite with their son, but the family had no idea how soon they would become the prey in Jackals, a new movie from Scream Factory Films. Ahead of its September 1st release, Jackals is teased in a trailer that channels the visceral violence and isolated horror of Bryan Bertino's The Strangers and Jack Ketchum's Off Season.

Press Release: In a potent blend of the horror, thriller and home-invasion genres, an estranged family attempts to save their son from a murderous cult in the terrifying psychological thriller Jackals. Opening in select theaters and On Demand September 1st, 2017 from Scream Factory Films, Jackals is a shocking and suspenseful saga from director Kevin Greutert (Saw 3D, Visions) and producer Tommy Alastra (Sunset Strip).

Directed by Kevin Greutert and written by Jared Rivet, Jackals stars Deborah Kara Unger (Crash,...

Kevin Greutert (The Strangers) and Jared Rivet are the filmmakers behind the horror film Jackals. This title, slated for a September, release involves a cult and a young boy. Both the family and the cult vie for him. And, Jackals is reminiscent of Adam Wingard's You're Next, in costume and setting. As well, Jackals stars: Jonathon Schaech, Deborah Kara Unger and Stephen Dorff. The film's first trailer and poster are hosted here. The poster for the film was developed from an early still. The still and graphic show frozen characters, masked in fog. That axe is not for chopping wood. And, the tagline: "sacrifices must be made" reminds viewers of the blood to be spilled. Director Greutert also helmed Saw: The Final Chapter. Jackals is slated for a September 1st release. This title will show through Video-on-demand and in theatres, on this date. And, you can join the cult then,...

Shout! Factory has acquired North American distribution rights to psychological thriller Jackals, directed by Kevin Greutert, written by Jared Rivet and starring Deborah Kara Unger (Crash), Stephen Dorff, Johnathan Schaech, Nick Roux (Jane By Design), Chelsea Ricketts (Scream Queens, True Blood) and Ben Sullivan (Hell On Wheels). Tommy Alastra (Sunset Strip) is the producer. Shout's Scream Factory Films, which Shout acquired the film from Tommy Alastra Productions, plans…...

Exclusive: Highland Film Group is introducing the project at Cannes.

Highland Film Group is in Cannes with Kevin Greutert’s Jackals starring Deborah Kara Unger and Stephen Dorff.

Shout! Factory holds Us rights to the 1980s-set story about an estranged family that hires a cult deprogrammer to save their teenage son from a murderous cult.

The family find themselves under siege when cult members surround their cabin and demand the return of the boy.

Tommy Alastra produced the completed psychological thriller through his Tommy Alastra Productions.

Highland Film Group’s sales slate includes Eric Bress’s Ghosts Of War starring Brenton Thwaites, Theo Rossi, and Skylar Astin; A Vigilante with Olivia Wilde; Looking Glass starring Nicolas Cage and Robin Tunney; and Guy Moshe’s The Last Draw Of Jack Of Hearts starring Josh Hartnett.

The roster also includes Corin Hardy’s The Crow starring Jason Momoa; Kevin Connolly’s The Life And Death Of John Gotti with [link=nm...

Stephen Dorff is starring in Jackals, Tommy Alastra Productions announced Tuesday.

Directed by Kevin Greutert (Saw VI, Saw 3D: The Final Chapter), the '80s-set psychological thriller centers on an estranged family who hire a cult de-programmer (Dorff) to get back their teenage son from a murderous cult, but find themselves under siege when the cultists surround their cabin, demanding the boy back.

Johnathon Schaech, Deborah Kara Unger, Ben Sullivan, Chelsea Ricketts and Nick Roux are also on board to star. Jared Rivet penned the script.

Besides Jackals, Alastra is gearing up to produce next year's Zelda Fitzgerald film The Beautiful and...

Don Johnsonand Deborah Kara Unger (The Game, Silent Hill) have joined Nicolas Cage in the film Vegeance: A Love Story based on the Joyce Carol Oates novel Rape: A Love Story. The film, which also stars Anna Hutchison (The Cabin in the Woods) and Talitha Bateman (The 5th Wave) is about a little girl (Bateman) who flags down Niagara Falls Police Detective John Dromoor (Cage) after her mother (Hutchison) has been brutally raped by four meth heads. Unger plays the rape victim…...

A new film is coming to the SyFy Channel. The Hollow will take part in the channel's 31 Days of Halloween. The film involves a weekend trip, on Halloween. Several characters become trapped on an isolated island. Here, a creature of fire is unleashed to creat real/reel terror. The film stars Stephanie Hunt (Friday Night Lights), Alisha Newton (Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters), Sarah Dugdale (Sorority Murder), Laine MacNeil (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) and Deborah Kara Unger. The trailer for the film was released last week and it can be found below. For more on the myth of the film: an insatiable creature is borne of fire. A curse woven over a 100 years ago is released by three sisters. Made of flame, bones and earth, this creature is unkillable. The trailer for The Hollow is a good one. It shows creative visual effects. And, the acting appears authentic as...

20. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

Directed by: Terry Gilliam

So…drugs, right? Based on Hunter S. Thompson’s 1971 novel of the same title, Fear and Loathing stars Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro as Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo, respectively. The pair is heading to Sin City, speeding through the Nevada desert, under the influence of mescaline. From there, the film is series a bizarre hallucinations seen through the eyes of Duke. So, we jump from hotel room to hotel room, all of the action a blur of what is happening and what really isn’t. Throughout the course of the film, Duke and/or Gonzo ingest the following drugs: mescaline, sunshine acid, diethyl ether, LSD, cocaine, and adenochrome (probably more). Duke – who is a Thompson stand-in – is supposed to be writing an article before heading back to Los Angeles, but tends to get sidetracked quite a bit. In...

As Alfonso Cuaron’s mega-hit Gravity continues to rack up praise and big box office dollars, it’s a good time to take a critical look at the weakest aspect of the film, which is the lead acting performance of Sandra Bullock.

It’s widely known that Cuaron’s first choice, Angelina Jolie, fell through and there were reported meetings with Marion Cotillard, Scarlett Johansson, Blake Lively, and Natalie Portman among other candidates, before Bullock was ultimately chosen.

These other contenders are clearly talented but they are still part of a group that could easily be called Hollywood Casting 101.

While the film’s financiers would disagree, Gravity is not a film that needed big stars, as the presence of George Clooney and Sandra Bullock is far less a contributor to its enormous success than the film’s suspense thriller concept and visually striking execution.

Obviously, a director on a big-budget...

While David Lynch's "Twin Peaks" will always stand proudly as the moment the distinct filmmaker freaked out America on national network TV, once the show was done, he was finished working on the small screen format. Less known among his filmography is a detour to HBO in 1993 for the three part miniseries "Hotel Room." Well, thanks to the glory of the interwebs, you can now spend the rest of the day hiding out from your boss and watching it in full. Penned by Barry Gifford ("Wild At Heart" author, "Lost Highway") and Jay McInerney (“Bright Lights, Big City”), the miniseries chronicles the lives of folks passing through a hotel in 1969, 1992 and 1936 (in that order). It's apparently more straightforward than the kind of stuff Lynch is usually known for, but it's also touched by the director's unique sensibility. And the cast? As usual, a fantastic array of support with Harry Dean Stanton,...

‘Finding Hillywood’: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to present documentary about Rwanda’s budding film industry The 2013 documentary Finding Hillywood, which offers a glimpse into the budding film industry in Rwanda, will be presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Bpeace, the Business Council for Peace, at a special screening on Monday, October 21, at 7 p.m. at the Academy Theater in New York City. The Finding Hillywood screening will be followed by an onstage discussion with Leah Warshawski, who directed and produced the documentary with Christopher Towey, and production designer Wynn Thomas (Ron Howard’s A Beautiful Mind, Spike Lee’s Inside Man), who was a member of the Academy’s International Outreach delegation to Rwanda and Kenya in 2011. According to the Academy’s website, Wynn Thomas and several other Academy delegates, among them actress Alfre Woodard (Cross Creek), writer-director Phil Robinson (Field of Dreams...

Django Unchained; Trouble With the Curve; Vehicle 19; A Dark Truth

Quentin Tarantino is a lot of things, but concise isn't one of them. Buried inside the sprawling 165 minutes of Django Unchained (2012, Sony, 18), there's a very decent two-hour retro-ploitation romp struggling to escape the indulgence of Hollywood's most under-edited auteur. On the plus side, we have knife-sharp central performances from Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz as (respectively) the recently freed titular slave and sharpshooting "dentist" Dr King Schultz, on a mission to rescue Django's wife from the slimy clutches of Leonardo DiCaprio's Calvin Candie.

The real jaw-dropper, however, is a brilliantly counterintuitive turn from Samuel L Jackson as Candie's insanely loyal house-servant, Stephen, a terrifying portrait of head-turned devotion that offers the film's most potentially radical element. It's here that whatever rude "politics" this possesses (including the usual fetishisation of the "N word") has gnarly bite. Elsewhere, it's more fan-boyish fare,...

Military massacres, corporate cover-ups, and water wars abound in the film A Dark Truth. When a large corporation's water facilities in Ecuador unleash a typhus outbreak, the local militia (who is in cahoots with said corporation) guns down the village to cover up the incident. A whistleblower within the company (the CEO's own sister no less—played by Deborah Kara Unger) hires ex-cia agent Jack Begosian (Andy Garcia) to run down there (from Canada) and find the only survivors (the unlikely married couple: Forest Whitaker and Eva Longoria) who have the proof of what happened.

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Chicago – You may be rolling your eyes. Oh, look, another critic ripping on a bad horror movie. But you may not know that not only am I a horror movie fan in general but I particularly liked the first “Silent Hill” film, to the point that I’m quoted on the DVD case for the flick. I approached the critically reviled “Silent Hill: Revelation” thinking that I might again be in the minority but would be happy to be so. I am not. This is a bad, bad, bad movie, breathtakingly incompetent in ways that can be fascinating when they’re not so straight-up stupid.

Rating: 0.5/5.0

How do people as talented as Sean Bean, Carrie-Anne Moss, Malcolm McDowell, Deborah Kara Unger, Martin Donovan, and Adelaide Clemens (so good in HBO’s “Parade’s End,” premiering this week) get sucked into nonsense like this? The film has a Very loose...

DVD Release Date: March 5, 2013

Price: DVD $30.99

Studio: Sony

Andy Garcia takes aim in A Dark Truth.

Andy Garcia (City Island) , Eva Longoria (TV’s Desperate Housewives) and Forest Whitaker (Repo Men) continue their spiral into of world of low profile project with their star turns in the 2013 environmental action-thriller film A Dark Truth.

In the jungles of Ecuador, a multinational conglomerate’s unholy alliance with a bloodthirsty military regime has resulted in a massacre. Only the rebel Francisco Franco (Whitaker) and his determined wife Mia (Longoria) can prove the truth. To settle a personal debt, former CIA agent Jack Begosian (Garcia) takes on the freelance assignment to rescue Francisco and risks everything in a brutal battle to expose the cover-up.

Written and directed by Damian Lee, the film co-stars Kim Coates (Resident Evil: Afterlife), Kevin Durand (Real Steel) and Deborah Kara Unger (The Game).

Lee won the 2012 Best Director Award...

There are several great Blu-Ray releases this week to help fend off those winter blues. In this week’s edition, Skyfall finally gets an explosive home release, The Man with the Iron Fists will give you a martial arts nerdgasm, and one of my favorite guilty pleasures arrives on deliciously-gory Blu-Ray.

Ready for this week’s Blu-Ray releases? Then read on.

Skyfall

Starring: Daniel Craig, Ralph Fiennes, Javier Bardem, Helen McCrory, Judi Dench, and Ben Whishaw.

Director: Sam Mendes

Daniel Craig returns to the role of James Bond for the intrepid super-spy’s twenty-third adventure. Critically acclaimed by critics and very positively received by viewers across two continents, the film has been nominated for five Academy Awards, eight British Academy Film Awards, and has won a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Plot: James Bond’s loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack,...

We warned you a few weeks ago that the ridiculously bad Silent Hill: Revelation would be hitting 3D Blu-ray Combo Pack, Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD, On Demand and Digital Download on February 12, 2013, from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. Now we have the artwork.

The set looks like it's coming at us bare bones. Thank the video gods.

Open Road released Silent Hill: Revelation (review) on October 26th. Sean Bean, Deborah Kara Unger, and Radha Mitchell return from the original film. In the sequel, directed by Michael J. Bassett (interview), Heather Mason (Clemens) and her father (Bean) have been on the run from mysterious and dangerous forces. She discovers she isn't who she thinks she is, leading her deeper into a demonic world.

Synopsis

For years, Heather Mason and her father have been on the run, always one step ahead of dangerous forces that she doesn’t fully understand. Now...

Welcome to issue 19 of Trailer Trash our series showcasing the latest trailer releases – this issue once again features our all-new “excitement-o-meter” where we rate (in exclamation marks on a scale of 1 to 5) each and every trailer by how excited we are to see the film after watching it. This issue of Trailer Trash includes new trailers for Admission, Turbo, This Is The End, House of Good and Evil and a new TV spot for Arnold Schwarzenegger’s The Last Stand.

Admission

Tina Fey (Date Night, 30 Rock) and Paul Rudd (I Love You Man, Knocked Up) star in Admission, the new film directed by Academy Award nominee Paul Weitz (About a Boy), about the surprising detours we encounter on the road to happiness. Straight-laced Princeton University admissions officer Portia Nathan (Fey) is caught off-guard when she makes a recruiting visit to an alternative high school overseen by her former college classmate,...

Missed the ridiculously bad Silent Hill: Revelation when it was in theatres? Well, it will be available on 3D Blu-ray Combo Pack, Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD, On Demand and Digital Download on February 12, 2013, from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. You may want to miss that, too.

No special features have been announced yet, but we wouldn't expect much, if any at all.

Open Road released Silent Hill: Revelation (review) on October 26th. Sean Bean, Deborah Kara Unger, and Radha Mitchell return from the original film. In the sequel, directed by Michael J. Bassett (interview), Heather Mason (Clemens) and her father (Bean) have been on the run from mysterious and dangerous forces. She discovers she isn't who she thinks she is, leading her deeper into a demonic world.

Synopsis

For years, Heather Mason and her father have been on the run, always one step ahead of dangerous forces that she doesn’t fully understand.

Here’s a little warning: first two clips are pretty boring, but then the real action starts! Four new clips from A Dark Truth movie are here, and I know you’re going to love it! Especially ’cause you’ll finally have a chance to see Eva Longoria, Andy Garcia and Forest Whitaker all pissed off and ready to fight against that evil multi-national corporation. What can I tell you guys, time to reveal the real truth!

Written and directed by Damian Lee, this action thriller draws attention to man’s inhumanity and unconscious actions against the environment & questions if there is a moral and ethical obligation when talking about boundaries, borders and human interaction.

The movie centers on Garcia’s character, an ex-cia op-turned political talk show host who gets hired by a corporate whistle blower (Longoria) to expose her company’s cover-up of a massacre in a South American village.

Forest Whitaker, Andy Garcia, Eva Longoria, Kim Coates, and Deborah Kara Unger star in Canadian director Damian Lee's political/environmental thriller, A Dark Truth, in which Garcia plays a former CIA operative turned political talk show host, who is hired by a corporate whistle blower (Unger) to expose her company’s cover-up of a massacre in a South American village. When he arrives, he is plunged into a violent and chaotic situation, with the military cracking down on a group of protesters led by a pair of activists (Whitaker and Longoria). The depletion of earth’s natural resource of water serves as the backdrop for the film. ...

Escape the jungle, expose the truth. Well, it’s actually going to be some kind of A Dark Truth, because we’re here to share the first clip from the movie which is set to open this January. And, on the other hand, this project is definitely worth our full attention ’cause some seriously good cast is on board. In case you forgot – Andy Garcia, Forest Whitaker and Eva Longoria all star in it! So, let us all take a trip to a South American village and see what’s so special about this movie…

Written and directed by Damian Lee, this action thriller follows an ex-cia op-turned political talk show host, played by Garcia who is hired by a corporate whistle blower, played by Longoria, to expose her company’s cover-up of a massacre in a South American village.

As you’re about to see in this short clip,...

Check out fresh images from Magnet Releasing's A Dark Truth starring Andy Garcia, Kim Coates, Deborah Kara Unger, Eva Longoria and Forest Whitaker. Damian Lee direcrs and writes the action thriller which also includes Kevin Durand, Devon Bostick, Lara Daans and Steven Bauer. Garcia plays a former CIA operative turned political talk show host, who is hired by a corporate whistle blower (Unger) to expose her company’s cover-up of a massacre in a South American village. When he arrives, he is plunged into a violent and chaotic situation, with the military cracking down on a group of protesters led by a pair of activists (Longoria and Whitaker). The ever-increasing depletion of earth’s natural resource of water serves as the backdrop for this tense environmental thriller. The film’s a co-production between Rollercoaster Entertainment and Vortex Words + Pictures, and Gary Howsam and Bill Marks are producing. Jeff Sackman, Garcia...