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Film4 Frightfest Preview
This bank holiday weekend, Empire Leicester Square is once again haunted by the annual Film4 Frightfest. Five days, three screens and a few dozen premieres, debuts, sequels and rereleases – there should be plenty to keep horror aficionados safe from the holiday sunshine. It all kicks off with Thursday night’s premiere of The Dead 2: […] More
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Hey Canada: Win Tickets To One Of The Best Horror Films In Years, ‘You’re Next’
If you are craving a kick-ass horror film that will scare you out of your seat, look no further. Adam Wingard’s You’re Next has received nothing but high praise from our staff who have been tracking it since the World Premiere two years ago at TIFF. Edgar Chaput recently reviewed it at the Fantasia Film […] More
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Covering a film festival: Fantasia 2013
Fantasia Film Festival 2013: The Fantastic Voyage reaches the finish line… The 2013 Fantasia Film Festival, after three intensive weeks (presuming you followed along either as a press member or a die hard fan), came to a close right around this time last week. Well, okay, describing the event as ‘long’ is a […] More
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Fantasia Film Festival 2013: Top 5 favourite movies
As of Thursday morning, August 8th 2013, the most recent edition of the Fantasia Film Festival will be a thing of the past. What began with some major, exciting announcements in late June, a press conference on July 9th and tons of public screenings from July 18th to August 7th is in the history books. […] More
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Fantasia Film Festival 2013: ‘You’re Next’ is as terrifying as a house full of booby traps
Filmmaking functions heavily in accordance with associations. When things go well on projects certain cliques form. For example, in comedy there is the Apatow gang, featuring writer-director Judd Apatow and such actors as Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd just to name a few. In the American independent horror film genre, there is the group comprised of writer-director Adam Wingard, writer-director-actor Joe Swanberg, actors A.J. Bowen, Amy Seimetz as well as arguably the most notable name of the bunch, writer-director-actor Ti West. Fans are in luck because the entire gang is back with the home invasion film You’re Next, the wait for which has been mind-numbingly long since it’s premier at TIFF…in 2011. More
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10 non-blockbuster films we’re looking forward to this summer
The summer season has, over the past few decades, become synonymous with movie blockbuster season, as studios have found the months of May to August to contain the most profitable release dates for big-budget tentpole features, leading to the summer of recent years being filled with superhero films, big budget CGI features, and other tentpole […] More
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‘You’re Next’ impales, smashes, and gouges
As setups go, You’re Next has a great one. The crazed lunatic’s target is a family reunion, featuring a recently retired couple, their four adult but painfully immature children, and said children’s painfully awkward significant others. Given that the family could have been cut from a J.Crew catalogue (or culled from a therapist’s waiting room), the situation is horrific without a murdering lunatic present. More
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SXSW Announces Midnight Slate
As if the line-up for SXSW wasn’t already incredible; the fest just announced their Midnight slate, which includes Rob Zombie’s The Lords Of Salem, V/H/S/2, You’re Next and the latest from director Vincenzo Natalie. SXSW runs from March 8-16. Here is the main lineup. You can see a complete list, which includes short films, over […] More
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Best Horror Films / Thrillers of 2011
Filmmakers have continued to push boundaries and find new innovative ways to elicit the emotions of fear, disgust and horror from viewers. Since Alfred Hitchcock directors strived to provoke viewer’s nightmares, hidden fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown. Although a good deal of it is about the supernatural, others have focused more on a […] More
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Fantastic Fest 2011 Awards Announced: S.oS. Faves ‘Bullhead’, ‘You’re Next’ and ‘Milocrorze: A Love Story’ Take Top Honours
While Emmett and I will spend the next few days catching up on posting our reviews from Fantastic Fest, tonight Alamo Drafthouse owner and Fantastic Fest Creative Director Tim League announced the 2011 Fantastic Award winners. It’s great to see Adam Wingard’s You’re Next take home best film and best director in the category of […] More
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Fantastic Fest 2011: Top 10 Most Anticipated Films
The best part about Fantastic Fest is that it offers a unique opportunity for discovery. I mean where else am I going to see a movie about a blind, formerly alcoholic MMA enthusiast or a film exploring the seedy underbelly of the Belgian beef industry? But with over 100 feature and short films there’s a […] More
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TIFF 2011: Adam Wingard’s ‘You’re Next’ impales, smashes, and gouges
You’re Next Directed by Adam Wingard Written by Simon Barrett 2011, USA, 96 minutes It’s hard to really nail a slasher. It’s hard to make it visceral, to make a well-worn formula exciting, and to make it make sense, all while knowing that your audience has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the genre and will gleefully […] More
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