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On the face of it, Reeker looks a lot like yet another ‘isolated dumb teenagers’ movie and I very nearly passed it by…

En route to a desert rave, a group of students are forced to hole up in a deserted travel spot after discovering their planned route is inexplicably closed. Upon discovering that their shelter is something of a conduit between the living and the dead, their welfare ends up in the care of a blind grad student with heightened senses.

But then I had a look at a few reviews for this film, after which I watched the trailer.

This looks like a good film.

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I’m not sure how I missied this British/Irish co-production because it looks fantastic.

Sean Veil is an ultra paranoid murder suspect, virtually a prisoner trapped in his bunker of a home, who takes to video taping himself round the clock. All Sean wants from life is to have an alibi just in case he’s ever accused of another crime. Problems arise however when the police comes calling again and the very tape that can prove his innocence has mysteriously disappeared. Dipped in stone cold colors, Freeze Frame shivers in its world of blues, blacks and steel. With impeccable style and Swiss clock timing, debut director John Simpson leads us into an elaborate labyrinth of fear and revenge.

The film stars Lee Evans in the title role and - from the trailer, at least - it looks like he’s turned in a performance that is nothing short of incredible.

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Neil Marshall, the writer and director of the excellent Dog Soldiers is back, this time with caving horror, The Descent.

On a caving trip gone bloody wrong, six women battle through a harsh underground world, pitting their strength and determination against each new challenge. But there is something else lurking under the earth, a race of monstrous creatures hidden from the light, devolved to perfectly live in the dark … As the women realise they have become prey, they are forced to unleash their most primal instincts to face the hungry fiends. But, as old wounds break open and loyalties disintegrate, the women realise the horrible truth – that they have most to fear from one another.

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MirrorMask centers on Helena, a 15 year old girl in a family of circus entertainers, who often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault. On the eve of her mother’s major surgery, she dreams that she is in a strange world with two opposing queens, bizarre creatures, and masked inhabitants. All is not well in this new world - the white queen has fallen ill and can only be restored by the MirrorMask, and it’s up to Helena to find it. But as her adventures continue, she begins to wonder whether she’s in a dream, or something far more sinister.

More important than that, though, is the fact that MirrorMask is written by Neil Gaiman and directed by Dave McKean.

I’ve always enjoyed Neil Gaiman as a writer and, from the trailer, MirrorMask looks visually stunning.

And hat tip to Twitch for finding a quicktime version of the final trailer. It’s big (15 mb), so you are probably better downloading it than trying to watch it online. But it’s worth it.

Update: The trailer is now online at Apple.com as well, so you can enjoy the strangeness in all its streaming glory.

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Here’s another trailer courtesy of the International Fantasy Film Fest - I really am spending far too much time browsing this site. But what the hell…

This time around, the film is Andreaskorset, which I strongly suspect doesn’t directly translate to Crossing.

Norwegian director Martin Asphaug constructs a deadly and darkly funny triangle of attraction and deceit, an erotic life and death thriller, where he who doesn’t dare is bound to lose. Liv and Andreas live in a wonderful relationship of affection and playful eroticism, but a car accident leaves Andreas without both his health and his potency, and puts him in a wheelchair. When hunky handyman Wagner turns up, Liv is soon distracted from her handycapped husband. A dangerous game starts to unfold in the isolated country house, and as dark secrets from the past surface, it becomes a game of life and death.

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According to Reuters, The Constant Gardener, which is based on the John le Carre novel of the same name, highlights what the spy novelist calls the “appalling” practices of drug companies in Africa.

“What I wrote about in The Constant Gardener was about the outrageous behaviour of the pharmaceutical industry in the Third World, about the misuse of supposedly consenting patients in clinical trials,” le Carre told Reuters in a weekend interview.

Major conglomerates were developing drugs “not to cure the sick and the poor and needy of the world but actually to cure the rich, which is us in the West”, he said.

“You may see this as a radical perception, I see it simply as a humanist one.”

The Constant Gardener opens in the the US and Finland in August and the UK and the Netherlands in October.

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According to eFilmCritic.com, Una De Zombies…

tells the story of two aspiring film makers; the nerdish, hopeless Aijon and the arsehole radio DJ Caspas. Caspas loses his job after his incessant heckling of an underground criminal gang of zombies known as the Antichrists puts the station in danger, and Aijon is kicked out of his house (moments before his mother stabs him to death) and forced to live in a squalid flat. They join forces, get pissed, throw up lots (again, and again, and again….) then decide to make a film.

But, being inspiration-less, they quickly run onto dry ground. To get them back on track, they enlist the help of the sexy Carla to act as their muse. As the film goes on and the film within the film gets written, both are sucked into the middle of an undead gang war that they have unfortunately set off and must bring down.

It’s even more stupid than it sounds on paper, which is a fair achievement, but it’s great fun for it.

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Are you local?

The residents of the fictional Royston Vasey are facing a flaming Judgment Day because their creators have grown tired of writing the nightmarish TV series, The League of Gentlemen. In order to save their world, the locals must confront their creators that most unlocal of places - the real world.

Dark comic fun in a multi-level-mix of reality and fiction, more than Adaptation could provide. “The team’s brilliance at disguise and director Bendelack’s legerdemain come into their own when the TV characters meet their creators – leading to some clever meta-comedy when Lipp is forced to impersonate Steve Pemberton himself. The film takes an extravagant detour when Geoff finds himself drawn into the script for a projected ‘League Of Gentlemen’ film, an 18th-century horror drama in which three Catholic plotters try to assassinate King William III (Bernard Hill), with help from necromancer Dr Erasmus Pea (David Warner). This section features the film’s most extravagant special effects not to mention a host of spoofy nods at Kubrick, Cocteau, Greenaway et al. The film’s trump card remains the shape-shifting virtuosity of the League trio, whose own extraordinary cartoon physiognomies can look Hogarthian even without special-effects make-up.

The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse has already been released in the UK. Hopefully, a more international release won’t be too far in the future.

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How can anyone not leap up and down at the premise of mad cow disease turning people into zombies?

From the Fantasy Film Fest website…

DEAD MEAT is a damn entertaining little horror flick in its own right. The genre freaks will certainly enjoy the handful of homages and in-jokes littered throughout DEAD MEAT’s carnivorous craziness. You’ll notice a little Jackson here, a little Raimi there and of course a whole lot of Romero everywhere

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There isn’t a great deal of information around about this film, but it does star Steve Coogan as a man who runs an alibi service for adulterous husbands who gets into a jam with a new client. In trying to remedy the situation, he must rely on an alluring woman (Romijn-Stamos) who gets his heart racing.

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