June 2008
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In Parasomnia, a stylish horror/thriller from director William Malone Laura Baxter is a young woman, literally a “sleeping beauty”, who suffers from a medical condition called “parasomnia”. A childhood accident victim, she is actually sleeping her life away, awakening briefly on rare occasions. Art student Danny Sloan falls in love with her, unaware that her hospital neighbor, a terrifying mass murderer and mesmerist named Byron Volpe has other, more sinister plans. Sloan helps Laura escape from her hospital prison only to discover that Volpe is about to enter her dreams.
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0 comments Monday 30 Jun 2008 | Paul | Horror, Thriller
Unable to accept the the loss of their son in the 2005 Tsunami, Jeanne and Paul Bellmer have remained in Phuket. Desperately clinging to the fact that his body was never recovered, Jeanne has convinced herself that the boy was kidnapped by traffickers in the chaos that followed the catastrophe… that her son is still alive. Paul is sceptical, but cannot bring himself to shatter his wife’s last hope. Bribing the sinister Mr Gao to take them by boat to the pirate-infested jungles of the Thai/Burmese border, the traumatized couple embark on a quest that will plunge them through paranoia and betrayal, ever deeper into an alien universe, a supernatural realm where the dead are never truly dead, and where nightmares, obsession and horrifying reality converge.
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0 comments Monday 30 Jun 2008 | Paul | Drama, Horror, Thriller
In this grim vision of the future where brutality is a virtue and mercy will cost you your life, contestants participate in a cross-country death race where killing is how you win the game.
Death Racers hits DVD in September 2008.
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0 comments Sunday 29 Jun 2008 | Paul | Action, Exploitation
Set in the 2056, Repo! The Genetic Opera, tells the story of an epidemic of organ failures that devastates the planet, killing tens of millions. Out of the tragedy, a savior emerges: GeneCo, a biotech company that offers organ transplants… for a price.
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Opie Gets Laid is an often offensive but thoroughly hilarious comedy centering around a porn-watching, food-obsessed loner whose life is changed when a slightly lost (but insanely attractive) pot delivery girl (April Wade) decides to “improve” him. Although viciously funny, Opie Gets Laid also manages to deliver intricate character development and great production values on a budget of under $100,000.
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0 comments Sunday 29 Jun 2008 | Paul | Comedy
A feature length horror film currently in production, Women’s Studies is the story of a pregnant grad student and her friends who are held captive at a women’s academy that’s actually a cult of feminists bent on the enslavement of men. Rather than a typical “hack & slash” horror movie, it’s an intelligent look at groupthink, women’s issues, and how blind belief in a one-sided dogma can create a terrorist.
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0 comments Sunday 29 Jun 2008 | Paul | Horror
Pediatrician Alex Beck (Francois Cluzet), still devastated by the savage murder of his wife Margot (Marie-Josee Croze) in the early days of their marriage eight years ago, receives an anonymous email.
When he clicks on the link, he sees a woman’s face standing in a crowd and being filmed in real time – Margot’s face. Is she still alive? And why does she instruct him to ‘tell no one.’
0 comments Sunday 29 Jun 2008 | Paul | Thriller
Before shooting the sci-fi feature movies FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions (2004) and Próxima (2007), Carlos Atanes showed his most disrubting and underground side through several short and medium-length films, so indescribable and often so wild than they were not able for be accepted by many TV channels and festivals (the last one, Welcome to Spain, has the suspicious record of have been rejected by more than 30 international festivals). However, people who were at their nineties’ legendary clandestine screenings etch them indeliblely at their memory.
Codex Atanicus collects, at last, in a single DVD, his three most strange, wicked and politically incorrect stories: the bizarre Metaminds & Metabodies (1995), the unpublished Morfing (1996) and the damned Welcome to Spain (1999).
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0 comments Friday 27 Jun 2008 | Paul | Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction
It is the summer of ‘66, and England is about to be consumed by World Cup Fever. For 12 year-old Bernie though, the biggest day of his life is looming: his Bar Mitzvah, and the day he becomes a man. However, Bernie’s family are increasingly distracted by the threat of losing their business and their wayward older son, and the scale of Bernie’s Bar Mitzvah diminishes daily. Worst of all the Cup Final is scheduled to take place on the same day and when England makes it through the qualifying rounds, Bernie’s longed-for Bar Mitzvah looks set to be a complete disaster…
0 comments Friday 27 Jun 2008 | Paul | Comedy, Drama
From the director of “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,” Alex Gibney’s Taxi to the Dark Side is a gripping investigation into the reckless abuse of power by the Bush Administration. By probing the homicide of an innocent taxi driver at the Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan, the film exposes a worldwide policy of detention and interrogation that condones torture and the abrogation of human rights. This disturbing and often brutal film is the most incisive examination to date of the Bush Administration’s willingness, in its prosecution of the “war on terror,” to undermine the essence of the rule of law. The film asks and answers a key question: what happens when a few men expand the wartime powers of the executive to undermine the very principles on which the United States was founded.
Incorporating rare and never-before-seen images from inside the Bagram, Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay prisons, and interviews with former government officials such as John Yoo, Alberto Mora and Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, interrogators, prison guards, New York Times reporters Tim Golden and Carlotta Gall (who wrote the first stories about the homicides in Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan) and the families of tortured prisoners, the film dissects the progression of the Administration’s policy on torture from the secret role of key administration figures, such as Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales and others to the soldiers in the field.
In the face of thousands of prisoners passing through the system, an astonishing number of admitted homicides, and a hastily drafted law – the Military Commissions Act – that grants immunity to government officials for crimes against humanity while denying the fundamental right of habeas corpus to others, “Taxi to the Dark Side” forces us to ask why, in the face of so much evidence of the ineffectiveness of cruelty as a means of obtaining information, we sought to insist on its use? Have we, by pursuing such ruthless means, lost the moral high ground in the war on terror and made ourselves less safe? Even more important, have we compromised our own sense of humanity, our democratic values and our effectiveness as a world leader?
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0 comments Wednesday 25 Jun 2008 | Paul | Documentary