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Remember Kids, YOU CAN'T KILL STEPHEN KING

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:30:47 -0500

I have no idea if the filmmakers responsible for upcoming horror comedy You Can't Kill Stephen King were aware that they were making a bad movie. I really don't. But the guys who cut the trailer? Oh, they knew exactly what they had on their hands and they've had a whole lot of fun with it.

A group of friends make a clueless and ill-fated decision to visit the lake where horror author Stephen King lives. Upon arrival, they are greeted by unfriendly townspeople who hate noise and tom-foolery almost as much as they hate uninvited guests and questions about their most famous resident. As dead bodies begin to mount, one thing becomes clear: all the killings are straight out of Stephen King novels. Facing imminent death, the remaining friends must piece together the clues and save themselves before their own Stephen King nightmare is written.

Stephen would be proud, I'm sure. Check the trailer below.

Shark Attack In Aisle Five. Full Trailer For Aussie Horror BAIT 3D

Tue, 15 May 2012 13:31:20 -0500

Some ideas just demand to be made into films. And one of those ideas involves a great white shark swept into a grocery store by a massive tsunami. Thank you Bait 3D, thank you.

Story's set in a sleepy beach community where shoppers at an underground supermarket are terrorized by a crazed bandit when a tsunami swallows the town. Now trapped, with rushing water threatening to entomb them, the survivors discover the tsunami has brought unwanted visitors from the depths -- hungry great white sharks.

Xavier Samuel (The Loved Ones, Twilight: Eclipse), Sharni Vinson (You're Next) and Julian McMahon (Nip/Tuck) star. Also, there's a shark. Check the trailer below!

Fresh Clip From Sean Byrne's THE LOVED ONES

Tue, 15 May 2012 12:30:41 -0500

About a zillion years after it wowed audiences on the festival circuit - it's actually been three - Sean Byrne's stellar Australian horror flick The Loved Ones is finally receiving a US theatrical release this summer. And do not let the behind the scenes wrangling make you think that the delay has anything to do with the quality of the film ... this one deserves every ounce of praise that has been heaped upon it.

Lola Stone asked Brent Mitchell to the prom, but Brent said no, and now he's screwed. What happens when Lola doesn't get what she wants? She enlists Daddy's help to throw a prom of her own where she is queen and Brent is king, whether he likes it or not. THE LOVED ONES is what happens when puppy love goes horribly, violently wrong. Brent should have said yes.

With the release now approaching a new clip from the film has arrived online ... the fateful moment when Brent tells Lola no lies below.

Utterly Abysmal New Trailer For Dario Argento's DRACULA 3D

Tue, 15 May 2012 11:30:10 -0500

When a sales trailer for Dario Argento's Dracula leaked out a while back there were some poised to forgive it its abundant flaws because it was, after all, still in progress. But polishing a turd makes it no less a turd and the official trailer that arrived today is utterly horrid. Bluntly, judging from this it's hard to believe that Argento ever made a single competent film in his career - never mind a string of classics - and I cannot even begin to imagine what the Cannes Film Festival was thinking when they selected this atrocity. Argento's career has gone beyond decline now to the point where the Italian auteur is simply feeding off the corpse of his legacy. The man needs to stop.

I spotted this one over at Bloody Disgusting and you can indulge your baser instincts below.

Get A Good Look At PROMETHEUS Herself In New Clip

Mon, 14 May 2012 17:03:13 -0500

Lest anyone forget, Ridley Scott's Prometheus takes its title from the space ship which carts its all star cast around and to drive that point home a one minute clip from the film has just been released which features the ship front and center.

It's the landing sequence, with Idris Elba guiding the craft to the surface of the planet where the action will take place, so no need to fear spoilers here. Check it below.

Two Fantastic Clips From Aubier And Patar's ERNEST AND CELESTINE

Mon, 14 May 2012 14:30:13 -0500

Belgian animation duo Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar earned themselves an international cult following with their debut feature A Town Called Panic. Based on the television shorts of the same name - Panique au Village in French, actually - the intentionally primitive stop motion followed the adventures of Horse, Cowboy and Indian with hilarious results. They are, of course, doing something completely different with their sophomore feature.

The friendship between a little mouse who didn't want to become a dentist and a big bear who didn't want to become a notary.

Ernest, a big marginal bear, with a cold and starving, is looking through garbage to find something to eat. Just when he's ready to put the first thing he finds into his mouth, a piercing cry rings out! "Stooooppp!". The little mouse he was going to swallow pleads: "if you don't eat me, I will give you whatever you want most in the world! And it will be better for your health than all this crap." And this is how Célestine, while trying to save her own life, turns that of Ernest upside down. From these unfortunate circumstances a friendship grows, fought by the world of mice (the upper world) and the world of bears (the underworld) but in vain: Ernest and Célestine will conquer all prejudices.

An adaptation of the popular children's book by Gabrielle Vincent, the first two clips from the Ernest And Celestine movie have arrived online and they are absolutely beautiful to behold, and absolute proof that anything primitive in their earlier work was entirely deliberate where the directors are concerned.

EXCLUSIVE: SORORAL Teaser Art Injects With Giallo Style

Mon, 14 May 2012 09:10:47 -0500

The upcoming thriller Sororal will be the first Australian film to pay homage to giallo, according to the creative team at Nakatomi Pictures. Giallo is of course the Italian sexy crime suspense / horror subgenre that features lurid colors, lots of blood as well as interesting musical arrangements, and was made popular by directors like Mario Bava, Dario Argento and Sergio Martino in the 1960s and 70s.

"I am absolutely in love with the unmistakable, pop art-infused look of giallo. Sororal owes a huge debt to Suspiria and Blood and Black Lace", says director Sam Barrett. "We were really drawn to giallo's striking colour palette - bold reds and yellows, vivid greens and purples. The heightened colour palette really transports you to a different world; a dangerous and psychedelic realm where anything is possible. Rabid giallo fans will not be disappointed. This film is a celebration of this wonderfully imaginative and under-appreciated genre."

Synopsis: A heady whirlwind of genetic experimentation, mind control, telekinetic power struggles and twisted art revolve around Sororal's heroine, Cassie, a troubled artist who tries to make sense of her vivid, violent dreams by committing her visions to canvas.

Sororal features a cast of mostly local talents, including Amanda Woodhams (as the lead) and Nicola Bartlett (Little Sparrows). It is currently in the final stages of post-production.

Embedded below is a snippet of an electronic section of the film's score.

Comets And Tentacle Monsters In The Full Trailer For David Cholewa's DEAD SHADOWS

Sun, 13 May 2012 21:00:11 -0500

You don't want to know where the tentacle goes.

We've been keeping a close eye on the progress of David Cholewa's scifi-horror hybrid Dead Shadows here at Twitch and today the full theatrical trailer for the film arrived online.

Dead Shadows tells the terrifying story about a young man, Chris, whose parents were brutally killed 11 years ago, on the same day that tHaley's Comet could be seen from earth. Tonight, a new comet is going to appear and everyone in his building are getting ready for a party to celebrate the event. There's even an apocalypse theory going around. As the night falls, Chris starts to discover that people are acting strange - and it seems to somehow be connected to the comet. People are becoming disoriented and violent and it doesn't take long before they start mutating into something from beyond this world. In a fight for survival, Chris has to try to escape from his building with the help from some other tenants - but will they make it out alive?

Dead Shadows is looking to be one of the happy surprises of 2012, a film that has consistently looked better with every new piece of material that has been released. This one is going to screen at the Cannes Marche du Film, expect it to turn up on the festival circuit shortly thereafter.

Full Trailer For Mika Ninagawa's HELTER SKELTER

Sun, 13 May 2012 20:00:57 -0500

Photographer turned director Mika Ninagawa turned heads around the world with her 2006 debut feature, the ultra colorful Sakuran. Ninagawa's debut immediately established her as one of Japan's brightest visual talents and fans were excited to see what she would do next. They've had to wait over five years to find out.

Ninagawa returns in 2012 with Helter Skelter, a film adapted from a popular manga about a young starlet who turns to ever increasing levels of plastic surgery to maintain her impossible image. To star Ninagawa has turned to Erika Sawajiri, a young woman whose dramatic rise and fall from grace - her career crashed dramatically in 2007 - is a mirror of the her character in the film.

The first full trailer for the film has just arrived - following a previous teaser - and, yes, it is clearly Ninagawa in full effect - the art direction and colorful palette that made Sakuran stand out so dramatically very much present here as well. Check it out below.

Meet The Lizard In New AMAZING SPIDER-MAN Video

Sun, 13 May 2012 12:12:20 -0500

With this summer shaping up to be the summer of super heroes the folks at Sony are eager to make sure their own entry in the sweepstakes - the Marc Webb directed The Amazing Spider-Man - isn't overlooked in all of the Avengers and Dark Knight Rises hoopla. And so they've rolled out a new video focusing on the villain of their new piece: The Lizard.

A blend of interview footage with star Rhys Ifans and footage from the film this latest clip gives a brief look into the mind of the character along with some fresh imagery. Check it out below.

Action Packed, Adrenaline Fuelled Trailer For Roar Uthaug's ESCAPE (FLUKT)

Sun, 13 May 2012 11:27:59 -0500

Director Roar Uthaug caused quite an international stir a few years back with the release of his Norwegian slasher Cold Prey, a film that was not just a hit at home but arguably the trigger point for the current wave of Nordic genre film. Cold Prey was a game changer and fans have been waiting for Uthaug to turn up again. With his sophomore feature he made the surprising choice to co-direct a children's fantasy film with his wife but now he's back in genre territory with his third effort, Escape (Flukt).

Ten years after the Black Death ravaged the country, a poor family is on a journey to find better living conditions. On a deserted mountain pass, they are attacked by a gang of ruthless outlaws. They only spare the life of the nineteen year old Signe. She is taken captive and the gang takes her back to their camp. Here she learns that she is intended a fate worse than death. Signe understands that the only solution is to escape.

Given that this is a period set action / chase picture the obvious point of comparison would be Neil Marshall's Centurion but if this just-released first teaser is to be believed not only does the film have its own personality but may best Marshall's excellent offering in terms of quality as well. Check it below.

First Teaser For Sion Sono's THE LAND OF HOPE

Fri, 11 May 2012 17:31:52 -0500

Surely one of the most prolific and diverse directors in the world today, Japan's Sion Sono is now deep into post production on his latest feature, The Land Of Hope.

While Sono is best known amongst fans of cult film for his more extreme work - Love Exposure, Guilty Of Romance, etc - the director has also been known to turn out some surprisingly heartfelt dramas and this one appears to be much more along those lines, a sort of soothing counterpoint to the raw wound of Himizu which was shot in the midst of - and directly incorporated - last year's massive earthquake disaster.

Once again Sono will address a community struck by an earthquake here but in this case he's choosing to give a more positive message - one of endurance and hope. The first teaser for the film has arrived online, check it below.

Live Action Trailer For Kenji Kamiyama's 009 RE:CYBORG

Fri, 11 May 2012 13:20:18 -0500

In an unusual marketing quirk, Japan's Production IG have released a live action trailer for Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex director Kenji Kamiyama's upcoming adaptation of Shotara Ishinomori's 009 Re:Cyborg. And what's so odd about that? Well, it's a (mostly) live action trailer for an animated feature.

009 Re:Cyborg follows a group of nine cyborgs, each of them created by a shadowy organization for use as weapons against humanity. The group turns on their creators to protect the population instead, using the powers given them to fight their creators. I had a chance to see a lengthy 3D promo from the film earlier this year and it looks absolutely stellar. Check the new trailer below.

Watch THE RAID In Three Minutes, With Claymation Cats

Fri, 11 May 2012 10:28:19 -0500

Gareth Huw Evans' The Raid is freshly released in the UK and to celebrate cult animation hero Lee Hardcastle - he of T Is For Toilet fame - has created his very own three minute version. In claymation. With cats. Check it out below.

First Clip From Andrew Dominik's KILLING THEM SOFTLY

Thu, 10 May 2012 16:25:42 -0500

The first clip from Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly - the film formerly known as Cogan's Trade - has arrived online prior to the Cannes premiere. And while the big guns - the biggest being Brad Pitt - is absent from this first peek we do get Sam Shepherd and his very large sidekick paying a violent visit to the trailer-home of Ray Liotta.

Dominik has never been one to take the straightest line between two points and this clip seems to indicate that this trait is, once again, in full effect. And that's exactly as it should be. Take a look below.