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Cult Projections in conjunction with the lovely folk at Transmission Films have some Blu-ray Discs and DVDs of hot French drama Blue is the Warmest Colour to giveaway!
Drop me a message in my Letterbox and tell me your favourite gay-themed movie, and why. I'll pick the four best answers and throw a disc your way.
Don't forget to indicate your preference for either BD or DVD, and don't forget to include a mailing address!
This competition is only open to Australian residents.
Ruin
I had the highest expectation from director Amiel Courtin-Wilson, as his debut feature, Hail, was one of my favourites from SFF2011. He’s sharing directorial duties with his producer from Hail, Michael Cody, and they’ve embarked on an Asian odyssey, telling the tale of two young fugitives in the desolate beauty of Cambodia. It’s an Australian production, but it’s by no mean an Australian story. In an admittedly perverse comparison, Ruin is an Asian True Romance, without the black comedy. Filled, once again, with the dreamlike visual splendour, at times impressionistic, and times abstract, that made Hail so mesmerising and memorable, but lacking the overt surrealism, and character fascination that made his debut so incredibly original. Ruin weaves like a rudderless canoe on a wild, dangerous river, then drifts into the tall reeds and is still as a crocodile waiting. I had difficulty grappling with feeling an real empathy for the two protagonists; even though Sovanna (Sang Malen)’s sex trade predicament is dire, she offers so little in terms of expression. But on a surface level Ruin was sumptuous. I loved the way it was filmed; the mood and rhythm, and the score was impressive, yet the movie’s narrative and characters left me feeling hollow and strangely irritated. I’d like to see Amiel tackling someone else’s screenplay.
Fish & Cat
Imagine if Jim Jarmusch, David Lynch, and Andrei Tarkovsky were seated in a strange smelling off-road restaurant. What would the conversation be like? What photos would they pull from their wallets? What would they order from the menu? How long would the pauses be between topics? Iranian filmmaker Shahram Mokri, who shot A Separation, sets about creating a study on the fissures that burn the fabric of time, the pot-holes in conventional narrative are filled with reflective water, and Mokri’s characters find themselves drinking déjà vu. Shot in a single Steadicam take, this two-hour plus is like the ghost of Samuel Beckett haunting a journey through a circular space and time. It is, quite simply, an exasperating, existential nightmare.
Love Eternal
Based on a Japanese novel called In Love With the Dead, about an orphaned young man who believes himself unfit to play his part in human society, a man whose desire lies deep in the darkness of his soul where life does not breathe. Ian (Robert de Hoog) is a man with a troublesome fixation on the intimacy of death. He is a borderline necrophile, and a few women will become part of his lonely predilection, most importantly, the grieving Naomi (Pollyanna McIntosh). Irish director Brendan Muldowney, who made Savage, tackles delicate and darkly fascinating subject matter, but unfortunately this potentially powerful drama dissipates in the second half becoming less the perverse thriller it could have been, and more a quirky coming-of-age melodrama. A shame, then, as the performances are strong, but the dark artful intent is ultimately squandered.
Babylon
Directors Danny Boyle and Jon S. Baird tackle the small screen with refreshing verve. With a tight-as-a-deadline teleplay by Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong, two very funny writers responsible for the hilarious Four Lions movie and television’s Peepshow, this is a pilot to a new UK comedy-drama about life on the frontline for a London police force. Dealing with those making split-second decisions on the streets, to those deliberating behind the scenes in the offices higher up the ladder of the law. It’s a great ensemble cast, but the focus whizzes around new recruit Liz Garvey (charismatic Brit Marling), who finds the change from talking TED for Instagram to Metro Police’s Director of Communications comes with a its own tricky dealings. No yay or nay on whether a series will get the green light.
In Order of Disappearance
I liked Zero Kelvin, nearly twenty years ago, and thoroughly enjoyed A Somewhat Gentle Man from several years ago, so I was very much looking forward to the new movie from Scandinavian director Hans Petter Moland. The always-reliable Skellan Skarsgard plays a Norwegian ski resort snowplough driver who finds his life turned upside down when drug dealers murder his young adult son. What follows is an uproarious comedy of manners/errors, as black as the midnight sun. The over-the-top violence only adds to the movie’s Coen Brothers-esque absurdity. The movie meanders in the second half, and by the time we reach the elaborate shoot-out finale the story has been stretched a bit far. Still, top marks for Pal Sverre Hagen’s drama queen villain, and great to see Bruno Ganz again. Original title, Kraftidioten, translates as “Bloody Fool”.
When Animals Dream
Marie (Sophie Suhls) lives in a small provincial Danish fishing village. She is an only child. Her mother is wheelchair bound, in a stupor. Her father administers a daily sedative, and Marie takes her for strolls down by the rugged ocean. But there is something swelling, not just the dark clouds and the ragged surf. There is something burgeoning deep within Marie. Puberty has come and gone, but her sexuality is on the rise, bristling like the dark hairs that have sprouted across the top of her breast. A lycanthropic coming-of-age thriller that can't decide whether it wants to bite like a horror movie, or howl like a provocative drama, so it perches in the corner growling. The establishing montage promised so much more than what it delivered in terms of atmosphere and a compelling story. Marie's hazy blood and fury bad dreams were about as intense as it got, but all too brief. Despite decent performances, the characters were all too familiar; the father and doctor in collusion, the wishy-washy romantic interest, the work bully. If only the mother and daughter relationship - and the movie's intriguing sub-plot - had been played more prominently, this movie might've been more of a contender. But, black comedy aside, this was no Ginger Snaps.
Cult Projections in conjunction with the lovely folk at Monster Pictures have four copies - two BD and two DVD - of the brilliant new vampire movie Kiss of the Damned (my favourite movie from last year!), directed by Xan Cassavetes, daughter of the late great John Cassavetes.
Drop me a line in my Letterbox and tell me which vampire movie is the sexiest you've ever seen and why. I'll pick the four juiciest answers and send out a copy of this most bold and bloody awesome vamp flick.
Don't forget to include a mailing address and your preference for Blu-ray Disc or DVD.
This competition is only open to Australian residents, I'm afraid.
Cult Projections and the lovely folk at Transmission Home Entertainment have got ten copies of the gloriously excessive black comedy action-horror Evil Feed (which I thoroughly enjoyed at last year's Monster Fest). Five Blu-ray Discs and five DVDs are up for grabs!
Drop me a line in my Letterbox and tell me what's the best cannibal flick you've seen and why? I'll pick the ten tastiest answers and send a copy of the movie your way. Don't forget to state BD or DVD preference and don't forget to include a mailing address.
Competition is only open to Australian residents, I'm afraid.
The Long Pig Restaurant is the ultimate underground restaurant sensation, where only the richest can taste the most refined meals and worldwide best…cannibalistic haute cuisine. Newly run Steven (Terry Chen) an overachieving son who delicately put his father to retirement by severing his head, the Long Pig has introduced novelty by capturing elite MMA fighters and then serving losers to their bloodthirsty customers. Perfect “Tendertainment!"
Jenna (Laci J Mailey), an aspiring stunt girl, is violently kidnapped with her friends by Triads and wakes up in the Long Pig holding cell waiting for her turn to fight in the Pit of Gore. In order to survive, she must fight her way out before being skinned alive and becoming the next main course. Throw in the Russian mob, competing cannibals, and a nymphomaniac masseuse; and you’ve got a crazy, over-the-top, sexy and bloody hell of a dinner movie!
Cult Projections in conjunction with Icon Entertainment have a couple of Blu-rays of Jon S. Baird's seething, pitch-black study of a corrupt cop, Filth, based on the novel by Irvine Welsh, to giveaway to a couple of lucky people.
Who is the baddest cop in movie history and why?
Drop your answer in my Letterbox - and don't forget to include a mailing address - and I will select the two best answers and pop a BD in the mail. Howzat?!
This competition is only open to Australian residents, I'm afraid.
The lovely folk at Icon in conjunction with Cult Projections have five double-passes to giveaway to see the new science fiction young adult actioner Ender's Game for the lucky folk who respond to this question with a cool answer in my Letterbox!
What is the most kick-ass alien invasion movie?
I will pick the five coolest answers and send them a double-pass in the mail. Just like that. Remember to include a mailing address with your answer.
This competition is only open to Australian residents.
Based on the bestselling book of the same name the highly anticipated Ender's Game features an all-star cast including Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield (Hugo), Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine), Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit), Viola Davis (The Help) and Ben Kingsley (Hugo).
In the near future, a hostile alien race has attacked Earth. If not for the legendary heroics of International Fleet Commander, Mazer Rackham (Ben Kingsley), all would have been lost. In preparation for the next attack the highly esteemed Colonel Graff (Harrison Ford) and the international military are recruiting and training only the best young children. Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield), a shy, but strategically brilliant boy is pulled out of his school to join the elite. Ender is soon ordained by Graff as the military's next great hope to lead his fellow soldiers into an epic battle that will determine the future of Earth and save the human race.
TRAILER LINK:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtgpUK0woSk&list=PL0XnoGb6_BuGwtj6Ln21fPRFBbZh2bW-F
- Feature Films
- Shorts
- Animations
- Short films inspired by H. P. Lovecraft
- Horror music videos
- Screenplays
Enter now via Withoutabox: https://www.withoutabox.com/login/5508
Or click here for more festival details: http://www.anightofhorror.com/
In 2014, A Night of Horror will again be taking place in conjunction with Fantastic Planet Film Festival. Together the festivals provide Australia's leading showcase of independent genre specific cinema. Combined, the fests screened over 100 films in 2013. Both festivals retain independent programs and their own specific award categories.
A Night of Horror International Film Festival is Sydney, Australia's premier horror film event. Now in its eighth year, the festival remains dedicated to screening and promoting the work of independent filmmakers working in the horror genre from both Australia and abroad. What began as an idea for a one-night event (hence the festival’s name) now spans for 11 days.
The 5th annual Fantastic Planet Film Festival is now accepting submissions to the following categories:
- Feature Films
- Shorts
- Animations
- Music videos
- Screenplays
More details at: http://www.fantasticplanetfilmfestival.com/submission.htm
Or enter online now through Withoutabox: https://www.withoutabox.com/login/7312
Founded by the team behind Australia's leading horror genre film event - A Night of Horror International Film Festival - Fantastic Planet programs the latest in independent science fiction, fantasy, horror, thriller and cult cinema, and hosts a number of parties, forums, and special events.
In 2014, Fantastic Planet Film Festival will again be taking place in conjunction with A Night of Horror Film Festival. Together the festivals provide Australia's leading showcase of independent genre specific cinema. Combined, they screened over 100 films in 2013. Both festivals retain independent programs and their own specific award categories. The festival prides itself in presenting the work of independent filmmakers not only to enthusiastic audiences but also to media and leading industry professionals.
FilmInk Magazine says: "A Night of Horror and Fantastic Planet team up... to bring genre buffs and film fans a fistful of the most original, innovative and thrilling independent pics you’ll see all year."
The lovely folk at Icon Films in conjunction with Cult Projections have five double-passes to see the highly anticipated sequel, Machete Kills, starring the anti-hero-with-attitude Danny Trejo, and re-uniting him with maverick-with-the-most, director Robert Rodriguez, who gave us the brilliant modern grindhouse cult classic Planet Terror and the amazing graphic novel adaptation Sin City!
"Trained to kill, left for dead, Machete is back and this time he’s on the right side of the law. With gleefully gory comic book action, outrageously over-the-top characters and an absurd all-star cast including Jessica Alba, Sofia Vergara, Vanessa Hudgens, Amber Heard, Alexa Vega, Antonio Banderas, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Mel Gibson, plus Lady Gaga and “introducing” Carlos Estevez (Charlie Sheen) as President of the United States.
Bigger, bolder and more badass than ever, Machete Kills is one of the coolest, gore-splattered, star-studded action films ever!"
Click here to watch the trailer
Drop me a private message in my LETTERBOX and tell me your favourite hardcore violent action movie. I will pick the five best selections and they'll get a double-pass to see Machete Kills, for a bit of hardcore violent Machete action on the big screen!
DON'T FORGET TO INCLUDE A MAILING ADDRESS!
Machete Kills opens in Australia on Thursday October 24th
The lovely folk at Anchor Bay Entertainment in conjunction with Cult Projections have a some serious horror to give away for your home viewing pleasure of nightmares!
Five copies of I Spit On Your Grave 2 (3 x Blu-ray and 2 x DVD), and five copies of The Demented (DVD) are up for grabs!
Check out my review for the surprisingly good sequel to the rather excellent remake of one of the most controversial rape-revenge flicks of all time.
Drop me a message in my private LETTERBOX and tell me what revenge flick really slapped you around. I will pick the five best answers and slap them with a copy of I Spit On Your Grave 2.
Drop me another message and tell me what's the bat-craziest psycho flick you've ever seen, and I'll hit you with a copy of The Demented.
DON'T FORGET TO INCLUDE A MAILING ADDRESS!
This competition is only open to Australian residents, I'm afraid.
Monster Picture's Monsterbox.TV - live streaming rent and/or download purchase of their movies - is grinning from gill to gill as they announce Sharknado (that's a bunch of great white sharks within a tornado, if you hadn't guessed).
From 8.30pm tonight - Friday September 6th - you'll be able to rent the movie and watch it via live streaming from the site, or purchase the movie and download it to your own computer archive to watch time and time again.
If you dig the Mariana Trench deep trashiness of movies like Sharktopus, then you will devour yourself over the whirling serrated white terror that is Sharknado!
Visit http://monsterbox.tv/AU/ to face the beast!
Visit http://monsterpictures.com.au and if you sign up now you're in the chance to win a year's worth of free movies! Now that's nothing to snarl at!
As one of the new Fiends of Trasharama it is my honour and duty to inform you that the infamous Trasharama-a-Go-Go Film Festival is stalking movies for its fourteenth year of screenings across Australia. It’s been a long three-year hiatus but now it’ll be bigger and more ugly than ever as they’re now in evil alliance with Monster Pictures' Monsterfest!
Trasharama 2013 will be premiering in Hellbourne in November 2013, with other states and New Zealand to follow in the coming months.
The program showcases short films that come under the theme of "trash". This doesn’t mean they’re looking for movies that are rubbish; they are, in fact, looking for ambitious low-budget productions that are highly entertaining and come under the "cult" banner.
Films that highbrow mainstream cinema critics would call "trash" are welcomed at Trasharama. Think George Romero, early Peter Jackson, or the Pope of Puke John Waters. Don’t think Driving Miss Daisy, unless Daisy is a psychotic man-eating alien transvestite!
The program is open to film veterans or virgins. Take that as you please. There are no limits on what films are screened but horror, blood, babes, animation, cheesy retro, weird documentaries, the offbeat and bizarre gets them going. They encourage originality, and they've found in the past that black humour with a twisted bent works well.
There will be prizes and awards - to be announced - for the best-judged films, with winners to be announced at the premiere screening of Monsterfest (date to be announced). One award they’re particularly excited about is the Laurence Harvey Award, which will go to the most sick and twisted movie of the festival! If you’re familiar with The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) you’ll know Laurence as the lovable but silent central character Martin Lomax. Laurence himself will be on hand for a word.
Deadline for entries is September 13th, 2013!
For all information on the festival, including entry forms and how to submit your film, head to our website Trasharama.
Also, check out Monster Pictures for all updates on Trasharama 2013 and this year's Monsterfest.
And don’t forget to like them on Facebook to stay up to date on all the latest news!
Listed below are the Prize Sponsors for the Trasharama-a-Go-Go Film Festival 2013. There be some doozies here!
PRIZE SPONSORS
Monster Pictures: http://monsterpictures.com.au/
A whole bunch of DVDs and stuff from the world's coolest and sickest movie distro. Prizes for film makers and audience giveaways.
The demented brainiacs behind: Monsterfest. http://monsterpictures.com.au/monster-fest/
Fangoria Magazine: http://www.fangoria.com/new/
Prize: 1 year subscription to one of the world's great horror magazines.
Hooligan Streetwear:
http://hooligan-streetwear.com/
Prizes and audience giveaways.
Zombie Glamour: https://www.facebook.com/xZombieGlamourx
100 dollar gift voucher from the most ghoulishly cool shop around.
Midnight Marquee Press: http://www.midmar.com/exploitationMASSACRED.html
1 signed copy of Lee Gambin's great new book: Massacred by Mother Nature. You'll never look at your pets the same again!!
Offal Eaters Movie Memorbillia: https://www.facebook.com/offal.eaters.5
Posters and movie related memorbillia from the Offal Eater's HOUSE OF THE DAMNED!!
Transmog Fx: http://tranzmogfx.com.au/
A NEW TRANZMOG FX Halloween Mask plus a Ghastly Prize pack including: a D.I.Y Zombie SFX Kit and some world famous GHAST BLOOD (fake blood), all worth about $100
Inside Film Magazine: http://if.com.au/
1 year subscription to the most informative and up tyo date film mag in Oz. A must read for film makers.
Plus keeping Median and Arkhaum of course....
Fiends of Trasharama:
Digital Retribution: http://www.digital-retribution.com/
Cult Projections: cultprojections.com Please visit my archival site: Horrorphile - Pleasure of Nightmares
Cult Projections and the lovely folks at Icon have five double-pass giveaways to see the new horror movie, You're Next, from splat pack director Adam Wingard. It's a severed-tongue in cheek home invasion flick starring hot new Aussie star Sharni Vinson.
Drop me message in my Letterbox and tell me your favourite home invasion flick and why. I'll pick the five most entertaining answers and pop an in-season pass for two in the post. Don't forget to include a mailing address with your answer.
IN CINEMAS AUGUST 29.
Trailer link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp2kMwyQh5E&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PLDAACBB96D85D1D05
"One of the smartest and most terrifying films in years, You're Next reinvents the genre by putting a fresh twist on the home-invasion horror. This disturbing story follows the Davison family who have gathered at their secluded vacation home for a family reunion and find themselves the target of some creative and chillingly cruel killers. When the hapless victims seem trapped, an unlikely guest of the family proves to be the most talented killer of all. Starring Australia’s own Sharni Vinson, You're Next has screened at this years’ Sydney Film Festival and Melbourne International Film Festival."
Sorry, but this competition is only open to Australian residents.
Popcorn Taxi presents one of the most enigmatic and resonant movies of the year, Shane Carruth's Upstream Color, plus an exclusive chat with him live from Paris!
Shane Carruth was inspired by Robert Rodriguez’s El Mariachi to create his first low-budget ($7000) film, Primer (2004), which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, and a host of other awards. It’s now considered a classic of the time-travel genre. He recently consulted on Rian Johnson's scrpt for Looper.
Shane is a former software engineer with a degree in mathematics, who brings a unique approach to feature filmmaking – directing, writing, acting in, producing, composing and editing his work. According to Carruth not a molecule of Hollywood touched his film.
For more info: http://www.popcorntaxi.com.au/2013/07/events/upstream-color-qa-with-director-shane-carruth-live-from-paris/
Time: 7:15pm (sharp!), doors open 6.45pm
Date: Wednesday August 14, 2013
Where: Event Cinemas, Bondi Junction, NSW
Price: $23/21 concession
Tickets: enter now at www.popcorntaxi.com.au
For more information contact – Chris Murray - chris@popcorntaxi.com.au
The lovely folk at Hopscotch in conjunction with Cult Projections have ten double-passes to see the acclaimed new Aussie horror movie 100 Bloody Acres at cinemas!
Message me in my Letterbox and tell me what is your favourite psycho doctor movie. I'll choose the ten best - less obvious - answers! Don't forget to include a mailing address!
This competition is only open to Australian residents.
The dangerous and glorious misfits at Monster Pictures are seizing the future by the throat!
MONSTERBOX.TV is the world's first horror and cult specific VOD platform. VOD is Video On Demand.
But they want your feedback! To get your fingers a’ twitchin’ and your mouths a’ droolin’ they’re offering rentals of any title in the catalogue for the once only, eye-popping price of one grimy dollar! One dollar? Yes just one piece of filthy lucre.
So what's on Monsterbox already? The Human Centipede 1 & 2, The Woman, Manborg, Grabbers, Penance, Helldriver, and many more, with many more to come.
For anyone who rents a movie and sends their feedback to info@monsterpictures.com.au, they will put your name in a draw to win tickets to MIFF, tickets to Cultastophe, a $100 worth of credit to Monsterbox TV, and five DVDs or Blu-rays of your choice.
They want your “I LOVE MY MONSTERBOX.TV” selfies posing with the Monster Pictures site so they can post them on Facebook for the enjoyment and pleasure of MonsterFreaks like you. They’ll be regularly picking the “best pics” [Ed: grimiest, more like!] and the winners will receive things like DVDs, tickets to events, Monster t-shirts, vouchers, fame, fortune, glory etc.
As Monster Pictures says, "Be sexy, be silly, be crass, be covered in gore, be covered in shit, we don’t care really, just be yourself and be beautiful – as long as we can see you and the MONSTERBOX.TV logo clearly, we’re happy!"
All you need to do is snap them send them in to info@monsterpictures.com.au and they’ll post them for you.
For more information visit the Monster Pictures site!
Popcorn Taxi presents the only cinema screening of Antiviral in Sydney!
"Antiviral is the debut feature from Brandon Cronenberg, son of Canada's king of visceral and existential horror, David Cronenberg. Dad ought to be proud because Antiviral will freak you out. It's creepy medical horror meets social commentary in a highly stylized debut. The film is set in a future world where obsessed fans can inject themselves with the diseases that their idols are suffering from. Starring Caleb Landry Jones and Malcolm McDowell, the film is a chip off the same gruesome block as Videodrome, Rabid and Naked Lunch. After the screening, Cronenberg Jr will answer your questions - live from Toronto."
What: Antiviral and Q&A with director Brandon Cronenberg, live from Toronto
Where: Event Cinemas, Bondi Junction
When: 7pm sharp, Monday 29th of July, 2013
How much: $23/$21 concession
Link for more info: http://www.popcorntaxi.com.au/2013/07/events/antiviral-qa-with-director-brandon-cronenberg-live-from-toronto/
Cult Projections in conjunction with the lovely folk at Icon Films have five double-passes to see the blistering new movie from modern master filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn, Only God Forgives, which just won the major film prize at this year’s Sydney Film Festival.
“Only God Forgives is a stylish east-meets-west thriller, set in the back alleys of Bangkok’s criminal underworld. Julian (Ryan Gosling) runs a Thai boxing club in Bangkok, as a front for his drug business. When Julian’s brother (Tom Burke) is killed, after savagely murdering a young prostitute, his mother (Kristin Scott Thomas), the head of a vast criminal organisation, arrives to collect the body. Crazy with rage and thirsty for vengeance she demands the head of the murderers from Julian; but first, Julian must confront Chang (Vithaya Pansringarm), a mysterious retired policeman - and figurehead of a divine justice. This sets in motion a range of events that leads to a bloody path of rage, betrayal, ultimate confrontation, and possibly even redemption.”
Drop me a private message via my site LETTERBOX telling me your favourite foreign thriller. I’ll pick the five best and send out the double-pass. Please remember to include a mailing address.
This giveaway competition is only open to Australian residents, sorry.
Only God Forgives is in Australian cinemas July 18.
Click on link to watch trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP_zO9jQjVc
The lovely folk at Icon in conjunction with Cult Projections have ten double passes to see the new zomedy (zombie comedy) Warm Bodies in cinemas.
Tell me which zombie movie you find the scariest and I will pick the ten best answers.
THIS COMPETITION IS ONLY OPEN TO AUSTRALIAN RESIDENTS
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