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Cockneys vs. Zombies

Directed by Matthias Hoene Written by James Moran & Lucas Roche Produced by James Harris Released by Shout Factory UK. 88 min. Not rated With Harry Treadaway, Michelle Ryan, Alan Ford, Ashley Thomas, Honor Blackman, Rasmus Hardiker & Georgia King From years back, you might remember a little movie called Shaun of the Dead, where […]

Byzantium

Directed by Neil Jordan Written by Moira Buffini, based on her play A Vampire Story Produced by Stephen Woolley, Alan Moloney, Elizabeth Karlsen, William D. Johnson & Samuel Englebardt Released by IFC Films UK/USA/Ireland. 118 min. Rated R With Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Sam Riley, Jonny Lee Miller, Daniel Mays & Caleb Landry Jones Eleanor […]

Aftershock

Directed by Nicolás López Produced by Eli Roth, Brian Oliver & Miguel Asensio Llamas Written by Eli Roth, Nicolás López & Guillermo Amoedo Released by Radius-TWC English & Spanish with English subtitles USA/Chile. 90 min. Rated R With Lorenza Izzo, Nicolás Martinéz, Eli Roth, Natasha Yarovenko, Ariel Levy & Andrea Osvárt In Aftershock, Hostel mastermind […]

The Tribeca Grindhouse

This year at the Tribeca film festival, now in its 12th year, films from all over the world included some by major names (Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight and David Gordon Green’s Prince Avalanche) and newcomers trying to make their mark, not to mention the countless documentaries and short films. But not to be overlooked amid […]

Kiss of the Damned

Written & Directed by Xan Cassavetes Produced by Jen Gatien &  Alex Orlovsky Released by Magnet Releasing USA. 97 min. Rated R With Joséphine de la Baume, Milo Ventimiglia, Roxane Mesquida, Anna Mouglalis,  Michael Rapaport, Riley Keough, Ching Valdes-Aran & Jay Brannan Can you remember back when vampires were simple, bloodsucking creatures? Before they counted […]

My Amityville Horror

Edited, Written, & Directed by Eric Walter Produced by Andrea Adams, John R. Blythe & Walter Released by IFC Midnight USA. 98 min. Not rated At its heart, My Amityville Horror is about what happens to a normal person put through extraordinary, horrifying, and traumatic experiences, and how he comes out on the other side. […]

The ABCs of Death

Directed by Kaare Andrews, Adam Wingard & Simon Barrett, Angela Bettis, Adrián García Bogliano, Bruno Forzani & Hélène Cattet, Jason Eisener, Ernesto Díaz Espinoza, Xavier Gens, Jorge Michel Grau, Lee Hardcastle, Noburo Iguchi, Thomas Cappelen Malling, Anders Morgenthaler, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Banjong Pisanthanakun, Marcel Sarmiento, Jon Schnepp, Srdjan Spasojevic, Timo Tjahjanto, Andrew Traucki, Simon Rumley, Nacho […]

War Witch

Written & Directed by Kim Nguyen Produced by Pierre Even, Marie-Claude Poulin & Item 7 Released by Tribeca Film Canada. 90 min. Not rated French & Lingala with English subtitles With Rachel Mwanza, Serge Kanyinda, Alain Bastien, Mizinga Mwinga & Ralph Prosper Imagine a devastated world where starving children are brutally pitted against each other […]

Stoker

Directed by Park Chan-wook Written by Wentworth Miller Produced by Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Bergen Swanson & Michael Costigan Released by Fox Searchlight USA. 98 min. Rated R With Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, Nicole Kidman, Jacki Weaver, Phyllis Somerville & Harmony Korine Stoker starts right off steeped in tragedy—an upper-middle class woman, Evelyn Stoker (Nicole […]