Watch Brontis Jodorowsky In The Trailer For TÁU

Brontis Jodorowsky, yes, the son of the infamous Alejandro Jodorowsky, is starring in Táu, the feature film debut from director Daniel Castro Zimbron. A man travels to the desert of Wirikuta and confronts his deepest pain. We have the trailer... More »
  

Ricardo Darin Stars In Upcoming Thriller THESIS ON A HOMICIDE
Argentina's Ricardo Darin has become one of the world's most respected leading men for a very simple reason. He's very, very good. And it doesn't hurt that he has fantastic taste in scripts. The star of Oscar winner The Secret... More »
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Watch A Fabulous New Trailer For Victor Uribe's 50's Throwback NECROLOVERS
We first caught wind of Chilean director Victor Uribe and his 1950's throwback, black and white horror short Necrolovers back in July of last year. Just through principal photography at the time there was still plenty of work to be... More »
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Traumatize Yourself With Dennison Ramalho's NINJAS
One of the most troubling short films to hit screens in recent years - one of the most troubling of any length, honestly - Dennison Ramalho's Ninjas fuses elements of cop thriller with traditional Brazilian black magic to create an... More »
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Grimmfest 2012 Review: WAKE UP AND DIE is GROUNDHOG DAY ... With Murder!
Seriously, "Groundhog Day with murder" seems like such an obvious idea it's hard to imagine some low-budget splatter production house hasn't tried it yet (correct me if I'm wrong), but Miguel Urrutia's Wake Up and Die appears to be the... More »
  

Sitges 2012 Dispatch: Subtitle Woes, and Jennifer Lynch's CHAINED
I would really like to tell you about Marçal Forés' fantastic story of an adolescent and his talking teddy bear, Animals, and Fernando Cortizo's gorgeous animated fantasy film O Apostolo. But I cannot. I can tell you a little bit... More »
  

Sitges 2012 Review: THE SECOND DEATH Finds New Terror in Religion
Argentinean director Santiago Fernández Calvete's The Second Death is an oddity: A hard-boiled, supernatural mystery that revolves heavily around Catholic dogma. Its engagement with religion is far more complex than the slew of exorcism movies we've been subjected to as... More »
  

Hawaii International Film Festival Dispatch: ULTRAMAN SAGA, CHINESE TAKEAWAY
Note to self: The weather in Hawaii is significantly better than in Toronto. Come here more often. The Hawaii International Film Festival kicked off two nights ago with a typically excellent lineup focused on Pacific Rim film. I'm here... More »
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Sitges 2012 Review: THE VAMPIRE SPIDER Sneaks Up, Then Attacks!
The first thing that should be known going into The Vampire Spider (La Araña Vampiro) is that, despite the title and the fact that it just premiered at a genre film festival, it is not a wild B-movie about a... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: TWO RABBITS Looks Good But Makes Little Sense
The first thing you'll notice in Afonso Poyart's light-hearted Brazilian crime actioner is the impressive bright yellow subtitles. I couldn't help but think for the first ten minutes about how remarkably legible those subtitles were. Why don't all movies have... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: LA MEMORIA DEL MUERTO Is A Delirious Genre Mashup
Influenced by everything from Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977) to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead II (1987) this bit of occult horror from director Valentín Javier Diment pops like a Tex Avery cartoon off the screen, offering solid laughs and genuinely shocking... More »
  

Amphibian Mafia: THE CARTEL OF THE SNITCHES Trailer Arrives
Colombia has picked Carlos Moreno's drug crime thriller El Cartel de los sapos (The Cartel of Snitches) as it's entry in the Foreign Film Academy Award category. The film is based on the life story of former drug trafficker Andres... More »
  

Independence's Blood: TAITA BOVES Trailer
This is an extended trailer for Taita Boves, a film by Luis Alberto Lamata. Again Lamata delves into the Venezuelan colonial history to tell the tale of Boves and his legacy. And by doing so he deals with ghosts of... More »
  

You Don't Fool Me: THE PUREST OF LIES Review
Film production in Venezuela, at least for full features, is not as prolific as in other South American countries. In a good year there will be five or six Venezuelan features released in theaters, which is considered quite a good... More »
  

Gorgeous First Trailer For Lovecraftian Horror CALEUCHE: THE CALL OF THE SEA
After winning a loyal cult following around the globe on the strength of his festival hits Eternal Blood (Sangre Eterna) and Descendents (Solos), Chile's Jorge Olguin appears poised to break through on another level entirely with upcoming effort Caleuche: The... More »
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Fantastic Fest: Ernesto Diaz Espinoza Drunkenly Reviews Ernesto Diaz Espinoza's BRING ME THE HEAD OF THE MACHINE GUN WOMAN
Hello. My name is Ernesto Diaz Espinoza, just five short of TEQUILA swallow, and I'm the director of the stunning, beautiful, sexy, hot, crazy, fun to blow your brain, and LATINXPLOITATION masterpiece of the genre, the now famous movie esquicita... More »
  

Adrian Garcia Bogliano, Laura Caro And Francisco Barreiro Talk Fantastic Fest Winner HERE COMES THE DEVIL
Here Comes the Devil, which just swept the Horror Features category at the Fantastic Fest 2012 awards is, without doubt,  an Adrian Garcia  Bogliano film. Full of beautiful women, eye popping compositions, and dread drenched suspense, Bogliano's creative ownership over... More »
  

Fantastic Fest: Javier Diment Drunkenly Reviews Javier Diment's LA MEMORIA DEL MUERTO
This is ua horror film of perono is a horror movie. It's something else. Is a series of family dramas, is also the will to find that the horror genre is just a way to talk of human pain. Really... More »
  

Sniffing Truth: THE PUREST OF LIES Trailer
Here we have the trailer for Carlos Malave fourth film, 'La Pura Mentira'. Having made a name for himself in Venezuela for working at a nerve wracking pace - at least by Venezuelan film standards - this film finds Malave... More »
  

Visit Jorge Olguin's Ghost Ship In First CALEUCHE: THE CALL OF THE SEA Images
Chile's Jorge Olguin returns to screens across the region November 8th with his new feature Caleuche: The Call Of The Sea. The story revolves around Isabel (Giselle Itié, a Boston based marine biologist who opts to return to her family... More »
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Much has already been written, both on these pages and many others, about the landmark Hollywood-China co-production that is Marvel and DMG Entertainment's Iron Man 3. The film, directed by Shane Black, is the third solo outing for Robert Downey Jr's Tony Stark, and has proved a phenomenal success around... More »

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