Opening with a montage of sequences that recall the ‘Previously on…” style recaps that are ever so popular on American television, Stigoi throws the viewer into the Romanian village in which it is set with swift and enthusiastic vigour.
These scenes also introduce us to the bulk of the central chracters, a group of Romanian villagers, who seem intent on killing a local wealthy landowner and his wife. Another quick cut and we’re into the opening credits and the villagers drink, rejoice and loot the dead couple’s belonging, all to the strains of ‘Spirit in the Sky’ by Doctor & The Medics. A fun and narratively economic opening that won’t necessarily be to everyone’s tastes, but it certainly ensures that the film hits the ground running.
As the opening credits end the film settles into what is its usual pace for the remainder of the story, a...
These scenes also introduce us to the bulk of the central chracters, a group of Romanian villagers, who seem intent on killing a local wealthy landowner and his wife. Another quick cut and we’re into the opening credits and the villagers drink, rejoice and loot the dead couple’s belonging, all to the strains of ‘Spirit in the Sky’ by Doctor & The Medics. A fun and narratively economic opening that won’t necessarily be to everyone’s tastes, but it certainly ensures that the film hits the ground running.
As the opening credits end the film settles into what is its usual pace for the remainder of the story, a...
- 8/23/2011
- by Craig Skinner
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The event has come and gone, but the memories will remain. Sunday, July 17th, marked the date of the 2011 Viscera Women’s Film Festival. The celebration of female-made horror films was hosted by Founder/Director of Operations Shannon Lark and Director of Programming Heidi Honeycutt in the beautiful Silent Movie Theatre in Los Angeles, and along with a recap we have the winners to share.
From the Press Release:
Horror fans from around the globe showed support with product and service donations as well as their attendance. With the legendary theater packed to bursting and festivities overflowing on the lush green patio, the entire Viscera team is overwhelmed with gratitude for everyone who helped make it all happen. Most importantly, though, are the filmmakers and their triumphs. The films screened received recognition for being stellar examples of their craft.
After the screenings, the filmmakers who were present gathered on stage...
From the Press Release:
Horror fans from around the globe showed support with product and service donations as well as their attendance. With the legendary theater packed to bursting and festivities overflowing on the lush green patio, the entire Viscera team is overwhelmed with gratitude for everyone who helped make it all happen. Most importantly, though, are the filmmakers and their triumphs. The films screened received recognition for being stellar examples of their craft.
After the screenings, the filmmakers who were present gathered on stage...
- 8/3/2011
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
The news just hit came out of the Viscera camp that the winners of this years film festival have been chosen and deemed awesomeness!
All of the film makers were given awards for being accepted into the festival and three were chosen for outstanding achievement in their craft.
Our congratulations go out to:
Faye Jackson who won the Best Film for Lump
Mae Catt who won the award Best Director for 12/15/1996
Jesse Feldman who won Best Cinematography for Threnody
From all accounts, the film festival was a major win for not only the creators of Viscera and the… More...
All of the film makers were given awards for being accepted into the festival and three were chosen for outstanding achievement in their craft.
Our congratulations go out to:
Faye Jackson who won the Best Film for Lump
Mae Catt who won the award Best Director for 12/15/1996
Jesse Feldman who won Best Cinematography for Threnody
From all accounts, the film festival was a major win for not only the creators of Viscera and the… More...
- 7/23/2011
- by Dai Green
- Horror News
The Kick-Off 2011 Event of the Viscera Film Festival will take place on Sunday, July 17th, at the Silent Movie Theater in Los Angeles, Califonia, wherein Viscera pulls out all the stops with a carefully chosen selection of films by women from all over the world.
Special guests, press, and filmmakers will be present to celebrate. A Bloody Carpet Ceremony, award ceremony, Q and A, and after party are all included. Forget Carmageddon - get out and support female horror filmmakers, damnit! Hot chicks into horror - how much better can it get?!?
After the big event several of the films that screened in Los Angeles and many more innovative horror films by women will be featured on the on-going Viscera Tour and Viscera Film Festival DVD, which will be made available to the public in the latter half of 2011. The Viscera Tour will extend across America and in international regions,...
Special guests, press, and filmmakers will be present to celebrate. A Bloody Carpet Ceremony, award ceremony, Q and A, and after party are all included. Forget Carmageddon - get out and support female horror filmmakers, damnit! Hot chicks into horror - how much better can it get?!?
After the big event several of the films that screened in Los Angeles and many more innovative horror films by women will be featured on the on-going Viscera Tour and Viscera Film Festival DVD, which will be made available to the public in the latter half of 2011. The Viscera Tour will extend across America and in international regions,...
- 7/15/2011
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Breaking Glass Pictures will release The Coffin, Strigoi and Asylum Seekers under its Vicious Circle Films label. We have all the details for you below!
The Coffin
Synopsis:
Su and Chris are two strangers whose lives have been struck by tragedy — Su has been diagnosed with lung cancer just days before her wedding and Chris’ longtime girlfriend has fallen into a mysterious coma. When they both learn of a bizarre Thai ritual in which a living person lies in a coffin to reverse bad Karma, they both decide to partake in a mass funeral for the living. Soon, their lives have turned around — Su’s cancer vanishes and Chris’ girlfriend awakes from her coma — but the good fortune is short-lived. A series of terrifying paranormal events suggests that Su and Chris may have upset the Karmic balance of the universe by cleansing themselves of bad luck, and the people closest...
The Coffin
Synopsis:
Su and Chris are two strangers whose lives have been struck by tragedy — Su has been diagnosed with lung cancer just days before her wedding and Chris’ longtime girlfriend has fallen into a mysterious coma. When they both learn of a bizarre Thai ritual in which a living person lies in a coffin to reverse bad Karma, they both decide to partake in a mass funeral for the living. Soon, their lives have turned around — Su’s cancer vanishes and Chris’ girlfriend awakes from her coma — but the good fortune is short-lived. A series of terrifying paranormal events suggests that Su and Chris may have upset the Karmic balance of the universe by cleansing themselves of bad luck, and the people closest...
- 6/22/2011
- by brians
- GeekTyrant
Breaking Glass Pictures under the Vicious Circle Films label is quickly making a name for themselves within the genre by releasing quality indie and foreign horror flicks. Think we're kiddin'? Check out the scoop on their next three titles for August!
From the Press Release
Breaking Glass Pictures will release director Faye Jackson’s vampire tale “Strigoi: The Undead” on DVD August 2 under the Vicious Circl Films label. The dark comedy follows the quirky inhabitants of a Romanian village who learn that there are vampires among them.
Synopsis: After failing to start a life of his own, 20-something Vlad is forced to move back to his grandfather’s old farming village in Romania. Though the village seems like a typical Eastern European haven, a mysterious death suddenly thrusts Vlad into the heart of a murder mystery. As he sets out to investigate, his trail leads him to the Tirescus...
From the Press Release
Breaking Glass Pictures will release director Faye Jackson’s vampire tale “Strigoi: The Undead” on DVD August 2 under the Vicious Circl Films label. The dark comedy follows the quirky inhabitants of a Romanian village who learn that there are vampires among them.
Synopsis: After failing to start a life of his own, 20-something Vlad is forced to move back to his grandfather’s old farming village in Romania. Though the village seems like a typical Eastern European haven, a mysterious death suddenly thrusts Vlad into the heart of a murder mystery. As he sets out to investigate, his trail leads him to the Tirescus...
- 6/21/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
We're co-running the Viscera Film Festival, showing the best new short horror films directed by women, just like we did last year. Here's our 2011 lineup.
It's been pretty cut-throat. Out of over 80 submissions, we struggled and wept and co-director Shannon Lark and I beat each other up over what our final lineup would be. In the end, we decided, only the best of the best could play, so we counted and recounted our judges tallies and agreed that again we'd show way too many films and have our fest run way too long.
These films are just too good to not screen. We couldn't eliminate any of them. I have to be honest: I love every film on this list. We're got some Us premieres that we're especially excited about! The 2011 Viscera Film Festival Films are:
The Party’S Over by Gigi Romero
Bon Apetit by Kate Shenton
Doll Parts...
It's been pretty cut-throat. Out of over 80 submissions, we struggled and wept and co-director Shannon Lark and I beat each other up over what our final lineup would be. In the end, we decided, only the best of the best could play, so we counted and recounted our judges tallies and agreed that again we'd show way too many films and have our fest run way too long.
These films are just too good to not screen. We couldn't eliminate any of them. I have to be honest: I love every film on this list. We're got some Us premieres that we're especially excited about! The 2011 Viscera Film Festival Films are:
The Party’S Over by Gigi Romero
Bon Apetit by Kate Shenton
Doll Parts...
- 4/26/2011
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Check out this awesome interview with vampire movie Strigoi director Faye Jackson (Lump) on one of our fave boy-run sites QuietEarth - Faye Jackson Interview
You should also read this extremely cool academic paper on the brand new horror film Family Demons directed by Ursula Dabrowsky written by Donna McRae - Family Demons: The Ghost of Domestic Inheritence
Katt Shea (Poison Ivy) has a new commentary up on Trailers From Hell for the trailer to Klute. From the bygone days (1971) when studios routinely made the kind of adult material now found mainly in indies. Jane Fonda pulled down a well-deserved Oscar for her portrayal of the call girl without a heart of gold who gets wrapped up in a murder investigation.
You should also read this extremely cool academic paper on the brand new horror film Family Demons directed by Ursula Dabrowsky written by Donna McRae - Family Demons: The Ghost of Domestic Inheritence
Katt Shea (Poison Ivy) has a new commentary up on Trailers From Hell for the trailer to Klute. From the bygone days (1971) when studios routinely made the kind of adult material now found mainly in indies. Jane Fonda pulled down a well-deserved Oscar for her portrayal of the call girl without a heart of gold who gets wrapped up in a murder investigation.
- 12/14/2009
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Written and directed by Faye Jackson
Featuring Constantin Barbulescu, Roxana Guttmann, Vlad Jipa, Catalin Paraschiv
www.strigoimovie.com
Review by rochefort
In the opening scene of Strigoi, directed by Faye Jackson (Lump), ex-Communists Constantin and Ileana Tirescu (Constantin Barbulescu and Roxana Guttmann), cold-hearted landowners whom the townspeople suspect of murder, are themselves murdered and buried angry-mob-style. Soon after, Vlad (Catalin Paraschiv) returns to his Romanian hometown after an extended vacation in Italy, and finds that the townspeople are dropping like flies. Almost everyone but him is convinced that an undead Constantin and his wife are responsible, but Vlad and local policeman Octav (Vlad Jipa) decide to conduct their own amateur investigation into the steadily-rising death toll, uncovering a long-buried local history of corruption, racism, and supernatural dirty tricks...
An alternative to the glut of glossier and more expensive vampire movies both recent and upcoming, "Strigoi" is a mixed bag of...
Featuring Constantin Barbulescu, Roxana Guttmann, Vlad Jipa, Catalin Paraschiv
www.strigoimovie.com
Review by rochefort
In the opening scene of Strigoi, directed by Faye Jackson (Lump), ex-Communists Constantin and Ileana Tirescu (Constantin Barbulescu and Roxana Guttmann), cold-hearted landowners whom the townspeople suspect of murder, are themselves murdered and buried angry-mob-style. Soon after, Vlad (Catalin Paraschiv) returns to his Romanian hometown after an extended vacation in Italy, and finds that the townspeople are dropping like flies. Almost everyone but him is convinced that an undead Constantin and his wife are responsible, but Vlad and local policeman Octav (Vlad Jipa) decide to conduct their own amateur investigation into the steadily-rising death toll, uncovering a long-buried local history of corruption, racism, and supernatural dirty tricks...
An alternative to the glut of glossier and more expensive vampire movies both recent and upcoming, "Strigoi" is a mixed bag of...
- 11/4/2009
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
Director Faye Jackson (Lump) is headlining the Vampire Film Festival in New Orleans, Louisiana with her new feature vampire movie Strigoi!
Brand new horror shorts directed by women will be playing at the festival as well; Annalee Autumn's Blood Bound, Maria Hinterkörner's Blood Sisters, and Lori Bowen's A Hammer Fell in Jerusalem. Watch trailers for the films...
10/23 Midnight
Blood Bound by Analee Autumn (USA) (10min)
A 500 year old vampires hunts and kills younger vampires in New Orleans.
10/24 2:00 Pm
Blood Sisters by Maria Hinterkörner (Austria)(22min)
Elizabeth and Lilith, two - let's say - good friends, participate in a party that will change their lives forever. A powerful vampire abducts one of the girls to make her his playmate for eternity. the other however, willingly reborn and raging will not condone and will do anything to get her girlfriend back and indulge in a bloody revenge.
Watch a...
Brand new horror shorts directed by women will be playing at the festival as well; Annalee Autumn's Blood Bound, Maria Hinterkörner's Blood Sisters, and Lori Bowen's A Hammer Fell in Jerusalem. Watch trailers for the films...
10/23 Midnight
Blood Bound by Analee Autumn (USA) (10min)
A 500 year old vampires hunts and kills younger vampires in New Orleans.
10/24 2:00 Pm
Blood Sisters by Maria Hinterkörner (Austria)(22min)
Elizabeth and Lilith, two - let's say - good friends, participate in a party that will change their lives forever. A powerful vampire abducts one of the girls to make her his playmate for eternity. the other however, willingly reborn and raging will not condone and will do anything to get her girlfriend back and indulge in a bloody revenge.
Watch a...
- 10/7/2009
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
St. Moritz Productions jut released this brand new movie poster from the upcoming horror comedy “Strigoi” written and directed by Faye Jackson (Resurrecting Bill, Lump) and starring Constantin Barbulescu (BloodRayne, Hellraiser: Deader), Camelia Maxim (Ils), Catalin Paraschiv (Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes, Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave), Rudi Rosenfeld (Madhouse, The Midas Touch) and Dan Popa. The principle photography took place in Romania. Synopsis: When the villagers killed Constantin Tirescu, they thought it was justice. Vlad Cozma thinks it was murder. Now Constantin thinks pickles might go nice with blood. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the latest movie news and more from “Strigoi”.
- 1/18/2009
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
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