Genre title filmed on location in Sarawak Virgin Rainforest.
Los Angeles-based House of Film has acquired worldwide rights excluding Asia to the Malaysian mythical horror film Curse Of The Totem (Sumpahan Jerunei) and will launch sales at the AFM next week.
The film from Produksi Seni Duapuluh-Duapuluh Sdn Bhd follows an expedition into the Borneo jungle to find an anthropologust’s wife who went missing while studying the legend of Jerunei burial poles used by the indigenous Melanau tribe.
One by one the explorers are visited by hallucinations, disturbances, and spirits of the dead before one team member becomes possessed by evil forces.
Los Angeles-based House of Film has acquired worldwide rights excluding Asia to the Malaysian mythical horror film Curse Of The Totem (Sumpahan Jerunei) and will launch sales at the AFM next week.
The film from Produksi Seni Duapuluh-Duapuluh Sdn Bhd follows an expedition into the Borneo jungle to find an anthropologust’s wife who went missing while studying the legend of Jerunei burial poles used by the indigenous Melanau tribe.
One by one the explorers are visited by hallucinations, disturbances, and spirits of the dead before one team member becomes possessed by evil forces.
- 10/24/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The Pirates Of Somalia Sp Releasing Director: Bryan Buckley Screenwriter: Bryan Buckley, adapting Jay Badahur’s book “The Pirates of Somalia” Cast: Evan Peters, Barkhad Abdi, Sabrina Hassan Abdulle, Mohamed Barre, Mohamed Abdikadir, Al Pacino, Melanie Griffith Screened at: Critics’ DVD, NYC, 12/15/17 Opens: December 8, 2017 Never give up, the theme of so many optimistic […]
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- 12/18/2017
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Dabka Review Dabka (2017) Film Review from the 16th Annual Tribeca Film Festival, a movie directed by Bryan Buckley and starring Evan Peters, Al Pacino, Melanie Griffith, Kiana Madani, Sabrina Hassan, Maria Vos and Barkhad Abdi. In Bryan Buckley’s second directorial effort Dabka, he tries to tell the story of [...]
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- 5/1/2017
- by Mufsin Mahbub
- Film-Book
Opening with a voice-over explaining how a recent University of Toronto graduate went from surveying supermarket clerks about display placements to a becoming a freelance journalist running around Somalia, Bryan Buckley’s Dabka attempts to playfully tell the story of Jay Bahadur, author of The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World. Dabka takes an aggressive, masculine tone (one that’s almost, but not quite, frat boy-esque) that at times reminded me of Todd Phillips’ War Dogs, and it may be fitting. Here is the real-life story of a guy that finds himself miraculously with too much access and, at the same time, in over his head, and that charm (as well as naivety and lack of context), certainly helps in difficult situations.
Beginning somewhere in Ontario, Bahadur (played by Evan Peters) finds himself at the doctor after throwing his back out, leading to a chance encounter with veteran battlefield...
Beginning somewhere in Ontario, Bahadur (played by Evan Peters) finds himself at the doctor after throwing his back out, leading to a chance encounter with veteran battlefield...
- 4/30/2017
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Dabka opens with a voiceover from its protagonist, Jay Bahadur (Evan Peters), explaining that he hates voiceover in films because it’s lazy filmmaking. This self-aware smugness unfortunately sets the tone for the entire movie, which wavers between comedy and serious drama without much clear direction or purpose. And it’s a shame, because the true story of Dabka, about an aspiring journalist who embedded himself with Somali pirates for six months, is about as exciting as you can get.
When we first meet Jay, he’s an obnoxious and entitled man-child, living in his parents’ basement in Toronto (not his fault), working marketing for a napkin manufacturer (also not his fault), and waxing eloquent about what a brilliant and misunderstood writer he is (very much his fault). He is, in other words, the worst that has ever been said about the Millennial generation, a fact which renders him unsympathetic to most viewers and,...
When we first meet Jay, he’s an obnoxious and entitled man-child, living in his parents’ basement in Toronto (not his fault), working marketing for a napkin manufacturer (also not his fault), and waxing eloquent about what a brilliant and misunderstood writer he is (very much his fault). He is, in other words, the worst that has ever been said about the Millennial generation, a fact which renders him unsympathetic to most viewers and,...
- 4/28/2017
- by Lauren Humphries-Brooks
- We Got This Covered
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