The Toronto International Film Festival is wrapping up this weekend, and while over 400 films will be screened at this year’s festival, only one was so intense some people required medical attention. According to The Hollywood Reporter, paramedics were called during a midnight screening of the cannibal horror film “Raw” to treat multiple people who had passed out.
Read More: ‘Raw’ Filmmaker Julia Ducournau On The Bloody, Terrifying Challenge That Fueled Her Tasty New Genre Film – Tiff Springboard
Julia Ducournau’s feature-length debut follows the shy, 16-year-old Justine (Garance Marillier) who follows in her family’s footsteps and enrolls in veterinary college. She’s immediately thrown into the school’s humiliating hazing rituals, including eating a raw rabbit liver, which goes against her strict vegetarianism. After devouring the meat, she starts to crave more and more kinds of flesh.
The film made its world premiere in the International Critics’ Week...
Read More: ‘Raw’ Filmmaker Julia Ducournau On The Bloody, Terrifying Challenge That Fueled Her Tasty New Genre Film – Tiff Springboard
Julia Ducournau’s feature-length debut follows the shy, 16-year-old Justine (Garance Marillier) who follows in her family’s footsteps and enrolls in veterinary college. She’s immediately thrown into the school’s humiliating hazing rituals, including eating a raw rabbit liver, which goes against her strict vegetarianism. After devouring the meat, she starts to crave more and more kinds of flesh.
The film made its world premiere in the International Critics’ Week...
- 9/14/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
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Melanie Lynskey was just 16 when she first broke into Hollywood, thanks to a bold and bright turn opposite Kate Winslet in Peter Jackson’s fact-based “Heavenly Creatures.” Since then, she’s carved out a career that’s wholly her own, one that includes roles in tiny indies like “Hello I Must Be Going” and big studio films like “Sweet Home Alabama,” exceedingly popular television series like “Two and a Half Men” (when asked about the roles she’s recognized most for, Lynskey laughed and said, “At the airport, it’s ‘Two and Half Men'”) and critical darlings like “Togetherness” — and just about everything in between.
But one thing has held true from the start: Lynskey requires great material. She could scarcely ask for better than the kind she got in Clea DuVall’s directorial debut, “The Intervention.
Melanie Lynskey was just 16 when she first broke into Hollywood, thanks to a bold and bright turn opposite Kate Winslet in Peter Jackson’s fact-based “Heavenly Creatures.” Since then, she’s carved out a career that’s wholly her own, one that includes roles in tiny indies like “Hello I Must Be Going” and big studio films like “Sweet Home Alabama,” exceedingly popular television series like “Two and a Half Men” (when asked about the roles she’s recognized most for, Lynskey laughed and said, “At the airport, it’s ‘Two and Half Men'”) and critical darlings like “Togetherness” — and just about everything in between.
But one thing has held true from the start: Lynskey requires great material. She could scarcely ask for better than the kind she got in Clea DuVall’s directorial debut, “The Intervention.
- 8/25/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
When one looks back at mid ‘70s to early ‘80s horror, it’s quite surprising to see how many Canadian made films are nestled among fan favorites. Titles such as Black Christmas, Shivers, Prom Night, Happy Birthday to Me, and My Bloody Valentine continue to delight and shock veteran horror lovers or those just starting their jagged journey down the terror path. There is one, however, that due to a troubled production and poor distribution, seems relegated to the discount bins of time. Today, we’re pulling back the curtain on, uh, Curtains (1983), an unsung slasher weirder than a sack full of rabid beavers.
Released by Jensen Farley Pictures in March of ’83 in the Us, and September of ’84 by Norstar Releasing in (my home and) native land, Curtains received a very limited release in both countries, but coming as it did at a time when the Canadian film industry had...
Released by Jensen Farley Pictures in March of ’83 in the Us, and September of ’84 by Norstar Releasing in (my home and) native land, Curtains received a very limited release in both countries, but coming as it did at a time when the Canadian film industry had...
- 2/6/2016
- by Scott Drebit
- DailyDead
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment just announced and detailed two releases that are sure to please Sons of Anarchy fans still reeling from that doozy of a series finale. Sons of Anarchy: Seven Seven and Sons of Anarchy: The Complete Series have both been set to hit Blu-Ray on February 24th next year.
Check out the full press release below and then let us know in the comments section if you’ll be picking up either.
Sons of Anarchy: Season Seven
Complete your collection and relive the heart-pounding adrenaline rush of the final season of Kurt Sutter’s explosive outlaw biker saga, Sons of Anarchy. Reeling from the death of the woman he loves, Jax Teller steers Samcro full-throttle down the hell-bound road to revenge, allowing nothing to stand in his way. The streets of Charming run red with blood as shifting alliances and fatal mistakes lead to chaos,...
Check out the full press release below and then let us know in the comments section if you’ll be picking up either.
Sons of Anarchy: Season Seven
Complete your collection and relive the heart-pounding adrenaline rush of the final season of Kurt Sutter’s explosive outlaw biker saga, Sons of Anarchy. Reeling from the death of the woman he loves, Jax Teller steers Samcro full-throttle down the hell-bound road to revenge, allowing nothing to stand in his way. The streets of Charming run red with blood as shifting alliances and fatal mistakes lead to chaos,...
- 12/25/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Growing up in the eighties and early nineties, I genuinely believe that my generation and the generations before me had some of the best cartoons the world will ever see. Kids growing up today probably don’t even know what ‘Saturday morning cartoons’ are. Much of the current lineup for youngsters consists of CG, reboots of shows from years past, and straight-up nonsense. I used to spend all week looking forward to Saturday; even the commercials were amusing. As young horror fans, many of us found ourselves rooting as much for the villain as we were for the good guy. In some cases, the villain was much more debonair, interesting, and relatable than the hero, so it wasn’t all that unreasonable to cheer for them. So with that said, we've prepared a list of memorable villains from those beloved cartoons... villains we sometimes liked just as much, or even more,...
- 12/13/2013
- by Tyler Doupe
- FEARnet
We’re back with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes news on the latest episode of Ghost Trek, an announcement for William Pattison’s new novel, Psychotic State, DVD release details for The Colony, a clip from Hitchhiker Massacre, and much more:
Details on Psychotic State: “The plot of Psychotic State tells the story of David Coleman, a bipolar twenty-six year old man who is one of those people that the world likes to pick on. David is bullied and abused by everyone around him, including his adopted father. When David gets fired from his job after a run in with a couple bullies he loses his medical and stops taking his medication. This causes David to go into a psychotic state and in a twisted idea of justice he decides that it is time for him...
Details on Psychotic State: “The plot of Psychotic State tells the story of David Coleman, a bipolar twenty-six year old man who is one of those people that the world likes to pick on. David is bullied and abused by everyone around him, including his adopted father. When David gets fired from his job after a run in with a couple bullies he loses his medical and stops taking his medication. This causes David to go into a psychotic state and in a twisted idea of justice he decides that it is time for him...
- 10/13/2013
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Triplett, N.C. — The way Eustace Conway sees it, there's the natural world, as exemplified by his Turtle Island Preserve in the Blue Ridge Mountains. And then there's the "plastic, imitation" world that most other humans inhabit.
But the border between the two has always been porous – uncomfortably so these days.
When Conway – known today as a star of the History Channel reality show "Mountain Men" – bought his first 107 acres in 1987, his vision for Turtle Island was as "a tiny bowl in the earth, intact and natural, surrounded by pavement and highways." People peering inside from nearby ridges would see "a pristine and green example of what the whole world once looked like."
Since leaving his parents' suburban home at 17 and moving into the woods, Conway has been preaching the gospel of sustainable, "primitive" living. But over the past three decades, those notions have clearly evolved.
Conway has ditched his...
But the border between the two has always been porous – uncomfortably so these days.
When Conway – known today as a star of the History Channel reality show "Mountain Men" – bought his first 107 acres in 1987, his vision for Turtle Island was as "a tiny bowl in the earth, intact and natural, surrounded by pavement and highways." People peering inside from nearby ridges would see "a pristine and green example of what the whole world once looked like."
Since leaving his parents' suburban home at 17 and moving into the woods, Conway has been preaching the gospel of sustainable, "primitive" living. But over the past three decades, those notions have clearly evolved.
Conway has ditched his...
- 8/12/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
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