Adam is an ex-police photographer who experienced a nervous breakdown and quit the force. Currently he suffers from hallucinations and spends his time in his apartment, secretly watching his neighbors with his camera, and particularly a woman, Iva. Eventually, detective Man, an ex co-worker asks Adam to help him in an investigation regarding a number of brutal murders. As they discover some photographic negatives made of glass, their research leads them into the world of antique shops and the supernatural. Iva, a deformed man named Belian, and an antique owner named Sani seem to be involved in the mystery. Everything seems to revolve around a true incident that took place a century ago, when Norwegian explorer Carl Lumholtz traveled through central Borneo between 1913 and 1917 and photographed some tribal women.
A delicate balance
Dain Said directs and pens (along June Tan, Nandita Solomon and Redza Minhat) a film that keeps a delicate balance among thriller,...
A delicate balance
Dain Said directs and pens (along June Tan, Nandita Solomon and Redza Minhat) a film that keeps a delicate balance among thriller,...
- 11/18/2016
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Australia’s premier genre festival – Monster Fest – has unveiled its final wave of films for the 2016 festival, which is set to take place November 24-27 at the Lido Cinemas in Melbourne.
The team of features programmers – which includes festival director Kier-La Janisse, Monster Pictures co-founder Neil Foley, Boston Underground Film Festival Director of Programming Nicole McControversy and writer/programmer/punk legend Chris D. – vetted over 600 features in selecting the 2016 Monster Fest lineup, which includes new crime films Dog Eat Dog and The Hollow Point from Paul Schrader and Gonzalo López-Gallego respectively, gory slasher throwback The Windmill Massacre (reviewed here), the hometown premiere of epic period western The Legend of Ben Hall with cast in person and acclaimed Tiff selections Prevenge and Interchange alongside Fantastic Fest faves such as the Aussie-made yuletide thriller Safe Neighbourhood and the devastating – and polarizing – Playground.
From the press release:
Select panels for the Swinburne University...
The team of features programmers – which includes festival director Kier-La Janisse, Monster Pictures co-founder Neil Foley, Boston Underground Film Festival Director of Programming Nicole McControversy and writer/programmer/punk legend Chris D. – vetted over 600 features in selecting the 2016 Monster Fest lineup, which includes new crime films Dog Eat Dog and The Hollow Point from Paul Schrader and Gonzalo López-Gallego respectively, gory slasher throwback The Windmill Massacre (reviewed here), the hometown premiere of epic period western The Legend of Ben Hall with cast in person and acclaimed Tiff selections Prevenge and Interchange alongside Fantastic Fest faves such as the Aussie-made yuletide thriller Safe Neighbourhood and the devastating – and polarizing – Playground.
From the press release:
Select panels for the Swinburne University...
- 11/17/2016
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Edited by Hans-Åke Lilja, Shining in the Dark: Celebrating Twenty Years of Lilja's Library is exclusive to Cemetery Dance Publications and will feature a Stephen King story that hasn't been released since 1981. We also have updated release details for The Similars, the final wave of films announced at Monster Fest 2016, six photos / details for The Orphanage video game, and a new trailer for Gremlin.
Cemetery Dance Publications' Shining in the Dark Anthology: From Cemetery Dance: "Shining In the Dark: Celebrating Twenty Years of Lilja's Library edited by Hans-Åke Lilja.
About the Book:
Hans-Ake Lilja, the founder of Lilja's Library, has compiled a brand new anthology of horror stories to help celebrate twenty years of running the #1 Stephen King news website on the web!
This anthology includes both original stories like the brand new novella by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the Right One In) very rare reprints like "The Blue Air...
Cemetery Dance Publications' Shining in the Dark Anthology: From Cemetery Dance: "Shining In the Dark: Celebrating Twenty Years of Lilja's Library edited by Hans-Åke Lilja.
About the Book:
Hans-Ake Lilja, the founder of Lilja's Library, has compiled a brand new anthology of horror stories to help celebrate twenty years of running the #1 Stephen King news website on the web!
This anthology includes both original stories like the brand new novella by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the Right One In) very rare reprints like "The Blue Air...
- 11/2/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
For 10 years, Five Flavours Film Festival has been presenting the best cinema from Asia, its meanings and contexts. Initially, the Festival focused solely on Vietnamese films, but it evolved to become a yearly review of the cinema of East and Southeast Asia, the only such event in the country.
The 10th edition is held in Warsaw, on November 16-23 (Muranów and Kinoteka cinemas), and in Wrocław on November 18-24 (New Horizons Cinema).
This year’s edition of Five Flavours is the biggest in history – it presents over 40 productions. The program combines artistic and commercial cinema, allowing the audience to experience the best Asian films have to offer. On the one hand, there are the intimate stories with a social angle, on the other – fresh, innovative blockbusters, filled with the sheer joy of cinematic creation, attracting millions of viewers in their homelands.
Three
This diversity is already visible in the choice...
The 10th edition is held in Warsaw, on November 16-23 (Muranów and Kinoteka cinemas), and in Wrocław on November 18-24 (New Horizons Cinema).
This year’s edition of Five Flavours is the biggest in history – it presents over 40 productions. The program combines artistic and commercial cinema, allowing the audience to experience the best Asian films have to offer. On the one hand, there are the intimate stories with a social angle, on the other – fresh, innovative blockbusters, filled with the sheer joy of cinematic creation, attracting millions of viewers in their homelands.
Three
This diversity is already visible in the choice...
- 10/28/2016
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Singapore International Film Festival to open with Dain Iskandar Said’s thriller Interchange, which premiered at Locarno.
The 27th edition of the Singapore International Film Festival (Sgiff) will open with Interchange, a noir fantasy thriller directed by Malaysia’s Dain Iskandar Said.
The film premiered at this year’s Locarno film festival and went on to play at Toronto. It will screen on Sgiff’s opening night on November 23.
Paris-based Reel Suspects has international rights to Interchange, which revolves around a forensics photographer lured into a world of shamans and mystic creatures while helping his detective friend investigate a series of macabre murders.
Produced by Malaysia’s Apparat, the film stars Indonesian actors Nicholas Saputra and Prisia Nasution, along with Malaysia’s Shaheizy Sam and Iedil Putra.
Sgiff executive director Yuni Hadi said: “Sgiff has always championed Southeast Asian cinema. Interchange combines Dain Iskandar Said’s skill for genre story-telling with a distinct Southeast Asian flavour to produce...
The 27th edition of the Singapore International Film Festival (Sgiff) will open with Interchange, a noir fantasy thriller directed by Malaysia’s Dain Iskandar Said.
The film premiered at this year’s Locarno film festival and went on to play at Toronto. It will screen on Sgiff’s opening night on November 23.
Paris-based Reel Suspects has international rights to Interchange, which revolves around a forensics photographer lured into a world of shamans and mystic creatures while helping his detective friend investigate a series of macabre murders.
Produced by Malaysia’s Apparat, the film stars Indonesian actors Nicholas Saputra and Prisia Nasution, along with Malaysia’s Shaheizy Sam and Iedil Putra.
Sgiff executive director Yuni Hadi said: “Sgiff has always championed Southeast Asian cinema. Interchange combines Dain Iskandar Said’s skill for genre story-telling with a distinct Southeast Asian flavour to produce...
- 9/21/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Something’s happening in Kuala Lampur—something that cannot be explained. Deaths in the vein of Bryan Fuller’s gorgeously ornate displays of murder from “Hannibal” have arrived without any leads or earthly reason. Detective Man (Shaheizy Sam) jokes that his forensic photographer needs to see a witch doctor after collapsing at the scene of the first body, but he may not be far off the truth. Adam’s (Iedil Putra) spell was odd, conjured by the light or power of a glass negative found underneath the suspended cadaver covered in rare bird feathers and external veins. The second body had one too and the effect remains the same. Something about these killings is calling to him. Adam wants to just sit it out, but fate has other ideas.
Dain Iskandar Said‘s Interchange is a nightmarish noir on dual planes of existence: our contemporary world of law and order...
Dain Iskandar Said‘s Interchange is a nightmarish noir on dual planes of existence: our contemporary world of law and order...
- 9/12/2016
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
The first full trailer for Dain Said's Interchange gave me shivers, even though it's quite warm where I live. The supernatural noir is entirely unsettling, at least according to the imagery, sounds, and general atmosphe of the trailer. The film will be making its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in the Vanguard Section. Synopsis: The supernatural thriller follows a forensics photographer and a hardnosed cop as they confront their darkest selves while investigating a macabre murder. Their investigation leads them to the realm of superstitions, shamans and the paranormal. The film masterfully combines elements of the real world with the supernatural. This will mark Said's return to Tiff, after success at the festival in 2011 with his action drama Bunohan: Return...
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- 9/8/2016
- Screen Anarchy
We've been keeping an eye on Malaysian director Dain Said's upcoming supernatural noir Interchange for quite some time here and with word coming that the film will have its world premiere at Locarno's Piazza Grande - one of the world's largest open air cinema venues, seating more than 8000 - on August 5th, we've got a first look at the film's official international poster art. Forensics photographer Adam is weary of his daily routine of viewing mutilated bodies through his camera. Fearing that he may be a hazard to others due to a recent hallucinatory condition, Adam locks himself in his apartment, finding solace in photographing his neighbours. A series of macabre ritual murders occur in the city and Adam is dragged into just one...
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- 7/25/2016
- Screen Anarchy
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