Prepare to Be Spoiled: Megan Tremethick Teases Debut Feature Asmr Horror ‘Spoiling You’
Taking inspiration from the cultural phenomenon of anime cosplay and Asmr YouTube performers, Megan Tremethick (The Slave and the Sorcerer) is producing a startling psychological horror that follows the clandestine activities of a lonely girl who discovers a liberating second life through her invention of ‘Miss Mutter’, an alluring anime cosplay character she uses to perform Asmr on YouTube. She soon acquires a legion of devoted fans, but as her popularity grows so too do the lines between fantasy and reality begin to blur. As the world begins to learn more and more about Miss Mutter, we soon realise that the woman underneath all the makeup and costume remains a mysterious figure… one with a spine-tingling secret.
A secret that is revealed when Miss Mutter invites her number one fan to spend the night with her for an intimate in-person session.
Taking inspiration from the cultural phenomenon of anime cosplay and Asmr YouTube performers, Megan Tremethick (The Slave and the Sorcerer) is producing a startling psychological horror that follows the clandestine activities of a lonely girl who discovers a liberating second life through her invention of ‘Miss Mutter’, an alluring anime cosplay character she uses to perform Asmr on YouTube. She soon acquires a legion of devoted fans, but as her popularity grows so too do the lines between fantasy and reality begin to blur. As the world begins to learn more and more about Miss Mutter, we soon realise that the woman underneath all the makeup and costume remains a mysterious figure… one with a spine-tingling secret.
A secret that is revealed when Miss Mutter invites her number one fan to spend the night with her for an intimate in-person session.
- 6/4/2024
- by Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
- Horror Asylum
The issue with Sion Sono has been on going for quite some time now. I will not analyze what happened, since I feel that the articles linked next shed much light to the case
https://variety.com/2022/film/news/sion-sono-sexual-harassment-1235224844/
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/sion-sono-accused-of-multiple-sexual-assaults-1235125282
At the same time, I feel that in every case, both sides should be heard, and in that regard, I decided to also feature an interview that Nikodem Karolak recently conducted with the director. This, however, does not mean that I condone any type of the behavior mentioned in the aforementioned articles (which I definitely condemn) neither that I do not realize how much of a toxic setting the (Japanese) movie industry can be. (Panos Kotzathanasis)
When meeting Sion Sono for the first time, one expects to encounter a bizarre circus character – a conspicuous Mad Hatter and defiant amanojaku in one – capable of...
https://variety.com/2022/film/news/sion-sono-sexual-harassment-1235224844/
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/sion-sono-accused-of-multiple-sexual-assaults-1235125282
At the same time, I feel that in every case, both sides should be heard, and in that regard, I decided to also feature an interview that Nikodem Karolak recently conducted with the director. This, however, does not mean that I condone any type of the behavior mentioned in the aforementioned articles (which I definitely condemn) neither that I do not realize how much of a toxic setting the (Japanese) movie industry can be. (Panos Kotzathanasis)
When meeting Sion Sono for the first time, one expects to encounter a bizarre circus character – a conspicuous Mad Hatter and defiant amanojaku in one – capable of...
- 5/28/2024
- by Nikodem Karolak
- AsianMoviePulse
Prepare to Be Spoiled: Megan Tremethick Teases Debut Feature Asmr Horror 'Spoiling You': "Taking inspiration from the cultural phenomenon of anime cosplay and Asmr YouTube performers, Megan Tremethick (The Slave and the Sorcerer) is producing a startling psychological horror that follows the clandestine activities of a lonely girl who discovers a liberating second life through her invention of 'Miss Mutter', an alluring anime cosplay character she uses to perform Asmr on YouTube. She soon acquires a legion of devoted fans, but as her popularity grows so too do the lines between fantasy and reality begin to blur. As the world begins to learn more and more about Miss Mutter, we soon realise that the woman underneath all the makeup and costume remains a mysterious figure... one with a spine-tingling secret.
A secret that is revealed when Miss Mutter invites her number one fan to spend the night with her for an intimate in-person session.
A secret that is revealed when Miss Mutter invites her number one fan to spend the night with her for an intimate in-person session.
- 5/9/2024
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Horror has come into its own in the 21st century. This is not to say that the genre has ever not been one of the most interesting and creative in the long history of cinema. Since nearly the beginning of the art form, using moving images to scare audiences has been a gateway for aspirin filmmakers to break into the industry—or for even veterans to creatively something about the greater world by painting a landscape of anxiety.
Nonetheless, the 21st century (particularly beginning in its second decade) has brought a renewed appreciation for scary movies’ abilities to speak to audiences with more than just “boo.” With that in mind, we at Den of Geek have polled our staff and collected the below list of what we generally consider to be the best chillers of the fast quarter-century or so. Enjoy.
42. Land of the Dead (2005)
Land of the Dead does...
Nonetheless, the 21st century (particularly beginning in its second decade) has brought a renewed appreciation for scary movies’ abilities to speak to audiences with more than just “boo.” With that in mind, we at Den of Geek have polled our staff and collected the below list of what we generally consider to be the best chillers of the fast quarter-century or so. Enjoy.
42. Land of the Dead (2005)
Land of the Dead does...
- 10/31/2023
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
Five years ago seems aeons in an era so disrupted by Covid. So it comes as a surprise to realize that the original screen “Bird Box” arrived a full 14 months or so in advance of pandemic restrictions — becoming an early Netflix pop-culture phenomenon before lockdown made that sort of thing a regular occurrence. Susanne Bier’s film of Josh Malerman’s sci-fi horror novel was intriguing and suspenseful enough, even if its emphasis on psychological drama over thrills made for a somewhat unlikely breakout hit.
Inevitably, if belatedly, there’s now a follow-up — but not an adaptation of Malerman’s own print sequel, which continued the travails of the character played by Sandra Bullock. Instead, “Bird Box Barcelona” is a “parallel story” set on another continent entirely. Written and directed by Alex and David Pastor, whose prior genre efforts “The Last Days” (2013) and “Carriers” (2009) both had similar basic premises, it...
Inevitably, if belatedly, there’s now a follow-up — but not an adaptation of Malerman’s own print sequel, which continued the travails of the character played by Sandra Bullock. Instead, “Bird Box Barcelona” is a “parallel story” set on another continent entirely. Written and directed by Alex and David Pastor, whose prior genre efforts “The Last Days” (2013) and “Carriers” (2009) both had similar basic premises, it...
- 7/11/2023
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Nicolas Cage teams up with Japanese enfant terrible director Sion Sono for an entertaining post-apocalyptic mashup
Cult Japanese film-maker Sion Sono never shies away from an opportunity to shock and surprise with lashings of gore, weirdness and lurid, louche lunacy. Nicolas Cage, meanwhile (now practically a cult himself), loves to rage, bellow and glower in offbeat low-budget films, apparently the kookier the better. They’ve teamed up for this beyond-bonkers, cross-cultural bricolage of styles and influences, and the result is predictably excessive, noisy and more than a little exhausting. But mostly in a fun way, as long as you’re not bothered by gratuitous violence, incoherence and a deep streak of silly.
The setting is some kind of future Earth/parallel universe/post-apocalyptic zona – the why and when is not really important – that’s a mashup of neon-streaked Tokyo fleshpot and Mad Max-style wild west dystopia. A warlord called...
Cult Japanese film-maker Sion Sono never shies away from an opportunity to shock and surprise with lashings of gore, weirdness and lurid, louche lunacy. Nicolas Cage, meanwhile (now practically a cult himself), loves to rage, bellow and glower in offbeat low-budget films, apparently the kookier the better. They’ve teamed up for this beyond-bonkers, cross-cultural bricolage of styles and influences, and the result is predictably excessive, noisy and more than a little exhausting. But mostly in a fun way, as long as you’re not bothered by gratuitous violence, incoherence and a deep streak of silly.
The setting is some kind of future Earth/parallel universe/post-apocalyptic zona – the why and when is not really important – that’s a mashup of neon-streaked Tokyo fleshpot and Mad Max-style wild west dystopia. A warlord called...
- 9/16/2021
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
The English-language debut of Suicide Club director Sion Sono, Prisoners of the Ghostland is coming to theaters and on VOD and Digital September 17, 2021 via Rlje Films, and Cage himself has described the project as being “the wildest movie I’ve ever made.” While you wait for the digital release, we’ve learned via Amazon that Image Entertainment will be bringing Prisoners of […]...
- 9/3/2021
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
The English-language debut of Suicide Club director Sion Sono, Prisoners of the Ghostland is coming to theaters and on VOD and Digital September 17, 2021 via Rlje Films, and Cage himself has described the project as being “the wildest movie I’ve ever made.” We’ve learned this week that the film has gotten its own prequel comic from Patriot Comic Books, which is […]...
- 8/27/2021
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Japanese auteur Sion Sono has been Japanese cinema’s most subversive filmmaker for 30 years now. Now, the man behind the likes of 2001’s “Suicide Club” and 2010’s “Cold Fish” makes his English-language debut with a leading man who can match his provocative style: Nic Cage.
Read More: ‘Prisoners Of The Ghostland’: No Brains, But Big TesticaaAARRRGHLs [Sundance Review]
For those familiar with Sono’s filmography, “Prisoners Of The Ghostland” will feel right at home alongside the likes of “Tokyo Gore Police” and others.
Continue reading ‘Prisoners Of The Ghostland’ Trailer: Nic Cage Stars In Sion Sono’s English-Language Debuting In September at The Playlist.
Read More: ‘Prisoners Of The Ghostland’: No Brains, But Big TesticaaAARRRGHLs [Sundance Review]
For those familiar with Sono’s filmography, “Prisoners Of The Ghostland” will feel right at home alongside the likes of “Tokyo Gore Police” and others.
Continue reading ‘Prisoners Of The Ghostland’ Trailer: Nic Cage Stars In Sion Sono’s English-Language Debuting In September at The Playlist.
- 8/11/2021
- by Ned Booth
- The Playlist
“I… am… radioactive.” Up next from Nicolas Cage, who just delivered one of his best performance in years in the revenge-drama Pig, is a bit of a wackier movie titled Prisoners of the Ghostland, the English-language debut of Suicide Club director Sion Sono. Rlje Films will release the movie in theaters and on VOD and Digital September 17, 2021, and the official trailer has […]...
- 8/11/2021
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Tom Mes, in his book “Iron Man: The Cinema of Shinya Tsukamoto” writes: The international breakthrough of Tsukamoto and Tetsuo came at a time when Japanese cinema seemed all but forgotten by foreign minds. The monolithic Akira Kurosawa and a few survivors of the generation that had come to prominence in the 1960s – the filmmakers who made up the Japanese New Wave, most notably Nagisa Osima and Shohei Imamura – still gained praise during the ’80s, but it can be argued that the 1983 Palme d’Or for Imamura’s The Ballad of Narayama in Cannes had less impact than the award for Best Film from Tetsuo at the relatively modest FantaFestival in Rome. The reason is that not only was Tetsuo a film by a director from a new generation, it also brought a new generation of foreign fans to Japanese film. Rather than being built on the remnants of the past,...
- 3/26/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
When Sono Sion broke out into international acclaim at 40 years old for his attention-grabbing cult favorite, Suicide Club, in 2001, it may have seemed liked he was an overnight success. But when looking over his life’s work of almost impossibly immense output, it becomes clear that Sono, more than anyone else I can think of, proves the old adage that it takes 10-15 years to become an overnight success. While he spent his 20s primarily coming from a place of poetry, midway through the 80s, Sono began adapting his words into imagery through introductory experimental short films, like 1985’s I Am Sono Sion. By his 30s, he began making small scale features such as The Room, an aggressively minimal work which would earn him...
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- 2/16/2021
- Screen Anarchy
Last night, Prisoners of the Ghostland, the latest from trailblazing filmmaker Sion Sono, premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. The genre-bending post-apocalyptic actioner stars Nicolas Cage as a bank robber called “Hero,” who is tasked by a nefarious figure known only as “The Governor” to retrieve his granddaughter (played by Sofia Boutella), who has run away and gone off the grid. To take on the role of The Governor in Prisoners of the Ghostland, Sono brought on veteran actor and fan favorite Bill Moseley, who relished the opportunity to play the over-the-top bad guy, even if he wasn’t very familiar with the director’s work prior to becoming involved.
“My contact for Ghostland was the writer, Reza Sixo Safai,” Moseley explained. “We're pals here in Los Angeles, and he had talked about the movie and suggested I look into it. I didn't really know anything about Sion Sono, so...
“My contact for Ghostland was the writer, Reza Sixo Safai,” Moseley explained. “We're pals here in Los Angeles, and he had talked about the movie and suggested I look into it. I didn't really know anything about Sion Sono, so...
- 2/2/2021
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
At some point in the distant future, long after nuclear holocaust or airborne plague has wiped out the human race, some film critic will no doubt uncover a list of the projects Nicolas Cage has turned down, and it will finally become clear how the actor determined the course of his career.
For about a dozen years, from mid-’90s Bruck-buster “The Rock” through family hamster-tainment “G-Force,” it has seemed that the ka-ching of a cash register must have been the deciding factor, but in the dozen years since, a pattern has emerged that Cage isn’t merely cashing checks but may in fact be shaping the world’s most eccentric filmography by design.
Proof positive is his agreement to make “Prisoners of the Ghostland” with Japan’s resident weird-meister Sion Sono — a revolving position that amounts to being the unofficial poet laureate of extreme psychosexual shlock, one that’s...
For about a dozen years, from mid-’90s Bruck-buster “The Rock” through family hamster-tainment “G-Force,” it has seemed that the ka-ching of a cash register must have been the deciding factor, but in the dozen years since, a pattern has emerged that Cage isn’t merely cashing checks but may in fact be shaping the world’s most eccentric filmography by design.
Proof positive is his agreement to make “Prisoners of the Ghostland” with Japan’s resident weird-meister Sion Sono — a revolving position that amounts to being the unofficial poet laureate of extreme psychosexual shlock, one that’s...
- 2/1/2021
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: As part of the continued expansion of its literary department, Buchwald has added former Entertainment One executive, Angela Nikas, to its television literary agent roster.
Nikas, who began her career at Playtone Productions working for Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, has spent the last four years as Director of Development at eOne. She was responsible for the development and production of multiple projects including Millennial Mafia, which sold straight to series at Amazon; as well as the adaptation of Suicide Club, which is currently set up at Hulu; and several shows for Quibi, including Jon Favreau’s Micro Mayhem. In addition to developing and producing content for the studio, she’s credited with passionately searching for a new breed of storyteller that would elevate the landscape of television in the digital age.
“I am thrilled to be joining Buchwald,” Nikas said of the move. “…[I’m] excited to lend my development...
Nikas, who began her career at Playtone Productions working for Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, has spent the last four years as Director of Development at eOne. She was responsible for the development and production of multiple projects including Millennial Mafia, which sold straight to series at Amazon; as well as the adaptation of Suicide Club, which is currently set up at Hulu; and several shows for Quibi, including Jon Favreau’s Micro Mayhem. In addition to developing and producing content for the studio, she’s credited with passionately searching for a new breed of storyteller that would elevate the landscape of television in the digital age.
“I am thrilled to be joining Buchwald,” Nikas said of the move. “…[I’m] excited to lend my development...
- 5/20/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
When someone talks about the Japanese movie industry in the 00s, inevitably the discussion goes towards anime, which, in the specific decade, accounted for 60% of the local film production. With films like Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away” and the rest of Studio Ghibli’s productions, along with masterpieces from Satoshi Kon, Mamoru Oshii, Katsuhiro Otomo and other great filmmakers, there is no wonder why the 00s were considered “Japanese Cinema’s Second Golden Age”, particularly for the penetration of local films in cinemas around the world.
However, anime were not the only story Japanese cinema had to tell in this decade. Yojiro Takita also won an Oscar, Shinji Aoyama and Naomi Kawase won at Cannes, Hirokazu Koreeda continued his successful festival run, Yoji Yamada made an exceptional trilogy of samurai films, Shunji Iwai directed one of the most critically acclaimed film of the decade, Kinji Fukasaku released his last film and Takeshi Kitano his most successful.
However, anime were not the only story Japanese cinema had to tell in this decade. Yojiro Takita also won an Oscar, Shinji Aoyama and Naomi Kawase won at Cannes, Hirokazu Koreeda continued his successful festival run, Yoji Yamada made an exceptional trilogy of samurai films, Shunji Iwai directed one of the most critically acclaimed film of the decade, Kinji Fukasaku released his last film and Takeshi Kitano his most successful.
- 5/10/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
[Editor’s Note: The following article contains spoilers for “The Terror: Infamy” Episode 6, “Taizo.”]
Monday’s episode of “The Terror: Infamy” finally tells the backstory of the ghost known as Yuko (Kiki Sukezane), who has been haunting Chester (Derek Mio), his friends, and his family during WWII. It turns out that in 1919, Yuko traveled to Terminal Island for an arranged marriage to Hideo Furuya (Eiji Inoue), but when she reveals she’s already pregnant by another man, he casts her out. Unable to care for her baby boy properly, she gives Taizo — now the grown-up Chester — away and kills herself by leaping off a bridge. The tragic circumstances surrounding her death creates an onnen, or a wild hunger, in her as she becomes the unsatisfied spirit known as the yurei.
While Yuko’s origin story explains why she’s been sticking around after her death, hints of her state of mind have been present from the start… in her clothing. Costume designer J.R. Hawbaker...
Monday’s episode of “The Terror: Infamy” finally tells the backstory of the ghost known as Yuko (Kiki Sukezane), who has been haunting Chester (Derek Mio), his friends, and his family during WWII. It turns out that in 1919, Yuko traveled to Terminal Island for an arranged marriage to Hideo Furuya (Eiji Inoue), but when she reveals she’s already pregnant by another man, he casts her out. Unable to care for her baby boy properly, she gives Taizo — now the grown-up Chester — away and kills herself by leaping off a bridge. The tragic circumstances surrounding her death creates an onnen, or a wild hunger, in her as she becomes the unsatisfied spirit known as the yurei.
While Yuko’s origin story explains why she’s been sticking around after her death, hints of her state of mind have been present from the start… in her clothing. Costume designer J.R. Hawbaker...
- 9/17/2019
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
Japanese director Sion Sono suffered a heart attack Thursday and has since undergone an operation. Sono’s representatives have told Japanese media that his life is not in danger.
His illness may delay production of Nicolas Cage-starring horror-action film “Prisoners of the Ghostland,” which was scheduled to begin shooting this spring.
Cage is to star as a criminal out to rescue a kidnapped girl who has fallen into a dark alternative universe. Imogen Poots has also boarded the film, which is Sono’s first in English.
“Our understanding is that he is in very good condition, and there’s no impact on ‘Ghostland’ or timeline,” producer Nate Bolotin of Xyz Films told Variety in an email.
Pushing boundaries of sex and violence while mixing in classical music, Christian imagery and black humor, Sono became an international cult favorite in the early years of the millennium. Among his best-known films abroad are “Suicide Club,...
His illness may delay production of Nicolas Cage-starring horror-action film “Prisoners of the Ghostland,” which was scheduled to begin shooting this spring.
Cage is to star as a criminal out to rescue a kidnapped girl who has fallen into a dark alternative universe. Imogen Poots has also boarded the film, which is Sono’s first in English.
“Our understanding is that he is in very good condition, and there’s no impact on ‘Ghostland’ or timeline,” producer Nate Bolotin of Xyz Films told Variety in an email.
Pushing boundaries of sex and violence while mixing in classical music, Christian imagery and black humor, Sono became an international cult favorite in the early years of the millennium. Among his best-known films abroad are “Suicide Club,...
- 2/8/2019
- by Mark Schilling
- Variety Film + TV
Nicolas Cage recently described his upcoming film Prisoners of the Ghostland as the “wildest movie” he’s ever made, and that’s saying something. The film teams him with legendary Japanese filmmaker Sion Sono, director of Why Don’t You Play in Hell? and Suicide Club. Now we have two updates on the project, one good, one bad. First, the good: Green Room‘s […]
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- 2/8/2019
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
Here’s a match made in movie heaven you never knew you needed: Nicolas Cage and Sion Sono collaborating on a crime thriller. The result is the upcoming “Prisoners of the Ghostland,” which Cage says “might be the wildest movie [he’s] ever made.” That may sound hard to believe — this year’s “Mandy” was pretty out there, and who can forget the likes of “Vampire’s Kiss” or that “Wicker Man” remake? — but anyone who’s seen “Love Exposure” or “Suicide Club” knows that Sono is capable of much oddity.
“I’m thrilled about it! It’s unlike anything I’ve ever read before,” Cage said of the film during the Film Festival and Awards Macao, according to Screen Anarchy. “It might be the wildest movie I’ve ever made, and that’s saying something. It’s out there. I wear a skintight black leather jumpsuit with grenades attached to different body parts,...
“I’m thrilled about it! It’s unlike anything I’ve ever read before,” Cage said of the film during the Film Festival and Awards Macao, according to Screen Anarchy. “It might be the wildest movie I’ve ever made, and that’s saying something. It’s out there. I wear a skintight black leather jumpsuit with grenades attached to different body parts,...
- 12/14/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
We love Nicolas Cage for the unabashed intensity with which he seems to approach any role he is offered, and in recent years, boy have there been a lot of them. The actor was in Macau this past weekend at the 3rd International Film Festival and Awards Macao. During his masterclass, Cage revealed a tidbit about one of his most anticipated projects for 2019, Prisoners of the Ghostland. The film marks the English-language debut of Sion Sono, the equally unhinged director of Love Exposure, Suicide Club, Why Don’t You Play in Hell?, Antiporno and many other deranged favourites. Suffice to say, it sounds pretty crazy… “I’m thrilled about it! It’s unlike anything I’ve ever read before. It might be the wildest movie I’ve...
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- 12/13/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Andrew Hollingworth, who starred in 2017 horror The House on Elm Lake, has won ABC’s British digital talent competition.
Hollingworth is the winner of the second iteration of the ABC Discovers scheme following Jemma Moore, who who is set to star in Universal’s 2019 feature Doom. He picks up a one-year $25,000 talent deal with the Grey’s Anatomy and Black-ish broadcaster.
It was overseen by Kate Dowd in the U.K., and casting directors Jennifer Treadwell and Monica Kelly in the U.S. The site will offer advice from the likes of Ayo Davis, senior vice president, Talent and Casting, ABC Entertainment, Quantico and Code Black exec producer Michael Seitzman as well as stars such as Priyanka Chopra, Blair Underwood and Marlee Matlin.
Hollingsworth’s other credits include Maximilian von Vier’s 2018 feature Suicide Club and compendium horror The Haunted Hotel.
Other finalists included Madelyn Smedley, Annabel Grace, Chabris Napier-Lawrence,...
Hollingworth is the winner of the second iteration of the ABC Discovers scheme following Jemma Moore, who who is set to star in Universal’s 2019 feature Doom. He picks up a one-year $25,000 talent deal with the Grey’s Anatomy and Black-ish broadcaster.
It was overseen by Kate Dowd in the U.K., and casting directors Jennifer Treadwell and Monica Kelly in the U.S. The site will offer advice from the likes of Ayo Davis, senior vice president, Talent and Casting, ABC Entertainment, Quantico and Code Black exec producer Michael Seitzman as well as stars such as Priyanka Chopra, Blair Underwood and Marlee Matlin.
Hollingsworth’s other credits include Maximilian von Vier’s 2018 feature Suicide Club and compendium horror The Haunted Hotel.
Other finalists included Madelyn Smedley, Annabel Grace, Chabris Napier-Lawrence,...
- 11/20/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Sion Sono is known for being both prolific and provocative, with grotesque horrors such as “Suicide Club” (2002) and more thoughtful pieces like “Himizu” (2011). In “Antiporno” he gives his own unusual take on the adult film industry, discussing themes of sex, sexism, patriarchal society, and female liberation.
Antiporno is screening at the 19th Japan Film Fest Hamburg
The film begins in a peculiar yellow room, that serves not only as living quarters, but also as a sort of inescapable psychological space, a cell, and a film set. We see our a woman dancing alone to classical accompaniment. Around her are a dazzling array of lit candles and she seems in an joyful mood as she glides elegantly around the room. This cuts to the woman, Kyoko, waking up, underwear around her knees, and stumbling to the bathroom, which is connected to the main room and painted vivid red. The character seems conflicted,...
Antiporno is screening at the 19th Japan Film Fest Hamburg
The film begins in a peculiar yellow room, that serves not only as living quarters, but also as a sort of inescapable psychological space, a cell, and a film set. We see our a woman dancing alone to classical accompaniment. Around her are a dazzling array of lit candles and she seems in an joyful mood as she glides elegantly around the room. This cuts to the woman, Kyoko, waking up, underwear around her knees, and stumbling to the bathroom, which is connected to the main room and painted vivid red. The character seems conflicted,...
- 5/14/2018
- by Matthew Cooper
- AsianMoviePulse
Nicolas Cage To Star in the Supernatural Post-Apocalyptic Action Thriller Prisoners Of The Ghostland
Nicolas Cage has landed another crazy movie role! He is set to star in a new post-apocalyptic action thriller called Prisoners of the Ghostland. This is the English-language debut of Japanese filmmaker Sion Sono (Suicide Club).
The film is being produced by Xyz Films, who also teamed up with Cage on the insane horror thriller Mandy, which is going to blow audiences away this summer.
Prisoners of the Ghostland centers on a "notorious criminal Hero (Cage) who is sent to rescue an abducted girl who has disappeared into a dark supernatural universe. They must break the evil curse that binds them and escape the mysterious revenants that rule the Ghostland, an East-meets-West vortex of beauty and violence."
Well, that sounds like it's going to be a crazy-ass movie! It's perfect for Cage!
The film is being produced by Xyz Films, who also teamed up with Cage on the insane horror thriller Mandy, which is going to blow audiences away this summer.
Prisoners of the Ghostland centers on a "notorious criminal Hero (Cage) who is sent to rescue an abducted girl who has disappeared into a dark supernatural universe. They must break the evil curse that binds them and escape the mysterious revenants that rule the Ghostland, an East-meets-West vortex of beauty and violence."
Well, that sounds like it's going to be a crazy-ass movie! It's perfect for Cage!
- 5/14/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Sion Sono's Antiporno (2016), which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from December 8, 2017 - January 7, 2018 as a Special Discovery.Few directors before or since Russ Meyer have so enthusiastically worn their art’s sexual obsessions on their sleeves as Japanese auteur Sion Sono. But if Meyer once claimed that he wasn’t interested in anything “below the belt,” Sono is the complete opposite, reveling in the upskirt wonderland of schoolgirls and women in uniform, whether it be the group suicide that opens his notorious Suicide Club (2001), the panty-shot perverts in Love Exposure (2008), or the small army of oblivious high schoolers in his ultra-violent Tag (2015). Such an obsession seemingly made him a perfect choice for the “Roman Porno Reboot Project” of Japanese movie studio Nikkatsu, an ambitious series of five movies commissioned by the legendary...
- 12/8/2017
- MUBI
If you read Playboy for the articles, “Wet Woman in the Wind” and “Antiporno” may be for you. Part of Mubi’s foray into theatrical distribution, they also represent the return of the Roman Porno — a particular kind of pink film (read: softcore porn) made by the Nikkatsu studio and prevalent in Japan throughout the 1970s and ‘80s.
The first of these, 1971’s “Apartment Wife: Affair in the Afternoon,” spawned 20 sequels within a seven-year span and made Kuzuko Shirakawa a different kind of scream queen long before Jamie Lee Curtis first met Michael Myers. Nikkatsu produced roughly three Roman Pornos a month until 1988, helping the revered studio pivot away from Yakuza flicks. These affairs were short, sexy, and often quite good — critics responded to them with nearly as much enthusiasm as audiences.
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To celebrate that legacy,...
The first of these, 1971’s “Apartment Wife: Affair in the Afternoon,” spawned 20 sequels within a seven-year span and made Kuzuko Shirakawa a different kind of scream queen long before Jamie Lee Curtis first met Michael Myers. Nikkatsu produced roughly three Roman Pornos a month until 1988, helping the revered studio pivot away from Yakuza flicks. These affairs were short, sexy, and often quite good — critics responded to them with nearly as much enthusiasm as audiences.
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To celebrate that legacy,...
- 11/21/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Fear doesn’t need subtitles, but some of the best horror films do. J-horror, the New French Extremity, and other foreign-language scary-movie movements have provided much in the way of terrified shrieks and heightened pulses. Although dialogue may get lost in translation, blood-curdling screams never do. Horror is an especially visual genre, and one of the most universal.
The world is dark and full of terrors, especially where the movies on this list are concerned. Here are our favorite foreign language horror flicks made since the year 2000.
20. “We Are What We Are” (2010)
Horror filmmakers ruthlessly mine for metaphor, often at the expense of credibility. The tricky balance in the Mexican cannibal drama “We Are What We Are” (“Somos lo que hay”) pairs a conventional family unit with the ludicrously grotesque to chilling and absurd effect. Writer-director Jorge Michel Grau’s feature debut has the goriest signifier for underclass strife this...
The world is dark and full of terrors, especially where the movies on this list are concerned. Here are our favorite foreign language horror flicks made since the year 2000.
20. “We Are What We Are” (2010)
Horror filmmakers ruthlessly mine for metaphor, often at the expense of credibility. The tricky balance in the Mexican cannibal drama “We Are What We Are” (“Somos lo que hay”) pairs a conventional family unit with the ludicrously grotesque to chilling and absurd effect. Writer-director Jorge Michel Grau’s feature debut has the goriest signifier for underclass strife this...
- 10/20/2017
- by Michael Nordine, Chris O'Falt, Eric Kohn, Jamie Righetti, William Earl, Zack Sharf, Anne Thompson, Kate Erbland and David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Suicide Club is a Japanese 2001 horror thriller that makes you as an audience ask what happened during production? With a story that doesn't hold up, with bloods and gore fest mix with detective crime thriller, and with a cute pop group singing songs that are not what it seems. Story: Detective Kuroda (Ryo Ishibashi) and his team are investigating a troublesome case about multi suicide cult that plague the nation. 54 schoolgirls together holding hands and commit suicide together by jumping down the subway station while the train run through them. More suicide victim appears the next days, with all different ages and profession of work. The only clue Kuroda has is a rolled skin puzzle. The puzzle contain 200 pieces of human skin...
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- 9/6/2016
- Screen Anarchy
The late August weekends prior to Labor Day can offer opportunities for box office breakthroughs because the studios historically save these dog days for their weakest entries. Three years ago Weinstein took “The Butler” to $116 million domestic after a robust $24.6 million opening. None of this weekend’s three new wide releases will reach that level.
“Ben-Hur” (Paramount), “Kubo and the Two Strings” (Focus) and “War Dogs” (Warner Bros.) as well as three holdovers should all score more than $10-million for the weekend. That would set a record for the last half of August, and so would any Top Ten total above $114 million (unadjusted at least). This weekend in 2015 scored only $85 million.
Two pictures are contesting for different contests weekend bests. One will ends up at #1, in a close race between the third weekend of Warner Bros.’/ D.C. Comics’ fast-falling “Suicide Club” and Sony’s sleeper animated success “Sausage Party.
“Ben-Hur” (Paramount), “Kubo and the Two Strings” (Focus) and “War Dogs” (Warner Bros.) as well as three holdovers should all score more than $10-million for the weekend. That would set a record for the last half of August, and so would any Top Ten total above $114 million (unadjusted at least). This weekend in 2015 scored only $85 million.
Two pictures are contesting for different contests weekend bests. One will ends up at #1, in a close race between the third weekend of Warner Bros.’/ D.C. Comics’ fast-falling “Suicide Club” and Sony’s sleeper animated success “Sausage Party.
- 8/18/2016
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
Japan Cuts, North America’s largest festival of new Japanese film, celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. For eleven straight days, Japan Cuts will present about 30 features and 20 shorts of brand-new, can’t-miss film made in and around Japan. The festival will also feature an industry panel and an unprecedented number of special guests. Watch an exclusive trailer for the festival above.
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This year’s special guests include Lily Franky, this year’s recipient of the Cut Above Award for Outstanding Performance in Film. He will appear in “The Shell Collector,” an enigmatic film by Yoshifumi Tsubota about a blind professor who has a shellfish that holds a healing power, which will premiere at the festival on July 21st. Franky has previously appeared in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s acclaimed drama “Like Father, Like Son,” about a successful businessman who discovers his son was switched with another child after birth.
Other guests include influential auteur Sion Sono, whose credits include “Why Don’t You Play In Hell?” “Love Exposure,” “Suicide Club,” and more; he will premiere two films at the festival: his passion project “Love & Peace” as well as the black-and-white sci-fi “The Whispering Star.” Nagisa Oshima’s son, Arata Oshima, has made “The Sion Sono,” a documentary about Sono, which will be at the festival as well.
Japan Cuts runs from July 14th through the 24th. For a full list of the festival’s impressive lineup, check out the full program here.
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This year’s special guests include Lily Franky, this year’s recipient of the Cut Above Award for Outstanding Performance in Film. He will appear in “The Shell Collector,” an enigmatic film by Yoshifumi Tsubota about a blind professor who has a shellfish that holds a healing power, which will premiere at the festival on July 21st. Franky has previously appeared in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s acclaimed drama “Like Father, Like Son,” about a successful businessman who discovers his son was switched with another child after birth.
Other guests include influential auteur Sion Sono, whose credits include “Why Don’t You Play In Hell?” “Love Exposure,” “Suicide Club,” and more; he will premiere two films at the festival: his passion project “Love & Peace” as well as the black-and-white sci-fi “The Whispering Star.” Nagisa Oshima’s son, Arata Oshima, has made “The Sion Sono,” a documentary about Sono, which will be at the festival as well.
Japan Cuts runs from July 14th through the 24th. For a full list of the festival’s impressive lineup, check out the full program here.
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- 6/14/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
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Our monthly round up of horror DVDs and Blu-rays, led by the wonderful and terrifying Audition...
So, it seems to be time once again to ask that age-old question: what’s your favourite cinematic depiction of conjoined twins? Ranging from the mutoid majesty of That Guy In Total Recall With The Talking Stomach Baby through to the Farrelly brothers’ gross-out gubbins Stuck On You, Hollywood has carved a progressive path in its depiction of wretched freaks of nature, magical otherworldly beings and monstrous killers. Following in this glorious tradition of stigmatising the disabled (insert Iain Duncan Smith reference here), this month sees the Bluray release of Frank Henenlotter’s classic splatter comedy Basket Case trilogy.
The director of the equally subtle Frankenhooker cut his teeth with his 1982 cult favourite Basket Case, which told the tale of the Bradley brothers, bemulleted Duane (Kevin van Hentenryck), the ostensibly ’normal...
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Our monthly round up of horror DVDs and Blu-rays, led by the wonderful and terrifying Audition...
So, it seems to be time once again to ask that age-old question: what’s your favourite cinematic depiction of conjoined twins? Ranging from the mutoid majesty of That Guy In Total Recall With The Talking Stomach Baby through to the Farrelly brothers’ gross-out gubbins Stuck On You, Hollywood has carved a progressive path in its depiction of wretched freaks of nature, magical otherworldly beings and monstrous killers. Following in this glorious tradition of stigmatising the disabled (insert Iain Duncan Smith reference here), this month sees the Bluray release of Frank Henenlotter’s classic splatter comedy Basket Case trilogy.
The director of the equally subtle Frankenhooker cut his teeth with his 1982 cult favourite Basket Case, which told the tale of the Bradley brothers, bemulleted Duane (Kevin van Hentenryck), the ostensibly ’normal...
- 3/15/2016
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Not your run-of-the-mill future film festival selection, filmmakers Gael García Bernal (Déficit), Anurag Kashyap (Gangs of Wasseypur), Sebastián Silva (Nasty Baby), Shion Sono (Suicide Club), Natasha Khan and actress Mia Wasikowska each supplied a short supply with one overriding thematic that was commissioned by MTV World. While Madly doesn’t “scream” Sundance, we can’t help but think that the curious mix of filmmakers (including Park City habituals Silva and Bernal) adds enough clout to warrant a possible inclusion.
Gist: This is a global anthology film featuring innovative love stories from the some of the world’s most visionary directors.
Production Co./Producers: Eric Mahoney. Executive producer: Nusrat Durrani.
Prediction: World Dramatic Comp.
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. Tbd (domestic). Tbd (international)
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Gist: This is a global anthology film featuring innovative love stories from the some of the world’s most visionary directors.
Production Co./Producers: Eric Mahoney. Executive producer: Nusrat Durrani.
Prediction: World Dramatic Comp.
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. Tbd (domestic). Tbd (international)
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- 11/25/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The 10th annual After Dark Film Festival kicks off on October 15th and the event's first ten films have now been revealed, including Deathgasm, Tales of Halloween, and A Christmas Horror Story:
Press Release: September 15, 2015: Toronto After Dark Film Festival is thrilled to officially unveil its first wave of exciting film announcements for 2015! Included in the lineup are some of the most critically acclaimed and eagerly anticipated new horror, sci-fi, action and cult films from this year’s international film festival circuit. These 10 new movies will all have their Toronto, Canadian or International Theatrical Premieres hosted exclusively at the festival’s 10th Annual Edition this October 15-23, 2015 at the Scotiabank Theatre, in the heart of downtown Toronto.
The First Ten Films!
Deathgasm (New Zealand) Toronto Premiere & Closing Gala Film
In the latest crowd-pleasing horror-comedy from New Zealand that’s taken the festival circuit by storm since its debut at SXSW,...
Press Release: September 15, 2015: Toronto After Dark Film Festival is thrilled to officially unveil its first wave of exciting film announcements for 2015! Included in the lineup are some of the most critically acclaimed and eagerly anticipated new horror, sci-fi, action and cult films from this year’s international film festival circuit. These 10 new movies will all have their Toronto, Canadian or International Theatrical Premieres hosted exclusively at the festival’s 10th Annual Edition this October 15-23, 2015 at the Scotiabank Theatre, in the heart of downtown Toronto.
The First Ten Films!
Deathgasm (New Zealand) Toronto Premiere & Closing Gala Film
In the latest crowd-pleasing horror-comedy from New Zealand that’s taken the festival circuit by storm since its debut at SXSW,...
- 9/15/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Tag
Written by Yûsuke Yamada
Directed by Sion Sono
Japan, 2015
Delivering a brisk and fast-paced action comedy about the nature of reality, Sion Sono’s Tag stands out as among the best films so far this year. Sion Sono has never been a stranger to pushing boundaries – his films have consistently tackled taboo subjects through the gauze of the unreal. His most famous works operate on the tone of hysteria, as emotions and actions are amplified to create a surreal and fantastical landscape.
Tag begins as Mitsuko (Reina Triendl) and her class are riding the school bus. Her friends are asking to see her poetry, and in a small tug of war she drops her pencil. As she bends down to pick it up, the bus and the upper torsos of everyone on the bus are sliced off by a mysterious force. More cartoon than tragedy, the film’s cold...
Written by Yûsuke Yamada
Directed by Sion Sono
Japan, 2015
Delivering a brisk and fast-paced action comedy about the nature of reality, Sion Sono’s Tag stands out as among the best films so far this year. Sion Sono has never been a stranger to pushing boundaries – his films have consistently tackled taboo subjects through the gauze of the unreal. His most famous works operate on the tone of hysteria, as emotions and actions are amplified to create a surreal and fantastical landscape.
Tag begins as Mitsuko (Reina Triendl) and her class are riding the school bus. Her friends are asking to see her poetry, and in a small tug of war she drops her pencil. As she bends down to pick it up, the bus and the upper torsos of everyone on the bus are sliced off by a mysterious force. More cartoon than tragedy, the film’s cold...
- 7/30/2015
- by Justine Smith
- SoundOnSight
Love and Peace
Directed by Sion Sono
Written by Sion Sono
2015, Japan
Sion Sono has had a rather interesting career. The former member of a religious cult turned leader of the performance art collective Tokyo Gagaga, and later director of gay pornographic films as well as “pink films,” reached a wide international audience and established himself as a cult director in 2001 with Suicide Club. Ever since, the avant-garde poet has been on a role, releasing hit after hit including cult favorites Hair Extensions, Love Exposure, Cold Fish, Why Don’t You Play In Hell and Strange Circus (to name just a few). He’s a director usually linked to extreme-cinema with some citing him as a replacement for Takashi Miike who now sits comfortably in the mainstream. And like Miike, Sion Sono is one of the busiest filmmakers in the world, averaging about two movies a year. We’re only...
Directed by Sion Sono
Written by Sion Sono
2015, Japan
Sion Sono has had a rather interesting career. The former member of a religious cult turned leader of the performance art collective Tokyo Gagaga, and later director of gay pornographic films as well as “pink films,” reached a wide international audience and established himself as a cult director in 2001 with Suicide Club. Ever since, the avant-garde poet has been on a role, releasing hit after hit including cult favorites Hair Extensions, Love Exposure, Cold Fish, Why Don’t You Play In Hell and Strange Circus (to name just a few). He’s a director usually linked to extreme-cinema with some citing him as a replacement for Takashi Miike who now sits comfortably in the mainstream. And like Miike, Sion Sono is one of the busiest filmmakers in the world, averaging about two movies a year. We’re only...
- 7/30/2015
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
American may be inundated with big screen Hollywood Superhero blockbusters, but it doesn’t compare to Japan’s film industry which is releasing adaptations of popular manga series at an incredible rate. Maverick director Sion Sono (Love Exposure, Suicide Club), is one of the unique voices in modern cinema. The man is making a thunderous return to Fantasia this year with an unprecedented three films (Shinjuku Swan, Love & Peace and Tag), but if that wasn’t enough, the prolific director has another film coming out later this year in Japan. The Virgin Psychics has already been made into a successful TV show consisting of 12 episodes, one of which was directed by Sono, but now, a big screen adaptation of the popular manga will be released this September. With Sion Sono at the helm, big success is likely to follow.
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- 7/9/2015
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
The 19th Annual Fantasia Film Festival is only a week away, beginning July 14 and running through August 4. And as promised for today, they’ve revealed their full line-up of films screening at 2015’s festival in Montreal.
This year’s line-up boasts 22 World Premieres, 13 International Premieres, and 21 North American Premieres. Both Marvel’s Ant-Man and the animated Miss Hokusai were previously announced, but now they’ve added the much anticipated Attack on Titan movie as their closing night film. Other highlights include the Sundance darlings Cooties, starring Elijah Wood and Rainn Wilson, Cop Car, starring Kevin Bacon and directed by the upcoming Spider-man director Jon Watts, and a trio of films from horror auteur Sion Sono.
See the full line-up announcement of films below via Fantasia’s Facebook page, and be sure to check out their website at fantasiafestival.com for additional information.
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Fantasia 2015:
36 Countries, 135 Features, and Nearly 300 Short Films
- Including 22 World Premieres,...
This year’s line-up boasts 22 World Premieres, 13 International Premieres, and 21 North American Premieres. Both Marvel’s Ant-Man and the animated Miss Hokusai were previously announced, but now they’ve added the much anticipated Attack on Titan movie as their closing night film. Other highlights include the Sundance darlings Cooties, starring Elijah Wood and Rainn Wilson, Cop Car, starring Kevin Bacon and directed by the upcoming Spider-man director Jon Watts, and a trio of films from horror auteur Sion Sono.
See the full line-up announcement of films below via Fantasia’s Facebook page, and be sure to check out their website at fantasiafestival.com for additional information.
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Fantasia 2015:
36 Countries, 135 Features, and Nearly 300 Short Films
- Including 22 World Premieres,...
- 7/7/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
For nearly two decades, Tokyo Gore Police helmer Yoshihiro Nishimura has been on the foreground of Japanese extreme cinema, both as a director and as a special makeup artist, gaining notoriety for his often hallucinatory FX work seen in such fest faves as Meatball Machine and Sion Sono’s Suicide Club. The Ninja War of Torakage marks a new path for Nishimura, as he blends the popular Japanese ninja genre with his crazy, visually driven style of filmmaking. The movie stars Takashi Miike regular Takumi Saitoh (13 Assassins, Ace Attorney) as the lead, with cult-actress Eihi Shiina (The Audition, Tokyo Gore Police) as Torakage’s evil master. Watch the trailer below.
The Ninja War of Torakage – Trailer [Vo] by Filmosphere
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- 4/4/2015
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Despite his latest film, Why Don’t You Play In Hell?, just getting a release here, director Sion Sono, who I imagine is most well-known as the guy who directed Suicide Club and Love Exposure, already has three more features waiting to arrive. We reviewed Tokyo Tribe, showed the trailer for Love & Peace, and now we have another preview for his next […]...
- 2/3/2015
- by Jason Michael
- The Film Stage
The first teaser for Sion Sono’s forthcoming Love and Peace has arrived, and as expected from the unhinged director, it leaves many questions unanswered. Departing from his previous work such as Tokyo Tribe, Why Don’t You Play In Hell? (listen to our podcast discussion), Suicide Club, and Love Exposure, the director has stated that Love and Peace is the product […]...
- 1/20/2015
- by Heath Jones
- The Film Stage
Though it saddens to me say, Fantastic Fest 2014 has come to a close. Another year of movies and mayhem has ended and somehow the newly renovated Alamo Drafthouse is still standing – even if the crowds partied hard enough every night to make me expect the worse. Fantastic Fest has always shown the best genre films from around the world and this year was certainly no different. In fact, this year’s lineup featured an extraordinary array of bloody slashers, dark comedies, bizarre love stories, and crazy documentaries. Here’s my Top 10 Favorites From Fantastic Fest 2014!
Honorable Mentions:
The Tribe
The idea of a film without any dialogue or even a film score can be a tough sell for even a seasoned filmgoer like myself. So it really says something (no pun intended) that The Tribe soars as a unique storytelling experience that showcases pure and raw emotions. The film follows...
Honorable Mentions:
The Tribe
The idea of a film without any dialogue or even a film score can be a tough sell for even a seasoned filmgoer like myself. So it really says something (no pun intended) that The Tribe soars as a unique storytelling experience that showcases pure and raw emotions. The film follows...
- 10/29/2014
- by Michael Haffner
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
With its arrival on North American shores imminent a new trailer for Sono Sion's gonzo Why Don't You Play In Hell has arrived online. I literally ate my shirt at Fantastic Fest last year because of this film (and R100, it was a team effort) and the general level of insanity it inspires. Here's how the Toronto International Film Festival pitched it back in the day:a renegade film crew known as "The Fuck Bombers"! Yakuza gangsters hell-bent on revenge! Decapitated heads! A French kiss from a mouth full of broken glass! And a catchy toothpaste commercial jingle ... ?! Cult film director Sion Sono, known for his outlandish work including Suicide Club, Love Exposure and Cold Fish, is back with Why Don't You Play in...
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- 10/14/2014
- Screen Anarchy
The ABCs of Death 2 will be making its VOD premiere via Magnet Releasing on October 2nd with a theatrical run set for October 31st. That being said a new work friendly green band trailer has come our way and it's fit for mass consumption. Dig it!
The ABCs Of Death 2 is produced by Ant Timpson and Tim League, in conjunction with associate producers Todd Brown, Marc Walkow, Mitch Davis, and Ted Geoghegan.
The ABCs Of Death 2’s directors are an eclectic, acclaimed group, consisting of Julian Barratt of The Mighty Boosh; Israel’s Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado (Big Bad Wolves, Rabies); Japan’s arthouse provocateur Sion Sono (Cold Fish, Suicide Club); Academy Award-nominated animator Bill Plympton; Room 237 mastermind Rodney Ascher; Filipino icon – and Director’s Fortnight inductee – Erik Matti (On The Job, Magic Temple); Lithuania’s Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper (Vanishing Waves); Splice and...
The ABCs Of Death 2 is produced by Ant Timpson and Tim League, in conjunction with associate producers Todd Brown, Marc Walkow, Mitch Davis, and Ted Geoghegan.
The ABCs Of Death 2’s directors are an eclectic, acclaimed group, consisting of Julian Barratt of The Mighty Boosh; Israel’s Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado (Big Bad Wolves, Rabies); Japan’s arthouse provocateur Sion Sono (Cold Fish, Suicide Club); Academy Award-nominated animator Bill Plympton; Room 237 mastermind Rodney Ascher; Filipino icon – and Director’s Fortnight inductee – Erik Matti (On The Job, Magic Temple); Lithuania’s Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper (Vanishing Waves); Splice and...
- 9/4/2014
- by Steve Barton
- DreadCentral.com
The ABCs of Death 2 will be making its VOD premiere via Magnet Releasing on October 2nd with a theatrical run set for October 31st. Right now we have a new red band trailer for you cats to dig on that is brimming with the good stuff!
The ABCs Of Death 2 is produced by Ant Timpson and Tim League, in conjunction with associate producers Todd Brown, Marc Walkow, Mitch Davis, and Ted Geoghegan.
The ABCs Of Death 2’s directors are an eclectic, acclaimed group, consisting of Julian Barratt of The Mighty Boosh; Israel’s Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado (Big Bad Wolves, Rabies); Japan’s arthouse provocateur Sion Sono (Cold Fish, Suicide Club); Academy Award-nominated animator Bill Plympton; Room 237 mastermind Rodney Ascher; Filipino icon – and Director’s Fortnight inductee – Erik Matti (On The Job, Magic Temple); Lithuania’s Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper (Vanishing Waves); Splice and...
The ABCs Of Death 2 is produced by Ant Timpson and Tim League, in conjunction with associate producers Todd Brown, Marc Walkow, Mitch Davis, and Ted Geoghegan.
The ABCs Of Death 2’s directors are an eclectic, acclaimed group, consisting of Julian Barratt of The Mighty Boosh; Israel’s Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado (Big Bad Wolves, Rabies); Japan’s arthouse provocateur Sion Sono (Cold Fish, Suicide Club); Academy Award-nominated animator Bill Plympton; Room 237 mastermind Rodney Ascher; Filipino icon – and Director’s Fortnight inductee – Erik Matti (On The Job, Magic Temple); Lithuania’s Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper (Vanishing Waves); Splice and...
- 9/2/2014
- by Steve Barton
- DreadCentral.com
By Seth Metoyer, MoreHorror.com
The ABCs of Death 2 is coming to VOD through Magnet Releasing on October 2nd and will hit theaters on October 31st. Just what one needs after a night of tricks and treats.
About The ABCs of Death 2
The ABCs Of Death 2 is produced by Ant Timpson and Tim League, in conjunction with associate producers Todd Brown, Marc Walkow, Mitch Davis, and Ted Geoghegan.
The ABCs Of Death 2’s directors are an eclectic, acclaimed group, consisting of Julian Barratt of The Mighty Boosh; Israel’s Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado (Big Bad Wolves, Rabies); Japan’s arthouse provocateur Sion Sono (Cold Fish, Suicide Club); Academy Award-nominated animator Bill Plympton; Room 237 mastermind Rodney Ascher; Filipino icon – and Director’s Fortnight inductee – Erik Matti (On The Job, Magic Temple); Lithuania’s Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper (Vanishing Waves); Splice and Cube's Vincenzo Natali...
The ABCs of Death 2 is coming to VOD through Magnet Releasing on October 2nd and will hit theaters on October 31st. Just what one needs after a night of tricks and treats.
About The ABCs of Death 2
The ABCs Of Death 2 is produced by Ant Timpson and Tim League, in conjunction with associate producers Todd Brown, Marc Walkow, Mitch Davis, and Ted Geoghegan.
The ABCs Of Death 2’s directors are an eclectic, acclaimed group, consisting of Julian Barratt of The Mighty Boosh; Israel’s Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado (Big Bad Wolves, Rabies); Japan’s arthouse provocateur Sion Sono (Cold Fish, Suicide Club); Academy Award-nominated animator Bill Plympton; Room 237 mastermind Rodney Ascher; Filipino icon – and Director’s Fortnight inductee – Erik Matti (On The Job, Magic Temple); Lithuania’s Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper (Vanishing Waves); Splice and Cube's Vincenzo Natali...
- 8/4/2014
- by admin
- MoreHorror
The ABCs of Death 2 will be making its VOD premiere via Magnet Releasing on October 2nd with a theatrical run set for October 31st. I mean, what better day could there be to go see a horror movie in a theatre?!?
The ABCs Of Death 2 is produced by Ant Timpson and Tim League, in conjunction with associate producers Todd Brown, Marc Walkow, Mitch Davis, and Ted Geoghegan.
The ABCs Of Death 2’s directors are an eclectic, acclaimed group, consisting of Julian Barratt of The Mighty Boosh; Israel’s Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado (Big Bad Wolves, Rabies); Japan’s arthouse provocateur Sion Sono (Cold Fish, Suicide Club); Academy Award-nominated animator Bill Plympton; Room 237 mastermind Rodney Ascher; Filipino icon – and Director’s Fortnight inductee – Erik Matti (On The Job, Magic Temple); Lithuania’s Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper (Vanishing Waves); Splice and Cube's Vincenzo Natali; indie...
The ABCs Of Death 2 is produced by Ant Timpson and Tim League, in conjunction with associate producers Todd Brown, Marc Walkow, Mitch Davis, and Ted Geoghegan.
The ABCs Of Death 2’s directors are an eclectic, acclaimed group, consisting of Julian Barratt of The Mighty Boosh; Israel’s Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado (Big Bad Wolves, Rabies); Japan’s arthouse provocateur Sion Sono (Cold Fish, Suicide Club); Academy Award-nominated animator Bill Plympton; Room 237 mastermind Rodney Ascher; Filipino icon – and Director’s Fortnight inductee – Erik Matti (On The Job, Magic Temple); Lithuania’s Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper (Vanishing Waves); Splice and Cube's Vincenzo Natali; indie...
- 8/1/2014
- by Steve Barton
- DreadCentral.com
Making a name for themselves with Dead Hooker in a Trunk and American Mary, twin sisters Jen and Sylvia Soska make their anthology debut with The ABCs of Death 2, contributing a short film to the madness.
Though we don't yet have any idea what their entry will be about, we can be pretty damn sure it's going to be a hard one for male audiences to endure, as this just released behind-the-scenes shot leads us to believe. You have been warned, men!!
Check out the Nsfw image below, which was pulled from The ABCs of Death 2 Facebook page for being too gruesome for mass consumption!
Magnet is planning to release the film later this year. The ABCs Of Death 2 is produced by Ant Timpson and Tim League, in conjunction with associate producers Todd Brown, Marc Walkow, Mitch Davis, and Ted Geoghegan.
The ABCs Of Death 2’s directors are an eclectic,...
Though we don't yet have any idea what their entry will be about, we can be pretty damn sure it's going to be a hard one for male audiences to endure, as this just released behind-the-scenes shot leads us to believe. You have been warned, men!!
Check out the Nsfw image below, which was pulled from The ABCs of Death 2 Facebook page for being too gruesome for mass consumption!
Magnet is planning to release the film later this year. The ABCs Of Death 2 is produced by Ant Timpson and Tim League, in conjunction with associate producers Todd Brown, Marc Walkow, Mitch Davis, and Ted Geoghegan.
The ABCs Of Death 2’s directors are an eclectic,...
- 7/7/2014
- by John Squires
- DreadCentral.com
Hot on the heels of their ambitious horror anthology The ABCs Of Death, Drafthouse producers Ant Timpson and Tim League decided that the world needed another collection of horror shorts spanning every letter of the alphabet – and adventurous horror fans much like myself rejoiced. The ABCs Of Death 2 was greenlit, the directors were selected, and the inevitable waiting game began.
I tried on numerous occasions to extract as much information as possible from contributing artists – Jerome Sable, Aharon Keshales, Navot Papushado were tight-lipped in our interviews – but it looks like Magnet and Drafthouse are ready to start opening the floodgate of horrors hiding amidst these 26 short stories that are ready to shock, scare, and revolt viewers in ways the original didn’t dare.
While certain sites were originally given their own exclusive images, we’re now able to collect the smattering of gross faces, forest scenes, and creepy monsters...
I tried on numerous occasions to extract as much information as possible from contributing artists – Jerome Sable, Aharon Keshales, Navot Papushado were tight-lipped in our interviews – but it looks like Magnet and Drafthouse are ready to start opening the floodgate of horrors hiding amidst these 26 short stories that are ready to shock, scare, and revolt viewers in ways the original didn’t dare.
While certain sites were originally given their own exclusive images, we’re now able to collect the smattering of gross faces, forest scenes, and creepy monsters...
- 5/12/2014
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
A pair of exclusive stills have come our way to offer up to you cats who are eagerly anticipating the release of The ABCs of Death 2. So check 'em out right here, and keep your eyes open for more... lest they be sewn shut! Dig 'em!
Magnet is planning to release the film later this year. The ABCs Of Death 2 is produced by Ant Timpson and Tim League, in conjunction with associate producers Todd Brown, Marc Walkow, Mitch Davis, and Ted Geoghegan.
The ABCs Of Death 2’s directors are an eclectic, acclaimed group, consisting of Julian Barratt of The Mighty Boosh; Israel’s Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado (Big Bad Wolves, Rabies); Japan’s arthouse provocateur Sion Sono (Cold Fish, Suicide Club); Academy Award-nominated animator Bill Plympton; Room 237 mastermind Rodney Ascher; Filipino icon – and Director’s Fortnight inductee – Erik Matti (On The Job, Magic Temple); Lithuania...
Magnet is planning to release the film later this year. The ABCs Of Death 2 is produced by Ant Timpson and Tim League, in conjunction with associate producers Todd Brown, Marc Walkow, Mitch Davis, and Ted Geoghegan.
The ABCs Of Death 2’s directors are an eclectic, acclaimed group, consisting of Julian Barratt of The Mighty Boosh; Israel’s Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado (Big Bad Wolves, Rabies); Japan’s arthouse provocateur Sion Sono (Cold Fish, Suicide Club); Academy Award-nominated animator Bill Plympton; Room 237 mastermind Rodney Ascher; Filipino icon – and Director’s Fortnight inductee – Erik Matti (On The Job, Magic Temple); Lithuania...
- 5/12/2014
- by Steve Barton
- DreadCentral.com
Closing off the 2013 edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival is a new film by long time Fantasia favourite Sion Sono. Sion Sono is one of the few filmmakers to completely embody the ethos of Fantasia and he has been an almost constant presence at the festival since he won the award for most ground-breaking film for Suicide Club in 2002. His newest movie, Bad Film, was edited together from over 150 hours of footage he shot in 1993 and will be making its Canadian Premiere at this year’s festival. In anticipation of this film, I am counting down Sion Sono’s five best films.
5. Noriko’s Dinner Table (2006)
A vague prequel to Suicide Club, Noriko’s Dinner Table remains somewhat on the fringes of popularity with North American audiences. Though it does not reach the breadth of Love Exposure, it is perhaps closest to that film in style, as it examines...
5. Noriko’s Dinner Table (2006)
A vague prequel to Suicide Club, Noriko’s Dinner Table remains somewhat on the fringes of popularity with North American audiences. Though it does not reach the breadth of Love Exposure, it is perhaps closest to that film in style, as it examines...
- 3/14/2014
- by Justine Smith
- SoundOnSight
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