It's that time of year again for Fangoria's anticipated Chainsaw Award nominations for horror movies and terrifying television, and we have a look at the full list of nominations, including Ti West's Pearl, Jordan Peele's Nope (leading with 10 nominations), and the second season of Don Mancini's Chucky TV series:
Press Release: Fangoria and Fangoria Studios have released their 2023 Chainsaw Award nominations, which recognizes outstanding achievements in horror film and television. Since 1992, the Chainsaw Awards have honored top achievements in the horror genre, with past recipients including Wes Craven, George A. Romero, Lupita Nyong’o, Anthony Hopkins, and Elisabeth Moss.
“Nope,” written and directed by Jordan Peele, leads the pack with ten nominations including Best Wide Release Movie and Best Director. Other nominees include “Barbarian,” “Pearl,” “Hellraiser,” “Chucky” and “Yellowjackets.” Fangoria has also introduced two new categories this year: Best Short and Best Cinematography.
Editor-in-chief of Fangoria Phil Nobile Jr. states,...
Press Release: Fangoria and Fangoria Studios have released their 2023 Chainsaw Award nominations, which recognizes outstanding achievements in horror film and television. Since 1992, the Chainsaw Awards have honored top achievements in the horror genre, with past recipients including Wes Craven, George A. Romero, Lupita Nyong’o, Anthony Hopkins, and Elisabeth Moss.
“Nope,” written and directed by Jordan Peele, leads the pack with ten nominations including Best Wide Release Movie and Best Director. Other nominees include “Barbarian,” “Pearl,” “Hellraiser,” “Chucky” and “Yellowjackets.” Fangoria has also introduced two new categories this year: Best Short and Best Cinematography.
Editor-in-chief of Fangoria Phil Nobile Jr. states,...
- 1/27/2023
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
On Friday, Fangoria and Fangoria Studios released their 2023 Chainsaw Award nominations, which recognize outstanding achievements in horror film and television. First established in 1992, the Chainsaw Awards honor works and artists in a genre frequently overlooked by traditional organizations and critics groups. Past recipients include Wes Craven, George A. Romero, Lupita Nyong’o, Anthony Hopkins and Elisabeth Moss.
“Nope,” Jordan Peele’s follow-up to “Us,” received the most nominations of any film in Chainsaw Award contention, with 10 nominations including best wide release movie and best director. Other nominees include “Barbarian,” “Pearl,” “Hellraiser,” “Chucky” and “Yellowjackets.” Fangoria also introduced two new categories this year: Best Short and Best Cinematography.
Founded in 1979, Fangoria has become one of the most influential horror brands in the genre, living up to its moniker as “First in Fright.” At one time the only place on newsstands where fans could read about the world of contemporary horror, Fangoria...
“Nope,” Jordan Peele’s follow-up to “Us,” received the most nominations of any film in Chainsaw Award contention, with 10 nominations including best wide release movie and best director. Other nominees include “Barbarian,” “Pearl,” “Hellraiser,” “Chucky” and “Yellowjackets.” Fangoria also introduced two new categories this year: Best Short and Best Cinematography.
Founded in 1979, Fangoria has become one of the most influential horror brands in the genre, living up to its moniker as “First in Fright.” At one time the only place on newsstands where fans could read about the world of contemporary horror, Fangoria...
- 1/27/2023
- by Todd Gilchrist
- Variety Film + TV
(Welcome to Under the Radar, a column where we spotlight specific movies, shows, trends, performances, or scenes that caught our eye and deserved more attention ... but otherwise flew under the radar. In this edition: "Athena" juggles eye-popping filmmaking with harrowing violence, "Saloum" boasts action and the supernatural in equal measure, and "Vesper" delivers the original sci-fi we always yearn for.)
Believe it or not, the idea of blockbusters dominating the multiplexes year-round is only a relatively recent phenomenon. Previously reserved for prime-time slots during the hot summer months, big budget fare has increasingly taken over the other months of the year as studios staked their claim to more and more landing spots. Last year, "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" debuted in early September to incredible success, while recent years have seen (the pandemic-delayed) "Tenet," both "It" movies, and even a major re-release or two take the top spots during the month.
Believe it or not, the idea of blockbusters dominating the multiplexes year-round is only a relatively recent phenomenon. Previously reserved for prime-time slots during the hot summer months, big budget fare has increasingly taken over the other months of the year as studios staked their claim to more and more landing spots. Last year, "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" debuted in early September to incredible success, while recent years have seen (the pandemic-delayed) "Tenet," both "It" movies, and even a major re-release or two take the top spots during the month.
- 10/4/2022
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
Stars: Yann Gael Loro, Roger Sallah, Mentor Ba, Renaud Farah, Bruno Henry, Evelyne Ily Juhen, Ndiaga Mbow | Written and Directed by Jean Luc Herbulot
I almost managed to see the Senegalese export Saloum on the big screen last year, before some schedule shuffling got in the way. Watching it now I wish I had managed to see it, and not just because of Gregory Corandi’s (Le Banc) cinematography. Writer/director Jean Luc Herbulot has fashioned a genre-jumping film that would be perfect to watch with an audience.
Saloum opens with a voice thoughtfully contemplating the nature of revenge before abruptly shifting to the scene of a massacre as the mercenaries known as The Bangui Hyenas, Chaka (Yann Gael Loro), Rafa (Roger Sallah) and Minuit (Mentor Ba) are finishing off anyone who might still be alive while uptempo dance music plays.
It’s 2003 and as a coup throws Guinea-Bissau into...
I almost managed to see the Senegalese export Saloum on the big screen last year, before some schedule shuffling got in the way. Watching it now I wish I had managed to see it, and not just because of Gregory Corandi’s (Le Banc) cinematography. Writer/director Jean Luc Herbulot has fashioned a genre-jumping film that would be perfect to watch with an audience.
Saloum opens with a voice thoughtfully contemplating the nature of revenge before abruptly shifting to the scene of a massacre as the mercenaries known as The Bangui Hyenas, Chaka (Yann Gael Loro), Rafa (Roger Sallah) and Minuit (Mentor Ba) are finishing off anyone who might still be alive while uptempo dance music plays.
It’s 2003 and as a coup throws Guinea-Bissau into...
- 9/9/2022
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
With summer (unofficially) over and the Halloween Season now in full swing, these weekly roundups are about to get very packed with fresh new horrors both at home and in theaters!
Eight brand new horror movies are releasing in this first full week of September, and trust me when I say even that makes for a quiet week compared to what’s coming soon.
Here’s all the new horror arriving September 6 – September 11, 2022!
First up, Dread’s Tiny Cinema was just unleashed On Demand yesterday, a horror anthology of multiversal madness that’s also coming to Blu-ray on October 11 of this year.
Sit back, relax, and get uncomfortable…
From the makers of Butt Boy, Tiny Cinema is said to be “a twisted tale of seemingly unconnected strangers whose lives will change in incredible and bizarre ways forever. As reality unravels, each person must battle incredible challenges from a multiverse seeking...
Eight brand new horror movies are releasing in this first full week of September, and trust me when I say even that makes for a quiet week compared to what’s coming soon.
Here’s all the new horror arriving September 6 – September 11, 2022!
First up, Dread’s Tiny Cinema was just unleashed On Demand yesterday, a horror anthology of multiversal madness that’s also coming to Blu-ray on October 11 of this year.
Sit back, relax, and get uncomfortable…
From the makers of Butt Boy, Tiny Cinema is said to be “a twisted tale of seemingly unconnected strangers whose lives will change in incredible and bizarre ways forever. As reality unravels, each person must battle incredible challenges from a multiverse seeking...
- 9/7/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Labor Day weekend saw blockbusters old and new buoyed by cheap tickets, as was a limited openings like Saloum with multiple sold out screenings at two theaters, including every showtime on Saturday.
Over 3,000 theaters, including IFC Center and Alamo Drafthouse LA, where the French-Senegalese indie film began a qualifying run, offered 3 tickets for National Cinema Day. The promotional event is seeing preliminary box office returns of 24.3 million dollars for Saturday, according to Comscore. That’s 9 ahead of the preceding Saturday, even with discounted admissions, but strongly favored re-releases from Spider Man: No Way Home from last year to Jaws, from 1979, and tentpoles that have been in theaters for weeks and months led by Top Gun: Maverick. The box office was up 100 on Saturday from Friday but skewed heavily to its top ten titles.
Those did not include Focus Features’ Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul., which opened on 1,880 screens and simultaneously on streamer Peacock,...
Over 3,000 theaters, including IFC Center and Alamo Drafthouse LA, where the French-Senegalese indie film began a qualifying run, offered 3 tickets for National Cinema Day. The promotional event is seeing preliminary box office returns of 24.3 million dollars for Saturday, according to Comscore. That’s 9 ahead of the preceding Saturday, even with discounted admissions, but strongly favored re-releases from Spider Man: No Way Home from last year to Jaws, from 1979, and tentpoles that have been in theaters for weeks and months led by Top Gun: Maverick. The box office was up 100 on Saturday from Friday but skewed heavily to its top ten titles.
Those did not include Focus Features’ Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul., which opened on 1,880 screens and simultaneously on streamer Peacock,...
- 9/5/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Gimmicks: They work! Most theaters reduced ticket prices to 3 September 3 in recognition of the National Association of Theater Owners’ just-invented National Cinema Day. As a result, people bought more than 8 million tickets — the most in a single day since each of the three first days of “Avengers: Endgame” in April 2019.
Financially and psychologically, this was a bonanza for theaters. Half or more of the ticket revenue went to distributors; for exhibitors, it was all about the popcorn, the Red Vines, and their generous profit margins. For one day at least, money rolled in. The long-term impact is Tbd: Prices have returned to their normal average of over 10 and the next few weeks are bleak.
One side effect of the 3 ticket is it wreaks havoc on box-office estimates. With the top four films within 600,000 of each other, and an additional Monday to come for the four-day weekend, take the order below as an educated guess.
Financially and psychologically, this was a bonanza for theaters. Half or more of the ticket revenue went to distributors; for exhibitors, it was all about the popcorn, the Red Vines, and their generous profit margins. For one day at least, money rolled in. The long-term impact is Tbd: Prices have returned to their normal average of over 10 and the next few weeks are bleak.
One side effect of the 3 ticket is it wreaks havoc on box-office estimates. With the top four films within 600,000 of each other, and an additional Monday to come for the four-day weekend, take the order below as an educated guess.
- 9/4/2022
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
Film premiere and headlines spilling from a trio of fests in full swing (Venice), just starting (Telluride) and queued up (Toronto) have indie exhibitors and distributors the most hopeful since Covid hit that a stream of new films could fire up the arthouse market.
Tod Fields’ Cate Blanchett-starrer Tár (debuted to a six-minute standing ovation in Venice), Timothée Chalamet in Luca Guadagnino’s Bones And All (also just screened on the Lido), and Empire of Light with Olivia Colman, set to world premiere at Telluride, and a raft of others are slated for fall theatrical release. A deluge of specialty films from Sundance and Cannes will also move into U.S. cinemas later this month.
“Arthouse theaters are behind where they were in 2019, but I think this fall things will come racing back. These festivals have the goods,” said John Vanco, Gm of New York’s IFC Center.
Tod Fields’ Cate Blanchett-starrer Tár (debuted to a six-minute standing ovation in Venice), Timothée Chalamet in Luca Guadagnino’s Bones And All (also just screened on the Lido), and Empire of Light with Olivia Colman, set to world premiere at Telluride, and a raft of others are slated for fall theatrical release. A deluge of specialty films from Sundance and Cannes will also move into U.S. cinemas later this month.
“Arthouse theaters are behind where they were in 2019, but I think this fall things will come racing back. These festivals have the goods,” said John Vanco, Gm of New York’s IFC Center.
- 9/2/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
After perusing our massive, 60-film, two-part fall preview, there shouldn’t be too many surprises on our first monthly highlights of the season. While September is often thought of as prelude to awards-season favorites, there are also a number of stellar, smaller-scale offerings we hope don’t get lost in the cracks––including a rather strong honorable mentions list to follow. Check out our picks below.
12. Petrov’s Flu (Kirill Serebrennikov; Sept. 23)
Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov has been invited to back-to-back Cannes, premiering Petrov’s Flu last year and Tchaikovsky’s Wife this year. The former is finally getting a U.S. release, and Rory O’Connor said in his review, “Petrov’s Flu opens on a stuffy commute—a Moscow bus in the early years of post-Soviet Russia. The eponymous protagonist is already bent over a handrail, stricken with his affliction. The mood is fevered, almost circus-like, the lighting like pea soup. In a moment of madness,...
12. Petrov’s Flu (Kirill Serebrennikov; Sept. 23)
Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov has been invited to back-to-back Cannes, premiering Petrov’s Flu last year and Tchaikovsky’s Wife this year. The former is finally getting a U.S. release, and Rory O’Connor said in his review, “Petrov’s Flu opens on a stuffy commute—a Moscow bus in the early years of post-Soviet Russia. The eponymous protagonist is already bent over a handrail, stricken with his affliction. The mood is fevered, almost circus-like, the lighting like pea soup. In a moment of madness,...
- 9/2/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Hello, everyone! While October might be officially considered “Spooky Season,” these days it feels like September is now when everything actually starts to ramp up towards the Halloween holiday, especially when you look at all the great horror coming to VOD and Digital platforms this month. So, if you’re looking to start indulging in a lot of great genre entertainment now that October 31st is right around the corner, then check out our rundown of all the great horror movies headed to VOD and a variety of digital platforms this September so that you can start planning accordingly.
Happy streaming!
The Harbinger (Screen Media Films) - September 1st
A family moves their troubled daughter to a small town, where people suspect she is responsible for a series of mysterious deaths. Fearing something evil followed them, the tormented parents must do whatever it takes to save their daughter.
Root Letter...
Happy streaming!
The Harbinger (Screen Media Films) - September 1st
A family moves their troubled daughter to a small town, where people suspect she is responsible for a series of mysterious deaths. Fearing something evil followed them, the tormented parents must do whatever it takes to save their daughter.
Root Letter...
- 8/31/2022
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
We might be in the mid-August, dog days of summer, but horror season is just around the corner. Spirit Halloween stores have popped up and are open, Pumpkin Spice Latte are back in shops and grocery stores and on Shudder, the 31 days of Halloween have become the 61 days of Halloween
For horror fans it’s never too early for the spooky season and with that comes these movies to check out on Shudder.
Streaming now – What Josiah Saw.
The southern gothic horror movie stars Robert Patrick (The Terminator), Nick Stahl (Sin City), Scott Haze (Child Of God) and Kelli Garner (Lars And The Real Girl)
The film is the third feature from American filmmaker Vincent Grashaw and world premiered to high praise at the 2021 Fantasia Film Festival and went on to win awards at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival, Screamfest, and more.
After two decades,...
For horror fans it’s never too early for the spooky season and with that comes these movies to check out on Shudder.
Streaming now – What Josiah Saw.
The southern gothic horror movie stars Robert Patrick (The Terminator), Nick Stahl (Sin City), Scott Haze (Child Of God) and Kelli Garner (Lars And The Real Girl)
The film is the third feature from American filmmaker Vincent Grashaw and world premiered to high praise at the 2021 Fantasia Film Festival and went on to win awards at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival, Screamfest, and more.
After two decades,...
- 8/17/2022
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAnne Heche in Psycho.Anne Heche has died at the age of 53, one week after sustaining critical injuries in a car accident. At Vulture, Matt Zoller Seitz offers a tribute to her "elastic," unclassifiable talent over 35 years of screen roles.Best known for Half of a Yellow Sun, an adaptation of the Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie novel, Nigerian director and novelist Biyi Bandele died aged 54 last week. His second feature, Elesin Oba, The King’s Horseman, is set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next month.In New York, the Downtown Community Television Center (Dctv) will open a documentary cinema in lower Manhattan's Chinatown district, screening first-run debuts and curated programs starting on September 22.Mid-century Italian screen icon Gina Lollobrigida has said she will run for the Sovereign and Popular Italy party (ISP...
- 8/16/2022
- MUBI
Saloum Trailer — Jean Luc Herbulot‘s Saloum (2021) movie trailer has been released by Shudder. The Saloum trailer stars Yann Gael, Evelyne Ily Juhen, Roger Sallah, Mentor Ba, and Bruno Henry. Crew Jean Luc Herbulot wrote the screenplay for Saloum, “from a story by Pamela Diop and Jean Luc Herbulot.” Plot Synopsis Saloum‘s plot synopsis: “Amidst Guinea-Bissau’s [...]
Continue reading: Saloum (2021) Movie Trailer: Mercenaries after a Theft Hide at a Holiday Encampment in Shudder’s Neo-Western...
Continue reading: Saloum (2021) Movie Trailer: Mercenaries after a Theft Hide at a Holiday Encampment in Shudder’s Neo-Western...
- 8/12/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
The horror-themed streaming service Shudder will be celebrating Halloween for 61 days straight this year, beginning on September 1st – and they have announced that their line-up, which they say makes them “The Home for Halloween” will include 11 new films and original series, plus a new Joe Bob Briggs special (possibly one that involves a guest appearance by Elvira), and other special treats that have yet to be announced.
Shudder’s Craig Engler had this to say:
Halloween is the best time of year on Shudder, and this Halloween, we’re featuring the best lineup of programming in our history. We have 11 original and exclusive movie premieres, including a new film from horror master Dario Argento, a Halloween special from superstar host Joe Bob Briggs, and three new series — from Bryan Fuller, The Boulet Brothers, and the producers of Eli Roth’s History of Horror.”
Here’s an overview of the key...
Shudder’s Craig Engler had this to say:
Halloween is the best time of year on Shudder, and this Halloween, we’re featuring the best lineup of programming in our history. We have 11 original and exclusive movie premieres, including a new film from horror master Dario Argento, a Halloween special from superstar host Joe Bob Briggs, and three new series — from Bryan Fuller, The Boulet Brothers, and the producers of Eli Roth’s History of Horror.”
Here’s an overview of the key...
- 8/12/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Few films at TIFF 2021 were as genre-bending and defiantly original as the Senegalese thriller “Saloum.” Congolese director Jean Luc Herbulot mixes styles as diverse as spaghetti westerns, monster movies, and samurai dramas in the movie without overshadowing the story’s West African backdrop. Sound exciting to anyone else? Well, IFC Midnight thinks so. They’re so high on the film that they’re giving it a theatrical run in NYC and Los Angeles.
Continue reading ‘Saloum’ Trailer: IFC Midnight Gives Senegalese Thriller A Limited Release On September 2, Hits Shudder September 8 at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Saloum’ Trailer: IFC Midnight Gives Senegalese Thriller A Limited Release On September 2, Hits Shudder September 8 at The Playlist.
- 8/12/2022
- by Ned Booth
- The Playlist
Once again, Shudder is going big for the holidays.
AMC Network’s premium streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural, will kick off its annual 61-day Halloween event on Thursday, September 1, and they’ve just unveiled the massive lineup that will make Shudder “The Home for Halloween.”
This year’s lineup will include eleven acclaimed, must-see new films and new original series, along with other special treats to be announced, to truly be “The Home for Halloween.” Shudder will debut new original series like Queer for Fear: A History of Queer Horror, and premiere new originals that include Saloum, V/H/S/99, Deadstream, and more. Expect a brand new edition of The Ghoul Log, and Joe Bob Briggs to ring in the Halloween spirit with a new special.
“Halloween is the best time of year on Shudder, and this Halloween, we’re featuring the best lineup of programming in our history,...
AMC Network’s premium streaming service for horror, thriller, and the supernatural, will kick off its annual 61-day Halloween event on Thursday, September 1, and they’ve just unveiled the massive lineup that will make Shudder “The Home for Halloween.”
This year’s lineup will include eleven acclaimed, must-see new films and new original series, along with other special treats to be announced, to truly be “The Home for Halloween.” Shudder will debut new original series like Queer for Fear: A History of Queer Horror, and premiere new originals that include Saloum, V/H/S/99, Deadstream, and more. Expect a brand new edition of The Ghoul Log, and Joe Bob Briggs to ring in the Halloween spirit with a new special.
“Halloween is the best time of year on Shudder, and this Halloween, we’re featuring the best lineup of programming in our history,...
- 8/11/2022
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Now that Shudder and IFC have announced that they're handling the streaming and threatrical release of the action-horror hybrid Saloum next month it was only a matter of time before we got an official trailer. Boy howdy it does not disappoint. It conjurs up all those wild feelings we had when we first watched this Sengalese delight. In Saloum, shot down after fleeing a coup and extracting a drug lord from Guinea-Bissau, the legendary mercenaries known as the Bangui Hyenas – Chaka, Rafa and Midnight - must stash their stolen gold bounty, lay low long enough to repair and refuel their plane and escape back to Dakar, Senegal. When they take refuge at a holiday camp in the coastal region of Sine-Saloum, they do...
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- 8/11/2022
- Screen Anarchy
"He's preparing for something. Something… he isn't telling us." Shudder has unveiled an official trailer for a film from Africa titled Saloum, a break-out feature from Congolese director Jean Luc Herbulot. This first premiered in Midnight Madness at TIFF 2021 last year and rocked numerous other genre festivals including Fantastic Fest and Beyond Fest. I flipped for this, one of the most creative and badass African films paving the way for a New Wave of African cinema. The film takes place in the West African nation of Senegal, on the delta known as Saloum. The film follows a trio of mercenaries escorting a foreigner drug dealer through dangerous lands. Not only is the film packed with vibrant, often neon, style expressed through colors and light and distinct costumes, but it switches up genres part of the way in and dips a bit into action horror. Starring Yann Gael, Evelyne Ily Juhen,...
- 8/10/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
One of the most acclaimed films at last year’s fall festival circuit, playing at TIFF Midnight Madness, Fantastic Fest, and more, Congolese director Jean Luc Herbulot’s Senegalese thriller Saloum will finally arrive next month. Ahead of the September 2 release from IFC Midnight and Shudder, the first trailer has arrived for the film that follows three mercenaries extracting a druglord out of Guinea-Bissau who are forced to hide in the mystical region of Saloum, Senegal.
Jared Mobarak said in his review, “The infamous “Hyenas”—three mercenaries running amok throughout Africa—are caught in the air with gold bars, the drug lord (Renaud Farah’s Felix) they’ve been hired to extract, and a failed fuel tank leaving them with bad and worse options for an emergency landing. The Guinea-Bissau authorities won’t let them leave without a fight on the ground and they’ve surely alerted their Senegalese counterparts already,...
Jared Mobarak said in his review, “The infamous “Hyenas”—three mercenaries running amok throughout Africa—are caught in the air with gold bars, the drug lord (Renaud Farah’s Felix) they’ve been hired to extract, and a failed fuel tank leaving them with bad and worse options for an emergency landing. The Guinea-Bissau authorities won’t let them leave without a fight on the ground and they’ve surely alerted their Senegalese counterparts already,...
- 8/10/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
A cocaine-smuggling cartel, some black-magic mercenaries and a horde of vengeful spirits combine with gleeful abandon in Saloum, a genre mash-up from Senegal that is equal parts spaghetti Western, hard-boiled crime thriller and go-for-broke horror movie. With some African folklore and a dash of colonial politics thrown into the mix.
After the rapturous response from audiences and critics at Austin’s Fantastic Fest and in Toronto, where the film premiered in a Midnight Madness slot, Saloum is well on its way to becoming a cult favorite. Or maybe even something rarer: a cross-over genre film from Africa. Elle Driver is handling world sales....
After the rapturous response from audiences and critics at Austin’s Fantastic Fest and in Toronto, where the film premiered in a Midnight Madness slot, Saloum is well on its way to becoming a cult favorite. Or maybe even something rarer: a cross-over genre film from Africa. Elle Driver is handling world sales....
- 11/1/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A cocaine-smuggling cartel, some black-magic mercenaries and a horde of vengeful spirits combine with gleeful abandon in Saloum, a genre mash-up from Senegal that is equal parts spaghetti Western, hard-boiled crime thriller and go-for-broke horror movie. With some African folklore and a dash of colonial politics thrown into the mix.
After the rapturous response from audiences and critics at Austin’s Fantastic Fest and in Toronto, where the film premiered in a Midnight Madness slot, Saloum is well on its way to becoming a cult favorite. Or maybe even something rarer: a cross-over genre film from Africa. Elle Driver is handling world sales....
After the rapturous response from audiences and critics at Austin’s Fantastic Fest and in Toronto, where the film premiered in a Midnight Madness slot, Saloum is well on its way to becoming a cult favorite. Or maybe even something rarer: a cross-over genre film from Africa. Elle Driver is handling world sales....
- 11/1/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Considering Fantastic Fest 2021 is this writer’s first time back at an in-person festival since Sundance 2020, I’m very excited (and a teeny bit nervous) about getting to spend a whole week indulging in movies from all over the world once again. Later this week, Fantastic Fest will be kicking off on Thursday, and will continue running in-person through September 30th (and the Ff Virtual Fest will begin the very same day).
And even though I’m always pumped for Fantastic Fest’s entire genre-spanning programming slate, there are a handful of films that have already caught my eye, and I thought I’d go ahead and preview 13 titles that I’m incredibly psyched to see as a horror and sci-fi fan. Also, I just wanted to make a note: I didn’t include films that Daily Dead has already covered at previous festivals. Not that they’re not worthy,...
And even though I’m always pumped for Fantastic Fest’s entire genre-spanning programming slate, there are a handful of films that have already caught my eye, and I thought I’d go ahead and preview 13 titles that I’m incredibly psyched to see as a horror and sci-fi fan. Also, I just wanted to make a note: I didn’t include films that Daily Dead has already covered at previous festivals. Not that they’re not worthy,...
- 9/22/2021
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Genre cinema rarely feels as multifaceted as Congolese director Jean Luc Herbulot’s gonzo thriller Saloum, which combines its disparate influences with such abandon that you can’t help but go along for the ride. Propulsively lurching with infectious glee from crime drama to modern-day Western to horror suffused with supernatural elements, this may turn out to be the rare African film that enters the international mainstream, or, at the very least, achieves cult movie status. Appropriately showcased in the Midnight Madness section of the Toronto Film Festival, the feature marks its director-screenwriter and his creative partner, producer Pamela Diop, as talents to ...
- 9/21/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Genre cinema rarely feels as multifaceted as Congolese director Jean Luc Herbulot’s gonzo thriller Saloum, which combines its disparate influences with such abandon that you can’t help but go along for the ride. Propulsively lurching with infectious glee from crime drama to modern-day Western to horror suffused with supernatural elements, this may turn out to be the rare African film that enters the international mainstream, or, at the very least, achieves cult movie status. Appropriately showcased in the Midnight Madness section of the Toronto Film Festival, the feature marks its director-screenwriter and his creative partner, producer Pamela Diop, as talents to ...
- 9/21/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
"Stories about heroes travel faster than bullets." There are two new films from Africa playing film festivals this year that just so happen to be two of the most creative, unique, and entertaining discoveries in cinema all year. We're lucky we get to experience these films this year. The first is Neptune Frost, which initially premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival in the Directors' Fortnight sidebar. I watched it in Cannes but didn't write about it on here yet, knowing I will be raving about it whenever it gets a release. The second is a film called Saloum, set in Senegal, and it just premiered at the 2021 Toronto Film Festival this month. Both of these honestly deserve the "instant cult classic" label. Not only is it always exciting to have unique cinema from Africa playing at major festivals like Cannes & Toronto, both films are awesome creations with fun stories that...
- 9/20/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The Saloum Delta in Senegal is a land of cannibal myths and cursed kings. Nowhere is this more true than in Congolese director Jean Luc Herbulot's supernatural skinwalker of a film that brings West African mythology to the criminal getaway thriller. Saloum layers in a healthy dose of the Agatha Christie 'whodunit' murder-mystery party, before shifting gears to whirling Diola dervishes, gris gris sorcery, star crossed lovers who flirt in sign language, even a child-soldier revenge drama. With three iconic leads supported by a host of interesting faces, Saloum brings its own brand of cosmopolitan style, Pan-Africa by way of Paris, to the table. As the fella says, "Stories about heroes travel faster than bullets." There is a superb bit of screen legend making going...
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- 9/19/2021
- Screen Anarchy
Guns, gold bars, drug lords, military coups, folk heroes, tall tales, and ghost stories. Is there a 2021 film that gives more bang for the buck than Jean Luc Herbulot’s superb “Saloum”? This is not a case of “too much” movie, where the director and screenwriter thoughtlessly stuff as many ingredients into the pot as they can and hope the concoction doesn’t boil over. No one likes a mess on a hot stovetop. Happily, Herbulot knows what he’s cooking and how to treat his varied elements.
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- 9/17/2021
- by Andrew Crump
- The Playlist
Forget the old Godardian nugget that all you need is a Girl and a Gun. How about just a big ass gun? The poster for Senegalese supernatural revenge thriller, Saloum, goes for that Sergio Leone western vibe, with a modern, pan-African bent. The deal maker here on French artist, Julien Lemoine's design is the hammer and the tagline, which foreground the continent, and Lacme Studio's designs on exporting some new genre flavours globally. The cultural back and forth that comes with the "Once Upon A Time In..." moniker. It is bold and black, on a slightly textured white field, to stand out as much as possible. The red glove, a key costume design for the lead character of the film, also provides a great space...
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- 9/17/2021
- Screen Anarchy
Watch a Clip from Saloum: "U.S. Fantastic Fest Premiere Saloum is a cool and kinetic genre shifting supernatural thriller in which a legendary trio of on-the-run mercenaries carrying a stolen gold bounty and a kidnapped drug lord take refuge in a remote and mystical area of Senegal, where creepy curses and sinister ancestral forces unleash hell on them all.
Uniquely inspired by African-Carribean folklore and mysticism as well as western and action/horror hybrids such as From Dusk Till Dawn and Predator, Saloum was written & directed by acclaimed African filmmaker Jean Luc Herbulot and is the producing debut of Senegal-based filmmaker / entrepreneur Pamela Diop.
Saloum also marks the feature film debut for their new pan African production company Lacme Studios, founded in 2019 by the film’s creative team of Jean Luc Herbulot and Pamela Diop.
Writer/Director: Jean Luc Herbulot (Netflix’s Dealer, Canal + Afrique’s Sakho & Mangane...
Uniquely inspired by African-Carribean folklore and mysticism as well as western and action/horror hybrids such as From Dusk Till Dawn and Predator, Saloum was written & directed by acclaimed African filmmaker Jean Luc Herbulot and is the producing debut of Senegal-based filmmaker / entrepreneur Pamela Diop.
Saloum also marks the feature film debut for their new pan African production company Lacme Studios, founded in 2019 by the film’s creative team of Jean Luc Herbulot and Pamela Diop.
Writer/Director: Jean Luc Herbulot (Netflix’s Dealer, Canal + Afrique’s Sakho & Mangane...
- 9/16/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Revenge is a dish served with considerable style and imagination in “Saloum,” a fast and furious crime-horror-thriller that twists and turns its way around the mangroves, islets and inlets of Senegal’s Sine-Saloum coastal region. Centered on a trio of mercenaries holed up in a strange holiday camp that harbors a diabolical secret, the second feature by Congolese filmmaker Jean Luc Herbulot freely mixes and marries the cinematic languages of spaghetti Westerns, samurai dramas and classic monster movies to tell an exciting and distinctly African story. There’s not much else in Senegalese cinema to compare with “Saloum,” which is bound to be in high demand on the festival circuit and has the sheer entertainment value to enjoy a successful commercial life thereafter.
Part of a small but growing wave of African genre cinema to attract international exposure, “Saloum” marks a winning start to feature production for Lacme Studios, the...
Part of a small but growing wave of African genre cinema to attract international exposure, “Saloum” marks a winning start to feature production for Lacme Studios, the...
- 9/15/2021
- by Richard Kuipers
- Variety Film + TV
Directed by Jean Luc Herbulot and produced by Pamela Diop, Saloum is a Toronto Film Festival’s Midnight Madness selection that premiered this past week. The film weaves together supernatural horror elements with comedy and suspense. All aspects come together to create a unique story about how the cycle of revenge can come back to haunt you.
In 2003, a trio of mercenaries called the Bangui Hyenas are flying to Dakar, Senegal, with millions in gold and a rescued cartel drug lord. Chaka (Yann Gael) is the brains, Rafa (Roger Sallah) is the muscle, and Minuit (Mentor Ba) is the silent but deadly type. In the middle of their flight, there is a sudden hole in the wing, and they must land on the Saloum Delta. Before they begin their walk to civilization, they bury the gold and vow to come back for it.
They reach a mysterious and isolated Baobab camp deep within the Delta.
In 2003, a trio of mercenaries called the Bangui Hyenas are flying to Dakar, Senegal, with millions in gold and a rescued cartel drug lord. Chaka (Yann Gael) is the brains, Rafa (Roger Sallah) is the muscle, and Minuit (Mentor Ba) is the silent but deadly type. In the middle of their flight, there is a sudden hole in the wing, and they must land on the Saloum Delta. Before they begin their walk to civilization, they bury the gold and vow to come back for it.
They reach a mysterious and isolated Baobab camp deep within the Delta.
- 9/14/2021
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Three mercenaries on the run with a plane full of gold and a dark secret in their past are the starting point for Jean Luc Herbulot’s Senegalese genre-bender “Saloum,” which has its world premiere in the Midnight Madness section of the Toronto Film Festival.
The film centers on the Bangui Hyenas, a mythic trio of mercenaries whose plane is shot down as they’re fleeing a coup in Guinea-Bissau. Transporting a bounty of stolen gold and a kidnapped drug lord, they’re forced to take refuge in a remote and mystical region of Senegal.
But as they lay low in the Saloum Delta waiting to repair and refuel their plane, a mysterious secret from the past emerges, unleashing dark ancestral forces that threaten to consume them all.
“Saloum” is the first production from Lacme Studios, a Dakar-based production company that Herbulot and co-founder Pamela Diop hope will reshape narratives...
The film centers on the Bangui Hyenas, a mythic trio of mercenaries whose plane is shot down as they’re fleeing a coup in Guinea-Bissau. Transporting a bounty of stolen gold and a kidnapped drug lord, they’re forced to take refuge in a remote and mystical region of Senegal.
But as they lay low in the Saloum Delta waiting to repair and refuel their plane, a mysterious secret from the past emerges, unleashing dark ancestral forces that threaten to consume them all.
“Saloum” is the first production from Lacme Studios, a Dakar-based production company that Herbulot and co-founder Pamela Diop hope will reshape narratives...
- 9/11/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Asia Argento (xXx), French rapper-actor JoeyStarr (Polisse) and Italian star Riccardo Scamarcio (John Wick: Chapter 2) are set to lead cast in French-language thriller Interstate (La Saveur De La Mort).
The movie is a supernatural thriller in which a hitman (JoeyStarr), facing an existential crisis, decides to exit the game and leave town with the woman he loves, but his plans are disrupted by a mysterious young man and his ruthless former boss.
Jean Luc Herbulot – whose Senegalese action film Saloum is playing in TIFF’s Midnight Madness strand — is directing.
XYZ is handling world sales minus France and Belgium and will begin discussing with buyers during the Toronto market.
Pic was written by Anthony Jaswinski (The Shallows) and is produced by Jean-Jacques Neira for Fontana (Belgium), Christophe Mazodier for Polaris Films (France) and Hicham Benkirane at Hbk F.C.
Filming is slated to begin this winter for a late 2022 release.
The movie is a supernatural thriller in which a hitman (JoeyStarr), facing an existential crisis, decides to exit the game and leave town with the woman he loves, but his plans are disrupted by a mysterious young man and his ruthless former boss.
Jean Luc Herbulot – whose Senegalese action film Saloum is playing in TIFF’s Midnight Madness strand — is directing.
XYZ is handling world sales minus France and Belgium and will begin discussing with buyers during the Toronto market.
Pic was written by Anthony Jaswinski (The Shallows) and is produced by Jean-Jacques Neira for Fontana (Belgium), Christophe Mazodier for Polaris Films (France) and Hicham Benkirane at Hbk F.C.
Filming is slated to begin this winter for a late 2022 release.
- 9/9/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Italian stars Asia Argento (xXx), and Riccardo Scamarcio (John Wick: Chapter 2) will join French actor and rapper JoeyStarr (Polisse) to lead the cast of Interstate (La Saveur de la Mort), a French-language supernational thriller being introduced to buyers at the Toronto Film Market.
JoeyStarr will play a hitman facing a very French existential crisis who decides to get out of the business and jump town with the woman he loves (Argento). But his former boss (Scarmarcio) has other plans.
Jean Luc Herbulot, whose Senegalese action film Saloum premieres Sept. 16 in the Midnight Madness section of the Toronto International Film Festival will direct....
JoeyStarr will play a hitman facing a very French existential crisis who decides to get out of the business and jump town with the woman he loves (Argento). But his former boss (Scarmarcio) has other plans.
Jean Luc Herbulot, whose Senegalese action film Saloum premieres Sept. 16 in the Midnight Madness section of the Toronto International Film Festival will direct....
The drama is Kavich Neang’s feature debut.
Kavich Neang’s feature debut White Building has been selected to represent Cambodia in the best international feature film category for the 2022 Academy Awards.
Screen can also reveal the first trailer for drama, which is set to premiere in the Horizons strand at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
White Building follows 20-year-old Samnang and his group of friends in a landmark tenement housing block in Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, called White Building. The boys harbour dreams of dancing on television talent contests, while their parents lead more traditional lives. When the White Building faces demolition,...
Kavich Neang’s feature debut White Building has been selected to represent Cambodia in the best international feature film category for the 2022 Academy Awards.
Screen can also reveal the first trailer for drama, which is set to premiere in the Horizons strand at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
White Building follows 20-year-old Samnang and his group of friends in a landmark tenement housing block in Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, called White Building. The boys harbour dreams of dancing on television talent contests, while their parents lead more traditional lives. When the White Building faces demolition,...
- 9/7/2021
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The drama is Kavich Neang’s feature debut.
Kavich Neang’s feature debut White Building has been selected to represent Cambodia in the best international feature film category for the 2022 Academy Awards.
Screen can also reveal the first trailer for drama, which is set to premiere in the Horizons strand at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
It follows 20-year-old Samnang and his group of friends in a landmark tenement housing block in Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, called White Building. The boys harbour dreams of dancing on television talent contests, while their parents lead more traditional lives. When the White Building faces demolition,...
Kavich Neang’s feature debut White Building has been selected to represent Cambodia in the best international feature film category for the 2022 Academy Awards.
Screen can also reveal the first trailer for drama, which is set to premiere in the Horizons strand at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
It follows 20-year-old Samnang and his group of friends in a landmark tenement housing block in Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, called White Building. The boys harbour dreams of dancing on television talent contests, while their parents lead more traditional lives. When the White Building faces demolition,...
- 9/7/2021
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Film marks first production from Pamela Diop’s pan-African Lacme Studios.
Paris-based Elle Driver has acquired worldwide rights to Senegalese supernatural thriller Saloum ahead of its world premiere in the Midnight Madness strand of the Toronto International Film Festival’s (TIFF).
Congolese filmmaker Jean Luc Herbulot, who made the Canal + and Netflix crime series Sakho & Mangane, wrote and directed the story about a notorious trio of mercenaries on the run during the 2003 coup in Guinea Bissau.
When the soldiers of fortune arrive in the Sine-Saloum Delta region of Senegal with stolen gold and a kidnapped drug lord in tow they...
Paris-based Elle Driver has acquired worldwide rights to Senegalese supernatural thriller Saloum ahead of its world premiere in the Midnight Madness strand of the Toronto International Film Festival’s (TIFF).
Congolese filmmaker Jean Luc Herbulot, who made the Canal + and Netflix crime series Sakho & Mangane, wrote and directed the story about a notorious trio of mercenaries on the run during the 2003 coup in Guinea Bissau.
When the soldiers of fortune arrive in the Sine-Saloum Delta region of Senegal with stolen gold and a kidnapped drug lord in tow they...
- 9/7/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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