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Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2009 - Day 4, Part 1: Strigoi

Post date: 09/02/2009 - 3:00am

Strigoi
Directed by: Faye Jackson
UK/Romania, 105 min

Cast: Catalin Paraschiv, Constantin Barbulescu, Rudi Rosenfeld, Roxana Guttmann, Camelia Maxim, Adrian Donea, Dan Popa, Vlad Jipa, Zane Jarcu
World Theatrical Premiere

It's not every day that a local film festival gets a world theatrical premiere. This year the Toronto After Dark Film Festival went from local genre festival to international film gala as they not only scored a World Premiere but a film that's a breath of fresh air in a subgenre populated by been there...

Boy Who Cries Blood

Post date: 09/01/2009 - 7:10pm

ABC News is reporting on a boy who every day, cries tears of blood. Sometimes it happens three times a day and goes on for up to an hour. This is more than a Virgin Mary statue crying blood story as it actually has the medical community stumped.

At the young age of 15, Calvino Inman from Tennessee, should be worrying about acne, school or girls. Instead, he's dealing with a bizarre medical condition which has his friends calling him "possessed".

Disney to Buy Marvel for $4 Billion

Post date: 09/01/2009 - 4:07am

Blomberg.com is reporting that Disney is very close to buying up Marvel. Though the transaction hasn't taken place quite yet, Marvel investors will receive $30 a share plus 0.745 share of Disney stock. This would be the second largest deal for Disney Chief Executive Officer Robert Iger who aquired Pixar for $8.06 billion in 2006. The companies expect the transaction to close this year.

This is some pretty big news. Are we going to see Donald Duck Vs. Howard the Duck? ...

An Interview with author Joel A. Sutherland

Post date: 08/31/2009 - 4:11am

March 24, 2009 marked the official launch of Frozen Blood originally released in December 2008. I was able to meet up with Joel Sutherland the books author at the event in Ajax, Ontario and get a little interview.

This marks your first published novel. Where else might people have read your work?
I’ve had many short stories published in various anthologies and magazines, but unless you had a story in the same publication or are a hard core Joel Sutherland fan, it’s unlikely you’ve had the opportunity to read them. I do have a story or two available for...

Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2009 - Day 3, Part 3: The Revenant

Post date: 08/31/2009 - 3:56am

The Revenant
Directed by: Kerry Prior
USA, 110 min

Cast: David Anders, Cathy Shim, Louise Griffiths, Clint Jung, Chris Wylde
Toronto Theatrical Premiere

Marking the second film of the zombie appreciation night at TAD comes The Revenant, a film which is actually about vampires and not a zombie flick at all. So I guess technically, TAD was having an "undead" appreciation night. As a special bonus, Director Kerry Prior was in attendance to not only introduce the film but for a Q&A afterwards...

Northern Frights wins award... indirectly!

Post date: 08/31/2009 - 1:36am

Welcome to my first post on NorthernFrights.com. I'll be one of your regular writers here and hope you enjoy what it is I have to say. But on to the article at hand.

Awhile back Northern Frights posted an article on how Robert Downey Jr. was in talks to play the role of Lestat in a new movie based on Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. You can read it here.

I took that article and posted it on the website...

Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2009 - Day 3, Part 2: Dead Snow

Post date: 08/30/2009 - 3:26am

Dead Snow
Directed by: Tommy Wirkola
Norway, 90 mins

Cast: Vegar Hoel, Stig Frode Henriksen, Charlotte Frogner, Lasse Valdal, Evy Kasseth Røsten, Jeppe Laursen, Jenny Skavlan, Ane Dahl Torp, Bjørn Sundquist, Ørjan Gamst
Toronto Theatrical Premiere

Død snø (Dead Snow) caters to fans of films like Evil Dead and Bad Taste. It knows what its audience wants and it delivers it in spades. It truly is a crowd pleaser. Much like a summer blockbuster, Dead Snow delivers the thrills but lacks the depth and sustenance of a well...

Bioshock! Verbinski out, Fresnadillo in...

Post date: 08/26/2009 - 2:55am

As you know, Universal Pictures is making a big screen adaptation of the videogame Bioshock. Up until this point, Gore Verbinski had been slated for the director’s chair. He had stepped down from directing the fourth Pirates of the Carribbean film to take on the Bioshock project.

With the budget of the Bioshock movie passing 160 million with no apparent stop, Universal shut down production. The project is looking to shoot outside of the United States and possibly rework the...

Hardwicke to helm The Girl With the Red Riding Hood

Post date: 08/25/2009 - 12:11pm

Catherine Hardwicke seems to be collecting projects at an enormous rate. Variety is reporting that Hardwicke is signing on to Appian Way's The Girl With the Red Riding Hood. This werewolf movie, written by David Johnson, will be a gothic retelling of the Little Red Riding Hood story. The big difference comes with the fact that it centers around a teenage love triangle.

Obviously they're trying to hit the "Twilight" market here but I don't remember any sort of...

New Spawn movie in the works.

Post date: 08/24/2009 - 10:46am

Creator Todd McFarlane has officially begun writing a new Spawn film. The first live-action adaptation of his popular series came in 1997 to very little praise.

"I've officially begun writing the SPAWN MOVIE screenplay, The story has been in my head for 7 or 8 years. Will continue to update" he posted on Twitter August 22, 2009. "The movie idea is neither a recap or continuation. It is a stand alone story that will be R-rated. Creepy and scary,"...

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