The french are creepy

Two trailers had just hit the webs with a creepy alternate world and misterious characters. IBC films, one of the leading American distributors of independent and foreign films, have released the trailers to promote these French movies. Two different directors are working with the rules of only one genre, which seems pretty interesting. Limited releases won´t be a problem for those of you who like thrillers and want to check out what the french are up to with these films.

IBC tells us that Black Heaven is directed by an exciting new French filmmaker called Gilles Marchand. The story (featuring a terrifically sexy young cast) follows an innocent young kid, Gaspar (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet of LOVE SONGS), who, becoming enamored with a mysterious/gorgeous girl (Louise Bourgoin, THE GIRL FROM MONACO), is lured into "Black Hole" - a dark, obscure video game world of avatars with deadly serious intentions in the real world. The trailer, as our friends of Arrow in the Head pointed out, looks like a creepy, demented version of Tron: Legacy, with all that neon-tinged look of an alternative world.

Then we´ve got In their sleep, another thriller written and directed by Caroline and Eric du Potet. Again, IBC´s official synopsis tell us that after the brutal death of her 18 year-old son, Sarah's life is in pieces. Late one night, her car accidentally hits Arthur, a young man the same age as her boy, who suddenly emerges out of the forest and onto the road. Wounded and frightened, he is running from a mysterious assailant, hunting him down after Arthur caught him red handed in the act of burglary... Sarah sympathizes with him, taking him in, only to be tracked down by the burglar whose murderous rage towards Arthur forces her to take action. Unbeknownst to Sarah, things aren't quite the way they seem... but by the time she finally realizes, it is too late to turn back.

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Rare exports red band trailer

Rare exports was one of the best movies from this year Sitges film festival. It won not just best director and best movie awards, but  it also won the best cinematography award. The film is quite fun, "original and fresh", according to the jury of the festival and now a new red band trailer hits the web.

Synopsis:

"It's the eve of Christmas in northern Finland and an "archeological" dig has just unearthed the real Santa Claus. But this particular Santa isn't the one you want coming to town. When all the local children begin mysteriously disappearing, young Pietari and his father Rauno, a reindeer hunter by trade, capture the mythological being and attempt to sell Santa to the misguided leader of the multinational corporation sponsoring the dig. Santa's elves, however, will stop at nothing to free their fearless leader from captivity. What ensues is a wildly humorous nightmare - a fantastically bizarre polemic on modern day morality. Rare exports: a christmas tale is a re-imagining of the most classic of all childhood fantasies, and is a darkly comic gem soon to be required perennial holiday viewing".

Video Games - E3 2011

Duncan Jones keeps fighting to become one of the great names in filmmaking world right now. First was that amazing movie called Moon. Now, Jones wants to play with time travel and terrorism. The first Source Code trailer has just hit the web and it looks pretty damm cool. Here is the official synopsis...

When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. In an assignment unlike any he's ever known, he learns he's part of a government experiment called the "Source Code," a program that enables him to cross over into another man's identity in the last 8 minutes of his life. With a second, much larger target threatening to kill millions in downtown Chicago, Colter re-lives the incident over and over again, gathering clues each time, until he can solve the mystery of who is behind the bombs and prevent the next attack. Filled with mind-boggling twists and heart-pounding suspense, Source Code is a smart action-thriller directed by Duncan Jones (Moon) also starring Michelle Monaghan (Eagle Eye, Due Date), Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air, The Departed), and Jeffrey Wright (Quantum of Solace, Syriana).

HAMMER: The art of the myths

Hammer Film Productions is a film production company based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1934, the company is best known for his series of Gothic horror films. They were low budget but never foolish movies made with passion and love for horror, monsters and dark creatures. The huge success of the company came to an end when it was forced to "close down" after seeing how Hammer movies weren´t successfull anymore. Now, at the end of 2010, Let me in marked the resurrection of a myth, a new era for horror movies. Hammer has began to shoot and produce horror films again, great news for horror fans; almost as good news as the releasing of The art of Hammer, a full coloured book where you can see hammer posters and drawings of the company´s movies. As we can read on Arrow, the book runs at 192 pages and it will be published this month (Nov. 23rd) by Titan Books.

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll is a 1960 horror film by Hammer Film Productions. 

It was directed by Terence Fisher, and stars Paul Massie as Dr. Jekyll, and co-stars Dawn Addams, Christopher Lee and David Kossoff.

It was written by Wolf Mankowitz, based on the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.

The Phantom of the Opera is a 1962 British film based on the novel by Gaston Leroux.

It was directed by Terence Fisher and stars Herbert Lom, Heather Sears, Edward de Souza and Michael Gough.

Guillermo del Toro meets The Hulk

Guillermo del Toro is teaming up with Battlestar Galactica´s executive producer David Eick  to make a comic fans dream come true. Not as long ago ABC annauced that they were trying to make a Hulk TV show and apparently it´s going to happen.

It will mark Marvel’s first series project for ABC Studios since Disney's acquisition of Marvel last year and the launch of Marvel's TV division in June. It also marks del Toro's first TV project. Unlike the two Hulk movies, in which the monster was a pure CGI creation, the show will make the creature mixing prosthetics, puppetry and CGI. Del Toro and Eick will break the story for the pilot script together, while del Toro could direct the pilot subjet to his availability. Eick definided the chance of working with del Toro as a "dream opportunity" to join one of his all-time filmmaking heroes "in a faithful but unique retelling of the primal, emotionally-rich tale" of one of his favourite comic books. 

Del Toro is also working on his all-life dreamed movie, At the mountains of madness, with James Cameron. He is also releasing worldwide The Fall, the second novel in a vampire trilogy of books written hand to hand with Chuck Hogan. The upcoming movies Julia´s eyes and Dont be afraid of the dark are also produced by the mexican director, with whom everyone seems to want to work nowdays.

You can check a great interview concerning his latest projects following this link to denofgeek.

Source: Dead Line