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Ari Lehman's Festival de Cine de Terror de Molins de Rei Journal
14 December 2009 2:50 PM, PST
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Much as we'd like to, we can't always get to Every festival that happens. That's why we have friends like Ari Lehman, who travels extensively and who can bring us a blow-by-blow of the events as they happened. Here, then, is Ari's exclusive journal from his recent trip to Spain, where his band, First Jason, played the Festival de Cine de Terror de Molins de Rei, which is a really long name for one hell of a festival dedicated to horror movies and music. So without further ado...
Firstjason Festival de Cine de Terror de Molins de Rei Journal
Day 1 -
As we looked out of the airplane window, Barcelona lay sprawled out before us like an overflowing Pirate's chest that had been tipped into the shiny blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea. I looked up to the north where I saw a dark, craggy mountaintop looming in the distance.
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- Sifu Scott
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This Week on DVD: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Public Enemies, The Cove
8 December 2009 9:36 AM, PST
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Looks like we're in for a few packed weeks of DVD releases leading up to Christmas, so get your wallets out and prepare to start emptying them. The biggest release in stores today is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which is obviously an essential purchase if you are a fan. Outside of that, we've also got Michael Mann's Public Enemies, Julie & Julia and the Robin Williams dark comedy World's Greatest Dad, plus a few cool docs including the Oscar shortlisted The Cove, and Oscilloscope's Beautiful Losers. Also, you know you want these two beautiful box sets: Criterion's Ak 100: 25 Films by Akira Kurosawa and Lost: The Complete Fifth Season (Dharma Initiation Kit). Will you be picking up anything this week?
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [1] (DVD, Blu-ray [2])
Public Enemies [3] (DVD, Blu-ray [4])
Julie & Julia [5] (DVD, Blu-ray [6])
World's Greatest Dad [7] (DVD, Blu-ray [8])
Home Movie [9]
Lion's Den [10]
The Skeptic [11]
Humble Pie [12]
Hooking Up [13]
Run!
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Behind The Mask Blu-Ray Arrives
8 December 2009
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This one kind of slipped under the radar, but Anchor Bay Entertainment has just released a Blu-Ray edition of Scott Glosserman's Behind The Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon today, December 8th. If we hadn't been searching around Amazon, we might never have discovered this low key release.
While the Amazon listing doesn't offer a glimpse at the back cover art, we imagine all the special features from the DVD release were carted over for this addition as well.
Oddly enough, other Anchor Bay titles that comes up as recommendations that we didn't realize had Blu-Ray editions include Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer , While She Was Out , Red Mist , The Alphabet Killer and Walled In . They're all economically priced at around $9.99, so this might be the time to upgrade!
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Vactor’s Blu-ray Bulletin for December 8, 2009
8 December 2009 2:16 AM, PST
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Here are the new Blu-ray releases for December 08, 2009:
AC/DC: No Bull (Sony Music)
The Alphabet Killer (Starz/Anchor Bay)
Cyclops (Starz/Anchor Bay)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: Ultimate Edition (Warner Brothers)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Warner Brothers)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: Ultimate Edition (Warner Brothers)
Harry Potter Years 1-6 Giftset (Warner Brothers)
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (Starz/Anchor Bay)
Julie & Julia (Sony)
Lost: The Complete Fifth Season (Walt Disney)
Lost: The Complete Fifth Season Dharma Initiation Kit (Disney/Buena Vista)
Lower Learning (Starz/Anchor Bay)
Pink: Funhouse Tour – Live from Australia (La Face)
Public Enemies: Special Edition (Universal)
Red Mist (Starz/Anchor Bay)
Sands of Oblivion (Starz/Anchor Bay)
Ufc: Ultimate 100 Greatest Fights (Starz/Anchor Bay)
World’s Greatest Dad (Magnolia)
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DVD Releases: Dec. 8, 2009: Run Bitch Run from The Lights of the InAlienable Cyclops
6 December 2009 11:02 PM, PST
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It looks like Anchor Bay is wishing everyone a "Blu" Christmas as it releases a wide variety of films ranging from The Alphabet Killer to Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon to Walled In to Cyclops to Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer onto Blu-ray for the first time. Now that's a lot of cerulean!
But that's just the beginning of this week's home video treasures. There's also a Coraline gift set that, along with the contents featured in the existing Blu-ray release, includes a set of postcards and a book titled Getting Things Right, giving Henry Selick's insights into inspiration, process, and production of the movie. Fans of Takashi Miike's Gozu will want to check out the new two-disc Collector's Edition of the film, and those of you who have stuck by the TV show Lost but haven't yet picked up the series on DVD will be
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Weekly DVD & Blu-Ray Chopping List 12/08/2009
5 December 2009 10:00 PM, PST
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Curious to know what frightful films and devilish discs will be available to view in the privacy of your own digital dungeon this week? Fango's got you covered.
Below the jump you'll find the full list of titles arriving in-stores this Tuesday, December 8, 2009 in our weekly version of the famous Fangoria Chopping List.
While there's not a lot of new titles hitting the market this week, there's a ton of great re-issues hitting Hi-Def for the first time with the Blu-ray debuts of Behind The Mask, Jack Brooks, and more. And for the indie fans out there, how about a little Run! Bitch, Run!?
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Alphabet Killer (Bd)
A ten year old girl is found brutally murdered outside the small blue-collar city of Rochester, New York, and obsessed police detective Megan Paige (Eliza Dushku of Buffy The Vampire
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Fresh Release: Ryan Shore's Rex Steele (and other short scores)
3 October 2009 2:07 AM, PDT
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Composer Ryan Shore is one of the rising stars of the film music world. Thanks to his collaborations with MovieScoreMedia, more and more of his scores are now available to the public. Headspace, Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer and the Macedonian movie Senki (Shadows) are just a number of titles available from their catalogue. In the summer, Msm released a three-way collection of jazzy scores from Ryan's career: Numb, Kettle of Fish and Coney Island Baby are just pure fun to listen to. Now a new collection is available, collecting together a wide range of short film scores from Ryan's earlier days. The award winning animated shorts include the much-requested Rex Steele: Nazi Smasher, the Claymation short Shadowplay and the dark comedy Cadaverous. What connects together these scores apart from being written by the same composer is that you'd never think they were written for short films - they could underscore
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31 Days of Horror: Jack Brooks Monster Slayer
2 October 2009 7:00 AM, PDT
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Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2007)
Synopsis: After a young Jack Brooks watches his family get massacred by a monster, an understandably troubled and angered Jack grows up to be an asshole of a plumber with serious rage issues. In the course of fixing a professor's plumbing, he becomes embroiled in a battle against a demon capable of possessing others where he finds his true calling - kicking monster ass.
Killer Scene: When it's down to Jack to fight his way through the school to rescue the trapped students, he takes it upon himself to bash some heads in. He loves hitting people. With his firsts or with objects. He hits people with pipes, chairs, and in the best kill, a fire extinguisher. Whammy.
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Violence: The film kills around 12 or so people, which is good, but some of them occur off-screen and most aren't too bloody. In non-fatal violence, Jack does like to punch a couple of suckas
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The Shrine Teaser Trailer
9 September 2009 12:05 PM, PDT
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Here is the trailer for Jon Knautz's follow-up to Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer -- The Shrine.
After a young American backpacker goes missing in Europe, a group of journalists link his disappearance to a remote village in Poland called Alwainia. Upon further investigation, the journalists discover that Alwainia has a history of bizarre cult activity revolving around human sacrifice. Hell bent on discovering the truth, they travel to the small village, but quickly find themselves pursued by a mysterious group set on killing them. Forced into the gruesome reality of true survival horror, the journalist's soon discover that Alwainia hides a much darker secret than they could ever imagine.
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Polish Jokes, Anyone? The Shrine is Coming For You!
9 September 2009 9:39 AM, PDT
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Set in a small town in Poland but shot in Canada, the new horror flick from “Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer” director Jon Knautz is called “The Shrine”, one of those “American teens go missing while backpacking through Europe” cautionary tale. Plus, ritual sacrifices and creepy Polish country bumpkins. You know, the usual. Check out the teaser trailer and images from the movie, which is set for 2010.
After a young American backpacker goes missing in Europe, a group of journalists link his disappearance to a remote village in Poland called Alwainia. Upon further investigation, the journalists discover that Alwainia has a history of bizarre cult activity revolving around human sacrifice. Hell bent on discovering the truth, they travel to the small village, but quickly find themselves pursued by a mysterious group set on killing them. Forced into the gruesome reality of true survival horror, the journalist’s soon discover that Alwainia
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The Shrine Teaser Trailer and Poster
9 September 2009 6:44 AM, PDT
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Between Legion and Priest (the two Paul Bettany/Scott Stewart creature features coming out in the next year), we already need to prepare ourselves for an onslaught of self-serious horror films with religious overtones. Now, with The Shrine, it seems that we have a trend on our hands.
Directed by Jon Knautz (Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer), the film revolves around a backpacker missing in Europe, and a group of journalists who
“… link his disappearance to a remote village in Poland called Alwainia. Upon further investigation, the journalists discover that Alwainia has a history of bizarre cult activity revolving around human sacrifice. Hell bent on discovering the truth, they travel to the small village, but quickly find themselves pursued by a mysterious group set on killing them. Forced into the gruesome reality of true survival horror, the journalist’s soon discover that Alwainia hides a much darker secret than they could ever imagine.
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The Shrine Teaser Trailer
9 September 2009 5:29 AM, PDT
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When I first saw the poster for The Shrine, a new serious-toned feature about the occult, it quickly earned a mental note. The poster's ominous imagery (as seen bel0w) perfectly tapped the exploration of a foreign-born religio-horror without giving anything away. And though I later discovered that the film is set in a fictional village in Poland, I couldn't shake the notion that it was tapping into a similar fear of ancient practices as expressed in Song of Kali, the popular Calcutta-set horror novel that creeps me out more than a year later.* But I was thrown off by the film's directror, Jon Knautz, best known for helming Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer, a tongue-in-cheek 2007 B-movie co-starring Robert Englund.
A new teaser trailer has arrived, and while it isn't a flawless counterpart to the poster on par with the one-two knockout of The House of the Devil, it offers a
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The Shrine Gets Second Teaser
9 September 2009 2:23 AM, PDT
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The second teaser trailer for The Shrine, which is written and directed by Jon (Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer) Knautz and stars Jack Brooks himself, Trevor Matthews, along with Meghan Heffern, Aaron Ashmore, and Cindy Sampson, just hit online; and we have it here for you to worship.
Synopsis
After a young American backpacker goes missing in Europe, a group of journalists link his disappearance to a remote village in Poland called Alvaina. Upon further investigation, the journalists discover that Alvaina has a history of bizarre cult activity revolving around human sacrifice. Hellbent on discovering the truth, they travel to the small village but quickly find themselves pursued by a mysterious group set on killing them. Forced into the gruesome reality of true survival horror, the journalists soon discover that Alvaina hides a much darker secret than they could ever imagine.
Be sure to check out the official site for The Shrine for more.
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Teaser for Jon Knautz's The Shrine
8 September 2009 7:15 PM, PDT
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Yes, the same Jon Knautz who did the excellent Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer. This one looks like straight up horror, and I have to say I was a bit worried.. but it's looking mighty fine! Especially that scene of the bug or contraption thing going over the supine body.. yes!
After a young American backpacker goes missing in Europe, a group of journalists link his disappearance to a remote Polish village called Alvaina. Upon further investigation, the journalists discover that Alvaina has a history of bizarre cult activity revolving around human sacrifice. Hellbent on revealing the truth, they travel to the small village to uncover the story first hand. But after the discovery of an ancient stone statue hidden within the town, they quickly find themselves pursued by a mysterious and vengeful group of locals. Forced into the gruesome reality of true survival horror, the journalists soon realize that Alvaina
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First report and exclusive pics: Jack Brooks gang’s The Shrine
27 August 2009 9:33 AM, PDT
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If you—like so many horror fans—were pleasantly surprised at just how cheeky and energetically messy last year’s Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer was, you’ve probably been wondering when the lads behind that creature-filled Canadian flick would strike again. Well, gentle readers, wonder no more: The Brookstreet Pictures team of Jon Knautz, Trevor Matthews and Matt Brulotte are in the thick of production on their follow-up shocker, The Shrine. They passed on a few exclusive bloody detail photos, which you can see below.
The Shrine treads darker terrain than the relatively lighthearted Jack Brooks, telling the tale of a group of journalists running afoul of a homicidal cult and the blood-hungry beast they worship in a small, decidedly sinister Polish village. Aaron Ashmore (twin brother of X-men’s Shawn Ashmore, from Smallville and the upcoming The Thaw) takes the lead, and once again Knautz takes the scripting (with Brendan Moore) and directing duties,
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Exclusive: Director Jon Knautz on 'Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer 2'
17 August 2009 12:55 PM, PDT
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We sat down with director Jon Knautz this weekend as he took a break from shooting his latest thriller The Shrine in Toronto. We'll have our full report on The Shrine soon, but for now, read on to see what Jon has to say about a possible sequel to his monster hit Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer.
FEARnet: The film you're shooting now is The Shrine, but I think a lot of genre fans would have expected Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer 2 to be your next film.
Jon Knautz: Jack Brooks 2 was something that was always sitting in development for us [but] it wasn't necessarily the film we were going to make next. We didn't plan on that, we just figured because Jack Brooks seemed to get a pretty decent
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An Exclusive Set Visit to The Shrine
17 August 2009
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It was hot, it was humid, pouring rain and the clouds were thunder-happy. Fitting, I suppose, as my visit to the set of The Shrine in Toronto this month was beginning its primary filming in what I was told would be in the torture room .
As I was nearing the address, I saw a very busy high school and out having a smoke was director Jon Knautz on a break. I knew I had arrived at the latest Brookstreet Pictures film. If Brookstreet sounds familiar it is because this is the team that was behind 2007's successful Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer with Knautz and long time friend Trevor Matthews (Jack Brooks) reuniting for The Shrine .
The pair relocate their imagination from Canada to a small Polish village called Alvaina where a cult still practices the barbarism of human sacrifice.
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Director Jon Knautz Talks The Shrine!
13 August 2009 12:08 PM, PDT
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Canadian director Jon Knautz burst into international view with Jack Brooks Monster Slayer and with that film’s release still fresh the entire team behind Jack Brooks is already hard at work on their sophomore feature, the much more serious-minded The Shrine. I had the chance to visit the set earlier this week and though it was just Day Two of the shoot they were already hard at it, shooting in a large scale underground temple set. Nothing like getting the blood out of the way early ...
After a young American backpacker goes missing in Europe, three journalists link his disappearance to a remote Polish village called Alvaina. Upon further investigation, the journalists discover that Alvaina has a history of bizarre cult activity revolving around human sacrifice. Hell bent on discovering the truth, they travel to the small village, but quickly find themselves pursued by a mysterious group set on killing them.
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The Shrine Has a Teaser and a Blog
7 August 2009 11:56 AM, PDT
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The Shrine, which is written and directed by Jon (Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer) Knautz and stars Jack Brooks himself, Trevor Matthews, along with Meghan Heffern, Aaron Ashmore, and Cindy Sampson, has an official movie blog that will be posting its first entry this coming Monday, August 10th.
We've also got a look at the teaser for the film below, but first, how about some plot details?
After a young American backpacker goes missing in Europe, a group of journalists link his disappearance to a remote village in Poland called Alvaina. Upon further investigation, the journalists discover that Alvaina has a history of bizarre cult activity revolving around human sacrifice. Hellbent on discovering the truth, they travel to the small village but quickly find themselves pursued by a mysterious group set on killing them. Forced into the gruesome reality of true survival horror, the journalists soon discover that Alvaina hides a
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'The Shrine' Teaser Poster, Teaser Trailer!
7 August 2009 11:08 AM, PDT
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Brookstreet Pictures Corp is pleased to announce that principal photography will official begin on The Shrine, about a group of young journalists who investigate a cult said to practice human sacrifice but their ambitious ways may lead them to becoming the cults next victims. The Shrine is the second feature film by Brookstreet Pictures Corp - the same people who created the cult hit Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer. Check out a look at the teaser poster below, along with new info on the feature.
The Shrine stars Aaron Ashmore (The Thaw, Smallville, Veronica Mars, The Stone Angel,) Trevor Matthews (Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer, Moment of Truth, Still Life, Teen Massacre,) Megan Heffern (Chloe, American Pie Presents Beta House, Whister,) and Cindy Sampson (The Factory, High Plains Invaders, Durham County.).
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