Films

Jill Gatsby, daughter of cult filmmaker Larry Cohen (The Stuff, Maniac Cop II) is trying her hand at directing and writing a feature horror film, in which she will also star!

The Torture of Delva Mills is in production and we should expect to see it out in 2010. In 2005, Jill directed XIS, a terrifying short horror film about a serial killer and his victims, and she co-produced the horror movie Captivity in 2007.

Lionsgate will release Brothers, a new thriller about a returning war veteran starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Tobey MaGuire, and Natalie Portman nationwide in the United States on December 4, 2009.

But did you know it is a remake of a Danish film, Brødre, from 2004 written and directed by Susanne Bier?

“In our part of the world, we’re dealing with an abstract war, a war we can’t see that we’re in, which is a very strange thing,” Bier told journalist Jessica Winter in 2004 when the film was released during the London Film Festival, not long before Bush started pulling out all the stops in Fallujah. “It’s not tangible, but it’s there, and that must be really terrifying for most people...”

Jennifer Thym's original Hong Kong fantasy web series Lumina jumps from the little screen to the big screen at this past weekend’s Clockenflap Music & Multi-Media Arts Festival held at Hong Kong’s Cyberport. An estimated 3,500 festival attendees had the opportunity to view the Saturday and Sunday screenings of the first Lumina webisode, which to date has been available exclusively online.

“It’s an honor to be invited to the Clockenflap festival and to be part of this exciting time in Hong Kong indie cinema,” says Lumina writer/director Jennifer Thym. “We’re excited about expanding our audience worldwide.”

With over 30,000 views online from word of mouth and grassroots marketing, Lumina's viewership is growing strong, especially with the young female set. In the last month, 30% of all Lumina viewers on YouTube were females between the ages of 13 and 17; the next largest demographic (15%) were males between the ages of 25 and 34...

New black metal documentary written and directed by Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites Until The Light Takes Us is out in US theaters December 4, 2009 (NYC), December 11, 2009 (Los Angeles).

Part music scene and part cultural uprising, black metal rose to worldwide notoriety in the mid-nineties when a rash of suicides, murders, and church burnings accompanied the explosive artistic growth and output of a music scene that would forever redefine what heavy metal is and what it stands for to other musicians, artists and music fans world-wide. Until The Light Takes Us goes behind the highly sensationalized media reports of "Satanists running amok in Europe" to examine the complex and largely misunderstood principles and beliefs that led to this rebellion against both Christianity and modern culture. Watch the trailer...

Canadian filmmaker Karen Lam, with Angel Entertainment and Goonworks Films, has begun production on her feature psychological horror film Stained. It features Tinsel Korey (Twilight: New Moon, Rabbit Fall), Sonja Bennett (Battlestar Galactica, Masters of Horror), Tim Fellingham (Truly Blessed, Life on Top), and Stephen Huszar (Corner Gas, Paradise Falls).

Stained is an intense thriller about a lonely bookseller’s obsessive love affair and her protective best friend, who alone knows the horrible truth about her obsession. Karen’s first short horror film, The Cabinet, was selected for the National Canadian Screen Institute – Drama Prize in 2006.

Family Demons, the award-winning psychological horror film produced by Sue Brown and directed by Ursula Dabrowsky, has been picked up for worldwide distribution by IFM World Releasing Inc, the US/Australian international film and TV sales company!

Billie (Cassandra Kane) kills her violent alcoholic mother (Kerry Reid) in a fit of fury and repressed anger. Helped by her boyfriend Sean (Alex Rafalowicz) she plans on getting out of town and heading for the big city but her mother’s vengeful, evil ghost will not let her go....

The Minneapolis, Minnesota USA-based all-female production company Silent But Deadly (Rachel Grubb, Brooke Lemke, and Virgina Head) have 4 films under their belt including the Rachel Grubb-directed horror/thriller feature Why am I in a Box? and a new ten-episode web-series called SBD that you can watch now.

SBD synopsis: Jill (Lemke) and Gina (Grubb) are roommates—single, unemployed and left to their own devices. Gina is in love with a fictional villain from her favorite movie, and Jill likes to talk to the audience in her head. Together, they take everyday obstacles way too seriously and make their lives more interesting than they have any right to be...

France's Gaumont Pictures produced the 2010 highly ambitious — and potentially controversial — movie The Round Up, written and directed by Roselyne Bosch (who also wrote and directed the 2005 psychological horror film Animal). The Round Up (La Rafle) will tackle the subject of French collaboration with the atrocities of The Holocaust...

Anya Camilleri (director of the Tara Reid horror vehicle Incubus) will direct Sharon Stone in the upcoming Satisfaction. Also starring Carice van Houten and to arrive in 2010 from Media 8 Entertainment.

Satisfaction is a sexy, smart and edgy drama/thriller about a young male gigolo, set in London. Jimmy lives in the shadow of the rich women he seduces and uses their money to live a lifestyle he couldn't otherwise afford. He usually leaves the women when a better opportunity comes along - until he meets Emma.

The Guinevere Turner-penned thriller Breaking The Girl is now in pre-production from Myriad Pictures, and will star Amanda Crew and Adrianne Palicki and be directed by Jamie Babbit (But I'm a Cheerleader.) Guinevere Turner previously wrote the screenplays for horror films American Psycho and Bloodrayne.

The plot: Two attractive college students - the innocent and scholarly Sara and the manipulative and sexy Alex, become more than friends when they make a pact to kill off each other's nemesis. But Alex soon grabs the upper hand and Sara discovers she is being set up for murder.

Expect it in 2010.