the most anticipated...

[Ghoul]

a sta ces vise od ovoga?

drmao je zestoko na Sandensu, zimus, citao sam nekoliko odlicnih kritika [ne znam kako ranije nisi cuo za njega, hvalili su ga i na creature-corneru, i na aicn-u...], i zvuci zanimljivo; na zalost, imace premijeru nakon mog odlaska, pa ko zna da li cu ga, i kada, videti u Srbiji...

[Milosh]

a ja se taman ponadao da si to nekako, negde pogledao, pa da cujem iz prve ruke...

nista, doci ce i to na divx, jednog lepog dana.

[otaku]

James Ellroy's crime novel, THE BLACK DAHLIA that's scored a pretty impressive trio to tell the story with moving pictures. Brian DePalma will direct Mark Wahlberg and Josh Hartnet as two Los Angeles cops investigating the murder of an aspiring actress.

JOSH HARTNET    to mi reci, kad ce film?

[Milosh]

JOSH HARTNET    to mi reci, kad ce film?

najavljen za 2005, mada, oni koji su citali knjigu uglavnom nisu odusevljeni izborom glumaca. videcemo...

[Ghoul]

JOSH HARTNET    to mi reci, kad ce film?

najavljen za 2005, mada, oni koji su citali knjigu uglavnom nisu odusevljeni izborom glumaca. videcemo...

zar uopste treba da citas knjigu da bi video da je Josh losh?

[Milosh]

ne znam da li je neko vec pominjao ali u USA je cini mi se vec krenuo da se daje 'The Ladykillers'. ja sam prilicno rastrzan po pitanju ovog filma, sa jedne strane to su braca Coen koji, sto se mene tice, ne grese; a opet, originalna verzija mi je jedan od omiljenijih filmova uopste, i ne bih rekao da mu je potreban update. stvarno ne znam sta da mislim...

[Ghoul]

jeste, krenuo je danas da se daje, ali to je vrsta filma koju mogu vrlo strpljivo da docekam na divxu.

so many greater priorities...

[crippled_avenger]

Kad je rec o Ellroyevom romanu BLACK DAHLIA, meni je to najdraza knjiga koju sam procitao. Mislim da je u tom romanu Ellroy savrseno iskombinovao svoj hardboiled stil, cinizam, mocnu melodramu i opake twistove. To je njegov veliki burbon roman. Za razliku od ostalih koji su cist krek.

Kad je rec o castingu za De Palmin film BLACK DAHLIA, mislim da su Josh i Mark savrsen cast. Meni je Josh zaista jedan od najboljih glumaca svoje generacije i mislim da savrseno odgovara ulozi. U svakom novom filmu je sazrevao i znatno je napredovao od THE FACULTY. Takodje, vidi se da je decko pametan po onome sto je birao sa mainstream menija. Konacno, jedno od mojih near death iskustava se vezuje za njegov film 40 DAYS & 40 NIGHTS. S druge strane Mark je igrao u nekoliko od mojih Top-100 filmova i mislim da ce on odlicno odraditi posao.

Naravno, tesko je zamisljati Ellroya izvan Guy Pearce-Russell Crowe podele, ili nove Shane Blackove Val Kilmer-Robert Downey Jr. podele, ali Josh i Mark su po meni savrsen izbor. Mislim da ce oni doneti jednu svedenu, brzu glumu, da ce napraviti pravi bioskop. Mnogi ljudi ne umeju da cene tu vrstu efikasne glume. Medjutim, kad pogledas 21 GRAMS, u kome Benicio Del Toro baulja po parkingu i glasno dise, naucis da cenis tu vrstu iluzionizma kojoj te priblizavaju generic holivudski filmovi. WAY TO GO, BOYS!

[Milosh]

heh, siguran sam da ce neko biti zainteresovan za ovaj film.    

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374933/

[crippled_avenger]

overite ovaj film, Sagita all-stars, mali leviathan

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399503/combined

[Milosh]

...pa uz ovakav naslov, ko bi mogao da odoli?  

p.s. a sta je bilo sa ostatkom omnibusa?

[crippled_avenger]

Dakle, to je bio omnibus koji smo napisali Tripp, Otaku i ja, za jedan konkurs. To su bile tri poevzane polu-samostalne price koje se okrecu oko istih desavanja. Na tom konkursu nismo prosli i tu je propustena prva prilika da se omnibus spakuje. U medjuvremenu sam ja preradio svoju pricu u radio-dramu. I sa njom polozio ispit i prodao je Radio Beogradu gde je izvedena 14. januara. No, kako je izvedena bolje da nije.

U medjuvremenu se Zlatko attachovao na Otakin scenario dok je moj skript od tarta kruzo oko Koste Djordjevica. Trippov skript, koji je meni najdrazi je bio najveci problem. Naime, u njemu glavne uloge igraju deca. A deca su velika muka za rad. No, krajem prosle godina, Trippov scenario pronalazi dom kod naseg kolege Miroslava Stamatova i CHUBBY RAIN, nas omnibus staje na noge. Medjutim, Darko Bajic opstruira ideju da se snima omnibus. I na kraju je snimljen samo PORNO TELETABIS kao one shot.

[Black Mamba]

The Diving Bell and The Butterfly

...jel citao neko ovo?

elem, ako niste znali ...

Johnny Depp has signed on to do "The Diving Bell and The Butterfly", set to be released in 2006.

Johnny Depp portrays Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, save his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.

[crippled_avenger]

Depp u filmu sa PARALITICARIMA, najzad. Pitao sam se kada ce uraditi dobar, socan, film o paraliticima. I moram priznati da je imao ukusa, odabrao je film u kome junak moze da pomera samo LEVO OKO. Tako i film moze po uzoru na MOJE LEVO STOPALO da se zove MOJE LEVO OKO...

[Milosh]

ne znam kakav je trenutno status jos prosle godine najavljenog filma Necropolis koji bi trebao da radi Vincenzo Natali, ali posle Cyphera sta god da on snima sledece ja sam tu.  

a u medjuvremenu tu je film iz 2003 ingenioznog naziva Nothing koga iscekujem na divxu... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298482/

[Milosh]

Cellular. David R. Ellis rezira, a Eric Bress i Larry Cohen rade scenario.

[Milosh]

King of the Ants by Stuart Gordon.

[Ghoul]

OK, now it's official:

top 1 place at my most-eagarly awaited list=
SHAUN OF THE DEAD.

vec smo ga pominjali, Miki je nedavno okachio poster, svi sve znaju o filmu, ali posto je prethodnog vikenda imao premijeru u Engleskoj, i dobio straobalno dobre kritike cak i od ustogljenih Guardiana, Observera i BBC-a = OK, I'M BUYING IT!

A side-splitting, head-smashing, gloriously gory horror comedy, Shaun Of The Dead is hilarious. From the brains behind the superb sitcom Spaced, it's a knockabout caper that will amuse casual viewers and delight genre fans, paying knowing tribute to George A Romero's zombie classic Trilogy Of The Dead. Co-writer Simon Pegg stars as Shaun, an ambition-starved shop assistant freshly dumped by his girlfriend (Kate Ashfield). "It's not the end of the world," says his best mate, Ed (Nick Frost). Only it is. The dead start coming back to life and Shaun and friends must fight for survival.

[Ghoul]

ala je movie-business prevrtljiva i nepouzdana stvar:
nema ni mesec dana otkako mi Huper licno reko da sprema BREW, kad ono: ispalo da nema para za to, nego ce da radi nesto sasvim drugacije.

e, sad- ispade da je tako jos bolje, jer novonajavljena stvar zvuci daleko bolje:

Tobe Hooper's next outing, The Mortuary from one who would know; the script's co-writer, Adam Gierasch.

"It's not not a zombie movie, but it isn't a zombie movie in the traditional sense of the word either...There are zombies in it, but it's based more on the Cthulhu mythos. It's a Lovecraftian horror tale, based on his writings but not any specific story. It's about a family whose dad buys a cemetery/mortuary in Arkham, Massachusetts, and spooky hijinx ensue."

E, jedino me malo brine boldovana fraza gore: taj sto, kao, treba da 'zna' je autor scenarija za CROCODILE 1 & 2, kao i za TOOLBOX; tulboks je OK film, ali nikako ne zbog scenarija.
dakle, oprez, ali i nejasna nada da covek ipak 'svakog dana u svakom pogledu napreduje'...

[Ghoul]

GOD TO EARTH: "YOU'RE ALL WET"

The Flood II: This time it's personal.

Back in Biblical days, God could wipe out the human race with a flood. Not just because he felt like it, but also because the human race was a bunch of dumb sons of bitches who hadn't developed flight, rocketry or nuke-proof bunkers hundreds of feet below the ground. Not to mention nuclear submarines.

Today one assumes that wiping out the human race with a flood would be a lot harder. That doesn't mean that ornery bitch Yaweh isn't going to make a go at it in the movie The Passion of the Ark. No, the film doesn't involve a detailed, two hour long version of the face melting scenes from the end of Raiders. It's about a guy who gets chosen to be the new Noah when God lets him in on his plans to sink humanity in a watery grave.

It's still a script at the moment, but it's been sold to Columbia based Original Films. The screenplay is by two first timers, Bobby Florsheim (love his shoes!) and Josh Stolberg, and it raised the interests of all the major studios. It's not known if the script addresses just what would make Morgan Freeman mad enough to take such drastic actions.

e, svaka ti dala, majstore!

[Ghoul]

Sissy Spacek in RING 2.

directed by Hideo Nakata.

How could it go wrong?

[The Corinthian]

Sissy Spacek in RING 2.

kao Sadako?

[Ghoul]

ne se znaje.

ali ako ne igra neki creepy lik [recimo, sadako-mamu] ne znam sto bi je zvali.

carrie je mama na sadako. in more senses than one.

[Black Mamba]

http://www.herothemovie.com/

[Black Mamba]

The Crow: Wicked Prayer

Release Date: TBA 2004
Studio: Dimension Films
Director: Lance Mungia
Screenwriter: Jeff Most, Lance Mungia, Sean Hood
Starring: Edward Furlong, Tara Reid, David Borianaz, Dennis Hopper, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Marcus Chong, Tito Ortiz, Rena Owen, Danny Trejo, Macy Gray
Genre: Action, Horror, Romance
Official Website: Not available
Review: Not available
DVD/VHS: Not available
Movie Poster: Not available
Plot Summary: When Jimmy and his half Native American girlfriend Lily are murdered by a rampaging satanic cult led by Luc Crash and his demonic bride, he is traumatised to find himself reincarnated as 'The Crow', an immortal being of Native American folk law and the 'killer of killers'. With revenge burning in his broken heart, and whilst he tries to come to terms with his new dark powers, Jimmy comes to realise what he can do, and what he must do - as he confronts the onslaught of gang members Famine, Pestilence, War and Death in this epic action battle of good and extreme evil.There is no rest without vengeance.

Trailer:
Coming Soon!

[Ghoul]

Fox options the rights to video game TETRIS, with Josh Hartnett attached as a rogue cop who discovers aliens have infiltrated a building site


PS: this is a joke [for now]

[crippled_avenger]

ghoul, molio bih da se ne sprdas sa mojim omiljenim glumcem... nije on s tobom piksija gledao da ga tako ismevas...

[crippled_avenger]

ghoul, molio bih da se ne sprdas sa mojim omiljenim glumcem...

[Ghoul]

glumac?

razumem da je on sladak dechkic ciji poster drzis na zidu svoje sobe [ili mozda kupatila], ali.. glumac?

gde je on to... glumio?

[crippled_avenger]

Joshovo ovladavanje ekranom se naziva i glumom. Medjutim, jasno mi je da ti nisi mogao da primetis da on negde GLUMI posto on kad interpretira lik, to cini bez napora. Poput Cary Granta, recimo...

Ti ocigledno vise volis Deppa ili Benicio Del Tora i ove sto toliko preteruju sa mimikom da se vidi trud u GLUMI. Sean Penna ne pominjem jer on ima i svetlu eighties fazu u svojoj karijeri... Josh naprosto samo realizuje svoj lik.

Inace, o Joshovim angazmanima i karijeri se mozes obavestiti na sajtu www.imdb.com

[crippled_avenger]

no, za ghoula je jasno da on za velike glumce i autore smatra one koji to prethodno kazu za sebe. najave se kao veliki. neki se najavljuju time sto zive sa sirotinjom Treceg Sveta, neki se najave kroz svoje izjave.

najbolji primer je slucaj u kome je ghoul pohitao da vidi KILL BILLove na vikend premijere dok Tony Scotta, zbog koga smo BTW i zavoleli Tarantina, koliko preko TRUE ROMANCE toliko i preko CRIMSON TIDE, ceka na piratskoj kopiji kad se vrati u Srbiju...

[Milosh]

posle Black Dahlie ce valjda postati jasnije koliko je Josh dobar/los glumac. ja sam i dalje skeptican, no videcemo...

a kad smo vec kod vengeance flickova, ghoule, jesi li uhvatio na nekom festivalu [dvdu, ako je izasao] Gordonov King of the Ants?

[Ghoul]

king of the ants cu, naravno, pogledati PRVOM prilikom koja mi se ukaze jer imam velika ocekivanja od tog filma [a i gordon se odavno sam najavio kao 'auteur', pa ajd da mu poverujem ] =na zalost, jos uvek mi nije pao shaka...

HMMM: QUEL COINCIDENCE!
USA 27 April 2004 (video premiere)

PA TO JE SUTRA!
he he he

[Spider Jerusalem]

Da, i ja sam siguran da ce Joshi pokazati koliko vredi u Daliji.

Siguran sam da ce Bakija, jednog od najkompleksnijih likova u krajm literaturi koje sam upoznao, odraditi vrlo "efikasno".

Toliko efikasno da cu sledecih deset godina pljuvati po De Palmi i bicevati se po ledjima svaki put kad se setim da mi je momak bio simpatican u The Faculty.



O scene-stealingu i karizmi Markija Marka neki drugi put.

[otaku]

Nemoj da mi je neko dirao Josha  

[Ghoul]

novi film Brajana Yuzne, ROTTWEILER: NA SLICI, NASLOVNI JUNAK=

[Milosh]

Garage Days - Alex Proyas. iz 2002e, prikazan 2003e. u USA je igrao u bioskopima samo jedan vikend.    prvi trejler je stvarno odlican [izmontiran na Add it Up - Violent Femmes   ]. izgleda da se za neku siru distribuciju ceka na premijeru filma I, Robot, koji opet nimalo ne obecava [grozan kasting, jos gori trejler...] i pored Proyasa u rediteljskoj stolici. kako god, nadam se da ce se Garage Days uskoro pojaviti na divxu...  

[Ghoul]

bio sam suzdrzan prema novom Romeru; coveka obozavam, ali horor mjuzikl bas i nije moja ideja toga cime bi ovaj chcicha trebalo da trosi poslednje svoje kreativne dane pred penziju.

no, nakon novih vesti, ovaj naslov se penje sa lestvice 'OK, pogledacu film jer postujem coveka' na 'hot damn! ovo mora da se vidi!'

a vesti [za sada samo glasine] glase:
otkako su skotovi, ridli i toni, resili da produciraju romerov film [god bless them for that!], romero je poceo da razmatra ideju da u film ukljuci najidelanije zive ljude za uloge zombi-rokera: Ozzy Ozbourne, Marilyn Manson, & David Bowie ! Pretpostavljam da je Jaggerov check suvise debeo za ovu produkciju, a Rob Zombie je zauzet svojim sopstvenim mrtvacima, ali ako pomenuti trio stvarno bude ukljucen u film = DAMN!
u tom lucaju ni u ludilu necemo imati BRUISER 2!

[crippled_avenger]

Braca Scott ce pomoci Romeru do te mere, da ako film bude los, oni mogu i da ga izreziraju umesto njega... To mi uliva izvesni optimizam.

A opet s druge strane, zasto cekati da Romero snimi los film, zasto ga oni odmah ne izreziraju?

Ghoul, da li ces posle ove informacije otici da pogledas MAN ON FIRE?

[Milosh]

Variety reports that the latest project from the Raw Nerve company, set up by Eli Roth, Boaz Yakin and Scott Spiegel to produce modestly budgeted horror fare, is ABRAHAM'S DAUGHTER. Antonia (RAVENOUS) Bird has been attached to direct the movie, which is about a recently widowed woman who begins having visions of murdered children. In the course of investigating where the visions are coming from, she uncovers horrible secrets in her small home town. Yakin and Edward Ricourt wrote the script, and Lauren Moews, one of the producers on Roth's CABIN FEVER, will join the Raw Nerve principals to serve the same function on DAUGHTER.

[crippled_avenger]

According to Moviehole, director John McTiernan and actress Rebecca Romijn-Stamos may come aboard the Myriad Pictures thriller The Tenth Victim, starring Brendan Fraser. Dominic Sena had been attached to direct. McTiernan and Romijn-Stamos previously worked together on the remake of Rollerball.


The Tenth Victim is a remake of the 1965 film La Decima Vittima directed by Elio Petri and starring Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli and Marcello Mastroianni. Both versions are adaptations of the original short story The Seventh Victim by Robert Scheckley.

Brendan Fraser himself reportedly advised Australian Empire magazine that McTiernan and Romijn-Stamos were poised to join his next project. Moviehole says that Romijn-Stamos would star as "a lovely TV actress, living in a world of legalized murder hunts. She's been assigned her tenth hit, the one that will ultimately lead to material success."

The Hollywood Reporter has described the film as a futuristic tale where "contract killing is a sport. A woman is searching for her 10th victim in order to achieve the highest possible score and sets her sights on a particular man [Fraser] who turns out not to be such an innocent victim since he's out to get her first. Things get even more complicated when they fall in love."

[Black Mamba]

ovo bi vise moglo da bude nesto kao filmske vesti, al kad vec nema takvog topika, moze i ovde...


The "Kill Bill" director wants to make a James Bond film.


CANNES, France (Reuters) - After four years of filming and editing his "Kill Bill" revenge saga, American director Quentin Tarantino feels like he's climbed a cinematic mountain but instead of a much-desired rest he wants to tackle the Everest of film genres: James Bond.

Once Tarantino finishes worldwide promotion for his "Kill Bill - Volume 2" sequel, which stars Uma Thurman as a bride bent on finding the man who tried to kill her, he plans to approach the producers of the big-budget Bond series.

"I've always wanted to do it. I bumped into Pierce Brosnan and we talked about it. He liked the idea," he said.

Tarantino is a lifelong fan of the British spy saga, now starring the Irish actor Brosnan.

"I would like to do the original book 'Casino Royale' and do it more or less the way the Ian Fleming book is," Tarantino told Reuters in an interview in Cannes, where he is president of this year's film festival jury.

"Casino Royale" was made in 1967 as an ill-fated spoof starring David Niven as an aging 007.

"I don't know if they're going to go for it or not, but I'm letting them know I'm interested," he said.

Only weeks ago, an exhausted Tarantino said he felt like he had already climbed the world's highest peak and would probably pick a smaller-scale production for his next picture.

That was before he received some words of advice from Eleanor Coppola, wife of legendary director Francis Ford Coppola and mother of Sofia Coppola ("Lost in Translation"), who is rumored to be dating Tarantino.

Eleanor Coppola, who documented the disaster-ridden making of her husband's 1979 classic "Apocalypse Now," told Tarantino to tackle ambitious projects while he still had youth and energy on his side.

"It was actually quite profound advice that she gave. Not to say that you can't make a small movie in between, but now is not the time to do a left-handed project," Tarantino said. "Now is the time to climb Mount Everest."

The "Reservoir Dogs" director sounds like he has no intention of slowing down. He has completed a script for a World War II project and is also toying with plans for a horror film.

Though he is handing out the honors this year, Tarantino has every intention of returning to Cannes, where he won the Palme d'Or best film award in 1994 with "Pulp Fiction."

"I guess at the end of the day it would be nice if my crowning achievement was the fact that I won more Palme d'Ors than any filmmaker who ever lived. That would be great, that's something to aspire to," he said.

[crippled_avenger]

Novi filmski studiji
Kompanija ,,Pink Films International" (PFI) će biti koproducent pet fimova čije snimanje se planira za početak jeseni 2004, objavljeno je na pres-konferenciji u Kanu. PFI se sastoji od srpske najpopularnije TV kuće ,,Pink", kompanije ,,Grosvenor Park" iz Londona i firme ,,OCo. International" iz Vašingtona. Ove informacije su objavili osnivač i vlasnik ,,Pinka" Željko Mitrović, Donald Star, ispred firme ,,Grosvenor Park" i Greg Stivens iz ,,OCo. International".

Vrh PFI-ja je takođe najavio izgradnju filmskih studija u Beogradu ,,Pink Film Studios", nedaleko od aerodroma ,,Surčin", a izgradnja studija će koštati 20 miliona dolara.

Prvi projekat je snimanje pet filmova koji će zajedno nositi naziv ,,Midnight Mayhem", a inspiracija će im biti horor filmovi iz pedesetih i šezdesetih godina kakve je snimao Sem Arkof za kompaniju ,,American International Pictures".

Projekat ,,Midnight Mayhem" obuhvataće sledeće filmove, a određen je budžet od pet miliona dolara za svaki film: ,,Voodoo Women", ,,The Undead", ,,The She Creature", ,,Blood of Dracula" i ,,The Brain Eaters". Producent će biti ,,Grosvenor Park", kao i producenti kompanije ,,Midnight Mayhem Production" Kreg Baumgarten, Majk Markus, Badi Epštajn i Lu Arkof, sin Sema Arkofa.

[Ghoul]

Ova vest se tice NOVOG izdanja STAROG filma na DVD-u - ali *kakvog* filma! I sa kakvim DODACIMA!

Criterion is planning a 2-disc release of Videodrome this August. And a collective shout of "About fuckin' time!" was heard [Ghoul included]. Check out the planned features:

Audio commentary by Cronenberg and cinematographer Mark Irwin

Audio commentary by stars James Woods and Deborah Harry

Cronenberg's short film Camera, created for the Toronto Film Festival in 2000 and starring VIDEODROME's Les Carlson

A new 30-minute documentary by VIDEODROME video FX artist Michael Lennick about the movie's landmark makeup and special FX

Fear on Film, a half-hour roundtable discussion from 1982 between Cronenberg, John Carpenter and John Landis (all of whom were working on Universal horror films at the time), hosted by director-to-be Mick Garris

Short promotional featurette from 1982, also created by Garris

Trailers

Extensive galleries with makeup test shots, behind-the-scenes photos, publicity stills, marketing materials, etc.

Samurai Dreams—the fake Japanese soft-porn film seen in the movie, presented in its entirety

And more!
   

DAMN, SAYS I!

[Milosh]

ROMASANTA: THE WEREWOLF HUNT


Let it be said right away that Paco Plaza's ROMASANTA: THE WEREWOLF HUNT (which opened this month in Spain) is, in every respect, light years ahead of the half-dozen films previously produced by Brian Yuzna and Julio Fernández's Fantastic Factory. Indeed, it's one of the best werewolf movies ever made. It hits all the right buttons and delivers what discerning horror/fantasy fans crave: mystery, suspense, shocks, blood 'n' guts, tons of Gothic atmosphere and a pervading sense of dread. This is a tense, edgy, chillingly macabre tale, graced by passionate and credible performances from a fine cast of actors. The film packs a real punch, and the impact is heightened by the knowledge that it's based on true events.

Elena Serra and Alberto Marini's script is adapted from award-winning novelist Alfredo Conde's book ROMASANTA—UNRELIABLE MEMOIRS OF A WEREWOLF, an apocryphal, first-person account of the criminal exploits of Manuel Blanco Romasanta, a traveling tinker-cum-handyman who carried out a string of savage murders in the forests of the Galician hinterland in the mid-19th century. He was finally caught and put on trial in 1853. Incredibly, his claim that he couldn't be held responsible for the killings since he suffered from lycanthropy was sustained by some highly influential "scientists" of the day, and the case attracted such media coverage both in Spain and abroad that Queen Isabel II herself intervened to have the original death sentence revoked. Instead, Romasanta was condemned to life imprisonment. He died in prison under circumstances which remain unclear to this day (indeed, historians haven't been able to ascertain with certainty in which prison he was incarcerated), allowing the filmmakers sufficient license to include their own historically improbable but dramatically satisfying and moving climax.

Conde's tome was written with reference to archival documents from the actual trial, and the film displays the same respect for historical authenticity. It's refreshing to see a period horror picture which isn't littered with stupid retro-technology, anachronistically "hip" one-liners, Indiana Jones-style heroes or flying-wire martial-arts punchups. Instead, ROMASANTA is a welcome return to adult, character-driven storytelling without being in any way pretentious, dull or ponderously "respectable." In fact, the film cleverly interweaves several narrative threads, maintaining a sense of mystery and menace from the first scene to the last—all credit to Serra and Marini. Plaza's canny adherence to the "leave it to the viewer's imagination" approach to horror ensures that the several flashes of stomach-churning butchery never threaten to upset the carefully evoked atmosphere of creeping unease. These realistically rendered scenes of carnage, courtesy of Barcelona FX house DDT, are included to serve the story rather than pander to the gorehounds.

Star Julian Sands turns in a solid performance, effectively conveying the key character traits attributed to the title character—a cold, vain, cruel and calculating but irresistibly seductive (literal) ladykiller. Female lead Elsa Pataky gives what is easily her best performance to date; following her turn in Fantastic Factory's BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR, she's been rewarded with a role far removed from the teen fodder and light comedy of her TV and early film roles. Here she gets to finally prove her mettle, emoting through the whole range from naive, retiring younger sister through passionately responsive lover to gutsy, singleminded avenger of her family's murder, all without falling into cliché. John Sharian shines as Antonio, another unfortunate "cursed by lycanthropy," and David Gant as criminal pathologist Professor Philips and Gary Piquer as an attorney are two class acts who bring dramatic gravitas to their respective roles. Indeed, Gant's performance conjures up memories of the great Peter Cushing.

Also noteworthy is the splendid cinematography by Javier Salmones, which won the Best Photography award at the recent Malaga Film Festival. At last, the cinematic potential of the brooding Galician countryside has been fully exploited on screen, resulting in wonderfully dramatic and evocative imagery. The well-judged camerawork and editing combine to make the real wolves used by the production seem truly savage.

There are just two personal (and very minor) reservations. The spectacular wolf-into-man transformation scene, with bubbling membranes and goo galore, while technically polished, seems a little out of place (might one suggest it's more Yuzna than Plaza?), and the use of silver bullets is more of a Hollywood embellishment than based on actual folklore. But let's not look a gift wolf in the mouth; ROMASANTA is a modern horror/fantasy classic.

[crippled_avenger]

Harrison Ford will star in the outer space thriller GODSPEED for James Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment. Scripted by Ryne Douglas Pearson, the story takes place on an international space station, where a life-threatening situation develops that could kill all the inhabitants on the station.

Fernley Phillips is set to write a remake of ALTERED STATES, the 1980 Ken Russell-directed, Paddy Chayefsky-scripted psychedelic sci-fi thriller for Warner Bros.

Michel Gondry is directing an adaptation of the sci-fi thriller MASTER OF SPACE AND TIME by Rudy Rucker. Jack Black is attached to star in the project for DreamWorks. It's about two mad scientists who figure out how to control reality.

Walter Hill has signed on to direct the cop thriller LITTLE SISTER for Millennium Films. Hill will direct from a script he co-wrote with David Giler. The story centers on a female cop who teams up with a Mafia-type thug seeking retribution for his little sister's death.

[Ghoul]

damn!

odavno nisam video trejler koji me je ovoliko zaintrigirao:

film je SAW.

trejler [sicksicksick] je ovde:
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/521/521120p1.html?fromint=1

[Boban]

1. Bobanov zakon o trejlerima: "Sto je trejler bolji, film ce biti vece sranje.
2. Bobanov zakon o trejlerima: "Najvise pamtim filmove bez trejlera."
3. Bobanov zakon o trejlerima: "Iako znam sve ovo, opet nasedam."

[Ghoul]

ako je neko ovde dovoljno naivan, neupucen ili glup da veruje bobanovim zakonima, na creature-corner.com [a i drugde na netu] moze se naci mouth-watering review filma.

naravno, verovatno postoji i zakon tipa: "sto su kritike bolje, to je film gori" ili "ne verujem dok sam ne vidim" [potonje, naravno, vazi: ali ovde govorimo o ocekivanjima baziranim na informacijama koje su trenutno dostupne: topik, dakle ne glasi: 'ovaj film ima da jebe kevu' jer da li ce- ne znamo; topik je: 'od ovog filma puno ocekujem'...]

[crippled_avenger]

The Crazies: "Paramount has tapped horror specialist Scott Kosar to pen "The Crazies," a remake of George Romero's 1972 horror-thriller set up at Paramount-based Penn Station.