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I'm super excited to report that we've acquired North American rights to the post-apocalyptic comedy Hellacious Acres: The Case of John Glass for limited theatrical (we'll be going art house with this guy), VOD and DVD release as part of their Bloody Disgusting Selects film series. The pic was first announced here on Bloody this past June and premiered at Fantasia.
Montreal-based director Pat Tremblay wrote, directed and played the titular character in Hellacious along with editing, co-scoring and creating most of the visual effects. Cast includes Navin Pratap, Jamie Abrams, Paula J. Davis, Laurent Lecompte and Francis Dubois.
"The story centers on a man suffering from amnesia who wakes up inside a cryogenic freezer as a robotic voice bombards him with information about World War III."
Inside you'll find what is easily one of my favorite trailers of the year. Get ready for "action-styled action" and a whole lotta walking...
By shifting the focus away from the violent, physical aspects of rape, Wingard breathes shades of ambiguity into his characters while saying something very deep about the nature of intimacy, treading into deeper, darker territory than the usual predator and victim clich?s. While clear acts of rape are suggested in each story, there are also more ambiguous emotional undercurrents charting complex and shifting power dynamics, suggesting that the potential for ?rape? exists in every human interaction. The tendency to be blinded by our own desires, projections, and fantasies is, after all, something that many of us can relate to in our own fumbling search for connection.
Yennie, who appeared as the ?tail-end? of the titular creation in Six?s 2010 much-talked-about film The Human Centipede (First Sequence) and who reprises her role of ?Jenny? in the anticipated sequel (which director Six has promised ?will be the sickest movie of all time?), said of the sophomore effort?s controversial subject matter, ?I didn?t have any issues with it, although I?m really excited for people to see it because when the first one came out, people kept saying, ?It?s not gory enough, and it doesn?t show enough,? and some people even said that it was ?boring,? so with this story it feels more like ?real-life? than anything. In the first film it felt like we were making a movie about something that had happened, and with this it felt like we were making a movie about something that was actually happening. The first film is very medical and clean, and the sequel is dirty, bloody, totally medically inaccurate and crazy!?
I liked Stake Land a lot more than I thought I would. It takes itself a bit too seriously at times--the near-constant voiceover tends to be superfluous--but it delivers compelling characters, a bleakly believable setting, and no shortage of chest-spearing, vamp-killing action. I'd say it's definitely one of the better horror films of 2010, and worth checking out. Dark Sky's Blu-ray looks gorgeous, sounds great, and comes with several hours of bonus material, so I see no reason not to pick this one up if you're a vampire/zombie/post-apocalyptic film fan.
Dream House (2011) Official HD Trailer - YouTube
This is probably going to be bad. But I'm still going to see it.