FrightFest

After Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle, Stephen Chow directs in stars in CJ7 , where he plays a hard-working father who puts all his time & money into funding his kid's education. And being the poorest kid in school, he's always getting picked on... Despite giving his kid everything he wants, h...

DIYer Paranormal Activity and a bigger budget remake of the previous film (by the same company that have the rights to distribute the original - they're even remaking new US films now!!???). Yep, last I heard the original is going straight to DVD - but at least they employed the director to remake ...

If anyone has mates in the US near a BestBuy, they're doing Cloverfield with an exclusive disc -

LINK

AndyJWS wrote:Blu-Ray of The Orphanage was waiting on my doormat today - yay!

Is it Region A only? cheers.

Here's Mark Kermode on Funny Games

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRd6QbPaLOQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVqS1VbLvvs

Which, again, makes me wonder why so many horror fans like the message of this movie

That would be the Japanese original

One Missed Call Dour and uninvolving remake... looks like it was filmed with the wrong aperture and is far too dark for its own good!

Even the kiddies who snuck in were getting restless...

Seven Days (South Korea, 2007) Kim Yoon Jin takes a break from Lost (where she plays Sun) and returned to Korea for this thriller. She plays a single-parent and hot-shot lawyer who's never lost a case. When her daughter is kidnapped, instead of ransom money, the kidnapper insists she takes a case t...

Richard, you should get hold of THIS double-disc set

giles edwards wrote:Worse Case Scenario seems to have been in production for years. I'm sure I remember seeing some kind of rather atmospheric teaser for it back in 2003...

It's still up - go to the link and press "1st Promo" !

ghouldrool wrote:The Cottage

can give or take the very end.

The very, very end comes after the end credits

Just got back from it - very good!

Link to a few Speed Racer trailers:

http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/03/12/ ... r-trailer/

Ummm... this is looks like it's pulled straight from the mind of an imaginative 10 year old. And that's not necessarily a good thing.

Lol, maybe this is a chilled-out longer cut - "Diary of the Dead, man"

Thanks for the post, Giles... As for the viewer becoming the killer's accomplice -- why its that such an outlandish idea? It isn't. I guess I don't have a problem with feeling like an accomplice, after all, a movie is just a movie, so to me Funny Games is a pointless exercise. The difference between...

I have to say I'm surprised to read so much dissent for Haneke because I thought he would have scored highly with the members of this forum. Funny Games for example, is more a provocation than a conventional cinematic thriller (...) while challenging us to our consumption and passive acceptance of ...