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SDCC ’09: Get Your Hands on a Signed ‘Mortis Rex’ Print FREE

Published

15 years ago

July 23, 2009

As hinted at a few days ago here on B-D, inside you’ll find your first look at the Mortis Rex San Diego Comic Con Teaser exclusive art print, drawn by the movie’s concept artist Stuart Jennett, and colored by Grant Kempster. This is a limited run of only 200 (yes you heard that right: 200!), and once they’re gone, they’re gone. Want one? Want it signed? Read on to see how to score one. Mortis Rex is to be directed by Peter Briggs, writer of Hellboy.
Taken from the larger One-Sheet artwork, each 11 x 17″ Lovecraftian-esque goodie is hand signed and numbered, and Hellboy screenwriter Peter Briggs will be there at Comicon on early Saturday afternoon (sometime between 2 to 4…exact time to be finalized) to give these away (yes, they’re free), personalizing each and every one. You’ll find him at Booth 2104 (the “Bafflegagging Blundernagging Brothers” table…no, you also read that right!), in aisle 2100 right across from DC Comics and between IDW and Diamond.

Written and directed by Briggs, the $30m supernatural horror-thriller starts casting next week. These babies are going to be snapped up like hot cakes at Comicon, so don’t say you weren’t warned.

“Mortis” tells the story of Cassius Virius, a disgraced Roman soldier, who is sent to Scotland to team up with Syrus Petronius, the washed-up commander of the Roman fort of Briga Magna on Hadrian’s Wall. Briga Magna has been suffering a spate of inexplicable deaths, which Cassius suspects is connected to the local hostile Druid populace, who may be readying another rebellion. What he actually uncovers is much more deadly and horrifying.

“Mortis Rex” was announced at the AFM in November last year, and is being distributed by Intandem Films (“How To Lose Friends And Alienate People”); with FX duties being handled by Pixomondo (“Red Baron”; Emmerich’s “2012”; the Wachowskis’ “Ninja Assassin”; and the recently announced remake of “The Gate”.)

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‘Dancing Village: The Curse Begins’ – Exclusive Clip and Images Begin a Gruesome Indonesian Nightmare

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3 hours ago

April 24, 2024

John Squires

Indonesian filmmaker Kimo Stamboel (Macabre, Headshot, The Queen of Black Magic) is back in the director’s chair for MD Pictures’ Badarawuhi Di Desa Penari (aka Dancing Village: The Curse Begins), a prequel to the Indonesian box office hit KKN Curse Of The Dancing Village. Lionsgate brings the film to U.S. theaters on April 26.

While you wait, whet your appetite for gruesome horror with a gnarly exclusive clip from Dancing Village: The Curse Begins below, along with a gallery of bloody exclusive images.

In the horror prequel, “A shaman instructs Mila to return a mystical bracelet, the Kawaturih, to the ‘Dancing Village,’ a remote site on the easternmost tip of Java Island. Joined by her cousin, Yuda, and his friends Jito and Arya, Mila arrives on the island only to discover that the village elder has passed away, and that the new guardian, Mbah Buyut, isn’t present.

“Various strange and eerie events occur while awaiting Mbah Buyut’s return, including Mila being visited by Badarawuhi, a mysterious, mythical being who rules the village. When she decides to return the Kawaturih without the help of Mgah Buyut, Mila threatens the village’s safety, and she must join a ritual to select the new ‘Dawuh,’ a cursed soul forced to dance for the rest of her life.”

Kimo Stamboel directs from a screenplay by Lele Laila.

Aulia Sarah, Maudy Effrosina, Jourdy Pranata, Moh. Iqbal Sulaiman, Ardit Erwandha, Claresta Taufan, Diding Boneng, Aming Sugandhi, Dinda Kanyadewi, Pipien Putri, Maryam Supraba, Bimasena, Putri Permata, Baiq Vania Estiningtyas Sagita, and Baiq Nathania Elvaretta star.

KKN Curse Of The Dancing Village was the highest grossing film in Indonesian box office history when initially released in 2022. Its prequel is the first film made for IMAX ever produced in Southeast Asia and in 2024, it will be one of only five films made for IMAX productions worldwide. Manoj Punjabi produces the upcoming Indonesian horror prequel.