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Bloody Disgusting Selects: FREE Los Angeles ‘Cold Fish’ Screening w/ Sion Sono in Person!!!

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Those of you living in the Los Angeles area are not going to want to miss this super rare event…

Bloody Disgusting Selects is holding a very special FREE screening of Cold Fish with Japanese director Sion Sono flying in to mix it up with his fans!! The UNRATED presentation begins at 8PM next Friday, June 10 at the Cinefamily Silent Movie Theatre (611 North Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036). Tickets are 100% FREE! To get on the list all you have to do is RSVP at this location. Make sure you get their early as seats are on a first come first serve basis.

Cold Fish is a must-see, guaranteed good time. I caught the film last September at TIFF and was blown away (read my review). We’ll have a theatrical announcement coming in the next week – stay tuned because we’ll be releasing it UNRATED! Check out the official poster inside.

When Shamotoʼs teenage daughter was caught stealing, a generous middle-aged man helps to resolve the situation. The man and his wife offer to have Shamotoʼs daughter work at their fish store. Shamoto soon discovers the horrific truth of the seemingly perfect couple…who force him to get his hands dirty in their brutal business. Inspired by a true events, COLD FISH is a bloodcurdling suspense drama that unveils the underlying insanity of an ordinary man.

Fans of Sono can also enjoy three of his other flicks – Hair Extensions, Love Exposure and Niroto’s Dinner Table – all playing June 10-11 at the Cinefamily (Calendar).

Horror movie fanatic who co-founded Bloody Disgusting in 2001. Producer on Southbound, V/H/S/2/3/94, SiREN, Under the Bed, and A Horrible Way to Die. Chicago-based. Horror, pizza and basketball connoisseur. Taco Bell daily. Franchise favs: Hellraiser, Child's Play, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Scream and Friday the 13th. Horror 365 days a year.

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Amblin Movie ‘Thursday Murder Club’ Sounds Like ‘Knives Out’ Meets ‘Cocoon’

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Chris Columbus (Gremlins – writer, Home Alone – director) is headed back into the director’s chair for Thursday Murder Club, Amblin’s upcoming feature film adaptation of the same-titled novel written by Richard Osman. Variety first reported the news this morning.

It’s not a horror movie, mind you, but rather a star-studded murder-mystery. Think Rian Johnson’s Knives Out… only this particular murder-mystery is set in a retirement community!

Variety details, “The book, released in 2020, tells the story of four septuagenarian friends who live in a retirement community and solve cold cases for fun. When a shady property developer is found dead, the four find themselves in the middle of their first live crime.”

Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley are “being eyed” to lead the cast!

Richard Osman’s 2020 novel was such a hit that it launched a franchise. Follow-up The Man Who Died Twice followed in 2021, with The Bullet That Missed coming along in 2022. And then there was The Last Devil to Die in 2023, with a fifth book in the series expected in 2025.

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