This Spring/Summer, IFC Films will be releasing two highly anticipated horror films via its IFC in Theaters platform which brings acclaimed independent movies to on demand viewers in more than 50 million homes across the country the same week they premiere as an exclusive engagement in New York and/or Los Angeles theaters. Beyond the break you can read about getting some post-sunburn horror and see what others tricks IFC has up their sleeve for the summer season!
Arriving on May 29th is the Canadian zombie pic PONTYPOOL (review) -- 2008 Toronto Film Festival favorite directed by Bruce McDonald and starring Stephen McHattie about a radio station that comes under the attack of zombies; the film also had its U.S. premiere last month at the SXSW Film Festival and the Museum of Modern Art's prestigious Canadian Front 2009
On June 12th you'll get to see the zombie-Nazi flick DEAD SNOW (review) -- a thrilling Norwegian horror-comedy about a group of medical students on a holiday who must make it through the night when they are attacked by Nazi-zombies; direct from its world premiere at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
APRIL: Each month IFC Films offers two to four new genre titles via its IFC Festival Direct on-demand service. These films are available nationwide for 90 days on most major cable systems representing more than 30 million households and can be found in a special "IFC In Theaters" "IFC Festival Direct" or "IFC Midnight" branded section within each cable company's on- demand platform. The dynamic April lineup includes two critically acclaimed films direct from the 2008 Cannes Film Festival: THE CHASER and FRONTIER OF DAWN.
THE CHASER (April 8th through July 7th), directed by Na Hong-Jin, won seven 2008 Korean Film Awards including Best Picture, Director, Actor and Screenplay and was a massive box office hit in South Korea. It premiered at Cannes in the Official Selection and was quickly snapped up for an American remake by the producers of THE DEPARTED and Warner Brothers. An edge-of-your-seat crime thriller, the film follows a pimp who sets out to find out what's happened to his missing call girls. The film takes the trappings of the serial killer movie and turns them upside down for one of the more unforgettable films of the genre.
MAY: The May IFC Festival Direct Midnight lineup features Pablo Proenza's critically-acclaimed supernatural psychological thriller DARK MIRROR (May 6th through August 4th). The film stars Lisa Vidal in the story of a photographer who moves her family into a home filled with mirrors which seem to reflect a different reality. Also in May is CADAVER (May 20th through August 18th), a portentous mix of claustrophobic menace and old-fashioned gore from South Korean filmmaker Derek Son. The film centers on a group of medical students who embark upon their first autopsy in an apparently cursed medical department. CADAVER premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 2008.
JUNE: The June IFC Festival Direct Midnight lineup features the acclaimed psychological thriller FEAR ME NOT (June 10th through September 9th) from the award-winning Danish director Kristian Levring. In this intensely chilling film, a run-down middle-aged workaholic (Ulrich Thomsen) enrolls in a clinical trial for a new antidepressant without telling his family. When the trial is abandoned because of dangerous side effects, he continues to take the medication, triggering a hellish descent into madness. FEAR ME NOT premiered at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival and will also be shown at the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival. Also in June is the Spanish arthouse film DIARY OF A NYMPHOMANIAC. The film tells the erotically charged story of a middle-class French girl's unbridled trysts in hotels, parks, cemeteries, her fall into prostitution, the ins-and-outs of a brothel and her final redemption.
djblack, I don't want to hear that. I waited in a line of Snpw trying to get tickets to Dead Snow at Sundance but couldn't. It looks awesome. Pontypool looks interesting but I don't have high expectations for it.
Jhanse sorry to hear that. you MAY very well really like DS. again, it IS online. i agree w/ BD's review of the movie. there are times when (i think) it's trying to be funny(?) and times when (i think) it's trying to be scary, but it does neither very well. i DO like the Nazi zombies in the snow scenario, though.
Jhanse29-Dod Sno is awesome. In comparison to Evil Dead, Dead Alive, Dog Soliders. Very gory and has some funny moments in it.
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