After six years, Toronto After Dark is bigger than ever. The films are better, the lines are longer and the fan-frenzy is wilder. This year’s chilling selection included: civil war zombies, creepy abductors, cliff-hanging killers, post-apocalyptic insanity and suburban hell – a sci-fi horror fan’s paradise. Writer-director John Geddes’ Exit Humanity is a post-civil war …
A Lonely Place To Die Directed by Julian Gilbey Screenplay by Will Gilbey and Julian Gilbey 2011, UK A Lonely Place To Die might just be the best action film of 2011, a relentless, action packed, hard-edged, gripping crime thriller. Think of it as a hybrid of the Most Dangerous Game and Cliffhanger. Melissa George …
The official announcement for the last wave of films screening at this year’s After Dark Film Festival was made last tonight on Canada’s SPACE Channel. Making the list is the new film by Jason Trost titled Vs. about, “four Super Heroes who find themselves abducted by their Arch Nemesis and are forced to compete in …
Fantastic Fest is one of the best film festivals in the states and the largest in the US. Held in Austin Texas at the Alamo Drafthouse, the event screens nothing but the best in genre films. Sound On Sight contributors Emmett Duff and I will be in attendance to bring the best coverage we can …
While most blogs/sites post their “best of the year so far” lists in June, I like to wait until August – with good reason. You see, we here at Sound On Sight cover various film festivals across the globe. Five of the biggest fests (Sundance, SXSW, Cannes, Tribeca and Fantasia) all take place before August, …
FRIGHTFEST 2011is almost upon us! This coming August Bank Holiday (25th – 29th) will see hundreds, if not thousands of cult movie fans siege Leicester Square in our annual fest of alternative celebrations. We at http://www.moviemurmurs.com will of course be covering as many of the films as possible (we will be attending all of them …
Visit the official Fantasia Film Fest website Well we are officially through the first week of the Fantasia Film Festival, so I figured we should do a quick look back at all the articles and reviews we have posted so far. In seven days our crew has managed to post over twenty reviews, ten articles …
A Lonely Place to Die Written by Will Gilbey and Julian Gilbey Directed by Julian Gilbey UK, 2011 A rare thriller that actually contains thrills, UK export A Lonely Place to Die comes up with a formula so ingenious it’s a wonder we haven’t already seen it a million times before: high-octane cliff-scaling meets cat-and-mouse …
Everyone who’s been to the Fantasia Film Festival here in Montreal knows two things: one, it’s awesome; two, there are an insane, perhaps even impossible, number of features to choose from. Inevitably, some movies will live up to or even exceed the hype, while others fizzle out upon actual viewing. Every year I make a …
Hebrew horror, killer santas, carrot-wielding maniacs, demented descents, a Werewolf musical, the end of the world and Troll Hunters – it can only be Film4 FrightFest, back for a terrifying twelfth year. Everyone’s favourite U.K. genre film festival is back to present a total of 37 spine-tinglers in two screens. This is Sound On Sight’s …