Trollhunter Directed by Andre Ovredal Starring Otto Jespersen, Glenn Erland Tosterud, Johanna Morck, Norway, 2010 Saturday morning at FRIGHTFEST kicked off with The Troll Hunter. A film many of us had hoped to turn up at the festival the year prior (along with Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil) but that somehow ended up emerging this …
One of the more interesting strands to Empire’s Big Screen programming for film fans who are a little longer in the tooth was the ‘classics’ strand, where movies that have proved enduringly popular with the magazines readership over the past twenty years were awarded a rare big screen outing. Inevitably the main buzz of activity for …
Our Saskatoon, SK readers should be interested in this post. The lineup of films at this year’s Dark Bridges Film Festival has been announced. This marks only the second year of the fest but the line-up is great. The festival runs Sept. 29th – Oct. 2nd, 2011 at the Broadway Theatre. Dark Bridges Film Festival …
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 …
Trollhunter Directed by Andre Øvredal Written by André Øvredal and Håvard S. Johansen 2011, Norway The 1980 Italian exploitation film Cannibal Holocaust, directed by Ruggero Deodato, broke traditional cinematic conventions while creating major controversy following its release. Although camcorders, cell phones, and the like hadn’t been invented yet, the main character, an aspiring documentary filmmaker, …
As the stranglehold of the mockumentary craze tightens upon the horror genre and viewers begin to be weary of the storytelling shortcuts and incomprehensible action inherent in the style, something astounding keeps happening: directors find new ways to make it work. The Trollhunter is a prime example. Set for release only next year, The Trollhunter …