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Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 by Vomitron - 
Director: The 29th Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival
Writer: Vomitron
Publishing year: 2011
A brief BIFFF 2011 overview
Your devoted viewer attended 12 theatrical screenings during BIFFF 2011. A mixtures of genres and a variety of topics, with the occasional/obligatory vampires & zombies thrown in the mix. An overview starting with Andy Fetscher‘s second feature ‘Urban Explorer’ and ending with John Carpenter‘s newest ‘The Ward’. Find out & read all about the movies that lie in between, below…
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Tags: Animals, Cannibalism, Cult Film Festival, Ghosts, Holiday Horror, Mutants, Post-Apocalyptic, Psychological, Road-Movie, Survival, Vampires, Zombies
Posted in Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Reviews, Science Fiction, Thriller
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 by Coventry and Vomitron - 
Director: Jody Dwyer
Writer: Michael Boughen, Jody Dwyer and Rod Morris
Release year: 2008
Tasmania: Where nature’s bloodline remains untouched
Zoology student Nina just went off on an expedition to proof that the Tasmanian Tiger species is not extinct. Eight years earlier, her sister sent her a photograph of a footprint, taken in the same region, just before her unfortunate drowning accident. Truth be told, her death wasn’t an accident, and Nina is about to find out why.
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Tags: Inbred, Survival
Posted in Horror, Reviews
Monday, April 5th, 2010 by Coventry - 
Director: Shunya Ito
Writer: Hirô Matsuda based on a manga by Tooru Shinohara
Release year: 1973
Japanese title: Joshuu sasori: Kemono-beya
Bird of Prey, Bird of Retaliation
Nami Matsushima (aka Sasori aka Scorpion) is loose in the city streets, continuing her frantic quest for freedom. Driven by her instinct for survival and desire to lead a normal life. Having fled from prison once again, she will now enter an urban world of crime & prostitution, while being hunted down by a one-armed cop out for revenge.
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Tags: Crime, Disturbing Drama, Exploitation, Revenge, Survival
Posted in Action, Drama, Horror, Reviews, Thriller
Monday, March 15th, 2010 by Coventry - 
Director: Shunya Ito
Writer: Shunya Ito, Fumio Konami and Hirô Matsuda, based on a manga by Tooru Shinohara
Release year: 1972
Japanese title: Joshuu sasori: Dai-41 zakkyo-bô
Surreal Female Convicts’ Road trip!
A year has passed since Nami’s last imprisonment. A year she spent in complete solitude, deep down between the walls of an isolated dungeon. A year of torture, rape & humilation. But her spirit is not broken yet. When a prominent figure arrives to inspect the prison facility, Nami sees another opportunity to attempt another break-out. And this time, she’s not alone…
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Tags: Exploitation, Pinky Violence, Revenge, Road-Movie, Survival, Women In Prison
Posted in Action, Drama, Reviews, Thriller
Thursday, April 16th, 2009 by Coventry - 
Director: Jacques-Olivier Molon and Pierre-Olivier Thevenin
Writer: Jean-Armand Bougrelle, Frédérique Henri, Dominique Neraud and Silvan Boris Schmid
Release year: 2009
Gritty Survival horror with marvelous filming locations
Professor Schneider and his two closest assistants travel to a remote Alps valley region in Switzerland for an essential anthropology expedition, as they found strong evidence about the origin of the human race that could actually alter all existing evolution theories as we know them. Inevitably, things go wrong before they get worse. Much worse.
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Tags: Backwoods, Survival
Posted in Horror, Reviews
Friday, January 23rd, 2009 by Anna McKibben - 
Director: Colin Eggleston
Writer: Everett De Roche
Release Year: 1978
Mother Nature is working overtime this weekend
A couple looking to repair their broken marriage goes on a weekend vacation to a remote beach for some camping, swimming, littering, random firing of guns and running over a kangaroo on purpose. Haven’t these people heard that it’s not nice to mess with Mother Nature?
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Tags: Animals, Disturbing Drama, Ozploitation, Survival
Posted in Horror, Reviews
Thursday, April 30th, 2009 by Sterf - 
Director: George A. Romero
Writer: John A. Russo and George A. Romero
Release Year: 1968
They keep coming back in a bloodthirsty lust for HUMAN FLESH!…
I realise anyone who calls himself somewhat of a horror fan must’ve seen this movie already, but I couldn’t very well leave it out of our collection of public domain cult movies could I?
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Tags: Horror, Public Domain, Survival, Zombies
Posted in Full Length Movies
Friday, June 5th, 2009 by Perfesser Deviant - 
Director: Wes Craven
Writer: Wes Craven
Release Year: 1977
A family film.
The extended Carter clan, led by Big Bob (Russ Grieve) and Ethel (Virginia Vincent), is taking a cross-country trip to Los Angeles with their adult children Brenda (Susan Lanier), Bobby (Robert Houston), Lynne Wood (Dee Wallace) and her husband Doug (Martin Speer) and child as well as the two family dogs, Beauty and Beast. After being warned to stay out of the desert by Fred (John Steadman) , the guy at a dilapidated gas station, they go out into the desert and meet Fred’s boy Jupiter (James Whitworth) and his clan of unfriendly inbred nuclear mutant cannibalistic unwashed desert rats….
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Tags: Inbred, Mutants, Survival
Posted in Horror, Reviews
Saturday, September 18th, 2010 by Coventry - 
Director: Irving Pichel and Ernest B. Schoedsack
Writer: James Ashmore Creelman based on a short story by Richard Connell
Release year: 1932
The Night Of The Hunter
When a cruise ship wrecks not far from a remote island, three passengers manage to safely reach the shore. They are treated with a warm welcome by Count Zaroff, the owner of the island. It won’t take long before the three guests realize that surviving the shipwreck, was only the easy part of their ordeal.
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Tags: Island, Survival
Posted in Full Length Movies
