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Ari Lehman's Festival de Cine de Terror de Molins de Rei Journal
14 December 2009 2:50 PM, PST
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Much as we'd like to, we can't always get to Every festival that happens. That's why we have friends like Ari Lehman, who travels extensively and who can bring us a blow-by-blow of the events as they happened. Here, then, is Ari's exclusive journal from his recent trip to Spain, where his band, First Jason, played the Festival de Cine de Terror de Molins de Rei, which is a really long name for one hell of a festival dedicated to horror movies and music. So without further ado...
Firstjason Festival de Cine de Terror de Molins de Rei Journal
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As we looked out of the airplane window, Barcelona lay sprawled out before us like an overflowing Pirate's chest that had been tipped into the shiny blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea. I looked up to the north where I saw a dark, craggy mountaintop looming in the distance.
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- Sifu Scott
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The Descent Part 2 – Alex’s Review
30 November 2009 11:37 PM, PST
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Back in 2005 Neil Marshall unleashed The Descent upon the unsuspecting public. A savage little British horror film that ticked all the right boxes and was the perfect follow up to his impressive feature debut Dog Soldiers.
The Descent succeeded because it played out like a violent nightmare. The horror genre at that point had been suffocated by a string of un-scary big budget films and it was a joy to behold when all of a sudden we could sink our teeth into something genuinely scary again.
The 70s were the best years for horror. Films such as The Shining, The Omen and of course The Exorcist were brilliant for the genre and The Descent seemed to hark back to an era that cinema had lost. A horror film that was not only scary but also psychologically terrifying. A horror film that was as much about the characters as the shocks it delivered.
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- Alex Wagner
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Review: The Descent: Part 2
29 November 2009 6:44 PM, PST
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In 2005 Neil Marshall’s imagine-if-Alien-were-set-in-a-cave feature The Descent scared the living daylights out of cinemagoers worldwide. Lacking the bawdy humour of his werewolf masterpiece Dog Soldiers, it was nevertheless an honest to goodness horror film that pulled no punches and left no survivors. Unless you watched the American cut.
The folk who decided to make The Descent: Part 2 clearly fall into the latter camp as they have picked up just before we left off with Sarah being kind of…alive. For those among you who have never seen The Descent there is a brief recap after the jump:
Six girls go caving
Things go bump in the dark
Some of the girls die
Some of the girls kill some of the creatures
All of the girls die
The action picks up two days after the events of the first film (with Descent editor Jon Harris at the helm), the
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- Emily Breen
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Exclusive Clip from The Descent Part 2
27 November 2009 4:00 AM, PST
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The Descent Part 2 has been described as ‘The Feel Sh*t Scared Film of the Decade‘ for a reason and when you see this clip you might start to understand why!
Pathé / Warner Bros Pictures UK have been kind enough to give us an exclusive clip for their latest movie, The Descent Part 2 which is released in cinemas December 4th (with previews on the 2nd & 3rd December). As you’ll see from the clip below, the movie takes you back underground where monsters can be lurking and where the most claustrophobic movie of all time is back for another round!
Synopsis: Shauna Macdonald (Mutant Chronicles, The Descent) returns as Sarah, continuing the story of 2005’s hugely successful horror thriller The Descent, in which a group of young women disappear during a caving trip in the Appalachian Mountains.
Emerging from the cave system alone, distraught and covered in the blood of her missing companions,
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- David Sztypuljak
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Children of the Corn (2009)
7 October 2009 8:22 PM, PDT
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Children of The Corn
Directed by Donald P. Borchers
In what's being marketed as a "rebirth," Children of the Corn revisits the 80's classic that spawned 6 sequels and countless amounts of children to fear those long weekends in the country. There's a trend happening again in the Horror genre. A trend that makes a strong case that children are complete creeps. Not only are they capable of being annoying little brats but it seems that in every town, city, county or home, there's at least one twisted little monster, who in between playing with Trouble the pop-omatic bubble game dreams of popping your skull open and feasting upon the meat of your brain. Word of advice: Don't have kids and don't trust kids, they'll just try to kill you. Children of the Corn, if anything, reaffirms these wise words as well as gives us the much needed visceral satisfaction of brutal violence towards kiddies,
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- Detroit
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International Descent 2 Movie Poster
19 September 2009 12:00 AM, PDT
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Celador Films just released this cool new international movie poster from the upcoming horror film “The Descent: Part 2″ by director Jon Harris editor of The Descent and Eden Lake and starring Shauna Macdonald (The Mutant Chronicles), Natalie Jackson Mendoza (Surviving Evil, Hotel Babylon), Krysten Cummings and Gavan O’Herlihy (Seven Days of Grace).
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Synopsis: Distraught, confused, and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter (MacDonald) emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors. Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened — or why she’s covered in her friends’ blood — Sarah is forced back to the [...]
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- Brian Corder
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Martyn’s Top Ten Disturbing Films
17 September 2009 4:40 AM, PDT
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It is rarely highlighted what a strange habit and practice cinema-going is. Off we go to sit in a darkened room, usually with complete strangers, and watch something akin to a dream unfold before us. After all, Hollywood in particular, has been known as “The Dream Factory”. Why restrict it to Hollywood? Cinema = dreams. And as the subconscious plays havoc; dreams can turn into nightmares.
Audiences can laugh, cry and scream together. Each person maybe processing information in a variety of differing ways, yet, filmmakers employ a bag of tricks to invoke particular responses, at particular times.
Film experiences have a habit of becoming cherished, personal memories. It can achieve an ambiguous effect. Millions were astounded by Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, just as they were terrified by Jaws, seventeen years earlier. Alfred Hitchcock devised the infamous shower sequence in Psycho relying on suggestion, chocolate sauce, rapid editing and shrieking
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- Martyn Conterio
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Trailer For The Descent: Part 2
5 September 2009 2:02 AM, PDT
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Here at FilmShaft we love our trailers, hell we even have an entire section dedicated to them – little slices of cinematic thrills that should (hopefully) allude to the greatness of the whole. So naturally when we were sent the trailer for The Descent: Part 2 how could we resist?
The original you’ll remember, had people going crazy. An original plot in the horror genre is not something we see very often (more on that in a later article) so when audiences were plunged into the damp, claustrophobic caves of 2005’s The Descent, their fear was almost tangible.
Now with filmmakers are set to drag us back into the subterranean horror with The Descent: Part 2 the question is – are there any more surprises left?
Shauna Macdonald (Mutant Chronicles, The Descent) returns as Sarah, continuing the story of 2005’s hugely successful horror thriller The Descent, in which a group of
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- Craig Sharp
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The Descent 2 Quad Poster
5 September 2009 12:00 AM, PDT
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Celador Films recently released this very cool UK movie poster from the upcoming horror film “The Descent: Part 2″ by director Jon Harris editor of The Descent and Eden Lake and starring Shauna Macdonald (The Mutant Chronicles), Natalie Jackson Mendoza (Surviving Evil, Hotel Babylon), Krysten Cummings and Gavan O’Herlihy (Seven Days of Grace).
Click Here for more photos, news and videos from The Descent 2.
Synopsis: Distraught, confused, and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter (MacDonald) emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors. Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened — or why she’s covered in her friends’ blood — Sarah is forced back to the [...]
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- Brian Corder
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UK Trailer for The Descent: Part 2
4 September 2009 9:10 AM, PDT
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Warner Bros. Pictures UK just sent over the latest trailer for Path Productions' sequel to Neil Marshall's 2005 film, The Descent (which we last reported on here).
Shauna Macdonald (Mutant Chronicles) returns as Sarah, continuing the story of the original film, in which a group of young women disappear during a caving trip in the Appalachian Mountains.
Check out the trailer below!
Emerging from the cave system alone, distraught and covered in the blood of her missing companions, Sarah is incoherent and half-wild with fear. Sceptical about her account of events and convinced Sarah's psychosis hides far darker secrets, Sheriff Vaines (Gavan O'Herlihy) doesn't waste time. Along with his partner Rios (Krysten Cummings), and their cave rescue team Dan (Douglas Hodge), Greg (Joshua Dallas), and Cath (Anna Skellern), Vaines forces Sarah back into the caves to help the rescuers find her friends.
Alongside Macdonald, The Descent Part 2 also features Natalie Mendoza
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
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Trailer for 'The Descent Part II'
3 September 2009 2:24 AM, PDT
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It's undeniably the most hotly anticipated horror movie of the coming year -- from the makers of the original "Descent" and "Eden Lake"!
The French get to see it on October 14! Director Jon Harris was the editor for the incredible "Eden Lake."
Distraught, confused, and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter (Shauna MacDonald) emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors. Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened - or why she's covered in her friends' blood - Sarah is forced back to the subterranean depths to help locate her five missing companions. As the rescue party drives deeper into uncharted caverns, nightmarish visions of the recent past begin to haunt Sarah and she starts to realize the full horror and futility of the mission. Subjected to the suspicion and mistrust of the group and confronted once more by the inbred, feral and savagely ruthless Crawlers,
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The Decent Part 2 Movie Trailer
29 August 2009 12:00 AM, PDT
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Celador Films recently released this brand new movie trailer from the upcoming horror film “The Descent: Part 2″ by director Jon Harris editor of The Descent and Eden Lake and starring Shauna Macdonald (The Mutant Chronicles), Natalie Jackson Mendoza (Surviving Evil, Hotel Babylon), Krysten Cummings and Gavan O’Herlihy (Seven Days of Grace).
Synopsis: Distraught, confused, and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter (MacDonald) emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors. Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened — or why she’s covered in her friends’ blood — Sarah is forced back to the subterranean depths to help locate her five missing companions. As the rescue [...]
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- Brian Corder
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International Teaser Trailer for 'The Descent: Part 2'
28 August 2009 9:04 PM, PDT
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"The Descent: Part 2", a sequel to the critically acclaimed 2005 horror film "The Descent", has got its international teaser trailer debuted via IGN. Though the sneak peek doesn't help much in exposing its plot, it does reel out the horror faced by Sarah Carter and the search party when they discover they are not alone in the pitch black cave.
Picking up where the first movie left off, this sequel is to begin with Sarah Carter emerging alone from the cave system where she and her five friends experience caving expedition gone wrong. Unable to explain to authorities what happened or why she's covered in blood, the distraught, confused, and half-wild with fear girl is forced back to the subterranean depths to help locate her missing friends.
Starring Shauna Macdonald as Sarah, "The Descent: Part 2" has first time director Jon Harris replacing original director Neil Marshall. Natalie Mendoza and
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Official trailer for The Descent: Part 2 finally arrives
28 August 2009 10:07 AM, PDT
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It took a while but Pathe has finally released the official trailer for Jon Harris' The Descent: Part 2, sequel to Neil Marshall's acclaimed subterranean horror film. Yes we're a little skeptical but with three hot new writers on the project, James Watkins (Eden Lake), J Blakeson (The Disappearance of Alice Creed) and newcomer James McCarthy we have high hopes.
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Distraught, confused, and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors. Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened - or why she's covered in her friends' blood - Sarah is forced back to the subterranean depths to help locate her five missing companions.
As the rescue party drives deeper into uncharted caverns, nightmarish visions of the recent past begin to haunt Sarah and she starts to realize the full horror and futility of the mission. Subjected
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See the Trailer for 'The Descent: Part 2'
28 August 2009 9:29 AM, PDT
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IGN nabbed a first look at The Descent: Part 2 trailer this morning, the directorial debut of Editor Jon Harris (Eden Lake, Kick-Ass). The Descent: Part 2 follows lone survivor Sarah (Shauna MacDonald) as she emerges from the caves only to be forced back in to accompany a rescue crew. The Descent: Part 2 opens in the UK December 4th, no word on a Us release date yet, but it's likely that the flick will quietly slide onto home video at some point in 2010. Check out the trailer after the break and let us know what you think.
It doesn't look terrible, mainly because it looks Exactly like the first one.
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'This is England' Sequel Straight to Small Screens
27 August 2009 9:02 AM, PDT
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By next year, it'll be four years since Shane Meadows' This is England came out and stood out as a well-observed portrait of growing up of '80s-era England, so it seems fitting that any follow-up would also take place four years after the fact. According to Screen Daily, that's just the idea, as Meadows prepares to do a four-part series called "We Were Faces" for the UK's Channel Four which will chronicle the characters as their lives have progressed by 1986.
I haven't had the chance yet to see this summer's Somers Town, the latest from Meadows and young star Thomas Turgoose, but the latter has certainly made an impression for himself between England and Eden Lake. Between that one and Somers Town, he took home the London Film Critics' Young British Performer of the Year award, so he must be doing something right, and there's a unique pleasure
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- William Goss
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Trailer for the Cannes-winning Fish Tank
19 August 2009 6:13 AM, PDT
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Following the superb Red Road in 2006, Andrea Arnold’s latest feature continued the success by winning this year’s Jury Prize at Cannes. Starring newcomer Katie Jarvis and the remarkably versatile Michael Fassbender (recently seen in features as diverse as Hunger and Eden Lake), this should be another bastion of British realist cinema.
It’s slated for an 11th September UK theatrical release and you can see the trailer below the break… kind of Mike Leigh does Vicky Pollard?
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- James Dennis
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UK Release Date, Art for The Descent: Part 2
14 August 2009 6:38 PM, PDT
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Warner Bros. Pictures UK just sent over the full details on their release plan for Path Productions' sequel to Neil Marshall's 2005 film, The Descent.
Shauna Macdonald (Mutant Chronicles) returns as Sarah, continuing the story of the original film, in which a group of young women disappear during a caving trip in the Appalachian Mountains.
Emerging from the cave system alone, distraught and covered in the blood of her missing companions, Sarah is incoherent and half-wild with fear. Sceptical about her account of events and convinced Sarah's psychosis hides far darker secrets, Sheriff Vaines (Gavan O'Herlihy) doesn't waste time. Along with his partner Rios (Krysten Cummings), and their cave rescue team Dan (Douglas Hodge), Greg (Joshua Dallas), and Cath (Anna Skellern), Vaines forces Sarah back into the caves to help the rescuers find her friends.
Alongside Macdonald, The Descent Part 2 also features Natalie Mendoza reprising her role as Juno. Krysten Cummings,
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
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The Descent: Part 2 - UK Poster
13 August 2009 7:35 AM, PDT
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UK Poster For The Descent: Part 2 in which Shauna Macdonald (Mutant Chronicles, The Descent) returns as Sarah, continuing the story of 2005’s hugely successful horror thriller The Descent, in which a group of young women disappear during a caving trip in the Appalachian Mountains.
Emerging from the cave system alone, distraught and covered in the blood of her missing companions, Sarah is incoherent and half-wild with fear. Sceptical about her account of events and convinced Sarah's psychosis hides far darker secrets, Sheriff Vaines (Gavan O’Herlihy) doesn’t waste time. Along with his partner Rios (Krysten Cummings), and their cave rescue team Dan (Douglas Hodge), Greg (Joshua Dallas), and Cath (Anna Skellern), Vaines forces Sarah back into the caves to help the rescuers find her friends.
Alongside Macdonald, The Descent: Part 2 also features Natalie Mendoza reprising her role as Juno. Krysten Cummings, Anna Skellern, Gavan O’Herlihy (Seven
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- Leigh
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Descent 2 Movie Poster
7 July 2009 12:00 AM, PDT
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Celador Films just released this very small but still very cool movie poster from the upcoming horror film “The Descent: Part 2″ by director Jon Harris editor of The Descent and Eden Lake and starring Shauna Macdonald (The Mutant Chronicles), Natalie Jackson Mendoza (Surviving Evil, Hotel Babylon), Krysten Cummings and Gavan O’Herlihy (Seven Days of Grace).
Synopsis: Distraught, confused, and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter (MacDonald) emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors. Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened — or why she’s covered in her friends’ blood — Sarah is forced back to the subterranean depths to help locate her five missing [...]
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