Nicolas Cage to Star in Richard Stanley’s Color Out Of Space, Based on the Novella by H.P. Lovecraft
Following his unforgettable performance in last year's Mandy, Nicolas Cage will next star in Color Out of Space. Based on the 1927 novella by H.P. Lovecraft, Color Out of Space will be the first film directed by Richard Stanley in more than two decades, and SpectreVision announced that filming will begin in February.
Press Release: New York, NY | January 23, 2018 – SpectreVision, the boutique genre division of Company X, and Ace Pictures announced today that principal photography will begin next month on Color Out Of Space. Starring Nicolas Cage, the film will be directed by Richard Stanley -- his first feature in over twenty years. Based on the novella by H.P. Lovecraft, Color Out Of Space will reunite Cage with SpectreVision, the company behind the critically acclaimed and commercially successful 2018 film Mandy. The film will also star Joely Richardson, Tommy Chong (Up In Smoke), Elliot Knight (DC’s Titans), Julian Hilliard (The Haunting of Hill House...
Press Release: New York, NY | January 23, 2018 – SpectreVision, the boutique genre division of Company X, and Ace Pictures announced today that principal photography will begin next month on Color Out Of Space. Starring Nicolas Cage, the film will be directed by Richard Stanley -- his first feature in over twenty years. Based on the novella by H.P. Lovecraft, Color Out Of Space will reunite Cage with SpectreVision, the company behind the critically acclaimed and commercially successful 2018 film Mandy. The film will also star Joely Richardson, Tommy Chong (Up In Smoke), Elliot Knight (DC’s Titans), Julian Hilliard (The Haunting of Hill House...
- 1/23/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Anyone who has ever taken it upon themselves to brave Montreal`s Fantasia film festival leaves with some scars. These scars can be subconscious, from the reptilian awakening that comes with sitting in a dark room occupied by porous, spongy, filmy humanoids. These scars can also be cerebral ones, the result of being subjected to a mind-numbing onslaught of light and sound. They can be existential as well, left from a shattered mind, fractured by having to chose between two films screening at the same time, like a parent having to chose between two drowning children. Or maybe the scars are literal ones, from sores left open by slow, methodical shifting on theatre seat cushions.
In the fifteen years and counting since I`ve been covering this festival, my scars have included any combination of the above. This year however, I found a new source of injury. While I had...
In the fifteen years and counting since I`ve been covering this festival, my scars have included any combination of the above. This year however, I found a new source of injury. While I had...
- 9/1/2017
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
Look, I don’t have a lot to say about these two movies, so I’m going to try and keep it short, and sweet. One of these, The Boy, is a film produced by Elijah Wood’s new horror movie production company, SpectreVision called The Boy, featuring Rainn Wilson and David Morse, and the other is an IFC title, formerly known as Junk, now going by Narcopolis. Neither one of these movies are what I could honestly refer to as compelling, but after the massive release day Scream Factory had last week, they’re allowed one dud of a week.
As mentioned above, The Boy(not that one) is a new film from Elijah Wood’s production company SpectreVision, which also had a hand in films like Cooties, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Open Windows, and Toad Road. Please don’t let that list of films fill...
As mentioned above, The Boy(not that one) is a new film from Elijah Wood’s production company SpectreVision, which also had a hand in films like Cooties, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Open Windows, and Toad Road. Please don’t let that list of films fill...
- 3/1/2016
- by Shawn Savage
- The Liberal Dead
In the midst of a national theatrical tour, the bold, feminist thriller Felt is now also available on iTunes. This second narrative feature from Toad Road‘s Jason Banker is a challenging, incredible film about artist Amy Everson and her ongoing struggle as the result of past trauma. I was blown away by Felt and am excited to offer Shock…
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- 7/22/2015
- by Samuel Zimmerman
- shocktillyoudrop.com
The feature narrative debut of Jorge Torres-Torres, editor of Toad Road and Felt (as well as responsible for additional cinematography on both films), Sisters of the Plague seems a dream(y) collaboration of vivid, haunting contemporary horror. Torres-Torres reunites with Toad Road director Jason Banker on the screenplay, while the film stars Josephine Decker, artist and…
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- 7/10/2015
- by Samuel Zimmerman
- shocktillyoudrop.com
This review was originally posted during Fantastic Fest 2014
An uncomfortable feeling hit me almost immediately while watching Jason Banker’s new film. It was a mix of guilt and shame that lasted up until the brutal and heartbreaking ending. This guilt and shame isn’t attributed to anything I felt guilty for in particular, but more as a man living in a world where I acknowledge that there are deep rooted problems regarding gender, sex and violence, and as 2013’s popular song illustrates, the “Blurred Lines” that are often trivialized by society. Felt brings to light the effects of “rape culture” in our society and how normal it has become to dismiss actions by saying “that’s just boys being boys.” Banker’s gorgeous looking film highlights some of the not so pretty situations that we as a society have become accustomed to viewing without thinking about its effects on the victim.
An uncomfortable feeling hit me almost immediately while watching Jason Banker’s new film. It was a mix of guilt and shame that lasted up until the brutal and heartbreaking ending. This guilt and shame isn’t attributed to anything I felt guilty for in particular, but more as a man living in a world where I acknowledge that there are deep rooted problems regarding gender, sex and violence, and as 2013’s popular song illustrates, the “Blurred Lines” that are often trivialized by society. Felt brings to light the effects of “rape culture” in our society and how normal it has become to dismiss actions by saying “that’s just boys being boys.” Banker’s gorgeous looking film highlights some of the not so pretty situations that we as a society have become accustomed to viewing without thinking about its effects on the victim.
- 7/3/2015
- by Michael Haffner
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
There comes a moment early on in Toad Road director Jason Banker's Felt which beautifully sets the tone for what is to unfold over the next 70 or so minutes of his second narrative feature. After partying with a few young men in their hotel room, best pals Amy (Amy Everson) and Allana (Allana Reynolds) retreat to the hallway, as Amy's unclear on why she even came. She's sick. She can't sleep. Her dreams and reality are one and the same. As she says it: she is a ghost. She's tried everything. Nothing helps. The two young women hold each other, laughing over the ways in which they could kill men, for a killing spree is perhaps the only thing Amy hasn't tried to relieve her pain....
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- 6/25/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Visceral and raw, Felt is a special film. From Toad Road director Jason Banker, the picture blends his doc observational aesthetic with the real life of artist Amy Everson and a boiling narrative about surviving sexual assault. It leads dark, bare places that are frank about the world we live in and its monstrous effects.…
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- 6/11/2015
- by Samuel Zimmerman
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Artsploitation Films is one of the most adventurous film distributors in the world, and one with whom we at TwitchFilm share very similar tastes. After a 15 month Hiatus following the release of Jason Banker's Toad Road, Artsploitation is roaring back into the off-beat spotlight with a June full of crazy and fascinating releases. The first of these releases is 2014 festival favorite, Der Samurai. The film, directed by Till Kleinert, is an oddity both in concept and in function. As Artsploitation describes it:Unlike any other horror film you'll see this year, Der Samurai is a German mind-bender about shape-shifting cross-dressers, bloody decapitations, repressed sexual desires and small town life. But while director Till Kleinert's film is a surreal mix of dark comedy and eerie creep-out...
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- 6/8/2015
- Screen Anarchy
"Based on the real experiences and art of co-writer/star Amy Everson, Felt doesn't just point a finger at rape culture; it takes a full on swing at it, creating a feminist psychological thriller that audiences will be hard-pressed to shake off."In a film that looks to pull few punches, and yet retain a quite striking style, director Jason Banker's sophomore effort (following his raw, effective debut, Toad Road) looks to be a major leap forward. The trailer suggests aggressive provocateur nature of ealy Bruno Dumont or Gaspar Noe.Struggling to cope with past sexual trauma and the daily aggression of a male-dominated society, Amy creates grotesquely-costumed alter egos that re-appropriate the male form. While giving her the sense of power she craves, acting as these...
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- 5/27/2015
- Screen Anarchy
In his Fantastic Fest review, Wamg’s Michael Haffner called Felt “impressive” and “compelling.”
A young artist loses herself in an unpredictable alter ego while attempting to cope with past trauma in this gripping sophomore effort from Jason Banker (Toad Road).
Felt celebrated its world premiere at Fantastic Fest 2014 where Amy Everson took home the “Next Wave” Spotlight Competition award for Best Actress.
Here’s a first look at the poster and trailer for the film.
Watch the red-band trailer Here.
Amy is hanging on by a thread. Struggling to cope with past sexual trauma and the daily aggressions of a male-dominated society, she creates grotesquely-costumed alter egos that reappropriate the male form.
While giving her the sense of power she craves, acting as these characters pushes her further into a world of her own making. When she begins a new relationship with a seemingly good guy, she opens herself...
A young artist loses herself in an unpredictable alter ego while attempting to cope with past trauma in this gripping sophomore effort from Jason Banker (Toad Road).
Felt celebrated its world premiere at Fantastic Fest 2014 where Amy Everson took home the “Next Wave” Spotlight Competition award for Best Actress.
Here’s a first look at the poster and trailer for the film.
Watch the red-band trailer Here.
Amy is hanging on by a thread. Struggling to cope with past sexual trauma and the daily aggressions of a male-dominated society, she creates grotesquely-costumed alter egos that reappropriate the male form.
While giving her the sense of power she craves, acting as these characters pushes her further into a world of her own making. When she begins a new relationship with a seemingly good guy, she opens herself...
- 5/27/2015
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The official trailer for June’s confrontational, must-see Felt is here. From the director of the raw, spellbinding Toad Road, Jason Banker, Felt is an unsettling, frank, feminist portrait of dealing with trauma. Banker continues his doc-like approach to craft a narrative around real, incredible visual artist Amy Everson. The filmmaker’s observational aesthetic chronicles her life of inner anguish…
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- 5/26/2015
- by Samuel Zimmerman
- shocktillyoudrop.com
From the director of the spellbinding, raw Toad Road comes this summer’s must-see Felt, a confrontational, naked film about surviving. Felt an unsettling, frank, feminist portrait of dealing with trauma. Banker continues his doc-like approach to craft a narrative around real visual artist Amy Everson. The filmmaker’s observational aesthetic chronicles her life of inner anguish…
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- 5/15/2015
- by Samuel Zimmerman
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Artsploitation Films hit hard in 2012, building a label for strange, artful genre and releasing festival knockouts like Vanishing Waves, Toad Road, Animals and Combat Girls in the process. After seemingly taking 2014 off, or just recharging, the label announced a big return last November, teaming with Fango editor Chris Alexander on his upcoming Female…
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- 1/12/2015
- by Samuel Zimmerman
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Felt
Written by Jason Banker and Amy Everson
Directed by Jason Banker
USA, 2014
How do you make felt? There are two general ways: the first is by drowning wool and then shocking it dry and the second requires poking and prodding with a needle until the wool becomes a wholly new material. Amy, whose world Felt allows us to dive into, is an artist who has crafted an arsenal of felt penises and body suits, through which she explores and escapes into alter-egos.
Much like felt, Amy has been through rough times, which have begun to unravel her:
“My life is a fucking nightmare”, Amy’s voice, tentative and cracking opens the film, “every waking moment, every time I close my eyes, I just relive the trauma. I’m never safe and I can’t even tell what’s real anymore, everything… just blurs. I don’t sleep, I don’t eat,...
Written by Jason Banker and Amy Everson
Directed by Jason Banker
USA, 2014
How do you make felt? There are two general ways: the first is by drowning wool and then shocking it dry and the second requires poking and prodding with a needle until the wool becomes a wholly new material. Amy, whose world Felt allows us to dive into, is an artist who has crafted an arsenal of felt penises and body suits, through which she explores and escapes into alter-egos.
Much like felt, Amy has been through rough times, which have begun to unravel her:
“My life is a fucking nightmare”, Amy’s voice, tentative and cracking opens the film, “every waking moment, every time I close my eyes, I just relive the trauma. I’m never safe and I can’t even tell what’s real anymore, everything… just blurs. I don’t sleep, I don’t eat,...
- 12/12/2014
- by Pamela Fillion
- SoundOnSight
Felt
Directed by Jason Banker
Written by Jason Banker & Amy Everson
U.S., 2014
It’s a rare discovery when a film can materialize the internal terror that women experience on a daily basis so disturbingly close to reality. Blurring the lines of documentary and narrative storytelling, Felt truly is a film that demands to be felt. It accomplishes its goal by penetrating the deepest, most harrowing aspects of trauma to tell one of the most powerful and jarring stories about the female experience and rape culture ever put on screen.
Director and cinematographer Jason Banker follows his 2012 debut film, Toad Road with Felt, co-written by Amy Everson who stars in the film as Amy, a San Franciscan artist recently plagued by a trauma (not explained but certainly sexual) inflicted by the men in her life. As her ordeal unravels emotionally and psychologically, she plunges herself in the world of art as a coping mechanism.
Directed by Jason Banker
Written by Jason Banker & Amy Everson
U.S., 2014
It’s a rare discovery when a film can materialize the internal terror that women experience on a daily basis so disturbingly close to reality. Blurring the lines of documentary and narrative storytelling, Felt truly is a film that demands to be felt. It accomplishes its goal by penetrating the deepest, most harrowing aspects of trauma to tell one of the most powerful and jarring stories about the female experience and rape culture ever put on screen.
Director and cinematographer Jason Banker follows his 2012 debut film, Toad Road with Felt, co-written by Amy Everson who stars in the film as Amy, a San Franciscan artist recently plagued by a trauma (not explained but certainly sexual) inflicted by the men in her life. As her ordeal unravels emotionally and psychologically, she plunges herself in the world of art as a coping mechanism.
- 11/13/2014
- by So Yun Um
- SoundOnSight
Fantastic Fest best actress winner Amy Everson plays a traumatized artist who slips into elaborate fantasies to escape her troubles with men, making mischief in the wilds of her imagination under the guise of a bluntly Freudian yet ingeniously crafted alter-ego. "Felt" sends even a rape revenge movie like "I Spit On Your Grave" running with its tail between its legs as Amy's psychosexual paranoia produces acts of malice not easily shaken. The film is currently stirring audiences at AFI Fest in Los Angeles and will be released by Amplify ("Kumiko the Treasure Hunter") in April 2015, with a digital/home video release to follow. Cinematographer turned director Jason Banker first raised eyebrows in 2012 with "Toad Road," a psychedelic portrait of teenage burnouts whose drug-taking fuels their pursuit of some mythological version of hell in Pennsylvania.
- 11/11/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Challenging and revelatory, Jason Banker’s second feature Felt is set to leave you silent and stunned this spring. Having world premiered to great acclaim this past September at Austin’s Fantastic Fest, Felt is the next step in Banker’s exciting voice (following the unsettling Toad Road), one that smashes doc and fiction together as he builds narrative around […]...
- 11/11/2014
- by Samuel Zimmerman
- Fangoria
Midnight movies have always been a staple at the Sundance Film Festival, from "Blair Witch Project" to "Buried." Two of the higher-buzz horror titles at this year's fest were Ana Lily Amirpour's Iran vampire love story "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night" (review here, trailer below) which opens on November 14 via Kino Lorber, while rookie directors Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion's horror-comedy "Cooties," starring Wood, Rainn Wilson and "Newsroom" star Alison Pill, was picked up by Lionsgate for January 2015 release. Founded by actor-producer Elijah Wood ("Wilfred"), writer-director Daniel Noah ("Max Rose") and director Josh C. Waller ("McCanick"), SpectreVision is the rebranded genre-focused production company originally named The Woodshed in 2010. So far SpectreVision’s slate also includes "Toad Road," which Artsploitation released on theatrical and VOD last...
- 11/3/2014
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
An uncomfortable feeling hit me almost immediately while watching Jason Banker’s new film. It was a mix of guilt and shame that lasted up until the brutal and heartbreaking ending. This guilt and shame isn’t attributed to anything I felt guilty for in particular, but more as a man living in a world where I acknowledge that there are deep rooted problems regarding gender, sex and violence, and as last year’s popular song illustrates, the “Blurred Lines” that are often trivialized by society. Felt brings to light the effects of “rape culture” in our society and how normal it has become to dismiss actions by saying “that’s just boys being boys.” Banker’s gorgeous looking film highlights some of the not so pretty situations that we as a society have become accustomed to viewing without thinking about its effects on the victim. He turns what would...
- 10/8/2014
- by Michael Haffner
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Fantastic Fest 2014 saw the debut of Felt, the new film from Toad Road director Jason Banker. Felt was one of the festival’s most striking films, with a power that has stuck with me for days after the premiere. The story follows a young woman named Amy as she embarks upon a journey of personal redefinition following […]
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- 9/23/2014
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
There comes a moment early in Toad Road director Jason Banker's Felt which beautifully sets the tone for what is to unfold over the next 70 or so minutes of his second narrative feature: After partying with a few young men in their hotel room, best pals Amy (Amy Everson) and Allana (Allana Reynolds) retreat to the hallway as Amy's unclear on why she even came. She's sick. She can't sleep. Her dreams and reality are one and the same. As she says it: she is a ghost. She's tried everything. Nothing helps. The two young women hold each other, laughing over the ways in which they could kill men, for a killing spree is perhaps the only thing Amy hasn't tried to relieve her...
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- 9/21/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Exclusive: Director and cinematographer Jason Banker follows his 2012 debut Toad Road with Felt, a thriller about a young woman plagued by nightmares who loses herself in an increasingly outrageous artistic project and alter egos to deal with traumas inflicted by the men in her life. Banker’s 2012 debut feature Toad Road was snapped up by Elijah Wood’s SpectreVision label after winning Best Director and Best Actor at the Fantasia Film Festival. Felt is world premiering tonight in Austin at Fantastic Fest with genre buyers in attendance. Amy Everson, Kentucker Audley, and Roxanne Knouse star in the story developed by Everson and Banker. Xyz Films is selling North American rights. Here’s the exclusive trailer:...
- 9/20/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
We are three weeks away until Fantastic Fest. Kind of amazing to think about. This year, I am blessed to bring Mike Hassler with me. We will be seeing as many films as our eyeballs will see and writing as many reviews as our fingers will allow us. Take a look at the second wave announcement below and don’t forget to look at the first wave and my predictions of what might play at the fest (I didn’t fare well with the Second Wave). As before, I have included the trailers for all the films, if available, announced in this wave.
From the Press Release
Austin, TX – Wednesday, August 27, 2014 – Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Fantastic Fest is excited to announce the second wave of events, special guests and film programming. Fantastic Fest 2014 takes place September 18-25th in Austin, Texas at the newly reopened Alamo South Lamar and Highball.
From the Press Release
Austin, TX – Wednesday, August 27, 2014 – Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Fantastic Fest is excited to announce the second wave of events, special guests and film programming. Fantastic Fest 2014 takes place September 18-25th in Austin, Texas at the newly reopened Alamo South Lamar and Highball.
- 8/28/2014
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
As I will be attending my very first Fantastic Fest in but a few weeks, I now feel, more than ever, that it is my duty to present news on the fest (not that I wasn't willing to before). So, today we have for you their second wave of films, which includes Dan Gilroy's Nightcrawler as the closing night offering. But since that one is getting a general release very, very soon, more importantly there's the North American premiere of Taxidermia director György Pálfi's much acclaimed absurdest parable Free Fall (reviewed here), new work from Toad Road director Jason Banker in Felt, the world premiere of Chilean actioner Redeemer, as well as the Us premieres of Sono Sion's Tokyo Tribe, Justin Benson & Aaron Moorehead's...
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- 8/27/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Fantastic Fest 2014 kicks off September 18, and the second wave of films has been announced. Purgatory, Redeemer, Whispers Behind the Wall, Necrophobia 3D, Over Your Dead Body, and more are on the menu!
From the Press Release:
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Fantastic Fest is excited to announce the second wave of events, special guests, and film programming. Fantastic Fest 2014 takes place September 18-25th in Austin, Texas, at the newly reopened Alamo South Lamar and Highball.
Get ready to be blown away by Lionsgate's latest action-packed thriller, John Wick starring Keanu Reeves, with a red carpet gala screening with Reeves and directors David Leitch and Chad Stahelski in attendance. John Wick is the story of a former ex-hitman who comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him. With New York City as his bullet-riddled playground, John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is a fresh and stylized take on the "assassin genre.
From the Press Release:
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Fantastic Fest is excited to announce the second wave of events, special guests, and film programming. Fantastic Fest 2014 takes place September 18-25th in Austin, Texas, at the newly reopened Alamo South Lamar and Highball.
Get ready to be blown away by Lionsgate's latest action-packed thriller, John Wick starring Keanu Reeves, with a red carpet gala screening with Reeves and directors David Leitch and Chad Stahelski in attendance. John Wick is the story of a former ex-hitman who comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him. With New York City as his bullet-riddled playground, John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is a fresh and stylized take on the "assassin genre.
- 8/27/2014
- by Steve Barton
- DreadCentral.com
Be sure to check out MovieBS.com for reviews and commentary from the best film festival known to man. Here is the news release of the second wave of films and events.
Austin, TX – Wednesday, August 27, 2014 – Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Fantastic Fest is excited to announce the second wave of events, special guests and film programming. Fantastic Fest 2014 takes place September 18-25th in Austin, Texas at the newly reopened Alamo South Lamar and Highball.
Get ready to be blown away by Lionsgate’s latest action-packed thriller, John Wick starring Keanu Reeves, with a red carpet gala screening with Reeves and directors David Leitch and Chad Stahelski in attendance. John Wick is the story of a former ex-hitman who comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him. With New York City as his bullet-riddled playground, John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is a fresh and stylized take on the “assassin genre.
Austin, TX – Wednesday, August 27, 2014 – Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Fantastic Fest is excited to announce the second wave of events, special guests and film programming. Fantastic Fest 2014 takes place September 18-25th in Austin, Texas at the newly reopened Alamo South Lamar and Highball.
Get ready to be blown away by Lionsgate’s latest action-packed thriller, John Wick starring Keanu Reeves, with a red carpet gala screening with Reeves and directors David Leitch and Chad Stahelski in attendance. John Wick is the story of a former ex-hitman who comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him. With New York City as his bullet-riddled playground, John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is a fresh and stylized take on the “assassin genre.
- 8/27/2014
- by Jeff Bayer
- The Scorecard Review
The lineup for the second wave of films at 2014′s 10th Annual Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas has arrived, and with it a potential Oscar contender, Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler. The film, a pulpy crime film about an embedded journalist (Jake Gyllenhaal), will make its U.S. premiere at the festival with Director and Writer Gilroy in attendance.
Fantastic Fest has also released a lineup that includes John Wick, an action/thriller starring Keanu Reeves (Reeves will be in attendance), Takashi Miike’s latest Over Your Dead Body and the Studio Ghibli film The Tale of Princess Kaguya. This announcement comes on the heels of the first wave of films, including Sundance horror film The Babadook.
Fantastic Fest takes place September 18-25 in Austin. View the first lineup of films here. And view the full lineup of films and descriptions from this second wave below via a press release.
****
The Absent One
Denmark,...
Fantastic Fest has also released a lineup that includes John Wick, an action/thriller starring Keanu Reeves (Reeves will be in attendance), Takashi Miike’s latest Over Your Dead Body and the Studio Ghibli film The Tale of Princess Kaguya. This announcement comes on the heels of the first wave of films, including Sundance horror film The Babadook.
Fantastic Fest takes place September 18-25 in Austin. View the first lineup of films here. And view the full lineup of films and descriptions from this second wave below via a press release.
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The Absent One
Denmark,...
- 8/27/2014
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
Open Road’s Jake Gyllenhaal starrer Nightcrawler will close the 10th annual Fantastic Fest in its U.S. premiere and Keanu Reeves will drop by for a gala screening of Lionsgate’s John Wick, organizers announced today. The rising genre film fest held September 18-25 in Austin, TX will open with the previously announced Tusk from Kevin Smith.
Also unveiled today along with a second wave of programming is a centerpiece bout in the Fantastic Debates, in which filmmakers, critics, and celebs engage in discourse at a podium before taking it to the boxing ring to determine the ultimate winner. This year, BitTorrent’s Chief Content Officer Matt Mason will take on a challenger to duke it out over whether the file sharing platform is a valuable tool or an enabler of piracy.
Related: Kevin Smith’s Horror-Comedy ‘Tusk’ To Open Fantastic Fest 2014
This year’s festival marks the grand...
Also unveiled today along with a second wave of programming is a centerpiece bout in the Fantastic Debates, in which filmmakers, critics, and celebs engage in discourse at a podium before taking it to the boxing ring to determine the ultimate winner. This year, BitTorrent’s Chief Content Officer Matt Mason will take on a challenger to duke it out over whether the file sharing platform is a valuable tool or an enabler of piracy.
Related: Kevin Smith’s Horror-Comedy ‘Tusk’ To Open Fantastic Fest 2014
This year’s festival marks the grand...
- 8/27/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
I really like what SpectreVision is doing. The label created by Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah, and Josh C. Waller is backing and promoting a set of strange movies from the Us and around the world. Their films so far include A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (review), Cooties (review), L.F.O. (review), Toad Road (trailer), and Open Windows […]
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- 8/26/2014
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Talking with the team of SpectreVision - Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah and Josh C. Waller - is like sitting down with some of your best genre-loving friends and talking about horror. The conversation might take many tangential turns, but it's driven by intelligence and enthusiasm for horror. While attending the Stanley Film Festival over the weekend, Shock Till You Drop finally had the chance to speak with this triumvirate about the heartbeat at SpectreVision's core. Big things have been happening at the company since it landed on the scene. Two of its films, Cooties and A Girl Walks Alone Home At Night, have hit the festival circuit. Another, Toad Road, is on VOD and Lfo was recently acquired by Mpi/Dark Sky Films. Meanwhile, The Boy, starring Rainn Wilson, David Morse, Mike Vogel, Zuleikha Robinson and Bill Sage, is production.
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- 4/29/2014
- by Ryan Turek
- shocktillyoudrop.com
There have been some very special DVD and Blu-ray releases in 2013. We saw the rise of a new grindhouse player stroll down 42nd street with the promise of cinematic handjobs. Our beloved distro company of some of the best Italian Horror features on DVD stepped into the Blu-ray market to tackle… a Western. The factory that shouts let out a great big Scream. When Ploitation meats the Arts we have found a label that can still shock us with new releases that try just hard enough to get our attention and a company called Millennium puts out movies from mid way through last century trying to Hammer their brand into our classic horror minds.
This is my personal favorite list from 2013. This could be an endless list and doesn’t quite stretch to all the companies worth nodding to. Severin and IFC put out some really solid releases as well...
This is my personal favorite list from 2013. This could be an endless list and doesn’t quite stretch to all the companies worth nodding to. Severin and IFC put out some really solid releases as well...
- 1/23/2014
- by Jimmy Terror
- The Liberal Dead
You know the drill. A couple of days ago I hit you with Chapter One of this unranked list of my favorite films from 2013. Now I’m back with Chapter Two. Whether or not this will serve as the conclusion to my list remains to be seen. I keep remembering titles I saw earlier in the year that demand inclusion, so we’ll see how it goes. Either way, here are some more movies from 2013 that you should put in your eyeballs. If you missed Chapter One of this list, you can reference it, here.
Toad Road
Artsplotation Films had a hell of a year, as far as I’m concerned. They gave us the gnarly Wither, the equally gnarly Hidden in the Woods and of course, the cerebral Toad Road. I hadn’t really heard word one about this film, until review copies started going out. After that, almost...
Toad Road
Artsplotation Films had a hell of a year, as far as I’m concerned. They gave us the gnarly Wither, the equally gnarly Hidden in the Woods and of course, the cerebral Toad Road. I hadn’t really heard word one about this film, until review copies started going out. After that, almost...
- 1/4/2014
- by Shawn Savage
- The Liberal Dead
My ongoing look at how movie marketing objectifies and dehumanizes women — which began here — continues.
And to get us going again, a quick rundown of some of the common ways women can be rendered as less than people. There’s the removal of her face:
(That’s the Region 1 DVD of Toad Road, just out this week.)
Or even better, just chop her head off entirely:
(That one is the Region 2 DVD of Upstream Color, which will be released on December 30th.)
For maximum depersonalization and objectification, reduce her to her sexual parts:
That’s the Region 2 DVD of Thanatomorphose, released December 9th, and it comes with bonus depersonalized objectification of womankind. For this was the original cover art:
Why was this so offensive that it had to be changed? Why, because everyone knows that a woman’s crotch is not for her own pleasure, but for that of others.
And to get us going again, a quick rundown of some of the common ways women can be rendered as less than people. There’s the removal of her face:
(That’s the Region 1 DVD of Toad Road, just out this week.)
Or even better, just chop her head off entirely:
(That one is the Region 2 DVD of Upstream Color, which will be released on December 30th.)
For maximum depersonalization and objectification, reduce her to her sexual parts:
That’s the Region 2 DVD of Thanatomorphose, released December 9th, and it comes with bonus depersonalized objectification of womankind. For this was the original cover art:
Why was this so offensive that it had to be changed? Why, because everyone knows that a woman’s crotch is not for her own pleasure, but for that of others.
- 12/20/2013
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Welcome back to This Week In Discs! If you see something you like, click on the title to buy it from Amazon. Toad Road James (James Davidson) is a slacker, but that shouldn’t be mistaken for meaning he sits around all day doing nothing. Instead, he sits around all day smoking, popping, and snorting anything he and his friends can get their hands on, but that starts to change when he meets the new girl, Sara (Sara Anne Jones). She’s new to the drug scene, he introduces her, and she gets hooked just as he wants out. He agrees to one last trip with her. Shrooms in hand, the two head out to the legendary Toad Road to investigate rumors of the seven gates of hell. It goes according to plan until he wakes up to discover she’s disappeared. Writer/director Jason Banker’s debut feature is low budget, raw...
- 12/17/2013
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Known for its selection of unnerving and underrated acquisitions of films that appear to exist on the unconventional fray, Artsploitation Films brings Jason Banker’s hallucinatory horror film Toad Road to DVD. A hit among a handful of film festivals, including Fantasia International Film Festival, where it won Best Director and Best Actor, Banker’s film has established a solid following with his first feature film, winning praise from a variety of top tier sources and even more eclectic avenues, such as a celebratory insert accompanying the disc, which contains praise from actor Elijah Wood. But, to be honest, there needs to be a differentiation here in what some may define as a horror film, as there’s really nothing horrific that goes on here. Sure, it hints at passing through the gates at Hell, but more so as a metaphor for addiction, instead it plays like some odd minded...
- 12/17/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The lore contends that Toad Road, running somewhere near York, Pennsylvania, leads to the Seven Gates of Hell. The road's series of ramshackle gates brings travelers deeper and deeper into the wilderness, as each triggers increasingly chthonic phenomena for the poor souls who dare cross its threshold to endure; no one's ever made it past the fifth. This is the legend upon which Jason Banker's messy, ambitious Toad Road rests, and it's part of what makes the film an exceedingly rare example of docu-horror in which it's genuinely difficult to discern what's scripted and what isn't. That the answer lies somewhere in between won't come as much comfort when you realize that the non-actors who make up the cast really are ingesting hallucinogens inside a cave. R...
- 10/23/2013
- Village Voice
Artsploitation Films, Random Bench and Elijah Wood’s genre-themed product company, SpectreVision, is bringing horror fans the haunting film “Toad Road.” The film was released in Los Angeles at Arena Cinema Oct. 18 and will play through Oct 24. But if you aren’t in Los Angeles, there will be other places you can check out the movie. Look for “Toad Road” in New York at Cinema Village Oct. 25 through Oct. 31 and in Miami Nov. 14 at AMC Aventura 24. The film, directed by Jason Banker, blends documentary footage with horror elements to create a mesmerizing film experience. Here’s the official synopsis for the film. “A different kind of American [ Read More ]
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- 10/21/2013
- by monique
- ShockYa
Elijah Wood's company SpectreVision (formerly known as The Woodshed) acquired Jason Banker's Toad Road (review) a while back, and now that a release is on the horizon, we have a battery of new posters and a broken new clip!
From the Press Release
This October, Artsploitation Films, the cutting-edge film distribution company founded by Tla Entertainment president Raymond Murray, in association with Elijah Wood's genre-themed production company SpectreVision and Random Bench, will unleash the haunting and mesmerizing Toad Road via limited theatrical release.
The film has been described as a hallucinatory and hypnotic odyssey through mutating realities, drug use, urban legends, and nightmares. The story follows a young college student who befriends a group of hard partying friends and finds herself drawn into the local legend of Toad Road—a pathway in the forest rumored to contain the seven gates that lead directly to Hell.
Toad Road...
From the Press Release
This October, Artsploitation Films, the cutting-edge film distribution company founded by Tla Entertainment president Raymond Murray, in association with Elijah Wood's genre-themed production company SpectreVision and Random Bench, will unleash the haunting and mesmerizing Toad Road via limited theatrical release.
The film has been described as a hallucinatory and hypnotic odyssey through mutating realities, drug use, urban legends, and nightmares. The story follows a young college student who befriends a group of hard partying friends and finds herself drawn into the local legend of Toad Road—a pathway in the forest rumored to contain the seven gates that lead directly to Hell.
Toad Road...
- 10/17/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
In the tradition of mashing sub-genres together to get something entirely new and interesting, full credit goes to micro-indie avant garde chiller Toad Road for merging the wasted youth drug drama with the urban-legend horror flick. The experience of watching this quite vérité experiment is akin to taking the essence of Drugstore Cowboy and infusing it into the broth of The Blair Witch Project whilst dropping a mint-leaf of Picnic at Hanging Rock on the side for garnish. Using the syntax of losing oneself of those campfire wilderness spook stories as a metaphor for ever increasing drug use is wonderful in both concept and execution. Sara is the bright young thing, ripe as a peach and innocent to a degree who is played by Sara...
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- 10/17/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Jason Banker's Toad Road is the sort of film that defies easy categorization, a deliberately raw and naturalistic indie that veers off down unexpected trails whilst dabbling in psychoactive drugs and elements of horror. It is, in other words, the sort of film that Twitch exists for. And it is soon to be hitting screens with a limited theatrical release beginning October 18 in La and October 25 in New York.A different kind of American independent horror film, the hypnotic Toad Road, presented by Elijah Wood and his SpectreVision production company, unfolds like a hallucinatory cross between the sexual candor of Larry Clark and Harmony Korine, and the backwoods creep-out of The Blair Witch Project. Young James kills time with his small town druggie friends,...
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- 10/10/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Elijah Wood’s company SpectreVision Wednesday announced the first annual SpectreFest, a 13-night celebration of horror and music to be held in Los Angeles from October 19-31 in partnership with the Cinefamily cinema. SpectreVision is an independent horror film company founded by Wood, Daniel Noah, and Josh C. Waller.
SpectreFest’s opening night event will be a screening of John Landis’ horror-comedy classic An American Werewolf in London held at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, in conjunction with Cinespia. SpectreFest will also host screenings of E.L. Kat’s jet-black comedy Cheap Thrills (see pic above), the Elijah Wood- and John Cusack-starrer Grand Piano,...
SpectreFest’s opening night event will be a screening of John Landis’ horror-comedy classic An American Werewolf in London held at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, in conjunction with Cinespia. SpectreFest will also host screenings of E.L. Kat’s jet-black comedy Cheap Thrills (see pic above), the Elijah Wood- and John Cusack-starrer Grand Piano,...
- 10/9/2013
- by Clark Collis
- EW - Inside Movies
Coming out this month is the creepy thrill ride of a film, Toad Road. The story follows a group of college students who meet up with a few friends and find themselves sucked into the local legend of Toad Road, a path within the forest that is rumored to contain the seven gates that lead straight to Hell. Have a look at the trailer (see below) for Toad Road as it displays eerie and dark places where the lines between what is real and what are not…...
- 10/6/2013
- Horrorbid
I have a lot of faith in Artsploitation.s upcoming horror indie Toad Road, directed by Jason Banker. Part of is certainly the fear-loving stubbornness that makes me watch too many horror flicks, but a bigger part of it has to do with this looking like a legitimately creepy ordeal that isn.t trying to be anything other than strange. The clip above, via Bloody Disgusting, kind of proves that, by not being about anything at all other than characters having emotional breakdowns. It.s not necessarily interesting or provoking, but it.s weird. As are the four new posters. They don.t depict anything that odd, and it.s really just two duplicate pictures with different color palates. Only they.re slightly different. In the natural colored picture of the guy, it.s zoomed in so you can.t see him holding a joint, like he is in the...
- 10/3/2013
- cinemablend.com
Toad Road will be making its way to a limited number of theaters, along with DVD and VOD later this month and we have a brand new clip for you to watch.
“This October, Artsploitation Films, the cutting-edge film distribution company founded by Tla Entertainment president Raymond Murray, in association with Elijah Wood’s genre-themed production company, SpectreVision and Random Bench, will unleash the haunting and mesmerizing Toad Road via limited theatrical release. The film has been described as a hallucinatory and hypnotic odyssey through mutating realities, drug use, urban legends, and nightmares. The story follows a young college student who befriends a group of hard partying friends and finds herself drawn into the local legend of Toad Road—a pathway in the forest rumored to contain the seven gates that lead directly to Hell.
Toad Road displays a disturbing portrait of contemporary youth culture where the lines between perception...
“This October, Artsploitation Films, the cutting-edge film distribution company founded by Tla Entertainment president Raymond Murray, in association with Elijah Wood’s genre-themed production company, SpectreVision and Random Bench, will unleash the haunting and mesmerizing Toad Road via limited theatrical release. The film has been described as a hallucinatory and hypnotic odyssey through mutating realities, drug use, urban legends, and nightmares. The story follows a young college student who befriends a group of hard partying friends and finds herself drawn into the local legend of Toad Road—a pathway in the forest rumored to contain the seven gates that lead directly to Hell.
Toad Road displays a disturbing portrait of contemporary youth culture where the lines between perception...
- 10/3/2013
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
After the jump, please find four promo posters for Toad Road and a teaser clip. This is the film Elijah Wood's SpectreVision acquired for U.S. distribution.
The story follows a young college student who befriends a group of hard partying friends and finds herself drawn into the local legend of Toad Road - a pathway in the forest rumored to contain the seven gates that lead directly to Hell. Toad Road displays a disturbing portrait of contemporary youth culture where the lines between perception and reality are blurred with often frightening results.
The film is slated to open in Los Angeles on October 18th and October 25th in New York City.
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The story follows a young college student who befriends a group of hard partying friends and finds herself drawn into the local legend of Toad Road - a pathway in the forest rumored to contain the seven gates that lead directly to Hell. Toad Road displays a disturbing portrait of contemporary youth culture where the lines between perception and reality are blurred with often frightening results.
The film is slated to open in Los Angeles on October 18th and October 25th in New York City.
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- 10/2/2013
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Welcome to The Last Horror Blog, a biweekly column on all things horror. IFC snags rights to Almost Human – One of the best surprises at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival was Joe Begos’ Almost Human, the tale of a man who goes missing and then turns up two years later at the center of a series of brutal murders. If you weren’t at Tiff to catch it, fear not – IFC has got you covered. The company has acquired distribution rights to the film. No release date has yet been announced, but expect it to see it in the not-too-distant future. Take a trip to Toad Road next month – Elijah Wood’s horror imprint Spectrevision will team up with Artsploitation Films to give horror film Toad Road a limited release just in...
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- 9/20/2013
- by Mike Bracken
- Movies.com
Toad Road will be making its way to a limited number of theaters, along with DVD and VOD later this year. The release is being handled by Artsploitation Films, along with Elijah Wood’s production company, SpectreVision, and Random Bench:
“This October, Artsploitation Films, the cutting-edge film distribution company founded by Tla Entertainment president Raymond Murray, in association with Elijah Wood’s genre-themed production company, SpectreVision and Random Bench, will unleash the haunting and mesmerizing Toad Road via limited theatrical release. The film has been described as a hallucinatory and hypnotic odyssey through mutating realities, drug use, urban legends, and nightmares. The story follows a young college student who befriends a group of hard partying friends and finds herself drawn into the local legend of Toad Road—a pathway in the forest rumored to contain the seven gates that lead directly to Hell.
Toad Road displays a disturbing portrait of...
“This October, Artsploitation Films, the cutting-edge film distribution company founded by Tla Entertainment president Raymond Murray, in association with Elijah Wood’s genre-themed production company, SpectreVision and Random Bench, will unleash the haunting and mesmerizing Toad Road via limited theatrical release. The film has been described as a hallucinatory and hypnotic odyssey through mutating realities, drug use, urban legends, and nightmares. The story follows a young college student who befriends a group of hard partying friends and finds herself drawn into the local legend of Toad Road—a pathway in the forest rumored to contain the seven gates that lead directly to Hell.
Toad Road displays a disturbing portrait of...
- 9/19/2013
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
This October, Artsploitation Films, in association with Elijah Wood's genre-themed production company, SpectreVision and Random Bench, will unleash the haunting and mesmerizing Toad Road via limited theatrical release.
The story follows a young college student who befriends a group of hard partying friends and finds herself drawn into the local legend of Toad Road - a pathway in the forest rumored to contain the seven gates that lead directly to Hell. Toad Road displays a disturbing portrait of contemporary youth culture where the lines between perception and reality are blurred with often frightening results.
The film is slated to open in Los Angeles on October 18th and October 25th in New York City.
Read more...
The story follows a young college student who befriends a group of hard partying friends and finds herself drawn into the local legend of Toad Road - a pathway in the forest rumored to contain the seven gates that lead directly to Hell. Toad Road displays a disturbing portrait of contemporary youth culture where the lines between perception and reality are blurred with often frightening results.
The film is slated to open in Los Angeles on October 18th and October 25th in New York City.
Read more...
- 9/19/2013
- shocktillyoudrop.com
A film that I have been hearing about for the past year is a Chilean exploitation film called Hidden in the Woods. It made such an impact at its North American Premiere at Fantasia last year that Michael Biehn and his daughter felt that they needed to remake the film for American audiences. Artsploitation Films are releasing Hidden in the Woods as their second horror release this year. We have included the trailer and the full press release below as well as the pre-order link from Amazon.
Trailer
From The Press Release
Artsploitation Films, the rising American film label, continues to deliver edgy international movies to North American audiences with its second-ever horror release: Hidden In The Woods. Based on a bizarre true story and not for the faint of heart – and also currently being remade in the U.S. – Hidden In The Woods features extreme violence, prostitution, sexual assault,...
Trailer
From The Press Release
Artsploitation Films, the rising American film label, continues to deliver edgy international movies to North American audiences with its second-ever horror release: Hidden In The Woods. Based on a bizarre true story and not for the faint of heart – and also currently being remade in the U.S. – Hidden In The Woods features extreme violence, prostitution, sexual assault,...
- 8/13/2013
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
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