Stars: Hugo Dillon, Ophelia Kolb, Arben Bajraktaraj, Manon Maindivide | Written and Directed by Quarxx
Nathan and Daniel wake at the scene of a car crash, confused and seemingly unscathed. The two men begin to slowly understand that they did not make it. They are dead. Nathan’s previous acts will now determine his fate, however reprehensible they might have been. He will have to leave this earthly world and enter the depths of Hell that await him for all eternity and be confronted with other tormented souls whose pain he will be forced to experience…
Essentially an anthology, Pandemonium feels heavily inspired by the likes of Dante’s Inferno and it’s seven circles of hell, with Nathan only beginning his descent into hell – viewing the scions and stories of those who have come before him in two very different stories, with Nathan’s own story – a car crash, causing the...
Nathan and Daniel wake at the scene of a car crash, confused and seemingly unscathed. The two men begin to slowly understand that they did not make it. They are dead. Nathan’s previous acts will now determine his fate, however reprehensible they might have been. He will have to leave this earthly world and enter the depths of Hell that await him for all eternity and be confronted with other tormented souls whose pain he will be forced to experience…
Essentially an anthology, Pandemonium feels heavily inspired by the likes of Dante’s Inferno and it’s seven circles of hell, with Nathan only beginning his descent into hell – viewing the scions and stories of those who have come before him in two very different stories, with Nathan’s own story – a car crash, causing the...
- 5/27/2024
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Director Quarxx (All the Gods in the Sky) explores the peculiar, welcoming all those hungry for wonder in Pandemonium, a unique cinematic blend of fantasy, drama, genre, and humor.
Pandemonium will be released on Blu-ray in the UK May 27 and the US & Canada May 28. It will also be streaming on Arrow in the UK/US/CA/Ire from May 27.
Arrow Video previews, “Pandemonium takes the viewer on a chilling journey as three interconnected stories unravel in this macabre exploration of tales depicting fallen souls. From the intricacies of everyday drama to the realms of supernatural intrigue, each narrative weaves a haunting tapestry that blurs the lines between the mortal and the supernatural.”
Nathan (Hugo Dillon) and Daniel (Arben Bajraktaraj) are caught in a road accident that kills them both. As they come to grips with their deaths, Nathan confronts his past and the consequences of his actions. Now trapped in the hellish void of Pandemonium,...
Pandemonium will be released on Blu-ray in the UK May 27 and the US & Canada May 28. It will also be streaming on Arrow in the UK/US/CA/Ire from May 27.
Arrow Video previews, “Pandemonium takes the viewer on a chilling journey as three interconnected stories unravel in this macabre exploration of tales depicting fallen souls. From the intricacies of everyday drama to the realms of supernatural intrigue, each narrative weaves a haunting tapestry that blurs the lines between the mortal and the supernatural.”
Nathan (Hugo Dillon) and Daniel (Arben Bajraktaraj) are caught in a road accident that kills them both. As they come to grips with their deaths, Nathan confronts his past and the consequences of his actions. Now trapped in the hellish void of Pandemonium,...
- 3/13/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
John Waters raved that Smoking Causes Coughing is a “superhero movie for idiots,” and Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive clip that perfectly encapsulates the absurdist humor and violence that ensues when the Tobacco Force attempts to prepare for battle.
Written/Directed by Quentin Dupieux (Rubber, Deerskin, Mandibles), the absurdist, gory French comedy releases On Demand on June 27 from Magnolia Home Entertainment under the Magnet Label.
In the exclusive clip below, members of the plucky Tobacco Force team fumble their way through helmet removal to comically lethal results. It feels safe to assume that whoever this wacky superhero team goes up against might have the upper hand. With Dupieux behind it, we’d expect nothing less.
The “wildly inventive new comedy” follows the misadventures of a team of five superheroes known as the Tobacco Force – Benzene (Gilles Lellouche), Nicotine (Anaïs Demoustier), Methanol (Vincent Lacoste), Mercury (Jean-Pascal Zadi), and Ammonia (Oulaya Amamra...
Written/Directed by Quentin Dupieux (Rubber, Deerskin, Mandibles), the absurdist, gory French comedy releases On Demand on June 27 from Magnolia Home Entertainment under the Magnet Label.
In the exclusive clip below, members of the plucky Tobacco Force team fumble their way through helmet removal to comically lethal results. It feels safe to assume that whoever this wacky superhero team goes up against might have the upper hand. With Dupieux behind it, we’d expect nothing less.
The “wildly inventive new comedy” follows the misadventures of a team of five superheroes known as the Tobacco Force – Benzene (Gilles Lellouche), Nicotine (Anaïs Demoustier), Methanol (Vincent Lacoste), Mercury (Jean-Pascal Zadi), and Ammonia (Oulaya Amamra...
- 6/22/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Smoking Causes Coughing is ostensibly a riff on Power Rangers/Super Sentai, Ultraman, and other tokusatsu-style media in which spandex-clad superheroes battle intergalactic monsters, but — as is the case with writer-director Quentin Dupieux’s entire filmography — his latest genre-bending slice of French absurdity is predictably unpredictable.
The Tobacco Force is a team of avengers in which each of its five members represents a different chemical found in cigarettes: Benzene, Nicotine (Anaïs Demoustier), Methanol (Vincent Lacoste), Mercury (Jean-Pascal Zadi), and Ammonia (Oulaya Amamra). When they’re unable to defeat an enemy in hand-to-hand combat, they call upon their powers — which only work when they’re sincere — to infect their foe with cancer to the point of bodily combustion.
The Tobacco Force has a mentor in Chief Didier. He’s a wise, mutant rat, like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles‘ Splinter, except Didier is a womanizer that drools green goo. The team is...
The Tobacco Force is a team of avengers in which each of its five members represents a different chemical found in cigarettes: Benzene, Nicotine (Anaïs Demoustier), Methanol (Vincent Lacoste), Mercury (Jean-Pascal Zadi), and Ammonia (Oulaya Amamra). When they’re unable to defeat an enemy in hand-to-hand combat, they call upon their powers — which only work when they’re sincere — to infect their foe with cancer to the point of bodily combustion.
The Tobacco Force has a mentor in Chief Didier. He’s a wise, mutant rat, like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles‘ Splinter, except Didier is a womanizer that drools green goo. The team is...
- 3/29/2023
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- bloody-disgusting.com
Bosnian war drama also wins best director and best actress.
Jasmila Žbanić’s Quo Vadis, Aida? won three prizes including best film at this year’s European Film Awards, which went ahead as a hybrid event in Berlin tonight (Dec 11).
Žbanić was also named best director by the European Film Academy’s (Efa) 4,200-strong membership, whilst the film’s star Jasna Đuričić won best actress.
In her acceptance speech, Žbanić dedicated her award to “the women of Srebrenica and mothers who taught us how to turn destruction into love. I hope it will encourage more female solidarity, female stories, female perspective in film,...
Jasmila Žbanić’s Quo Vadis, Aida? won three prizes including best film at this year’s European Film Awards, which went ahead as a hybrid event in Berlin tonight (Dec 11).
Žbanić was also named best director by the European Film Academy’s (Efa) 4,200-strong membership, whilst the film’s star Jasna Đuričić won best actress.
In her acceptance speech, Žbanić dedicated her award to “the women of Srebrenica and mothers who taught us how to turn destruction into love. I hope it will encourage more female solidarity, female stories, female perspective in film,...
- 12/11/2021
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The film will receive the awards for best cinematography and best original score at the ceremony in December.
Sebastian Meise’s Great Freedom has won two prizes at the European Film Awards, among the eight winners that have been unveiled ahead of the ceremony on December 11.
An eight-member jury met in Berlin to choose the winners in the categories of cinematography, editing, production design, costume design, make-up and hair, original score, sound and visual effects. All were chosen from the feature film selection of 53 films.
The winners will be honoured at the ceremony in Berlin on December 11.
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Sebastian Meise’s Great Freedom has won two prizes at the European Film Awards, among the eight winners that have been unveiled ahead of the ceremony on December 11.
An eight-member jury met in Berlin to choose the winners in the categories of cinematography, editing, production design, costume design, make-up and hair, original score, sound and visual effects. All were chosen from the feature film selection of 53 films.
The winners will be honoured at the ceremony in Berlin on December 11.
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- 11/17/2021
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Festival midnight slates are always teeming with Z-grade splatter comedies like “Girls with Balls,” which offer the uncomplicated pleasure of attractive young people fighting for their lives in the great outdoors. But first-time director Olivier Afonso, a skilled makeup-effects artist on such films as “Raw” and “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” could have complicated his hillbillies-versus-athletes scenario a little more than he has. Is there a scene where members of a women’s volleyball team spike balls into the faces of their adversaries? Of course. Yet that’s about as far as the conceit takes this chaotic, toothless, unfunny Gallic twist on “The Most Dangerous Game,” and it’s not even enough to reach 80 minutes. Netflix has served it up for less discriminate genre fans, however, who are advised to bypass the default dubbed version and watch it in French with subtitles.
The extreme French horror movement of the...
The extreme French horror movement of the...
- 7/25/2019
- by Scott Tobias
- Variety Film + TV
Titles include Miguel Llansó’s ’Jesus Shows You The Way To The Highway’.
Switzerland’s Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (Nifff) has unveiled the programme for its 2019 edition (July 5 – 13), with a line-up including 90 feature films.
Among the 16 titles playing in the International Competition strand is the world premiere of Spanish director Miguel Llansó’s Jesus Shows You The Way To The Highway, about two CIA agents tasked with destroying a computer virus called ‘Soviet Union’.
Scroll down for the full line-up
The film is Llansó’s first since 2015’s Crumbs, which premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam and subsequently won...
Switzerland’s Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (Nifff) has unveiled the programme for its 2019 edition (July 5 – 13), with a line-up including 90 feature films.
Among the 16 titles playing in the International Competition strand is the world premiere of Spanish director Miguel Llansó’s Jesus Shows You The Way To The Highway, about two CIA agents tasked with destroying a computer virus called ‘Soviet Union’.
Scroll down for the full line-up
The film is Llansó’s first since 2015’s Crumbs, which premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam and subsequently won...
- 6/20/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
A schlocky horror comedy with a few good laughs and lots of n’importe quoi (the French term for "nonsense"), Olivier Afonso’s Girls With Balls scores some points for its Z-movie conceits but could have benefited from stronger writing and direction.
Afonso, who is one of France’s top special effects makeup artists and has worked on everything from Raw to Taken 3 to The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, is no stranger to gore and seems to relish in all the fake blood, severed heads and trashy gags he tosses at the viewer.
It’s almost enough to make this short ...
Afonso, who is one of France’s top special effects makeup artists and has worked on everything from Raw to Taken 3 to The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, is no stranger to gore and seems to relish in all the fake blood, severed heads and trashy gags he tosses at the viewer.
It’s almost enough to make this short ...
- 12/12/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
A schlocky horror comedy with a few good laughs and lots of n’importe quoi (the French term for "nonsense"), Olivier Afonso’s Girls With Balls scores some points for its Z-movie conceits but could have benefited from stronger writing and direction.
Afonso, who is one of France’s top special effects makeup artists and has worked on everything from Raw to Taken 3 to The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, is no stranger to gore and seems to relish in all the fake blood, severed heads and trashy gags he tosses at the viewer.
It’s almost enough to make this short ...
Afonso, who is one of France’s top special effects makeup artists and has worked on everything from Raw to Taken 3 to The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, is no stranger to gore and seems to relish in all the fake blood, severed heads and trashy gags he tosses at the viewer.
It’s almost enough to make this short ...
- 12/12/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
When a film announces itself with such a deliberately and unapologetically brash title, it’s clear the filmmakers have probably tried their very best to entertain the intended audience of trash cinema connoisseurs. Thankfully, this knockabout horror/comedy – which is something akin to the characters of Bring It On taking a Wrong Turn – more or less delivers on that promise, but there’s also a fun take on female empowerment and resourcefulness amongst the lashings of gloopy splatter. And any film of this kind which begins with a country singer setting the scene through a ditty – who then periodically crops throughout to comment on the action – is undeniably worth a watch.
After a fun, whizzy Edgar Wright-like montage introducing us to the highly-competitive, merciless netball team The Falcons, we’re soon whipped away to the French countryside as the team make their way to another match. Rattling along in an Rv,...
After a fun, whizzy Edgar Wright-like montage introducing us to the highly-competitive, merciless netball team The Falcons, we’re soon whipped away to the French countryside as the team make their way to another match. Rattling along in an Rv,...
- 10/5/2018
- by Adam Lowes
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Olivier Afonso’s Girls With Balls doesn’t atone for the leery “females vs. males” horror normalization of exploitations past, but it is a slaughter-tastic midnight movie about volleyball vixens defending themselves from backwoods killers. Expect gallons of juicy redness, slack-jawed Deliverance imposters, and a campfire’s smokestack of slasher fun. Any fans of Dead & Breakfast out […]
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The post ‘Girls With Balls’ Review: Not Quite the “Volleyball Team vs. Killer Rednecks” Movie You’re Looking For, But Close [Fantastic Fest] appeared first on /Film.
- 10/3/2018
- by Matt Donato
- Slash Film
You know it's a good horror movie -- or at least a properly revolting one -- when people faint while watching it, and that's just what happened at the Toronto Film Festival last night when "multiple audience members" passed out during the film's premiere screening (via The Hollywood Reporter). "An ambulance had to be called to the scene as the film became too much for a couple patrons," said the film's marketer Ryan Werner, who is having a great day. Lest you think this is merely a clever publicity ploy on the part of distributor Focus World, more than one attendee at last night's screening -- including Girls on Film co-host Alicia Malone -- corroborated the account on Twitter: Raw: super cool, grisly, fun, fresh, gross French horror by badass female filmmaker. Not for weak stomachs! #TIFF16 pic.twitter.com/IwndOPiO9t — Alicia Malone (@aliciamalone) September 13, 2016 Raw: the paramedics had to come to the theater,...
- 9/13/2016
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
We've got a very special treat for you this morning... how about your very first look at Franck Richard's French horror flick The Pack, which is currently lensing off in the UK?! Beyond the break you can read a little set report tease from B-d stringer Tom Espley, and check out the first image featuring SFX work by Atelier 69 (Frontier(S), Mutants, Via Ferrata, The Horde), led by Olivier Afonso. He's know for his groundbreaking work on all of the aforementioned horror films. "Bloody-Disgusting were luckily enough to have been invited on to the set to witness first-hand the production of upcoming movie The Pack (La Meute), from company La Fabrique de Films, who brought us the gruesome masterpiece Inside (À l'intérieur) and Humans."...more...
- 4/6/2009
- bloody-disgusting.com
An interesting film we came across at this week's Afm comes from Gaumont and is directed by Abel Ferry. Announced this week is High Lane, where a group of friends on vacation decide to venture onto a trail high up in the mountains that has been closed for repairs. The climb proves more perilous than planned. Especially as they soon realize that they're not alone. The adventure turns into a nightmare. Sounds a little like Deliverance, no? The Dp is Nicolas Massart, who also worked on the forthcoming French horror film Mutants, with the art director being Olivier Afonso, who worked on Mutants, Hitman and Frontier(S). Fanny Valette, Raphael Lenglet, Johan Libereau, Nicolas Giraud and Maud Wyler all star, Inside you can check out the first ever images and art from the film.
- 11/7/2008
- bloody-disgusting.com
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