Toronto After Dark Film Festival: Alien vs Ninja

Short Description

When a group of ninjas encounter an alien invasion force, incredible fight scenes ensue in this total crowd-pleaser from Japan!

The Buzz

“a rollicking, bloody good time (with) a consistent string of physical gags, impressive stunts and exaggerated gore that keep upping the ante” - Fangoria

“There’s barely anything but violent ninjas and even more violent aliens in this film. And that’s fantastic….This film is a big bucket of fun, people. Don’t miss it” - Twitch Film

“The title of this Japanese film pretty much says all you need to know, but the movie’s keen awareness of its own cheesiness adds to the rubber-suited fun” - Toronto Star, Advance Review

“Delightfully insane….generates a fluid one-two punch of action and satire…proffering creative new ways to behead, flay, disembowel and dissect…and Chiba hasn’t run out of surprises by the end” - Eye Weekly, Advance Review

Official Selection - Fantasia Film Festival, Montreal

Synopsis

In a land besieged by an intense feud between fashionable ninja clans, a meteor crashes into a forest, and unleashes a brood of xenomorphic aliens that begin to ravage the countryside. After a cursory introduction to our ninja heroes, this film wastes no time fulfilling its titular promise. The moment the entrails start to hit the fan, writer/director Seiji Chiba (DEATH TRANCE) removes the brakes, ties a brick to the accelerator and lets some delirious man-in-suit aliens start throwing down on some bad-ass ninja warriors! There are swordfights, fist-fights, tail-fights (!), gun-fights (!!), horny-alien-fights (!!!). There are fights that send combatants into the utter stratosphere. And never mind the kitchen-sink, this film even throws freakin’ ZOMBIES into the mix! All impeccably choreographed by Yuji Shimomura (the legendary action director behind VERSUS and Toronto After Dark 2006 hit SHINOBI), AVN strikes a sublime balance between balletic swordplay and side-splitting slapstick. And I when I write “side-splitting”, I really mean it literally! Read more …

The Fourth Kind 2009 - Poster, Plot, Review, Photos and Trailer HD

The Fourth Kind is a 2009 American science fiction-horror film, starring Milla Jovovich, Charlotte Milchard, Elias Koteas, Will Patton and Mia McKenna Bruce. The title is derived from the expansion of J. Allen Hynek’s classification of close encounters with aliens, in which the fourth kind denotes alien abductions.

The film was a moderate box office success, earning over US$46 million worldwide.

The Fourth Kind 2009 Plot

In 2002, Chapman University hosts a televised interview with psychologist Dr. Abigail “Abbey” Tyler. She tells her story of a close encounter incident at Nome, Alaska in October 2000.

In August 2000, Abbey’s husband, Will Jammeson, is mysteriously murdered one night in his sleep, leaving her to raise their two children, Ashley and Ronnie. Dr. Campos, a physician from Anchorage, encourages Abbey to take some time off but she refuses, stating that Will’s research must be continued.

Abbey returns to Nome to tape hypnotherapy sessions with three different patients, all of whom have the same experience: every night they have each seen a white owl at their window staring at them. Abbey puts a patient named Tommy under hypnosis, who then begins screaming and spasms erratically. After Abbey awakens him, she asks Tommy what he saw but he refuses to answer and leaves. Later that night, Tommy holds his family at gunpoint, demanding to speak to Abbey. After a brief conversation with her, he screams “Zimbatu Eter!”, demanding to know what it is, then kills his family and himself. The local Sheriff, August, suspects that Abbey’s hypnosis is to blame.

The next morning, Dr. Campos arrives in Nome to see Abbey. He joins her for a session with another patient named Scott. While under hypnosis, Scott starts shaking, foaming at the mouth, levitating, and screaming in a barbaric, unknown language. After awakening him, Abbey suggests that Tommy and Scott were possibly victims of a Non-human kidnapping. Abbey’s secretary, who was earlier instructed to make a transcript of Abbey’s tape recorded notes from the previous night, hands her the tape and hastily leaves the room. Abbey plays the tape which starts with her talking normally, until the tape goes quiet. Abbey is heard breathing heavily then screaming hysterically and a metallic, static voice is heard speaking in the background in the strange tongue. Abbey is shocked and terrified by the recording, not recalling any of those events happening. She then returns home and finds scratch marks in the floorboards that match up with her broken fingernails. Read more …

Top 10 Creepy Cinematic Surgeries - Horror Sci-Fi Movies

This is a great Top 10 of creepy cinematic surgeries:

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Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief 2010 Poster, Synopsis, Trailer and Raw Review

Starring: Logan Lerman, Pierce Brosnan, Uma Thurman, Sean Bean, Steve Coogan, Rosario Dawson

Director: Chris Columbus

Writer: Craig Titley, Rick Riordan (Novel)

Cinematography: Stephen Goldblatt

Original Score: Christophe Beck

Running Time: 118 Mins.

With a repertoire that includes Bicentennial Man, I Love You Beth Cooper, Rent and Nine Months it’s safe to say that I never really have high hopes upon approaching a new Chris Columbus film, so given that Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is the latest attempt at a franchise to fill the soon to be empty Harry Potter void it is unsurprising to find the film is not so much lacking but nigh on redundant, and left me begging the question as to why it was made at all, beyond the obvious reason of cold hard cash!

What is less surprising is that Columbus was also the man responsible for the two first, and by far worst, Harry Potter films, in fact losing Columbus from the franchise is probably the finest thing Warner’s ever did, something which makes the choice to have hired him to make Percy Jackson both financially sound while at once being the worst creative decision ever. Meaning not only are comparisons to the more recent, and largely excellent, Potter films bound be unfavourably drawn but also you are kick starting yet another franchise which the kind of paint by numbers slap-dash approach at direction that plagued Columbus’ Potter efforts. Read more …

Avatar 2010 - Behind The Scenes Video

Yahoo! Movies has posted a 22-minute behind-the-scenes look at James Cameron’s global blockbuster Avatar titled “Creating the World of Pandora.” You can watch the full video using the player below!

Avatar Breaks Recordes and Passes Batman The Dark Knight

For the sixth week straight, the box office is all about James Cameron’s Avatar, as it added another $36 million this weekend to set a new record for a movie’s sixth weekend gross. More importantly, it has now grossed $552.8 million domestically, making it the second-highest grossing movie domestically, passing The Dark Knight’s $533.3 million over the weekend and putting it in sight to cross Titanic’s long-standing record of $600.8 million sometime next month. Internationally, Avatar earned $107 million this weekend to push its overseas total to a massive $1.28 billion, surpassing Titanic’s previous international record of $1.24 billion. Worldwide, the film has collected $1.836 billion and is about to surpass Titanic’s global record of $1.843 billion.

The Screen Gems action-thriller Legion, starring Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid and Tyrese Gibson, opened solidly in second place with $18.2 million in 2,476 theaters, averaging over $7,000 per site.

Warner Bros. Pictures’ The Book of Eli (Warner Bros.) dropped to third place $17 million in its second weekend, down 48% from the holiday weekend with a gross of $62 million.

Opening at #4, 20th Century Fox’s new family comedy Tooth Fairy, starring Dwayne Johnson, grossed roughly $14.5 million in its first weekend in 3,344 theaters.

In fifth place, Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Lovely Bones (Paramount) dropped 48% from its first wide release weekend, adding another $8.8 million to its total gross of $31.7 million.

Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes (Warner Bros.) dropped one notch to sixth with another $7.1 million and $191.6 million after five weeks in theaters, putting it well ahead of its $90 million production budget.

Despite the star power of Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser, the first release from CBS films, the medical drama Extraordinary Measures opened with a disappointing $7 million in 2,549 theaters, averaging less than $3,000 per site.

Fox’s Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel dropped to eighth place with $6.5 million and a grand total of $204 million in five weeks. That puts it roughly $13 million away from the total North American gross for its predecessor. (Internationally, the “squeakquel” has already surpassed that of the original comedy.)

Nancy Meyers’ romantic comedy It’s Complicated (Universal), starring Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin, took ninth place with $6.2 million as it edged closer to $100 million, while Jackie Chan’s The Spy Next Door (Lionsgate) took a 51% dive to take tenth place with $4.7 million and $18.7 million total.

Legion (2010) Poster, Synopsis, Cast, 5min Trailer and Raw Review

Director: Scott Stewart
Writers (WGA): Peter Schink (written by) and Scott Stewart (written by)
Release Date: 22 January 2010 (USA)
Genre: Action | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Tagline: When the last angel falls, the fight for mankind begins.
MPAA: Rated R for strong bloody violence, and language.
Runtime: 100 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Certification: USA:R | UK:15
Filming Locations: Galisteo, New Mexico, USA
Company: Bold Films

LEGION (2010) CAST

Paul Bettany … Michael
Lucas Black … Jeep Hanson
Tyrese Gibson … Kyle Williams
Adrianne Palicki … Charlie
Charles S. Dutton … Percy Walker
Kevin Durand … Gabriel
Jon Tenney … Howard Anderson
Willa Holland … Audrey Anderson
Kate Walsh … Sandra Anderson
Dennis Quaid … Bob Hanson
Jeanette Miller … Gladys Foster
Cameron Harlow … Minivan Boy
Doug Jones … Ice Cream Man
Josh Stamberg … Burton
Yancey Arias … Estevez Read more …