The big news from Cannes is that one of the Top Men at the Sitges Film Festival, Mike Hostench, has sold a script for his film Asmodexia to new Spanish Low-Budget Horror company MS entertainment.
You can read a little more over at BLOODY DISGUSTING, I think it may well be too soon to expect a screening at this year’s festival, but who knows? Maybe we’ll get to see an early cut as a surprise midnight screening.
And here it is, it appears to be referencing Rosemary’s Baby but there’s no word yet as to if that will be a running theme for the festival or not. It’s six short months today that the 2013 Sitges Film Festival opens it’s doors and here at Corridorstyle we can almost taste the Albondigas…
Keep checking back here for updates, speculation and film previews.
We’ve never sampled a Uruguayan film before, let alone a horror film shot in real time, in one take, and is based on a true story.
I’m pretty sure my name’s already on the ticket for this one, find out more HERE.
We’ll be absolutely honest, we have no insight whatsoever into what’s actually going to be showing at the festival this year but who cares – it’s getting closer and time to get excited! Over the coming weeks we’ll be posting details of more films we think could be there
The first film we think might have a chance is the Korean film ‘I Saw The Devil’:
Ok…take the stars of Oldboy and A Bittersweet Life (two of our all-time favourites) and add in the director of The Good, The Bad, the Weird and I think the only way we’d be more excited about a film is if they gave you free beers on the way in.
It looks to have all of the moodyness of The Chaser and A Bittersweet Life and with Lee Byung-Hun playing a vengeful husband and Choi Min-Sik playing the killer of his wife, if it is on at Sitges it’s already guaranteed to be one of our must sees.
There’s usually a healthy supply of Korean films at the festival and there’s a couple more on the horizon we’ll be letting you have details of over the coming days, and if they all make it they could make this year’s fest the year of the moody Korean drama.
Fingers and everything are definitely crossed!
So, like a family of small woodland animals we appear blinking into the spring daylight, still dazed from our six month hibernation.
And we’ve actually got some news for you……..the dates for this year’s Sitges Festival Internacional De Cinema De Catalunya have been announced. It’s a little later than usual,7th to 17th October, and the first issue that has immediately come up is that, as this clashes with Hispanic Day on October 12th, hotel rooms appear to be more expensive and very much in demand so get ’em booked up early.
As usual we’ll be bringing you news and previews of as many of the films that are being shown as is humanly possible and once the festival begins we’ll be blogging (eventually!) and tweeting all of our exploits and thoughts on the films we’re seeing.
Keep an eye out for more news as it comes.
Well we just about kept you up to date with our festival daily Blog (it was technically delivered daily, it just happened to be 4 or 5 days late) and those of you who made it to Sitges will have no doubt formed your own thoughts and opinions on the success or otherwise of this years event.
For the record, here’s how we think things turned out with OUR 2009 FESTIVAL REVIEW
It’s a long wait until the 43rd edition of Sitges so, in the meantime, we’ll revert to posting our general thoughts on all things cinematic, musical, artistic or pretty much anything we damn well please. Pop in from time to time or follow us via Twitter or RSS . We’re never the most prolific of posters but when we do, we’d like to think that it’s from the heart.
We’re also hearing that French Zombie film LA HORDE is likely to be playing at Sitges this year.
Initially I really liked the look of this as the trailer made it look like SNATCH meets 28 DAYS LATER and also reports were coming in from sites such as TWITCHFILM giving it glowing reports.
However, reading the tweets coming in from this weekend’s FRIGHTFEST, it seemed to get a fairly unanimous thumbs down so now I’m not too sure.
Click HERE to see the IMDB entry, trailer is down below. Let us know if you’ve seen it and what you thought.
We’re expecting stuff to be confirmed over the next few days, but here’s the first of a couple of rumours we’ve had leaked to us recently:
Fruit Chan’s DON’T LOOK UP is expected to be shown at this year’s festival, although as I write I’m still waiting for this to be confirmed. Our knowledge of his previous work is limited at best however a couple of years ago we managed to catch DUMPLINGS which was truly bizarre, but in a good way.
You can view the IMDB entry HERE, apparently it’s something to do with the characters in a horror movie coming to life and messing with the director?? I’ve included what I think might be the trailer below, it’s not anything I’m getting over excited about, but you’re more than welcome to try to convince me otherwise.
We’ve never seen any of the Troll films and I get the impression we haven’t missed much, but we’re suckers for documentaries about filmmaking.
Given that this is a biopic of the guy who taught Bruce Lee how to fight and it’s written by the guy who wrote Dragon Tiger Gate, maybe it’s worth a visit?
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